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Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.justice.gov/usao/mow/news2010/harrison.ind.htm JULY 9, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BLACK MARKET TRAVEL AGENTS 38 DEFENDANTS INDICTED IN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR FRAUD LOCAL INVESTIGATION EXPOSES NATIONWIDE NETWORK THAT USED STOLEN IDENTITIES, CREDIT CARDS TO PURCHASE AIRLINE TICKETS KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 38 defendants from across the United States have been charged in a series of indictments that allege an extensive network of black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme...

It’s like déjà vu all over again,” noted philosopher Yogi Berra is credited with saying. And so it is. A liberal Democratic president has his heart set on pushing through a proposal strongly unpopular with most Americans. Enjoying substantial Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate, he intends to win. So it was in September, 1977 when Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal treaties to relinquish United States control. An Associated Press opinion poll conducted that month found that only 29 percent of Americans favored the pact. A solid 50 percent opposed it and 21 percent expressed no...

SNIPPET - QUOTE: 17 July 2009 AMF ABDULLAH BATES Bates? He supposedly came to be deceased in Yemen:

CNN's Roland Martin is hosting Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull for the next eight weeks. On Monday's program, Martin clearly demonstrated he's going to have trouble living up to the program's title. The subject was the Notre Dame-Barack Obama controversy. Martin argued with the Catholic League's William Donohue that inviting the adamantly pro-abortion Obama to the school and awarding him an honorary degree is no different from Notre Dame's 2001 treatment of former President George W. Bush, who supports capital punishment: And one of the critical issues when it came to Bush speaking in 2001, death penalty. I have...

Top aides to U.S. President George Bush can be subpoenaed to testify before a congressional committee, a federal court in Washington ruled Thursday. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected White House arguments that former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and current Chief of Staff Josh Bolten have absolute immunity from testifying before Congress. The House Judiciary Committee filed suit after the two, citing executive privilege, refused to testify in the committee's investigation into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006. Regarding Miers's claim of absolute immunity, the court wrote, "The (executive branch's) current claim of absolute...

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Dear RA members, The text below is that of an Email I sent to Bates faculty and administrators clearing up some of the misleading ideas regarding the Bates Academic Bill of Rights that had been going around amongst them as a result of somewhat misleading recent press coverage. I feel that I effectively addressed the true intentions of the resolution and the questions being raised that the RA that passed the resolution was unrepresentative. Since most of the recent discussion over the RA listserve to the contrary is coming from people who weren't even at the May 23 or any...

Dear Bates Faculty/Administrators: I am the sponsor of RA 05-36, the resolution endorsing the principles of Students for Academic Freedom's Academic Bill of Rights, which was passed unanimously by the Representative Assembly at its May 23 meeting. I am writing to inform Bates faculty and administrators my intentions in submitting this legislation. The purpose of the resolution was not to cast doubt on you as professionals nor to impugn your integrity in any way. Its purpose was to show that student leaders at Bates, as a renowned institution whose history is rooted in the principles of egalitarianism, feel that the...

Bates College Students Endorse ABOR By Beth Quimby--Portland Press Herald--06/11/05 A battle is brewing at Bates College. Both conservative Republican and liberal Democratic students are gearing up for ideological battle over what constitutes academic freedom at the Lewiston campus when they return this fall. The two groups are at odds over the student government's passage of a resolution supporting an academic bill of rights for the college. The unanimous vote on May 23 - a few days before the end of the school year - involved just 12 of the college's 60 student representatives. The vote put Bates in a...

Bush vs. Kerry Judging the candidates' strength of character Sunday, July 11,2004 When I was 21 years old, a college senior in 1969, I participated in my only lottery. I'm not a gambler, but my life was at stake. So were the lives of all American young men born between 1944 and 1950, as our birthdays were picked one by one to determine our order in the military draft. That moment in American history was the hardest test my generation took. Our answers have been judged for the rest of our lives. My friends made difficult choices. Some quit college...

LEWISTON — Chalk up this political skirmish to one careless click of the mouse. A misdirected e-mail by a Bates College staffer - he replied to a message that he meant to forward - has stoked the debate over whether U.S. campuses give a fair shake to conservative points of view. The e-mail, which referred to the College Republicans as a "bunch of thugs," was followed by a hasty apology, a formal reprimand and a high-level meeting about whether conservative voices are welcome on the Lewiston campus. The request landed in the inbox of Doug Hubley, who works in Bates'...

Fletcher testifies he knew residency could be issue CONGRESSMAN SAYS BATES CHECKED LAWS ON QUALIFICATIONS FOR RUNNING MATE By Ryan Alessi HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU FRANKFORT -U.S. Rep. Ernie Fletcher defended his candidacy for governor from a witness stand yesterday. In Franklin Circuit Court, Fletcher testified that, before announcing his first running mate last fall, he figured his choice, Hunter Bates, might be questioned about whether he met state residency requirements. He also said he ultimately relied on Bates' own conclusions that he could pass any legal test. But last month, an Oldham circuit judge ruled Bates had not been a...

<p>FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A judge refused yesterday to keep Ernie Fletcher, a Republican candidate for governor, from replacing Hunter Bates as his running mate for lieutenant governor, but state Rep. Steve Nunn's running mate said he'd appeal.</p> <p>Franklin Circuit Judge William Graham's decision allowed Fletcher, a member of Congress from Lexington, to stay on the May 20 primary ballot.</p>

<p>Amid last week's squabbling among Republican gubernatorial candidates about Hunter Bates' disqualification as U.S. Rep. Ernie Fletcher's running mate, there was another spat -- about Fletcher's television advertising schedule.</p> <p>When the war started in Iraq, Fletcher said he was suspending his commercials, which were running on only Louisville stations, for ''the initial stages of war.'' He resumed them Thursday, and former Jefferson County JudgeExecutive Rebecca Jackson's campaign, which is cash-poor and has not bought TV spots, made sure reporters knew about it.</p>

<p>''Our opponents are trying to decide this election in the courtroom,'' Ernie Fletcher said.</p> <p>Having knocked Hunter Bates off U. S. Rep. Ernie Fletcher's Republican slate for governor, state Rep. Steve Nunn's campaign went to court yesterday to disqualify Fletcher, too.</p>

<p>Hunter Bates lived in Alexandria, Va., from 1995 to 2002.</p> <p>UPDATE: Hunter Bates said today that he won't appeal yesterday's court decision removing him as U.S. Rep. Ernie Fletcher's running mate for lieutenant governor on grounds that he hasn't lived in Kentucky long enough.</p>

The Reporter broke with its own tradition by publishing an unsigned letter to the editor, apparently because that person was one of three that finally discovered, after 17 years, that op-ed columnist Michael Bates is a crank. The "concerned resident of Oak Lawn" wrote to protest Bates' April 11 column titled "Still a Clinton hater — and loving it," in which Bates proved he is still one of many conservatives who can't get over the fact that their embodiment of evil incarnate is still so darn popular. (To this we say to Mr. Bates, Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!) "Are...