Fears of Democrat crackdown lead to gun sales boom

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• Newsvine Q & A: Chuck Todd on U.S. Politics

  Tue Mar 17, 2009
  • I would ask whether the President would be willing to push for and sign legislation that would eliminate health care coverage for all members of Congress and the President himself--including their spouses and children--unless and until there is affordable, universal health care available to all …

• Bonus furor may prompt limits on AIG bailout

  Mon Mar 16, 2009
  • Also, someone help me understand why any company is "contractually obligated" to pay bonuses?? Bonuses, by definition, are icing on the cake. They're what gets paid when a company does well.

• Bonus furor may prompt limits on AIG bailout

  Mon Mar 16, 2009
  • This is the practical impact of the elimination of moral hazard. When the leaders of companies know that they are considered "too big to fail," they know they can do anything they feel like and the government will have to keep giving them more and more and more cash anyway.

• Peanut plant owner becomes recluse after outbreak

  Sat Feb 14, 2009
  • Would the Press please stop using the word "mistake" to refer to intentional acts? Forgetting to carry the one, that's a mistake. It's unintentional. But selling peanuts that one knows are infected with salmonella is intentional. He meant to do it.

• Is stress pushing spelling snobs over edge?

  Tue Feb 3, 2009
  • What drives me crazy is when the errors exist in a news article or some other piece of formal writing. I can forgive some shopkeeper for misspelling a sign in his shop window; he didn't make a career out of communicating the written word. But writers do.

• Celizic: Burress should've packed his brain, not a gun

  Mon Dec 1, 2008
  • Actually, Richard, the Second Amendment refers to keeping (owning) and bearing (being in possession of) arms.  So your argument that guns are only for defense within your home doesn't hold water. 

• Celizic: Burress should've packed his brain, not a gun

  Mon Dec 1, 2008
  • Good luck, Jim.  By the time you hear the intruder, find the key, unlock the trigger lock, and load the cylinder, you could have a gun to YOUR head.  I would respectfully suggest that you look into a small gun safe made for quick entry, such as a GunVault …

• Celizic: Burress should've packed his brain, not a gun

  Mon Dec 1, 2008
  • There is a lot of anti-gun prejudice in the world.  It's just as ugly and immoral as racial prejudice, and people who engage in it should be just as ashamed.  Like racial prejudice, it's a mixture of hatred, fear and stereotyping sprouting from ignorance and …

• Fears of Democrat crackdown lead to gun sales boom

  Mon Nov 10, 2008
  • Some of My Thoughts:

• Court says individuals have right to own guns

  Thu Jun 26, 2008
  • This is more than a victory for gun owners.