Limiting gun ownership through taxes
A 50 percent federal tax on ammunition and a 20 percent federal tax on
guns -- up from 11 percent on both now -- has been proposed by two
Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  
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Syria has positive reaction to giving up chemical weapons
Syria's foreign minister says his country welcomes Russia's proposal for
it to place its chemical weapons under international control and then
dismantle them quickly to avert U.S. strikes.
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Voter fraud allegations in gun control recall elections
As voters continued to cast ballots early in the recall election
Saturday, questions swirled about voter fraud and ballot box stuffing.
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The Wrong Target on WMDs
After 9/11, the prevailing view was that "nothing would ever be the
same." The sight of bodies plunging 100 stories from the flaming towers
of the World Trade Center seared into our psyches the reality that
America has cruel and wanton enemies. The USA Patriot Act, which sought
to repair some of the intelligence lapses that permitted the 9/11
attacks to go undiscovered, passed the House by a vote of 357 to 66 and
the Senate by 98 to one.
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Civil rights will be back on court's docket
Fresh from race-related rulings this summer on voting rights and
affirmative action, the Supreme Court faces another landmark civil
rights case that could make it tougher for minorities to prove housing
discrimination.
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