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Some local gun rights advocates say a proposed city ordinance banning weapons from city properties goes too far. Wisconsin's newly enacted concealed carry laws, the critics argue, reaffirm every individuals' constitutional rights to bear arms, and those rights should not be interfered with by the proposed city ordinance. "The right to bear arms is a personal right that should not be infringed," said Chuck Kuecker, a federally licensed firearms dealer whose business is located in the Town of Beloit. "We think the City of Beloit would be better off if they just accept the fact that the state of Wisconsin...

BELOIT COLLEGE'S MINDSET LIST® FOR THE CLASS OF 2008 1.  Most students entering college this fall were born in 1986. 2.  Desi Arnaz, Orson Welles, Roy Orbison, Ted Bundy, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Cary Grant  have always been dead. 3.  "Heeeere's Johnny!" is a scary greeting from Jack Nicholson, not a warm welcome from Ed McMahon. 4.  The Energizer bunny has always been going, and going, and going. 5.  Large fine-print ads for prescription drugs have always appeared in magazines. 6.  Photographs have always been processed in an hour or less. 7.  They never got a chance to drink 7-Up...

Now Senator Kerry. I know you must have been embarassed by the revelation that you ate on the bus at stop and threw the local food in the Trash. We all saw that you really didn't eat at Wendy's. I mean, everyone thought you were eating at Wendy's, but then you had some take out at some fancy place uptown so you and missus wouldn't have to eat all that "flyover country" garbage that the little people call food. I know that a wealthy "Uber" class person such as yourself wants to really eat the way you are used to....

  BELOIT COLLEGE RELEASES THE CLASS OF 2006 "MINDSET LIST"     Beloit, Wis.—In the coming weeks, a new generation of students will arrive on campuses throughout the country to mark the start of their first year of college. Most of these students were born in 1984. It was a different time, with computers becoming part of our daily lives, videotape changing the way we looked at television, and the explosion of the digital age—from watches to telephones. For the fifth year, Beloit College, the liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, is distributing the Mindset List to its faculty and...