Fear and the Sandy Hook Shootings

From Conservative News Source- nationalreview.com

At the center of the human brain is a tiny almond-shaped organ, known as the amygdala, which triggers deep emotional responses, from fear and worry on the negative side to courage and caring on the positive side. This part of the

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HURT: After a tragedy, Washington thinks of … political gain

From Conservative News Source- washingtontimes.com

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Only in this capital of self-absorbed arrogance do people learn of an incomprehensible slaughter of angelic children huddled in terror and immediately think — well, of themselves. And how they can, in their boundless power and wisdom, fix it so it never happens again. Only in this

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Lib Professor Blames Mass Shootings on “White Male Privilege”

From Conservative News Source- thegatewaypundit.com

Cho Seung-hui, a 23-year-old senior, arrived in the United States as a boy from South Korea in 1992. He murdered 33 fellow students at Virginia Tech in 2007. Lib professor Hugo Schwyzer, who teaches history and gender studies at Pasadena City College, blames mass shootings

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Call for commission on US violence gains traction, as moderate Dems join debate

From Conservative News Source- foxnews.com

The call for a national debate over gun control in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting is being joined by a handful of moderate Democrats typically reluctant to discuss firearms regulation, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle also urge a much broader discussion

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Further defense cuts would gut the military

From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com

As the deadline to deal with defense spending sequestration nears, the opponents of a strong defense  are trying to lull the American people into a false sense of security by downplaying and vastly understating the threats posed to America’s security by Russia, China,

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Act on Mental Illness

From Conservative News Source- nationalreview.com

Newtown is the latest locale in America to become synonymous with senseless slaughter. The shock and the horror are so intense, it almost guarantees that Congress will act. There will inevitably be an enormous brouhaha around guns and ammunition, leading to nothing likely to prevent the next massacre. Democrats are

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2 funerals begin a sad procession in Connecticut

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

A mourner leaves the funeral service of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim, Jack Pinto, 6, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. Pinto was killed when a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Friday and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children.(AP Photo/David Goldman)NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Opening

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Prediction: Fallout of Sandy Hook Shooting Will Affect Mental Health Policies More than Gun Control

From Conservative News Source- reason.com

The political response to Friday’s horrible shooting at the Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut has focused first and foremost on issues related to gun ownership, the Second Amendment, and gun control. As Jacob Sullum noted earlier today, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and

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Pro-NRA Sen. Joe Manchin changes his mind on assault weapons after Newtown Massacre

From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com

West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, a member of the NRA, calls for Congress to move toward restricting assault weapons, saying of the Newtown, Connecticut massacre: “It has changed me.”  

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Scrooges losing war on Christmas

From Conservative News Source- humanevents.com

What is it about Christmas that brings out all the Scrooges? Every December we hear stories about atheists and secularists who have found novel ways to try and banish Christmas from public view. We call it “the war on Christmas.” But if

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Campaign trackers force politicians to watch their words

From Conservative News Source- washingtontimes.com

AUGUSTA, Maine — As Maine’s governor addressed the newly elected Legislature early this month, his frustration with trackers, the video-camera-toting operatives who follow around politicians, boiled over into a brief diatribe that set off the session to a sour start. In a setting usually reserved for rhetoric about

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Porked-up Sandy relief bill storms into Senate

From Conservative News Source- washingtontimes.com

The Senate’s emergency spending bill to cover costs from Hurricane Sandy includes millions of dollars that will never touch the affected Northeast — including money for salmon fisheries in Alaska, cash for an expansion of train service into New York, and funds to preserve and

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Coroner: Conn. gunman shot mom repeatedly in head

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

This 2005 photo provided by neighbor Barbara Frey and verified by Richard Novia, shows Adam Lanza. Authorities have identified Lanza as the gunman who killed his mother at their home and then opened fire Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, inside an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., killing 26 people, including

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Top Criminal Psychologist on Sandy Hook Massacre: “Every One of These Episodes Is Proceeded By Undiagnosed Mental Illness” (Video)

From Conservative News Source- thegatewaypundit.com

Leading criminal psychologist Dr. Alan Lipman offered this assessment of the Sandy Hook killings this morning, “The fact is, the facts are, as in Aurora, as in Arizona, as in Virginia Tech, as in virtually every case the Secret Service studied of these kinds

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Va. gov invokes Tech slayings, offers his prayers

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Saying his state still has painful memories from the mass April 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, the governor extended his sympathies to Connecticut following an elementary school massacre.Gov. Bob McDonnell said his thoughts and prayers are

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Emu Joins Man on Va. Jog, Is Reunited with Owner

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A man in Virginia Beach picked up an unusual jogging partner when an emu began following him.Animal shelter supervisor Wayne Gilbert says Virginia Beach residents contacted the city after the emu showed up Thursday alongside the jogger in the

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Paying for Sandy as ‘cliff’ nears

From Conservative News Source- washingtontimes.com

A $60.4 billion spending bill for Superstorm Sandy relief washed up on Capitol Hill in the middle of the “fiscal cliff” negotiations, forcing Republicans to grapple with whether to demand spending cuts to offset the storm bill or approve the money and clear the decks for

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Virginia takes EPA to court claiming water regulation plan is illegal land takoever

From Conservative News Source- foxnews.com

A heated legal battle between Virginia officials and the Environmental Protection Agency over what EPA critics describe as a land takeover gets its day in federal court Friday.The EPA, citing an abundance of stormwater runoff, has proposed a plan that Virginia officials say would cost them

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Hagel for Defense?

From Conservative News Source- nationalreview.com

Republican Chuck Hagel, a former Nebraska senator, is supposedly on the short list to succeed Secretary Leon Panetta at the Department of Defense, and he is reportedly being vetted by the Obama administration. This should be no surprise: Hagel has been putting himself in position

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Greece, Cyprus to top agenda at eurozone meeting

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

Spain’s Economy Minister Luis de Guindos, left, speaks with Portugal’s Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar during a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. European Union finance ministers on Wednesday sought to agree on the creation of a single supervisor for banks across the 27-

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Families in storm-ravaged New Jersey reportedly would be hit worst in fiscal crisis

From Conservative News Source- foxnews.com

While almost all U.S. taxpayers will feel a financial pinch if Congress and President Obama fail to reach a compromise on the approaching fiscal crisis, families in New Jersey will be hit hardest, according to analysis by the Tax Foundation.A four-person family in

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Next up in union reform: VA legislature to block card-check effort

From Conservative News Source- hotair.com

Accountability and anachronisms. Big Labor had a lot of high hopes when Barack Obama won in 2008.  They expected a raft of friendly legislation to force workplaces to organize, but instead the Obama administration spent their political capital on ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank rather than card-check and

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Boehner, Cantor vow to work through Christmas break to reach fiscal deal

From Conservative News Source- foxnews.com

Republican congressional leaders said Wednesday that President Obama’s most recent proposal to solve the debt crisis lacks a balanced approach of tax cuts and spending reductions but vowed they would stay in Washington during the Christmas holiday break to reach a deal.“We’re going to stay here until

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A. Barton Hinkle on Gun Control, Ad Infinitum

From Conservative News Source- reason.com

Gun control, writes A. Barton Hinkle, is something Americans almost never stop talking about. The trouble—from the liberal perspective—is that the discussion keeps going the wrong way. Despite the horror at Virginia Tech, in Tucson and Aurora and too many other places to list, Americans

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Donate to Reason! So We Can Give You 45 More Years of Crazy, Wonderful, and Epoch-Shifting Libertarian Journalism and Commentary

From Conservative News Source- reason.com

Reason magazine was started in May 1968 by a visionary college student named Lanny Friedlander, a design genius and Objectivist who would go on to become a major editorial inspiration to Louis Rossetto, founder of a little Bay Area tech magazine called Wired. “Logic,

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Unprovoked Racial Attack: 7 Blacks Beat Up 1 White Boy

From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com

A 13-year-old boy is beaten up by 7 black boys in Virginia. This happened back in November… where is the outrage from the race-baiting Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the like? Oh right! I forgot! Whites can’t be victims of racial attacks in their

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Redskins coach Shanahan says RG3 has mild sprain

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III kneels on the ground after an injury during the second half of an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens in Landover, Md., Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan said Monday that Robert

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Senator demands MTV cancel Hillbilly travesty

From Conservative News Source- humanevents.com

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is demanding that MTV cancel its Jersey-Shore-goes-to-Appalachia reality show “Buckwild” calling it an ugly stereotype and an insult to his West Virginia constituents. Manchin called on MTV to “stop

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Fiscal cliff stalemate spurs anxiety in states

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

FILE – This combination of undated 2012 file photos shows, from left, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe; Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. The three governors, who are trying to piece together their own state budgets, are anxiously watching the ongoing stalemate

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Joe Manchin Complains to MTV About New Reality Show Based in West Virginia, Lack of Serious Programming

From Conservative News Source- reason.com

MTV is producing a “Jersey Shore” style reality show based in West Virginia called “Buckwild,” set to premiere in January, ;and West Virginia’s junior senator, Joe Manchin, is not pleased. So displeased was he that he sent MTV’s president a letter. Wrote Manchin: “As a U.

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The Last jump: Chapter 77

From Conservative News Source- humanevents.com

Chapter Seventy-Seven Charleston, South Carolina – June 20, 2007 “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others.” Pericles (495 BC – 429 BC) Macie Vance continued.  “It didn’t help matters any that I sent a letter

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Ashley Judd Mulls Senate Run

From Conservative News Source- nationalreview.com

This Christmas, Kentucky Republicans should ask Santa for an Ashley Judd Senate bid in 2014. The actress — who conspicuously has not ruled out a run, and who issued a statement last month saying she was “very honored” by the consideration —

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Boehner’s Biggest Threat

From Conservative News Source- nationalreview.com

Should a debt deal go sour, the buzz is that Tom Price, a 58-year-old physician from Georgia, may challenge John Boehner for the speaker’s gavel. “Price is the person we’re all watching,” says an aide close to House leadership. “We

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CURL: The ‘fiscal cliff’ getaway call

From Conservative News Source- washingtontimes.com

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Before we get started with the column proper, let’s take a moment to explore the very term itself — “fiscal cliff.” The euphemistic neologism had bounced around in various forms in the past few years — almost always in

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Ohio, Virginia eye proposals for more proportional split of electoral votes

From Conservative News Source- washingtontimes.com

Officials in Virginia and Ohio, once reliably red states that have gone for President Obama in the past two elections, have discussed the idea of apportioning their electoral votes by congressional district — a system some say would more accurately reflect the will of the states’ voters but

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W.Va. senator asks MTV to cancel ‘Buck Wild’ series

From Conservative News Source- washingtontimes.com

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin is asking MTV to cancel the West Virginia-based reality show “Buck Wild” that’s set to air next year. Manchin’s office said Friday that he sent a letter to the president of the network saying

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That Funny Leftist Equation about Voter I.D.

From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com

I know it’s kind of a blase issue now that the 2012 elections are over, but I felt the urge to write on the topic of voter I.D. after seeing a Facebook friend writing something about voter suppression in a status update. For those unfamiliar with the left’s

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AP PHOTOS: Pearl Harbor attack 71 years ago

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

FILE – In this Dec. 7, 1941 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors on a small boat rescue a USS West Virginia crew member from the water after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)The noise of the planes broke the early Sunday morning quiet over

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Sen. Manchin wants MTV to cancel West Virginia-set ‘Buck Wild’

From Conservative News Source- foxnews.com

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin wants MTV to cancel its new series “Buck Wild,” saying the raunchy reality show set in his state plays to “ugly, inaccurate stereotypes.” ;In a letter sent Friday to MTV President Stephen Friedman, Manchin wrote that he was “repulsed”

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