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on September 30, 2013 in World News
Government, Left Pushes ‘Virtual Gun Control’
Government, Left Pushes ‘Virtual Gun Control’ Having defeated President Obama’s quest to shoot holes in the Second Amendment, a GOP Leadership aide recently told the Huffington Post the House would soon spend time examining the link between link between video games and violence, essentially kicking off a campaign for “virtual gun control.” Make no mistake; the road to gun control and the road to virtual gun control leads to the same destination — restrictions on your liberty. Part of the fallacy of gun control rests in the belief that in inanimate… View Article
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on September 24, 2013 in World News
Americans’ Belief That Gov’t Is Too Powerful
Americans’ Belief That Gov’t Is Too Powerful at Record Level Six in 10 Americans (60%) believe the federal government has too much power, one percentage point above the previous high recorded in September 2010. At least half of Americans since 2005 have said the government has too much power. Thirty-two percent now say the government has the right amount of power. Few say it has too little power. … Republicans, Democrats, and independents have each grown more likely to say government is too powerful this year. http://www.gallup.com/poll/164591/americans-belief-gov-powerful-record-level.aspx
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on September 17, 2013 in World News
Mass Shootings Fuel Fear, Account for Fraction of Murders
Mass Shootings Fuel Fear, Account for Fraction of Murders Mass U.S. shootings such as the bloody rampage at the Washington Navy Yard spur safety concerns and garner intense media attention while statistically accounting for few of the total murders reported nationwide. In the 30 years through March, 78 public mass shootings occurred in the U.S. — incidents in which four or more people were killed at random by a gunman killing indiscriminately, according to a report issued that month by the Congressional Research Service. These crimes don’t include gang-related… View Article
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on September 9, 2013 in World News
Gov Wants to Sequence DNA of All Infants Born in US
Gov Wants to Sequence DNA of All Infants Born in US The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun an initiative to discover the viability of sequencing American infant’s DNA through the “heel stick” blood drawn screening conducted on newborns in hospitals to determine the propensity toward life-threatening diseases. This scheme will cost $25 million over 5 years to understand each individual genetic code in lieu of having DNA routinely mapped and stored in a medical record. Whether this study would have value has not been established. Experts warn that there are ethical questions surrounding such an endeavor. Using genetic… View Article
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