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Under Maddox's proposed law, the penalty for selling tobacco products to under-age persons would increase from $50 to a fine of between...
Copley's origins were humble. Born in 1738, he was raised by his widowed Irish mother, who sold tobacco in a dockside shop; his education was sparse. Beyond that, 18th century Boston presented him with special difficulties in becoming a painter--obstacles that are almost unimaginable today. Boston had no drawing schools or art collections; a cabinetmaker there could see first-class examples of English furniture, which the elite of Massachusetts bought in quantity, but no budding artist could lay eyes on an original work by Sir Joshua Reynolds, let alone by Rembrandt or Raphael. With luck he could...
First of all, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) should no longer exist. These were the "professionals" who decided to surround the cabin with armed agents for nothing more than a failure to appear in court. These are also the people who showed little restraint in Waco...
...this agency just another branch of the FBI? Why do we need a separate law enforcement agency for alcohol, tobacco and firearms in the first place? Who oversees this group and why do they consistently make horrendous mistakes...
John Magaw, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, has backed off comments that the FBI bungled the 1993 standoff in Waco. Monday, Magaw said: "I believe that had we been left in charge of the Waco incident, we would not have burned that building." Tuesday, after a talking-to by Janet Reno and FBI director Louis Freeh: "I need to make perfectly clear David Koresh, not Attorney General Reno or the FBI, was responsible for the fire...