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Opinion: Gun Control Emotions vs. Gun Control Facts
By not in system - AOL NewsJust 24 hours after the shooting in Tucson, politicians were calling for more gun control. And the drumbeat has continued. On Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for using the information supplied on people's applications to join the military to determine whether they will be banned from buying guns. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind., promised a new push for renewing at least part of the federal assault weapons ban. The previous week had been filled with calls for everything from gun show regulations to a thousand-foot gun-free zone around politicians. But ...
Women to Watch (and Watch Out for) in 2011
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyHere at Politics Daily, we've been recalling strong women whose terms sadly ended in 2010. On the year's last weekend, the New York Times' annual year-end roundup, "The Lives They Lived," paid appropriate tribute to film actor Lynn Redgrave, whose title role in 1966's "Georgy Girl" validated and emboldened women to love and appreciate their non-hourglass body shapes. The Times' idiosyncratic list, however, left off Jill Clayburgh, whose 1978 portrayal of an unmarried woman did more for single-girl empowerment than former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown could ever have hoped for. (Brown, ...
Intelligence Chief James Clapper Didn't Know About London Terror Arrests
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyJames R. Clapper, the man charged with coordinating the nation's sensitive intelligence programs, sat silently after an interviewer asked him about the arrest of 12 terrorist suspects in London on Monday. The reason, simply put, is Clapper didn't know about it. "London?" he asked after a pause when ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer mentioned the police sweep in a suspected plot hours earlier. White House counter-terrorism chief John Brennan jumped in and responded to Sawyer, and later conceded that Clapper had not been briefed on the incident and should have been. But Brennan also seemed to ...
US Officials Face Battle if They Want Julian Assange
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News
(Dec. 7) -- The U.S. government may face an uphill battle if it tries to extradite and successfully prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange now that he's been jailed in Britain on sex allegations from Sweden. Legal experts say that Assange's decision to fight his extradition to Sweden means the case could drag on in Britain for at least a year before he is handed over to Swedish authorities. Assange is being held in custody until the first hearing scheduled in the case on Dec. 14. But even if Britain or Sweden, both of which have extradition treaties with the U.S., were to agree at a ...
Campaign-Finance Disclosure Bill Fails In the Senate
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySenate Republicans blocked a bill Tuesday that would force American companies and interest groups to disclose their roles in federal elections more than ever before. Democrats failed to end the Republican filibuster of the DISCLOSE Act on a 57-41 vote, essential ending the bill's chances for passage this year. All Republicans opposed the bill, while nearly all Democrats voted in favor of it. Democrats needed 60 votes to move it to final consideration. Democrats wrote the bill in early 2010 to blunt the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Citizens United v. FEC, which ...
Study: Receipts Could Be Harmful to Your Health
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(July 26) -- Cash-register receipts from many fast-food outlets, groceries, pharmacies, big-box stores and U.S. post offices contain high levels of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A. A study released late today by the Environmental Working Group reported that a laboratory analysis it commissioned found the plastic component BPA on 40 percent of receipts from McDonald's, CVS, KFC, Whole Foods, Wal-Mart, Safeway and other businesses. BPA is used to coat thermal paper, which reacts with dye to form black print on receipts handled by millions of Americans every day. In laboratory ...
E-Mail Hoax Reports Deaths of Sens. Leahy, Feinstein, Lautenberg
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThey're alive and well. Phony e-mails reported this week that Democratic Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Dianne Feinstein of California and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey had died of liver cancer. Word of the hoax broke Tuesday as Sen. Robert Byrd, who died last week, was buried in a private ceremony. Leahy's office said the e-mails were designed to appear as though they were sent by Senate staffers, the Burlington Free Press reported. Capitol Police are investigating the grim gag; the e-mails went to a number of radio and television stations as well as newspapers. The 86-year-old ...
Republicans to Focus on Whether Elena Kagan Would be a Judicial Activist
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee made clear Sunday that they will use confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to zero in on concerns that she would be a judicial activist and bring to the court an "expansionist" view of government. The most serious objections were voiced by Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the committee, who also targeted Kagan's lack of judicial background. Kagan has never been a federal judge and, aside from her tenure as Dean of Harvard's Law School and a clerk for the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, her major positions ...
Opinion: BPA Isn't Worth the Risk
By not in system - AOL News(May 19) -- When Americans buy canned goods at the grocery store, they assume the food in those cans will be safe. The last thing they expect is that the food they feed their families will be contaminated with a chemical that may seriously harm their health. Unfortunately, American consumers currently have no guarantee that the cans of chicken soup, green beans or other staples in their pantry are free of bisphenol A (BPA). Another View: The science behind BPA's alleged health risks doesn't justify a ban. In fact, banning BPA could do more harm than good, says Trevor Butterworth, editor of ...
Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman Running Even in California Governor Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublican Meg Whitman, the former eBay chief executive, is running neck-and-neck with Attorney General Jerry Brown in a California gubernatorial matchup, with each drawing 43 percent of voters, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Feb. 15. Six percent prefer someone else and 8 percent are undecided. The margin of error is 4.5 points. If State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner managed to get the GOP nomination, Brown would be leading him 46 percent to 34 percent with 7 percent preferring another candidate and 13 percent undecided. The San Francisco Chronicle reported in late ...
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