Bernie's Stance on Gun Control Could Cost Him Support of Blacks, Latinos

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For many in the African-American and Latino communities, gun control is literally a matter of survival, as the vast majority of them live in urban areas long plagued by gun violence. Although a native of New York City, Senator Sanders has lived in overwhelmingly white and predominantly rural Vermont -- where gun control is anathema -- for most of his life. But for Bernie to win the Democratic nomination, he can't afford to alienate the party's predominantly urban base on this issue.

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Thursday December 27, 2012 · 7:41 PM PST

2012/12/27 · 19:41

The NRA's Absolutist Position on the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms Ignores History: Fully Automatic Machine Guns Have Been Banned Since 1934 -- And the Supreme Court UPHELD the Ban in 1939. It's Time to Extend That Ban to Semi-Automatic Military-Style Weapons

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Should Congress amend the 1934 National Firearms Act, which bans fully automatic weapons, to include semi-automatic milirary-style "assault" weapons?

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Should Congress amend the 1934 National Firearms Act, which bans fully automatic weapons, to include semi-automatic milirary-style "assault" weapons?

YES

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56 votes

NOT SURE

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Foes of Health-Care Law's 'Individual Mandate' Ignore Decades-Old Mandate for Auto Insurance

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Tuesday January 03, 2012 · 7:41 AM PST

2012/01/03 · 07:41

Lost in all the hullaballoo about the so-called "individual mandate" in the health-care reform law is the fact that there has been an "individual mandate" for another type of insurance in place for decades -- and, to date, no one has uttered a peep about whether that mandate is constitutional or not.

You don't remember that one? Take a a look at your car. You're required to carry liability insurance on it, or else you'll lose your license to drive it.

All 50 states have compulsory auto-insurance laws. Yet no one has ever challenged the constitutionality of that requirement. Indeed, any state that did not mandate compulsory auto insurance would likely lose federal highway funds under the Federal Aid Highway Act -- which has been in force for more than half a century.

Ironically, it is precisely because of the auto-insurance individual mandate that we have such fierce competition among auto insurers today. Such competition would not exist if auto insurance wasn't mandatory.

The Supreme Court should uphold the individual mandate for health insurance. It would ultimately do for the health-insurance industry what the individual mandate for auto insurance did for the auto insurance industry: Create fierce competition, which would, in turn, force a lowering of premiums.

After 5 Years, 'Skeeter Bites Report' Blog Abruptly Folds

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Tuesday February 15, 2011 · 1:34 PM PST

2011/02/15 · 13:34

Site's Editor and Publisher Decides to Shut Down Amid Health Concerns After Months of Overwork, Fatigue and Insufficient Sleep Almost Lead to Potentially Fatal Car Crash

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AOL's Purchase of HuffPost Could Be a Stroke of Genius -- or Another Horrible Blunder

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Tuesday February 08, 2011 · 9:08 AM PST

2011/02/08 · 09:08

By Acquiring the Wildly Successful Online News Portal for $315 Million, Can the Internet Company Once Known as America Online Overcome Its Reputation for Making Bad Business Decisions -- From Its Failure to Adapt to the Rise of Broadband, to Its Disastrous Merger With Time Warner?

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Wednesday February 02, 2011 · 4:01 AM PST

2011/02/02 · 04:01

82-Year-Old Egyptian President, in TV Speech to Nation, Declares He Won't Run for a Sixth Term After 30 Years in Power, But Protesters Vow They Won't Give Up Until He Resigns -- and Obama Makes Clear That 'Orderly Transition' to New Government 'Must Begin Now'

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Tuesday February 01, 2011 · 2:52 AM PST

2011/02/01 · 02:52

While it Won't Publicly Call for Mubarak to Step Down After Nearly 30 Years in Power -- Yet -- White House Already is Making Preparations to Deal With a New Post-Mubarak Era in Egypt

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Tuesday January 25, 2011 · 2:31 AM PST

2011/01/25 · 02:31

Republicans Not Only Forced Obama and the Democrats to Extend Bush-Era Tax Cuts for the Super-Rich, They Also Blocked an Extension of Obama's Little-Known 2009 'Making Work Pay' Tax Credit for the Middle Class, Resulting in Smaller Paychecks Since the Start of the Year -- and Continuing the Mutation of GOP Into 'Party of, By and For the Rich' Since 2001

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You're a middle-class American who's payroll taxes just went up. Who do YOU blame?

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You're a middle-class American who's payroll taxes just went up. Who do YOU blame?

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The Democrats

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The Media

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All of the Above

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None of the Above

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Remarks on Arizona Shootings Confirm Palin Is a Demagogue Unfit for the Presidency

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Tuesday January 18, 2011 · 2:30 AM PST

2011/01/18 · 02:30

Palin Used Highly Inflammatory Rhetoric -- in Defiance of McCain's Directive to Tone it Down -- That Stirred Blatantly Racist Passions Against Obama During '08 Campaign and Has Continued to Employ Incendiary Language in the Two Years Since; Now Former Alaska Governor Deeply Offends Jews by Employing Anti-Semitic Phrase in Defiantly Partisan Speech on Tucson Tragedy

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Tuesday January 11, 2011 · 4:48 AM PST

2011/01/11 · 04:48

In Video Posted on GodHatesFags.com, Cult Leader Fred Phelps Denounces Giffords as 'Avid Supporter of Sin and Baby-Killing' and Blasts Palin as 'Cowardly Brute' for Taking Down Controversial Crosshairs Map From Her Web Site -- Even Nine-Year-Old Girl Slain By Gunman Draws Westboro's Wrath

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Monday January 10, 2011 · 2:59 AM PST

2011/01/10 · 02:59

As Congresswoman Giffords Lies in Medically-Induced Coma, Homeland Security Memo Says Alleged Gunman Who Killed Six and Wounded 14 Outside Tucson Supermarket May Have Been Influenced By Newsletter Published By 'White Nationalist' Think Tank; Federal Judge Killed in Rampage Got Death Threats in 2009 Immigration Lawsuit

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Tuesday January 04, 2011 · 2:30 AM PST

2011/01/04 · 02:30

In Media Interview, an American Military Officer Claims Washington Didn't Want to Be Distracted From Its Plans to Topple Saddam Hussein's Regime in Iraq, So the North Atlantic Alliance Was Given the Major Role in the War Against the Taliban -- 'It's More About NATO Than It's About Afghanistan,' He Says

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Amid Continued Anti-Mubarak Protests, Obama Bracing for Egyptian Strongman's Downfall

While Super-Rich Get Tax-Cut Extension, Middle Class Get Rude Surprise: A Tax Increase

Remarks on Arizona Shootings Confirm Palin Is a Demagogue Unfit for the Presidency

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