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Just a Bad, Sad Week
The Hartford CourantIt was not a good week: At the Boston Marathon, where bombs killed and maimed. In West, Texas, where a fertilizer plant exploded, taking lives and leveling the community. For the media, which seemed to get it first more than it got it right. And in...Tags: Jonathan Papelbon, University of Connecticut Football, Adultery, Anthony D. Weiner, Richard Blumenthal
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4/20
House Republicans still see nothing wrong with this idea: Taxpayers paying for nuclear plants that will never be built — for large corporations that make big profits. President Obama's tantrum over not getting his way with the gun-grabbing bill...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Suicide, Crime, Law and Justice, Abraham Lincoln
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Courage in short supply
WASHINGTON -- The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly...
Tags: Lobbying, Joe Biden, Parties and Movements, Patrick J. Toomey, Heidi Heitkamp
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Shame on Senate -- send 'em all home!
Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take...
Tags: Jared Lee Loughner, Patrick J. Toomey, Heidi Heitkamp, Crime, Law and Justice, Orrin Hatch
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Carey Baker off base with complaints about Comcast banning gun-shop ads
Whoa, Nellie! It's best to do a little thinking before typing, and nowhere did that advice apply better than this week during a Facebook tempest over media giant Comcast refusing to run advertisements for a gun shop co-owned by Lake County Property...
Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Personal Weapon Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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Gun control fervor high, but as usual it will soon pass
This week the U.S. Senate will discuss the expansion of criminal background checks for gun buyers. Just months after one of the deadliest mass shootings by a single American, leading lawmakers suggest support for gun control legislation is bleak, and...Tags: Lobbying, Personal Weapon Control, Lake Worth, Crime, Law and Justice, Adam Lanza
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The Second Amendment might need some revisions
Several months ago, not long before the massacre in Newtown, Conn., I asked Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, why his group refused to argue for amending the Second Amendment. Maybe a revision stipulating that...Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Civil Rights, Gun Control, Justice and Rights
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The weak in review
It was dismaying. Not that the U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a major gun control proposal that would have required universal background checks prior to all firearm sales. But that such a proposal, popular though it is in opinion polling, wasn't...Tags: Mark Kirk, Firearms, Personal Weapon Control, Joe Manchin III, Parties and Movements
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Our country's greed and the bubble
An iconic line from the 1987 movie "Wall Street" is when Michael Douglas portraying Gordon Gekko says "Greed is good." I'm getting that same deja vu moment with the current run-up of the stock market as the big banks and investment houses play fast...Tags: Federal Reserve, Politics, Finance, Money and Monetary Policy, Economy, Business and Finance
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4/13
Gov. Rick Scott finally embraced Obamacare. Perhaps he took a class from Chris Christie on how to work with President Obama to get things done for his citizens. Margaret Thatcher said, "There is no such thing as public money. There is only taxpayers'...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Rick Scott, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Personal Weapon Control
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Newtown tragedy brings bipartisanship back to Congress
They started out with a lot in common -- Joe Manchin and Patrick Toomey. Sure, one's a Democrat and one's a Republican, but they're both conservatives, both longtime gun owners and both sport an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association. But now...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Eric Harris, Joe Manchin III, Columbine High School, FBI
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Give 'bomb control' a chance
He thought his wife was in love with another man, police say, so James L. McFillin of Baltimore decided to blow up the other man. It was 1979. McFillin wired two sticks of an explosive called Tovex 220 into the electrical system of a truck belonging...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Lobbying, Firearms, Personal Weapon Control, Research
Apr 21, 2013
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|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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Apr 17, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Apr 18, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Apr 19, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 15, 2013
|Column| Petoskey News
Apr 13, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 12, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 28, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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