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That would explain one of the biggest mysteries about the massacre: Where the gunman was and what he did during that two-hour window between the first burst of gunfire at a high-rise dorm, and the second attack, at a classroom building...
...rights certainly can't be happy that the Supreme Court upheld the federal law banning so-called partial birth abortions, but the decision does offer them a silver lining: an implicit message that may bode well for the future of Roe v. Wade, as well as two ways to attack the specific law again...
...second way to attack the law happens to emerge from Thomas' concurring opinion, which also mentions the issue of "whether the Act constitutes a permissible exercise of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause." In other words, even as he supports the intact D& E law, Thomas wonders whether Congress actually can pass such a national ban on an abortion procedure, or whether that's a power reserved exclusively to the states. The issue wasn't raised in this case, but the implication is that the court might strike down the intact law as beyond Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce...
...Columbine killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were "martyrs." In a video Cho sent to NBC on Monday, the day he shot 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech before taking his own life, Cho glorified Klebold and Harris, leaving many to wonder if Cho was mimicking the attack at the Littleton, Colo., high school, which occurred eight years ago Friday...
...Minister Shinzo Abe, who has called upon Japan to revise its pacifist constitution, the country has taken a turn to the right, and political intimidation by fringe rightist groups isn't unknown. In August the house of senior legislator Koichi Kato was burned to the ground in an arson attack, in what was taken as a warning against Kato's outspoken liberal views. It remains to be seen whether Itoh's shooting was another political warning, or just a personal grudge...