An attorney for a retired police lieutenant who fired the shot that killed a federal agent trying to thwart a New Year's Eve pharmacy robbery says his client is "devastated" by what happened.
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More than anything else, the juvenile, irresponsible, and wholly unnecessary fight over the debt ceiling highlights the uncomfortable reality that only half of this country's political system is within spitting distance of reality.
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President Barack Obama's decision to resume military trials for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will open the door for the prosecution there of several suspected 9/11 conspirators, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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President Barack Obama ordered his administration on Wednesday to stop defending the constitutionality of a federal law that bans recognition of gay marriage, a policy reversal that could have major implications for the rights and benefits of gay couples and reignite an emotional debate for the 2012 presidential campaign.
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Residents of an Australian city cut off by some of the country's worst flooding in decades are being warned to stay out of the water, and not just because of the risk of being swept away: Debris, snakes and even crocodiles could also pose a danger.
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Wendy Cross wants to chaperone field trips and join other parents in supervising activities at her children's school in Grand Rapids, Mich. But because of some bad checks she wrote a decade ago, that's out of the question.
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There has been widespread media coverage through print Internet and television about extending tax cuts for the middle and high income earners. I say stop and take a breath. How about instead helping those that are homeless and living in poverty.
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">Oprah Winfrey the all time Queen of United States television will be bringing her show lock stock and smoking barrel for a trip to Australia. Additionally Oprah will be bringing down under an audience of her loyal followers for a weeks Holiday in Australia.
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The 2010 Tour Of Duty run is a coming together of 16 Australian and 16 American firefighters whoare committed to remembering the police officers, military, emergency service workersand firefighters who, on a call of duty, lost their lives on 11 September 2001.America and Austral …
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A Canadian former child soldier told jailers he comforted himself in his first days at Guantanamo by thinking about killing an American soldier, military prosecutors said Thursday in opening arguments at the war-crimes trial of the youngest inmate at the detention center.
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The notorious detention military facility has been holding a youth for eight years now since his mid teenage years.
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NRA EXEMPTION FROM DISCLOSE ACTIS UNFAIR AND UNCONSTITUTIONALThe DISCLOSE Act, H.R. 5175, sponsored by Rep.
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The 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver Colorado was meant to be a turning point. Historically for the first time a black skinned Afro-America had incredibly made it to the Leadership of the Democratic Party of the United States.
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Was Utah Governor Herbert wrong in posting his signal to Execute on Twitter ? QUOTE: "I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims."
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A barrage of bullets tore into Ronnie Lee Gardner's chest where a target had been pinned over his heart. Two minutes later, the twice-convicted killer was pronounced dead as blood pooled in his dark blue prison jumpsuit.
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Utah is set to execute a condemned killer by firing squad shortly after midnight Thursday, reviving a style of justice that hasn't been used for at least 14 years and that many criticize as archaic.
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Helen Thomas ends White House career amid uproar
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Helen Thomas, the opinionated White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill 10 presidents and often exasperate them, lost her storied perch Monday in a flap over calling on Israelis to get "out of Palestine."
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Fifty years of Presidential coverage came to an end today as Helen Thomas stepped down from her position at Hearst, the second in her long and storied career as a White House correspondent.
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Back when Arizona passed it's "Papers Please" anti-illegal-immigrant law a lot of writers, myself included, were fairly judgmental of the whole thing. We saw it - and indeed still see it - as a thinly veiled attempt to criminalize being brown in the great state of Arizona.
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Just interested by this question. For those of you who know me I am rather prolific seeder (embarrassed cough). I will seed about 10% of what I read on a daily basis and on a range of topics.
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See Government bodies can be useful-Australia's peak science body stands to reap more than $1 billion from its lucrative Wi-Fi patent after already netting about $250 million from the world's biggest technology companies, an intellectual property lawyer says.
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In April 1991 in St. Louis, Missouri, two young white women plunged from a bridge into the Mississippi River. Three African American youths, who may well be innocent, are paying for the crime - all sentenced to death.
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My exposure to this story began as I viewed a disturbing SWAT video showing a Columbia, Missouri SWAT team shooting Jonathan Whitworth's family dogs while his wife and child were present with him in their home. SWAT was there to serve an arrest warrant for marijuana.
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Raymond Towler was convicted of a heinous crime in Ohio in 1981. It was the kind of crime many believe justifies the death penalty. In Towler's case, however, he was given a life sentence.
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Great comments and seeds... Keep up the good work!
Take care!— McSpocky
Just stopping in to let you know that this is one of my favorite things about the internet - meeting people a half world away! Thanks for having me on your friends list, Barry. I enjoy your commentary and you have a quick wit to boot! Great combo!
You have quite the eclectic web site, with a broad range of coverage. I am looking forward to going through and reading all of your articles. As a sidebar, I work three weekend nights here in the US - Sarasota, Florida - and was watching a Front-Line special on our PBS - public television - entitled: "Bush's War" on the Iraq War. It illuminated some of the things, regarding that conflict, of which I had not been aware. I look forward to staying in touch with you. From your photo, you look like a hiker or other outdoors person. Thanks and best regards, Dan Deren
— danderen
Just reaching out to say hi. Thanks for being a friend, Barrys-Rutherford, and the very interesting articles you've posted. It's great to have a friend from Down-Under.
Hope you're having a wonderful week.
Barry muchas gracias por hacerme participar de estos interesantes artÃculos. Es una manera civilizada de entender lo que pasa en el mundo...Thanks for this excellent contact… and thanks for those important articles.
I am so glad to have a new friend on the other side of the world! Thank you for your insightful articles and your passion for a number of similar causes. Its nice to know I am not alone in the world trying to make a difference!
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