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Howard Coble: Unrepentant and Seeking Reelection

In an interview last month, Congressman Coble finally poked his head out of that turtle shell he’d encased himself in and commented on the public outcry he stirred up last year after justifiying the Japanese internment during WWII, reasoning that at the time, they had posed a serious national security risk.
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A Safer America?

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Unfortunately, I missed the President’s State of the Union address last night. Normally it’s not something I miss, but I had much more important stuff on my plate after I got home from work (like finishing up this blog).
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Where Do These People Come From?!?

The forward-thinking folks over at Innovative Concept Marketing have been peddaling the always-humorous ching chong chinaman crap to corporate customers:

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The Return of Proposition 187?

Supporters of Proposition 187 have begun a new campaign called “Save Our State Initiative” to place a revised version of the measure on the November 2004 statewide ballot, the Los Angeles Times reports (Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 12/20).

Proposition 187, which California voters approved in 1994 but the state never implemented because of court challenges, would have restricted access to nonemergency health and other public services for undocumented immigrants. Supporters of the revised measure must collect 500,900 valid signatures by April to place the measure on the November ballot. Campaign organizer Ron Prince said that the campaign over the past two weeks has collected “hundreds of signatures and several thousand dollars,” the AP/Washington Post reports.
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