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The NRA has a real opportunity here. There are literally millions of new first-time gun owners. If there is one thing the NRA does well, it is gun safety training. They should launch a nationwide gun safety training program just for new gun owners. They could tap gun & sporting goods manufacturers, gun ranges and wealthy pro-gun folks to contribute to subsidize the cost. This would be great publicity for them while doing a genuine public service to the nation. Outreach to minorities, women, gays and the elderly as part of this would be helpful. Any of you that have...

Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering launched tracking map website of the Wuhan ‘coronavirus’ as it appears to be rapidly spreading around the globe. The website tracks the spread of the deadly virus in real time and provides valuable information for people who want to understand what is happening and know more about the spread of this flu. News reports of the virus and the increasing infections, along with the death toll, is frightening enough when you don’t understand what it really means and if it could potentially affect you or members of your family. read more...

ANTIFA CRASHES CONSERVATIVE “NIGHT FOR FREEDOM” PARTY IN NEW YORK CITY! THE LEFT IS TRYING TO SHUT DOWN FREEDOM!

This probably wasn't what they were hoping for. A group of gun ban extremists by the name of "Women Against Gun Violence" have posted a web poll asking visitors "Should civilians be allowed to carry concealed weapons?" The website promotes its guiding principles to be: 1. We have the right to be free from gun violence in our homes, streets, schools, places of work and communities. 2. The presence and availability of firearms pose a significant threat to the safety of our communities. 3. Gun violence is a critical public health, safety, social and economic issue costing thousands of lives...

In addition to checking with the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, donors should consider the following tips: Donors should be wary of any charity that is inexperienced in carrying out relief efforts but is suddenly soliciting for Tsunami assistance. Although well intentioned, such organizations may not have the ability to quickly deliver aid to those in need. Be wary of appeals that are long on emotion, but short on describing what the charity will do to address the needs of victims and their families. Also see if the charity's appeal explains what the charity intends to do with any excess contributions...

Open Letter from Iraq LGF reader 'Jolly Roger' forwarded this open letter from a US Army Major in Iraq, with some news we are not hearing from our quagmire-obsessed major media. ------------------------- Subject: Postcard from the edge: how goes the war? News from the front: Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:45 PM Subject: Open Current Events Letter From A U.S. Army Major In Iraq It has been a while since I have written to my friends at First Lutheran Church about what's really going on here in Iraq. The news you watch on TV is exaggerated, sensationalized and selective. Good...

Before Jeanne Butterfield became director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, she was the executive director of the Palestine Solidarity Committee?a front group for the terror gang known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or PFLP. You may recall that it was Ms. Butterfield who said, just after a group of young men on student visas flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, "I don't think that the events of last week can be attributed to the failure of our immigration laws." To understand Ms. Butterfield's history is to understand the newer and downright irresponsible...

DAYTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) ? Fire burned the rural home of a man who barricaded himself inside during a deadly police standoff, but authorities were unable to find him when they searched the rubble, Michigan State Police said. Two hours after the Tuesday afternoon fire, officials found a backpack filled with food and ammunition about three-quarters of a mile away, said Tracy Pardo, a state police communications officer. The wife of the barricaded man, Scott Allen Woodring, 40, identified the backpack as her husband's, Pardo told the Detroit Free Press for a Wednesday story. State police said Woodring was believed...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia --- The United States, which has had a military presence in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade, is expected to follow through on plans to withdraw nearly all of its forces after the Iraq war, to help maintain U.S.-Saudi relations, American officials and Middle East experts say. A senior diplomat, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said several thousand personnel at Prince Sultan Air Base are likely to be pulled out within months after the United States officially declares victory in Iraq. The base, about 80 miles south of Riyadh, the Saudi capital, is being used...

GUANGZHOU, China -- Several days after Chen Jianchang checked into Guangzhou's No. 8 Hospital with what appeared to be severe acute respiratory syndrome, officials ordered one of his roommates to check out. The man, who was also exhibiting symptoms of SARS, owed the hospital $250, said Chen's daughter, Chen Lili, who was visiting her father at the time. "They made him pack up and go," she said. "Who knows what happened to him? He had no money and he was sick." >*snip*< On Friday, the WHO added Beijing to a list of "SARS-affected areas," a designation that indicates that chains...

Efforts to limit the spread of SARS aren't going well. There's already been cases of American workers exposing coworkers to the virus. As it spreads, it will become more dangerous to be in a closed enviroment with others, at work, the mall, the grocery store, etc. The answer to this problem is to protect yourself with surgical masks, as health care workers regularly do. I've already seen news footage of people in New York going to work wearing a surgical mask. There will be a run on masks much greater than the recent one on duct tape & plastic. It's...

WASHINGTON (AP)--Health and Human Services Inspector General Janet Rehnquist was not legally entitled to receive a government handgun and law enforcement credentials but got them anyway, an internal investigation concluded. The daughter of Chief Justice William Rehnquist was guilty of ``administrative failures,'' the investigation found. The Justice Department reviewed the findings and said it would not prosecute. No administrative punishment is required against Rehnquist because she recently announced her resignation, said Mark Everson, deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. The investigation was conducted by the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, an organization of inspectors...

Evidence of new virus found in stool samples, journal report says Scientists working to identify the cause of a mysterious respiratory illness that has killed 111 people worldwide are now almost certain that it is associated with a new kind of coronavirus, a family of viruses also responsible for the common cold. One of two groups of scientists whose findings were published online yesterday in separate New England Journal of Medicine articles also said they had found genetic evidence of the virus in some victims' stool samples. The finding lends support to a previously advanced theory that the virus might...

America has the greatest and highest-technology manufacturing capability on the planet. We have the most productive workers. We have the most innovative inventors and researchers. We have more economic clout than any other nation or trading bloc. So why aren't we doing better? Some foreign nations have a well-trained & -educated workforce and most have the advantage of cheap labor. But they most are also saddled with byzantine government bureaucracies, endemic institutional corruption, rampant organized crime and a crumbling, inadequate infrastructure. We should still be able to easily compete against these countries on the world market. So again, why aren't...

WHY do epidemics of infectious disease such as severe acute respiratory syndrome still evoke surprise in the community? After all, SARS is just one of a series of so-called "new" emerging and re-emerging infections that have appeared during the past few decades. It probably won't be the last. Ironically, as late as 1969 many scientists were predicting the demise of infectious disease in many countries. Their confidence was boosted by the campaign against smallpox, the apparent success in controlling malaria and the declining significance of a number of childhood infections. All this was tipped on its head with the emergence...

A standard investigative technique is to look at the possible suspects in a crime, and see who benefits. If SARS is man-made, who benefits? Here's a hypothesis. WWI wasn't really 'won'. The armistice was a result of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 raging through the trenches of the European battlefield and making both armies incapable of continuing operations. Saddam and his people carefully studied their mistakes in Gulf War I, and they realized that conventional military tactics were not going to save them. SARS popped up in the perfect place. China has a dense population with a poor ,...

What the foreign papers are saying African papers are asking "why war, why now?" and sounding alarms about the viability of the United Nations in an increasingly complicated world. The common theme-from Burkina Faso to Zambia-is unabashed condemnation of the United States and of what Nigerian paper This Day called the "Anglo-American invasion." Papers across Africa questioned the rationale for invading Iraq. The Mail & Guardian of Johannesburg said the war "is about revenge; about American penis size as much as American bellies. It is an object lesson to the Islamic world in the aftermath of the Twin Towers and...

PULLMAN, Wash. - A week of anti-war protests planned by students at Washington State University began with a march of about 200 people from the campus into the downtown area. Elsewhere in the state, six war opponents pleaded innocent in Redmond to disorderly conduct charges and protesters complained about police tactics in Seattle. Some protesters in Pullman walked out of classes at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday to join a rally at Glenn Terrell Mall before the march. "It's important to know what people stand for in order to open up conversation," Carpenter said Luzviminda Carpenter, a graduate student with a cloth...

MOSCOW, Idaho - Two women are wanted for questioning after a supporter of Americans soldiers in Iraq became violently ill from drinking hot chocolate in Moscow. Police say it could be attempted murder. Moscow resident Bobby Shores stood on a street corner Sunday to hold a handwritten sign saying he supports his son and brother. Both are overseas with American forces. Two unknown women came up and gave him some hot chocolate. Fifteen minutes later, Shores was doubled over in pain and went to the hospital. A blood test didn't show any toxins. But tests on the drink are pending....