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Coming for Your Guns


Gun rights activists confuse tyranny with the unpleasant sensation of losing elections. (5:39)

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Gary Trudeau gocomics.com

Why Has Obama Pardoned So Few Prisoners?

Sasha Abramsky The Nation
Cases like that of Weldon Angelos, who was given a fifty-five-year sentence for selling marijuana, cry out for mercy. But calls for clemency have fallen on deaf ears...So why hasn't Obama done the right thing? Could it be that Angelos has just gotten lost in the shuffle? Possibly-but if that's the reason, there would be evidence that Obama has used his pardon and commutation powers wisely in other cases. Unfortunately, that's not true.