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HR 45 Blair Holt Firearms Licensing and Record of Sales Act of 09

This is a message mostly to all men and women hunters alike, and the general public. Cynical Patriot has an article on this as well. HR 45 is highly likely to be passed only for the simple fact is, they are only wanting to know where each firearm is in the self proclaimed...

Will Yellowstone Eruption Be Obama’s Katrina?

With earthquake swarms rattling Yellowstone National Park, seismologists speculating about whether a mega-eruption is imminent and Wyoming residents raising tough questions about the danger of such an event in...

Winter weather across the US, closes schools and airports

As the harsh winter weather continues across the United States, snow, sleet and ice have forced the closures of hundreds of schools, roads and airports, stranding travelers and causing accidents. The National...

American-Indian girls vulnerable to sex trade

Minnesota struggles with identifying where many Native American and other trafficking victims come from, but they have seen victims from South Dakota. Some Native American women, girls, along with women and children from other states, end up at the seaport in Duluth, Minn. A...

Tenth Largest U.S. State Shows Low Turnout of Foreclosures

As one of the largest states in the United States but with the lowest population, Wyoming registered a low foreclosure rate while surrounding states vary in impact from foreclosures. Nearby states like Montana and South Dakota registered some of the lowest foreclosure rates...

Blizzard hits North and South Dakota

North and South Dakota were hit by a winter blizzard late on Thursday, with punishing winds and almost four feet of snow, stranding motorists and knocking out power to thousands of people. Some people could...

Government Bailout is a big Mistake

" Washington – The Club for Growth condemned the massive government bailout proposed by the Treasury and the Bush administration as unnecessary, unfair to taxpayers, and fraught with serious costs to the American economy. Eighteen months into the credit crunch, many...

These homes for sale stink

"Why Fannie and Freddie matterMore Videos This boarded-up, bank-owned home is on the market in Milwaukee. On the inside, that Milwaukee home has been picked clean. Never before have there been so many squalid, dilapidated homes...

Dyslexic doctor has overseen 40 executions

A 50 cent bullet to the back of the head is actually a more humane way to be executed, the condemed won't even feel the bullet enter, like they would various needles used in lethal injection. It's cheaper, totally painless and instant, unlike those botched executions you hear...

US to tax iTunes and digital downloads

States across the US are considering taxing digital downloads like iTunes and eMusic. They're currently tax-free because, well, legislators didn't know Amazon would exist when they drafted tax laws.This raises an interesting question. What exactly are we paying for when we...

Today is Paul Bunyan Day

Today is officially Paul Bunyan Day, so celebrate everything big today!"Paul Bunyan was a gigantic lumberjack of American Folklore. According out folklore, Paul Bunyan and his blue ox "Babe" lived and...

3 die in severe storms - more storms expected today

3 have died from the severe thunderstorms that swept through the mid-Atlantic yesterday.  The storms knocked power out in hundreds of thousands of homes.  "A band of storms that moved east from Indiana on Wednesday splintered homes, swept vehicles from flooded roads...

What Went Wrong? How Hillary Clinton Lost

" "She's already winning," came the response, as repeated by chief strategist Mark Penn, campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe and other top aides and advisers, in memos, press releases and interviews as the campaign...

Defiant Clinton ponders options

Inside the cavernous sports hall at Baruch college in Manhattan, the mood among Hillary Clinton's supporters was subdued and distinctly sombre. "Hillary, our nominee," they chanted - but without the wild...

How Obama won nomination; how he can win election

"WASHINGTON - Fresh beat familiar. Change beat experience. And not-Hillary beat Hillary.Maybe it took someone new like Barack Obama -- age 46, a relative newcomer to Washington -- to toss aside the old political...

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