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...Virginia, like Texas and other states with concealed weapons laws, prohibits gun owners with concealed weapons permits from taking their guns into certain public places - usually bars and restaurants where alcohol is sold, courthouses, schools and campuses; 38 states currently ban weapons on school campuses, and 16 on college campuses. By making some places off-limits, Hupp said, the government is preventing Americans from protecting themselves and their families and has "taken on the responsibility and liability that goes with...
...Eighteen months ago, one Rome-based progressive cleric had said he was "surprised to see that [Benedict] seems to be open to hear new ideas." But today, the same priest is disappointed. There has been no sign of any of the hoped-for reforms: overturning the ban on communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, reconsidering the celibacy requirement for priests, allowing gays in seminaries, or a softening of the condom ban to allow for distribution in AIDS-ravaged Africa. The release last month of the Pope's final document on what had seemed to be a convivial and intellectually open...
...quiet, prudent former chemistry teacher, for the presidency, after a falling-out last year with his former ally Vice President Atiku Abubakar. When Abubakar announced he was running for President, he was barred from standing by the electoral commission, which cited his indictment for corruption. Abubakar has challenged the ban in the Supreme Court and continued to campaign as a candidate. But the leading challenger to the PDP is now Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general who organized a coup against President Shehu Shagari in 1983 and lost the 2003 election to Obasanjo...
...Things have started to change for the better. In 2000, the Harvard College Dean’s Office lifted its ban on students operating for-profit businesses on campus. Prior, startups had to keep day-to-day operations out of dorms or their founders would face the Administrative Board. The wild successes of Sparknotes and Facebook proved that students had a knack for Internet novelties. Just this fall, the University allowed Dormaid’s laundry service to compete with HSA?...
...prospect of implementing the SmartCheck nationwide should sound great to most rational people, but the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) disagrees. The ACLU has wasted little time in rallying its lawyers to persuade Congress to ban the use of such technology for routine security screening. Because X-rays pass through clothing, an ACLU officer, quoted in the New York Times, dubbed the scan a “virtual strip search,” claiming that the additional security of the scan is not worth the loss of passenger privacy...