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In much of the U.S. West, even moderate states balk at gun control
HELENA, Mont. — Stephen Watt is no stranger to gun violence. In 1982, as a 26-year-old Wyoming state trooper, he stopped a fleeing bank robber who pumped five bullets into Watt before leaving him for dead on an empty stretch of highway. Watt...
Tags: Shootings, U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Civil Rights
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Amazing Race Recap: The Ultimate Fun House
WDBJ7 BloggerAt 2:50 am Anthony and Bates are off to Dresden, Germany to find the Ministry of Finance. The guys express feelings to keep working with Caroline and Jen. They consider the guys “race boyfriends.” This is just like a Big Brother showmance....Tags: Auto Racing, Trials, Berlin (Germany), Germany, Rush Limbaugh
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Navy cancels port calls in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle
Due to the automatic cuts mandated by the sequestration budget deal, the Navy has cancelled plans to send ships to community events in Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., and Seattle. For the same reason, the Navy will not reposition any ships from San Diego...
Tags: Miramar, Military Equipment, Arts and Culture, Armed Forces
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Review: National Geographic's 'The '80s' gets the decade just right
It's so easy to make fun of the 1980s. Ray-Bans, glam-rock hair, acid-washed jeans, the yuppie and Reaganomics, and all those regrettable images of women in power suits and tennis shoes. It seemed even as it was occurring an age of Culture Lite, a...Tags: Reaganomics, Back to the Future (movie), Philosophy, Movies, Steve Jobs
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Margaret Thatcher, Annette Funicello and the spectrum of sisterhood
While former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton considers the pros and cons of trying, once again, to become this nation's first female president and Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns as the bumbling but pencil-skirt-rocking fictional vice president in...
Tags: Feminism, Multiple Sclerosis, Conservative Party (UK), Hillary Clinton, Annette Funicello
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Review: Rocked by an alternate history in 'American Misfit'
With ferocious satire, time-bending surrealism and songs fiercely throbbing to the wild heart of early rock 'n' roll, Dan Dietz’s darkly brilliant "American Misfit" defies easy labels — as befits a full-volume celebration of the dissonant...
Tags: Music, Ryan Murphy, Arts and Culture, Entertainment
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Ex-child star in Jack in the Box ads gets 75 votes for Compton mayor
Former child star Rodney Allen Rippy failed to land on one of Hollywood's most exclusive lists -- that of actors-turned-politicians. Rippy, who appeared in Jack in the Box commercials in the 1970s, tried his hand at local politics by running for...
Tags: Elections, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Politics, Local Elections, Jack in the Box Incorporated
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9th Circuit hears arguments on therapy aimed at converting gays
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court Wednesday grappled with whether a California ban on therapy to change a minor’s sexual orientation amounted to a restriction on free speech or mere regulation of a medical treatment. During a hearing in San...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, Barack Obama, Psychotherapy, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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A Wary But Resilient Boston Keeps It Together, Defies Blasts That Tried To Tear It Apart
The Hartford CourantThe bombs did not stop a field trip of first-graders from making a picnic lunch on the sidewalk outside the Old South Meeting House Tuesday afternoon. No, the gruesome pressure cooker devices did not dissuade a Kansas City couple from setting out for...Tags: Feminism, David Ortiz, Deval Patrick, John F. Kennedy, The Boston Globe
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Thatcher made history by standing firm
In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television — and the fact that the telegenic Mrs. Thatcher had a "certain...Tags: Tony Blair, Gerald Ford, Google Inc., United Kingdom, Sociology
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The reality behind the myth of Britain's 'Iron Lady'
While the mainstream media in America love to wax poetic about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the sainted "Iron Lady" of the Cold War, it might be wise to remember the real person behind the carefully polished myth ("Margaret Thatcher...Tags: South Africa, United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela, Media Industry
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1984's 'Repo Man' possesses a healthy cynicism
Iggy Pop was living in an efficiency apartment near the Whisky a Go Go when a gangly Brit visited him, seeking a theme song for his first movie. The filmmaker was Alex Cox, a graduate of UCLA film school, and the movie was "Repo Man," which would, after a...
Tags: Reaganomics, Roger Ebert, Religion and Belief, Entertainment, Literature
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