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Hasta la vista to the political honeymoon. Four days after after his gubernatorial campaign in California opened to better reviews than any of his films ever did, Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday came face to face with political reality when he was attacked from the left for being too naive and from the right for being too [...]

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Nearly 90 percent of Florida’s public schools failed to meet reading and math standards this year under the new federal No Child Left Behind Law.
The Miami Herald reported in Friday’s editions that the data found only 13 percent of the state’s schools demonstrated “adequately yearly progress,” to meet No Child Left Behind standards. State education [...]

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Interview with Greg Palast on Democracy Now this morning-
A Florida law enforcement data-sharing network is about to go national. In the name of counterterrorism, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security are pouring millions of dollars into the system to expand it to local law enforcement agencies across the nation. It’s called Matrix, which stands [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen:
Thank you for your investment of time and energy in gathering here today. I would especially like to thank Moveon.org for sponsoring this event, and the NYU College Democrats for co-sponsoring the speech and for hosting us.
Some of you may remember that my last formal public address on these topics was [...]

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NEW YORK — Like most journalists, CNN morning anchor Jack Cafferty would prefer to cover news than make it.
Especially when it’s bad news.
But Tuesday, Cafferty was the story, being met by photographers as he entered a midtown court to plead guilty in a May 14 hit-and-run accident. According to the criminal complaint, Cafferty was made [...]

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LOS ANGELES — The Republicans here are performing a ghost dance, hoping that through the magic of the pending recall election, the buffalo will again roam the plains and the GOP will regain its status as a player in California politics.
They’re dreaming. While it is possible that Gray Davis could be recalled and a [...]

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It says something about the deep-seated problems of the US economy when the announcement of an annual growth rate of just 2.4 percent in the second quarter can be hailed as a turnaround and a sign that the long-predicted economic recovery will come in the second half of the year.
The US Treasury Secretary John Snow [...]

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FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. July 29-30, 2003. N=900 registered voters nationwide. MoE

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush’s approval rating has dropped as he spars with state lawmakers over efforts to reduce the cost of doctors’ medical malpractice insurance, a poll shows. While the Republican governor remains popular, with 54 percent of respondents rating his job performance as excellent or good, those figures represent an eight [...]

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COLUMBIA, SC “With all of this attention, radio, tv and press, I’m constrained from changing my mind. I want to confirm what you have all suspected, that I will not be opting for re-election this next year. I say what you all suspected in that I indicated that last year, and we haven’t had any [...]

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WHITEHORSE - A Yukon artist has been censored by eBay for making fun of the Bush administration.
In John Steins’ most-wanted deck, U.S. President George Bush is the trump card
Dawson City artist John Steins has been ordered off the popular auction Web site for mocking Bush and other U.S. leaders in a series of hand-painted drawings.
Steins’ [...]

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he Bush administration is actively seeking to gag or punish social service organizations that challenge the party line on such matters as health care for poor children and HIV prevention, according to a new report. Nonprofits that disagree with the president’s own solutions, or go further and blame him for problems in the first place, [...]

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A new Des Moine Register poll out today gives Howard Dean a narrow 23-21 percent lead over Richard Gephardt. Rounding out the candidates with double digits are John Kerry with 14% support and Joe Liebeman with 10%.
The most interesting aspect is that among those poll participants who are definitely voting in the caucuses, Dean [...]

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TALLAHASSEE — A man implicated two decades ago in a Bahamian drug smuggling ring has been hired by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to help create a 13-state anti-terrorism network being launched with $4 million in Justice Department funding.
Millionaire Hank Asher of Boca Raton, a friend of recently retired FDLE director James “Tim” Moore [...]

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