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Last Endeavour crew to speak Thurs. at Hopkins
Maryland WeatherThe last NASA crew to fly the space shuttle Endeavour will speak at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg Center on Thursday, Aug. 4. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public.Astronauts scheduled to participate include Commander........Tags: Mark Kelly, NASA, Science and Technology, Arizona, Space Programs
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Palm Beach County drops proposal for local ban on extended-size ammunition magazines
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County Commissioner Burt Aaronson Tuesday gave up his push for a local ban on the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines, like those used in last month???s Tucson shooting. Aaronson just four days earlier had called for a local......Tags: Palm Beach County, Florida Legislature, Periodicals, Interior Policy, Politics
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Did inflammatory speech fuel Arizona rampage?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsAfter the tragic events in Arizona last weekend, would it be too much to expect a broadcaster to ditch her usual introduction, the one that hypes her as, "The most heavily-armed talk show host in South Florida?" In the case......Tags: Politics, Andrew Jackson, Allen West, Voting, Crime, Law and Justice
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More setbacks for Palm Beach County gun control measures
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County???s struggle to impose tougher local gun control measures continued Tuesday. First the County Commission did away with a long-standing prohibition against allowing guns in local parks, because the rule conflicted with state law. Then the...Tags: Palm Beach County, Florida Legislature, Periodicals, Interior Policy, Politics
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Immigration votes lacking: White House
The Swampby Peter Nicholas and Peter Wallsten White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said today that there is not enough support in Congress now to pass a comprehensive immigration bill providing a path to citizenship for the nation's illegal immigrants,......Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama, Zoe Lofgren, Jeff Sessions, Patrick Leahy
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Vulnerable Arizona Dems against suit
The Swampby Mike Memoli The Justice Department's decision to file suit against the state of Arizona over its anti-illegal immigration law is being repudiated by Democrats in the state's Congressional Delegation, each of whom face tough re-election battles. "A...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Arizona, Immigration
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Barack Obama, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, Michael Bloomberg
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The language of terror
WASHINGTON -- Terrorism is speech -- speech that gathers its audience by killing innocents as theatrically as possible. The 19th-century anarchist Paul Brousse called it "propaganda by deed." Accordingly, the Boston Marathon attack, the first successful...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Islam, Barack Obama, Fort Hood Shootings (2009), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Remembering Sandy Hook on the way to Congress
From Washington to Annapolis to Hartford, Conn., wherever new gun restrictions are being debated, it's important to remember Sandy Hook. That's not a plea to the emotions. That's a plea to human decency and common sense — a reminder of the...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Politics, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), U.S. Congress
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'They deserve a vote' can be more than rhetoric
State of the Union addresses are traditionally laundry lists of policy proposals. U.S. President Barack Obama's started that way, but it ended as the most emotional speech before a joint session of Congress in modern memory. The theatrics of the event...Tags: Politics, Organizing for Action, Barack Obama, Voting, Chuck Hagel
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Try convincing the survivors we're safer with armed citizens
The moment that most deserves to be remembered from Sunday's thrilling Super Bowl came before the game, when Jennifer Hudson joined students from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in singing "America the Beautiful." It was a heart-rending elegy for the...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Barack Obama, Wayne LaPierre, Jennifer Hudson
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Gabrielle Giffords' story a different kind of profile in courage
Gabrielle Giffords received a Profile in Courage award this weekend at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The award is fitting, though she is displaying a different kind of courage than was celebrated by the late president in his 1957 best-selling...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Kelly Ayotte, Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice
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