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...ugly bit of politics. McConnell, as head of the GOP's campaign committee, isn't bashful about protecting the system that has served his party so well. Reminding GOP incumbents that powerful groups like the Christian Coalition, the NRA and the National Right To Life Committee all oppose the McCain-Feingold bill, McConnell then dared Mr. and Mrs. America to speak up for themselves. "No one in the history of American politics has ever won or lost a campaign on this issue," he said...
...biggest big-money title fights are in Washington State, where George Soros has put up $335,000 in support of a medical marijuana initiative, while Steve Forbes spent $70,000 against. Also, Bill Gates ($185,000) and the NRA ($2 million) are going head-to-head over handgun safety. Using the Clinton test and totaling up the campaign dollars, we can see that Soros and the NRA have won. What? You thought the voters actually mattered in all of this...
...made two 90-minute trips to suburban Burlington. After riding the subway and a bus--and walking several miles in each direction to a hunting club--he received 20 hours of training in handgun safety and maintenance. He fired some 30 rounds with a shotgun en route to receiving NRA certification...
Moses has been elected vice-president of the National Riffle Association (NRA), and his career move has significantly disrupted my peace of mind. You see, to me Charlton Heston has always been the white-bearded patriarch standing atop Mount Nebo at the end of Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", bellowing sonorously, "proclaim liberty throughout the land!" to Yvonne De Carlo and John Derek. In fact, I've had to endure feeling slightly blasphemous and sacrilegious for most of my life during Passover seders, as Charlton Heston has been the only image my mind has been able to conjure...
Indeed, in an interview with Tim Russert on Sunday's "Meet the Press," Charlton "Moses" Heston came out shooting. Asked repeatedly by Russert why the NRA backed revoking the Brady Bill and was so enthusiastic in foiling the government's attempts to regulate the distribution of semi-automatic and automatic weapons, Heston toed the party line artfully enough to make even the most sanguine gun advocate proud. When confronted with statistics displaying the wide-spread violence and the staggering number of juvenile deaths caused every year by the mismanagement of fire arms, he adopted the Disraeli defense, dismissing statistics...