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...consists of a community advisory council that identifies households where juveniles are believed to be carrying firearms, followed by a search team comprised of police and community members who go and request to search the children’s rooms. Searches are completely voluntary, and if an illegally possessed gun is found, no arrest will be made. While this initiative is an aid to parents worried about their teenagers, one aspect of Massachusetts state law may make this program more detrimental to the families than the its designers intended...
...courting the gay vote in Massachusetts, Romney became a national spokesman for the sanctity of heterosexual marriage. After running two campaigns as a pro-choice politician, he became a leader of the pro-life cause in Massachusetts. Despite scant experience as a hunter and a history of supporting some gun control, he joined the National Rifle Association...
...reside in shacks on the building's rooftop; Taha is the earnest son of the building's doorman, and Busayna is a beautiful shopgirl, whose dream of marrying him is gradually crushed by his bleak financial prospects. In the novel's heartbreaking dénouement, Taha dies in a gun battle with police. He had become a radical Islamist, lured into a terrorist group after his hope of becoming a policeman himself was dashed because of his low social standing and lack of political connections...
...Thursday at the annual Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference in Washington. CPAC is the Lollapalooza of the Republican right, and its founder, David Keene, has been an outspoken critic of McCain's perceived anti-conservative transgressions on issues ranging from campaign finance reform (McCain's for it) to gun control (for it, in certain instances) to global warming (against it). As a result, McCain has routinely skipped the event; last year, he was booed in absentia. "He won't get a poor reception at CPAC; he'll get a mixed reception," says McCain adviser Charlie Black, who promises that...
...sure, Romney’s inconsistency on tough issues is widely recognized: He was pro-choice and then pro-life; he supported gun control and then he rejected it; he backed same sex marriage and then he opposed it. Yet, on the issue of immigration, he has not only been inconsistent, but revealed himself to be a hypocrite—and not just because he hired migrants without work permits to mow his lawn...