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Guns, Cash, and Votes

Posted April 18th, 2013 by Lesley Hazleton

As my friend Charles Mudede noted, these graphs say it all  (courtesy of The Sunlight Foundation):

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File under: ugliness, US politics | Tagged: Tags: election spending, gun control, gun lobby, NRA, US Senate | 5 Comments
  1. Zarina Sarfraz says:
    April 18, 2013 at 6:46 pm

    Please see the real meaning in modern English language as the right to actively use arms in a bonafide[declared war] on behalf of ones country NOT AS A MURDERING OF INNOCENTS! I think that mental & Physical tests are urgently required for all senators before they are sworn in ;& a suitably strict control on murdering”plots”used for films & cartoons! Death is no joke,& cannot be repaired ZS

  2. Gustav Hellthaler says:
    April 19, 2013 at 2:05 pm

    How a civilization declines:

    Ammo
    Amass
    A must
    A massacre

    Gus

  3. shah says:
    May 4, 2013 at 12:43 am

    you should read this article…7 errors you have made in your book has been pointed out!. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qasim-rashid/7-things-about-prophet-mu_b_2563008.html

  4. Jerry M says:
    May 5, 2013 at 5:39 pm

    @shah

    You should re-read the article you reference. It doesn’t say the author made 7 errors. Rashid titles his column “7 Things About Prophet Muhammad: A Clarification ”

    2. He married up — and for love.

    Hazleton accurately summarizes Prophet Muhammad’s marriage to Hazrat Khadija, but I offer two minor matters of clarification. …

    3. His first reaction to becoming a Prophet? Doubt and despair.

    Hazleton accurately states Prophet Muhammad’s fear upon the Angel Gabriel’s appearance to him. …”

    On number 7. the post says “Hazleton is incorrect both when she states that “he died without designating a successor,” and that Prophet Muhammad “paved the way for the divisiveness between Sunni and Shiite that persists today.” …

    The fact that things didn’t deteriorate for 30 years, a very short time given the slow evolution of things in the ancient world, doesn’t prove anything. I would give Ms Hazelton a pass on this

    So, she is wrong about some things, but not 7.

    • shah says:
      May 6, 2013 at 7:52 am

      well khadija (R.A) was the one who proposed marraige to our prophet (pbuh) seeing his honesty,kindness and his caring attitude towards the needy & poor..love happened much later….and trust me 30 yrs is not a short period of time. 🙂

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