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America's passion for guns intact as shooting toll rises
America's passion for guns intact as shooting toll rises
AFP | Feb 28, 2016, 03.07 PM IST
(Representative photo/AFP)
WASHINGTON: A rifle as new state symbol. A bill that lets young children use handguns under supervision. As mass shootings shatter lives, the fascination with firearms among many Americans shows little sign of fading.
Over the past week, two gunmen killed at least nine people in unrelated rampages in Michigan and Kansas.
Add to that the death in Indiana of a father who was accidentally shot by his six-year-old son who found a loaded revolver lying around and pulled the trigger.
President Barack Obama -- who offers his condolences to families of loved ones lost after each mass shooting -- has decried the "routine" nature of reporting about and responding to such tragedies.
But faced with a Republican-controlled Congress unwilling to move forward on the matter, Obama -- who made fighting gun violence his chief resolution for 2016 -- is left with his wheels spinning.
In January, he shed tears as he announced limited measures to tackle the rampant violence that kills around 30,000 Americans each year and called on citizens to punish lawmakers who oppose more meaningful reforms.
In the speech, Obama formally unveiled a handful of executive measures that will make it harder to buy and sell weapons, but which he admitted would not stop the scourge of mass shootings.
And in a country where there are more guns than people, and with Republicans vying to take back the White House in November, it remains to be seen, what -- if anything -- will change.
Senators in Tennessee -- in a near unanimous vote -- designated a rifle that is said to be capable of destroying commercial aircraft as an official state symbol.
The .50-caliber Barrett, manufactured in the southern state, joins a range of other Tennessee state symbols. These include the mockingbird as "official state bird" and the raccoon as "official wild animal.
Over the past week, two gunmen killed at least nine people in unrelated rampages in Michigan and Kansas.
Add to that the death in Indiana of a father who was accidentally shot by his six-year-old son who found a loaded revolver lying around and pulled the trigger.
President Barack Obama -- who offers his condolences to families of loved ones lost after each mass shooting -- has decried the "routine" nature of reporting about and responding to such tragedies.
But faced with a Republican-controlled Congress unwilling to move forward on the matter, Obama -- who made fighting gun violence his chief resolution for 2016 -- is left with his wheels spinning.
In January, he shed tears as he announced limited measures to tackle the rampant violence that kills around 30,000 Americans each year and called on citizens to punish lawmakers who oppose more meaningful reforms.
In the speech, Obama formally unveiled a handful of executive measures that will make it harder to buy and sell weapons, but which he admitted would not stop the scourge of mass shootings.
And in a country where there are more guns than people, and with Republicans vying to take back the White House in November, it remains to be seen, what -- if anything -- will change.
Senators in Tennessee -- in a near unanimous vote -- designated a rifle that is said to be capable of destroying commercial aircraft as an official state symbol.
The .50-caliber Barrett, manufactured in the southern state, joins a range of other Tennessee state symbols. These include the mockingbird as "official state bird" and the raccoon as "official wild animal.
South Carolina Primary: Hillary Clinton did better with black voters than Barack Obama in 2008
South Carolina Primary: Hillary Clinton did better with black voters than Barack Obama in 2008
Andrew Buncombe | The Independent | Feb 28, 2016, 04.45 PM IST
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In 2008, when Barack Obama secured a huge win in South Carolina that helped make him the US's first African American president, he did so by winning the support of 78 per cent of black voters.
On Saturday night, Hillary Clinton's margin of victory over Bernie Sanders was not only greater that than Obama enjoyed over her eight years ago, but she also won a greater proportion of black voters than he did.
In 2008, Obama managed a margin of victory of 28 points over Hillary Clinton, and senator John Edwards, who came third. He won the support of 78 per cent of black voters, with Clinton on 19 per cent and Edwards winning just 1 per cent.
On Saturday, there were only two candidates competing, but exit polls suggested 87 per cent of black voters supported Clinton, while just 13 opted for Sanders. Among older black voters, she secured 96 per cent.
Many black voters had been angered in 2008 by Clinton, and her husband Bill Clinton, by what was seen as a graceless and dismissive response to Obama's win. But Clinton worked hard to mend those issues and project herself as the natural successor to Obama. Black women made up the largest single voting bloc on Saturday, and Clinton stressed issues such as healthcare, education the economy.
She also spoke out on strongly on issues that have been raised by the Black Lives Matter movement, and talked of her belief in the need for racial justice and gone control.
One of several major endorsements she won was from black mothers who lost to their sons to violence, some at the hands of the police, others to strangers. In her victory speech on Saturday night, Clinton named and thanked those women, the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Dontre Hamilton, Jordan Davis, and Eric Garner.
By contrast, despite concerted efforts, Sanders failed to gain traction among black voters, despite deploying time, energy and resources to the state.
On Saturday night, Hillary Clinton's margin of victory over Bernie Sanders was not only greater that than Obama enjoyed over her eight years ago, but she also won a greater proportion of black voters than he did.
In 2008, Obama managed a margin of victory of 28 points over Hillary Clinton, and senator John Edwards, who came third. He won the support of 78 per cent of black voters, with Clinton on 19 per cent and Edwards winning just 1 per cent.
On Saturday, there were only two candidates competing, but exit polls suggested 87 per cent of black voters supported Clinton, while just 13 opted for Sanders. Among older black voters, she secured 96 per cent.
Many black voters had been angered in 2008 by Clinton, and her husband Bill Clinton, by what was seen as a graceless and dismissive response to Obama's win. But Clinton worked hard to mend those issues and project herself as the natural successor to Obama. Black women made up the largest single voting bloc on Saturday, and Clinton stressed issues such as healthcare, education the economy.
She also spoke out on strongly on issues that have been raised by the Black Lives Matter movement, and talked of her belief in the need for racial justice and gone control.
One of several major endorsements she won was from black mothers who lost to their sons to violence, some at the hands of the police, others to strangers. In her victory speech on Saturday night, Clinton named and thanked those women, the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Dontre Hamilton, Jordan Davis, and Eric Garner.
By contrast, despite concerted efforts, Sanders failed to gain traction among black voters, despite deploying time, energy and resources to the state.
Trump blames India for stealing jobs, again
Trump blames India for stealing jobs, again
Chidanand Rajghatta | TNN | Feb 29, 2016, 05.15 AM IST
WASHINGTON: At the height of debate in 2004 on flight of jobs, an issue that always attains high pitch during an election, there was a joke about outsourcing President Bush's job to India.
Bush was informed of his termination via email, and the job was given to Gurvinder Singh of Indus Teleservices, Mumbai. Singh was born in the United States while his parents were here on student visas thus making him eligible for the position, the joke went, outlining that he would receive a salary of $320 a month but with no health coverage or other benefits.
Due to the time difference between the US and India, the spoof continued, Singh would be working primarily at night, when it is day-time in US. "I am excited to serve in this position," he was quoted as saying.
"Working nights will let me keep my day job at the American Express call centre. I always knew I could be President someday."
Some things just don't change. Flight of jobs to foreign countries returned centerstage this weekend with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump railing about outsourcing and promising to bring back the jobs, including presumably Gurvinder's satirical presidential caretaking.
"We're being ripped off with China, ripped off with Japan, ripped off with Mexico at the border, ripped off by Vietnam, and by India, and by every country," Trump declaimed to a receptive audience in Tennessee this weekend that broke into chants of "Trump!Trump" and "USA! USA!". Then, to wild applause: "They are taking our jobs. China is taking our jobs. Japan is taking our jobs. India is taking our jobs. It is not going to happen anymore, folks!"
Free-trade advocates meanwhile gnashed their teeth at the protectionist rhetoric that always seems to surface at campaign time, while those who are familiar with Trump's business interests rolled their eyes. Recent exposes about Trump's exclusive private club — Mar-a-lago Club — speak of hundreds of American residents being rejected for jobs in preference to foreign guest workers.
He has also pursued more than 500 visas for foreign workers at Mar-a-Lago since 2010, the New York Times reported, citing the US department of labor, while hundreds of domestic applicants failed to get the same jobs.
Bush was informed of his termination via email, and the job was given to Gurvinder Singh of Indus Teleservices, Mumbai. Singh was born in the United States while his parents were here on student visas thus making him eligible for the position, the joke went, outlining that he would receive a salary of $320 a month but with no health coverage or other benefits.
Due to the time difference between the US and India, the spoof continued, Singh would be working primarily at night, when it is day-time in US. "I am excited to serve in this position," he was quoted as saying.
"Working nights will let me keep my day job at the American Express call centre. I always knew I could be President someday."
Some things just don't change. Flight of jobs to foreign countries returned centerstage this weekend with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump railing about outsourcing and promising to bring back the jobs, including presumably Gurvinder's satirical presidential caretaking.
"We're being ripped off with China, ripped off with Japan, ripped off with Mexico at the border, ripped off by Vietnam, and by India, and by every country," Trump declaimed to a receptive audience in Tennessee this weekend that broke into chants of "Trump!Trump" and "USA! USA!". Then, to wild applause: "They are taking our jobs. China is taking our jobs. Japan is taking our jobs. India is taking our jobs. It is not going to happen anymore, folks!"
Free-trade advocates meanwhile gnashed their teeth at the protectionist rhetoric that always seems to surface at campaign time, while those who are familiar with Trump's business interests rolled their eyes. Recent exposes about Trump's exclusive private club — Mar-a-lago Club — speak of hundreds of American residents being rejected for jobs in preference to foreign guest workers.
He has also pursued more than 500 visas for foreign workers at Mar-a-Lago since 2010, the New York Times reported, citing the US department of labor, while hundreds of domestic applicants failed to get the same jobs.
Clinton and allies preparing for Trump's nomination
Clinton and allies preparing for Trump's nomination
AP | Feb 29, 2016, 11.17 AM IST
COLUMBIA: Hillary Clinton, fresh off her South Carolina primary landslide, is shifting her focus to Republican front-runner Donald Trump as her party seeks consensus on the best ways to challenge the billionaire's unpredictable nature in a general election campaign.
As Clinton nears the 11 state contests to be decided on Super Tuesday this week, allies of the former secretary of state, unaffiliated Democratic strategists and the national party are stockpiling potential ammunition about Trump, reviewing reams of court filings, requesting information about his business dealings from state governments and conducting new polls to test lines of attack.
Among the likely options; Questioning Trump's qualifications and temperament to be president, scrutinizing his business practices and bankruptcy filings, and re-airing his inflammatory statements about women and minorities who will be central to the Democrats' efforts in November.
"Is this the guy you would trust with the nuclear codes? Is this the guy you would trust with your son or daughter in the military? Is this the guy you would trust to run the economy?'' asked governor Dan Malloy of Connecticut, a Clinton backer, pointing to a likely argument from Democrats.
Clinton, celebrating her rout of Democratic rival Bernie Sanders in South Carolina's primary, took direct aim at Trump's message on Saturday night, telling supporters, ``Despite what you hear, we don't need to make America great again. America never stopped being great.''
While party leaders see Clinton in a favorable position against Trump, they caution that the real estate mogul has shown a mastery of the media and an ability to stay on offense throughout the Republican primaries. And they acknowledge Trump has successfully tapped into a deep vein of economic insecurity running through the electorate.
``Any race he is in is unpredictable,'' said David Brock, a Clinton supporter who oversees several Democratic super political action committees that support the former secretary of state. ``Any strategy we come up with today is going to have to be awfully flexible because we don't know what to expect from this guy.''
Clinton aides and allies also worry that Trump's unorthodox constituency of working-class white voters might allow him to put more states in play; particularly Midwestern swing states like Ohio and Wisconsin, compared to past nominees like Mitt Romney and John McCain. And they note large voter turnouts in Republican primaries won by Trump.
But Democrats predict a Trump nomination could have a splintering effect on the Republican Party and are looking for ways to exacerbate it.
A new survey of 800 likely Republican voters commissioned by a Democratic polling firm found that 20 percent of Republicans are ``uncertain'' whether they would back Trump or Clinton in a head-to-head match-up.
The number included one-quarter of Catholics and one-third of moderates, according to the survey by the Democracy Corps' Republican Party Project.
The poll found Trump's share of the vote drops among Catholics and moderates when Democrats describe him as an ``ego-maniac,'' `'disrespectful to women,'' untrustworthy with the nation's nuclear weapons and supporting a ``big oil agenda.''
Republicans, Democrats argue, haven't mounted a sustained campaign to undermine Trump's image as a successful dealmaker. They envision a more extensive critique that would galvanize minority voters and women against Trump.
As Clinton nears the 11 state contests to be decided on Super Tuesday this week, allies of the former secretary of state, unaffiliated Democratic strategists and the national party are stockpiling potential ammunition about Trump, reviewing reams of court filings, requesting information about his business dealings from state governments and conducting new polls to test lines of attack.
Among the likely options; Questioning Trump's qualifications and temperament to be president, scrutinizing his business practices and bankruptcy filings, and re-airing his inflammatory statements about women and minorities who will be central to the Democrats' efforts in November.
"Is this the guy you would trust with the nuclear codes? Is this the guy you would trust with your son or daughter in the military? Is this the guy you would trust to run the economy?'' asked governor Dan Malloy of Connecticut, a Clinton backer, pointing to a likely argument from Democrats.
Clinton, celebrating her rout of Democratic rival Bernie Sanders in South Carolina's primary, took direct aim at Trump's message on Saturday night, telling supporters, ``Despite what you hear, we don't need to make America great again. America never stopped being great.''
While party leaders see Clinton in a favorable position against Trump, they caution that the real estate mogul has shown a mastery of the media and an ability to stay on offense throughout the Republican primaries. And they acknowledge Trump has successfully tapped into a deep vein of economic insecurity running through the electorate.
``Any race he is in is unpredictable,'' said David Brock, a Clinton supporter who oversees several Democratic super political action committees that support the former secretary of state. ``Any strategy we come up with today is going to have to be awfully flexible because we don't know what to expect from this guy.''
Clinton aides and allies also worry that Trump's unorthodox constituency of working-class white voters might allow him to put more states in play; particularly Midwestern swing states like Ohio and Wisconsin, compared to past nominees like Mitt Romney and John McCain. And they note large voter turnouts in Republican primaries won by Trump.
But Democrats predict a Trump nomination could have a splintering effect on the Republican Party and are looking for ways to exacerbate it.
A new survey of 800 likely Republican voters commissioned by a Democratic polling firm found that 20 percent of Republicans are ``uncertain'' whether they would back Trump or Clinton in a head-to-head match-up.
The number included one-quarter of Catholics and one-third of moderates, according to the survey by the Democracy Corps' Republican Party Project.
The poll found Trump's share of the vote drops among Catholics and moderates when Democrats describe him as an ``ego-maniac,'' `'disrespectful to women,'' untrustworthy with the nation's nuclear weapons and supporting a ``big oil agenda.''
Republicans, Democrats argue, haven't mounted a sustained campaign to undermine Trump's image as a successful dealmaker. They envision a more extensive critique that would galvanize minority voters and women against Trump.
NFL-Quarterback Manning to Announce Retirement, Report Says
NFL-Quarterback Manning to Announce Retirement, Report Says
Saturday, 27 Feb 2016 10:40 PM
Quarterback great Peyton Manning is expected to announce his retirement within a week, the Denver Post reported on Saturday.
The newspaper reported that after meeting recently with Denver Broncos general manager John Elway, "Manning is certain" the time has come to call it a day.
Manning helped the Denver Broncos defeat the Carolina Panthers in the Super Bowl earlier this month.
The victory was his second National Football League championship in a storied career in which he was named the league's Most Valuable Player five times in 17 seasons, 13 with the Indianapolis Colts and four with the Broncos.
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Manning, who turns 40 on March 24, said after the game that he would contemplate his future before making an announcement, and it has been widely assumed that will retire.
Elway told NFL.com on Thursday that he would not pressure his quarterback to make a decision and that the pair planned to meet again in the next week or so.
"I met with Peyton a couple nights ago and we had a good talk," Elway said.
"As I said after the game, we'll give him as much time as he needs. He still needs some more time so we're going to afford him that time. He deserves it after 18 years in this league."
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