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Congressman brings common sense to gun control debate
SACRAMENTO — As the national firearms debate reaches a crescendo, a Northern California congressman is proving that you can be both a gun lover and a gun controller. Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, a moderate "blue dog" Democrat who represents...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Rifle Association of America, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Elections
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Rand Paul's stunt misses the point
If you took Sen. Rand Paul duck hunting, he'd probably shoot the decoy. That's the impression the first-term Kentucky Republican gave when he took the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday for a 13-hour rambling real-life imitation of Jimmy Stewart's...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, John McCain, Rand Paul, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of Defense
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High-speed rail's strongest backers now express reservations
The California bullet-train project has collided with farmers, political conservatives and wealthy suburbanites who would like to see the $68-billion system killed. Now it is facing tough criticism from an unlikely quarter: within the ranks of high-...
Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Politics, Elections, Barack Obama, Railway Transportation
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Southland ports could see more tax revenue
WASHINGTON — The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are in an unusual position in today's era of Washington austerity: They could soon receive more federal money. A bill sent to the Senate by a committee chaired by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)...
Tags: U.S. Army, Port of Long Beach, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Senators asked to back P3
Staff WriterEfforts to rally political support for the so-called P3 continues, as the county Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to urge California senators to back the bill that allows private funding for port of entry expansions. U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Senate, Juan Vargas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Politics
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An assault weapons ban was doomed. Focus on background checks.
WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, I wrote that the Senate was making quiet progress toward passing a gun control bill that would make background checks mandatory on buyers in almost all gun purchases, including most sales between individuals. And that,...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, John McCain, Dean Heller, National Rifle Association of America, Personal Weapon Control
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Americans and their guns
The 58% of Americans who favor a ban on assault weapons got a sad lesson in Washington politics this week when a major bill to end their sale, and to eliminate the high-capacity magazines that allow mass killers to do their awful work without pausing to...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Rifle Association of America, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Elections
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Denying victims a vote
WASHINGTON -- Shame on Harry Reid for killing any prospect of an assault weapons ban. I understand why he did it, but that doesn't make it right. In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke with fiery eloquence about the cost of gun...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, Gaming, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, National Rifle Association of America
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Reid: Background checks will be in Senate gun bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are taking an aggressive stance in their drive to curb firearms, announcing that the gun control legislation the Senate debates next month will include expanded federal background checks for gun purchasers. Senate...
Tags: Washington, DC, Michael Bloomberg, Politics, Mental Health, Elections
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Fuming over the assault weapons ban's failure
To say that that the preponderance of letters we receive on assault weapons call for their ban wouldn't be an exaggeration. So when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday that the ban proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein wouldn't be brought to...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Personal Weapon Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Rob Portman, The Happiest News!
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Biden, Bloomberg lean on Congress to act on guns
Vice President Joe Biden, seeking to reinvigorate slowing momentum for gun control legislation, urged Congress on Thursday to be courageous in supporting new laws and insisted that the political risks of supporting such laws were overblown. Biden...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Personal Weapon Control, Michael Bloomberg, New York City
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Letters: Failure of Feinstein's assault weapons ban
Re "Feinstein assault weapons ban fails," March 20 We all owe Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) great thanks for her pursuit of a federal assault weapons ban, but it is quite clear that if the horrific massacre in Connecticut in December didn't...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Harry Reid
Mar 27, 2013
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