The Specter of a party switch:Â “There is, however, one automatic change that comes with having 60 votes. The greatest power that the minority has in the Senate is the power to grind things to a halt.” Card-checking Specter: “A…
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OC Board Votes on Health Education Funding for Planned Parenthood
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Today the Orange County Board of Supervisors discussed their prior decision to suspend the contract to Orange County Coalition of Community Clinics, as it related to their subcontract with Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties. Incorporated into the…
America’s Sheriff Carona Gets 5-1/2 Years in Federal Prison & $125K Fine; will have to serve 85 percent of the Sentence
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U.S. District Judge Andrew Gilford sentenced former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona to 66 months in prison and a $125,000 fine for a single felony count of witness tampering. After he gets out of the pen, he muist serve 2…
News Roundup 4-23-09
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Transgender murder, hate crime conviction a first DENVER, Colorado (CNN) — A Colorado man was convicted of first-degree murder and a bias-motivated crime and sentenced to life in prison for killing a transgender teen he met on an online social…
OC Supes New Approach to Planned Parenthood Contract
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Jennifer Muir over at the Orange County Register reports that the Board of Supervisors will be considering a new course in dealing with the mess that Supervisor Moorlach pushed them into. After Supervisor Moorlach pushed the Board in between an ideological rock and…
News Roundup for April 21
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It’s enough to make you become a Mennonite: “The Amish church frowns on government aid, but it relented on unemployment checks after a wave of layoffs … Church leaders justified the decision because workers are collecting on the unemployment taxes…
News Roundup for April 20
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The party of know-nothing: “Limbaugh recently told the CPAC audience that the right should ‘stop assuming that the way to beat [the left] is with better policy ideas,’ pointing to the Republican contingent that isn’t especially concerned with ‘substantive answers.’…
