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The NRA doesn't deserve my sympathy, or yours
Usually when a senator suffers a big public defeat, he slinks off to lick his wounds. He rarely retwists the arms that didn't bend his way. Colleagues don't like to be seen switching. Were they horribly mistaken the first time? Don't know what they...Tags: Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Patrick J. Toomey, Elections, Kelly Ayotte, Jeff Flake
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Jon Stewart accuses NRA of fear-mongering at convention
The National Rifle Assn. held its annual convention last weekend in Houston, where conservative pundits like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck railed at efforts to enact tighter gun control measures -- and, as Jon Stewart pointed out Monday on "The Daily Show,"...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Conservative Political Action Conference, Wayne LaPierre, Sarah Palin
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NRA pledge on gun rights: 'We will never surrender'
HOUSTON — Vowing that “we will never surrender,” the leader of the National Rifle Assn. claimed victory over recently defeated gun control legislation and denounced “political and media” elites for vilifying gun owners and...Tags: Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Justice and Rights, Fox News Channel (tv network), Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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Primetime Views: 'What is your favorite television program from either today or yesteryear?'
September is the kick-off for the new television season. While viewers tune in for the latest shows, some turn to old favorites. We visited residents at Friendship Village in Schaumburg and asked them:
'What is your favorite television program from...Tags: Wrigley Field, The Golden Girls (tv program), Fox News Channel (tv network), Television Industry, America's Got Talent (tv program)
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Life Out Here: Significant sentimental, sassy
As life becomes faster and attention spans of readers grow shorter, we have to adjust. I am doing so with this column, as from now on each week it will follow a new format that will feature three segments: one significant, one sentimental and one sassy....
Tags: University of Southern California, Regent University, Johnny Cash, Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh
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'Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!' hits the silver screen
Peter Sagal is, at minimum, amused to be following a theatrical-presentation path cleared by Glenn Beck. But the host of NPR's “Wait Wait … Don't Tell Me!” says there are similarities between his show and Beck's act that make both...
Tags: Paula Poundstone, Fox News Channel (tv network), Sharon Jones, New York University, NPR
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Letters to the Editor: A tribute to Cathe, immigration laws, Common Core foes
A tribute to Cathe I would like to add a postscript to the horror of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15. While the marathon was being run, in a Massachusetts hospital not far from Copley Square and the finish line, a young woman lost her...
Tags: Justice System, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Elections, Sports, Copley Square
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Common Core backlash is rooted in fiction
I was at a neighborhood party recently, happily eating too many chips and dip and watching the kids jump themselves silly in a bounce house. Life was good in my little corner of suburbia. Until I heard about the latest boogeyman. A few moms started...
Tags: Republican Party, Maitland, Rick Scott, Jeb Bush, Barack Obama
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Muslims fear backlash after Boston Marathon bombings
Religion News Service writers David Gibson and Lauren Markoe report on the backlash against Muslims following the Boston Marathon bombings: (RNS) No sooner had the reality of the Boston Marathon bombing sunk in on Monday (April 15) afternoon than...
Tags: Timothy McVeigh, Separation of Church and State, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Fox News Channel (tv network), Pat Robertson
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Clarifies viewpoints
Responding to Dr. Scott Bastian's letter on April 9, I appreciate Dr. Bastian's cogent and coherent response. I do, however, have to respectfully disagree with much of what was said in Dr. Bastian's letter. Before getting to the crux of my disagreement...Tags: Arts and Culture, Danbury, Separation of Church and State, Religion and Belief, Same-Sex Marriage
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Twyla Tharp to receive lifetime achievement award at Tribeca festival
Choreographer Twyla Tharp, whose work spans ballet, modern dance, jazz and Broadway, is to receive a lifetime achievement honor during this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Tharp is scheduled to receive the honor at the annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation...
Tags: Frank Sinatra, TriBeCa Film Festival, Entertainment Events, Human Interest, Amadeus (movie)
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Life Out Here: The tyranny of the minority
For years we heard about the “tyranny of the minority.” Right-wingers lamented how “minority groups” or more often “minority thinkers” forced their will upon the majority of us in this nation by citing the...Tags: Firearms, Separation of Church and State, Adam Lanza, Same-Sex Marriage, Gays and Lesbians
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