Often the issue of “regulation” is implicitly framed as “people who want no regulations” versus “people who want copious amounts of regulations,” but there is a very large middle-ground where most people will agree that some regulations are good, and that we must work together as a community and a country to understand how best to apply those regulations.
Sunday morning, around 25 were injured in a shooting that occurred at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee. The number comes from Parminder Kaleka, whose brother-in-law was in the Sikh Temple, and used his cell phone to speak to her while inside the temple.
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Gerald R. Ford was deemed a klutz by the media. This is just one fun fact about Ford. For more information continue reading History Unspun’s President Profile Of The Day: Gerald R. Ford!
Astrological Sign: Cancer
Term of Presidency: 1974-1977
Party: Republican
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Nevada has always been a center of US mining activity, but now the Silver State is home to the Nevada gold rush, the largest ever American gold rush and the potential for new gold discoveries in the Nevada desert remains high. Nevada's gold industry will likely play a major role in its economy for decades to come. Learn more from the following infographic:
The State of Vermont is once again defending its police in court against charges of taser abuse, but this time the taser use was fatal for a disoriented, unarmed artist suffering the after-effects of an epileptic seizure.
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A trending topic on Twitter this weekend has been a plea for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to select either Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin or Senator Marco Rubio from Florida as his running mate with the corresponding hashtags "#giveusryan" and "#giveusrubio."
The United States continues to lead the world in foreign aid assistance. While substantial, less than 1% of the United States’ GDP is designated to foreign aid assistance. In 2010 the United States obligated approximately $38 billion in economic assistance and $15 billion in military assistance, amounting to $53 billion total. 182 countries received $38 billion of U.S. economic assistance.