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...point across, and picked up my birth control at CVS by the end of the day. But despite the false accusation leveled at my uterus, it was admittedly easy for me to rightfully obtain what I needed. In fact, most of my health needs are met easily for a simple reason, but one that is often overlooked in politics: I’m not poor. And in looking at the liberal overreaction to last week’s Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart, it is striking to me that so-called progressives so easily forget the disparity...
...regulations are correctly enforced. Gun control laws that states misinterpret or ignore do little to make America safer. But federal and state governments need to do more than simply ensure that their laws are in sync. They also must make it more difficult and more time-consuming to obtain a gun in the first place. Buying a gun should not be a convenient process. At the absolute minimum, the federal government should impose a waiting period of at least seven days before a gun can be purchased. The government also should severely limit the quantity of firearms, especially handguns, that...
...family, struggled to eke out an existence on a small income from a second-hand bookshop and rented a bleak, two-room basement apartment in a Seoul neighborhood. Relatives already living in the U.S. invited the Chos to emigrate in 1984, but it took eight long years to obtain proper visas...
...guess, like the budget, the percentage of contractors in the CIA is a well-guarded secret. If it does not already have the authority to obtain that figure, it is one the Senate might...
...Police asked Cho to speak to a counselor from a local mental-health facility; afterward, a magistrate issued a temporary detention order committing Cho to a psychiatric hospital. It's very difficult to obtain such orders; patients must not only be deemed mentally ill but unfit to care for themselves or an immediate danger. Court records show that Cho was not deemed an imminent threat, but it should have been clear by then that he was deeply troubled...