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...Opponents of the gun ban, however, say it only puts candidates at further risk. "No amount of gun bans will stop the bad guys from using firearms to eliminate rivals. The good guys should be allowed to protect themselves," says Richard Gordon, a serving Senator and presidential candidate, whose father was assassinated in the early years of the Marcos dictatorship. With candidates staking so much money and personal prestige on winning, the only way to make elections less violent is to reduce the giddy costs of campaigning and encourage a less vitriolic debate among rivals, says Gordon...
Made in the U.S.A. So who is this man whom U.S. counterterrorism officials would like to see dead? Just like bin Laden, al-Awlaki comes from an influential family: one of his relatives is Prime Minister of Yemen, and his father Nasser al-Awlaki was Agriculture Minister and head of the country's biggest university. Like bin Laden, al-Awlaki is soft-spoken, mild-mannered and austere...
...community had warned that there was a new, dangerous type of bomb being deployed by AQAP; that this new bomb could be used against planes; and that AQAP sought to strike the U.S. homeland. Further, the intelligence community knew that a radicalized Nigerian was in Yemen and that his father thought he might be planning some kind of "jihad," according to reports following the bomb attempt...
...used to be that media skills were necessary but secondary to political seasoning. Ronald Reagan's TV-spokesman work on General Electric Theater marked him as a rising conservative star, but his political career unfolded over decades. In 1936, radio demagogue Father Charles Coughlin--the Glenn Beck of his time--founded a third party, with little success...
DAVID GOLDMAN, after winning a five-year custody battle for his 9-year-old son Sean. The child had been living with his deceased mother's family in Brazil when a judge ordered on Dec. 22 that he be returned to his father...