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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Journalists Contribute Little or Nothing to Society

Pew Poll: 27 Percent Say Journalists Contribute Little or Nothing to Society                     The latest numbers from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life find that the military are still highly esteemed by the American public. More than three-quarters of U.S. adults (78 percent) agreed that employees of the armed services contribute “a lot” to society’s well-being. That’s a modest decline from 84 percent years ago, Not so for journalists. About as many U.S. adults now say journalists contribute “not very much” or “nothing at all” to society… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Convicted Murderers Released From Prison On Technicality

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — More than a dozen convicted killers are released from prison on a technicality, and dozens more could follow. Monique Griego explains the Court of Appeals ruling at the center of this controversy. All of these men were convicted before 1980. And since then, the court has changed the way juries are allowed to decide cases. Locked up for decades, 13 convicted murderers in Maryland are now free, after the state’s highest court overturned their convictions due to improper jury instructions. “It’s absolutely the right decision,” said Mike Millemann, University of Maryland School of Law. Millemann is working… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Big Sis to Resign from Department of Homeland Security

Janet Napolitano, also know as Big Sis, will resign as boss of the Department of Homeland Security. She will seek the post as president of the University of California, according to media reports.   Napolitano’s departure is scheduled for September. “For more than four years I have had the privilege of serving President Obama and his Administration as the Secretary of Homeland Security,” she said in a statement. “The opportunity to work with the dedicated men and women of the Department of Homeland Security, who serve on the frontlines of our nation’s efforts to protect our communities and families from… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in E News

CSSA NEWSLETTER JULY 12-2013

                                CANADIAN SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION / CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION TEAM CSSA E-NEWS – July 12, 2013 ** Please share this E-news with your friends ** CSSA COMMENTARY COLUMNIST LORNE GUNTER – OLD-SCHOOL ETHICS AND ANALYSIS Responsible firearms owners owe much to the wisdom of newspaper columnist Lorne Gunter, and not just because he defends their gun rights. Gunter’s examination of the topics he broaches is executed with old-school aplomb. He has a reputation for seeing many issues through a right-wing filter, but his… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Dead baby laid on chapel altar comes back to life

                          A baby girl who was pronounced dead just after birth and  carried  into the  hospital chapel by a nurse who was too sad to send her  to the  morgue, made  what could be called a most miraculous recovery —  she  “came back to life,”  witnesses said. A nurse had put the body of baby Yasmin  Gome, born in Brazil,  in a  small box and  left it on the altar in the chapel, The Sun reported.  The  baby’s grandmother  and a mortician came to retrieve the body about  … View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Feds Shake Down Farmer for Free Raisins

A California raisin farmer is facing bankruptcy for defying a law requiring him to give the government a portion of his raisin crop without compensation. According to a Washington Post report, Marvin Horne, 68, stopped giving the government his raisins in 2002 and now “owes the U.S. government at least $650,000 in unpaid fines,” in addition to “1.2 million pounds of unpaid raisins, roughly equal to his entire harvest for four years.” Horne violated Marketing Order 989, passed during the Truman administration, “a federal regulation meant to solve a problem from the era after World War II, which created the… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Supreme Court uphold ban on Muslim headwear in schools

  A branch of Russia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a group of Muslims for the right of schoolgirls to wear traditional religious attire, specifically the hijab, in classrooms. The appeal was made by a group of citizens of Muslim faith from  southern Russia’s Stavropol Region. They complained that a decree  by the local administration ordering all schoolchildren to appear  in classes only in regular secular clothes, which came into force  in January this year, infringes their freedom of faith as  guaranteed by the constitution. Certain denominations of Islam requires that all women wear  special headscarves called hijabs,… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Federal Gun Control ‘Weak Link’ in Fighting Gun Crime

Rahm Emanuel: Federal Gun Control ‘Weak Link’ in Fighting Gun Crime   Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, telling the House and Senate to stay in session to address Chicago’s gun violence, called gun control the “weak link” in Chicago’s efforts toward public safety on Tuesday. He repeated his desire for a three-year minimum sentence for gun crimes that would require perpetrators convicted to serve at least 85 percent of their sentenced time, a stronger “assault weapons” ban, and comprehensive background checks for those buying guns. Gun control… is the weak link in the chain of public safety for the city of… View Article

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on July 12, 2013 in World News

Rand Paul – I’m ‘Thinking About’ Running for President

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that he is contemplating a run for president in 2016 and that he will likely make an announcement on a decision shortly after the 2014 midterm congressional elections. “We’ve been thinking about it,” Paul said in a phone interview. “And we will continue to think about it probably until after the 2014 elections. I haven’t made a decision, it’s a big decision you know with regard to family and the extensive travel that’s involved with it. And then also just seeing where the country is going in… View Article

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