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Wannabe terrorists will no longer be able to make bombs in their homes legally if Sen. Chuck Schumer has his way.

Citing the growth of homegrown terror attacks, the New York Democrat said the time has come to close a legal loophole that he said handcuffs law enforcement agents investigating extremists.

It is shocking to learn that it is not illegal for an individual to build an explosive device at home, Schumer said.

He said legal explosives could be assembled from readily available items like fireworks and instant ice packs.

Homemade bombs were used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma City blast and the attack on the Boston Marathon, Schumer pointed out.

Theres absolutely no good reason to build an explosive device in ones home, particularly in this day and age, he said.

Al Qaeda magazine Inspire, which published a how-to article in 2010 headlined Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom, recently came out with another home guide for making explosives.

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Published January 18, 2015

A top Democratic and Republican senator agreed Sunday about the urgent need to address the global terror threat and Irans nuclear program but disagreed on possible solutions and other issues, underscoring the reality that Washington remains as divided as ever.

Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, told Fox News Sunday that hes not seeing the leadership from President Obama to stop the worldwide terror threat -- including the growth of the Islamic State in Syria.

As long as ISIS is not losing, they are perceived as winning, he said. "We have to defeat ISIS. We cant let them continue threatening the rest of the world for years. This is not a threat that is going away. Its growing. Its metastasizing.

He also said the United States has to assume there are sleeper cells inside the country capable of carrying out deadly attacks like the recent ones in Paris.

Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Fox News that he agrees with Obama, who doesnt want a protracted ground campaign in Syria.

The president is right, this is a complicated situation, he continued. Its important that ground support be done by those in the country.

Johnson and Cardin agreed that the U.S. should impose tougher sanction on Iran for failing to make final an agreement to curtail its nuclear enrichment program, which appears to be toward building a nuclear bomb.

Imposing additional sanctions is the only way to bring Iran to the table in good faith, Johnson said.

He also said he had no faith in the Obama administrations ability to negotiate a good deal.

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Liberal Democrat Treasury minister Danny Alexander has today (Monday 19 January) welcomed the EY ITEM Club report which forecasts encouraging signs of economic growth.

The report forecasts that in 2015, GDP will grow by 2.9 per cent.

Commenting on the EY ITEM Club winter forecast, Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said:

"This EY ITEM Club Forecast confirms we are making substantial progress in delivering the stronger economy needed to secure a fairer society.

"Falling oil prices act like a giant tax cut to the economy and will further boost our already established recovery. But the full benefits will only be felt if every last penny of the oil price fall is passed on to consumers in full and quickly.

"That's why, as the Liberal Democrat Treasury Minister, I am relentlessly pressing airlines, petrol retailers, bus companies, package tour operators and a host of others to cut prices as much as possible right now.

"Consumers felt the pain when oil prices were high. It's only fair that they, and the economy, should feel the full benefit when they are falling."

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Sedalia writers, artists, family and friends attended a memorial service for local author, activist, journalist and Democrat columnist Rose Nolen Saturday afternoon. Nolens son, Mark Nolen, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., enters Taylor Chapel United Methodist Church with his mothers ashes for the 1 p.m. service.

Followed by family and friends, Mark Nolen, accompanied by a Sedalia Police Department escort, walked his mothers ashes down Ohio Avenue to the Rose Nolen Black History Library at 109 Lima Alley and then to Taylor Chapel UMC on East Pettis Street for memorial services.

Mark Nolen and his aunt Phyllis Montgomery, of Richfield, Minn., prepare to release balloons in honor of his mother while at the Rose Nolen Black History Library Saturday afternoon. Rose Nolen authored and published five books during her writing career that began in 1983.

To honor Nolens weekly column at the Democrat, Nicholas Cashman, left, and his brother Lucas Cashman wear Sedalia Democrat newspaper delivery bags to pass out Nolens memorial flyers at Taylor Chapel Saturday afternoon.

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Democrat Laments Abortion Bill Co-Sponsoring Debacle
Co-sponsoring a bill in Congress doesn #39;t really mean all that much. But maybe it ought to mean a member has agreed to sign on, and will actually sign. At...

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