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Thomas Jefferson and "The Blood of Tyrants"

Josh Horwitz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Second Amendment, Gun Violence, Militia, Timothy McVeigh, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Gun Control, Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Constitution, Constitution, Home News
Josh Horwitz

Those who hold the belief that the 2nd Amendment gives them an individual right to take violent action have isolated Jefferson's "tree of liberty" quote in order to justify a radical ideology.

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Officials See Rise In Militia Groups Across US

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Militia, Militia Groups, Militias, Southern Law Poverty Center, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Militia groups with gripes against the government are regrouping across the country and could grow rapidly, according to an organiz...

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Fox News' Militia Media: Mainstreaming The Fringe

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Obama, Glenn Beck, Clinton Chronicles, Militia, Militia Media, Right Wing Media, Media News
Eric Boehlert

What Fox News is doing today is embracing the same kind of hate rhetoric and doomsday conspiratorial talk that flourished during the '90s, and dumping all that rancid stuff into the mainstream.

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My Family's Experience in the Militia

Brandon Friedman | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Taxation, Michelle Malkin, Tax Day Tea Party, Militia, Taxation Without Representation, Tea Parties, Politics News
Brandon Friedman

Enjoy this week, Tea Partiers. It costs you nothing. Your right to dismiss the American form of government has been paid in full by others who you clearly don't appreciate.

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Glenn Beck And The Rise of Fox News' Militia Media

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Judge Napolitano, FEMA Camps, Fox News, Stephen Colbert, Glenn Beck, Militia, Rampage Nation, Alex Jones, Poplawki, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Fox News has waded into a territory that no other national news organization has ever dared to exploit.

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Can We Negotiate With the Taliban?

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.18.2009 | World

Read More: NATO Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Mullah Omar, United Nations, Insurgents Afghanistan Us Troops, Afghanistan War, Hamid Karzai, Militia, Afghanistan, Taliban Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sharia Law, Negotiating With Taliban, World News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

As each day brings bleaker news for Afghanistan, the possibility of talking with the Taliban seems to be gaining support as an essential step out of the quagmire.

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A Nation Clinging to Guns

Stephen Herrington | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Transition, Bill Clinton, Amendments, Militia, Obama Gun Control, Firearms, Gun Control, Guns, Obama Guns, Politics News
Stephen Herrington

Why exactly do we need firearms? A gun will not insure that you do not lose your job to an international merger or international competition. A gun will not get you a raise.

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"America's Secret War" - Current's "Vanguard" Special Report

Current TV’s “Vanguard” | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Darren Foster, Militia, Cia, Pjak, Vanguard, War, Robert Baer, Iraq, Current TV, Guerrilla, Mariana Van Zeller, Proxy, Current.com, Komala, Politics News
Current TV’s “Vanguard”

There's been a lot of talk about whether the U.S. and Iran are going to war. The real question is whether the U.S. and Iran are already at war... ...

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Scalia's Choice: More Deaths to Defend the Constitution

Sandy Goodman | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rights, Supreme Court, Scalia, Bill of Rights, Militia, Weapons, Guns, Self-Defense, Second Amendment, National Rifle Association, Constitution, Akhil Reed Amar, Aclu, Goldberg, Amendments, Levinson, Breyer, Tribe, Kinsley, Kaus, Wittes, Supreme Court Guns, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

Congratulations, Justice Scalia! Now we can all look forward to years of arguing over just exactly when, where and how the right to have guns in the home applies.

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The Second Amendment: An Irrelevant Relic

Joe Lauria | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Second Amendment, Sam Adams, Militia, Arms, Handguns, Britain, Politics News
Joe Lauria

The United States today has the largest standing armed forces ever assembled. The militias are now called the standing National Guard.

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