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Retired utility worker Charles Warren worries his quality of life is slipping and says that illegal immigrants are to blame. The 55-year-old retiree complains about day laborers waiting for work outside the nearby Home Depot, saying they give his neighborhood "a Third World look." "Ten or 15 years ago, the neighborhood wasn't like this," Warren said. "The states are overpopulated, there is oversprawl, and immigration is contributing to this." After seeing a television commercial that blamed many of California's woes on illegal immigrants, Warren immediately donated $50 to the sponsoring group, Californians for Population Stabilization. And he's not the only...

SAN FRANCISCO — After pushing the nation's most aggressive goals for cutting greenhouse gases, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday disappointed many environmentalists by backing a go-slow approach, making industry report its greenhouse emissions but not capping those emissions until 2010. "I think we should start without the caps," Schwarzenegger said at a hearing on greenhouse-gas reductions at San Francisco City Hall. "I think we can accomplish a lot without the caps. I think with the caps we could really scare the business community, and they mightleave California." Environmentalists said setting a ceiling on releases of greenhouse gases was essential for...

...Charged with the unenviable job of implementing the gas-cap program, Hawaii's Public Utilities Commission says local industry expects the caps to increase prices by an estimated 30 cents a gallon, with costs on Oahu rising from the current price of $2.68 a gallon to more than $3.... So why bring back price controls more than 30 years after Nixon tried them and failed miserably, causing shortages, rationing, inflation and an economic crisis? It's hard to find a reason, other than to retaliate against the big oil companies, namely Chevron, which many Democrats tried to punish unsuccessfully in court. Made up...

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has passed the Senate 54-45 and now moves to the House. If passed, the implementation of CAFTA would expand NAFTA--the 1993 free trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico--to include Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. Judging by the miserable failure of NAFTA to accomplish any of its stated goals, CAFTA can be expected to further increase the U.S. trade deficit, loss of American jobs, poverty in Central America, and the influx of poor illegal immigrants to the United States. A study by the Carnegie Endowment for...

(Columbia) March 3, 2005 - The South Carolina House of Representatives on Thursday voted in favor of medical malpractice bill. It faces a third reading Friday before heading back to the Senate next week, where similar legislation has already been passed. The Tort Reform Act of 2005 Relating to Medical Malpractice limits the liability on non-economic damages to $350,000 per health care provider or institution up to $1.05 million for each plaintiff. Under the act physicians rendering care in life and death emergency cases and obstetricians who provide care in life and death emergency cases to patients who have had...

The tort reform legislation that has been placed on the fast track by the Republican leadership sailed through the Georgia House of Representatives today, which passed its version of Senate Bill 3 by a 136-34 vote. The measure was the only legislation considered by the House today. It was approved with an amendment limiting noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases at $350,000 for a single defendant -- $100,000 more than the Senate version would allow -- or up to $1.05 million when multiple defendants are involved. The Senate must now decide whether it will accept the higher caps and an...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Albert Kolk's small plane banked uncontrollably in darkness over the Monashee mountains, then began spiraling. "Seat belts!" he barked to his teenage grandson and two young friends. Then he reached for a red lever in the cockpit. Suddenly, an orange-and-white parachute as big as a house opened above the plane and gently landed his stricken aircraft in a rocky clearing. If the maker of the parachute that saved Kolk's life this past spring succeeds, one day commercial aircraft like regional commuter jets may have similar safety systems. First, though, there's the challenge of creating a parachute robust...

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Medical malpractice is number cause of death in America NOT car accidents, or heart disease, or slips and falls, this is well known published stat; its is I repeat again medical malpractice. When doctors in hospitals are negligent IT IS because they have TOO MANY PATIENTS in order to make more bucks in order to pay their malpractice insurance WELL HERE IS THE ULTIMATE RESOLUTION or at least lets start here first; NOW they want to puts lawsuit caps on the victims of these professional murderers who have the American Medical Association, biggest scam in the world, supporting this and...

FREDDY'S BACK!Fred Baron Ran John Kerry In The Senate, Now He's Running DNC?? __________________________________________________________________________"TRIAL LAWYERS ON BOARD: Fred Baron, longtime Democratic fundraiser, former president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, named co-chair of 'Kerry Victory '04' by DNC…" (ABCNews.com's "Noted Now," 5/24/04)BARON SAID TRIAL LAWYERS RAN SENATE Fred Baron Quipped About Power Of Trial Lawyers In Senate: "Lastly, there is another reason [a legislative solution to the asbestos litigation crisis] won't happen. I picked up my Wall Street Journal last night . . . and what did I learn? 'The plaintiffs' bar is all but running the Senate.'...

Earth Day: The Neglected Issue of Population Growth; CAPS Activists to Participate at Events in San Diego, Sacramento, Santa Barbara 4/13/2004 6:13:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: State Desk, Environment Reporter Contact: Diana Hull, Ph.D., of Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), 805-564-6626, info@capsweb.org Web: http://www.capsweb SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- At the first Earth Day in 1970, millions of Americans celebrated nature and called for serious protection of the environment. Conservationists across the country noted wisely that "every environmental problem is a population problem." Now, this common sense understanding has become too "politically incorrect" to discuss, let alone...

By Timothy W. Maier© 2004 Insight/News World Communications Inc. Imagine if the world's most notorious fugitive, Osama bin Laden, attempted to board an airliner in the United States. Suppose he were clean-shaven, sporting short hair, wearing a pinstriped business suit and looked like so many other travelers that no suspicions were raised. How far might he get? If he used aliases such as names of family members, he would be nabbed instantly and whisked away for questioning. That's because many of his relatives are on the FBI's secret "no-fly list," according to intelligence sources. But suppose he boldly decided to use his...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans are planning a fresh effort to limit medical malpractice awards, focusing on doctors who stop delivering babies because of soaring insurance bills. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is considering forcing a vote on legislation that would cap awards only for obstetricians and gynecologists just after the Senate returns from recess on Feb. 23, an aide said Thursday. Democrats last year blocked a bill that would have limited damages across a range of cases. Frist said recently a broad bill would again be defeated. "I will use whatever creative strategic things I can to pass legislation....

CHICAGO SCANDALS REACH DALEY'S DOOR Associated Press Tuesday, October 28, 1997; 6:56 a.m. EST BY JAMES WEBB Associated Press Writer EXCERPT: Daley scolded minority aldermen and low-level city and county workers who fell to federal probes involving illegal dumping and no-show workers who are friends or relatives of public officials. In July, he pushed grumbling aldermen to adopt ethics rules governing their conduct. But political observers say the behavior pales by comparison to the behind-the-scenes relationships getting attention now. "What's different now is the light has finally shown on where the real money is being made," said Alderman Joe Moore,...