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NRA Raises $200 Million as Gun Lobby Toasters Burn Logo on Bread A toaster that burns the National Rifle Association’s logo onto bread fetched $650 at an auction last month, just one reflection of the money-making power in the gun group’s brand. The NRA, which began as a grassroots organization dedicated to teaching marksmanship, enters the 2012 election season as a lobbying, merchandising and marketing machine that brings in more than $200 million a year and intends to help unseat the incumbent president. From 2004 to 2010, the group’s revenue from fundraising -- including gifts from gun makers who benefit from its political activism -- grew twice as fast as its income from members’ dues, according to NRA tax returns. More than 50 firearms-related companies have given at least $14.8 million to the Fairfax, Virginia-based group, according to the NRA’s own list for a donor program that began in 2005. That same year, NRA lobbyists helped win passage of a federal law that limited liability claims against gun makers. Going After Obama Sources of Income
The Book That Coined "Big Brother" - Nineteen Eighty-Four History and title[edit] A 1947 draft manuscript of the first page of Nineteen Eighty-Four, showing the editorial development. The Last Man in Europe was an early title for the novel but in a letter dated 22 October 1948 to his publisher Fredric Warburg, eight months before publication, Orwell wrote about hesitating between The Last Man in Europe and Nineteen Eighty-Four.[14] Warburg suggested changing the main title to a more commercial one.[15] Copyright status[edit] The novel will be in the public domain in the European Union and Russia in 2021 and in the United States in 2044.[21] It is already in the public domain in Canada;[22] South Africa,[23] Argentina[24] Australia,[25] and Oman.[26] Background[edit] The banner of the Party in the 1984 film adaptation of the book (I) the upper-class Inner Party, the elite ruling minority, who make up 2% of the population. As the government, the Party controls the population with four ministries: Plot[edit] Characters[edit] Principal characters[edit]
NRA's $100 million Deficit? Costly legal, legislative and political battles in the last decade have left the National Rifle Association with a $100 million deficit, reopening a bitter debate within the group about how it manages its money. In the past decade the group's efforts have helped Republicans win the White House and Congress and led to laws in more than 30 states banning lawsuits against gun manufacturers. In the last year the N.R.A. helped pay for a losing legal battle against campaign finance legislation, which the Supreme Court upheld this month. But through many of those years, according to Internal Revenue Service and N.R.A. records, the organization spent more than it took in. Even in 2000, when gun owners helped elect George W. "The victories we have delivered have been costly, cutting deeply into the N.R.A.' That is partly because membership usually rises in election years and ebbs thereafter. But falling membership is also a result of complacency among gun owners, gun rights advocates say. Mr. Mr.
FREEDOM FROM SCRUTINY TARIQ RAMADAN | September 11th 2008 On the anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Tariq Ramadan laments what's been lost in our pursuit of security ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008 Intelligent Life asked 11 eminent people from different walks of life to look back over their adult lifetime and name the freedom we have gained and lost that means the most to them. Aged 45, professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University and author of "Islam, the West and the Challenge of Modernity"FREEDOM LOST: As we are celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the UN Declaration, one remains doubtful regarding the progress in the field of our freedoms. Security measures are producing new discriminations and, with their privacy, some are losing their dignity, if not their personal integrity. FREEDOM GAINED (with a condition): Is global communication a kind of standardisation? See also: Richard Dawkins, Shami Chakrabarti, Neal Ascherson, Charles Moore, Noreena Hertz and Geoffrey Robertson.
Watts Up With That? is a popular blog run by meteorologist Anthony Watts. Sourced[edit] I believe that this whole global warming/climate change issue is no more than a monumental scam perpetrated by the affluent nations to protect their economic supremacy… WUWT guest contributor Will AlexanderYears ago I received a small stipend from The Heartland Institute to help cover the costs of writing articles regarding the global warming hoax, well before it was exposed in 2009 when emails between its perpetrators—the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—revealed the total lack of real science involved. I have continued to expose the hoax without any support from Heartland or any other entity. Quotes about WUWT[edit] [T]he site has metamorphosed from a gathering place for lonely nutters to a three-million-hits-per-month online newspaper on climate full of fascinating articles by physicists, geologists, economists and statisticians.
Message Forums Groups Setting New Sights on Gun Industry Protecti Printed from: GunBroker.com Message Forums Topic URL: Printed on: 04/21/2014 Topic: Topic author: Josey1 Subject: Groups Setting New Sights on Gun Industry Protecti Posted on: 04/11/2002 06:14:16 AM Message: Groups Setting New Sights on Gun Industry Protections4/10/2002 Feature Storyby Dick Dahl (Second of a two-part series on special protections enjoyed by the gun industry and how some groups are responding.) The gun lobby has been successful in convincing legislatures across the country to erect statutory barriers to protect the gun industry from legal action and from the efforts of local governments to enact tough gun-regulation ordinances. Combined, these uniquely protective industry-protection laws comprise a formidable obstruction standing in the way of citizens who would like to hold the industry accountable to some degree for the ongoing toll of gun violence in America.
EDITORIAL: Climate-change crybabies Liberals are hot under the collar, but this has more to do with the election than the planet warming up. The presidential candidates didn’t say a word about global warming during the debates, so advocates of that theory are looking for a bit of attention. Late last month, Penn State climate professor Michael Mann turned to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to sue several individuals who dared satirize his work. The global-warming proponent was particularly peeved at a National Review article by columnist Mark Steyn and a Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) blog post containing verbal jabs labeling his work as fraudulent. The latter statement came as something of a surprise to the people who hand out that prestigious award. As truth is a defense to libel, Mr. This isn’t the first time Mr. It’s essential for the survival of free speech that the peddlers of half-baked doomsday tales not get away with chilling spirited dissent. The Washington Times
Why Affirmative Action for Conservative Professors Is a Bad Idea On Dec. 5, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly argued, perhaps somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that the solution to the extremely high number of leftist and socialist professors at universities across America is affirmative action for conservative professors. But then, on Dec. 13, self-proclaimed “devout Democrat and a frequent O’Reilly critic” New York University history Professor Jonathan Zimmerman agreed with the newsman in a Christian Science Monitor piece: Race-based affirmative action has made our universities much more interesting and truly educational places, adding a range of voices and experiences that hadn’t been heard before. Hiring more conservative faculty would do the same thing. … I am not suggesting schools should have any kind of numerical quota for conservative professors. … We should simply take political leanings into consideration, just as we do with racial background, when reviewing candidates for academic positions. (Zimmerman’s) idea is well meaning, but is itself deeply flawed.
H&R Block screws NRA and gun owners [Archive] - The FAL Files Moderator, Please don't move this. It needs the WIDEST publication. Thanks. Press Release For Immediate Release March 12, 2002 Contacts: Julie Bernstein Kristin Becker membercenter@gunindustrywatch.org H&R Block Severs Ties with National Rifle Association Washington, D.C. "Let this send a loud message to other corporate partners of the NRA," said Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron. "The termination of this agreement is a tremendous victory for everyone who was outraged that a reputable business like H&R Block would support an extremist organization like the NRA," said Michael D. "Corporations doing business with the NRA should be very concerned by the large efforts of hundreds of gun safety activists that came out in defiance of H&R Block's agreement with the NRA," said Bryan Miller of the Mid-Atlantic Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence. H&R Block had entered into an agreement with a marketing company called Memberdrive to market its products and services to NRA members.