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1 in 4 California high school students dropped out in 2006-07, state says - Los Angeles Times

Damianmann — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:57:10 +0000

The state, using a new system for tracking dropouts, discloses a rate considerably higher than previously reported. About 1 in 3 students in Los Angeles Unified left school.

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Analysts-Say-More-Banks-Will-Fail: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

Damianmann — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:50:35 +0000

As home prices continue to decline and loan defaults mount, federal regulators are bracing for dozens of American banks to fail over the next year.

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Arianna Huffington: The Latest Media Blind Spot: Viewing All Criticism of Obama Through a Right/Left

Damianmann — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:48:46 +0000

My problem isn’t that Barack Obama doesn’t always agree with me. My problem is that Barack Obama has started to not always agree with himself — falling prey instead to the Conventional Wisdom sirens.

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Release denied for dying Manson follower

Damianmann — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:33:02 +0000

A follower of Charles Manson who stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death nearly 40 years ago but is dying of brain cancer in a California prison was denied compassionate release Tuesday.

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Is the New Yorker’s Muslim Obama cover incendiary or satire? | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

Damianmann — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:08:02 +0000

The cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine depicts Obama in one-piece Muslim garb and headdress fist-bumping his booted, Afro-wearing wife Michelle in camo clothes with a rifle and ammo-belt slung over her shoulder beneath a portrait of Osama bin-Laden while the American flag burns in the fireplace — in the presidential Oval Office.

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Zimbabwe sanctions vetoed at UN

Damianmann — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:50:52 +0000

A draft resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and a number of his key allies has been vetoed at the UN Security Council.

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McCain misses Medicare vote

Damianmann — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:45:51 +0000

Presumed Republican presidential candidate John McCain is the only senator who did not vote this week on a Medicare bill that halted doctor pay cuts but slashed billions in funding from private insurers.

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Your Money - How Fallout Could Affect Main Street

Damianmann — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:42:33 +0000

The stock market swoon over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this week has left many consumers scratching their heads, wondering if buying a home is a worse idea than it was seven days ago or whether to take down the "for sale" sign in the yard.

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Tom D’Antoni: It’s Outrageous That Rove Is Walking Free on The Huffington Post

Damianmann — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:05:19 +0000

Let’s say I received a subpoena from the Justice Department today telling me I had to testify about matters it considered vital to national security. Let’s say I told them, "I could give a rat’s ass about your subpoena, blow me." What do you think would happen?

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Bob Cesca: Killing Iranian Civilians Isn’t Hilarious, Senator McCain on The Huffington Post

Damianmann — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:57:07 +0000

Senator McCain has famously said, "Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war." How, then, should we describe a clearly unbalanced presidential candidate who jokes about killing innocent civilians as part of a larger war-mongering foreign policy?

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