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05 Aug 2010 20:24

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U.S.: al-Shabab: Somali terror group the root of latest terror arrests

  • 14 the number of alleged al-Shabab supporters indicted for providing support to the group
  • three the number of states in which they were residing – Alabama, California and Minnesota source
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04 Aug 2010 20:33

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Politics: Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision tightly-written, well-considered

  • Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.
  • Judge Vaughn R. Walker • In his decision on same-sex marriage. To put it simply: Prop 8 made gay people second-class citizens. No mincing words. Walker says that the law violated the plaintiffs’ due process and equal protection rights, which overall locks up the ruling tightly. Of course it’s going to get appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, but it’s worth noting two things: First, Walker, who is gay, was assigned the case randomly. And second, lest you think he’s an activist judge, he’s actually a right-leaning George W. Bush appointee. Bush, as you might remember, was a hard-left liberal. source
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04 Aug 2010 20:19

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Politics: Overturned: Twitter still super-excited over the Prop 8 decision



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31 Jul 2010 11:17

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Politics: Maxine Waters in the same congressional ethics boat as Rangel

Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, reportedly had improper chats with an executive at a bank her hubby owned stock in – while it was asking for a bailout. source
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28 Jul 2010 22:42

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U.S.: Arnold Schwarzenegger terminates hope of farm worker overtime

  • cause California’s legislature passed a bill giving farm workers the same right to an 40-hour workweek as everyone else. It would’ve been the first of its kind in the nation.
  • reaction Ah-nold vetoed it, saying that the rules don’t really work for farming – something, surprisingly, both organic farmers and big agriculture corporations agree on. source
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27 Jul 2010 09:14

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U.S.: Bell, California’s highly-paid city council no longer highly-paid

  • 90% decrease in pay for many well-paid members source
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26 Jul 2010 20:56

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U.S.: Bell, California: Home to a bunch of rich bureaucrats, apparently

  • 36,664 the population of Bell, California
  • $787k the amount Bell’s city manager Robert Rizzo makes yearly, which is very high for the city’s size – he’s also not the only one, either
  • $0k the amount the city’s embarrassed mayor, Oscar Hernandez, will make for the rest of his term – and he’s not running for re-election source
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21 Jul 2010 10:59

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U.S.: Massive pot farms: Oakland gets an early grip on a budding business

The city council approved the creation of industrial-sized operations last night. In other words, Oakland is the new Detroit, except with marijuana instead of vehicles. source
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08 Jul 2010 13:32

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U.S.: Most interesting part of “Grim Sleeper” case? How he was caught

  • See, the police did a familial DNA search. That method, rare and fairly controversial, tied DNA from a convicted relative of Lonnie David Franklin Jr. Why? Because they deemed the case a major public threat. The 2008 California law that they used was fought to no avail by civil rights activists. State attorney general Jerry Brown said the arrest was proof the law works: “Although the adoption of this new state policy was unprecedented and controversial,” he said, “in certain cases, it is the only way to bring a dangerous killer to justice.” source
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02 Jul 2010 21:18

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U.S.: Did an appeals court support Ah-nold’s minimum wage scheme?

  • YES though the California state controller is fighting it source
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