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on January 4, 2014 in World News

Virginia Gun Sales Hit 24-Year High in 2013

                      Virginia Gun Sales Hit 24-Year High in 2013 Virginia State Police say background checks for gun sales in 2013 “represented the highest volume of transactions since the inception of Virginia’s background check program” in 1989. Gun sales on Black Friday “also set a record.” According to the Huffington Post, “gun transactions in Virginia totaled 479,253 for the year.” This is nearly an 11 percent increase over the previous sales record of 432,387 transactions in 2012. Gun store owners say the continuing gun control rhetoric coming from President Obama and the… View Article

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on January 4, 2014 in World News

Concealed Carry Saves Lives, Assault Weapon Ban Ineffective

                      Study: Concealed Carry Saves Lives, Assault Weapon Ban Ineffective A new study published in the latest issue of Applied Economic Letters lays low nearly every claim made by gun control proponents and shines a light on the successes of concealed carry on a state-by-state basis. Specifically, the study shows that less restrictive concealed carry laws save lives, while gun control can endanger them. It also shows that gun control measures like “assault weapons” bans do not reduce state-level murder rates. The author of the study is Quinnipiac University economist Mark Gius. In… View Article

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on January 4, 2014 in World News

Executive Actions on Gun Background Checks

                        Obama Bypasses Congress with Executive Actions on Gun Background Checks On January 3rd the Obama administration announced two new executive actions concerning background checks on firearm purchasers. These come just over four months after Obama last used executive actions to bypass Congress and just weeks after Vice President Joe Biden said the White House was shifting its focus away from gun control. According to Fox News, Biden now says the administration is issuing two executive actions to broaden access to mental health records during background checks. One of… View Article

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on January 2, 2014 in World News

Gun re-registration begins in D.C

Gun re-registration begins in D.C., may lead to arrest and confiscation First law in U.S. to require renewal with fingerprints and fees For the first time in the United States, a citizen who has legally registered a gun will have to submit to a renewal process. The consequences of not knowing about this new law or missing the specific 60-day window are dire. Starting on Jan. 2, every single D.C. resident who has registered a firearm since 1976 must go to police headquarters to pay a $48 fee and be photographed and fingerprinted. The Metropolitan Police Department estimates there are… View Article

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on January 2, 2014 in World News

Doctors behind ADHD study question drug treatment

    Doesn’t ADD Up: Doctors behind ADHD study question drug treatment The co-authors of a 20-year-old study promoting the use of prescription drugs to combat the effects of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are now claiming the report may have overstated medication’s benefits. According to a report in the New York Times, at least two co-authors of the highly influential study – called the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD – have come forward to express concern that the original report also downplayed the benefits of behavioral therapy. “There was lost opportunity to give kids the advantage of… View Article

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on January 2, 2014 in World News

DHS Complicit in Human Trafficking

                    Judge: DHS Complicit in Human Trafficking that Helps Fund Drug Cartels A United States federal judge has accused President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of being complicit in helping Mexican drug cartels and felons inside America smuggle illegal aliens into the country. In a court order he signed on Dec. 13, 2013, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Texas wrote that four times in the last four weeks he has heard troubling cases involving the DHS’s complicity in… View Article

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on January 1, 2014 in World News

New Year’s Twin Babies Born in Separate Years

                      New Year’s Twin Babies Born in Separate Years As people around the world partied their way into the new year, two mothers gave birth to two of the last babies of 2013 and two of the first babies of 2014. While born just minutes apart, their twin babies entered the world in two different years. On Dec. 31, 2013, at 11:58 p.m., Yaleni Santos Tohalino gave birth to baby girl Lorraine Yaleni Begazo, who weighed at 6 pounds, 4.9 ounces, at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, in Washington, D.C. Soon… View Article

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on January 1, 2014 in World News

Obama To Americans: You Don’t Deserve To Be Free

                        Obama To Americans: You Don’t Deserve To Be Free President Obama’s Kansas speech is a remarkable document. In calling for more government controls, more taxation, more collectivism, he has two paragraphs that give the show away. Take a look at them. there is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. “The market will take care of everything,” they tell us. If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes–especially for… View Article

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