Visclosky Ethics Review Yields No Sanctions
The House Ethics Committee declined to sanction or subpoena U S Representative Pete Visclosky over earmarks and campaign contributions tied to federal funding. Critics say money influences politics. supporters call the ethics finding fair and partisan. The FBI is examining the matter though no criminal conduct is proven.
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This Day In History Highlights March 4 Events
March 4 marks key moments including the U S Constitution taking effect in 1789, Vermont becoming the 14th state in 1791, Lincoln's 1861 inauguration, the 1908 Collinwood school fire, the 1930 Coolidge Dam dedication, F D R’s 1933 inauguration, and Kings Canyon National Park founding in 1940. The year 2010 is the calendar reference.
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James Henry Hammond
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Cotton
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Abraham Lincoln
United States
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Collinwood
Ohio
Coolidge
Arizona
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
America
Kings Canyon National Park
California
Spelling Bee Winners Named at Edgewood and El Capitan
Edgewood Elementary sixth grader Lionel Torrez won with Priscilla Contreras as runner up. Fifth grade winners Brandy Smith and Elizabeth Borunda placed, with runners up noted. At El Capitan Elementary sixth grade DeDee Yearicks won, Michael Skaggs second, and fifth grade Adam Suarez won with Rebecca Teague as runner up.
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Edgewood Elementary
Lionel Torrez
Antonio Torrez
Priscilla Contreras
Victoria Contreras
Brandy Smith
John Noble
Elizabeth Borunda
Juan Borunda
el Capitan Elementary
DeDee Yearicks
Ernest Yearicks
Michael Skaggs
Lester Skaggs
Adam Suarez
Johnny Suarez
Rebecca Teague
Robert C. Teague
Gates reshapes Pentagon to fund current wars not future systems
New Mexico News Services 2010 highlights Robert Gates as a reformist defense chief who shifts Pentagon funding toward armor and medevac efficiency in Iraq and Afghanistan. He cuts costly future weapons like the F 22 Raptors, fires senior officials at Walter Reed, and prioritizes immediate troop safety and success over aerospace jobs.
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Walter Reed
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Nevada
Secretary of Defense
Mike Moseley
Michael Wynne
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Taiwan
West Point
New Mexico News Services
Were the founding fathers media socialists
The piece argues that Mark Lloyd advocates a large state role in media funding and regulation, contrasting his views with the founders who favored private, profit driven press. It claims Lloyd seeks taxes to fund a public media and federal controls, while the founders protected free speech and a market press.
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Mark Lloyd
Lloyd
Republic
America
Paul Starr
Congress
Government intrusion into religious liberty fuels backlash
The writer denounces proposed Massachusetts measures banning infant circumcision as a dangerous tilt against Jewish faith and compares it to Connecticut’s failed bid to seize Catholic finances. It argues liberalism overreaches by using government power to regulate conscience, citing D C gay marriage and Catholic Charities’ cutbacks as evidence of harmed religious institutions and services.
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