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Police Accountability

I very much thank and admire the agencies who are using the appropriate tools to help prevent officers from breaking the very laws they are sworn to uphold.

(LOS ANGELES) - In California, the Peace Officers Bill of Rights needs to be reviewed and revised. Especially section 3007 and others.

This article by the Orange County Register says it all, "California laws strengthened wall of silence around officers."

How Soon We Forget

Radical, religious extremists are all over the world and are bad for humanity. They use religion to justify bigotry and violence against other people.

(OKINAWA) - When the word radicals and terrorists are mentioned, what is your first thought?

Since the horrific events of 9/11, people of a certain skin tone or religious preference have been stereotyped, profiled, harassed, and pre-judged as being anti-American or terrorist.

Intellectuals and Race: Getting it Wrong from Eugenics to `Social Justice`

Intellectuals and Race" can help bring us back to a serious examination of a question which has not received the empirical examination it deserves.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Intellectual theories, which have largely bypassed complex reality, have had a dramatic influence upon the way Americans view race---and racial differences.

In an important new book, "Intellectuals And Race", tests the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed among intellectuals and which have led to a variety of crusades...

Statement from Chris W. Cox on U.S. Senate Defeat of Manchin-Toomey-Schumer Amendment

We are grateful for the hard work and leadership of those Senators who chose to pursue meaningful solutions to our nation’s most pressing problems.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today, the misguided Manchin-Toomey-Schumer proposal failed in the U.S. Senate.

This amendment would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members to get federal government permission to exercise a fundamental right or face prosecution.

Oregon HB 3467: Are Oregon Lawmakers Really Ready to Throw Out the Baby with the Bathwater?

Open Letter To Publisher on House Bill 3467, the mugshots bill.

(HALLANDALE BEACH, Fl) - To whom it may concern:

I am sure as editors and news professionals for many years you are no doubt all aware of an Oregon Bill that would seek to all but eliminate any meaningful access to what are absolutely every citizens right to know, their collective right to know about arrests.

Heckler`s Veto and Speech Codes Threaten Free Speech at Universities

Now, even a hint of vocal opposition to a speaker seems to be enough to eliminate the possibility of that speaker being heard.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Americans used to frequently quote Voltaire's declaration that, "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

That is no longer the case at too many of our colleges and universities.

BONSHEÁ Making Light of the Dark New Book Release

"I have witnessed ongoing suppression, control and violence perpetrated by organized patriarchal religion and our judicial system. Our judicial system needs "our voice" so that injustices that others and I have suffered will not continue to occur." - Coral Anika Theill

(SALEM) - Salem-News.com is pleased to announce the publication of Coral Anika Theill’s updated and revised 2013 Memoir: BONSHEÁ Making Light of the Dark.

Coral has written extensively about her traumatic marriage and the injustice of Oregon's judicial system that stripped her rights as a mother.

SB13-013: Federal Agents Can Double as Local Cops in Colorado?

Feds get more power as state's governor signs progressive gun control legislation.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - A new bill gives a special agent, uniform division officer, physical security technician, physical security specialist, or special officer of the United States secret service limited peace officer authority while working in Colorado.

The tension surrounding the notion of regulating firearms is leading to new, unexpected federal involvement in local authority. Desperation is showing on all fronts in this fight. Large numbers of gun owners refuse to accept the idea of any type of gun regulation, and anti-gun proponents are willing to showcase national tragedy in an attempt to change firearm laws.

World Views of America

It wasn't very long ago when the world view of the United States was one of a country that represented justice, democracy, freedom and moral accountability, even if only in the minds of the naive. --Bernie Suarez

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Terms like justice, democracy, freedom and moral accountability are generalized with varied meanings.

They also mean something different for those who want to live in America.

$12M Invested in Background Checks

Mayors Against Illegal Guns are buying $12M in TV ads that feature a gun owner who understands that supporting background checks goes hand in hand with defending the Second Amendment - and his family.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Now that assault weapons are secure from efforts to ban them, background checks are still alive as an example of the “incremental” theory of liberal politics.

I doubt they will achieve what the anti-gun movement is after but it’s a test of what really big money can do for a liberal cause.