Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since a severely mentally ill man rampaged through Virginia Tech last year, killing 32 people before turning a gun on himself, Congress and several states have been working to tighten rules on who can legally purchase a firearm.
BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | yesterday
and when she brought it home and stood it up, her Sheltie barked and growled at it until she knocked it over and showed him it was two dimensional; he laughed at it and wagged his tail then. I'm pretty sure Richard Burr is a cardboard cutout. Progressive Democrats of North Carolina
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
By Scott Sexton, columnist Hide the women and children. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., supports gun-ownership rights for mentally unstable veterans, such as Charles Whitman, a former Marine who used a high-powered rifle in 1966 to kill 14 from atop a bell tower at the University of Texas. Hard to believe, but that's the implication being shopped by the Violence Policy Center, a Washington lobbying
NewsObserver.com - Business (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Executives from North Carolina-based cigarette maker Lorillard will keep a close eye on Capitol Hill next week as lawmakers consider measures that could threaten sales of its lucrative menthol-flavored brand, Newport.
NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A 10-year study has found more than 6,000 species of plant and animal life previously unidentified in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
death penalty : open access (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Hofstra Law Review. Volume 36, No. 3 (Spring 2008) Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams In Death Penalty Cases: Introduction: Re-Stating the Standard of Practice for Death Penalty Counsel: The Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of...
IOL (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
John McCain's campaign has branded his foe Barack Obama's foreign foray a "political stunt".
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Elizabeth Holmes and Laura Meckler report on the presidential race. As Sen. Barack Obama prepares to visit Iraq to survey the situation on the ground, the McCain campaign is engaging in an internal warof words, that is. After months of calling for the Democratic candidate to visit Iraq John McCain now has to deal with the [...]
The News Buckit (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
They certainly haven't been for wont of material. From the McCain campaign: ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today announced that U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and U.S. Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA), will participate in a press conference to unveil a
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Brad Haynes reports on House races. The GOP challenger to Rep. Heath Shuler suspended his campaign — in protest of his own party. Carl Mumpower dropped all campaign activity against first-term Democrat Shuler in North Carolina's 11th district until Republican Party committees in at least half of the district's 15 counties sign on to his core principles [...]
Red State (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
This morning I talked to Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) about Senator Obama's shifting positions on Iraq. He made a lot of great points worth repeating here. Initially, I asked him what he thought had brought about all of Obama's policy shifts on Iraq. He said, as with all campaigns, Obama built his campaign around certain assumptions and then formed his policy positions from those assumptions. It's...
NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Just 27 percent of North Carolina's likely voters approve of Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, according to a new survey from Public Policy Polling released Monday.
NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Views are not likely to line up with those of its nominee.
2008 Presidential Campaign Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
2008 Platform Committee Launches Interactive Web Site Republicans Across the Country to Actively Participate in Development of Party Platform SAINT PAUL, Minn. - Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Robert M. "Mike" Duncan, Platform Committee Chairman U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy...
Weapons of Mass Discussion (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
This just in...and is rather cool... SAINT PAUL, Minn. - Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Robert M. "Mike" Duncan, Platform Committee Chairman U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.-22) and Platform Committee Co-Chairman U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.) announced the launch of www.GOPPlatform2008.com , the first, entirely web-based initiative that allows voters across the nation to actively...
