Newly deployed elements of the Royal Thai Third Army, backed by Ministry of Interior ( MOI ) troops, have opened fire with machine guns on Lao Hmong political refugees and asylum seekers at a refugee camp at Ban Huay Khao, Petchabun Province, Thailand in an effort to intimidate them and force them back to the communist regime in Lao they fled. “Today, Prime Minister Abhisit and General Anupong have, ironically, ordered the use of U.S.

Firearms owners v.cities; it's a matter of equal rights http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m

Because there were two more defendants added to the group of 10 already in court...the new attorneys say they need time to review the 85,000 documents and to add other documents in defense of the new defendants. The Judge has scheduled a "Status Hearing" for March 15, 2010 back at the Federal Court in Sacramento. Here is the link to the Sacramento Bee Article on the case: http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/v-print/story/2232641.html

A letter signed by members of the U.S. House of Representatives' Second Amendment Task Force raising important questions about the National Park Service's intent to ban the use of traditional ammunition in parks that allow hunting has been sent to Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The letter, which follows a similar message sent to Salazar by U.S.

It's Gun Politics 101 as governments face budget problems http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m10d5-Gun-

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger: I most earnestly urge that you veto the ammunition registration bill, AB 962. It is a deceitfully conceived measure aimed at providing registration not only of ammunition, but also of its purchasers, and thus by extension, of firearms owners. Worse than that, it is a de facto firearms registration bill, although by caliber only, but as such is also a foot-in-the-door approach, the next obvious step being a polite police visit, ostensibly to "confirm that you still have that caliber firearm," but actually to identify visually both its make and model, and s

Who would plaster his Twitter page with police mug shot photos of convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur? Fox News contributor Marc Lamont Hill did. At least until David Horowitz and Accuracy in Media took notice and wrote about it. Now the page features photos of boxing great Muhammad Ali. Hill's MySpace page is also gone. There are other changes as well.

Ignoring pressing national security issues, President Obama flew off to Denmark yesterday to literally beg the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to accept Chicago as location for the 2016 Olympics. Chicago. Barack met up with Michelle, who had arrived on Wednesday, already suffering through her second day of

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