Obama Advocates for UN Gun Treaty Ratification

The Daily Signal
Sept. 12, 2016
President Obama, his days waning in Washington, presses the Senate to ratify a U.N. treaty on small arms that critics call vague and unnecessary. Fred Lucas reports. House Republicans disagree over funding the government after Oct. 1. Philip Wegmann sorts it out. In a revealing Q&A, the strategist who convinced skeptical Britons to vote for leaving the European Union talks to Josh Siegel. Plus: James Gottry on "social progress" intruding on our children's privacy, and Walter Williams on failed public schools and the crime rate.
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