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Davy Crockett, real Texas hero unafraid of Mexicans AUSTIN, Texas -- Arizona's tough new illegal immigration enforcement law would not be right for Texas, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday, upholding the state's long-held tradition of rejecting harsh anti-immigrant policies. The Arizona law will require local and state law enforcement officers to question people about their immigration ...
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Washington Post: All new cars would have to be equipped with "black boxes" that record performance data and federal safety regulators would be granted the authority to order immediate recalls under newly proposed auto-safety legislation being considered by Congress. The draft of a bill was released Thursday by one of the House committees investigating Toyota's massive recalls ...
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Do I look like an angry, shady, shifty, lying, profiteering scientific fraud to you? Fox News: A legal battle is heating up faster than the planet for embattled climatologist Michael Mann. First word emerged that the inspector general for the National Science Foundation would look into the Penn State panel reviewing the climate scientist, who is currently director ...
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Sky News: Belgium is set to become the first ever country in Europe to ban the burkha being worn in public places. The vote in Parliament for a nationwide ban on Islamic clothes or veils that do not allow the wearer to be fully identified was almost unanimous. The full-face niqab and burkha worn by some Muslim women ...
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The Atlantic: President Obama plans to visit the catastrophe zone off Lousiana's coast within the next 48 hours as SecDef Gates mobilizes the Lousiana National Guard and WH convenes a principal-level homeland security response meeting. Republicans begin to question speed of Obama's response. Hannity: "They did nothing for nine days." ... Why is this oil ...
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EU Times: A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today written by Russia’s Northern Fleet is reporting that the United States has ordered a complete media blackout over North Korea’s torpedoing of the giant Deepwater Horizon oil platform owned by the World’s largest offshore drilling contractor Transocean that was built and financed by South Korea’s Hyundai ...
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That's Annelise who wants to replace Dozer as my IT person. Should I blame Dozer for the crashes and replace him with her, or take his word for it that it's the outside server company's fault, and perhapse even the result of tampering by larger, darker forces? That's Dozer, below. What would you do?
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AZ Capitol Times: The Arizona House voted Thursday to make the state the third in the nation to allow people to carry concealed weapons without a permit, sending the governor a bill that would allow Arizonans to forego background checks and classes that are now required. The legislation, approved by the House 36-19 without discussion, would make ...
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Washington Post: Washington Times executives are negotiating to sell the newspaper, after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's family cut off most of the annual subsidy of about $35 million that has kept the Unification Church-backed paper afloat, company officials said. Nicholas Chiaia, a member of the paper's two-man board of directors and president of the church-supported United ...
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LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden and Colorado Democrats are trying to sell a sunny economic future. Biden talked up the federal stimulus package in a visit to a new factory at a Longmont electronics company that received a $45 million stimulus award. The expanded factory could eventually employ 2,700. Biden said the stimulus passed ...
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Notorious angry homosexual and economic failure, Saul Alinsky The new bill would make it illegal for a school district to teach any courses that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or "advocate ethnic solidarity instead ...
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