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[ Article edited due to length. Please go to HERE to read the entire article. Gig ] A month has passed since the Sept. 11 strikes. The world's focus has been on Osama bin Laden and his network -- but the connections to Russia and China exist and need more investigation. A Chinese military handbook advised the use of civilian airline jets as "flying bombs" -- and evidence has surfaced about Russian "mafia" ties to bin Laden. The best brains in the world have done their best to try to solve the puzzle of who carried out these strikes and ...

KNOW THIS, ISLAMIC TERRORISTS: YOU HAVE ATTACKED AN ENEMY YOU DO NOT KNOW You have studied America from afar. You have sent your agents to live among us. You have listened to our news. You have read our daily musings. So, you believe you know your enemy. YOU DO NOT KNOW US. You have struck time and again with deadly force. You have killed, easily. You may say to all who will listen, “the Americans are fat and lazy. They have no stomach for pain, for death. They are weak. We will strike them again and again. And they will ...

House Bill 304 By: Representatives Franklin of the 39th, Coan of the 82nd, Massey of the 86th and Joyce of the 1st A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Part 3 of Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to carrying and possession of firearms, so as to eliminate victim disarmament zones; to change the provisions relating to the offense of carrying a deadly weapon to or at a public gathering; to provide an exception to the offense of carrying a deadly weapon to or at a public gathering ...

There is a bill in the Georgia Legislature, House of Representatives that dramatically improves a Georgian's right to self-protection. This bill modifies the current concealed carry law by ALLOWING law-abiding, duly licensed gun owners to carry their protection, be it gun or knife, in a concealed manner INTO or ABOUT "PUBLIC GATHERINGS." The current law effectively nullifies the concealed carry law in Georgia by prohibiting the carrying of any weapon in areas deemed to be a PUBLIC GATHERING (as described in the bill below). The underlined portion of the bill below are the additions to the law which modifies one's ...

NEW YORK - In 1788, Alexander Hamilton, writing under the pseudonym "Publius," argued against the idea of having the fledgling United States' citizens vote directly for their president. "The immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice," he wrote. "A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated ...

A law that takes effect in Connecticut today allows police to take guns away from anyone who poses an immediate danger to others or himself. Who could argue with that? Second Amendment absolutists certainly can. These are the folks who misinterpret the Constitution as guaranteeing Americans the right to pack heat, while prohibiting the government from doing much, if anything, about it. Here, for example, is what Dennis Fusaro, director of state legislation for Gun Owners of America, told The Associated Press about the law: "You don't forfeit your rights just because you might be a threat, or you ...

The ashes at Waco were still warm in April 1993 when Attorney General Janet Reno stood before the nation and, in her own words, took "full responsibility" for the inferno that ended a 51-day government siege. Cult leader David Koresh and 80 of his followers died that day. "I approved the plan, and I am responsible for it," she said of the FBI's tactical plan for gaining control of the Branch Davidian compound. On April 19, and very often since then, Reno said that the tearing agent used was CS2 - a powder, not a gas - and that it ...

Your risk of being murdered is one in 16,666. Actually, for most Americans, it is much less than that. The majority of American homicides involve one low-life killing another low-life. Thus, if you stay out of the drug business, which most Americans do, and if you don't hang out with low-lifes or foolishly wander into bad neighborhoods, your chances of becoming a homicide victim are very small. In short, the danger of firearms is greatly exaggerated by politicians and press alike. In 1997, for example, 15,551 Americans were killed by firearms, compared with 28,400 who died in their homes as ...