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Supreme Court rejects case of valedictorian who mentioned Jesus - Yahoo! NewsA high school valedictorian in Colorado has lost her bid for the US Supreme Court to decide whether school officials violated her free-speech rights when they withheld her diploma until she agreed to apologize to the student body for mentioning Jesus in her graduation speech. At issue in her ...
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Leo W. Gerard: Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off ShoreIt turns out a Texas windmill farm developer's request last month for nearly half a billion dollars in stimulus funds to create 2,000 jobs in China doesn't rank first on the audacity scale. Shockingly for American taxpayers, and sadly for the staggering 10.2 percent of Americans who are ...
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U.S. forces missed chance to get bin Laden in 2001 - Yahoo! NewsThe U.S. military could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden in 2001 if it had launched a concerted attack on his hideout in Afghanistan, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The report, written by staff working for the Democratic majority on the ...
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Court won't disturb $82.6M award in SUV rollover - Yahoo! NewsThe Supreme Court has left in place an $82.6 million award to a woman who was paralyzed after her Ford Explorer rolled over. The justices on Monday rejected Ford Motor Co.'s challenge to the portion of the award, $55 million, that was intended as punitive damages. Ford argued that it should not ...
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The Associated Press: Gates blocks release of detainee abuse photosBy STEPHEN OHLEMACHER (AP) – Nov 14, 2009 WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates has blocked the public release of any more pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors, saying their release would endanger American soldiers.
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Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Republican senators do an about-face on judicial filibusters - washingtonpost.comFor much of this decade, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, now the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, led the fight against Democratic filibusters of George W. Bush's judicial nominees. He decried Democrats' "unprecedented, obstructive tactics." To have Bush nominees "opposed on a partisan ...
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Similar counties, but stimulus impact miles apart - The Elkhart Project- msnbc.comIf you want to win the stimulus sweepstakes, it helps to have one of the planet's nastiest toxic waste sites in your back yard. Doling out $787 billion in extra federal spending from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Obama administration relied heavily on “shovel ready” public ...
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Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The Chamber On Accounting RulesRyan Grim Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The Chamber On Accounting Rules What's Your Reaction? Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by stripping ...
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Slew of offshore tax evaders settle with IRS - World business- msnbc.comMore than 14,700 U.S. taxpayers came forward to disclose billions in offshore bank accounts in 70 countries under a voluntary Internal Revenue Service program allowing most to avoid criminal prosecution as long as they pay what they owe, IRS officials said Tuesday. A flood of people came ...
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The new wave of female firebrands striking fear into liberal America | World news | The ObserverAll these women express a mood of conservative discontent that is becoming increasingly vocal and, some experts warn, extreme. The Republicans have been kicked out of power in the White House and Congress. The party is becoming more white and southern at the same time as national demographic ...
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