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Thursday, April 19, 2007 07:39 AM
Original article: Repeal the Second Amendment

A foolish argument

Far more people have died in officially sanctioned violence from states where the government has banned weapons to its citizens (Nazi Germany, the USSR, China, etc.) than have ever been killed by lone psychopaths. The real point of the Second Amendment is to serve as a last stop to prevent that sort of totalitarian behavior.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 07:38 AM

THAT Time Magazine?

Maybe Time Magazine can find some space to inform their readers about ongoing developments

The same Time that just hired Bill Kristol and Michael Kinsley?

Friday, March 30, 2007 06:47 AM

It was therefore significant

that Bernstein and Woodward were neither national reporters nor old hands at the time the Watergate scandal started to break. Their stories have been well documented; what is of perhaps greater interest is how the rest of the media could have so thoroughly dropped the ball. Has this story been told? And if it has, who has told it?

Saturday, March 24, 2007 10:07 AM

A "truth" comes out

The Iranians are now claiming the UK sailors and marines were intentionally invading Iranian waters (LAT, RR):

http://tinyurl.com/3cvwbb

As Glenn said elsewhere, claims made by both sides should be taken with a great deal of salt.

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