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...Republican Party has not always sought to deliver democracy through the barrel of a gun. In fact, right up until 9/11, it would be fair to say that it was almost overly averse to any form of military intervention in the domestic affairs of other nations. Most Republicans, for example, opposed America’s interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo during the 90s, humanitarian operations that involved no clear American interests. While I support both interventions, they are great examples of former Republican military restraint...
...said. “We have a very tall order in trying to defend Dawson and their list of great receivers, headed up by [Corey] Mazza, and a quarterback who can make plays. They have a great arsenal of weapons. I think the best analogy is they are a gun loaded with eight bullets...
...Connecticut judge sentenced map thief E. Forbes Smiley III to five years in prison Friday, ending a saga that began after Yale University librarians found his Exacto knife on the floor of their rare books library—a smoking gun in the 15-month-long case...
Those glimpses of hell have been almost entirely drained of color--just a few yellow flames of mortar and machine-gun fire to guide your unwilling eye to the next fatality. But even in the Stateside scenes, the movie's colors are desaturated, like 60-year-old photos in a memory book...
...deserve any better? Maybe not. But maybe society as a whole does. The nation teetered between sorrow and rage last week after Charles Roberts, a 32-year-old milkman in Pennsylvania's Amish country, committed his incomprehensible murders of five girls in a one-room schoolhouse, before turning his gun on himself. The fury over Roberts' savagery was made worse when he told his wife by cell phone shortly before the killings that he had molested two toddler relatives, both of them girls, when he was 12 and that he had been having dreams lately of committing more such abuses...