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U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton renewed her call for tougher gun control legislation on Tuesday before an audience of newspaper publishers. ... Mrs. Clinton, who is running for the seat of retiring Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York), added that she supports proposals that would require the licensing and registering of all new handguns purchased in the United States. "The moms who are marching in Washington this Sunday have it right," she said, referring to the "Million Mom March" against gun violence scheduled for Mother's Day in the nation's capital... If elected to the Senate, Mrs. Clinton said she'd...

Last Sunday's Million Mom March, the gun-control protest organized (as the major media is finally admitting) by the sister-in-law of Hillary Clinton's longtime lawyer pal and hatchet woman, surly Susan Thomases, may not do the Democrats much good this year. ...It doesn't take a weatherman to figure out that the average citizen doesn't want national policy determined by packs of weeping women led by a shrill, dimwitted talk-show host (Hillary sycophant Rosie O'Donnell).

March 1, 2007, Washington, DC.... The Republican Jewish Coalition today launched a national grassroots action campaign to stand up to efforts on the part of the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ) to undermine US efforts in Iraq. The call to action informed RJC members that the Reform movement's leadership is pushing the Union of Reform Judaism to adopt a "dangerous and wrongheaded resolution opposing US efforts in Iraq." The RJC called on its members to learn more about the proposed resolution and to express their own opposition to the resolution directly to the URJ president, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, and...

The National Jewish Democratic Council, which attempted to whitewash MoveOn.org’s vicious hate speech last year (http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=3149) while posting anti-Semitic “Jews as Christian haters” propaganda on its own blog (http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=3172), has suddenly decided that hate speech is bad–when it comes from sources like Ann Coulter and Michael Savage. We note, incidentally, that Michael Savage is among the country’s most vocal opponents of militant Islam, and his show has more than eight million listeners. “Savage Hate Speech” at the National Judenrat Democratic Council’s blog says, “to those who have heard Savage’s radio show, it is obvious that his hate filled-rage knows no...

Now that Hillary Clinton has announced her intention to run for President in 2008, the pro-2nd community must remind the country, e.g. through letters to the editor in local papers, of her involvement in the Million Mom March fundraising scandal of 2000. For those who don't remember this scandal, the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Million Mom March raised money to "promote gun safety" (or "reduce gun violence," or something to that effect) while actually using the money to run what the American Rifleman called a thinly-disguised campaign rally for Albert Gore and other liberal Democrats. Not only that, the MMM told the...

Transportation Deal Also Seems Imminent RICHMOND, Jan. 15 -- Proponents of tougher state laws governing the sale of firearms, most of them from Northern Virginia, urged the General Assembly on Monday to require criminal background checks of all buyers at gun shows. The measure would close the so-called gun-show loophole, which allows unlicensed dealers to sell firearms at shows in Virginia without conducting the criminal checks required of licensed dealers. Its purpose, supporters said, is to prevent criminals who are prohibited from possessing guns from obtaining them by shopping anonymously at gun shows. "This is not a bill about taking...

The NRA and Gun Owner versus the Brady Campaign and Gun Opponents: Who Serves America Better Which group has contributed more to America and our way of life? Who has contributed more to our overall well-being? Is it the National Rifle Association and the gun owners throughout America or the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and those who believe that gun ownership is dangerous for Americans? The National Rifle Association The National Rifle Association was formed in 1871 by two Union officers who were astounded at the poor marksmanship demonstrated by the Union troops. Union veterans Col. William C....

The Brady Campaign is trying to scare the wits out of tourists planning a visit to Florida. This courtesy of the Scotsman.com: "IT IS Britain's most popular transatlantic holiday destination, attracting more than 1.5 million visitors a year with its sun-drenched beaches, theme parks and wildlife. But Florida's £30 billion tourism industry is under threat from a campaign launched by a gun-control group which warns visitors they could be killed. A series of alarming adverts, to be placed in British newspapers, warns potential tourists about a new law allowing gun owners to shoot anyone they believe threatens their safety."

Gun control advocates want to stop Michigan legislators from passing a law allowing people to use deadly force to defend themselves without fear of prosecution.The bills were introduced this month in Michigan. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Million Mom March are calling lawmakers in an attempt to keep the bills from getting out of the House Judiciary Committee. The battle in Michigan over the so-called deadly force legislation is an important one for both sides. It could open the doors to similar laws across the country, a top priority for the National Rifle Association, or stop...

Stevens attracts national attention Anti-gun-violence advocate noticed by NRA, Drudge By JASON PISCIA STAFF WRITER A State Journal-Register story about an anti-gun-violence advocate's run-in with Springfield police for allegedly having an illegal firearm in her home has sparked interest among Internet news junkies, especially those in the pro-gun-rights community. A link to Tuesday's SJ-R.com version of the report on Annette Stevens' arrest and her rebuttal that she is innocent and is being railroaded by police appeared on several high-profile Web sites, including those of the Drudge Report and pro-gun groups such as the National Rifle Association. As a result, the...

The president of the Springfield, Ill., chapter of the Million Mom March faces charges of having drugs and an illegal handgun in her home. Press reports said the gun's serial number had been scratched off. Annette Stevens became a gun control activist after her son was shot to death several years ago. She told a newspaper the gun belonged to her late son, and when she found it, she didn't know what to do with it, so she put it in a drawer. Police reportedly found the gun and illegal drugs while executing a search warrant at Stevens' home in...

Anti-gun activist arrested after firearm found at home By JASON PISCIA STAFF WRITER A Springfield woman who began lobbying against gun violence after her son was shot to death in 2002 was arrested last week when police allegedly found an illegal gun and drugs in her home. Annette "Flirty" Stevens, however, said Monday she's innocent, and the arrest is an attempt by police to get her to give up information about unsolved crime in the city. The handgun, which had a scratched-off serial number, and drugs allegedly were discovered Friday morning inside Stevens' home in the 2500 block of South...

Bullets Come Down: Help Stop Celebratory Gunfire this New Years Action AlertBrady Campaign to Prevent Gun ViolenceUnited with the Million Mom March1225 Eye Street, NWWashington, DC 20005www.bradycampaign.orgBrady/MMM is joining with America's police departments to urge Americans not to engage in what police call "celebratory gunfire" -- the indiscriminate firing of weapons into the air. On New Years Eve, scores of people will place others at risk of injury or death because of celebratory gunfire. When a bullet is fired into the air, the bullet has to come down somewhere. This holiday season, help spread the word about the dangers...

Amazon.com, the online superstore, has united with the anti-gun movement this holiday season. Amazon.com is promoting the Million Mom March, a group known for its support of strict gun control laws and regulations. It will give five percent of every sale to the organization when visitors access Amazon’s website through the Million Mom March site. In 2001, the Million Mom March joined the Brady Campaign and the Brady Center to become the largest grassroots, non-partisan, anti-gun organization. Since then, the group has supported many anti-gun proposals, such as New Jersey Assembly Bill 3942, which was proposed to outlaw the sale...

Touring the country in an effort to renew the 10-year-old ban on so-called assault weapons, the numerically challenged Million Mom March has been conducting a campaign built largely on fiction. As far back as 1988, gun prohibitionists figured they could fool the public into supporting a ban that, as history has shown, has been essentially symbolic. Sixteen years ago, Josh Sugarman with the Violence Policy Center put the campaign in its proper perspective, admitting, "The weapons' menacing looks coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semiautomatic assault weapons -- anything that looks like a machine gun...

This month, the Million Mom March in Washington drew an anemic showing of only 2,000 people, while this year, all of the Democratic presidential candidates— however unenthusiastically— spoke of Americans’ Second Amendment right to own guns. These are just a few of the signs that the facts finally seem to be catching up to the movement. The future for the movement looks even worse.

My heart goes out to Nick Berg's family in West Chester. I am hopeful that those terrorists who sawed off his head will eventually be arrested, tried and convicted for the horrible murder.Once convicted they should be sentenced to die before a firing squad whose bullets have been dipped in swine fat. Legend has it that General John "Black Jack" Pershing, when he was commander of the American forces in the Philippines before World War I, ordered this done to a group of Moslem terrorists there. Moslems will not eat pork. They believe that no one could enter Paradise if...

NJ Coalition for Self DefenseSink The Pink!!!Please join with us in staging a counterprotest against the "Commie Mommies" and their "Halt The Assault" road show of lies.On Friday, July 16th, the Million Moms will be sending their propaganda machine back into Trenton,  New Jersey where they started. The NJCSD  needs your help to be there to "welcome" them.Please help us send them the message that our rights are not negotiable.For more information, please contact our coordinator for more details on how to help us Sink The Pink, or log onto our bulletin board to discuss strategy!The return of assault weapons,...

REVIEW & OUTLOOK Here's more evidence that a million ain't what it used to be. On Sunday the Million Mom March ended up attracting between 2,000 and 3,000 women to the West Lawn of the Capitol. Though organizers tried to put a brave face on the paltry turnout, it was quite a comedown from Mother's Day four years ago, when the same event attracted hundreds of thousands and was cheered on from the Clinton White House. The ostensible purpose of this year's march was to kick off a campaign to secure bipartisan Congressional support for the extension of the federal...

Cast YOUR vote on the Assault Weapons Ban at: http://www.cnn.com/ (Lower right corner.)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun control supporters marched through Washington, D.C. on Sunday demanding that President Bush extend a federal ban on the sale of military-style assault rifles. Several thousand protesters, organized by the same group that put together the Million Mom March in 2000, walked from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument chanting "Halt the assault." At the head of the march, protesters held a banner depicting an AK-47 assault rifle, saying the president would be to blame for more violence unless he fulfilled a previous promise to sign an extension of the 1994 ban before it expires in...

I remember reading that the Million Mom March was going to have a press conference on Feb. 16 regarding Mother's Day weekend of 2004. It was to be held outside Martin Luther King, Jr. High School at 10:15 a.m. Has anyone heard if it happened and what it was about?

Crowd expected for concealed weapon hearing Lawmakers are bracing for a large crowd on Tuesday when the Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony on Senate Bill 454. The measure would repeal the law requiring a permit to carry a concealed weapon. If this passes, it doesn’t mean people in the state of New Hampshire won’t be allowed to carry a concealed gun, it means they just won’t need a permit. The bill’s prime sponsor is Sen. Russell Prescott, R-Kingston. The Million Mom March, a nonprofit anti-gun lobby, will be out in full force on Tuesday to oppose the measure. A press...

TRT/MD/DC FReepers vs. Clinton/Brady Bunch: 2004 Elections implications? From 4:00 pm. until about 8:30 pm., Thursday, December 4, 2003, members of the Maryland/DC Tyranny Response Teams, plus three DC Chapter Freepers, gave the national anti-RKBA, anti-gun elite a chilly greeting as the “Brady Bunch” celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the passage of the infamous “Brady Bill”. This exclusive forum and reception was held at the internationally acclaimed Omni Shoreham hotel in the Cleveland Park area of Washington, D.C. Sarah/James Brady, John (D.C. Gun Ban) Hechinger, Sr., Sam Donaldson (ABC News), national Million Mom March leaders, elected members of the Kennedy...

These are all in PDF Format. I'll list the endorsements by district. There are all ASD(Anti Self-Defense) candidates. State Senate William Gormley(R) - 2nd District Joseph L Manganello(D) - 4th Maryann T Callahan (R) - 5th John H Adler(D) or Jane A Greenfogel(R) - 6th, dual endorsement Diane Allen(R) or Lou Gallagher(D) - 7th(dual) Peter Terranova(D) - 9th Andrew R Ciesna(R) - 10th Joseph A Palaia(R) - 11th John Bennett(R) - 12th Peter Inversio(R) or Sam Plumeri(D) - Dual - 14th Shirley Turner(D) - 15th Daniel Wartenberg(D) - 16th Bob Smith(D) - 17th Barbara Buono(D) - 18th Joseph Vitale(D) - ...

WEST MILFORD - A leader of the Million Mom March is coming to town Thursday to speak to parents about the consequences of keeping a gun at home.Joyce Sooy, joyces3@excelonline.com  president of the Bergen/Passaic chapter of the Million Mom March, will speak on the topic, "Can We Prevent Gun Violence?" at 7:30 p.m. Our Lady Queen of Peace R.C. Church on Union Valley Road.Sooy led a bus caravan from Bergen County on Mother's Day in 2000 to attend the Million Mom March in Washington, D.C. Thousands of mothers around the nation gathered to call on lawmakers to enact stricter gun...

There was a time, three years ago this past May, when the cause drew a crowd. Hundreds of thousands of activists, joined by the influential likes of Susan Sarandon and Rosie O'Donnell, standing together on the Capitol lawn, wearing T-shirts and pink ribbons and photo buttons of lost sons and lost daughters. The Million Mom March against gun control burst onto the scene with a nervous vengeance. And what a story it was. A young suburban mother, a part-time staffer on David Letterman's show, saw something on the news -- in this case, a photograph of preschoolers being led from...

WHEN MOMS ATTACKAnother Adventure in Absurdityby Lisa Lascody    I was shocked and horrified while watching the news coverage recently about the woman in Texas who beat her children to death with rocks. This is not the first time I have heard about a mother killing her kids, in fact, there seems to quite a few of these cases in the news lately. I remember the high profile cases of Susan Smith and Andrea Yates as well as a few others that did not garner as much media attention. While doing some research for this article, there was another...

That's what Donte Johnson, a junior at McDonogh High School in New Orleans said after a classmate was killed in the school's gym last week. "Nobody wants to be in there after what happened" he added. While Donte was more than likely referring to the pool of blood and the dead body, I see some other spooky elements to this latest shooting. For instance, no one's calling it what it was- a gang-related payback killing. No media accounts decry the black on black crime that's gotten so completely out of control. "It's despicable that the (anti-gun crowd) is trying to...

Press Release The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence United With the Million Mom March 1225 Eye Street, NW Washington, DC 20005www.bradycampaign.org Contact: Eric M. Howard Phone: (202) 289-5785 "Today's (Wednesday's) vote by the U.S. House of Representatives was shameful. It boggles the mind that any industry, never mind the gun industry, would be given sweeping immunity from citizen lawsuits. "This legislation would slam the courthouse doors to people who have been wronged. Americans cherish their right to seek redress from the courts, and this legislation would take that right away from gun violence victims who deserve better. "I urge...

Million Mom March, Activists to Hold Gun Safety Rally U.S. Newswire 25 Oct 16:40 Million Mom March, Victim's Advocates, Activists to Hold Gun Safety March and Rally; Will Highlight Bob Ehrlich's Record on Guns To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: Lillian Pubillones Nolan of the Brady Campaign, 301-299-6723 News Advisory: Members of the Million Mom March united with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, along with gun violence advocates and other community activists will hold a gun safety march and rally this Sunday at Elm Street Park in Montgomery county. Once gathered at the park, the march will proceed...

Of snipers and guns I hope this column is out of date by the time you read it. But for the moment, as I write, all eyes in the nation are on Maryland and Virginia, watching for the most recent news of the elusive D.C. area sniper. His victims appear to be chosen at random, without regard for politics, religion, race, sex, or age, which makes him very frightening. But more than fear, I feel an intense, overwhelming anger. As a mother, I am enraged beyond all reason when things like this happen. Please understand that under normal circumstances, I...

<p>Before heading back to Washington this weekend, Sen. Jean Carnahan is firing off a few campaign shots. Literally.</p> <p>Carnahan, D-Mo., plans to shoot skeet Friday at an event on a farm in Missouri's Bootheel. It'll be the first time that she's fired a weapon in public during her U.S. Senate campaign, although Carnahan often has mentioned that she won a sharpshooter's medal in college and once outshot her security detail.</p>

Gang, THIS gal is SOOOO PO'd I can barely move, talk, eat or ANYthing!! Believe it!! I'm madder than a wet hen & STILL buzzin' like a wasp *hours* after suffering through yet ANother Holiday from Hell, courtesy of Hill/Billy!! !@#$%!! What IS it w/ those g-danged 'toons & their BIzarre penchant for ruining h-o-l-i-d-a-y-s?! W-H-Y, Lord?! Sheesh, they *annihilated* last Easter w/ their cutesy little jack-booted SS-raid & *now* they've gone & trashed one of THE most precious of holidays: Mother's Day!! W-H-Y?! Sugars, my kin usu. eat our holiday-meal around 3:30 in the PM -- to allow...

Massachusetts State Senator Cheryl Jacques Named Join Together Hero 5/3/2002 The women and men profiled as Join Together Heroes are true leaders of the gun violence prevention movement. Their stories, told in their own words, can inspire, motivate and encourage others to become involved. Massachusetts State Senator Cheryl A. Jacques (Lunatic - Needham) has been a leader on public safety issues in the Massachusetts Legislature. Senator Jacques led a five-year campaign and helped pass the toughest gun control law in the country. She passed a Victims Bill of Rights, reformed the State's arrest warrant management system to crack down on...

Christorpher K Morley has brought a lawsuit against the City of Chicago seeking injunctive relief to bear firearms and legally conceal and carry them for self protection, self defense, under the Illinois and United States Constitiutions by overturning and delcaring invalid unconstitutional and uneforceabole certain laws laws alled disarmanent victim disarmament laws. Christorpher K Morley has been attacked 14 times by muggers, gang bangers going to and from work. Christ handicap is he suffers from permanent andpartial paralysis from cerebral palsy. This is breaking news. More will follow. Here is the entire 72 lawsuit. * HTML version of the lawsuit...

* German Gun Control and the Illinois FOID * by Raymond Benwood April 29, 2002 “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms, disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.” --Cesare Beccaria, quoted by Thomas Jefferson In 1968 a new gun control act was passed in response to race riots in some of our major cities. From this Act a whole new generation of gun control laws were created in the states. In 1992 * Jews for Preservation of Firearm Ownership Inc. * published, * Gun Control Gateway to Tyranny * which contains the actual...

The U.S. and guns, according to them. The government of China has just issued this year’s “Human Rights Record of the United States.” Much of the report consists of pseudo-factoids created by Leftist interest groups, allegedly showing what a terrible country America is. The leadoff item is an extended complaint about American gun ownership. The Chinese government frets that “The United States is the country with the biggest number of private guns.” We are also, of course, the country with the biggest number of private books, private churches, private newspapers, private computers, private single-family homes, and other tools and incidents...

Million Mommies To Get Their Belles Rung in Gun Debate By Sierra Times Published 03. 18. 2002 at 0:21 PST LOS ANGELES, CA - A healthy debate in the Right to Keep and Bear Arms "Gun Ownership vs. Gun Control: Which Makes Us Safer?" will feature the self-proclaimed "million" moms March vs. the Liberty Belles, a grassroots organization out of southern California. The debate is sponsored by Students for Individual Liberty and will be held at L.A. Harbor College in Wilmington, California on March 20, 2002. Headlining the event is Liberty Belles Spokeswoman, Anna Zetchus Raetz and Million Mom...

The Second Amendment economic battles are escalating. The Anti-Self Defense Crowd is claming victory on another front. Apparently, we haven't even shown up to fight yet. Looks like we'd better keep the boxing gloves on, Real Americans. Next Target: H&R Block. The issue here is another controversy over an affiliate marketing program. But in this case, it was a marketing agreement between H&R Block and the NRA via the NRA magazine, First Freedom. Now, I know what some of you are saying: "Go to bat for the NRA??" When you read the complete press release below, you as that Real...