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		<title>Current Events - America</title>
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		<description>What's happening around America that isn't political?</description>
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			<title>Immigration agency scraps self-deportation program</title>
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			<dc:creator>Pale Rider</dc:creator>
			<description>Immigration agency scraps self-deportation program 





By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press Writer  

Fri Aug 22, 6:23 AM ET



U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it is ending its &quot;Scheduled Departure&quot; program when the three-week trial concludes Friday. Only eight people participated in the program, officials said.



&quot;Quite frankly, I think this proves the only method that works is enforcement,&quot; Jim Hayes, acting director of ICE's detention and removal operations,  ...</description>
			<category>Current Events - America</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:37:30 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Homeowners Fighting Obtrusive Cable and Phone Boxes</title>
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			<dc:creator>Pale Rider</dc:creator>
			<description>Homeowners Fighting Obtrusive Cable and Phone Boxes  







Friday, August 22, 2008



PHILADELPHIA--The road to advanced video, Internet and phone services is bumpy -- and the bumps can be almost as big as refrigerators.



As cable and phone companies race to upgrade services or offer video for the first time, they're doing it by installing equipment in boxes on lawns, easements and curbs all over American neighborhoods. Telecommunications rollouts have always been messy, but several  ...</description>
			<category>Current Events - America</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:39:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Illegal in coma set to be returned to Mexico; Family Objects</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>The family of the illegal has hired lawyers to prevent this man from being sent back home for continued treatment.



How far do we the taxpayers have to go? What do we owe this man except a free trip back home?



Of course the local paper does not use the word &quot;illegal&quot; in their headline





Undocumented immigrant in coma set to be returned to Mexico



A 30-year-old Mexican man in a coma at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago has ignited a dispute over  ...</description>
			<category>Current Events - America</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:35:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>San Francisco Prohibits Pharmacies From Selling Tobacco</title>
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			<dc:creator>Pale Rider</dc:creator>
			<description>san franhomoco at it again... 





San Francisco Prohibits Pharmacies From Selling Tobacco







Tuesday, August 19, 2008



SAN FRANCISCO —  San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that bans the sale of tobacco in pharmacies. He says the city is the first in the United States to take this step.



The measure, proposed by Newsom and approved by the city's Board of Supervisors, amends the health code to prohibit tobaccos sales in drug stores of all sizes. However, pharmacies  ...</description>
			<category>Current Events - America</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:39:12 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Hollywood Takes on the Left</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>The previews I have seen look great. There is so much to poke fun at when it comes the the left in Hollywood







David Zucker, the director who brought us 'Airplane!' and 'The Naked Gun,' turns his sights on anti-Americanism. 

by Stephen F. Hayes 

08/11/2008, Volume 013, Issue 45 







snip



The set jumps to life. Two young men--both terrorists--enter the station. They are surprised to see a security checkpoint manned by two NYPD officers. &quot;I'll need to see your bag,  ...</description>
			<category>Current Events - America</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:16:55 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Study Finds Minorities More Likely To Be Paddled</title>
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			<dc:creator>Pale Rider</dc:creator>
			<description>Study Finds Minorities More Likely To Be Paddled







Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:59 AM EDT 

The Associated Press 

By LIBBY QUAID AP Education Writer 



WASHINGTON (AP) — Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year — and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group.



Even little kids can be paddled. Heather Porter, who lives in Crockett, Texas,  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:26:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Gay marriage opponents seek to reverse new law</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>Oh well, the gay marriage debate is not over in MA after all













Gay marriage opponents seek to reverse new law 



BOSTON - The gay marriage fight in Massachusetts might not be over after all. 



Opponents of same-sex marriages are seeking a ballot question that would prevent gay and lesbian couples from getting married here if their union wouldn't be legal in their home state.



Brian Camenker of the group Mass Resistance said Friday lawmakers and Gov. Deval Patrick  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Bigfoot found in Georgia! Proof or hoax?</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>I would say these guys have had way to much to drink









Bigfoot found in Georgia! Proof or hoax?

Posted: August 15, 2008, 5:08 PM by Karen Hawthorne 

World, News







UPDATE: I wanted to see the Bigfoot body just as much as everybody else, but the two Georgia Bigfoot hunters didn't impress reporters at their news conference today in California where they had promised to reveal the evidence.



It's all very hush-hush: They didn’t produce a body. They said that the body  ...</description>
			<category>Current Events - America</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:56:50 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Texas school district to let teachers carry guns</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>So goes Texas so goes the nation



I hope





Texas school district to let teachers carry guns



HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.



The board of the small rural Harrold Independent School District unanimously approved the plan and parents have not objected, said the district's superintendent, David Thweatt.



School  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:00:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>NBC Beijing Olympic Air Conditioned Outdoor Set: Not So Green</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>Another example of the left's hypocrisy  







NBC Beijing Olympic Air Conditioned Outdoor Set: Not So Green

By Jeff Poor (Bio | Archive)

August 18, 2008 - 09:10 ET  



Do as we say, not as we do - the new theme for NBC's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics? Quite possibly. 



WTHR, the NBC affiliate for Indianapolis, reported from Beijing and described the set used for the network's two highest-rated news broadcasts - &quot;Nightly News&quot; and &quot;Today&quot; - as air conditioned,  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:54:04 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Grand Canyon Floods Breach Dam, Force Evacuations</title>
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			<dc:creator>Pale Rider</dc:creator>
			<description>Grand Canyon Floods Breach Dam, Force Evacuations







Monday, August 18, 2008 1:48 AM EDT 

The Associated Press 

By AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press Writer 



PHOENIX (AP) — Days of heavy rains around the Grand Canyon created flooding that breached an earthen dam Sunday and forced helicopters to pluck scores of residents and campers from the gorge. No injuries were immediately reported.



The weather and dam breach caused flooding in a side canyon containing Supai Village where  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Illegals leaving the US</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>Well it seems a sluggish economy and enforcement of our laws is causing the illegal population to decrease. 





snip



Among the findings: 



Our best estimate is that the illegal immigrant population has declined by 11 percent through May 2008 after hitting a peak in August 2007. 



The implied decline in the illegal population is 1.3 million since last summer, from 12.5 million to 11.2 million today. 



The estimated decline of the illegal population is at least seven times  ...</description>
			<category>Current Events - America</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:41:46 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Thousands of Federal Inmates Gain E-Mail Privileges</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>Your comments?





Thousands of Federal Inmates Gain E-Mail Privileges

Sunday, August 17, 2008



 MIAMI —  When Melvin Garcia was sent to prison almost a decade ago for racketeering, he had never used a computer. Now he sends 50 e-mails a month from a federal prison in West Virginia, punctuating notes with emoticons.



Garcia, 38, is among thousands of prisoners at more than 20 federal facilities where inmates now have inboxes. By the spring of 2011, all 114 U.S. prisons are expected  ...</description>
			<category>Current Events - America</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:24:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Prisons Crowded with Illegal Inmates</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>Make sure they get fresh fruit and ceral in the moring. With some ice cold milk. Then some TV.



Got to keep the jails, I mean hotels, comfortable for them







Special Report: Prisons Crowded with Illegal Inmates

Chip Yost, KTLA News 



July 18, 2008, 12:06 PM PDT



LOS ANGELES -- The numbers can look staggering. Nearly 20,000 inmates in California's state prison system have ICE holds on them, meaning there's a good chance they're illegal immigrants. More than 3,000 of those  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:54:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Crooks Really Are Stupid</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>This is to much folks. The jails are full of stupid crooks, but this one is a classic



Cops: Robbery Thwarted After Crook Locks Keys in Car

Saturday, August 16, 2008





STANTON, Texas — A clumsy crook was nabbed Thursday after he locked his keys in the getaway vehicle, police said.



John Wilkinson, 24, of Big Spring, did just that after he allegedly robbed the Stanton Drug Store of Zanax and hydrocodine, according to police.



They said Wilkinson used a caulking gun, wrapped  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:12:48 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Storm Fay to become hurricane threat to Cuba and U.S.</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>How soon before the enviro wackos blame global wamring and Pres Bush for this?



Storm Fay to become hurricane threat to Cuba and U.S.



By Manuel Jimenez



SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay threatened to strengthen into a hurricane as it moved toward Cuba after dousing Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Saturday with torrential rains and killing at least one person.



The sixth cyclone of what experts predict will be an unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season, Fay was  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:50:17 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>New Rap Song Advocates Killing Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>Liberal hate for those who openly disagree with them is getting rampet. Libs have no problem wanting to control poltical speech they disagree with, but have no issue at all with &quot;songs&quot; that openly call for the murder of their political opponents







New Rap Song Advocates Killing Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)

August 15, 2008 - 00:55 ET 



Although the hatred for conservative media members by leftists in this nation knows no bounds,  ...</description>
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			<title>Man Charged in Fla. With Threatening to Kill Obama; Authorities Find Weapons in Hotel Room</title>
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			<dc:creator>Pale Rider</dc:creator>
			<description>Man Charged in Fla. With Threatening to Kill Obama; Authorities Find Weapons in Hotel Room





Thursday, August 07, 2008 07:42:07 PM 



A man who authorities said was keeping weapons and military-style gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court Thursday on charges he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.



Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, was arrested by the Secret Service on Saturday in Miami and was ordered held at Miami's downtown detention center  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:10:08 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>ICE, Local Officers Arrest 119 Illegal Aliens in Penn. and Del.</title>
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			<dc:creator>Pale Rider</dc:creator>
			<description>More and more, you're seeing this around the country. People are sick of this &quot;illegal alien&quot; shit, and sanfranqueerco, and mister piece of shit liberal mayor sanctuary city gavin... take notice...the rest of the country is watching... and we are NOT happy...    





ICE, Local Officers Arrest 119 Illegal Aliens in Penn. and Del.





Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 7:18 AM



A 10-day ICE operation in Pennsylvania and Delaware netted 75 fugitive aliens and 44 other immigration  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:09:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Bear Attacks Inside Anchorage Have People on Edge</title>
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			<dc:creator>Pale Rider</dc:creator>
			<description>Bear Attacks Inside Anchorage Have People on Edge







Saturday, August 16, 2008 7:38 PM EDT 

The Associated Press 

By MARY PEMBERTON Associated Press Writer 



ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Even in a city whose logo is &quot;Big Wild Life,&quot; the summer of 2008 is testing residents' tolerance for large carnivores.



The problem is bears, black bears and bigger grizzlies. So far this summer, three people have been mauled in the city.



Some people say humans are to blame for  ...</description>
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			<title>Gay Pride Celebration Is Saturday</title>
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			<dc:creator>Pale Rider</dc:creator>
			<description>I'm tempted to go down to this Saturday carrying a sign that says, &quot;God hates fags.&quot;



Gay Pride Celebration Is Saturday



Gay pride is being celebrated Saturday in Reno, with a downtown parade and an all day celebration in Wingfield Park.  It's a lot easier being gay in Reno than it used to be and Reno's celebration is getting big. Spokesperson Kay Crawford says these days it's live and let live. The parade starts at 11 am at Fourth and Arlington and ends in Wingfield Park with  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:53:33 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Wal Mart Mobilizes Against Dems</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>Wal Mart knows full well that Dems are bad for business and they are getting ready for the war Dems will declare on Wal Mart





Wal-Mart warning managers of labor bill 



NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) said on Friday it has held meetings with U.S. store managers warning them of issues that could arise if Democrats win power and pass a law that would make it easier for workers to unionize, but stressed it was not telling workers how to vote. 



Wal-Mart opposes proposed  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:30:20 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Fairness Doctrine Might Involve Control of Web</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>This has been said before with the Fairness Doctrine. The left does want to silence any and all disenting voices, and this is how they will try



First it will be talk radio



Then TV networks



Then they will go after the internet





FCC Commissioner: Return of Fairness Doctrine Could Control Web Content 

McDowell warns reinstated powers could play in net neutrality debate, lead to government requiring balance on Web sites



By Jeff Poor 

Business &amp; Media Institute

8/13/2008  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:24:57 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Exxon Spends $1 Billion Per Day To Operate</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>This is something the liberal media and Dems never talk about. Meanwhile, ABC tires to attack Exxon for making a proft





ExxonMobil CEO Defends High Profits

Rex Tillerson Discusses Industry's Future in Exclusive Interview With Charles Gibson



ExxonMobil CEO and chairman Rex Tillerson defended his company's staggering $11.7 billion in profits for the second quarter, saying that the company's earnings reflected the magnitude of its business operation



&quot;I saw someone characterize  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:32:55 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Ohio Burger King employee fired for bathing in restaurant sink, posting video on Web</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>What were these people thinking?







Burger King employee fired for bath in utility sink 





XENIA, Ohio - Burger King Corp. said Tuesday it had parted ways with an employee who was recorded taking a soapy bath in a utility sink in one of its restaurants in a video that ended up on his MySpace page.



The nearly four-minute video, which was posted online Thursday, shows the man taking the bath to celebrate his birthday. In the video, shot by another worker, the employee refers  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:23:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Talk Radio To Blame For Tenn Shooting????</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>Leave it the kook left to place blame for nearly everything on their political opponents





Does shock jock hate speech lead to violence?

BY JENNA KERN-RUGILE 



August 13, 2008 



On July 27 a man walked into the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville and opened fire, killing two people and seriously wounding seven others.



As someone who has chosen Unitarian Universalism as her faith, I was shaken by the news. Unitarian Universalism congregations, like  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Court rules against Wilsons in Cheney case</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>The Wilson’s never had a case in the first place





Court rules against Wilsons in Cheney case



WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. District Court Tuesday upheld the dismissal of Joe and Valerie Wilson's civil suit against Vice President Dick Cheney and other White House principles.



Writing for the majority of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Chief Judge David Sentelle agreed with the lower court that top White House officials can't be sued for leaking the identity of former CIA  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:44:57 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Inmate: I'm Too Fat to Execute</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>At first I thought this story was a joke - but it is true. 



How many times do they feed this piece of trash? 



So they can't find a vien through all the blubber. Dust off Old Sparky, or put him in front of a firing squad





Inmate says he’s too fat for execution



COLUMBUS, Ohio | A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he is too fat to be put to death.



Richard Cooey faces the death penalty for raping and murdering two women in 1986. He claims that executioners would  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:03:47 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>DC Gun-ban lawsuit part deux</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>Well, the new DC gun law bill is being taken to COurt. When will liobs learn they can't stop law abiding citizens to own a gun?





EDITORIAL: Gun-ban lawsuit part deux



Thursday, July 31, 2008 



Exactly two weeks ago, we told Mayor Adrian Fenty and the D.C. Council that the overbearing emergency legislation regulating gun purchases, registration and ownership they passed would face a lawsuit. The week before, we told them how to possibly avoid litigation. City Hall did not listen.  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:43:36 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>US top court refuses to halt Mexican's execution</title>
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			<dc:creator>red states rule</dc:creator>
			<description>Well, this bastard will not be going to Taco Bell or Disneyland





Texas executes Mexican in defiance of world court 



WASHINGTON (AFP) - Texas has put to death a Mexican convicted murderer, defying a ruling from the International Court of Justice and ignoring a last-minute appeal from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. 



Jose Ernesto Medellin, 33, was killed by lethal injection in the Huntsville death chamber at 9:57 p.m. (0257 GMT Wednesday), Texas Department of Criminal Justice  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:43:25 GMT</pubDate>
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