After a Glock-wielding gunman killed six people at a Tucson shopping center on Jan. 8, Greg Wolff, the owner of two Arizona gun shops, told his manager to get ready for a stampede of new customers.
RALEIGH, N.C. - The sprawling Wake County School District has long been a rarity. Some of its best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city. And its suburban schools, rather than being exclusive enclaves, include children whose parents can't afford a house in the...
"Many DON'T mourn the massacre of Rep. Giffords as Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Carlson, Hannity, Brewer, Arpaio, Engle... wouldn't be mourned by me. Of course." SL
Ryan (FB friend), for EXACTLY the reason we should NOT have bought the 1930's German propaganda and funded Hitler; for EXACTLY the reason we should not have bought the 1970-1980's White South African propaganda and supported the white apartheid regime....
Arizona man killed in Tucson shooting credited with saving wife's life, Dorwan Stoddard was one of six people killed Saturday at U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' ''Congress on Your Corner'' event when a gunman shot Giffords in the head before turning the gun on the crowd gathered in the Safeway parking
Patricia Maisch says she wrestled a magazine of bullets away from Tucson shooter Jared Loughner to prevent more carnage. She was one of four people credited with stopping the slaughter, incuding Bill Badger, Roger Sulzgeber and Joseph Zimudie.
"Effectively minding My business demands I Ruthlessly Ignore Others' attempts to do so (meddling, micro-managing); regardless of personal cost to me." SL
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas said on Sunday it has begun talks with other militant factions in the Gaza Strip to urge them to stop firing rockets at Israel, attacks that have raised Palestinian fears of a new
Bulldozers began tearing down a former hotel building Sunday to make way for a Jewish housing development in an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, pushing ahead with a contentious project that has raised concerns in Washington.
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More than 60 years ago, a top adviser to President Harry S. Truman explained why confrontation with the Republican Congress was inevitable and why winning the battle for public opinion was the key to a successful presidency. The same holds today for President Obama.
Washington, DC - DNC Chairman Tim Kaine issued the following statement on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others at a public event in Arizona today:
American diplomats proposed Japan reduce whaling in exchange for US help cracking down on the anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd, leaked cables reveal