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Vidgame biz touts PSAs
VarietyNearly three months after the Newtown, Conn., school shootings, the vidgame business is launching a public service campaign to tout its existing ratings system and to encourage parental controls. There was no mention of changing content. Though D.C. is...Tags: Government, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Civil and Public Service, John Thune, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Violent Video Game Bans Misguided
Violent video games featuring multiple killings and assorted other mayhem aren't advisable for children. But should they be banned or otherwise restricted by the state? That's the subject of bills recently introduced in the General Assembly. The...Tags: Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court, Lobbying, Gaming
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Obama's Potemkin gun plan
Political trends come and go in response to events. Gun control was the rage during the Clinton administration, but over the past decade or so it became an obsolete cause. After the horrific crimes in Newtown and Aurora, though, it's staging a comeback....
Tags: Gun Control, White House, Personal Weapon Control, Assault, Interior Policy
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Enough talk. Time to act.
President Barack Obama and the National Rifle Association do agree on something: No amount of legislation can prevent every evil act. In his remarks on gun violence Wednesday, Obama acknowledged what gun enthusiasts have been saying for decades:...
Tags: Gun Control, White House, U.S. Congress, Assault, Interior Policy
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Protecting schools from shooters vs more guns on the street
Capitol IdeasYo! I got a Harrisburg-style democracy for yous about violence and guns. In one section of the Capitol on Wednesday, state and local police joined with teachers to discuss school safety before the state Senate Education and Veterans Affairs and...... -
Can a little yellow card really protect our kids?
Ana Veciana-SuarezA yellow card. A simple yellow card. This, for now, serves as an emblematic shield, a safety measure in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting. When my twin granddaughters returned to their elementary school after winter break, their mother, along...Tags: The Miami Herald, Viral Diseases and Infections, Parenting, Health and Safety at School, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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A callous app from NRA
Ana Veciana-SuarezThe callousness, the sheer idiocy, of some organizations never ceases to amaze me. A month after the slaughter of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the National Rifle Association has released a new game that...Tags: Gun Control, Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, Apple iTunes, U.S. Congress
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COURANT/FRONTLINE INVESTIGATION: Raising Adam Lanza
The Hartford CourantShortly after her move from New Hampshire to Newtown in 1998, Nancy Lanza had good news about her troubled son. "Adam is doing well here, and seems to be enjoying the new school," Lanza wrote to a friend back in Kingston, N.H., in a Feb. 9, 1999, email....Tags: Law Enforcement, Boston Red Sox, Hofstra University, Morning Sickness, Insomnia
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A Methodical Massacre: Horror And Heroics
The Hartford CourantAdam Lanza blasted his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He fired a half-dozen thunderous rounds from a semiautomatic rifle to open a hole big enough to step through in one of the school's glass doors. Once inside, he had to make a choice....Tags: Law Enforcement, Injuries and Wounds, Shootings, Health and Medical Professionals, Teaching and Learning
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With Chan-wook Park's 'Stoker,' Nicole Kidman does an about-face
Nicole Kidman has been pushing in some unusual directions lately. But that adventurousness takes on an entirely new dimension in Chan-wook Park’s “Stoker,” a movie focusing on an unstable woman who lives in a Gothic house (Kidman), her...
Tags: Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Film Festivals, Movies, Sundance Film Festival
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Tonight: ‘NCIS’ shocker; ‘Cult’ premiere; ‘Body of Proof’ return
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe highlights Tuesday night: 1. “NCIS” will give Rocky Carroll a dramatic workout as Director Leon Vance, who's still mourning his slain wife. In the episode at 8 on CBS, Vance finds disturbing information that CBS says “causes him to... -
Organizing for Action spurs small vigil outside NRA headquarters
FAIRFAX, Va. — A call by a pro-Obama advocacy group for a “Day of Action” to promote stricter gun laws drew about 30 people Friday morning to a vigil outside the headquarters of the National Rifle Assn., where they held placards...
Tags: Gun Control, U.S. Congress, National Rifle Association of America, Personal Weapon Control, Charlie Dent
Mar 12, 2013
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Mar 8, 2013
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Jan 17, 2013
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Jan 17, 2013
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Feb 17, 2013
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Dec 15, 2012
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Jan 30, 2013
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Feb 19, 2013
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Feb 22, 2013
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