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...After reading it, and doing a modicum of research, I've come to realize that it is more an extension of federal laws that already exist. All of the items in this bill already exist as federal laws. This bill just makes it so that state and local police not only have the authority to enforce them, they have the responsibility to enforce them. So, how do I feel now about the requirement to carry their alien registration papers? Turns out that 8 USC 1304(e) states that "Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with...

Texas Tech has released a signed, sworn affidavit from an athletic trainer who says former coach Mike Leach instructed him to "lock" receiver Adam James in a dark place and that he disagreed with Leach's treatment of James after the player was diagnosed with a concussion.

Common Sense Issues was formed in 2007. They promised to make 1 million phone calls in support of Mike Huckabee. The main problem is that Common Sense Issues is a 501(c) 4. This allows two things. One, a person is not limited by the Federal limits of donations to a campaign. They can give large sums of money (I’m not personally opposed to this, but everyone should be playing by the same rules). Two, Common Sense Issues does not have to disclose its donors. However, a 501 (c) 4 is not allowed to promote a certain candidate, they can only...

(CBS) When the stock market plunges like it did this week, everyone pays attention. The man you're about to meet says hardly anyone is paying attention to what really threatens our financial future. Like an Old Testament prophet, David Walker has been traveling the country, urging people to "wake up before it's too late." But David Walker is no wild-eyed zealot. As Steve Kroft reports, David Walker is an accountant, the nation’s top accountant to be exact, the comptroller general of the United States. He has totaled up our government's income, liabilities, and future obligations and concluded the numbers simply...

(KSDK) -- It's been four years since Doctor Tom Sell, a Town and Country Dentist, was arrested for Medicaid Fraud. Since then, no trial, only long periods of solitary confinement at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. Sell was a successful dentist for more than 20 years. But in May of 1997, his world came crashing down outside his Town and Country office. FBI agents forcibly arrested Sell in the parking lot and records show he had to be treated at St. John's Mercy Medical Center before being locked up. Sell has been indicted by a ...

Salem, Mo. (AP) -- A highway north of Salem remains closed Friday as a standoff involving federal agents enters its second day, at a Dent County home. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and U.S. Customs were called in about 2 p.m. Thursday to serve a federal search warrant at the house. It's about eight miles north of Salem on Missouri 68. When the resident refused to come outside, ATF spokesman Larry Scott says authorities surrounded the home and began a stakeout. Scott has declined to identify the homeowner. He also won't say how many people are ...

Is the ceiling staring at meOr am I staring at the ceiling If the ceiling's staring at me does it find me appealing?Off in the air I hear a soundI think it's thunderLike Stevie I begin to wonder... Does Eddie have a murphy?Is James brown?Is Al green?Is Don king?Is Sylvester blue?What happened to Captain and Tenille?Did they have a ship, homie?I tried to call JoeBut Joe wasn't homeJoe won't pick up the phonePick up the phone I scream into the answering machineI'm hungryI hung it up hungrySo I go to the fridge to get some MamwichBut Joe ate all of ...

Republicans say many of 491 didn’t appeal on proper groundsRepublicans are questioning whether St. Louis Circuit Court judges acted properly in allowing some people to vote in last month’s election even though they didn’t registeer in the city by the Oct. 11 deadline. Thor Hearne, an attorney who has represented the Bush-Cheney campaign, pointed out that a Missouri law specifically allows judges to register voters who hae appealed their removal from the rolls by election authorities. However, Hearne and city GOP official Kevin Copeland contend that many of the 491 people allowed to vote by judges in the heavily Democratic ...

I was watching Fox News in spite of its cloying attempts to be "big time" (aka liberal). Susan Estrich, the "brilliant" political advisor/analyst who gave the nation Mikail Dukakis, made the statement, "It looks like the Republicans got outlawyered." And she was right. Of course, we don't have nearly as much experience in "lawyering" elections. We often tend to simply let the ballots fall where they may and count away. A novel approach to democratic elections in a postmodern society and one that may soon disappear by the wayside.We were outlawyered. Gore, having received the new DNC publication, "Stealing Elections ...