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Column: National Rifle Association winning gun battle
President Barack 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."...Tags: Tom Coburn, Michael Bloomberg, Gabrielle Giffords, Kay Hagan, Parties and Movements
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Connecticut governor signs tough gun-control law
Four months after a lone gunman shattered the normal morning activities of a Connecticut elementary school in a fearsome shooting spree of 154 bullets in less than five minutes, that state’s governor on Thursday signed a tough gun-control law, the...
Tags: Periodicals, U.S. Congress, Newspaper and Magazine, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Firearms
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U.S. Senators Blumenthal, Murphy Say CT Will Give Them Momentum in Washington, D.C.
The Hartford CourantSaying that Connecticut can help the national effort on gun control, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy came to the state Capitol in Hartford to congratulate Democratic senators for passing one of the strongest gun control bills in the...Tags: New Britain, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Politics, Parties and Movements, Periodicals
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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: Tom Coburn, Michael Bloomberg, Gabrielle Giffords, Kay Hagan, Parties and Movements
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Bad luck for Mitch McConnell: Ashley Judd bows out
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for re-election next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie,...
Tags: Politics, George Clooney, Alec Baldwin, Parties and Movements, Celebrities
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On guns: Too little, too late
WASHINGTON -- "Don't get squishy because time has passed," President Obama told members of Congress. But they already have. "Now is the time," the president said. But the time was actually three months ago. Obama made an impassioned bid last...
Tags: Lobbying, Michael Bloomberg, Politics, Chuck Grassley, White House
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Group wants background checks for firearm buyers
holly.shok@herald-mail.comOne hundred days after the second-deadliest school shooting in United States history, community members gathered at the Boonsboro Free Library on Thursday to sign a petition advocating universal background checks for firearm sales. Hosted by public...Tags: Barack Obama, Libraries, Benjamin L. Cardin, National Rifle Association of America, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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Let's be grown-ups on gay marriage and assault weapons
Given the lack of interest in Congress in protecting children from guns, it was nice to hear a grown-up in Washington speak on behalf of kids, any kids — in this case, the nearly 40,000 kids who live with same-sex parents in California. "They want...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Adam Lanza, Gays and Lesbians, U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Congressman brings common sense to gun control debate
SACRAMENTO — As the national firearms debate reaches a crescendo, a Northern California congressman is proving that you can be both a gun lover and a gun controller. Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, a moderate "blue dog" Democrat who represents...
Tags: Politics, Periodicals, Dianne Feinstein, Newspaper and Magazine, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Do-nothing House Republicans
WASHINGTON -- A meat cleaver hangs over the federal government, but the unflappable men and women of the House majority remain cool and poised. With just a few days to stop automatic spending cuts from affecting everything from air travel to food...
Tags: Michael Burgess, Virginia Foxx, Politics, Elections, Donna F. Edwards
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It's the 'Obama sequester'
I guess many of The Sun's readers are of the "low information" type who are not exposed to counter-points that would rebut the mantra of the left ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). Let me explain. Never in the history of this great nation have we gone four...Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Elections, Politics, White House
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President Obama's sequester
No matter how artfully President Obama attempts to stick blame on those mean House Republicans, the sequestration of $85 billion in this year's spending authority was his administration's idea. At the daily noon White House briefing on Feb. 19, Press...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Politics, Budget Control Act of 2011, White House
Apr 4, 2013
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Apr 3, 2013
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Apr 1, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Mar 27, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Feb 26, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 26, 2013
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