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Soon after President Obama’s second inaugural address, John Boehner said the White House would try “to annihilate the Republican Party” and “shove us into the dustbin of history.”Actually, the GOP is doing a pretty good job annihilating itself.

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A legal scholar lambastes a Truthout article claiming that the Second Amendment was for preserving slave-patrol militias.

If you give a mouse a cookie, will it give you something back? Researchers have long wondered whether animals play fair. A new study in chimps suggests that they do, although some skeptics are not convinced.

Bestselling author and gun owner Stephen King says 'autos and semi-autos are weapons of mass destruction' in 25-page work.