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When Americans evaluate today's political landscape, most feel something between impotence and disapproval. So, while citizens shake their heads or shrug at the mainstream media's “top tier” presidential candidates, it is extraordinary how many are becoming overjoyed about one lesser covered candidate. Tens-of-thousands have joined the appropriately named Ron Paul Revolution, joining Meetup.com groups, putting up signs, and crossing states to attend rallies. Congressman Ron Paul's genuine message and untarnished record of promoting individual liberty for everyone, a free-market economy of wealth and abundance, and a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace and free trade, has attracted vast support from diverse...

SPRINGFIELD — He hasn’t announced if he’s running for the presidency yet but that isn’t stopping a group of Illinois Republicans from backing former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson for the job. Members of Illinois Citizens to Draft Fred Thompson gathered in the Capitol on Friday said they expect the deep-voiced Tennessean to announce for the presidency soon and when he does they want the campaign off to a quick start. To help their cause they have begun urging Illinoisans to go online and register as a Thompson supporter at the group’s website. Former head of the Illinois Republican Party, Donald...

Buckeye Firearms Association has always described itself as a non-partisan political action committee. Yet in recent days, PAC Chairman Jim Irvine has been in conversation with a reader who takes exception to the endorsement of Democrats. (For an excellent article on the NRA's endorsement of Democrats in national races, click here) In a bit of ironic timing, as this conversation was going on, another Buckeye Firearms Association volunteer was having her own conversation with just the type of Republican this PAC could never endorse...

http://www.vernonrobinson.com/robinson_contents/about/ MIDI - MRS. ROBINSON North Carolina has a man who's running for a seat School choice and lower taxes are his views His opponent is a leftist whom we must defeat He likes guns, so get aboard and spread the news And here's to you, Vernon Robinson...we all love you more than you can know Whoa, whoa, whoa God bless you please, Vernon Robinson...for your campaign we are gonna pray Hey, hey, hey...hey, hey, hey We've learned a little bit about you as we read your file A man with values that good people share All the leftist airhead...

The St. Johns County man who shot and wounded one of three intruders at his Cypress Spring Court home last week won't face any criminal penalties, deputies said Monday. Sgt. Chuck Mulligan of the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office said detectives see the incident as a justifiable shooting. "The man acted to protect his family," Mulligan said. "There's nothing moving forward as far as prosecuting this individual." The shooter, whose name has not been released by the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office, fired at Jonathon M. DeMartino, 24, Jesse E. Demers, 19, and Lee Anthony Martino, 20, all of Palm...

A masked man dressed in black burst through the door moments after the apartment’s tenant thought he locked it late Friday night. “Give me your ... system and your money,” the intruder yelled before jumping the 18-year-old tenant, who wrestled free enough to grab a shotgun from under a bed. The intruder knocked out a screen door as he fled across a patio. That’s the story the Hengel Court tenant told La Crosse police early Saturday morning. He and an 18-year-old Galesville man had just entered the apartment when it happened, he said. The tenant was considering selling his stereo...

About CLP The Campus Leadership Program, a division of the Leadership Institute, fosters permanent, effective, conservative student organizations on college campuses across America. Trained field representatives go to college campuses to identify and recruit student leaders who create and oversee organizations on each campus. Each local campus organization identifies, recruits and trains conservative college students who will promote conservative principles effectively. While the Leadership Institute works initially to help students develop their own organization, each local campus group is completely independent and directs its own day-to-day operations and decision-making. Each campus organization is independent of The Leadership Institute and all...

FLINT - A 14-year-old Flint boy was shot and killed Thursday night by a store clerk he may have been trying to rob. Police were called to 2218 Lewis St. about 10:50 p.m. on an armed robbery and learned about a gunshot victim at Lewis and Mabel streets, investigators said. The shooting victim, Hakeem Nelson, was taken to Hurley Medical Center and pronounced dead. Police were told the store clerk, whose name was not released, shot the boy in the chest with a large-caliber handgun during a robbery attempt. Hakeem was with another boy who may have been armed with...

store owner defended his establishment from a would-be robber Thursday night, according to police reports. The owner of Sandlin Food Mart, 2108 Sandlin Road S.W., told police that when a man wielding a handgun tried to rob his business, he grabbed his own gun and chased the man out of the store. The owner told police he fired his gun three times at the suspect, who fled down an alley. He reported the suspect as a black male wearing a black-and-gray shirt and black sweat pants. The owner was still chasing the suspect when officers arrived around 10 p.m., police...

This is a robbery!" someone hollered. Colton, Calif., liquor store owner Dan Lee grabbed for a pistol that was beneath the cash register, but in an instant he found himself staring down the barrel of a robber's gun. At the same JB time, he noticed another man climbing over the counter toward his mother. Lee grabbed his gun and shot them both. "He pretty much made the decision for me when he came over the counter at my mother and threatened her life," Lee said. After three recent robberies and three slayings of business owners and clerks in the San...

INDIALANTIC, Fla. -- Investigators released the name Tuesday of a man shot while breaking into the home of a Brevard County woman over the weekend. They are praising the actions of the woman, who was able to find her gun in the dark and defend herself, WESH 2 News reported. Investigators said Jason Preston, 33, made so much noise breaking into the home, he not only woke up the owner, but also a next-door neighbor. Widow Judith Kuntz, 64, lives alone. She said she heard and saw the man holding a flashlight come to her bedroom door in the darkened...

Shoot It, Sister! Just saw Sandy Froman speak. For those of you who don't know, that's Sandy Froman-- a Jewish native of San Francisco, graduate of Stanford undergrad and Harvard law, and President of the NRA. She said she gets this reaction a lot: "What's a nice girl like you doing involved with guns?" And she admits she might not have been involved with guns had a 3 a.m. break-in not forced her to get involved. Froman was a 20-something lawyer in L.A. when she woke up to a strange noise at her front door. She looked through the peephole...

William Tyler had lived alone for many years in his small house at the end of Rnob Road in Monroe County, Tenn., and this was not the first time his home had been burglarized. But one night, the phone lines had been cut and the shadowy figure outside his house was undeterred by Tyler's warning. Tyler had no choice but to wait up all night with his gun in hand. At daylight, he made his way to a local grocer to call a friend for help, who agreed to meet him back at Tyler's house. Upon returning to his house...

A resident of a Hickory Hill apartment thwarted a home invasion in a shootout Wednesday morning, Memphis police said. The resident shot and wounded one of the robbers, a 16-year-old boy. The suspect was in stable condition and police custody at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis Wednesday evening, police spokesman Sgt. Vince Higgins said. The incident occurred mid-morning at the Stonebrook at Kirby Parkway Apartments, 6371 Winchester. Higgins said the victim gave this account: Someone knocked on the door of his apartment, 3706 Woody Lane. When he looked through the glass and didn't recognize the three people outside, he...

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic..." --Justice Joseph Story In the wake of another school shooting by another sociopathic teenager, Second Amendment opponents are again out in force attempting to convert the blood of innocents into political capital for gun confiscation. Among the first to demagogue the issue was Brady Campaign gun control advocate Michael Barnes, who condemned the "gun problem" and criticized Congress and President George W. Bush for letting the so-called "assault weapons" ban expire. Million Mom Marcher Kate Havelin howled,...

State police say a fatal shooting in an Adair County residence will be turned over to a grand jury for investigation, but an indictment would appear unlikely. Someone broke into the residence of Ozie and Evelyn Toole, 14 miles west of Columbia at 3am Sunday. State police say Ozie Toole confronted the intruder and shot him. The Adair County coroner says 21-year-old Stephen Penn of Columbia died at the scene. A police report says entry was gained through a broken window. Investigators say the same residence had been entered earlier in the day when the Tooles were not home and that Penn...

A Floyd County man was shot to death Tuesday night while attempting to burglarize a double-wide trailer in an Eastern Kentucky mobile-home lot, Kentucky State Police said. The victim, Ronald Dillon, 33, of Ivel broke into the trailer, where he was confronted by Mike Kurt, manager of Luv's Mobile Homes at Ivel, police said. Kurt, who was waiting inside the trailer at 10:08 p.m. -- he had been burglarized several times recently, investigators said -- shot Dillon twice in the chest with a 9-mm pistol, police said. Dillon, who lived next door in a mobile-home park, was pronounced dead at...

STOCKTON -- A dead suspect in clear site of dozens of curious onlookers on an East Charter sidewalk just a half block from the busy 24-hour Beacon mini-mart police say he attempted to hold up. Shattered glass and blood surrounding the Bronze Saab they believe he was driving. "He waited for patrons to clear and he pointed his gun at the clerk who was also the owner and demanded money," says Officer Sean Fenner. The owner pulled his own gun and the two exchanged gunfire. "At first I thought it was a flat tire," says Jose Rubalcaba who was washing...

A convenience store clerk who shot and killed a robber Wednesday night had a relative who was shot and killed while working at a different store a few months ago. Around 11 p.m. Wednesday a clerk at Midtown Food Mart on Berryhill Road near the intersection of Freedom Drive shot and killed a suspected robber. According to police, Jamie Mareno, 26, had just robbed the store when the clerk shot him. Mareno died on the way to the hospital. Investigators say so far the clerk has not been charged. According to a police report, Mareno was armed with a handgun....

VACAVILLE - Most people would agree, guns can be a topic that can generate strident legal arguments. But for a steadily growing segment of the population, the ownership of firearms isn't about staking out part of a vociferous Constitution argument. Shooting guns, some folks say, is an act that's just plain fun - maybe even therapeutic. "It's hard to explain, really," said Sherie Smalley, a Fairfield pathologist who took up target and sport shooting seriously just last year. "There's something about shooting that allows me to release tension after a long day and re-center myself," Smalley said during an interview...

Leon and Eleanor Cash were spending a quiet evening in their Natrona Heights, Pa., home when they heard suspicious sounds coming from the kitchen. When they went to the kitchen to investigate, a man dressed entirely in black forced his way into the house by pistol whipping Mr. Cash. When the intruder pinned Cash against a kitchen appliance, holding him down by his throat, Cash called to his wife for help. She responded by grabbing their shotgun and shooting the intruder. Ras-Saleem Hudson died at the scene and no charges were expected to be filed against Mrs. Cash. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,...

A showdown about the right to carry concealed handguns on Metro trains and buses appears headed for a peaceful ending today. Metro board members are expected to vote this afternoon to repeal the restriction, which has been in effect since 1995 after the Legislature voted to allow licensed owners to carry concealed handguns in most public places. State Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, who wrote the legislation as a state senator, has been a vocal critic of bans such as those adopted by Metro and many other government entities in Texas in response to the "right-to-carry" law. He, the Texas State...

The Armed Citizen January 2004 A 26-year-old Portsmouth, Va., mother had used her new ,40-cal. pistol at the target range for the first time and ended up relying on it to defend her family from an assailant the same night. Temesha Greene was fearful of the increasing crime rate in her community and had purchased the gun to protect her family. After learning to shoot the gun at the range, she went to a grocery store later that day with her boyfriend and her two sons. Upon returning home and while they were unloading groceries from the car, Greene said...

The Mark-Sanford-for-president buzz won’t die. It keeps rearing its head in the strangest places. Now there’s an extensive “Draft Mark Sanford for President — 2008” Web site. Sanford’s people insist they have nothing to do with it. The owner is Sean Wisnieski, a 19-year-old political science student at Frederick Community College in Frederick, Md. In a disclaimer, he says the site does not “necessarily reflect or represent” the governor. Sanford says he’s “amused,” “curious” and “flattered” — but a run for the White House is the furthest thing from his mind. Often, politicians get carried away by the “bright lights”...

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GREENWOOD, Ind. -- Some neighbors aren't thrilled with the rock in gun dealer Don Davis's front yard promoting armed protection, but he vows that only a judge can make him move it. The 8-foot ornamental rock, in front of the home Davis recently built near this Indianapolis suburb, depicts an eagle and the U.S. flag. The inscription: ``It's better to own a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not own it.''

This alert is located at: http://www.gunownersalliance.com/OpShiloh-01.htm To freedom lovers everywhere, All those who believe that new terrorist acts similar to 9/11 won't touch them should delete this e-mail. That which I have to say does not apply to you, and I don't want to waste your time. Those of you still reading this know that most recently we have seen how militant radical Islamists swayed the elections in Spain using terror attacks on civilian train commuters. It worked. Spain elected a socialist president that promised to distance himself from America in our fight against terrorism. Never mind 9/11! Earlier in...

PLEASE FORWARD THIS ALERT TO YOUR CONTACTS IMMEDIATELY! DO NOT LET THIS ALERT DIE! PASS IT ON! GUN OWNERS ALLIANCE ALERT! Chris W. Stark - Director P.O. Box 16441 Colorado Springs, CO, 80935-6441 Office: 1-719-391-0943 http://www.GunOwnersAlliance.com Director@GunOwnersAlliance.com 13 August 2004 99% Recovery of Previous "Ask the Rabbi" Articles by R. Mermelstein! You are receiving this message because you requested our alerts. Subscribe/UnSubscribe instructions near the bottom of the alert. Copyright © 2004 by Gun Owners Alliance. Republication permitted only if this e-mail alert is left intact in its original state. This alert is located at: http://www.gunownersalliance.com/Mermelstein-Good_Ending-01.htm Good news to all!...

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WOMEN’S GROUPS SQUARE OFF ON MOTHER’S DAY OVER GUN RIGHTSFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Lakeway, Texas (February 23, 2004) – The Second Amendment Sisters (SAS) will be standing up for the right of women to defend themselves on Sunday, May 9, 2004, in Washington, D.C. The people’s God-given right to keep and bear arms, as articulated in the Second Amendment to the Constitution, is being assaulted on a daily basis by well-funded gun grabbing organizations. As announced in December, the SAS event is called Second Amendment Freedoms for Everyone Rally (S.A.F.E.R.). It should come as no surprise that the so-called “Million” Mom...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Alison Potter, Constitution Party National Committee 717-790-1993, email: hq@constitutionparty.com Constitution Party Launches New Website Lancaster, PA February 19, 2004 - The Constitution Party's new, upgraded website, www.constitutionparty.com, is being launched today. The Constitution Party is the only political party that stands on the principles of the American founding. It is 100% pro-life, against same-sex "marriage", so-called free trade, pro-gun, pro-10th amendment, pro-American sovereignty, anti-globalist, and against illegal immigration. The Constitution Party was founded in 1992 under the name U.S. Taxpayers Party and is now the 3rd largest party in the country in terms of voter registration....

Phil Journey, best known as an advocate for gun owners' rights, will take over the state Senate seat being vacated by Nancey Harrington of Goddard. Republican precinct committee members who live in the 26th Senate district, which includes much of western Sedgwick County, chose Journey on Tuesday night. He received 46 votes. Dale Swenson and Dick Kelsey, the other candidates, received 24 and eight votes, respectively. Journey, a lawyer, ran unsuccessfully for the seat in 1988 and lost a bid for a Sedgwick County Commission seat in 2000. Mark Kahrs, chairman of the Sedgwick County Republican Party, said he was...

double shooting-INTRO AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW TONIGHT WITH THE HOMEOWNER WHO SHOT AND KILLED TWO MEN WHOM HE SAYS TRIED TO ROB AND KILL HIM. AS DEANNE DONNELLY REPORTS, THAT'S WHEN IT TURNED DEADLY FOR THE INTRUDERS. Return to index of stories... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- double shooting-PKG Wesley Stevens says,"I thought I needed deadly force to stop them because they were trying to kill me hitting me over the head inside my living room." WESLEY STEVENS IS DESCRIBING WHAT HAPPENED INSIDE HIS TUCSON HOME SATURDAY NIGHT. HE DOESN'T WANT PUBLICITY SO HE ASKED US NOT TO SHOW HIS FACE. BUT THIS AMATEAUR VIDEO...

WASHINGTON, April 3 — Last fall, when Americans were fixated by the serial sniper killings in the suburbs here, Congress postponed voting on legislation protecting the gun industry against lawsuits. Now that most of the guns in the news are being fired by soldiers, not criminals, the industry's defenders seem more ready to be counted. Beginning a new drive to shield the industry, the House Judiciary Committee today approved a bill giving gun manufacturers and dealers immunity against many suits, including ones already in court brought by shooting victims and municipalities. The suits fault the makers for not adding safety...

Prepare to Defend Your RightsThe“Commie-Mommies & Ceasefire Oregon”Are Back STOP! Senate Bills 48, 49, 386, 449, 451, 452 Wednesday, February 19thCapitol StepsSalem, Oregon10AMBE THERE! Join Members of OCFR, OFF, OSSA, GOA, NRA, ASLET To Protest the Latest Flood ofAnti-firearm Legislation “No Man’s Life or Property is SafeWhile the Legislature is in Session”--Will Rogers For more information call:503-749-2075Oregon Council on Firearm Rights

To: National Desk Contact: Amy Stilwell of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, 202-289-5792 WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, two New Jersey law enforcement officers who were shot and seriously wounded while on duty filed a lawsuit against the companies that put the gun in the hands of the criminal who shot them. Orange Police Detective David Lemongello and Officer Kenneth McGuire are seeking damages from a West Virginia pawnshop, Will's Jewelry and Loan, and gun manufacturer Sturm, Ruger. Also named as defendants are gun traffickers James Gray and Tammi Lea Songer, and the estate of the...

Press Release - Concealed Carry, Inc. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: John Birch, tel: 630.660.3935 email: john@concealcarry.org web: http://www.concealcarry.org DATE: 11/14/2002 HEADLINE: CHICAGO GUN REGISTRATION RECORDS TO FUEL GUN RIGHTS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE BODY: "Concealed Carry, Inc. is the only gun rights group to find some logic in the City of Chicago's request to have public access to gun purchase records," announced John Birch, President of Concealed Carry, Inc. "One of the hardest aspects of generating support for gun rights is finding out just who the gun owners are as gun owners traditionally value their right to privacy. For instance, the State...

For immediate release 9/12/2002 10:00 P.M. EDT Despite spending less than $500, Alzona, a fiscal conservative, wins 72,610+ votes (42.3%) in the statewide Republican Primary Election for Maryland ComptrollerTo: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: Augustus Alzona, 301-530-8883 e-mail: alzona@verizon.netPress Release In his very first campaign for statewide public office, Augustus Alzona (R), a Bethesda CPA and management consultant, received an impressive 72,610 + votes (42.3%) cast in the September 10th Maryland Gubernatorial Primary Election. A well-known grassroots conservative, civil/constitutional rights advocate and minority community activist, Alzona, was around 7.7% short of the votes required to become the very first Filipino...

(Atlanta, September 5) -- Georgia gun owners won a huge victory two weeks ago, although it still hasn't sunk in yet for many people.Georgia House pro-gun leader Rep. Bobby Franklin (R-Marietta) won re-election to the statehouse in a victory that can only be described as a "stunning upset." By winning the Republican primary, he faces no Democrat opposition in November. After the Democrat party bosses enacted their twisted re-apportionment scheme last fall, Bobby Franklin was given "zero chance" for re-election according to veteran political observers.The Democrat-drawn reapportionment scheme virtually re-districted Bobby "into the next county" where he had to run...

Call it the gun rights political coup of the decade, at least in Minnesota, where attorneys David Gross of St. Louis Park and Joeseph Olson of Minneapolis have taken legal ownership of the names of their state's leading anti-gun organization and it's tax-exempt "education" fund.Henceforth, Gross told Gun-Week, Citizens for a Safer Minnesota (CSM) will now fully live up to its name, along with its tax-exempt arm, Citizens for a Safer Minnesota Education Fund."When they inadverdently abandoned their names," Gross explained, "we picked them up before they could get them back. We are going to use the names to actually...

Small Government News* May 13, 2002 Circulation: 14,733 Official Newsletter of Carla Howell for Governor, Michael Cloud for U.S. Senate, and the Ballot Initiative to End the Income Tax http://www.SmallGovernmentAct.org http://www.CarlaHowell.org http://www.michaelcloud.org +++ IN THIS ISSUE +++ "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." --"Gravity's Rainbow," Thomas Pynchon "In the jungle, it's eat or be eaten. In politics, define or be defined." --"The Second Sin," Thomas Szasz "Different is not always better, but better is always different." --"Taking Chances," Dale Dauten "A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the...

Update: A stay has been issued so concealed carry is illegal yet again for now. However, the Ohio First District Court of Appeals will only keep the stay in place until Wednesday, April 10th at 9:00 AM. The court also said that if they declare the law unconstitutional, they are not likely to continue any stay. This is likely a warning to the legislature, as they are mentioned in the entry! The March 20th hearing went great, with all three judges asking the right questions of the other side! The decision will be announced Wednesday, April 10th at 11:00 AM...

An Arizona woman who was forbidden from taking her gun to work for personal protection is calling for an end to protests at the home of a top state official. Shannon Flynn, an employee with the Arizona Department of Revenue, carries a 9mm pistol because she fears the release of her father from prison. However, she has been forced to leave her sidearm in her car rather than carry it with her to her state office. The decision sparked protests at the home of state Revenue Department head Mark Killian, but Flynn wants the protests to stop. "They are placing...