Historically been a progressive state, they passed the first assault weapons ban in the nation, these giant. 50caliber militarystyle rifles are legal for sale in new jersey. The legislature this year passed a bill to ban this specific gun in the state. That ban passed overwhelmingly in the legislature. It was supported by editorial pages throughout the state. But, again, tonights breaking news, in an august friday night news dump, traditionally a time when politicians do things that they hope wont get too much notice, new Jersey Republican governor and presumed president ial hopeful Chris Christie has vetoed legislation tonight that would have made militarygrade. 50caliber sniper rifles illegal in the garden state. Now, governor christie also partially vetoed a change to the states medical marijuana laws tonight, sending that back to the legislature. And he did the same thing, a partial veto, with a bill that would require background checks for all gun purchases in new jersey. And hey,
His grandparents, by his mothers parents. He was very close to his grandparents. Very close to his grandmother. This was the day before the president ial election in 2008 when she died. President obama took time that day to grieve on his own, then that night he came to North Carolina just hours before the polls were due to open across the country. President obama did one last rally. A huge one. 25,000 people in the rain at the university of North Carolina in charlotte. He talked about his grandmother that night. He said, shes gone home. She died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. He said, im not going to talk about her too long, because it is hard for me to talk about. So with hours to go until election day, president ial candidate barack obama, that night before the election in 2008, he stood in the rain in charlotte and he cried during his speech. And he gave liz Closing Argument for why he should be president of the United States. And it was a very powerful moment b
Carolina just hours before the polls were due to open across the country. President obama did one last rally. A huge one. 25,000 people in the rain at the university of North Carolina in charlotte. He talked about his grandmother that night. He said, shes gone home. She died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. He said, im not going to talk about her too long, because it is hard for me to talk about. So with hours to go until election day, president ial candidate barack obama, that night before the election in 2008, he stood in the rain in charlotte and he cried during his speech. And he gave liz Closing Argument for why he should be president of the United States. And it was a very powerful moment because of that raw, human emotion, but it was also a powerful political moment because here it was the night before a president ial election and it is a big deal that the democratic president ial candidate is making his Closing Argument to the nation from the south. And he co
Day to grieve on his own, then that night he came to North Carolina just hours before the polls were due to open across the country. President obama did one last rally. A huge one. 25,000 people in the rain at the university of North Carolina in charlotte. He talked about his grandmother that night. He said, shes gone home. She died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. He said, im not going to talk about her too long, because it is hard for me to talk about. So with hours to go until election day, president ial candidate barack obama, that night before the election in 2008, he stood in the rain in charlotte and he cried during his speech. And he gave liz Closing Argument for why he should be president of the United States. And it was a very powerful moment because of that raw, human emotion, but it was also a powerful political moment because here it was the night before a president ial election and it is a big deal that the democratic president ial candidate is making h
Bombed desert targets and above it all, an awax kept track of the war games. Six b52s flew nonstop from north dakota to hit the target 70 miles from cairo. That was november 1981. A fake war in egypt. It apparently cost one paratrooper a broken hip. Otherwise it was considered a big success. Weve been holding big fake wars in egypt ever since. The first one was in 1980 after egypt signed a peace treaty with israel. We held a fake war with egypt. A big military joint Training Exercise in 1980. Again, we did that really big one in 1981. Then everybody had so much fun and it started to turn into such a big operation with so many tens of thousands of troops participating from an everincreasing list of countries that they decided they were going to have to hold this thing every two years instead of every year because it took so long to plan and it was so expensive to do. But we have been doing it biannually every couple of years ever since. The basic idea is that, well, in part, war games a