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How to Ruin American Enterprise
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"We're well on our way to squelching what gives this country an edge. What would it take to kill innovation altogether?"
"As a casual observer of what makes this country work and what stops it cold, I hereby offer a few suggestions on how we can ruin American competitiveness and innovation in the course of this century. I think the reader will agree with me that we are already far down the road on many of them:" ...
From the ever-astute mind of Ben Stein. Yes, that Ben Stein. |
Australia: Wife guilty of husband's murder
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"A WOMAN has been found guilty for a second time of killing her sleeping husband by shooting him in the head at point-blank range and then checking the internet for tips on body disposal."
"Robyn Dale Buller, 44, was retried in the West Australian Supreme Court after successfully appealing a 2001 murder conviction on the grounds that her first trial should have been adjourned to allow the defence to explore some surprise evidence." ... |
CA: City Council plans to rebuff Bush measure
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"Oakland's elected officials are drawing a line in the sand against the Bush administration's USA Patriot Act, a series of broad, far-reaching powers some fear could be used to violate residents' fundamental rights under the U.S. Constitution."
"On Tuesday, the City Council will consider a resolution opposing the Patriot Act and other executive orders that expand the government's ability to obtain personal information and infiltrate religious and political organizations, under the auspices of the war against terrorism." |
Australia: Shot guard lucky to be alive
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"A security guard, shot through his car window as he tried to flee two masked bandits in a dramatic armed hold-up at a Gold Coast RSL club yesterday, told last night of his terrifying stand-off with the robbers."
" 'I had a fair idea there was going to be a robbery and our training is to try to get away from the scene if we possibly can. I had the motor running but they had me boxed in.' "
"The bandits escaped in a stolen car with the club's takings and Mr. Donohue's service pistol." |
CA: Anti-gun measure missing its target
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"...there is growing concern that California's hard-nosed, anti-gun law known as "10-20-Life" is a mystery to the very people it was designed to target five years ago: young would-be offenders and gang members." ...
"Bordonaro and others have tried several times without success to get the Legislature to part with a few million dollars for a statewide ad and education campaign similar to one in Florida." |
OH: Ohio law lets ex-convicts erase the past
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"The process, commonly known as expungement, allows an offender to get a case file sealed so long as he or she committed only one crime or one series of related crimes. The crime or crimes also had to be relatively minor."
"If a judge agrees to seal the file, the conviction is treated as if it never occurred. The courts keep the case files, but they seal them from public view. The public can't even be told the files exist." |
OK: School board to review policies, construction
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"Currently, policy classifies a facsimile of a weapon -- such as a cap, toy or water gun -- as being a dangerous weapon. Also, all knives are classified as dangerous weapons."
"Under the new language, if no harm or threat occurred from having the toy weapon, then it will not be recognized as a dangerous weapon."
"Any knife that is not classified as a dangerous weapon will not be considered so if no harm or threat occurred." |
Australia: Arrest made in gun blitz
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"A 54-year-old Warialda man arrested during a joint NSW/QLD blitz on illegal guns faced Moree Local Court on serious firearm charges yesterday."
"Bruce Neville Oliver was charged with selling an unregistered firearm, selling an unauthorised firearm, possessing an unregistered firearm and not keeping a firearm safely." |
MA: Gun club under fire, again
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"The Westwood Gun Club is on the defense again, this time for a wetlands violation. The club recently fended off criticism that its new range was too close to nearby homes and its 'WGC' sign was obstructing traffic."
"...The club is charged with having filled in part of a wetlands area with dirt near the Walpole border, a violation to which the club admits."
"'We didn't realize (it was a violation) when we filled it in,' club President Joe McGinnis said." ... |
Australia: Sydney shootings raise questions over handgun agreement
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"Two young men are dead and four others injured after a series of shooting incidents in Sydney at the weekend. In one case, at a Sydney nightclub, it's believed that a man who went to break up a fight was shot in the head with a handgun."
"The three separate shooting incidents have raised questions about whether the latest Commonwealth-State agreement will go far enough to address the gun problem in New South Wales."
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The Australians will never learn, will they? |
CA: Reopened shooting range aims for safety
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"After a yearlong closure, a popular indoor shooting range in Oxnard has reopened with a new owner who completed a major cleanup of lead pollution in the building."
"The Shooters Paradise range at 1910 Sunkist Circle in Oxnard reopened in October under new owner John Barrison of Carpinteria. Barrison said he will focus on safety issues and has installed new equipment to ensure the building remains lead-free." |
Will database seriously erode privacy rights?
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"Americans' medical and educational records, credit histories, car rentals and airline reservations, magazine subscriptions, banking transactions, e-mail and instant messaging traffic and criminal convictions would be swept through the DARPA database. So would their gun purchases, credit card records, prescriptions, driver's licenses and more." ...
"Defense Department officials insist the critics' rhetoric and concerns are overblown." ... |
Keeping Track of John Poindexter
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"The head of the government's Total Information Awareness project, which aims to root out potential terrorists by aggregating credit-card, travel, medical, school and other records of everyone in the US, has himself become a target of personal data profiling."
"Online pranksters ...are publishing John Poindexter's home phone number, photos of his house and other personal information to protest the TIA program."
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This is what's commonly known as "a taste of one's own medicine." |
IA: Court cuts rapist's sentence in half
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"Authorities said Gully broke into the woman's home armed with a handgun and repeatedly assaulted her while he held the gun to her temple." ...
"He ...received a 50–year sentence for the sexual abuse count because of a prior conviction for what authorities deemed a sexually predatory offense."
"But a 1999 decision by the Iowa Supreme Court held that only convictions occurring after the law took effect in 1996 could be counted toward the enhanced penalty. " ... |
Violent Crime on the Rise, FBI Says
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"The number of crimes in the United States rose in the first six months of the year, adding to the increases that began in 2001 after a decade-long decline, the FBI said on Monday."
"Murders went up by 2.3 percent from the first half of last year, the FBI said in its report on crime statistics. The report did not say why crime was up, but experts have cited a number of factors, including the sagging U.S. economy." |
Bush Names Ex-NJ Gov. Kean to Head 9/11 Commission
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"President Bush on Monday named former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, a Republican, to head an independent commission investigating the U.S. government's failure to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks." ...
"The announcement came three days after the previously named commission co-chairman, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a Republican, resigned abruptly on Friday. Former Sen. George Mitchell, a Maine Democrat, previously resigned as the other co-chairman of the commission." ... |
UK: Attempted robbery at petrol station
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"AN attempted robbery took place in Bedmond in the early hours of Monday, December 16."
"At approximately 2am, three men entered the Q8 petrol station in the High Street, Bedmond. One man brandished a handgun whilst another pulled out a machete."
"The men threatened the male cashier who managed to lock himself and the cash in another part of the shop." |
Toy Makers Catch War Fever
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"As anyone who has visited a large toy retailer this season knows, JC Penney is hardly alone in its push to sell war-related toys. Toys 'R' Us and other big toy stores have entire large sections devoted expressly to military toys--figurines, weaponry, and other accoutrements. Meanwhile ...The Army is distributing a video game, aimed at people age 13 to 17, that is full of guns and shooting and the chance to engage in exciting rescue operations."
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Obviously playing soldier - a traditional and honored staple of childhood - is no longer fit for children, according to these bedwetters. |
With Video Games, Researchers Link Guns to Stereotypes
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"Asked to make split-second decisions about whether black or white male figures in a video game were holding guns, people were more likely to conclude mistakenly that the black men were armed and to shoot them, a series of new studies reports."
"The subjects in the studies, who were instructed to shoot only when the human targets in the game were armed, made more errors when confronted by images of black men carrying objects like cell phones or cameras than when faced with similarly unarmed white men. The participants, who in all but one study were primarily white, were also quicker to fire on black men with guns than on white men with guns." ... |
NY: Cop Suspended Again
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"A police officer who killed a fleeing suspect by throwing a police radio at him in 1998 was suspended for the second time this year after being arrested for allegedly breaking into a woman’s upstate home and assaulting her." |
NJ: NJ Passes Gun Law Requiring Unique Mechanism
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"The state legislature passed a bill on Monday that would make New Jersey the first state in the United States to ban the sale of handguns not equipped with a mechanism to limit their use to the owners."
"The measure, which would apply once the technology is available, would require each new handgun sold ...to have a mechanism that would prevent anyone other than the owner from firing it." |
National Campaign to Close the Newspaper Gun Loophole Launches New Website
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"'Most Americans don't know that criminals, the mentally ill, and even terrorists can easily buy guns through newspaper classifieds,' according to John Johnson, chair of the national campaign. 'Our website explains this threat to public safety and what can be done about it. Newspapers can play a role in reducing gun violence by simply not permitting the sale of guns between unchecked parties through classified ads.'"
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Ah, the age-old, hackneyed technique of "incite panic without facts." How about telling us how many crimes are committed with guns bought from newspaper ads annually? |
Air marshals to fly in foreign skies
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"Armed air marshals will soon patrol Qantas flights to and from Singapore under the first agreement with a foreign government to expand the program to international flights."
"Justice Minister Chris Ellison has been negotiating with Singapore, Indonesia and the United States to allow undercover air marshals to fly in foreign skies." |
CA: Backers of Gun Controls Preparing To Fire Another Round of Legislation
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"Gun zealots, led by the National Rifle Assn., fought Davis and Democrats virtually every step, stubbornly refusing to compromise and giving up more than they surely would have by negotiating. Digging in against gun controls is a losing strategy in California."
"There are, by some estimates, 15 million firearms in the state; 27% of households have at least one gun, according to The Times Poll. And people want these weapons controlled."
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According to this feeble excuse for a columnist, anyone who opposes draconian, freedom-limiting measures is a "zealot." What would you call a frothing, vitriolic pseudo-intellectual with little capacity for logic? |
MD: Partisan Discretion in Maryland (Letter)
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"I find the description of Maryland's House Speaker-elect Mike Busch as a 'centrist lawmaker' perplexing [Metro, Dec. 3] because the same article reported that he favors such traditionally liberal positions as expanded abortion rights, additional gun control laws and raising taxes. Can somebody explain The Post's definition of 'centrist?'" |
MN: Inquiry follows officer's fight
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"An off-duty Minneapolis police officer is facing an internal affairs investigation for possible misconduct relating to a fight with a man after leaving a police Christmas party earlier this week."
"The Hennepin County Sheriff's Department and the Minnesota State Patrol are investigating whether officer Matthew Olson had been driving drunk before the incident and whether he drew his gun on 27-year-old Willie Lee Cash on a downtown Minneapolis street." |
Enough is enough!!
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"The greatest tragedy, however, is that these traitors to America - including those in the past - haven't done it alone. They had the help of one of the most uninformed societies the world has seen - the American People. It has been said that ignorance is bliss and maybe it is if one doesn't mind wallowing in servitude to a few elitists with one goal in mind - complete and utter control over all of Mankind." |
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