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Donnelly a man in the middle of the Senate
WASHINGTON - Sen. Joe Donnelly says he's right where he wants to be, in the middle, shot at by both sides in the heated political warfare in Washington. After a congressional recess tour of Indiana, Donnelly concluded he also is where his Hoosier...
Tags: Interior Policy, John McCain, Personal Weapon Control, Evan Bayh, Conservation
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Keeping Track of Legally Purchased Guns Presents a Big Challenge
Are you feeling a lot safer in these post-Sandy Hook days? After all, Connecticut just adopted some of the nation’s strictest anti-assault-weapon laws in response to the Newtown tragedy in which 20 kids and six adults were shot to death. The...
Tags: Interior Policy, Firearms, Laws, Politics, Weaponry
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Long waits for gun background checks are more than an inconvenience; they're a sign of incompetence
Regarding your recent editorial on the long wait gun buyers must endure while state police background checks are completed, I can agree that the Maryland gun community is very unhappy and that the government can't work miracles. But beyond that, there are...
Tags: Interior Policy, Maryland State Police, Firearms, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Majorities drive sweeping, divergent changes across states
Stateline.orgWASHINGTON Gun curbs? Colorado got it done. Driver's licenses and in-state tuition for immigrants in the country illegally? Done. A new school-spending plan, an elections overhaul, Medicaid expansion? Done, done and done. Democrats, with a majority in...Tags: Interior Policy, Voting, Justice and Rights, Abortion Issue, Executive Branch
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Eagle River Man Cleared of Shooting Moose at Denali National Park
Channel 2 NewsThe National Park Service will not seek charges against an Eagle River man who shot and injured a cow moose near the Denali Visitors Center after the moose reportedly charged at him Thursday evening. Robert Sirvid, 26 of Eagle River, told park rangers...Tags: Travel, Interior Policy, Science and Technology, Politics, Personal Weapon Control
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Why we can blame the gun for violence
The letter to the editor, "Don't blame the gun," implies that the shooter is not blamed, whereas he or she most definitely should be. It also implies that explosives are legally owned and operated by the public at large; they are not. Their use is very...Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Lobbying, Australia, Personal Weapon Control
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Column: We're surrendering our civil liberties
It will not be with guns. If ever tyranny overtakes this land of the sometimes free and home of the intermittently brave, it probably won’t, contrary to the fever dreams of gun rights extremists, involve jack-booted government thugs rappelling...Tags: Interior Policy, Google Inc., Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Weapon Control
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As New York braces for climate change, L.A. does ... lunch
Memo to Eric Garcetti: Want to be a good mayor of Los Angeles? Look East, young man, to New York’s can-do mayor, Michael Bloomberg. You know him: the Biggest Apple in the Big Apple. In his time in office, he’s taken on the small (big)...
Tags: Interior Policy, National Rifle Association of America, Politics, John F. Kennedy, Michael Bloomberg
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No, Big Brother isn't watching
It's easy to imagine an alternate America in which President Barack Obama had ostentatiously dismantled or curtailed the government's electronic surveillance program shortly after his inauguration in 2009. Today, nearly two months after the Boston...
Tags: Interior Policy, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Electronics, Personal Weapon Control, Crime, Law and Justice
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Bill Daley to explore run for Illinois governor
Former White House chief of staff Bill Daley plans to announce Tuesday that he's forming an exploratory committee as he weighs a Democratic primary challenge to Gov. Pat Quinn. The move allows Daley to start raising money and not let the summer slip...
Tags: Interior Policy, Executive Branch, Personal Weapon Control, Barack Obama, Al Gore
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Senate Republicans grill Jones, nominee for ATF post
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)Minnesota U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones, President Barack Obama's pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, came under scorching criticism Tuesday from Republican senators questioning his management style and his record on gun...Tags: Interior Policy, U.S. Department of Justice, Firearms, Lobbying, National Rifle Association of America
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Do ends justify NSA means?
I’ve often criticized Steve Chapman for what I feel are poor libertarian arguments. But his Sunday piece on National Security Administration surveillance (“The unstoppable spread of surveillance,” Columns, June 9) makes a very cogent...Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, National Security Agency, Personal Weapon Control
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