(CNN’s John King reported last week that arrests had been made when none had. AP and Fox News followed suit.) By Friday night, when we all felt as though we were craning our necks around police cordons to get a better view of the action through our motley screens, it seemed as though the television […]

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Connecticut enacted a round of gun-control laws last week that are being called the strictest in the country. The legislation, signed by Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy, bans more than 100 kinds of firearm, including the semi-automatic “military-style” rifle used to slaughter 20 innocent schoolchildren in Newtown last year, as well as magazine cartridges holding more […]

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For the first time in more than 40 years, a majority of Americans believes marijuana should be legal. In 1969, pollsters found that only 12 percent were in favor of the idea and 82 percent opposed it. Now 52 percent think the so-called gateway drug should be legal and 45 percent say it should not […]

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Steve Horn confirmed Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a no-fly zone over Mayflower, Arkansas, where the Pegasus oil pipeline ruptured on Friday spilling an estimated 12,000 barrels of Canadian crude (or 504,000 gallons) into lawns, driveways and drainage ditches in a suburban housing development. Authorities told local TV reporters that at least […]

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In a townhall.com article published in July 2011, 88-year old conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly wrote that the Violence Against Women Act was “implemented to punish men” and ignored a “mountain of evidence” that women initiate physical violence nearly as often as men do. Schlafly demanded protections for men in the law’s reauthorization, and ways to […]

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