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BY DON SORCHYCH | MARCH 19, 2014

NRA • Recall • Town Manager

The current population of the United States is 317 million. With all the gun grabbing attempts, it is sad the National Rifle Association (NRA) has only five million members. Since gun owners are estimated to number between 70 and 80 million you would think gun owners would flock to become NRA members. We gun owners need all the help we can get to keep our guns, including the right to carry them and conceal them if we desire.

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BY STEVE LAMAR | MARCH 19, 2014

Thugs abound in Cave Creek

Well, it didn’t take long for Vice Mayor Adam Trenk, “Trenkster,” and his best pal and long time supporter TC Thorstenson to make the news again. Can’t wait to see the spin from Mayor Francia on this one.

BY LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD. | MARCH 19, 2014

A tale of two forged presidential documents

On September 2, 2004, during an interview with First Lady Laura Bush, CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather seemed to couch a threat in the form of a question: "Now that friends and supporters of the President have raised the issue of John Kerry's combat record in Vietnam, do you or do you not think it's fair now for the Kerry people to come back and dig anew into your husband's military service record?" That was less than a week before Rather used forged memos as evidence in stories attacking President George W. Bush's National Guard Service.

BY ROBERT ROMANO | MARCH 19, 2014

Obamacare creates hardship for 16.4 million Americans who now qualify for waivers

Turns out Republican governors and legislatures that blocked Medicaid expansion in their states may have done both their constituents and taxpayers a big favor.

BY TPATH CONTRIBUTOR | TABITHA KOROL | MARCH 19, 2014

Rape, the whirlwind

TPATH – Sweden is the seventh richest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita and its high standard of living.  It is famous for supporting the Norwegian resistance during World War II; for helping to rescue Danish Jews from deportation to concentration camps; and for its native son, Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued up to 100,000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.