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Freeper umgud predicted "MSM will report that Trump is giving guns to crazy people." in http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3530085/posts Medscape is a bulletin e-mailed to thousands of health- care professionals. The article itself is reasoned and more accurate. ... "Trump signed a bill that overturned an Obama-era rule designed to stop certain individuals with mental disorders from buying guns. Issued near the end of Obama's presidency, the rule banned gun ownership by people who are on Social Security disability because they have mental health problems that prevent them from working and who must have someone manage their financial affairs." ... "but under the...

beginning of excerpt "Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump explained to an interviewer for the Christian Broadcasting Network that Christians in Syria were “horribly treated” and alleged that under previous administrations, “if you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible.” “I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them,” the president said. In fact, the United States accepts tens of thousands of Christian refugees. According to the Pew Research Center, almost as many Christian refugees (37,521) were admitted as Muslim refugees (38,901) in the 2016...

Significance Political beliefs have been shown to spill over into nonpolitical domains, such as consumer spending, choice of romantic partner, and job hiring. Our evidence suggests that political beliefs predict the professional decisions of primary care physicians. On politicized health issues, like marijuana and abortion, physicians' partisan identity is highly correlated with their treatment decisions. Because physicians regularly interact with patients on politically sensitive health issues and because the medical profession is increasingly politicized (e.g., state governments are regulating politicized aspects of medicine), it is necessary to understand how doctors’ own political worldviews may impact their actions in the medical...

The Florida State Attorney's Office has PDF files available with Angela Corey's prepared statement and the Issue Capias charging Zimmerman with one count of second degree murder. "COUNT I: IN THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE, STATE OF FLORIDA, on February 26, 2012, GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, did unlawfully and by an act imminently dangerous to another, and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual, kill TRA YVON MARTIN, a human being under the age of eighteen, by shooting the said victim, and during the commission of the aforementioned Second...

Abstract This article summarizes the scientific literature on the health risks and benefits of having a gun in the home for the gun owner and his/her family. For most contemporary Americans, scientific studies indicate that the health risk of a gun in the home is greater than the benefit. The evidence is overwhelming for the fact that a gun in the home is a risk factor for completed suicide and that gun accidents are most likely to occur in homes with guns. There is compelling evidence that a gun in the home is a risk factor for intimidation and for...

Yesterday afternoon, during "The Liberty Show with Forest Wilson and friends" broadcast on WOKV radio, Dean Black announced his intention to challenge Corrine Brown for the 3rd District seat. He joins six others: James Gilman, Jacksonville Republican; Jacob W. Hoechst, Orlando Republican; LeAnne Kolb, Green Cove Springs Republican; George Scott MacNaughton, Jacksonville Libertarian; Terry Martin-Back, Gainesville (no party affiliation); and Michael F. "Mike" Yost, Jacksonville Republican. He has a newly registered website with little in it yet. http://deanblack2010.com/w/ I've excerpted this from a statement on that site: "All across America a great battle is looming for the heart, soul, and...

In recent years, maritime shipping companies, private security firms and navies around the globe have pondered the problem of high-seas piracy off Africa’s east coast, where more than 150 merchant ships have been attacked by small craft in 2009 alone. What to do? ... ... Imagine an aquatic drone, a remote-controlled boat that could patrol the waters off eastern Africa and allow threats to be assessed and engaged from a distance. This is an idea proposed by Timothy P. Sheridan, an American arms dealer ... His latest venture is called Maritime Defense Systems International, LLC., which offers an automated counterpiracy...

FOREWORD The Department of Defense has a long-standing policy of intolerance for organizations, practices, or activities that are discriminatory in nature. DOD Directive 1325.6, “Guidelines for Handling Dissent and Protest Activities Among Members of the Armed Forces,” was issued in 1969 as one of many measures taken to renew, clarify, and emphasize that policy. Despite the specific language of this directive, reports in 1986 of Army and Marine Corps members participating in Ku Klux Klan (KKK) activities forced Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger to reaffirm the Defense Department’s position via the priority message cited above. Yet new cases of service...

Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), bottom, USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), top, transit in formation with the Royal Navy's Invincible-class aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious (R 06) in the Atlantic Ocean. The carriers are currently participating in Operation Bold Step, bringing together more than 15,000 service members from three countries during a Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFX).

Navantia Delivers Frigate to Royal Norwegian Navy Friday, June 01, 2007 Navantia has commissioned on May 21, 2007, in the Ferrol shipyard, the F-311 frigate, Roald Amundsen to the Royal Norwegian Navy, presided by the Norwegian Chief of Navy, Admiral Jan E. Finseth, and the President of Navantia, Juan Pedro Gómez Jaén. The delivery protocol has been signed by the Director of the shipyard, Ángel Recamán, and the Director of NDLO, General Trond Karlsen. Previous to the start of the ceremony, a minute of silence has been kept, as honor in memory of 4 workers died on board the frigate...

The revolt against the NRA. Gun Crazy by Michael Blanding Post date 08.30.06 | Issue date 09.04.06 Lake Charles, Louisiana Guns fill the carpeted hallway of the event center at the L'Auberge du Lac Hotel & Casino here, at the Outdoor Writers Association of America's (OWAA) seventy-ninth annual conference. On a folding table sit a half-dozen Browning rifles, engraved and gleaming on a white tablecloth. Next to it, a table sponsored by Smith & Wesson holds enough handguns to drop a mammoth, including James Bond's Walther PPK, Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum, and the even larger .500 Magnum, which weighs four...