Yearly Archive for 2012
Code Pink strikes again — disrupts big NRA press conference (VIDEO)
San Francisco-based Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin has struck again — this time disrupting the highly anticipated National Rifle Association press conference Friday starring NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre. It was an embarrassing moment for the NRA, which for the first time delivered a public response to the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut which killed […] …
NRA’s big announcement: Put guns in ‘every school that wants it’
The embattled National Rifle Association today stuck to its guns — in the hands of “good guys’’ — as the best answer to school shootings such as the one in Newtown, Conn., that took 26 lives. Speaking at a long-anticipated news conference, NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre was not in the least bit defensive […] …
Lead by key angel investor, Silicon Valley flexes clout in gun debate
What would happen if Silicon Valley’s social media, start-up and high tech insiders begin marshaling brainpower and collective clout for tougher gun controls in the wake of the tragic Newtown shootings? We may soon find out, thanks to a new effort headed by San Francisco Bay Area angel investor Ron Conway – who hit on […] …
Feinstein, McCain protest “Zero Dark Thirty” film depicting CIA torture (VIDEO)
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein of California is among a trio of lawmakers expressing outrage at film “Zero Dark Thirty” — a strong 2012 Oscar contender — and its fictionalized depiction of the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden. Feinstein was joined Wednesday by Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich. and Senate […] …
Connecticut congressman lashes out at Rick Perry, ‘fantasy of testosterone-laden individuals who have blood on their hands’
By CHARLES J. LEWIS Connecticut congressman Jim Himes today challenged Texas Gov. Rick Perry about his contention that teachers with concealed gun permits should be allowed to carry weapons in schools. Using blunt, evocative language, the Democratic congressman, whose House district is near Newtown, Conn., where 20 students and six educators were murdered last Friday, […] …
Busy year for Schwarzenegger capped with big environmental award
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has had a busy 2012 — a movie, a book, the launch of his USC think tank. Now comes the latest — a plum award for his advocacy work on climate change. Schwarzenegger will receive the award Wednesday from U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York for his work […] …
NRA breaks silence, pledges ‘meaningful contributions’ to prevent further massacres
The National Rifle Association on Tuesday broke its silence over the Newtown, Conn., tragedy just enough to say it would offer “meaningful contributions” aimed at preventing another mass-shooting incident. Faced with a crescendo of calls for gun control in the wake of last week’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in which a gunman armed with […] …
Getting specific: Obama endorses a new assault weapons ban
By CHARLES J. LEWIS President Obama, joined by the entire congressional delegation from Connecticut, today endorsed a new federal ban on assault weapons in the wake of the Newtown school massacre where a 20-year-old man used an assault rifle to murder 20 children and six adults. Obama is “actively supportive” of efforts to reinstate an […] …
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