May 22, 2002
John W. Magaw, a career federal law enforcer and head of the Transportation Security Administration, told a senatorial committee Tuesday that his agency wouldn`t allow commercial airline...
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May 22, 2002
The following statement was issued today by Capt. Duane Woerth, president of the Air Line Pilots Association in response to statements by John Magaw, undersecretary for transportation...
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May 22, 2002
The National Endowment for the Humanities has withdrawn its name from a fellowship for a professor facing accusations of research fraud over his book about the history of gun ownership...
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May 21, 2002
The new radio ads from the misleadingly named "Americans for Gun Safety" feature John McCain and Joe Lieberman making a variety of bogus claims as part of their campaign against gun...
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May 21, 2002
In the closing days of his primary election battle against a fellow incumbent, U.S. Rep. Frank Mascara of Charleroi has been forced to change a newspaper ad that drew a sharp rebuke...
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May 21, 2002
The NRA, seizing on Pennsylvania`s rural, conservative sensibilities has run a series of ads criticizing Ed Rendell, who served as Philadelphia mayor for nine years before leaving to...
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May 20, 2002
Two gun-control organizations are running radio ads defending Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed Rendell from National Rifle Association attacks, while another pro-gun group has...
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May 20, 2002
Gun control advocates are upset over Attorney General John Ashcroft`s declaration last week, outlined in a legal brief before the Supreme Court, that the Second Amendment to the Constitution...
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May 20, 2002
A virtual consensus of constitutional historians and legal scholars today--including not only conservatives, but also such left-liberals as Harvard Law`s Laurence Tribe and libertarians,...
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May 20, 2002
If you want insight into the mentality of the intellectual elite, observe the hysterical reaction to the Bush Administration`s declaration that the right to keep and bear arms is--horror!--an...
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May 17, 2002
Last week, the Bush administration made it official: Gun owners are welcome in the U.S.A. In a footnote to filings with the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justice Department declared for the...
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May 17, 2002
Gun control advocates are upset over Attorney General John Ashcroft`s declaration last week, outlined in a legal brief before the Supreme Court, that the Second Amendment to the Constitution...
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May 17, 2002
Having been cheerfully assured by "Handgun Control, Inc." (aka the Brady Campaign) that the Constitution protects only kiddie porn and says absolutely nothing about guns, the New York...
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May 16, 2002
Laconia, New Hampshire police chief William Baker is trying to ban concealed guns during the annual Bike Week. The chief belives the ban "will pass constitutional muster."Read Original...
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May 16, 2002
The document`s title is bland: "Reply of Senator John McCain, Senator Russell Feingold, Representative Christopher Shays, Representative Martin Meehan, Senator Olympia Snowe, and Senator...
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May 16, 2002
In a large event, much commented on, the Justice Department last week told the Supreme Court that the Second Amendment “broadly protects the rights of individuals,” not just the right...
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May 16, 2002
Last week, Solicitor General Theodore Olson told the Supreme Court that the Second Amendment "protects the rights of individuals, including persons who are not members of any militia...
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May 16, 2002
Dry Creek Elementary school has disciplined seven boys for playing a game of "army and aliens" in which they used their fingers as imaginary weapons and pretended to shoot creatures...
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May 15, 2002
After hearing the Second Amendment verbatim, 73% in an ABCNEWS.com poll said it guarantees the right to individual gun ownership. Twenty percent said, instead, that it only guarantees...
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May 15, 2002
In February, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) began lobbying Congress for $100 million plus federal legislation for a plan to nationalize and standardize...
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May 14, 2002
Despite the large number of pro-gun bills passed throughout the nation this year, spokesmen for the Brady Campaign are using the demise of Colorado`s Right to Carry bill to feign victory.Read...
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May 14, 2002
Attorney General John Ashcroft caused gun-control advocates and assorted liberals to go ballistic by his radical assertion that, yes, the Second Amendment does indeed guarantee individuals...
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May 14, 2002
Hours after Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 people at Columbine High School, authorities obtained search warrants for their homes using year-old evidence. Sheriff`s officials...
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May 14, 2002
After he read the fluorescent pumpkin-colored mailing, Steven Eitel knew who would get his vote in Tuesday`s Democratic primary for Ohio`s 17th Congressional District: Tim Ryan. No...
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May 14, 2002
The engine behind the department`s new position, by all accounts, was Attorney General John Ashcroft, a longtime student of the Second Amendment who, as a Missouri senator, held a lengthy...
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May 14, 2002
Arguing his first case since being elected New York attorney general in 1998, Eliot L. Spitzer last week urged a panel of appellate judges to reinstate a novel lawsuit against the gun...
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May 14, 2002
The assassination of a Dutch politician and a series of mass shootings-at a German school and at normally tranquil local legislatures in Switzerland and France-have shaken the European...
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May 13, 2002
As amazed as many gun control advocates and liberal legal scholars seem to be, the fact remains that the recent legal brief footnote from U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson recognizing...
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May 13, 2002
Those dangerous radicals John Ashcroft and Ted Olson are at it again. The Second Amendment, the Justice Department has just asserted in two Supreme Court briefs, protects an individual...
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May 13, 2002
A popular stance for schools grappling with the specter of school shootings, drugs and alcohol abuse, the strict no-second-chances policy has resulted in maximum punishment, including...
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May 9, 2002
One would never know from reading the news that there exists not one single academic study showing that the federal Brady Act, assault-weapons bans, state waiting periods, background...
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May 9, 2002
If anti-gun zealots could get their arguments straight, they might realize that misconceived "gun-free" policies are just as enticing to hijackers on airplanes as they are to armed...
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May 9, 2002
It is understandable if Priscilla Owen, a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, thinks she has wound up in the wrong queue.
A year ago this week, President Bush nominated her to the...
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May 8, 2002
The Republican National Committee yesterday joined the list of those suing to overturn the new campaign-finance law - even though the head of the party, President Bush, signed the measure...
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May 8, 2002
Senators John McCain and Joseph I. Lieberman hope to force Congress into an election-year gun debate over their measure to require background checks on all firearms sold at...
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May 7, 2002
In Italy, the Minister of Defense, Antonio Martino, recently announced his support for private gun ownership. "Gun control disarms law-abiding citizens, not criminals," he said. Martino,...
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May 7, 2002
Last week, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and U.S. Attorney for Utah Paul Warner announced the appointment of two new gun prosecutors - the respective offices` new weapons in...
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