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• Race v. Chicago Board of Education

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  Ron Huberman The Chicago Public Schools Board of Education voted this week to institute a new admissions policy for their magnet and selective enrollment public schools that will use socioeconomic background, not race, as a key factor in deciding student admissions. At the meeting where the vote took place, Chicago ...
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• HI Department of Health Publicly rebuffs inquiries for Obama’s vital records

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 154
  DOSSIER OF EXCUSES APPEARS ON WEB IN LAST 6 HOURS? by John Charlton © 2009/2010 (Dec. 18, 2009) — The Hawaii Department of Health has just published a dossier of excuses to rebuff public inquiry into the vital records of Barack Hussein Obama, which the Office of Health Status Monitoring alleges to maintain. ...
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• FBI Linguist Guilty of Leaking Classified Documents to Blog

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 507
  FBI Linguist Guilty of Leaking Classified Documents to Blog : Via Threat Level . An Israeli-American lawyer who worked as an FBI linguist pleaded guilty Thursday to providing an unidentified blogger with classified documents derived from U.S. communications intelligence. Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, 39, of Silver ...
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• Federal Employee Salaries Under Attack

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 477
  “I about fell off my chair when I saw that the number of federal employees making more than $150,000 have more than doubled in the last 18 months. While the American people are hurting, the federal government is padding its pocket. This is totally inappropriate and unacceptable.” -Congressman Jason Chaffetz, ...
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• Dept. of Energy beefs up electricity transmission with new $60M

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 158
  The U.S. Department of Energy has been generous in its support for smart grid efforts this year, granting $3.4 billion to utilities to transition to a cleaner, more efficient electrical grid, and backing companies of all sizes making components and energy management systems to change the way American use power. Today ...
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• Compare and Contrast: The Prosecutions of Don Siegelman (D) and Ted Stevens (R)

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Guest Blogged by Rebecca M. Abrahams Two weeks ago Washington Post reported that U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan named federal prosecutor Henry Schuelke to investigate whether gross prosecutorial misconduct tainted the governments case against now-former Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska. At issue, ...
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• $$- Funding

  
  Battered Women, Battered Children, Custody Abuse — Authority: 441
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] Family Lawless Court Whores . Permalink           from the research LetsGetHonestBlog   $$- Funding $$ USA spending 2000-2009, by Federal Agency Before you click, GUESS: Which are the top 3 spenders? 0 000_Track Thy Govt (great ...
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• $$- Funding

  
  Family Court Crisis-Abusers Getting Custody..!! — Authority: 145
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] Family Lawless Court Whores . Permalink           from the research LetsGetHonestBlog   $$- Funding $$ USA spending 2000-2009, by Federal Agency Before you click, GUESS: Which are the top 3 spenders? 0 000_Track Thy Govt (great ...
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• The Hanging Tennis Shoes of Haight Ashbury

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 437
  Lots of shoes hanging on overhead wires are visible in Haight Ashbury these days. Could it be the work of the sit/lie bullies , you know, the ones behind the purported “unpleasant transformation” in the area over the past year? No one knows…
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• The Burj Dubai

  
  The Chief — Authority: 479
  Now thats one hell of an occupational hazard : The Burj Dubai is so tall that Bedouins can see it from their oases 100 kilometers (63 miles) inland and sailors can see it from their supertankers, 50 nautical miles out in the Gulf -- at least on the few winter days when the air is as clear as its portrayed on the ...
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• The Worst Education Policy That Won’t Go Away

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  Education Sec. Arne Duncan takes to the Wall Street Journal editorial page and tries to explain the absurdity of the Federal Family Education Loan program. Under the status quo, banks issue loans to college students and then collect interest on the loans. But if the students default, that’s not on the bank — ...
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• Death Penalty No Longer Worth It

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  The Washington Post’s Robert Barnes and Maria Glod reports that death sentences are at their lowest since the death penalty was made legal again 33 years ago. Courts issued 106 death sentences last year compared with 328 in 1994 (the highest year for death sentences). This is because crime is down and also ...
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• Farm Helps War Vets Cope With Combat Stress

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  Archis Acres in Calif. is one of about 20 work therapy programs, supported by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, that includes a gardening program. Combat veterans say their work there helps them cope with the stress of having been in war. (Dec. 18)
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• Time for a new sparkling wine AVA in California

  
  STEVE HEIMOFF| WINE BLOG — Authority: 419
  The last few months have seen the usual Fall influx of sparkling wines coming in for review, as the wineries try to get their scores posted in time for the holiday season. So this time of the year always gets me thinking about California bubbly. As good as it is — and it’s become quite good on a world-class level ...
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• Not Photoshopped

  
  The Chief — Authority: 479
  Just awesome : [IMG: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kaR9HOoe01k/SyrbVq96R7I/AAAAAAAABcQ/mDYY5t5PxXc/s400/monkey_1544467c.jpg]
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• Florida AG Probing ES&S/Diebold Merger for Anti-trust Violations

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  From the Herald/Times [ emphasis added ].... TALLAHASSEE --- Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is conducting an anti-trust investigation of a voting-machine company merger that would create a near-monopoly over the levers of democracy in Florida and much of the United States. McCollums office has issued at ...
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• Paying Off Our Enemies in Afghanistan?

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  Here’s a story about the Afghanistan War that should get more attention: the Washington Post’s Walter Pincus reports that U.S. trucking companies hired by the Pentagon are allegedly paying off warlords and the Taliban to ensure a safe passage on their deliveries. These companies have made thousands of trips ...
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• A Decade of Blingees: 2007-2009

  
  Wonkette top — Authority: 643
  Ken Layne: Hello former colleague, may I briefly interview you in Real Time about the most significant political development of the decade, the Blingee? Alex Pareene: YES of course. KL: Hooray! Okay now I will make up these questions. Umm … let’s see, you first discovered the Blingee, is that right? ...
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• Want To Be Represented in Washington? Buy a 2nd Home

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  The Washington Post’s Carol Morrello reports that a group of black leaders wants the U.S. Census Bureau to count the incarcerated as members of the community they lived in before they were sent to prison. This sounds like something reasonable to advocate for: Counting prisoners as living in, for example, ...
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• Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional Spying Should Be Reinstated, Says ACLU

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 507
  Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional Spying Should Be Reinstated, Says ACLU : Via American Civil Liberties Union . FISA Amendments Act Must Be Subject To Judicial Review FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief late Wednesday ...
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