Gun homicides down, gun ownership up = Gun banners lied!

Two days after the National Rifle Association’s record-breaking annual convention in Houston, during which NRA leaders were vilified and gun prohibitionists cranked up the volume of their gun ban rhetoric, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released data that effective blows Titanic-sized holes in the gun control agenda.

http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-homicides-down-gun-ownership-up-gun-...

Article by Dave Workman

House Oversight Committee Holds Benghazi Hearing
By Harold Hutchison

The House Oversight Committee is holding a hearing today on the 11 September, 2012 attack on the United States consulate that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

The hearing is currently airing on CSPAN 3, and is also streaming at oversight.house.gov.

Check the SOF Facebook Page for updates.

Miller doing book on getting a gun in D.C.

Emily Miller, the award-winning senior editor for opinion at the Washington Times who exposed the deliberately complicated and discouraging-by-design handgun regulations in the District of Columbia, will soon publish a book based on her newspaper series, appropriately titled “Emily Gets Her Gun.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/miller-doing-book-on-getting-a-gun-d-c?c...

Article by Dave Workman

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Over 30 Killed In Two Bombings
By Harold Hutchison

Two bombings in the last two days have targeted candidates from an Islamist party running for seats in Pakistan’s parliament. At least 32 people have been killed in the murder-suicide attacks.

The bombing targeted Sayed Janan and Munir Orakzai, members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party. According to a report by VOA News, Orakzai was wounded in the earlier attack, for which the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.

Provision in Massive Bill Raises Questions
By Harold Hutchison

The Senate’s “Gang of Eight” introduced their immigration reform bill – which weighed in at 844 pages – three weeks ago. Six days ago, a substitute was introduced, and it came in even longer, totaling 867 pages. But what is in the bill may surprise a lot of people.

“Workplace Violence” Designation Denies Victims, Families Key Services, Benefits

Washington, DC – U.S. Representatives Tom Rooney (R-FL), Chaka Fattah (D-PA) and Frank Wolf (R-VA) today wrote Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Chuck Hagel, urging him to re-classify the injuries and deaths resulting from the terrorist attack on Ft. Hood – currently designated by the Department as “workplace violence” – as “combat-related.”

Former SecState Clinton Accused of End Run
By Harold Hutchison

Prior to a hearing by the House Committee on Government Oversight scheduled for Wednesday, a new bombshell exploded when details of what one whistleblower from the State Department will tell the committee emerged over the weekend. Mark I. Thompson is the deputy director of the State Department’s counter-terror unit, and will claim that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to cut his unit out of the decision-making process.

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