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Date: June 28th, 2010

2nd Amendment Victory! Supreme Court rules 2nd Amendment applies to all 50 states.

28 June, 2010 (12:03) | 2nd Amendment, Law, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

I just saw from a couple of sources that the Supreme Court has just ruled in the case of McDonald v. Chicago that the 2nd Amendment protections of Americans’ right to keep and bear arms applies to state and local government action as well as federal. I am walking into an important meeting at the [...]

Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) dies at 92.

28 June, 2010 (08:23) | History, Human Interest, Politics | By: ricjames

The longest-serving member of the US Senate, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, has died. He was 92. Byrd, a Democrat who served in the U.S. Senate since 1959, had been plagued by health problems in recent years and was confined to a wheelchair. He had skipped several votes in Congress in the past months. Jesse [...]