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MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country’s drug war.
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PHOENIX — A Wyoming man has given more than $1.5 million to help defend Arizona’s controversial immigration enforcement measure in court, Gov. Jan Brewer’s office said Thursday.

The contribution from Timothy Mellon of Saratoga is the largest to Brewer’s defense fund, which has amassed more than $3.6 million from 41,000 donors nationwide. Mellon could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday the Justice Department “sandbagged” him with the lawsuit it filed earlier in the day against him.

The Justice Department claims in its suit that the controversial Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.
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Hendersonville, NC – Jeff Miller, candidate for U.S. Congress, has gained tremendous momentum as of late and Washington insiders are taking notice. Miller gained nationwide attention last month when Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) attended a rally in Hendersonville to tout Miller’s real-life experience as a major asset to the next freshman class in Congress. The Cook Report’s assessment of the race for the 11th District comes just a week after Real Clear Politics declared the race as a toss up.

“I am so pleased with the huge amount of support I am receiving from voters. It further proves my message of more jobs, less government and a better future for generations to come is resonating,” said Miller. “Our values have not been represented in our nation’s Capitol. I am ready to represent Western North Carolina in Washington and bring common sense back to Congress. The Cook Report clearly sees we are making major progress in the 11th District and I believe we will send a clear message to Washington on Election Day.”

In case you missed it, here is the Cook Report’s latest write up moving the 11th District Congressional race from likely Democratic to just leaning Democratic. The Cook Report is acknowledging Jeff Miller as a huge contender for the Republicans taking back Congress.

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Coast Guard officials said they do not yet know if there is any type of leak associated with this explosion.

They said it was not actively producing product, but they will investigate whether there is any type of environmental impact.
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A man known for protesting the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming stormed the network’s Maryland headquarters carrying a handgun on Wednesday, holding three people hostage for hours until he was shot and killed by police, according to authorities.

Police sources have reportedly said that Lee previously protested outside the building, where he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in February 2008, according to court records.

Police reports indicate he paid homeless people to join his protest and carry signs outside the building. He gave one individual $1,000 for what he considered a prize winning essay.

At one point, a crowd of more than 100 people gathered around Lee, who referred to money as “just trash” and began throwing fistfuls of it into the air.

At the trial, Lee reportedly said he began working to save the planet after being laid off from his job in San Diego. He said he was inspired by “Ishmael,” a novel by environmentalist Daniel Quinn and by former Vice President Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”
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A powerful Hurricane Earl threatened to sideswipe much of the East Coast just ahead of Labor Day, worrying countless vacationers who planned to spend the traditional last week of summer at the beach.

North Carolina officials late Tuesday announced the first evacuation would be Ocracoke Island beginning at 5 a.m. Wednesday. Tourists would be ordered to leave the barrier island accessible only by ferries, but those who live there year-round have the option to stay.
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President Obama’s top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.

“ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, Aug. 28, for the ‘Reclaim the Dream’ rally and march,” began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday.
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Two men from the Detroit area were arrested in Amsterdam on a flight arriving from Chicago, reportedly suspected of assessing the aviation system for a potential future terror attack.

The two men did not have prohibited items on them, a law enforcement official told Fox News, saying that although knives were found in their checked luggage, such checked items aren’t prohibited. Law enforcement officials also found several non-functioning cell phones taped together, a phone taped to a Pepto Bismol bottle and a knife and box cutter in checked luggage connected with the men.
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So when the Rev. Wright story broke during His election, He quickly said He wasn’t there when certain things were said, and He distanced Himself from His ?Christian? minister. Now we have another election cycle, and an Imam who is closely linked to Obama. An Imam, who has said things just as, if not more anti-American than Wright…who also wishes to use middle eastern money combined with U.S. taxpayer funding to build a victory mosque at ground zero.

Unlike with Rev. Wright, Obama isn’t distancing Himself from this Imam. And who stands to get hurt the most, by Obama’s vocal and outrageous support of this Imam? I’d have to say the Democrats who are facing re-election this November. In fact, you’d have to think really hard to come up with a better way to hurt their re-election chances.

Why does Obama want to lose one or both houses of Congress? Could He think that His only chance for re-election in 2012 hinges on having the ability to blame the GOP? The right, even if it held the House and the Senate, couldn’t repair America without Obama’s pen signing the bills. I suppose Obama’s media cronies will have to work overtime for Him, but it does look as though He intends to lose both houses.

WASHINGTON — Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand.

More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, the federal-state program aimed principally at the poor, a survey of state data by USA TODAY shows. That’s up at least 17% since the recession began in December 2007.
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(Reuters) - The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.

“If it turns out to be financially feasible and if they can demonstrate an ability to pay off the bonds and comply with the laws concerning tax-exempt financing, we’d certainly consider it,” Sieber told Reuters.
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Bright, who is facing a battle against Montgomery City Councilwoman Martha Roby this fall, joked that Pelosi might lose her own election, decide not to run for the speaker’s job or otherwise not be available.

He suggested, jokingly he insisted to his audience, that Pelosi could fall ill and die in coming months. That remark drew laughter from the crowd.

Though he has a reputation as the second most independent member of Congress, he has been routinely blasted for voting for Pelosi to be speaker.
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Heath Shuler needs to write some of Bright’s quips down, memorize them, and do some stand up. Shuler may be tied with Miller right now, but very soon I suspect Miller to run ads in which He will make it very clear that unlike Shuler…He won’t be voting for Pelosi to be Speaker. Heath Shuler has a good heart, He attempts to help all who make requests to His office, but God didn’t give Him too much between the ears…or He’d of never been a Democrat.

He can’t bring Obama in to campaign for Him, His wife probably doesn’t allow Him to hang out with playboy Edwards anymore, and there is also the land scandal. A barber told me that He was going to vote for Heath, because He was an NFL star…and that really blew me away. Heath Shuler never did as much in the NFL as Brad Johnson did, and if you want to talk about NFL “Star Power”, the FB position doesn’t get a lot of Credit…but even Heath would tell you the value of those blocks. Sam Gash is the only real NFL star calling Western NC home, He is the only one with a Superbowl Ring…or with any shot at Canton.

Republicans lead Democrats 47% to 39% on the economy, which remains the most important issue to voters. Those numbers are nearly identical to those found in June. Republicans have held the advantage on the economy since May of last year.

But for the first time in months, Republicans now hold a slight edge on the issues of government ethics and corruption, 40% to 38%. Voters have been mostly undecided for the past several months on which party to trust more on this issue, but Democrats have held small leads since February. Still, more than one-in-five voters (22%) are still not sure which party to trust more on ethics issues
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NSSF is springing into action, as the public comment period opens on EPA considering a regulation that will ban all traditional lead ammunition. This would basically end the shooting sports as we know it. Remember this is a no-win situation for us, because bullets made of materials other than lead are often considered armor piercing by law. Copper is your basic material, and copper is expensive, and has much poorer performance properties than lead.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sen. Lisa Murkowski declared Wednesday that “it ain’t over yet, folks” as she faced the prospect of being ousted by a conservative challenger backed by Sarah Palin amid widespread anti-incumbent rage this year.

Joe Miller leads Murkowski by about 2,000 votes with several thousand absentee ballots still to be counted, putting him in position to potentially be the latest political newcomer to defeat a well-known incumbent.
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MEXICO CITY — A wounded migrant stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to a gruesome scene, what may be the biggest massacre so far in Mexico’s bloody drug war: a room strewn with the bodies of 72 fellow travelers, some piled on top of each other, just 100 miles from their goal, the U.S. border.
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Ten states, Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands are all seeking waivers exempting them from complying with the new law — the Move Act — that requires all states to mail absentee ballots to overseas military voters 45 days before Election Day.
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Only Foxnews is covering this story, but they failed to give me the info I wanted…which states? If I knew which states were trying to prevent our soldiers from getting a ballot in time to vote, I could inform my readers as to whether an R or a D resides in the Gov’s mansion of each state.

I’m guessing that Democrats control the 10 states, and i can show you why they don’t want our soldiers to vote…

“We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaida has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.” Does that sound like a peaceful guy who loves America? Does that sound like someone who wants to bring people together? The imam behind the Ground Zero mosque, Feisal Abdul Rauf, was exposed as the manipulator of all manipulators when this sound bite from 2005 was uncovered. According to Rauf, al-Qaida is the lesser of two evils.

What did I say last week about the Cordoba mosque? “Don’t fool yourself into thinking this is a peaceful mosque. … They do not respect this country, they do not respect our culture, and they do not respect the lives that were lost at the hands of their own people.” And now we have the proof to back up my initial gut feeling.

Rauf has demonstrated his contempt for Americans with his words. He thinks that America is a bigger terrorist entity than al-Qaida. How is that possible? We don’t send suicide bombers to kill everyone in sight. We don’t fly planes full of innocent people into buildings full of innocent people. We don’t hate Muslim Americans who do right by this country. We don’t cut off the heads of “infidels.” We don’t murder our children if they stray from our religious beliefs. So how is it that we are worse than al-Qaida? And how is it that Rauf gets away with this claim?
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