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Mamet: Assault Weapons Ban an Appeal to the Ignorant

Click Here: Going after such guns makes some people feel safer because they have slowly, and perhaps unknowingly, traded their independence for a “government knows best” mentality.

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Tom Harkin Won’t Run Again

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Obituaries

David W. Mehaffy, Jr., 80, Burlington, died Wednesday, January 23, 2013

James William Nickell, 73, Middletown, died Friday, January 25, 2013

Frances Doreen Houtz, 77, Burlington, died Friday, January 25, 2013

Jennifer Murray DeWitt, 45, Mediapolis, died Friday, January 25, 2013

Margaret “Maggie” McElhinney, 60, Danville, died Thursday, January 24, 2013

Juanita Carpenter, 53, Burlington, died Saturday, January 19, 2013

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Poll: 65% Would Defy Federal Gun Ban

Click Here: When Pollsters asked, “If the government passed a law to take your guns, would you give up your guns or defy the law and keep your guns?”

65 percent reported they would “defy the  law.”

That incudes 70 percent of Republicans, 68 percent of conservatives, 52 percent of  Democrats and 59 percent of liberals.

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Gun Owners Refuse to Register Under New York Law

Click Here: “After Democrats in New York rammed a sweeping assault on the right to keep and bear arms through the legislature that failed to exempt police officers from the draconian restrictions, gun owners and even some lawmakers are planning what has been dubbed potentially the largest act of civil disobedience in state history.

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Fredrick Lee Powell, 60, of Burlington died Friday, January 25, 2013

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Progressives Layout Plan to Ban All Guns

Click Here: How to Ban Guns: A step by step, long term process

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Communists Cheer Obama’s Gun Grab

Click Here: “The Communist Party USA is on board with President Obama’s plan to attack Americans’ right to keep and bear arms as a means to “end gun violence.” A cardinal feature of communist regimes, like all dictatorships, is the prohibition of private ownership of arms, creating a monopoly of force in the hands of the State.”

obama commie

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84-year-old Woman Stops Late Night Intruder

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Olen T. Richards, 90, Burlington died Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Rose Marie Bragg, 84, Burlington, formerly of Fort Madison died Wednesday, January 23, 2013