An anti-gun group is suing to stop a last-second Bush administration change that would allow Americans with state issued permits to carry a concealed firearm, to carry loaded guns in most national parks and wildlife refuges.The Brady Campaign to …

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In a New Year message, the Prime Minister sounds a deliberately up-beat note, insisting that despite the “enormous” economic problems facing Britain, they will be overcome and the economy will emerge stronger than before. Mr Brown’s positive …

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How Good is Barack Obama at Golf?

On December 31, 2008, in Barack Obama, by Federal Voting

President-elect Barack Obama plays a round of golf at the Mid Pacific Country Club in Kailua, Hawaii. Obama is clearly not as comfortable on the links as he is at the speaker’s podium or the basketball court. Obama has played golf three times during …

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Lobbyist Vicki Iseman is mortified at the implication that she might have been cuddling with John McCain. So she wants $27 million from the New York Times (NYT) for quoting unidentified McCain aides as saying that she and the Senator had gotten …

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What are your New Year’s Eve or Day plans?

On December 31, 2008, in Barack Obama, by Federal Voting

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Relations with China key to Obama’s success

On December 31, 2008, in Barack Obama, by Federal Voting

US President-elect Barack Obama, asked about his foreign policy priorities when named Person of the Year by Time magazine, listed nuclear proliferation, climate change and global poverty as well as Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, the transatlantic alliance …

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Blagojevich’s pick has résumé chiseled in stone

On December 31, 2008, in Barack Obama, by Federal Voting

There, Burris, whom embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appointed to succeed President-elect Barack Obama in the Senate on Tuesday, has erected a granite mausoleum listing his many accomplishments. Under the seal of the state of Illinois and the …

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The contrast couldn’t be starker. President Bush spends his final vacation as president in virtual seclusion at his Texas ranch. President-elect Barack Obama spends his final vacation before taking office immersed in the outside world in his native …

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Another View: Will Obama ditch transparency for stimulus?

On December 31, 2008, in Barack Obama, by Federal Voting

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) first came to power she promised, “the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.” She has since flagrantly and repeatedly broken this promise. It is part of the reason Congress has record low …

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Is Barack Obama Planning To Invade Illinois?

On December 31, 2008, in Joe Biden, by Federal Voting

Vice-president elect Joe Biden tried to warn America of the dangers that would inevitably accompany an Obama administration into power. Speaking in Seattle, Washington on October 20, the man who believes that President Franklin D. Roosevelt used HDTV …

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