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Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings
PHOENIX – Gov. Jan Brewer rose to national fame defending the state's immigration law and warning of rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a claim that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert. But the claim has come back to haunt her after her stammering debate performance in which she failed to back it up and ignored repeated questions on the issue from a scrum of reporters. Brewer has spent the time since backtracking and trying to repair the damage done from her cringe-worthy debate against underdog challenger Terry Goddard.
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GOP 'Young Guns' attack Obama and former party leaders in new book
7 minutes ago · Aggressively looking to distance themselves from their party's past, three top Republican House members have written a book that repeatedly criticizes former GOP leaders as well as President Obama but lays out few new details of how Republicans would govern if they were in charge. In "Young Guns," scheduled for release Sept. 14, Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) cast the Republican congressional leaders who preceded them as a group that "betrayed its pri
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Toledo's Labor Day parade to include Biden, Strickland
1 hour ago · For Democrats and labor, it's a big deal that Vice President Joe Biden will return to Toledo Monday for the second time in as many weeks. With polls showing Gov. Ted Strickland trailing Republican opponent John Kasich, the Monday Labor Day parade will be a chance for the national Democratic leadership to inspire a key constituency of the party. While the Labor Day parade is not overtly political, Democrats tend to get the biggest share of union endorsements, and Ohio is a good place to mee
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Whitman demonstrates the power of her money
2 hours ago · Meg Whitman's record-breaking spending in the race for governor has enabled her campaign to blanket California with more TV ads and mailers than any other in state history, while also tapping new technologies to further broaden her reach. ... Dozens of outside consultants and a paid staff the size of some presidential campaigns run an operation that seems to be the living embodiment of Whitman's book title: "The Power of Many." After record amounts spent on television advertising, mail and gro
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(California Republican) Assembly candidate faces scrutiny over residency
2 hours ago · A candidate for a Glendale-area state Assembly seat is facing scrutiny about whether he lives in the district he is running to represent, as the law requires. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office is looking into whether Sunder Ramani, the Republican candidate on the Nov. 2 ballot, lives in the 43rd Assembly District, as he reported on voter registration and candidacy papers under penalty of perjury. David Demerjian, head of the district attorney's public integrity division, sa
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Jerry Brown would cut pensions if elected governor
3 hours ago · Jerry Brown said Friday that if elected governor he would have to "do things that labor doesn't like," including cutting pension benefits for public employees and asking labor leaders to "put everything on the table" to get California's bloated budget under control. "If you're looking for frugality, I'm your man," the California attorney general and former two-term governor said in a meeting with The Chronicle's editorial board. When he was governor from 1975 to 1983, he said, "I vetoed the p
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Report: Blackwater created shell companies
3 hours ago · Report: Blackwater created shell companies AP – 11 mins ago WASHINGTON – The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported Friday. The newspaper said that it was unclear how many of the created companies got American contracts but that at least three of them obtained work with the U.
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U.S. to temper stance on Afghan corruption
4 hours ago · U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan are developing a strategy that would tolerate some corruption in the country but target the most corrosive abuses by more tightly regulating U.S. contracting procedures, according to senior defense officials. American officials here have not spoken publicly about countenancing potentially corrupt local power brokers. Such a stance would run somewhat against the grain of a counterinsurgency doctrine that preaches the importance of building competent governa
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Injurious heist but 'Pink Panther' member to avoid lay judge trial
5 hours ago · The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office on Friday charged a Montenegrin member of the "Pink Panther" ring of thieves with robbery and intrusion over a 2007 heist in Tokyo involving nearly ¥300 million worth of jewelry. Rifat Hadziahmetovic, 42, was formally arrested in Spain by Japanese police last month in connection with the robbery, which resulted in injuries, a charge that would, as a serious crime, be subject to a lay judge trial under the citizen judge system launched in May 2009.
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UC Irvine upholds suspension of Muslim group, bans it for one quarter
6 hours ago · The suspension of a Muslim student group at UC Irvine was upheld by university officials, but the recommended yearlong ban was reduced to one academic quarter, a move that could allow the group to begin participating in campus activities in January. The Muslim Student Union was appealing the campus ban that was handed down earlier this summer after a protest by several students during a February speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. The group has maintained that it did not organize t
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Rise in public benefits to children of illegal immigrants in L.A. County has supervisor 'very concer
6 hours ago · Welfare payments to children of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County increased in July to $52 million, prompting renewed calls from one county supervisor to rein in public benefits to such families. The payments, made to illegal immigrants for their U.S. citizen children, included $30 million in food stamps and $22 million from the CalWORKS welfare program, according to Los Angeles County figures released Friday by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. The new figure represents an increase
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Sep 03 · Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez today interviewed: Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union Lois Weiner, professor of education at New Jersey City University. I was especially interested in the comments of Lois Weiner. From the transcript: She points out that these reforms are going on worldwide. She discusses the Race to the Top program. Gonzalez asks her to compare not only what’s happening here in the United States, but around the world, in terms of these s
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Sep 03 · AlterNet / By Nick Turse September 3, 2010 | In December 2008, I received an email message from Julian Assange -- the now world-famous public face of the whistleblower organization, Wikileaks. I don’t recall why or how it came about, but he invited me to join a counterinsurgency “analysis team” alongside a number of other academics, journalists and analysts. ~snip~ Those counterinsurgency (COIN) manuals I read and then never wrote about, as well as other related materials, are sti
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Sep 03 · A World in Collapse? "To be fully alive today is to live with anguish, not for one’s own condition in the world but for the condition of the world, for a world that is in collapse." by Alex Doherty , Robert Jensen ...... To borrow a phrase from a friend, I wake up every morning in a state of profound grief. We humans have been given a privileged place in a world that is beautiful beyond description, and we are destroying it and destroying each other. I cope with that by building temp
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Sep 03 · Last week, I heard an interesting take on the political scene: that both parties seem to be trying mightily to lose the upcoming midterm elections. Republicans, in a natural Republican cycle, are nominating some candidates who are so extreme they may lose races which should have been easy Republican wins. Democrats seem paralyzed with fear, even though populist anger should be working to their advantage, since Republicans have never met a Wall Street bank or gigantic corporation that they coul
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Sep 03 · YOU can always tell that the generals believe their wars are faltering when they're making a big show about the number of their 'enemy' they're claiming to have killed or captured. This week, as Defense Secretary Gates was dispatched to Afghanistan to pump up the troops with positivity, his new Afghanistan commander, Gen. Petraeus, has been busy back home extolling the successes to the media of his Special Forces in driving up the body counts of whoever the military deems 'insurgent' or 'militan
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Sep 03 · Exclusive: Major human trafficker is huge GOP donor who fought illegal immigration By Sahil Kapur Friday, September 3rd, 2010 -- 10:06 am A business owner indicted for the human trafficking of 400 laborers from Thailand is a frequent donor to the Republican Party and recently waged war against other companies involved with hiring illegal immigrants. The Associated Press reports that according to the allegations, "the recruiters lured the workers with false promises of lucrative jobs
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Sep 03 · If you thought Tea Baggers were about less taxes and no healthcare for Blacks , you were wrong. Everyone knows by now that the Tea Parties are the baby of the Koch Family, a private oil company. Their real agenda is No Cap and Trade . That is why you see Tea Baggers who do not know what Cap and Trade is carrying signs that say they are against it. Obama was elected with the support of the so called clean energy industries. He promised to deliver Cap and Trade. Cap and Trade is ver
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Sep 02 · We’ve gotten so used to industry lobbyists writing bills that we no longer think it unusual for an un-elected group packed with announced enemies of SS literally writing a bill in secret which will be voted on by a lame duck Congress without opportunity for amendment or modification. But will ramming through(under special rules preventing modification) the draconian cuts of the Simpson/Bowles bill (not a word of which will have been crafted by a democratically elected body) by the lame
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Sep 02 · The drumbeat of bad economic tidings, both national and personal, is relentless. How much of it is the oligarch-owned "media" trying to make people throw the Democratic bums out in November is hard to determine. Some, definitely. But certainly not all, as anyone who's listened to a relative talk about their adult children having to move in with them because of lost jobs, lost homes, etc., knows. Or anyone who's talked to a bright, ambitious youngster who's heading for the military recruitmen
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Sep 02 · Sometimes you have to wonder if the picture painted of our country by the Internet is accurate. Or, does Google show you a Hieronymus Bosch version of reality? I decided to search the Internet. Here is what I found. Welcome to America. I hope you enjoy your stay. Oh, and do not miss the poll on your way out. This is out of control. Become disabled in the Military and you get health care. Become "disabled"in the fire department and get half a million dollars, free health care and a fa
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Sep 02 · Don’t cut Social Security, DOUBLE It By Steven Hill In the aftermath of the Great Recession, a debate over Social Security is heating up. This debate raises fundamental questions about the kind of society in which Americans wish to live. So far, the debate has been between deficit-busters who say Social Security must be trimmed back to reduce government indebtedness and others who want to maintain it as is. But the New America Foundation just released a study that proposes a differ
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Sep 02 · Since policemen and firefighters put their lives on the line for the communities they serve….they must be realistic when it comes to the question of whether their pensions can be properly funded. You are a firefighter. Everyday, you put your life on the line, in order to protect your fellow citizens. While other people flee from the sites of disasters---fires, explosions, earthquakes, terrorist attacks---you rush in. Due to the physically demanding nature of your work as a firefi
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