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Leading Off (11/07/08): Cold Dead Hands Edition

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1. The Star-Telegram reports that, in Tarrant County, the election of Barack Obama prompted a run on guns and ammo. Best I can tell, these folks are concerned about stiffer gun control, foreign invasion, mind-altering HD TVs, and the possibility that in the future women will be allowed to vote.

2. The concern over the election results spread to area high schools and universities, where young people reacted to their inability to arm themselves by threatening to riot and organizing protests in a vain attempt to prove they have any idea what is going on outside of Twitter updates and Facebook events.

3. Meanwhile, deportations and removals of undocumented immigrants rose more than 20 percent in North Texas this year, which, as predicted, really helped turn the economy around.

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