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Patt Morrison: Border Fence Is Borderline Insanity
WHAT, no land mines? If the United States really means business with that fence along the Mexican border, why flinch at installing things that go blooey? If we're going to stop illegal immigrants by taking borderland hundreds of miles long and nearly...Tags: Local Government, Endangered Species, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, National Security
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Foley's Red Lights
THE SCANDAL SURROUNDING disgraced Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) is following the familiar Washington pattern, with one side (Democrats, in this case) alleging a coverup and the other (Republicans) railing about a setup. Even the affair itself has a familiar...Tags: Mark Foley, Politics, ABC (tv network), Democratic Party, Rodney Alexander
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Jonah Goldberg: Foley Flap Highlights Dems' Hypocrisy
THE DEMOCRATS prayed for an October surprise and, like manna from heaven, a hypocritical, sexually disturbed Florida Republican dropped into their laps. They looked at the cyber-stalking ephebophile and said, "Behold, this is good." Overnight, Nancy...Tags: Human Rights, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Political Candidates, Clarence Thomas
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Capitol Hill Eats Own Pork
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, Jefferson Smith, now that we need you? A naïf sent to the U.S. Senate on a fluke in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," Smith (played by Jimmy Stewart) discovered that his mentor had slipped a provision into a "deficiency bill" to...Tags: Charles H. Taylor, David Dreier, Death, Gary G Miller, Real Estate Transactions
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Lott to quit Senate only one year into new term
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSen. Trent Lott, a 35-year Capitol Hill veteran who staged a political comeback after losing his Senate leadership post because of racially insensitive remarks, plans to resign from office before the year is out. With his decision, the Senate's No. 2...Tags: Laws, Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Values
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Looking to November
Today's question: Look toward November. What local and state ballot initiatives should we expect to see? How should L.A. voters go in the general election? How do you expect the vote will actually go? Click here to read previous installments from this...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Laws, Wars and Interventions, Referenda
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Drug traffickers use submersibles to ferry narcotics
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt was on a routine patrol that the Colombian coast guard stumbled upon an eerie outpost amid the mangroves: a mini-shipyard where suspected drug traffickers were building submarines. Perched on a makeshift wooden dry dock late last month were two 55-...Tags: Seizures, Crime, Law and Justice, National Security, U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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The politics of saying 'genocide'
MATT WELCH is The Times' assistant editorial pages editor.ON TUESDAY, President Bush will be obliged, by law, to wrap his double-talking mouth around one of the most curiously persistent debates in modern geopolitics: Whether to call a 92-year-old genocide a "genocide." Every April 24 since 1994, the U.S....Tags: Laws, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Wars and Interventions, Hate Crimes
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Text of House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's Letter
Dear Mr. Attorney General: Former Representative Mark Foley resigned from the House of Representatives on Friday, September 29, 2006, after improper and illicit communications between Mr. Foley and former House pages were made public. While the House...Tags: Mark Foley, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Law Enforcement
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Congress returns for session's last lag
Times Staff WritersWASHINGTON — The ousted Republican-led Congress returns to the Capitol this week to try one last time to shorten a long legislative to-do list, while the just-elected members will vote for new leaders in races that could signal the direction the...Tags: Laws, Politics, National Security, Harry Reid, Richard W Pombo
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Will the pork stop here?
Times Staff WritersWASHINGTON — Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vows to make reform of congressional earmarks a priority of his tenure, arguing that members need to be more transparent when they load pet projects for their districts into federal spending...Tags: Politics, Transportation, Values, Harry Reid, Travel
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Senate Approves Overhaul of Spy Agencies
Times Staff WriterThe Senate gave final passage today to a bill putting a single director in charge of the nation's spy agencies, capping a contentious, five-month legislative push to respond to the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission that investigated the 2001...Tags: Laws, Justice System, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Carl Levin
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