Federal Gun Task Force at Work…What will be done?

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Barely into 2013 and his second term, President Obama is working on the difficult issue of gun politics, initiating a gun task force lead by Vice-President Biden. I hope he and this task force can muster all the political finesse that will be required to get around the NRA and pro-gun supporters in Congress. It [...]

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Ex-Con Received Millions in Contracts From New York City

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New York City has a fresh controversy involving employee screening…or, rather, the lack of them.  It involves a man named Nicholas Analitis, a contractor who has landed literally hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of contracts with the Parks Department.  These contracts included work repairing the Coney Island boardwalk and work at Marcus Garvey Park [...]

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You, The FBI, and Freedom of Information

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Do you over wonder what the FBI has locked away in some dark corner about you? Under the Freedom of Information Act you may request that they release this information to you. The Freedom of Information Act FOIA was passed in 1966, and basically established the public’s right to acquire information from federal government agencies. [...]

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The Impossible Nature of Gun Control

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My metaphor for the past year involves an empty champagne bottle I indulged in to celebrate its beginning. This theoretical bottle of champagne, for some wondrous and miraculous reason slowly filled up during the year based on the events that occurred. This past year’s bottle of champagne would be over-flowing, as 2012 was. Some memorable [...]

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Nanny Background Check: Caretaker Murders Two Children

Nanny taking care of child at home.

Nannies are “help” that probably usually only occupy the homes of the wealthy. One can imagine the difficulty that a mother has in placing her children in someone else’s care; or perhaps it is not so difficult for some. Either way, parents want their children to be in good hands, no matter if it’s daycare [...]

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License Plate Covers: The Options, Your Record, and Background Checks

Traffic cameras are supposed to help protect communities.

You’ve probably heard about, or already use, license plate covers to try and avoid getting a ticket from a red light or manually operated traffic camera. Well, I recently across this video about an experiment conducted in conjunction with the Denver police department. A reporter tested several different license plate cover methods including several different [...]

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Free Background Check Scams

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I’m going to tell you why a free background check usually means that you will be doing the work and may even end up costing far more. Every day, literally 15,000 people and often more, type in the words “free background check” in order to start their search for that FREE elusive information on another [...]

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