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Obama Backs Down From Gun Control Showdown

Feb 1, 2011
Eighteen years ago, the late Betty Friedan called her friend Ann Reiss Lane, a prominent Los Angeles civic activist. She was angry about the gun industry’s latest outrage—high-fashion ads marketing guns with grips made for a woman’s hand. Considering the events preceding this State of the Union, the president’s failure to talk about guns was inexplicable and unforgivable.

Done With Guns, NRA Has Other Targets

Jul 13, 2010
The Supreme Court has pretty much decided the National Rifle Association's main issue, but the pressure group, which has managed to make a plaything of Congress, shows no signs of disarming or disbanding. Instead, the gun lobby has set its sights on health care, Elena Kagan and other matters of state.

Chuck Norris, Conspiracy Theorist

Jan 13, 2010
What are the true patriots of the U.S. of A. to do when a bona fide Muslim-sympathizing, Constitution-shredding president signs a mysterious and probably anti-American "executive order" granting sinister "privileges, exemptions and immunities" to the France-based International Police Organization -- aka Interpol? Enter Chuck Norris, onetime "Texas Ranger," martial arts movie star and amateur conspiracy theorist, stage right.