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Colorado state lawmakers passed legislation on Saturday that fundamentally changes policing in the state, and the governor is expected to sign it quickly. The legislation was proposed after violent protests and riots broke out across the United States in response to the death of 46-year-old George Floyd in the custody of the Minneapolis police. Colorado Governor Jared Polis has said that he will sign the bill into law once he receives it, the Denver Post reported. Senate Bill 217 – the Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Bill – calls for multiple dramatic changes to the manner in which policing is conducted...

The Obama administra- tion's obdurate refusal to accept the reality of Islam ist terrorism was underscored yet again yesterday when Attorney General Eric Holder announced that 9/11 architect Khalid Sheik Mohammed will be brought to New York to be tried as a common criminal. What an outrage. Mohammed not only admits his role in the worst terrorist attack in American history but actually boasts about it. He should have been stood up in front of a wall and shot years ago. Never mind that the trial of Mohammed and four terrorist associates is certain to devolve into a propaganda circus.

Just as in the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, Obama has shot the albatross and it will be a curse upon the Democrats for 2010 and into the 2012 election. The albatross is a bird of the sea that is accustomed to following sailing ships. Sailors consider them good luck. In the poem, the Mariner shoots the albatross with a cross bow and kills it. The sailors fearing a curse upon them force the mariner to wear the albatross around his neck in hopes of warding off a curse of impending disaster. It fails and they are doomed. They all...

A Portland mosque that has been scrutinized as part of a local terrorism investigation joined five other groups Wednesday in the first legal attack on the USA Patriot Act, the sweeping federal law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that critics say gives the government free rein to spy on ordinary people. In a federal lawsuit directed at two of the nation's top Patriot Act patrons -- U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller -- mosque and other leaders claim that one particularly offensive section gives the FBI unlimited authority to seize personal information without a...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Gail Arent went to the dentist to get a single tooth pulled. She says she left toothless. Arent filed a lawsuit this week in Multnomah County Circuit Court seeking $850,000 in economic and non-economic damages for the loss of 26 of her teeth. The loss was particularly difficult for Arent, 37, a Portland resident who suffers from cerebral palsy and had learned to adapt to the limited use of her upper extremities in part by using her teeth to handle devices for typing and art work, for communications and for dressing herself, according to the lawsuit....