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GOP Autopsy an Important Starting Point
  23 Mar 2013     12:07 am

The good news is the national Republican Party has conducted a fairly comprehensive self-examination in an attempt to broaden its appeal and avoid descending into irrelevancy.
The bad news is the national Republican Party has conducted a fairly comprehensive self-examination in an attempt to broaden its appeal and avoid descending into irrelevancy.
There is benefit to be had through a critical and objective re-appraisal to identify chronic problem areas and develop new approaches and messages to deal with them. At the same time, there is a risk that some will feel they’ve …

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Shifting the Gun Control Debate From Hunting to Black Helicopters
  2 Feb 2013     12:05 am

Coming to the realization that insisting automatic weapons with high capacity magazines be available for sporting use wasn’t gaining much traction among the general public, gun rights advocates have shifted their rationale to argue that private ownership of such weapons is necessary to protect against a tyrannical government, either our own or from somewhere else in the world.
They interpret the Constitution’s Second Amendment reference to a “well-regulated militia” as proof that the original intent of the nation’s founders was to assure an armed populace ready and willing to take up …

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Gun Ownership and ‘We Did It Because We Could’ Journalism
  12 Jan 2013     12:05 am

In the mid-1950′s, I began my career in the newspaper business on the daily paper in my hometown in Pennsylvania and, as the new kid in the newsroom, my assignments often required unearthing information that others wished to remain secret.
I was instructed by my city editor to be vigilant in dealing with government officials and law enforcement, for instance, two groups he warned who were more likely than most to be less than forthcoming with information which might prove embarrassing if brought to light in print.
We were a newspaper, he …

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