U.S.: Mexico should focus on cops, not military

The Democratically-controlled U.S. Senate will not be a free-for-all of new gun regulations following the shooting at Sandy Hook, according to Majority Leader Harry Reid. Instead, Senators will focus on passing legislation that can move through the Republican-controlled House, Reid said.

Emily Miller, writing in the Washington Times, reports:

OTTAWA — Police are reportedly recommending charges of sexual assault and domestic assault against embattled Senator Patrick Brazeau. Brazeau is due in court early Friday morning, one day after he was arrested after police were called to his home in connection with a domestic violence incident. He spent the night in jail at at Gatineau, Que., police station. His court appearance comes after Prime Minister Stephen Harper swiftly turfed him from the Conservative caucus Thursday following a 911 call that led police to the senator’s home.

By Emerging Money: By Steven Orlowski Despite all its challenges, including the media focus on drug cartels and border issues with the United States, Mexico has been on the rise. China, for many years a manufacturing and exporting powerhouse, has ceded some of its business to Mexico.

Suspected Mexican drug traffickers from the Zetas drug cartel on 20 September drove two trucks to a main avenue in the Mexican Gulf coast city of Boca del Rio in Veracruz state and dumped 35 corpses during rush hour while gunmen stood guard, menacing frightened motorists with automatic weapons. So, why is this being written about here? Well, if for no other reason, Mexico’s drug cartels have declared a de facto war with the government for control of the country’s northern provinces for exports routes into the United States.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is still pushing for an assault weapons ban, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday, even though Senate Democrats all but sealed its fate by dropping it from the

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday outlined a seven-step proposal to curb gun violence featuring what he said he hopes will produce the "toughest assault weapons ban in the nation." Cuomo focused part of what was more than an hour long State of the State address to combating gun violence in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 children and seven others dead.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "A new FBI report released today shows that there is a drug arrest every 19 seconds in the U.S. A group of police and judges who have been campaigning to legalize and regulate drugs pointed to the figures showing more than 1.6 million drug arrests in 2010 as evidence that the "war on drugs" is a failure that can never be won.