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SPRINGFIELD, ILL. The Illinois House overwhelmingly rejected a temporary income tax increase Sunday, moving the state closer to massive spending cuts that critics called a “doomsday” budget.
The House’s Democratic leaders didn’t even try to pass a larger, permanent increase that was approved by the state Senate a day earlier. Lawmakers said there was little support [...]

NRO:
Whoever murdered George Tiller has done a gravely wicked thing. The evil of this action is in no way diminished by the blood George Tiller had on his own hands. No private individual had the right to execute judgment against him. We are a nation of laws. Lawless violence breeds only [...]

The Independent:
Britain’s most senior military commanders have warned Gordon Brown that unless he sends more troops to Afghanistan Britain will lose credibility with its American allies, The Independent has learnt.
Senior generals are bemused that the Prime Minister has turned down the advice of his own Defence Secretary, John Hutton, that a larger force should be [...]

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Times Online:
A MOTHER is taking her fight to the European Court of Human Rights after she was forbidden from seeing her three-year-old daughter because she is not “clever enough” to look after her.
The woman, who for legal reasons can be identified only by her first name, Rachel, has been told by a family court that [...]

Politico:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will consider Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, said on Sunday she should apologize for a comment she made positing that “a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than [...]

Fox News:
Republican senators are starting to figure out how they will navigate the racial aspects of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, showing Sunday that they won’t be tongue-tied when it comes to the politically tricky subject.
Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic on the high court if confirmed, and just the third [...]

Kansas.Com:
WICHITA - A suspect in this morning’s fatal shooting of abortion doctor George Tiller is in custody and on his way back to Wichita, Wichita Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolz said at a news conference late this afternoon.
The 51-year-old male suspect was arrested without incident on Interstate 35 in Johnson County about three hours after [...]

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Dr. Tiller and abortion people
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“He was the medical director of an abortion clinic in Wichita, Women’s Health Care Services, which specializes in the provision of late-term procedures done, according to their web site, “to the time in the pregnancy when the fetus is viable”
The clinic itself is unusual in that it offers funerary services to [...]

Politico:
On day one, CNN ruled cable news.
But while viewers may flock to the network for election day or the Inauguration, day 130 is a different story.
CNN, which just took home a Peabody Award for its 2008 election coverage, and dominated cable-news ratings on days when politics took center stage, is having trouble getting those viewers [...]