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...proponents. By presenting the bill as the single greatest blow to American liberties since the Alien and Sedition Acts, the NRA makes it sound as if the bill's passage was a major advance for gun haters. On the contrary, the bill is only a modest step towards controlling weapon sales...
...doomsday clock, stopped just before midnight as the cold war ended, is still ticking. Rand Corp. study for the U.S. Pentagon warns that the world will accumulate enough plutonium -- the radioactive ingredient used in many nuclear warheads -- to build 87,000 "primitive" bombs by 2003. Weapons dismantled by the U.S. and the former U.S.S.R. will account for 199 tons of the lethal substance. Adding to the problem will be more than 300 tons of plutonium extracted from spent uranium fuel retrieved from nuclear power plants. "Separated plutonium held in inventory," says the report, "could be diverted and reworked to make...
...long-awaited action was passage of the Brady Bill (named for the presidential press secretary who was disabled by gunfire during the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan), which requires handgun purchasers to wait for a background check before taking possession of the weapon. After six years of debate and false starts, the House passed the bill by a vote of 238 to 189. A day earlier, by a 99 to 1 vote, the Senate had made it a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison to sell handguns to minors or for minors to possess them under...
...specific qualities of the current deficit are extended by fiscal conservatives like Tsongas and company to apply to deficit spending in general. They are using it as a political weapon to create a permanent fear of spending. Long after the deficit is reduced, the specter of overspending will haunt national debate. Aggressive, ambitious new spending will always have to contest with the ghost of "intergenerational morality...
Quite the contrary. Mansfield's hate-speech methodology must be seen as a weapon of Nativist Hegemony in both cultural (ideological) terms and regulatory terms, which is to say inevitably I think in quasi-authoritarian or crypto-fascist terms. Keep in mind, in this connection, the Rev. Pat Roberts and Pat Buchanan...