Would John Kerry's stance on judicial confirmations in the Senate come back to haunt his presidency? Read About It: Weekly Standard POSTED: Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Editors and publishers of America's daily newspapers, meeting in annual convention in Washington, D.C., last week, had scheduled a formal session to consider the topic: "Newsroom ethics and standards. . . . .

Anti-gun candidates have now accepted that they must give grudging lip service to the Second Amendment. But they refuse to abandon their broad agenda of pushing incremental, creeping restrictions on our fundamental rights. They are blind to the inconsistency of their rhetoric, and they are hoping to blind you with it as well.

Lawrence J. Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation tries to educate the New York Times' editorial writers. Read About It: New York Times . . . .

Sen. John Kerry is trailing or tied with President Bush in many of the battleground states Democrats won in 2000 and that will likely decide the outcome of this year's elections. Read About It: . . . .

Polling may have convinced Senator Kerry to change his rhetoric, but when he can't even "oppose an outright ban on handguns," the rhetoric is pretty empty, writes John R. Lott. Read About It: . . . .

Gun owners in Hertfordshire, England, could face five years in jail if the Home Office does not adequately publicize a change in gun ownership laws, warns the British Ass'n for Shooting and Conservati . . . .

In announcing NRA news, Executive Vie-President Wayne LaPierre said "The U.S. Supreme Court let Congress rewrite the First Amendment to muzzle our voice during the elections, but we maintain that no . . . .

John Kerry is the Senate's most liberal member. But his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, looks to be even farther left, judging from her charitable giving. Over the years, she has poured nearly $6 million in . . . .

Vice President Dick Cheney portrayed President Bush and himself as champions of the Second Amendment - and Democratic candidate John Kerry as a potential threat to gun owners "John Kerry's approach t . . . .

NRA officials estimated more than 60,000 people flooded the David L. Lawrence Convention Center during the weekend-long convention. Many expressed the same message regarding our Second Amendment Right . . . .

Men and women, young and old, proclaim "I'm the NRA" on posters wrapped around columns outside the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. Read About It: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . . . .

Although the governor's pre-emptive veto threat has hampered the chances for passage of a bill that would correct a constitutional flaw in Missouri`s conceal and carry law, the measure's sponsor on Tu . . . .

With legislation to fix the problem with the state's Right-to-Carry law still pending, at least one more county is preparing to accept permit applications, but others continue to hold off. Read Ab . . . .

The National Rifle Association annual convention, beginning April 16 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, will offer an array of events and activities to an expected 60,000 attendees, the large . . . .

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. held firm on plans to continue with the state's first bear hunt in more than 50 years, despite pressure from three congressmen from Maryland. Ehrlich (R), says he will allo . . . .

Mike Adams writes: "When I joined the NRA, I became part of an organized effort to neutralize the wacky ideas of the anti-gun lobby in America. I also believe that the NRA won the last Presidential el . . . .

State lawmakers will likely pass no new gun legislation this year with less than two weeks remaining in the 2004 General Assembly session. "I think the gun debate died when [Sen. John A. Giannetti, Jr . . . .

On April 1, a Senate committee endorsed a bill attempting to fix a funding flaw identified by the state Supreme Court in Missouri's new Right-to-Carry law. Read About It: Southeast Missouri . . . .

The Senate Judiciary Committee-voting along party lines-approved the nomination of William G. Myers, III to the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, signaling a likely Democratic filibuster on the Senat . . . .

As he campaigns to take the White House, John Kerry claims he respects the Second Amendment. But his 20 years of casting anti-gun votes in the U.S. Senate reveal the truth.

R.L. "Larry" Wilson, the San Francisco author and firearms expert is out with what he says is the first book to tell the whole truth about females' natural, historical, existentially joyful affinity f . . . .

Border inspectors can disassemble and search a vehicle's gas tank for contraband without violating constitutional rights, the Supreme Court said March 30, unanimously overruling a 9th U.S. Circuit Co . . . .

Political bias at the New York Times isn't exactly late-breaking news. But what about political bias in its science reporting? That shouldn't surprise anybody either, especially when the subject of a . . . .