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Three rival motorcycle gangs turned a local restaurant into a shooting gallery Sunday afternoon and when the gunfire was over, nine people were dead and several were injured. Waco police Sunday afternoon, assisted by Department of Public Safety troopers, police officers from several cities and deputies from the McLennan County Sheriff's Office were surrounding the Twin Peaks Restaurant, in the Central Texas Market Place after several people were reported shot during a rival motorcycle gang fight, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said. Police and troopers were in the parking lot trying to secure the area and protect citizens when...

"Amend for Arnold" was the message on the T-shirt handed to me on New Year's Day by a group of Schwarzenegger fans who were making a commercial in favor of the constitutional amendment allowing immigrants who have been citizens for 20 years to run for president. They asked me to say a few words in support, but I demurred. Why? Because the governor was still, for me, more promise than performance. He'd talked the talk about digging California out of bankruptcy but had yet to make good on any of the radical changes that are needed to achieve this -...