In The News Archive Absentee ballots unclear in Minn. race - 12/30/2008 The campaigns of Republican incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken wrangled Monday over hundreds of unopened absentee ballots that could still tip Minnesota`s Senate race.  More... Chicago: Mayor Daley to hold anti-gun conference - 12/19/2008 Mayor Richard Daley said today that Chicago will host a "gun conference" next month to look for ways to beef up gun laws and get guns off the streets.  More... NRA appeals Chicago handgun ruling - 12/19/2008 The NRA immediately appealed Shadur's decision, and attorney Stephen Halbrook said the group is confident it will prevail in a higher court.  More... Pennsylvania: Delco gun policy unconstitutional - 12/19/2008 Delaware County was hit with a federal lawsuit yesterday claiming that its policy of refusing to return confiscated firearms unless the owners obtain a court order is unconstitutional.  More... Ohio: NRA helps spike gun license fee hike - 12/18/2008 A fee increase for concealed-carry licenses survived inside House Bill 450 through the entire day Wednesday and even into early Thursday morning. But it's never too late for the National Rifle Associa  More... New Mexico Lawmakers: Homeowners need unfettered self-defense - 12/18/2008 A person who kills or hurts a criminal while defending his or her property should be immune from lawsuits, two Farmington lawmakers say.  More... Despite Ruling, Washington Council Still Attacking the Second Amendment - 12/17/2008 Nearly six months after the Supreme Court put an end to the District of Columbia’s decades-old ban on handgun possession, the City Council here passed a sweeping new ordinance on Tuesday to regulate g  More... Obama's Telling Nominations - 12/16/2008 This nomination [Holder] might also shed light on the kind of policies Obama will pursue. Despite Obama’s new lip service to the Second Amendment, Holder signed onto a brief earlier this year reaffirm  More... Halbrook: On Bill of Rights Day, Imagine the D.C. Gun Law in 1775 - 12/16/2008 Today is the United States´ Bill of Rights Day, but District of Columbia residents are second-class citizens when it comes to the Second Amendment. President-elect Barack Obama certainly does not supp  More... Tulsa lawmaker wants repeal of gun tax - 12/16/2008 Tulsa lawmaker said Tuesday he will file legislation to repeal the sales tax on the purchase of guns or ammunition in Oklahoma. "As Americans, we should not have to pay a tax to exercise our constit  More... New York: Maybe we'd better take this [Ammunition Accountability] bill seriously - 12/12/2008 That's why the fact that the Assembly has bought into a national crusade known as the Ammunition Accountability Act is suddenly a legitimate threat. New York, Pennsylvania and 16 other states have alr  More... Obama’s message of ‘change’ may include gun rights - 12/11/2008 Our rights to enjoy the outdoor hunting experience may be changing, friends. With the final coat of post-season gun oil on all metal parts and firearms returned to secured safe places and storage cabi  More... Corrupt and longtime anti-gun Governor of Illinois forced to turn in Firearm Owner’s ID card - 12/10/2008 He was released on a signature bond that specifies that he'll forfeit $4,500 bond if he doesn't appear in court. Blagojevich also was ordered to relinquish his passport and his firearm owner's identif  More... Ill. Gov. Blagojevich arrested on federal charges - 12/9/2008 Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich sought to sell for cash or favors the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama, federal authorities said Tuesday.  More... Gun groups don’t trust president-elect - 12/9/2008 Gun groups say they are “prepared to fight” the incoming administration on the issues dear to them despite President-elect Obama’s insistence that lawful gun owners “have nothing to fear” from him.  More... New rule lifts ban on firearms in national parks - 12/6/2008 People will soon be able to carry concealed, loaded guns in most national parks and wildlife refuges. The Bush administration said Friday it is overturning a 25-year-old federal rule that severe  More... Interior Announces Final Firearms Policy Update - 12/5/2008 Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Lyle Laverty today announced that the Department of the Interior has finalized updated regulations governing the possession of firea  More... Republican Chambliss Wins Georgia Runoff - 12/3/2008 Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) easily won reelection Tuesday night, trouncing his Democratic challenger in a runoff and thereby ensuring that the GOP will retain the ability to filibuster bills in the S  More... Florida's Martinez Says He Will Retire in 2010 - 12/3/2008 Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) said yesterday that he will retire in 2010 after a single term in office, a decision that is sure to set off a competitive and costly race to replace him and that improves D  More... Field & Stream: The Governator Reprises His Role as a Villain - 11/25/2008 Field & Stream has named California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the winner of the 2008 Heroes & Villains Face-Off -- as a villain.  More... Democrats buying more guns? - 11/25/2008 Local gun shop owners report that not only are their customers getting golder but their party affiliations are changing. According to gun shop owners, Democrats buying guns are on the rise.  More... Eric Holder Was a Gun Control Nightmare - 11/24/2008 Barack Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder for attorney general will not sit well with advocates of Second Amendment rights — Holder has consistently championed stronger gun-control measures.  More... Gun rights take center stage at Chambliss rally in Perry - 11/20/2008 Describing the stark descent into heavy gun regulation that they say Barack Obama’s presidential administration will seek, National Rifle Association officials came to town Wednesday and backed U.S. S  More... NRA backs Chambliss in U.S. Senate runoff - 11/19/2008 The National Rifle Association on Wednesday threw its support behind incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss in Georgia’s Dec. 2 runoff. “We’re going to have some real battles in Washington,” W  More... Shocker: Obama's Attorney General Pick Is A Gun-Grabber - 11/19/2008 During his campaign for the Presidency, Obama said “I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.” He was right. His pick for Attorney General tells us that he doesn’t intend to take away our guns.  More... Winnetka Repeals Handgun Ban - 11/19/2008 The council voted 6-0 to repeal the ban which would mean handguns in homes would now be permitted but firing guns and gun sales would stay illegal. The lawsuit was filed in response to a U.S. Supreme  More... Obama discriminates – against gun owners - 11/18/2008 In examining the first document created by President-elect Barack Obama, the "White House Personnel Data Questionnaire" – which is a model that can used by all agencies of the federal government – he  More... NRA chief says gun owners must be vigilant - 11/18/2008 Historic victories for gun rights occurred in 2008, but the fight for firearm freedoms must continue to preserve the Second Amendment, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierr  More... Suburban Gun Ban Under Fire - 11/18/2008 Winnetka officials could decide to amend the city's ban on handguns at a town meeting tonight. In September, three Winnetka residents and the National Rifle Association sued the village, stating that  More... Gun Rights Activists Take Issue With Gun Inquiry on Obama Administration Questionnaire - 11/17/2008 Question 59 on the Obama Transition Team's intrusive and extensive list of questions for potential officials of the Obama administration: "Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun? If  More... Gun-rights group bristles at query on Barack Obama's job-application questionnaire - 11/17/2008 A 63-item questionnaire for prospective members of Barack Obama's White House team has upset the Illinois State Rifle Association because it includes a question on firearms that the organization reads  More... Gun sales surge after Obama presidential victory - 11/17/2008 Fears that President-elect Barack Obama and a Democrat-controlled Congress will strip away Second Amendment rights has customers lining up at gun shops all over the country, and in the Kanawha Valley.  More... Obama election triggers 82% jump in state handgun sales - 11/17/2008 Handgun purchases in Wisconsin skyrocketed 82% in the days before and after Barack Obama's election as president compared with the same 13 days in November last year, figures on state background check  More... Gun Owners not Welcome on Obama's White House Team - 11/14/2008 In yet another example of hostility towards lawful firearm owners, the Obama transition team is weeding out applicants for White House positions who own firearms themselves, or who come from firearm o  More... City to consider gun law - 11/14/2008 A proposal to require that gun owners report lost or missing firearms within 72 hours will be introduced to the York City Council next week.  More... NRA jumps in for Coleman - 11/13/2008 One of the more important U.S. Senate races in the nation is headed to a recount. In this race, the choice for gun owners could not be clearer, as U.S. Senator Norm Coleman is a true friend of the Sec  More... Campaign finance on trial, again - 11/13/2008 The Republican National Committee's decision to file suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, is a clear signa  More... Gun dealers report big business after Obama election - 11/12/2008 Faster than a speeding bullet, rifles and handguns have been flying off the shelves here and across the country since Barack Obama won the presidential election.   More... Firearms Industry Addresses Rising Gun Sales - 11/12/2008 As firearm sales continue to increase this year, at a rate of 10 percent over the same period last year and 15 percent in October alone, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- the trade ass  More... Report: '08 turnout same as or only slightly higher than '04 - 11/7/2008 A new report from American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate concludes that voter turnout in Tuesday’s election was the same in percentage terms as it was four years ago —  More... Obama's record on firearms triggers run on sales in state - 11/6/2008 Gun-shop owners and buyers said the urgency was fueled by Barack Obama's presidential win and Democrats' increasing their majority in Congress. "I'm here because of Obama," Wickham said. "I thin  More... Oklahoma voters approve 4 state questions - 11/5/2008 Oklahoma voters constitutionally secured their right to hunt and fish by overwhelmingly approving state questions in Tuesday`s general election.  More... Votes vary on concealed weapons referendums - 11/5/2008 Voters in three central Illinois counties expressed mixed opinions on the potential for a law that would allow citizens to carry concealed firearms.  More... It was guns, not race, that affected Bradley - 11/5/2008 Nelson Rising, chairman of Tom Bradley’s 1982 campaign for California governor, still remembers the phone call. Bradley called him shortly after 4 a.m. on a long Election Night, when it was clear Brad  More... Palin rallies supporters in Ohio, Missouri - 11/4/2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin offered optimism to a boisterous crowd in an Ohio Democratic stronghold and pepped up a huge rally in conservative central Missouri on an election ev  More... UN members give go-ahead on proposal to curb arms - 11/3/2008 The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly endorsed the idea of an unprecedented treaty regulating the global arms trade Friday, despite opposition from the United States. Opposition that could end if B  More... Obama factor cited as gun permits increase - 11/3/2008 New concealed-weapon permit applications in South Carolina increased nearly 55 percent through the end of August, compared with the same period last year.  More... State agency says concealed weapons sales up - 11/3/2008 Attribute it to the economy, the political landscape or a combination of both. While Floridians are scaling back their wish lists in response to present uncertainty, they’re not skimping on one produc  More... Barack Obama on Concealed Carry - 10/31/2008 More... COX: Obama and guns - 10/31/2008 In speech after speech, Barack Obama has claimed he would "uphold the Second Amendment." Mr. Obama, of course, is a polished speaker who says "words matter." But records matter more. And while Mr. Oba  More... The Second Amendment Shuffle - 10/31/2008 Like a majority of the justices in that case, Obama now affirms that the right to bear arms applies to individuals. Yet those head fakes toward the political center remain unconvincing. Obama still le  More... Obama, Biden target our guns - 10/31/2008 There`s an old saying, "If George Washington never told a lie, how did he get to be president?" In the upcoming election, Sen. Obama keeps saying he`s in favor of the Second Amendment that protects ou  More... Sticking to their guns - 10/31/2008 The prevailing sentiment among hunters in Sussex County is that Obama — or for that matter, Shulman — would seek to limit the sale of guns. "I don`t like him because of his stance on guns," said Tom F  More... Rifle company executive ousted after announcing Obama support - 10/30/2008 Montana gunsmith Dan Cooper has been ousted as chief executive of the rifle company that bears his name after pressure from gun owners who are angry that he is supporting Democrat Barack Obama.  More... Obama Judges - 10/30/2008 The issue of judicial philosophy has been mostly overlooked in this campaign, but the differences between the two candidates are stark: Obama has the most left-wing position of any presidential candid  More... Gun owners fret Obama White House - 10/30/2008 The nation`s gun owners have the presidential election in their sights. Some are up at arms about the prospect of future gun legislation should Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama win th  More... Gunning for Victory - 10/30/2008 In a very tough election climate for Republicans, the good news is that the gun issue is increasingly non-partisan. We can see this every day in the Senate, where Democratic Senate Majority Leader Har  More... Gun Sales Soar, Handgun Permits Rise - 10/30/2008 Gun stores are doing big business these days despite the sluggish economy. Sales may be slow for some retailers but there are two reasons why the registers have been ringing at gun stores.  More... Opposing Views: What Do Guns Mean to Americans? The NRA vs. the Brady Campaign - 10/29/2008 Americans revere their Constitution but they can vehemently disagree on how to interpret specific passages. The 2nd Amendment is a prime example of how individual rights, self-defense, violence and Am  More... Obama and the Supreme Court - 10/29/2008 If America’s citizens care to wake up and pay attention before they elect as president a sweet-talking, moderate-posing left-wing ideologue with a history of alliances with anti-American radicals, one  More... Chuck Norris: Thugs can look down barrel of my gun - 10/29/2008 World martial arts champion, longtime television and movie star and WND columnist Chuck Norris is working with the National Rifle Association`s Political Victory Fund to ask voters to remember that th  More... NRA buys election ad on newspaper bags - 10/29/2008 The day before the election, seven newspapers in Kentucky and Indiana will arrive in plastic bags with a message from the National Rifle Association to vote against Democrat Barack Obama.  More... McCain for president - 10/28/2008 On balance, Mr. Obama represents a radical break with laws and policies of the past 50 years. Mr. McCain has the experience and judgment to lead America through economic turmoil and to safeguard this  More... The Audacity of Deceit - 10/28/2008 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Brad O`Leary, former President of the American Association of Political Consultants. During his ten year career as a talk show host on NBC/ Westwood One, he had tw  More... The NRA vs. Obama - 10/28/2008 With the 2008 presidential election upon us, the National Rifle Association is making their case against Barack Obama. They unflinchingly describe him as “the most anti-gun presidential candidate in A  More... NRA goes up with its own "closing argument" - 10/28/2008 The NRA is going up in 10 battleground states with an featuring a tough-talking Chuck Norris touting the Second Amendment and warning against those unnamed politicians who have not supported gun right  More... Galvanizing the gun vote - 10/27/2008 The National Rifle Association is pouring money and manpower into Nevada — the state’s 3rd Congressional District in particular — in hopes of defeating Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and  More... Gun rights cause a flare-up between candidates in Minnesota Senate debate - 10/27/2008 Anti-gun Al Franken suggested he and Republican Sen. Norm Coleman agree on gun rights. “I support the 2nd Amendment,” Franken said. “I don’t think we’re any different on this.” Coleman sho  More... Obama's gun record - 10/27/2008 Barack Obama's high-profile surrogates are asking gun owners and hunters to trust Sen. Obama with their guns. But he has not earned that trust.   More... Gun Sales Thriving In Uncertain Times - 10/27/2008 Americans have cut back on buying cars, furniture and clothes in a tough economy, but there's one consumer item that's still enjoying healthy sales: guns. Purchases of firearms and ammunition have ris  More... Barack Obama, False Moderate - 10/24/2008 The only two Democrats who have won in the past 10 presidential elections were moderates from the South. This datum made the nomination of Barack Obama — a liberal from the South Side, not the South —  More... GOP Knocks Va. Democrats` Registrations - 10/24/2008 Virginia Republicans opened up two fronts in the increasingly testy battle over the voting process Thursday by accusing Gov. Timothy M. Kaine of stacking the registration rolls with felons and raising  More... Obscure law could endanger military ballots statewide - 10/24/2008 An obscure state law and an ambiguous federal ballot form are combining to invalidate some of the thousands of absentee votes being cast this fall by Virginians overseas, most of them in the military.  More... Obama faces struggle wooing working-class voters - 10/24/2008 President Barack Hussein Obama -- the very thought makes Lynn Dearfield wince. As she stands inside the local Republican Party headquarters, pinning a McCain-Palin button on her blouse, the 45-year-ol  More... Pittsburgh offers illegal gun bill - 10/24/2008 The city of Pittsburgh is following the poor example of Philadelphia by passing illegal city gun ordinances.  More... Where’s Obama on gun rights? - 10/23/2008 Democrats have kept the issue of guns out of the presidential campaign. Guns have barely been mentioned, with the exception of Barack Obama`s gaffe about rubes clinging to Bibles and guns. Quietly, on  More... Voters` Voices: Gun control or out of control? - 10/23/2008 The debate surrounding the Second Amendment is making a comeback as Election Day nears and voters at McBride`s Guns in Austin were passionate about their guns.  More... Outdoor Channel Partners With Congressional Sportmen`s Foundation for Voting Campaign - 10/23/2008 Outdoor Channel, America’s Leader in Outdoor TV, has partnered with the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) to encourage outdoorsmen to vote in the upcoming 2008 presidential election. The on-a  More... Measure promotes right to hunt, fish - 10/23/2008 Senate Republican leader Glenn Coffee of Oklahoma City believes hunting and fishing are important parts of Oklahoma`s heritage. In sponsoring State Question 742, he said he thought it was time to make  More... NRA to Keep Firing at Obama in Battleground States - 10/22/2008 In battleground states Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin, the National Rifle Association will be taking aim at Sen. Barack Oba  More... McCain Seeks Pa. Victory Despite Trailing in Polls - 10/22/2008 John McCain is holding three rallies in Pennsylvania, where he trails Barack Obama by double digits, according to some polls.  More... NRA vs. Obama on self-defense - 10/21/2008 The lurid latest from the NRA attacks Obama for a 2004 Senate vote against a bill that would get the owners of unregistered guns off the hook if they were found to have used the gun in self-defense.   More... Obama's Personality Pendulum - 10/21/2008 Obama will not lose his bid for the presidency because of his connections to Ayers, ACORN or socialist politics. In fact, he won't lose it because of his stand on any issue. The coup de grace for Obam  More... Opponents of gun rights back Obama for president - 10/21/2008 Barack Obama and Joe Biden won the endorsement Monday of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. As an Illinois state lawmaker, Obama supported a ban on all forms of semiautomatic weapons and tigh  More... Lots of Joes drawn to Palin - 10/21/2008 It is not unusual for fans of Sarah Palin to shout out to the Alaska governor during her stump speeches. It is noteworthy the crowds are heavily male.  More... Meat donated to needy - 10/21/2008 Just in time for hunting season, Lafayette area hunters and sportsmen cleaned out their freezers and donated game and fish to support the Hunters for Hungry food drive.  More... NRA has anti-gun Obama in its sights - 10/20/2008 The National Rifle Association is spending more than $10 million to keep Barack Obama from occupying the White House.  More... Todd Palin rouses hunters, gun enthusiasts - 10/20/2008 Todd Palin didn't speak long during a quick stop in Allegheny County on Saturday, but the husband of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said enough to rouse loud cheers at a rally of fellow hunte  More... Next president will shape Supreme Court - 10/20/2008 One of the most momentous and least-discussed topics in the presidential campaign is the likely departure in the next four years of as many as three of the more liberal justices on a closely divided U  More... `Joe the Plumber` strikes back at media - 10/20/2008 "Joe the Plumber" is lashing out at the media for analyzing his personal life since he suddenly became a focal point of the presidential race last week. "You know, when you can`t ask a question of you  More... Gun Law Update: Brady Backs Barack - 10/17/2008 Now that Barack Obama has received the endorsement of the Brady Campaign gun-control group, will the Supreme Court’s findings in the D.C. gun-ban “Heller” case matter?  More... Todd Palin talks the Second Amendment in Minnesota - 10/17/2008 Saying the right to bear arms "isn`t just another amendment," the husband of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin angled for the votes of Minnesota sportsmen Thursday and tried to stoke  More... Palin Makes Pitch to Independents - 10/16/2008 Sen. John McCain`s campaign is testing the popularity of his running mate, Sarah Palin, in battleground territories of key states, a shift from her previous charge of rallying the base in conservative  More... Judicial appointments: A president’s most enduring impact - 10/15/2008 Last week the U.S. Supreme Court began its new term. It was a reminder that the next president’s most enduring impact may well be his judicial appointments.  More... Open Letter to Nation's Sportsmen Regarding Obama's History in the Illinois Senate - 10/15/2008 The following is the text of an open letter to the nation's hunters and sportsmen issued today by Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson.  More... Gun rights an election issue for number of Alaskans - 10/15/2008 With the Nov. 4 election fast approaching, Alaskans are taking a close look at where the major-party presidential contenders stand on gun control and Second Amendment rights.  More... Taking aim at Obama's stance on gun control - 10/14/2008 Barack Obama says he supports the right to bear arms. The record says otherwise.  More... Phrase Not Found - 10/14/2008 Tomorrow night, John McCain and Barack Obama debate for the last time. After two presidential debates and one vice presidential debate, what is left for moderator Bob Schieffer to ask? Plenty.  More... In VA, Palin Knocks Obama For Opposing Gun Rights - 10/14/2008 Gov. Sarah Palin added a line attacking her opponent for opposing gun rights Monday, while crooner Hank Williams, Jr., changed the lines of his song to fit the political event.  More... McCain set for final Obama clash - 10/13/2008 Republican presidential hopeful John McCain reined in personal attacks on rival Barack Obama over the weekend but vowed to crush him when they clash in their final debate on Wednesday.  More... The Coming Obama Thugocracy - 10/11/2008 "I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors," Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. "I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republi  More... McCain introduces Obama crime record as issue - 10/10/2008 During his tenure in the Illinois State Senate, Obama supported a number of pieces of gun-control legislation including limits on handgun purchases and a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons. Obama al  More... Questions of Character - 10/10/2008 "Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright," writes Charles Krauthammer. "It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack  More... Not Over Yet - 10/10/2008 McCain still has it within his own power to win the election. Obama’s view of America is mostly rosy emulation of the European Union; McCain’s is to restore fiscal sanity, keep our defenses strong, an  More... McCain hammers away at Obama`s Ayers connection - 10/10/2008 John McCain yesterday ramped up his attempts to tar Barack Obama for his association with William Ayers, who along with his wife led a radical group that bombed government buildings in the early 1970s  More... NRA-PVF endorses McCain - 10/9/2008 The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain despite differences with the Arizona senator on gun-show rules and campaign finance restrictions. NRA Exec  More... Obama Campaign Unlawfully Misuses Proprietary Firearms Industry Media List - 10/9/2008 The Obama campaign in Indiana, on September 27, unlawfully obtained and made unauthorized use of a proprietary media list belonging to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the trade associ  More... NRA & Obama Exchange Fire - 10/9/2008 The National Rifle Association is intensifying it`s anti-Barack Obama media campaign, launching an additional TV spot -- including a Spanish-language version -- in several news battleground states. Bu  More... NRA ad uses Clinton`s words against Obama on guns - 10/9/2008 The National Rifle Association is turning to Hillary Rodham Clinton to bolster its criticism of Barack Obama`s positions on gun issues.  More... Restoring the Second Amendment - 10/8/2008 For nearly 10 years, the case of Nordyke v. King has been winding its way through the California courts. At issue is a 1999 Alameda County ordinance banning the possession of firearms on county-owned  More... Secret dangers about Obama - 10/8/2008 Barack Obama`s secret dangers include: His “common sense” anti-gun policy — which lacks common sense. In spite of his Second Amendment rhetoric, his voting record shows he doesn’t believe we should ha  More... Fact Checking the Fact Checker - 10/7/2008 The Post's Sept. 24 "Fact Checker" on NRA advertisements about Sen. Barack Obama's gun record itself disregarded the facts ["NRA Ads Are Off Target About Obama and Guns"].  More... The radical Obama and Biden - 10/7/2008 The non-partisan National Journal scores senators each year on the totality of their economic, defense and foreign policy votes to rate how “liberal” they are. Sen. Barack Obama has the highest score  More... Obama and the Attempt to Destroy the Second Amendment - 10/7/2008 As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama must demonstrate executive experience, but he remains strangely silent about his eight years (1994-2002) as a director of the Joyce Foundation, a billion doll  More... RNC to file FEC report against Obama - 10/6/2008 The Republican National Committee accused Barack Obama’s presidential campaign of flouting campaign finance laws and called for an audit of the Democrat’s fundraising operation. The Republican Nation  More... McCain and the Fact-Checking Fallacy - 10/6/2008 The point of all this is that factchecking reports begin with an analysis of details but end with the factchecker’s opinion of what an ad or speech “implies” or what “impression” it leaves. And that t  More... What effect will Sarah Palin have? - 10/6/2008 Hooks, lines and sinkers dot the walls at Vanasse`s Bait and Tackle shop in Fox Hill, where the over-the-counter chatter hums with the pulse of conservative politics in Hampton Roads. But in Hampton R  More... NRA plans a wider ad assault on Barack Obama in battleground states - 10/3/2008 The National Rifle Assn. is about to turn up the volume on its campaign against Barack Obama, airing more ads taking him to task over his gun record. Starting as early as Sunday, the NRA will be  More... Doggone-it, She Winked! - 10/3/2008 “How long have I been at this?” Alaska governor Sarah Palin asked rhetorically during the first and only vice-presidential debate of the season Thursday night in St. Louis. “Like, five weeks?” From th  More... Kaine restores voting rights to felons - 10/3/2008 Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has granted voting rights to nearly 1,500 felons this year, bumping up the voter rolls ahead of next month's presidential election and putting himself on pace to exceed the rec  More... Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement - 10/2/2008 Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.  More... Obama Pressures Stations to Drop NRA Spot - 10/2/2008 The Obama campaign’s effort to pressure TV stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio to stop airing a National Rifle Association ad is “frightening” and “dangerous,” a campaign finance expert said. “When a ca  More... Debate, Tanked - 10/2/2008 “My dictionary defines “moderator” as “the nonpartisan presiding officer of a town meeting.” On Thursday, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill will serve as moderator for the first and only vice presidential debate.  More... Obama`s Thought Police - 10/2/2008 The Obama campaign is demanding that the Justice Department bring criminal charges against a non-profit advocacy organization and one of its donors because they have the audacity to sponsor a televisi  More... Obama contiues to try to mislead gun owners - 10/1/2008 Sen. Barack Obama is again lying by stating he is “a strong supporter of the Second Amendment” who will not try take Americans’ guns away if elected. But, Obama also said, he is for “some common sense  More... Unlike Clinton, Biden Gets Pass for Saying He Was 'Shot At' in Iraq - 10/1/2008 When Hillary Clinton told a tall tale about "landing under sniper fire" in Bosnia, she was accused of "inflating her war experience" by Barack Obama's campaign -- but the campaign has been silent abou  More... Former Obama Campaign Advisor: “Use common sense to regulate the flow of guns” - 10/1/2008 Radical anti-gun activist and former Obama campaign advisor Michael Pfleger must not have gotten he memo from the Obama Campaign to repeat the mantra that Obama is not anti-gun. Instead, he is talking  More... It's economy with the truth, stupid - 9/30/2008 Just imagine what the sneering left intelligentsia, in the United States and elsewhere, would have said if a Republican vice-presidential candidate had told CBS News that "when the stockmarket crashed  More... MI: Lenawee resident featured in new NRA ad - 9/29/2008 A television advertisement by the National Rifle Association featuring Scott Siefert of Ogden Township is scheduled to begin airing Wednesday in Michigan. In the ad Seifert outlines his support  More... Guard gun rights, McCain says - 9/29/2008 Speaking by satellite from Washington last night, Republican Sen. John McCain told a friendly crowd of hunting and fishing enthusiasts in Columbus that they shouldn`t trust Democrat Barack Obama when  More... Backlash to Obama officials squelching political speech - 9/29/2008 Following legal threats by Missouri state law-enforcement officials supporting Barack Obama against presidential campaign ads that appeared to be false or misleading, Gov. Matt Blunt today likened the  More... Nutty Professor - 9/29/2008 And then there is Barack Obama -- who said earlier this year that poor, rural Americans "cling to" guns like a security blanket. The Democrat seems to have undergone a campaign conversion -- he now cl  More... Gov. Palin brings national attention to hunting - 9/29/2008 Moose have always received a lot of attention in September in Interior Alaska. This year, they went national. Moose haven’t created so many laughs, gaffes and gags since Bullwinkle retired. When Gov.  More... Obama seeks to take down NRA ads, threatens stations - 9/26/2008 The Obama campaign has written radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the National Rifle Association.  More... Obama Campaign Tells TV Stations Not to Run NRA TV Ads - 9/26/2008 In this letter sent this week from to TV station managers from Obama campaign general counsel Bob Bauer, obtained by ABC News, the Obama campaign argues that a TV ad by the National Rifle Association  More... Democratic Congressman Warns Jews, Blacks to Beware of Palin - 9/26/2008 Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings on Wednesday warned two minority groups to beware of Sarah Palin because “anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and black  More... "NRA Loading Up To Take On The Dems" - 9/26/2008 It's open season for the National Rifle Association, which has a spate of new TV, radio and print ads targeting Barack Obama's and Joe Biden's positions on gun rights. In addition to releasing four TV  More... 'Nobody Knows Obama's Record on Guns Better Than I Do,' - 9/25/2008 The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA): "One of the most blatant lies ever to come from a politician's mouth," is how the ISRA is characterizing a recent state  More... Eight Keys to 2008 - 9/25/2008 With the history-making nominations of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin, 2008 is shaping up as the most fascinating election since the 1968 Nixon-Humphrey-Wallace brawl, or possibly the 1912 face-off betw  More... Founding Brothers, What’s behind Obama’s early rise? - 9/25/2008 New evidence strongly suggests that Barack Obama has been less than forthcoming about the role that unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers may have played in choosing him to lead the Chi  More... Fact-Checkers Fall Short in Criticizing NRA's Anti-Obama Ads - 9/24/2008 Joe Biden, campaigning in southwest Virginia, called any notion that Barack Obama wanted to take away people’s guns “malarkey.” Montana's Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer, previously told reporte  More... Revenge of the Bitter Gun Owners - 9/24/2008 Last spring, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to arms, Democrats hoped the decision would neutralize the gun issue. Instead the ruling, by in  More... NRA Begins Push To Tarnish Obama On Guns - 9/24/2008 The defining moment in the National Rifle Association`s eight-figure advertising offensive against Barack Obama takes place about 15 seconds into a new spot. After claiming that Obama supports "a huge  More... FactCheck flubs Obama gun fact check - 9/23/2008 FactCheck’s September 22, 2008, report on the National Rifle Association’s advertising critical claims that the NRA “distorts Obama's position on gun control beyond recognition.” FactCheck itself, tho  More... Fact-Checking FactCheck.Org on Obama and Guns - 9/23/2008 FactCheck.org doesn't think much of the NRA's ads criticizing Obama. They are, sadly, way off base. This is, presumably,one of the reasons why Stuart Taylor Jr. of the National Journal declared he "no  More... Professor: Debates critical in ’08 Analysis - 9/23/2008 The upcoming presidential and vice presidential debates could be the most important and influential ones since the 1980 Jimmy Carter/Ronald Reagan contest, according to a political science professor a  More... Senator Inhofe Urges Speedy Passage of Second Amendment Rights Legislation - 9/23/2008 U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) has joined a bipartisan group of Senators to ensure that the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the DC gun ban is upheld and that DC gun owners` rights are  More... NRA takes aim at Obama in Colorado over firearms record - 9/23/2008 The National Rifle Association began airing a series of TV and radio ads in Colorado on Monday that blast Barack Obama on a variety of “radical” positions the gun-rights group says will take away “our  More... Radical Anti-Hunting Group (Humane Society) Endorses Obama - 9/22/2008 The radical animal "rights", anti-hunting group (HSUS) has endorsed Barack Obama for president.  More... Sen. Hutchison Asks Reid to Bring DC Gun Ban Bill for a Vote - 9/22/2008 U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Texas’s senior Senator, today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) asking that he allow a vote before the end of the 110th Congress on le  More... Gun-toting Texans prefer GOP - 9/22/2008 In a state where lawmakers regularly expand gun rights, few issues more consistently push Texans toward Republicans in national elections.  More... Palin: Obama's Talk “Doesn’t Sound Like The Politics Of Hope” - 9/19/2008 As she continues to sharpen her attacks against her Democratic rivals, Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of not abiding by his campaign’s own mantra. "Now earlier today our opponent told his supporters  More... `Bitter` Campbell Brown Brought to Heel by Lynn Forester de Rothschild - 9/19/2008 It was a beautiful sight to behold. The obviously pro-Obama Campbell Brown snarling throughout an interview at the heels of former Hillary Clinton fundraiser and now McCain supporter, Lynn Forester de  More... Gun control target practice - 9/18/2008 Gun control has suddenly emerged as the toxic issue of the 2008 presidential campaign, endangering Barack Obama`s appeal among Democratic blue-collar and labor union households. The freshman Illinois  More... Saint Obama comes down to earth - 9/18/2008 For the hope-and-change candidate, those natural readjustments now appear insincere and opportunistic - especially given that he had to move so far from the left to get to the middle. On campaign-fina  More... Palin Derangement Syndrome: Obama`s Worst Enemy? - 9/18/2008 There`s a new affliction sweeping the nation, and it`s known as Palin Derangement Syndrome. The phenomenon is similar to Bush Derangement Syndrome, a term coined by political columnist Charles Krautha  More... Top Clinton Fund-Raiser Backs McCain - 9/18/2008 Senator Clinton has pleaded with her supporters to back Senator Obama, but one of her most loyal backers is refusing to follow her lead.  More... Media pummel Palin while Obama gets kid gloves - 9/17/2008 Former top Hillary Clinton adviser Mark Penn says the media obsession with finding skeletons in the closet of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin since virtually the moment she was named the Republican vice presi  More... Palin boosting McCain`s appeal to conservative working-class voters - 9/17/2008 Palin`s greatest gift to McCain so far appears to have been in shoring up support for him among core conservatives. Beyond that, though, Palin is giving McCain an opening with a crucial group of swing  More... Out West, Obama Faces Gun Battle - 9/16/2008 Barack Obama has let slip what he would like to do if he could: "Even if I wanted to take it away, I couldn’t get it done. I don’t have the votes in Congress." Make no mistake about it, the real Barac  More... Gunning for victory risky for Obama - 9/16/2008 This year, Mr. Obama's anti-gun voting record, coupled with that of running mate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, has resurrected the gun issue, and John McCain's campaign sees it as a major wedg  More... McCain Flies His Campaign Past Obama - 9/15/2008 John McCain was trained as a fighter pilot. In his selection of Sarah Palin, and in his convention and campaigning since, he has shown that he learned an important lesson from his fighter pilot days:  More... Obama, McCain backers compete over veterans, gun control - 9/12/2008 The White House race between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain came back to Colorado this week as Democratic veterans credited Obama with supporting broad increases in veteran benefits while Republic  More... In Judging Obama, Question His Judgment - 9/11/2008 “Judgment” has become the byword of the election. Barack Obama has always wanted the election to be about the importance of “good judgment,” not experience. It is difficult to understand Obama’s claim  More... Panel Votes to Back City on Gun Limits - 9/11/2008 A House committee approved a bill yesterday that would allow D.C. officials to write their own gun laws. A tougher bill that would eliminate most D.C. gun regulations probably will be offered as a sub  More... The Supreme Court in the Balance - 9/10/2008 The key to understanding the Presidential election this year is that the two candidates are diametrically opposed on almost every major issue. In probably no other election since the Civil War have th  More... On Economy, McCain Gains Ground on Obama - 9/10/2008 In the Sept. 5-7 USA Today/Gallup poll, 48% of Americans say Barack Obama can better handle the economy, while 45% choose John McCain. This marks a significant gain by McCain; just before the Democrat  More... Liberal, conservative Dems fight over D.C. gun bill - 9/10/2008 Liberal and conservative Democrats are squaring off over a D.C. gun bill designed to satisfy the National Rifle Association (NRA). But it’s a fight some say the liberals are doomed to lose, at least i  More... Udall, Schaffer debate online over 2nd Amendment - 9/10/2008 Colorado’s U.S. Senate candidates, in their first foray into a 21st century debate format, took time to explain their thoughts to Internet savvy voters about an 18th century matter: the Second Amendme  More... McCain, Palin take the fight out West - 9/9/2008 The West may be won this year by one of its own. The appeal of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin with ranchers, hunters and gun owners has lifted the hopes of McCain campaign official  More... NRA supports gun owners` rights, not radicals - 9/9/2008 The American Hunters and Shooters Association is once again trying to confuse hunters into believing two bold lies: that the NRA does not support hunting, and that AHSA and the Sierra Club do.   More... Fraternal Order of Police endorses the GOP ticket - 9/8/2008 The Fraternal Order of Police endorsed the Republican presidential ticket of Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Friday in Detroit. The national organization is meeting in Detroit this wee  More... They're the nine hot spots on nominees' map - 9/8/2008 With less than two months left in the longest presidential campaign in American history, the road to the White House appears to run through fewer than 10 states.  More... Conventional Wisdom Shifting Presidential Race As Republicans Smile - 9/8/2008 There has been a big shift since the Republican convention — a shift in the always all-knowing conventional wisdom comprised of pundits, all-wise left and right partisan pundits on radio talk shows an  More... Gun sales brisk ahead of election - 9/8/2008 Gun sales are going boom around the country as gun owners and gun advocates brace for a potential Democrat in the White House for the first time in almost 10 years. Democrats, meanwhile, mislead by cl  More... “Even if I want to take them away(your guns), I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ - 9/5/2008 “If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it,’’ Obama said. But the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly on the faces of several men at the back of the room. So he tried again. “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ he said.  More... The `Community Organizer`s` New Clothes - 9/5/2008 The community Barack Obama has organized is, in Plouffe`s own telling, the community of those who admire Barack Obama. He is mayor of Obamaville and aspires to be president of Barackistan. At the cent  More... Analysis: Vice president pick, scaled-back convention buoy McCain - 9/5/2008 John McCain hoped his convention would make him the kind of maverick his party would rally around. All it took was a couple of hurricanes: first Gustav, then Sarah.  More... Sarah Palin and Her Discontents - 9/5/2008 There is something ignoble about these elite, affluent, and well-connected observers in smug fashion savaging Palin, when — especially in the case of the sneering power-women — we should all at least  More... Firearms Industry Congratulates Palin on Nomination - 9/5/2008 The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the trade association for the firearms industry – congratulated Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on accepting the Republican nomination for vice president of th  More... Palin May Be NRA's Best Ammo - 9/4/2008 By now, millions of Americans have seen photos of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin testing weapons while visiting members of the Alaska National Guard in Kuwait. But it wouldn't be surprising if  More... Gun Groups, Buoyed by Court Ruling, Are Working for More - 9/4/2008 To maintain momentum gained from the Supreme Court’s ruling in June striking down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban and declaring that the Second Amendment grants individuals a right to own firea  More... Fired-up Palin rocks arena, rips her foes - 9/4/2008 Sarah Palin, the Republicans' surprise choice for vice president, took direct aim at her detractors Wednesday as she reached out to a nation eager to hear her life story.  More... McCain Comes Through - 9/3/2008 Partisan Democrats and many members of the news media consider John McCain`s choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate a terrible mistake. But McCain need not worry about their criticism.  More... Strong Majority of Voters Disagree With Barack Obama on Second Amendment - 9/2/2008 A strong majority of likely voters disagree with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on firearms and self-defense related issues, according to a just-released ATI-News/Zogby poll.  More... Why McCain Still Has a Chance To Win - 9/2/2008 “With Barack Obama already established as a skillful rhetorician, people keep asking me, a former White House speechwriter, about John McCain. Can he say anything -- anything at all -- that might plac  More... Palin provides a striking alternative - 9/2/2008 She hunts. She fishes. She was a beauty queen and star high-school athlete. She is the mother of five and a popular governor, but the thought of having to choose between work and family appears to hav  More... Sarah Palin Brings God And Guns To Republican Ticket - 9/2/2008 Conservative Republican prayers for the November 4 presidential election may have been answered. John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate sends a clear mes  More... Obama's gun ban rhetoric - 8/29/2008 Sen. Barack Obama's campaign just won't let the gun issue rest. Mr. Obama and his campaign surrogates continue to assure gun owners that he is on their side. Yet, despite all the Democratic claims to  More... Democrats Go After Gun Politics - 8/29/2008 Stepping gingerly back into the thicket of gun politics, some Democrats are offering up a few proposals to make them less on the defensive on an issue that many claim cost former Vice President Al Gor  More... Being Obama Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry - 8/29/2008 The conventional wisdom among Republicans is that since America is a center-right country, John McCain, a center-right candidate, can win the presidency simply by stressing Barack Obama’s record as, a  More... Obama’s Friend, America’s Enemy - 8/28/2008 Have you ever been a friend or business associate of a terrorist? Not someone who, to your shock and horror, turned out secretly to have bombed government buildings. No, the question is whether you’ve  More... Obama’s Aim - 8/27/2008 In 2007, Senator Barack Obama stood up for a gun owner. He endorsed Chicago Alderman Dorothy Tillman in her Democratic primary. Not only was she a gun owner, but she had even pulled a gun on her colle  More... Markell outlines plans to restrict gun rights - 8/27/2008 State Treasurer Jack Markell says if he is elected governor, he will do more to keep guns away from criminals, by restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens to purchase guns.  More... Bill proposed to strengthen right to use deadly force against intruders - 8/26/2008 A state lawmaker wants Nevada to adopt a legal doctrine strengthening a homeowner`s right to use deadly force to protect someone`s life from an intruder.  More... Obama's summer of discontent - 8/26/2008 The latest polls ought to alarm Barack Obama. The Illinois senator desperately needs to change the narrative of the last few months - and this week's Democratic convention is a good opportunity. Since  More... Party`s Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table - 8/26/2008 Walk into almost any hotel here this week and you can find an odd sight: Liberal Democrats starting their day by lobbying moderate and conservative Democrats. The lobbyists are members of the Progress  More... In Denver, Deep Doubts About Obama - 8/26/2008 And after two hours of talking, and a pre-convention buildup here in Denver in which Democrats have received lots of positive coverage in this critical swing state, you’d have to say that the news is  More... Yes, Biden Helped Pass the Crime Bill, But ... - 8/25/2008 One of the more surprising twists in the debut of Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s running mate has been the Democrats’ decision to highlight Biden’s work on the 1994 crime bill. The bill with the Clinton  More... Obama: I'm not too liberal for Virginia - 8/22/2008 When a politician has to keep telling people he is “not” something, its time to check the record. In the case of Barack Obama, when he says he is “not” opposed to Second Amendment rights, checking the  More... 76 percent of sportsmen say they prefer to elect a President who hunts or fishes - 8/22/2008 Sportsmen have a solid history of voting, with 9 in 10 currently registered to vote and of those 83 percent say they will vote in the November election, according to a new survey by the Congressional  More... They're Paying Attention Now - 8/22/2008 Why is it a real race now, with John McCain rising in the polls and Barack Obama falling? There are many answers, but here I think is an essential one: The American people have begun paying attention.  More... McCain erases Obama's edge with swing voters - 8/21/2008 Sen. John McCain is having a very good summer, as a trio of new polls show the Republican presidential candidate pulling even with or slightly ahead of rival Sen. Barack Obama and erasing what had bee