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Where were you when CO2 passed 400 parts per million?

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NRA chief: Boston-area residents were vulnerable without guns

By Andrea Lorenz HOUSTON (Reuters) – Heavy-handed gun laws and a culture disapproving of gun ownership put citizens in a vulnerable position during the door-to-door search for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev last month, NRA Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre said on Saturday. "How many Bostonians wished they had a gun two weeks ago?" LaPierre [...]

Lawmaker believes Boston suspects were trained

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says he believes the Boston Marathon bombing suspects had some training in carrying out their attack. Tweet This Post

Luntz Pulls Plug on Scholarship After Comments Were Taped

After his comments critical of Rush Limbaugh were secretly taped by a University of Pennsylvania student, GOP strategist Frank Luntz told the Daily Pennsylvanian that “he would never return to speak after this incident, and would discourage others from speaking here.” Tweet This Post

What if they Were the Boston Shooters Instead?

John Cassidy: “Here’s a little mental experiment. Imagine, for a moment, that the Tsarnaev brothers, instead of packing a couple of pressure cookers loaded with nails and explosives into their backpacks a week ago Monday, had stuffed inside their coats two assault rifles–Bushmaster AR-15s, say, of the type that Adam Lanza used in Newtown. What [...]

How CISPA Opponents Were Outspent by Industry Lobbyists, 38 to 1

Last week, the House approved CISPA, the House cybersecurity bill that’s long rankled privacy advocates — not to mention the White House, which issued a presidential veto threat in response to the action. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post