Monthly Archives: April 2004

4 CA counties get a paper trail

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Marines leave Falluja

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White supremacists lead charge to un-name MLK

Racists in Zephyrhills are leading a drive to un-name a street for MLK. Of course, their argument goes something like ‘Gee, it will cost me money to change my business cards…,’ but their motives are undeniably racist. ZEPHYRHILLS – Renaming a street to honor Martin Luther King Jr. was supposed to unite Zephyrhills’ black and [...]
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Gnikcuf FCC prudes

Current.org: “So, can we say ‘suck’?” That’s what Fresh Air co-executive producer Danny Miller asked attorney Steve Schaffer. Miller was calling because emerging star Nellie McKay uses the word in a song excerpted in the program’s review of her album Get Away From Me. No, said Schaffer. No “suck.” Though McKay was insulting somebody and [...]
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Residents react to Porter charges

SPT: On Wednesday, in the neighborhood where the two boys lived and died, anger filled the space once reserved for sadness. By midmorning, news of Jennifer Porter’s arrest in the hit-and-run accident that killed 13-year-old Bryant Wilkins and his 3-year-old brother, Durontae Caldwell, began seeping into homes near N 22nd Street and E 143rd Ave. [...]
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Hit and run killer charged with lesser crime

No surprise here. Her attorney signaled last week that this would be the charge. Still, it’s galling to see this white killer of black children treated with kid gloves. See, if you have a fancy lawyer, you can turn yourself in, avoid handcuffs, and bond out of jail before you even see a cell. This [...]
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Billionaires and Bush: bound by bucks

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115 US Soldiers Dead in April

TBO.com A U.S. soldier was killed Tuesday by insurgents in Baghdad, bringing the American combat death toll for April to 115 – the same number of U.S. combatants killed in the two-month invasion of Iraq a year ago. Tuesday’s death occurred when Shiite gunmen attacked a patrol near the Baghdad Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, [...]
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