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A report by Eric Schmitt and Mark Mazzetti of The New York Times reveals that President Bush “secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials.”
Read More“Despite enforcement efforts, human traffickers and prostitution operators have constructed resilient and lucrative networks of organized crime that have a franchise-like ability to persist and prosper,” reports Lise Olsen of the Houston Chronicle. Cantinas, with secret doors and hidden brothels, helped conceal the active prostitution and sex slave trade in Houston. The ringleader of the…
Read MoreAn investigation by the St. Petersburg Times links Polk County sheriff, Sgt. Scott Larson, to a 2002 car accident that killed the car’s 16-year-old passenger, Miles White. The Polk County Sheriff’s office ruled the crash was a single-car accident caused by drunk driving. “But a Polk sheriff’s deputy — who, it turns out, was a…
Read MoreBob Woodward of The Washington Post details how the Bush Administration dealt with the failing Iraq strategy beginning in 2006. Woodward’s book “The War Within” is based on interviews with over 150 participants, classified documents, and taped conversations with President Bush, and “reveals that the administration’s efforts to develop a new Iraq strategy were crippled…
Read MoreFormer public safety commissioner, Walter Monegan, shared emails with The Washington Post that reveal that Gov. Sarah Palin “harshly criticized Alaska state troopers for failing to fire her former brother-in-law and ridiculed an internal affairs investigation into his conduct,” report The Post‘s James V. Grimaldi and Karl Vick. Palin has requested the investigation into possible…
Read MoreA report by Erin Emery and David Olinger of The Denver Post shows that soldiers are being sent back to Afghanistan and Iraq despite the fact that they are battling both physical and mental ailments. “Facing demands unprecedented in the history of the all-volunteer force, the Army has deployed soldiers with slings and crutches and…
Read MoreSarah Palin, governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential nominee, “has been deeply involved in alerting state officials to her family’s personal turmoil” according to interviews and documents reviewed by James V. Grimaldi and Kimberly Kindy of The Washington Post. She is currently under investigation for the firing of Alaska’s state safety commissioner when he failed…
Read MoreKeegan Kyle, Grant Smith and Ben Poston of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analyzed more than 11,000 pothole fixes in the city of Milwaukee and found that the city repaired potholes at a slower rate in minority neighborhoods in the first half of the year. Using SPSS, the analysis found that minority areas on the north…
Read MoreA New York Times report shows that the financial crisis in the United States is having an impact on schools and students across the nation. With home foreclosures mounting, a record number of students returning for school are homeless or qualify for subsidized or free lunches. “As 50 million children return to classes across the…
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