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Gun advocates should take aim at real scandals
Last month, I received emails from two people I know but who don't know each other: one a close friend and Second Amendment supporter, and the other a regular reader who sends me news items she believes the "liberal media" are willfully suppressing....
Tags: National Security, Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel (tv network), Operation Fast and Furious, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Getting Control Of Guns For All Americans
The Hartford Courant"If The Civil Rights era has to be mentioned at all in the current gun debate, it's that the U.S. would be safer if blacks had stayed at the back of the bus — without access to firearms." — Email from reader taking issue with citing Emmett...Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Southern Connecticut State University, Emmett Till, Politics
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Kass: Chicago's forgotten innocents need our attention too
Baron Banks wasn't in Washington to witness President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday. "No," he told me. "Nobody gave me a call." So he wasn't in the first lady's box as the president somberly acknowledged the families that lost...
Tags: Prosecution, South Chicago, Witnesses, Health and Safety at School, Interior Policy
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Service marks end to bloody feud that began with sheriff's death
If she thought about it at all, Susan Arline Williams figured the old gun stored away in her daddy's closet was a wartime souvenir. Albert Arline, who died in 1991, didn't talk about the gun. Nor did he ever talk about the old, deadly trouble that...
Tags: Orange County Regional History Center, Osceola County, Orlando, Orange County (Florida), Leu Gardens
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The freedom to live in fear 24/7
"Everybody got a pistol. This must really please the NRA" — from "Gun" by Gil Scott-Heron So maybe the NRA is about to get its wish. Here we are, a little over three weeks after the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., a...Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, New Year's Day
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From Olympic hero to accused murderer
No memory of the London Olympics last summer remains as vivid as the image of South African inspiration Oscar Pistorius crossing the finish line of a 400-meter qualifying heat on his carbon-fiber blades. Suddenly, neither Pistorius' time nor any...
Tags: Track and Field, South Africa, Usain Bolt, Africa, Nelson Mandela
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President's visit anything but welcome for the Rahmfather
The big guy is coming to Chicago, and that can't be good for the not-as-big guy on the fifth floor of Chicago's City Hall. In politics, stuff rolls downhill. The big guy on Pennsylvania Avenue doesn't want stuff on his shoes, and neither does the not-...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Crime, Law and Justice, Local Government, Kenwood, Judges
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Calling out bugnut idiocy
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: Justice and Rights, African-American History Month, Rush Limbaugh, Crime, Law and Justice, Henry Ford
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Response to those rewriting black history: No
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: The Miami Herald, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Justice and Rights, African-American History Month, Rush Limbaugh
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No easy answers for gun woes
Unlike the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut, the horrific death of Hadiya Pendleton last week might not have been enough all by itself to spark U.S. Senate hearings on gun violence. Yet the urban teenager's tragic case is sadly far...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Wayne LaPierre, FBI
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The gang crisis: Emanuel owns it now
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel a few years ago. "And what I mean by that," he said, "it's an opportunity to do things you could not do before." Things you could not do before? Or things you would not do...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago City Hall, West Garfield Park, Englewood, Marquette Park
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Sandy Hook Pictures Would Change Debate
The Hartford Courant"The mutilated face of the victim was left untouched by morticians at the mother's request. She said she wanted 'all the world' to witness the atrocity." Jet Magazine, Sept. 15, 1955, on the open-casket funeral of 14-year-old Emmett Till. The wounds...Tags: Pathology, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Southern Connecticut State University, Politics
May 14, 2013
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Feb 27, 2013
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Feb 24, 2013
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Jan 7, 2013
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Feb 14, 2013
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Feb 15, 2013
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Feb 6, 2013
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Feb 5, 2013
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Feb 3, 2013
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Feb 1, 2013
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Jan 30, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
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