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Service Corporation International (SCI) is the largest funeral business in North America, and they just announced that they are purchasing their second largest competitor. The resulting company will own approximately 20% of the funeral homes and cemeteries in the United States. The combined company will have a huge influence on the "market."

This company may be familiar to some people. In 2011 they were the subject of a class action lawsuit by their own employees for unlawful...

Parents of a five year old boy obtained a rifle for their child. The product's name is "My first rifle," and the company that markets it has a part of their website called "Kids Corner." From the news descriptions this particular rifle is a single shot rifle with a child safety.

More details of this tragedy can be found here:
5-year-old shoots 2-year-old sister in Kentucky with rifle he got as a gift - The Washington Post

Presumably the parents...

Earlier today, in Illinois, a man broke into the home of a mother and shot and killed five people. The suspect in the crime was later killed by police. I do not know what the answer is to stop this madness, and I realize that a total ban on firearms is neither realistic nor appropriate, but something has to change.

Simply requiring background checks for people purchasing high velocity, small calibre weapons is controversial. Such weapons have no other purpose than to maim. Requiring...

The Washington Post recently posted an opinion by Peter Wehner . Mr. Wehner was a special assistant to the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under Pres. Geoge H.W. Bush and is now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

The EPPC defines itself here. The EPPC is a thinly veiled partisan think tank that pretends to support compassion and ethical conduct. Instead it spreads tripe like this.

Mr. Wehner's recent opinion piece focuses on...

In 2009 James O'Keefe published a video of an ACORN worker who appeared to be aiding efforts to smuggle under-age girls into the United States from Mexico to act as sex-workers in the United States. In the videos Mr. O'Keefe is shown dressed in the worst stereotypical manner possible for a would-be "pimp." The videos show the person at ACORN actively working to help Mr. O'Keefe in his smuggling operation.

The truth of the matter was entirely different. While Mr. O'Keefe was...