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Two of West Virginia’s federal lawmakers have some of the highest scores among their colleagues regarding bipartisanship. The Lugar Center and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy released its bipartisan index for the 116th Congress on Monday, in which U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., ranked sixth among 99 senators scored and Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., placed 10th among 437 members of the House of Representatives.(snip)..... Capito, speaking to MetroNews in January, championed her relationships on Capitol Hill, noting an eagerness to work with Democrats in the current Congress amid the split Senate. Capito is also the leading Republican...

Here's What You Need To Remember: The Smith & Wesson M&P (Military and Police) was first introduced in 2005 and as a hybrid of two previous guns, the Sigma and the SW99. Like the rest of the guns on this list, it has polymer frame and steel slide, a large internal magazine (seventeen rounds) and a striker-fired operating system.The 9mm Luger, invented before the Great War, is one of the longest-serving gun calibers in history. Introduced in 1901, it has served in virtually every conflict since then up until today. From World War I’s German army to the British army...

Best known as “Lugerman,” the man who brought back the M1907 U.S.Army Test Trials Luger and perfected it, Eugene Golubtsov ranks as one of the best master gunmakers in the world today. Not only does he make the Luger to the same standards of fit and finish as the originals, he also restores fine firearms to new condition. ere are very few men who can do this job properly and he is one of the best. His is the inspirational story of a hardworking young man who made good, showing what keeping your nose to the grindstone can do for...

The classic History Channel documentary series. This episode: German small arms of WWII.

I join commonsense conservatives in endorsing Richard Mourdock to be the next Senator from Indiana. Conservatives of all stripes are uniting behind Richard Mourdock. It’s not just Indiana that benefits from sending the right Senator to serve for the right reasons; the nation as a whole benefits, and that is one reason why the eyes of so many around the nation are focused on the Indiana race.   Indiana deserves a conservative in the Senate who will fight for the Hoosier State, uphold our Constitution, and not just go along to get along with the vested interests of the permanent...

Dear Friends,There are only 20 days left until Tea Party Express-endorsed State Treasurer Richard Mourdock faces Obama’s “Favorite” Republican, Senator Dick Lugar, in the Indiana U.S. Senate Primary. This is the first Tea Party vs Establishment battle of the cycle and we MUST send a powerful message to the powers-that-be: WE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT BE SILENCED! . . There is timid career politician and then there is Sen. Dick Lugar. He not only refused to join republican Senators in challenging Obamacare, he voted to confirm liberal activist judges like now Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor – these justices...

Veteran Indiana GOP senator Richard Lugar, faces a serious primary challenge this election cycle. Every patriotic American should be praying that “Dangerous Dick’” is soundly defeated and is never elected, or appointed, to any form of public office again. Richard Lugar is not merely a leftist Republican – there are plenty of those. ”Dangerous Dick” is in a league all of his own. What makes Lugar so dangerous is his long standing ties to an anti-American Marxist led “peace” Political Action Committee, which has campaigned to cut US military preparedness and defense capabilities for 50 years. The New START Disarmament...

Foreign scientists who want to start a U.S. company would have a better shot at doing so under two bills introduced recently in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The bills, which have received broad support from venture capitalists, would create a new path within U.S. immigration law for entrepreneurs who have attracted venture capital for their startup. Immigration reform is a political hot potato, however, so success may depend on convincing Congress that job creation is a non-partisan issue. On Wednesday Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced the StartUp Visa Act of 2010. A...

BAKURIANI, Georgia—The young Georgian luger who died in a horrific training accident hours before the opening of the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Friday told his father he was terrified of the track before doing the run that killed him. "He called me before the Olympics, three days ago, and he said, 'Dad, I'm scared of one of the turns,' " David Kumaritashvili said in an interview at his house in the small mountain town of Bakuriani on Sunday.

Today, Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili luge athlete died while practicing on the Vancouver Olympic's "Whistler Sliding Centre". For those that have seen the video of the horrible crash, the first thing that stands out it the proximity of a series of steel I-beam supports a mere 2 to 3 feet away from the core of the track: One has to wonder just how such a design - for a facility meant for unprotected humans to fly down it at almost a hundred miles an hour - could have been built. What could have been considered to be a higher priority...

BEVERLY HILLS -- A few days ago, a package arrived in the mail from the widow of my late father-in-law, Colonel Dale Denman, Jr., of Heber Springs, Arkansas. I opened it and there was a leather holster and inside it, a German Luger pistol. My father-in-law had taken it from a captured German officer in early 1945 and kept it for almost sixty years. He had left his wife instructions that I was to get it. You've probably seen ones like it in movies. They look deadly. The Germans made a lot of them to give as a standard sidearm...

Rumsfeld: We're going to Munich, obviously, for the Security Conference, the so-called Werkunde Conference, but the NATO Ministers have arranged an informal meeting prior to that, the day before, to, in effect, get prepared for the Istanbul Summit, which is in June. It will be the first meeting with the new Secretary General. There is a good agenda. Seven invitees will be coming in. We have the issues on strengthening NATO's role in Afghanistan. There will be discussions [about] Iraq. I guess there's now something like 24 or 26 NATO members and invitees who currently have forces in either Afghanistan...

As Senate committee assignments were being handed out last week, Kansas Republican Sam Brownback thought he was well placed to win the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. Last Thursday, Brownback thought the deal was in the bag when Rhode Island Republican Lincoln Chaffee stepped forward and asked Committee Chairman Dick Lugar, R-Ind., for the job. Chaffee never had expressed an interest in the Middle East except once last October, when he was the only Republican to vote against the War Powers Resolution authorizing the president to use military force against Iraq. (Just...

Richard G. Luger SH 306 Senate Office Building Washington D.C. 20510 202-224-4814 April 16, 2002 Mr. #### Borders ### #### ### ##### ######, Indiana ##### Dear Mr. Borders: I appreciate receiving your thoughts on the campaign finance reform bill. Like President Bush, who signed the bill into law, I do not support some of it’s provisions. For example, I voted against the Wellstone Amendment, which places restrictions on the ability of interest groups to air broadcast messages immediately before an election. Further, I believe that some useful campaign finance reform proposals have been excluded from the bill. The final bill...