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When guns are mede illegal the only people with guns will be the police and criminals. I really don't know which is worse!

For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, hatched a plan to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it.

The election is one month from tomorrow and, yes, it looks hopeless. November 2nd -- the day the Dems are expected to crash and burn. Sadly, it's a situation the Democrats have brought upon themselves -- even though the majority of them didn't create the mess we're in. But they've had over a year and a half to start getting the job done to fix it. Instead, they've run scared ever since they took power. To many, the shellacking they're about to receive is one they deserve.

The NAACP has just passed a historic resolution demanding an end to the War on Drugs.  The resolution comes as young Black male unemployment hovers near 50 percent and the wealth gap's become a veritable gulf. So why is the forty-year-old "War on Drugs" public enemy number one for the nation's oldest civil rights organization? Well here's why:  it's not extraneous - it's central: the war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama.     Author Michelle Alexander lays out the statistics -- and the stories --  of 21st Century Jim Crow in her ought-to-blow-your-socks off book: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness." I had a chance to sit down with Alexander earlier this summer. We'll be posting the full interview in two parts.     "We have managed decades after the civil rights movement to create something like a caste system in the United States," says Alexander in part one here  "In major urban areas, the majority of African American men are either behind bars, under correctional control or saddled with criminal record and once branded as criminal or a felon, they're trapped for life in 2nd class status."     It's not just about people having a hard time getting ahead and climbing the ladder of success. It's about a rigged system. Sound familiar?  Like the Pew Research Center report on household wealth and the Great Recession -- the NAACP resolution story was a one-day news-blip - despite the fact that it pierces the by-your-bootstraps myth that is at the heart of - you pick it - the deficit, the stimulus, the tax code - every contemporary US economic debate.     White America just maybe ought to pay attention. With more and more Americans falling out of jobs and into debt, criminal records are a whole lot easier to come by than life-sustaining employment.  Contrary to the conventional media version, the "Drug War" story is not a people with problems

I know it's not nice to kick a website when it's down, but gop.com is such an easy target, and it is in a very small barrel, and I love the smell of gen-u-ine 2nd Amendment-shot fish so much and...oh what the hell.

Useful high profile article about business lending - but 3 important points in the comments.

Kamran Khan presents another fresh episode of Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath in Geo TV and talk with Mazhar Tufail, Rahim Ullah Yousaf zai, Lt. Gen. (R) Talat Masood, Zahid Malik and Ali Zafar.

Brig. (r) MM Mahmood, Fathiya Bukhari and Brig. (r) Imtiaz Ahmed in fresh episode of Islamabad Tonight & discusses current issue with Nadeem Malik.

Haroon Rasheed, Senator Kamil Ali Agha, Syed Nayyar Hussain Bukhari and Khawaja Saad Rafique in fresh episode of Off The Record and discussing current issue with Kashif Abbasi.

Maj. Gen. Saleem Zawaz IG FC Balochistan in fresh episode of Live with Talat discussing balochistan issue with Syed Talat Hussain.

Senator Mir Hasil Bazenjo, Haroon Rasheed Analyst, Raja Riaz Ahmed and Hanif Abbasi PML-N in fresh episode of Capital Talk and discusses with Hamid Mir.