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Vice President Joe Biden, in remarks today before a meeting on guns, suggested the Obama administration is seriously considering outlawing unregulated "private" gun sales:"And so the kinds of things that there´s an emerging set of recommendations, not coming from me but coming from the groups we´ve met with," said Biden today, before a closed door meeting on gun control. "And I´m going to focus on the ones that relate primarily to gun ownership and the type of weapons can be owned. And one is,

The practice of political correctness may soon be tallying another casualty: the pig. Increasingly, as America and the rest of the Western world continue accommodating Muslim religious demands, pork food products are being singled out for removal from dining tables and pig-related trinkets banished from the desks of office workers. If this continues, good ol’ American food, such as barbeque replete with hot dogs and ribs and the typical American breakfast of eggs, bacon and sausage, might be seen as the equivalent of political poison. Could outright censorship of pig depictions in drawings, pig references in literary works and pig...

Last update - 12:54 06/05/2006 U.S. Congress to vote on bill outlawing funding for Hamas By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Correspondent The U.S. Congress on Tuesday will be presented with a bill aimed at prohibiting direct American funding of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. A bipartisan effort headed by Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, with the support of Democrat Tom Lantos, managed to raise the required 290 co-sponsors to bring the bill before Congress. Ros-Lehtinen said Friday that she was pleased the bill had won the support of her colleagues. Advertisement "If adopted," Ros-Lehtinen said, "it will quickly move through...

As a cop, I was taught that deadly force is permitted to protect one’s own life or the lives of others. That simple precept of justice seems to have been forgotten by King’s County (Brooklyn) District Attorney Charles Hynes. Hynes conducted not a prosecution, but a persecution, of Ronald Dixon - a man who acted within the tenets of the law to protect his family from a criminal. Awakened in the middle of the night by a burglar Dixon did the only thing he could do: He shot him with a legally purchased a handgun. However, that firearm was legally...