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...opportunity to reevaluate its current party base. He has courageously condemned the leaders of the religious right and their pernicious influence, particularly in the form of religious litmus tests. Although we are far from comfortable with many McCain's socially conservative positions--such as his stances on abortion and gun control--McCain's commitment to campaign finance reform and willingness to depart from party leadership throws a certain weight behind his self-proclaimed status as a reformer...
...Senator lost no time christening his new McCain Majority and taking it out for a drive. McCain doesn't think he has to outflank Bush on the right; he just has to seem acceptably pro-life and pro-gun and anti-Big Government. In an ad taped last week he announced that he was a "proud Reagan Republican" who was looking forward to tearing up the "44,000-page tax code." And in private, members of the McCain team said they planned to spend more than Bush on ads in New York, California and Ohio...
...islets in the East River, isolated from every borough but having the freedom of the city to search, frisk and arrest. It had been tremendously successful. Though making up less than 2% of the police force, the SCU accounted for more than 20% of the city's gun arrests, reducing the number of weapons by more than 2,000. The murder rate plummeted. But the unit's arrests came at a huge social cost: in 1997 and 1998 it stopped and searched 45,000 men, mostly African Americans and Hispanics, in order to make slightly more than 9,000 arrests...
...three Illinois Republicans slugging it out for the GOP nomination for the House seat held by Democrat Lane Evans is using high-caliber weapons to secure his spot on the ballot. Michael Curtiss, M.D., a general practitioner from western Illinois, raised about $50,000 in funds by raffling guns on the Internet. Currently up for grabs is a .50-cal. rifle that Democratic Chicago representative Rod Blagojevich is trying to ban - the ArmaLite AR-50. Curtiss snidely refers to it as the "Blagojevich Special." At least 1,000 tickets at $20 a pop have been sold. Curtiss insists that...
...through the House," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "And if it doesn't pass, Clinton will beat the Republicans over the head with their failure in the fall." Clinton has grabbed this opportunity with a renewed sense of purpose; he has been talking a blue streak on gun control this week, playing to the general sense of horror over the latest gun-related violence. The President told an audience earlier this week that the rate of accidental gun deaths among American children is nine times higher than in the world's 25 other largest countries combined. While opponents...