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This arsenal of firearms is among the dozens of weapons that have been taken off London’s streets during the Met’s latest gun amnesty. Since Monday 45 weapons have been surrendered across the capital as part of the Give Up Your Gun campaign, including shotguns, revolvers, rifles and handguns, Scotland Yard said. Detectives from the Met’s gang unit today urged anyone still in possession of an illegal firearm to hand it in before the amnesty ends on Sunday night.

Reagan Warned Us About ObamaCompelling video of Ronald Reagan talking about the evils of big government and of those that will usher in an era such as America is going through right now, facilitated, led by the kind of bizarro leadership we have today. Chillingly eerie.

The Battle Cry of a hundred million warriors erupted from one end of the Heavens to the other. It was war on that narrow isthmus between Heaven and Hell, a planet called Earth. The air was filled with the din of combat. The wails of oppressors being slain and the joyous celebrations of the oppressed rejoicing that at long last their liberators had arrived. Some of the warriors sang as they slew, swinging swords to hew the oppressors with one arm and with the other pulling victims up onto their horses. The long arm of the King moved with swiftness...

I envision her as a Viking warrior, whose body is sent to the gods on a fiery barge with all the honors due. Oriana Fallaci was outspoken, courageous, dedicated, talented, passionate and honest – in her personal life and in her writings as a journalist, reporter and novelist. And now she's gone. The call, early Friday morning, brought me the news I dreaded. Oriana Fallaci had died at 3 a.m. in a private clinic in the city of her birth, Florence, Italy. She was 77. She is survived by siblings and their children. I cried. I felt I knew her...