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Fifteen years ago today, President William Jefferson Clinton signed the Brady Bill into law, America’s first critical step toward requiring criminal background checks for all firearm purchases in order to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, today, Nov. 24, 2008, President George W. Bush granted pardons to 14 individuals and commutation of sentence to two individuals.

I tried to find some info on some of these cases via Google but many are so long ago that there don’t seem to be any digital records or news reports that I could find through Google News. There are other ways to dig for this stuff but with a house guest arriving in in a few minutes I just don’t have time now.

Does anyone know if its common for a President to pardon people for convictions that occurred decades ago? The DOJ has a list of Bill Clinton’s pardons but no details as to the dates of the convictions.

This week the New Jersey attorney general settled a lawsuit with eHarmony Inc, a popular matchmaking site that previously did not serve same-sex daters, requiring it also offer same-sex matching services.
“eHarmony has an impressive track record of helping heterosexual couples find meaningful relationships,” said Patrick Perrine, the Founder and CEO of the gay dating service [...]

The votes are in, and the National Aquarium’s newest dolphin has a name! Members of the public cast more than 22,400 votes via text message and at www.wbaltv.com, and Bayley was the clear favorite with 31% of the votes. With the help of the Aquarium’s dolphins, Baltimore City Mayor Sheila Dixon announced the winning name [...]

To put it in a larger context, as many jobs were eliminated at Citibank alone (52,000) as there are residents of Carson City, Nevada. Over all, this week more jobs were eliminated than there are adults and children living in the Sandusky, Ohio metropolitan area.