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Russian fighter jet strikes another American drone over Syria in the sixth incident this month
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President Obama defended his response to the growing crisis in Syria on Friday by pointing to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, cautioning against a commitment that risks drawing the U.S. into a new quagmire in the Middle East. Obama appeared determined to take on critics whom he portrayed as impatient and ignorant of the complexity of the warring factions in Syria. He laughed off suggestions that Russian airstrikes in recent days against fighters opposed to President Bashar Assad, an ally of Moscow’s, have President Vladimir Putin looking stronger than Obama in Syria. “We’re not going to make Syria into...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Three pieces of firearm-related legislation are currently on the desk of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) awaiting his consideration. Assembly Bill 1471 would require that after a certain date, the make, model, and serial number of a firearm be microstamped onto the interior surface or internal working parts of all handguns in such a manner that those identifiers are imprinted onto the cartridge case upon firing. The manufacture, sale, and transfer of handguns that do not imprint their identifying information on a cartridge case would be a crime. Assembly Bill 821 would ban the use of lead...
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On the last day of April, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati provided what we must hope is the final word on John Demjanjuk. After a series of court actions spanning 29 years, a three-member panel decided he was indeed the Ukrainian-born prison guard known as "Ivan the Terrible"; at the Nazis' Treblinka death camp, in Poland. The judgment leaves Demjanjuk, now 84, certain to be stripped of his fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship. By cruel coincidence, the court's ruling came the same day we learned that fellow Americans are capable of conduct as reprehensible as many Nazis, that war itself...
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Report: Trains Explode in North Korea Apr 22, 10:52 AM (ET) By SANG-HUN CHOE SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - As many as 3,000 people were killed or injured Thursday when two trains carrying oil and liquefied petroleum gas collided and exploded in a North Korean train station near the Chinese border, South Korean media reported. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, reportedly had passed through the station as he returned from China hours earlier, South Korea's all-news cable channel, YTN, reported. The number killed or injured could reach 3,000, YTN said, citing unidentified sources on the Chinese side of...
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Dear Friend: Recently, you wrote me concerning taxes and the state budget. I am sending you my most recent column on the budget and taxes. It ran in the Orange County Register today. Please check out my other columns at www.sen.ca.gov/mcclintock Thank you again for all of your hard work. Keep up the fight, because you are making the difference. Tom McClintock Friday, February 21, 2003 Learn from mistake - don't repeat it Davis' push to raise taxes ignores revenue plunge when Wilson did same By TOM MCCLINTOCK Republican State Senator from Thousand Oaks When Gov. Gray Davis unveiled his...
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<p>FOXBOROUGH - Patriots linebacker Bryan Cox has been watching the coaching carousel the past few days. He doesn't like the trend.</p>
<p>Cox lashed out at the hiring process around the NFL, which in his opinion discriminates against black head coaching candidates.</p>
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Support the DNC Put Your Tax Cut into Action! What does Bush's tax cut and the oil industry have in common? George Bush wants your tax cut to go to the Big Oil Industry. In fact, he recently made an offhanded comment that the solution to high gas prices for average Americans was to spend their tax-cut at the gas pump -- giving it back to the Big Oil Industry! There is a better way to use your tax cut to offset the rising cost of energy! Make a symbolic "tax cut" contribution to the DNC today dedicated to ...
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Kalifornia state regulators will decide next week whether to allow AES Corp.'s Huntington Beach power plant's operations to double by July, providing much-needed electricity but taking what residents fear will be a heavy toll on them. LA Times : link to article
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On March 10th, Lockheed Martin completed testing of the Navy version of the Joint Strike Fighter, the X-35C at Patuxent River. In all, this X airplane completed 73 flights and 250 FCLP's to fully test the advanced flight control and propulsion systems of our Joint Strike Fighter. Here is an extract from the News Release: Lockheed Martin's Navy JSF completes historic flight-test program PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) X-35C, flying at a rate of up to six missions per day, completed its flight-test program with all objectives achieved on Sunday, March 11, at ...
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By Sayed SalahuddinKABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were reported on Friday to have shelled world-famous, rock-hewn Buddhas as a U.N. envoy warned them of a devastating reaction if they carried out a plan to destroy all of the country's historic statues.Taliban sources in Kabul said mortars and cannon were being used to destroy the two giant Buddha statues in Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, defying world protests at the move.A day after the radical Islamic movement announced it had begun destroying all statues in the 90 percent of Afghanistan it controls, a Pakistan-based Afghan news service also said the Taliban ...
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Davis fights for backing, takes state plan to D.C. 'Lots of people' in capital wary of transmission-grid takeover By Toby Eckert  COPLEY NEWS SERVICE February 27, 2001 WASHINGTON -- Gov. Gray Davis, worried about possible federal opposition to the state's plan to take control of California's power transmission system, said he will lobby Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on the plan in a meeting today. "Clearly, we have to persuade lots of people in Washington that what we're doing is the right thing," Davis said yesterday, citing recent news reports that indicate opposition to the plan from the head of the ...
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13 eastern Europeans detained in Tijuana Police say they found two handguns in van By Sandra Dibble STAFF WRITER January 17, 2001 TIJUANA -- Thirteen eastern Europeans, including two women and a 12-year-old boy, were being questioned yesterday by Mexican authorities who said they found two loaded semiautomatic weapons hidden in the group's van. The detainees are citizens of Russia, Armenia and Ukraine; two had documents identifying them as California residents. Eleven members of the group were traveling in the van Sunday morning when they were stopped by Tijuana police in a middle-class neighborhood east of downtown. They were accompanied ...
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13 eastern Europeans detained in Tijuana Police say they found two handguns in van By Sandra Dibble STAFF WRITER January 17, 2001 TIJUANA -- Thirteen eastern Europeans, including two women and a 12-year-old boy, were being questioned yesterday by Mexican authorities who said they found two loaded semiautomatic weapons hidden in the group's van. The detainees are citizens of Russia, Armenia and Ukraine; two had documents identifying them as California residents. Eleven members of the group were traveling in the van Sunday morning when they were stopped by Tijuana police in a middle-class neighborhood east of downtown. They were accompanied ...
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