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Meet Some Of America's Proud Gun Owners [PHOTOS]

Documentary photographer Kyle Cassidy traveled over 20,000 miles around the country to find out what gun owners look like and why they have chosen to buy guns and keep them in their homes.His riveting...

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Marine To Be Unchained From Bed And Released From Mexican Prison

Jon Hammar, the U.S. Marine strapped to a bed in solitary confinement in a Mexican prison on a gun charge, will be released today, his mother told Fox News.His release was confirmed by the Mexican...

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North Korea Says It Has Arrested A US Citizen For Unspecified Crimes

Today North Korea's state news agency, KNCA, issued a brief report titled "American Arrested In DPRK For Committing Crime".The US citizen reportedly arrested is named in the report as Pae Jun Ho. Pae...

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Stunning NRA Press Conference Blames Shooting On Media, Video Games, Movies...

In what was a rather stunning, half-hour press conference, the National Rifle Association called on Congress to put armed police officers in every school in America. The highly anticipated press...

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The Problem With The NRA's Plan In One Venn Diagram

Earlier today, the NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre advocated for putting an armed police officer in every school during a rather stunning press conference.Whatever your thoughts on the merits of the NRA's idea...

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US Intelligence Suspects Foreign Nations Of Using Corporate Takeovers To Get...

Foreign nations may be using a "coordinated strategy" of corporate takeovers to access critical U.S. technology, according to a report highlighted by the Financial Times from the Committee On Foreign...

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SYRIA EXPERT: Assad Will Eventually Flee To The Coast And Rebels Will Battle...

Syria expert Joshua Landis told Voice of America journalist Cecily Hilleary that he thinks Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will eventually flee to the coastal mountains of his ancestral Alawite...

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Michael Bloomberg Slams The NRA's 'Paranoid, Dystopian Vision Of A More...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has urged for more strict gun control legislation after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., slammed the National Rifle Association today after the organization's...

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12 Charts On Firearms In GUN NATION

After last week's horrific mass shooting left 20 first-graders and seven adults dead, everyone is taking a hard look at guns in America.Obama has called for a gun control task force. Many have called...

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65 Beautiful Photos Of The US Military In 2012

This was a year to remember for the U.S. Military.After years of combat, some 23,000 troops serving in Afghanistan were pulled out in 2012, with plans to withdraw the rest by 2014.The U.S. Military...

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Congress Just Approved This Sweeping Defense Bill

The US Senate on Friday approved a $633 billion defense spending bill for next year that tightens penalties on Iran, funds the war in Afghanistan and boosts security at US missions worldwide.The...

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Congress Is Quietly Abandoning The 5th Amendment

What everyone must understand is that American politics doesn't work the way you'd think it would. Most people presume that government officials would never willfully withhold penicillin from men with...

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Hamid Karzai Says Americans Made Afghanistan One Of The Most Corrupt...

President Hamid Karzai on Saturday blamed foreigners for most of the corruption in Afghanistan and said the withdrawal of NATO troops in 2014 would help rid the country of graft.More than 11 years...

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A Grandmother Hunts For Argentinian Babies 'Stolen' Decades Ago

Estela de Carlotto isn't like most grandmothers. Instead of easing herself into retirement and enjoying the slower pace of life it affords, she remains a dogged workaholic.Every weekday she rises early...

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North Korea Confirms Arrest Of US Citizen

PYONYANG – North Korean state media has confirmed that a U.S. citizen has been arrested after entering the reclusive Communist country as a tourist.In a short dispatch, The Korean Central News Agency...

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Why The NRA's Speech To 'Four Million Moms And Dads' Was Bizarre As It Was...

On Tuesday, the National Rifle Association released its first official response following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. The statement was brief, and began by...

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Lockheed Martin's New Killer Laser Will Change Life For Troops On The Ground...

Using lasers for tracking objects through the sky has been possible for years, but there's never been anything like Lockheed's new laser defense system successfully tested last week.It's not that using...

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Marine Filmmaker Explains How Kickstarter And New Animation Will Bring The...

Brian Iglesias, a combat decorated Marine infantry officer now in the Reserves, just completed his most recent campaign.But unlike earlier ones in combat, this campaign was online. Using the social...

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Walmart Sells Assault Weapons But Bans Music With Swear Words

Neil DeGrasse Tysonpoints out a bizarre dichotomy:Walmart sells assault weapons but bans music that contains swear words.That policy tells you a lot about this country.We can guess why Walmart sells...

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Gawker's Jaw-Dropping Robert Bork Obituary Has People Up In Arms

Yesterday's news of Robert Bork's death left most Americans with a vague recollection of the Supreme Court nomination he'd somehow lost out on, if anything at all.But Bork's death and legacy meant far...

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