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Touted as an overdue (if duplicative) law that no one could disagree with, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act signed by President Biden last week includes a subtle provision that could boost the Biden administration’s war on wrongthink. The bill sailed through the U.S. Senate and the House with ease. The tactful naming made the bill radioactive to oppose, which is why 422 congressmen voted in favor while only three opposed. Rep. Thomas Massie, one of the three who voted against the bill, expressed a handful of concerns, including that there are a limited number of constitutionally specified federal crimes, that...

Apparently the Nevada Assembly, Judiciary Committee has secretly added SB221 to it's agenda for TUESDAY - yes the day after tomorrow. This is a bad bill and needs to be stopped. SB221 is the worst assault we have seen on the second amendment in Nevada and every gun owner needs to get involved! We are fighting against the infamous Mayors Against Illegal Guns who has spent a lot of money to blast print, radio, and TV with ads in support of SB221. We as NV residents have done very little to oppose this bill and we are about to pay...

Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obama's health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law, according to two sources with specific knowledge of the deliberations. Roberts then withstood a month-long, desperate campaign to bring him back to his original position, the sources said. Ironically, Justice Anthony Kennedy - believed by many conservatives to be the justice most likely to defect and vote for the law - led the...

Pop Quiz: Which D.C. Politician Wants to Takeover Your Vitamins? A. Barack Obama (D) B. Nancy Pelosi (D) C. John McCain (R?) If you answered C. John McCain, you are sadly correct. Dear Fellow Conservative, Unfortunately, thanks to John McCain, we have to fight the battle to keep the Governments Hands Off Our Healthcare on two fronts. Tell John McCain Hands Off Our Vitamins Click Here to Send $5, $10, $25, $100, or the Max Gift to JD For Senate jdforsenate.com/ctt?cttid=11&redirect=contribute John McCain, my opponent in the Republican Primary this year, has introduced legislation that would allow the FDA to...

International travel to the United States took a significant hit after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, research shows. Efforts to reverse this trend culminated in Senate approval last week of the Travel Promotion Act, which President Obama is expected to sign today. The measure provides close to $200 million annually to create a national agency - the Corporation for Travel Promotion - modeled after successful tourism-advancement organizations in this country and in other developed nations.

U.S. incarcerates more than any other nation: report Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:20pm EST By James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world and for the first time in the nation's history, more than one in every 100 American adults is confined in a prison or jail, according to a report released on Thursday. The report by the Pew Center on the States said the American penal system held more than 2.3 million adults at the start of the year. The far more populous nation of China ranked second with...

Congress is debating the passing of a “shield law” which would protect members of the press from being forced to reveal their sources. This push for the so-called shield law has taken on new meaning since the Valerie Plame “outing” case has resulted in the jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller on a contempt of court finding for refusing to “give up” her sources for a story she never wrote. We should be asking many questions before we grant this kind of sweeping immunity to the “Fourth Estate.” I believe passing these laws would be a dangerous, dysnomic,...

The House of Delegates is expected to vote on the "Gay Insurance" bill on Tuesday. If you haven't contacted your Delegate about this critical bill, you've got one more chance. Use the ACTION ITEM near the end of this email BEFORE noon Tuesday. Homosexuals gaining marriage benefits despite Marriage Amendment success? (Richmond) - The same Virginia legislature that voted to preserve the definition of one-man, one-woman marriage has rejected a ban on gay adoptions and is now poised to give insurance benefits previously reserved for married spouses and dependants to homosexual "couples” and anyone else who wants them. On February...

US tightens ban on Cuban cigars WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s administration has tightened a ban on Americans importing Cuban cigars. "There is now an across-the-board ban on the importation of Cuban-origin cigars," said a notice released this week by the Treasury Department (news - web sites)'s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Previously, the rules allowed Americans licensed to travel to Cuba to bring back to the United States up to 100 dollars' worth of Cuban goods, including cigars. That loophole was closed in the latest regulations. The anti-Cuban cigar rules were already...

A confluence of cynicism - Steve Williams The combined cynicism of California's Democrat-dominated legislature and a crippled Gray Davis is bringing a flood of laws bereft of bipartisanship, and not coincidentally vastly strengthening the Left's grip on state politics. The worst of the new measures is something called Assembly Bill 503, introduced by Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego). It permits unions to use school resources, funded by taxpayer dollars, to urge the support or defeat of a ballot measure or candidate. Ultimately, the bill gives teachers' unions a free hand to campaign in public schools — using taxpayer resources to foot...

<p>CHICAGO — Basketball star Kobe Bryant (search), accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old hotel spa worker in Colorado, insists he didn't commit a crime because the sex was consensual. The young woman says otherwise.</p> <p>Under Colorado law, Bryant's fate hinges on whether a jury concludes he used or threatened force upon his accuser — but the standard of guilt in rape cases isn't the same nationwide.</p>

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Thursday suspended sales of toy guns in its stores throughout the state of New York, only hours after Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer sued the world's biggest retailer, accusing it of selling such toys without required safety markings to distinguish them from real weapons. The toy guns have orange caps on their barrels, as required by federal law, but they don't have nonremovable orange stripes down the barrel's length as New York law requires, Spitzer's lawsuit contends. Safety experts say the brightly colored markings help police officers distinguish toy guns from real weapons, and that the permanent...

© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Pennsylvania lawmakers have passed legislation that gives homosexuals specific, statewide legal protection for the first time, prompting some to predict that pastors in the state will now be targeted for preaching against the "gay" lifestyle. The bill, which passed the House on Tuesday by a vote of 118 to 79, adds ''ancestry, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity'' to the state's Ethnic Intimidation law, which already raises the grade of crimes motivated by hatred against victims because of their race, color, religion or national origin. According to a report in the Harrisburg Patriot-News,...