June 3, 2003
North Dakota`s experience should reassure Minnesotans worried about concealed weapons. A new law easing those rules in Minnesota is creating a lot of concern there. But North Dakota`s...
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June 3, 2003
Area gun shops are reporting a surge of customer traffic as a result of Minnesota`s new conceal-and-carry gun law. People are signing up in droves for the required six-hour certification...
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June 3, 2003
Federal regulators voted June 2 to relax restrictions that have kept the nation`s largest media companies from growing larger, a decision that may put a few giant companies in control...
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June 3, 2003
The nation`s largest group of professional historians has scrapped the way it handles plagiarism allegations, doing away with secret proceedings in an effort to spotlight problems when...
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June 2, 2003
Who could oppose laws preventing terrorists from getting guns? Obviously no one. But it would be nice if the law accomplished something more than simply making it more difficult for...
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June 2, 2003
Democrats appear to have abandoned gun control as a political wedge, declining to push the issue in Congress despite being given the opportunity by congressional Republicans.Read Original...
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June 2, 2003
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Harry Pregerson, the oldest active member of the court and a stalwart of the court`s liberal wing, is defying recent Supreme Court precedent...
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June 2, 2003
In the midst of trying to secure the homeland, the interior of the United States remains woefully—and frighteningly—unsecured. This should be plain from the FBI`s recent warning that...
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May 30, 2003
Considering all the issues that should draw the attention of American politicians, it`s astounding how much air is being wasted on debating -- once again -- the federal assault-weapons...
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May 29, 2003
The FBI has improved its ability to respond quickly to gun dealer requests for criminal background checks with only 9% of the transactions now facing delays, the Justice Department...
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May 29, 2003
On the first day of Minnesota`s new handgun permit law, some people said they needed guns for safety. The permit applicants were mostly men, but from many walks of life—a young military...
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May 29, 2003
"The Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times has engendered more commentary than any similar press scandal I can recall," writes Bruce Bartlett. "In part, this is due to the gross...
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May 29, 2003
Bill, Hillary and the Democrats` political vacuum: The Clintons are back--but then they never really left. More than two years after Bill and Hillary departed the White House with controversies...
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May 28, 2003
Kansas kids in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program won`t be the only ones enjoying the great outdoors this fall and winter.
A $250,000 grant from the National Shooting Sports Foundation...
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May 28, 2003
A group of churches has filed a lawsuit trying to block or end or undermine or undo the conceal and carry permit law that goes into effect today. I don`t know what they are trying to...
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May 28, 2003
On the eve of Minnesota`s entry into a new era of expanded handgun rights, Republican leaders pushed Tuesday for a one-word change in the rules for barring legal pistol-packers from...
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May 28, 2003
A decade ago, Senate Democrat Russ Feingold backed the assault weapon ban signed into law by President Clinton. But today his vote to preserve the ban is uncertain. "I`m going to give...
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May 28, 2003
Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Tuesday he supports changing Minnesota`s new handgun law to make it easier for churches and businesses to keep guns off their premises. But the process promises...
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May 28, 2003
Efforts are under way within the federal government to use computer technology to probe databases for information about possible terrorist activities. The Pentagon took the spotlight...
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May 28, 2003
The old Voter News Service that caused such a ruckus in the 2000 presidential election has been reinvented.
Five television networks have signed agreements with the Associated Press...
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May 27, 2003
Plenty of bad things happen in even seemingly quiet, safe neighborhoods. That`s one reason why Colorado just enacted a statute that makes it easier for law-abiding citizens to get a...
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May 27, 2003
The first thing you have to understand about proposed gun legislation in Washington is that it isn`t necessarily proposed to get passed. Not when it can be used as voter bait during...
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May 27, 2003
A film that climaxes in a massacre at a school in America has won the Palme d`Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Gus Van Sant, the director of Elephant, said his inspiration was a 1989...
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May 23, 2003
Both sides in the debate over New Jersey`s proposed bear hunt clashed during a public hearing last night in Trenton, just two days after a black bear was killed after it swatted a Sparta...
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May 23, 2003
This week`s CBS miniseries "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" tries to explain the conditions that enabled a manifestly evil and abnormal individual to gain total power and to commit mass murder....
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May 23, 2003
Police forces deter crime merely in the general sense and only infrequently are able to prevent specific acts of violence. Thus, no rational family should be without a weapon, secure...
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May 22, 2003
The New York Times has suffered a major black eye with revelations that one of its reporters made up events, facts, or engaged in plagiarizism some 50 times. Yet, the Times has won...
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May 22, 2003
Sen. George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio) became the 53rd member of the Senate to co-sponsor the bill that would provide the nation`s gun manufacturers with broad protection from lawsuits....
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May 22, 2003
The media has made an incredible amount of noise about how a New York Times reporter pilfered other writer`s material and made up outright fabrications in a whole series of news stories...
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May 22, 2003
The future formation of American public opinion has fallen into the lap of an ambitious 36-year-old lawyer whose name you never heard. On June 2, after deliberations conducted behind...
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May 22, 2003
A great democracy like ours deserves a first-rate newspaper of record. And the New York Times isn`t it. Conservatives, populists, humorists, smart alecks, men and women of good will...
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May 21, 2003
Fifteen people applied for concealed weapons permits in Denver on Monday, the second day the city accepted applications in compliance with a new state law.
Denver officials had...
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May 21, 2003
Only in Washington would it be considered imperative to extend legislation precisely because it`s been so ineffectual. Such is the logic behind a Democratic push to prevent the assault...
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May 21, 2003
The first thing you have to understand about proposed gun legislation in Washington is that it isn`t necessarily proposed to get passed. Not when it can be used as voter bait during...
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May 21, 2003
"Witness the silly desperation of what`s left of Washington`s gun-hating gang," writes NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre. "In a last-ditch anti-gun Hail Mary, Sen. Frank Lautenberg...
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May 20, 2003
CNN has found itself the target of criticism for misleading viewers about the types of weapons prohibited by a federal law due to expire next year.
Two CNN broadcasts last week, which...
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May 20, 2003
Only in Washington would it be considered imperative to extend legislation precisely because it`s been so ineffectual. Such is the logic behind a Democratic push to prevent the assault-weapons...
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May 20, 2003
The author of the most comprehensive and controversial research on civilian use of firearms against criminals defended his latest work in Washington on Monday.
Dr. John Lott is an...
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