Partial Birth Abortion Ban Upheld
http://www.kansascity.com/449/story/74926.html
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority handed anti-abortion forces a major victory Wednesday in a decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure and set the stage for further restrictions

Harry Reid: Iraq war 'is lost'
Senate Democrat leader says surge 'not accomplishing anything'
The war in Iraq "is lost" and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said Thursday.

Prof warned officials about VT Killer
Troubled by his violent writings, behavior, but told too many legal hurdles stood in way
A professor warned authorities about Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui after the student turned in violent creative writing pieces and exhibited troubling behavior, but she was told intervention would require overcoming too many legal hurdles.

Pope's answer to 'Da Vinci Code' runaway success
50,000 copies of 'Jesus of Nazareth' sold on 1st day in Italy
"Jesus of Nazareth" was launched on the pontiff's 80th birthday on Monday and is billed as his answer to popular publications such as Dan Brown's best-selling "The Da Vinci Code".

State axed proposal-allowing guns on campuses
College spokesman celebrated 2006 defeat because it would help make school safer
More than one year before today's unprecedented shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, the state's General Assembly quashed a bill that would have given qualified college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus.

Israeli professor sacrificed self for students
76-year-old Holocaust survivor threw himself in front of shooter
A 76-year-old Jewish-Romanian lecturer was hailed a hero after blocking his classroom door long enough for many of his students to escape the Virginia Tech gunman, before being shot dead.

Parents: Fire college president, police chief
'If someone shoots somebody there should be an immediate lockdown of the campus'
“My God, if someone shoots somebody there should be an immediate lockdown of the campus,” said John Shourds. “They totally blew it. The president blew it, campus police blew it.”

How to prevent next massacre
Exclusive: Joseph Farah wants to replace 'sanity-free zones' with armed students, faculty
In fact, simply the knowledge that any student or any faculty member could be armed might have prevented this unknown assailant from hatching his deadly scheme of mass murder on campus.

Nagasaki mayor killed by mobster
Crime chief enraged city refused to compensate him for damaged car
The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki was shot to death in a brazen attack Tuesday by an organized crime chief apparently enraged that the city refused to compensate him after his car was damaged at a public works construction site, news agencies reported. Japan has the toughest anti-gun laws in the world.

VT Student Expresses Frustration over Gun Laws
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/80510
VT Student: I am licensed to carry a concealed handgun in the commonwealth of Virginia, and do so on a regular basis. However, because I am a Virginia Tech student, I am prohibited from carrying at school because of Virginia Tech's student policy, which makes possession of a handgun an expellable offense, but not a prosecutable crime.