Daily Archives: January 31, 2013

The Mentally ILL Hold Hearings on Gun Control

From where I sit, when you have victims of gun violence before you (one of them a former sitting member of Congress, who owned guns herself), including the parents of those innocent children massacred in Newtown, CT, imploring you and … Continue reading

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Videos | Hadiya Pendleton Killed By Gunman

Doesn’t Hadiya’s murder matter too? One week Hadiya’s alive, a daughter, a sister, an HONOR student, performing at a presidential inauguration… and the next week? GUNNED DOWN. UNCREDITED/AP THE DEFINITION OF IRONY Hadiya Pendleton was killed Tuesday, not long after … Continue reading

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Sandy Hook Families Testify‏ at Public Hearing on Gun Control

NEWTOWN  Conn. — Newtown officials and parents of children killed in last month’s elementary school massacre called on lawmakers Wednesday to turn the tragedy into “the moment of transformation” by banning high-powered, military-style rifles and high-capacity magazines while providing better … Continue reading

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Videos | Chuck Hagel Nomination Hearings For Secretary of Defense

Confirmation hearings begin today for Chuck Hagel.  Watch it live now on C-Span. We;ll post full video when available. Updating with video excerpts: Usual suspects on Israel Chuck Hagel DEFENDS his record

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Thursday Open Thread | Freedom Riders: The Turning Point

Bernard Lafayette, Jr. was twenty-two and enrolled as an undergraduate at Nashville’s American Baptist Theological Seminary when he took part in the 1961 Freedom Rides. Lafayette endured jail time in Birmingham, Alabama, riots and firebombings in Montgomery, an arrest in … Continue reading

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