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"The Federal Marriage Amendment is back — with Vitter’s and Craig’s support." ... "Republicans are looking at the political landscape, and they’re feeling awfully discouraged. The polls look bad, the base looks depressed, and fundraising looks iffy. Rallying the far-right troops with an anti-gay amendment to the Constitution — even though it has no chance at even getting so much as a hearing — might be helpful to the conservative movement." ... "But the funny part is looking over the list of the 10 original sponsors. Most of the names are predictable — [Kansas Republican Senator Sam] Brownback and [Oklahoma Republican Senator James] Inhofe, for example — but there are two others whose names stand out: [Republican Senators] Sens. David Vitter (R-La. [Republican-Louisiana]) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho [Republican])." ... "Yes, two of the principal sponsors of a constitutional amendment to “protect” marriage include one far-right Republican who hired prostitutes and another far-right Republican who was arrested for soliciting gay sex an airport men’s room." ... "As my friend Kyle put it, these two are “not exactly the poster boys of the family values crowd or particularly upstanding examples of the supposed sanctity of the ‘union of a man and a woman.”‘" -By Steve Benen -TheCarpetbaggerReport.com 
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"Republicans stall climate change bill to punish Reid." ... "When [Nevada Democratic Senator] Sen. Harry Reid rose to become the majority leader in 2007, many believed he had met his match in the Republicans’ new Senate leader, [Kentucky Republican Senator] Mitch McConnell of Kentucky." ... "Shrewd parliamentarians both, they brought the prospect of each trying to outsmart the other on the Senate floor, promising good viewing." ... "Those skills were on display Wednesday when McConnell brought the Senate to a standstill." ... "Just as the chamber was about to begin a feisty debate on the most sweeping effort yet to address climate change, McConnell shut down the Senate by forcing full reading of the 491-page bill." ... "Rather than hearing a spirited battle over carbon emissions, gas prices and new fees for polluters, one lonely clerk after another read page after page of minutia to a nearly empty chamber." ... "In his own statement, Reid said: “Republicans are yet again doing everything in their power to slow, stop and stall. These petty, partisan tactics waste the American people’s time, and ignoring the crisis of global warming endangers all of us.”" ... "By early evening, with a few remaining tourists in the gallery watching the nearly empty floor, Republican [Oklahoma Senator] Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the chamber’s leading global warming skeptic, sat in waiting, prepared to object should Democrats ask for the hours-long reading to end." -LasVegasSun.com
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- "Smith
trip to Ireland paid for by lobbyist, records show."
... "The Hill, a newspaper that covers Capitol Hill, reported Wednesday
that [Oregon Republican Senator Gordon] Smith and four other GOP [GOP=Grand
Old Party=Republican] lawmakers traveled to Ireland at the expense of a
Washington lobbying firm, Kessler & Associates Business Services Inc."
... "Smith, former [Oklahoma Republican Senator] Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla.[Republican-Oklahoma],
and [Republican Representatives] Reps. Howard Coble, R-N.C.[Republican-North
Carolina], Harold Rogers, R-Ky.[Republican-Kentucky], and Clay Shaw, R-Fla.[Republican-Florida],
attended a four-day international trade seminar at Ashford Castle in Ireland's
County Mayo in August 2003, the newspaper said." ... "Disclosure reports
for the five lawmakers show that Kessler & Associates footed the $25,000
bill, even though congressional ethics guidelines bar lobbying firms from
paying for lawmakers' travel. " -By Matthew Day
-AP via -kgw.com
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Oklahoma
- Tom
DeLay
- "2
in GOP to skip DeLay ethics probe." ... "Two of the
five Republicans on the House ethics committee will not participate in
any investigation of potentially improper travel by House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay, the panel's chairman said Wednesday." ... "Lamar Smith of Texas
and Tom Cole of Oklahoma contributed to DeLay's legal defense fund last
year, creating what outside ethics experts regarded as a conflict of interest."
... "Smith and Cole would be replaced in any committee deliberations involving
DeLay by two other Republicans to be chosen by House Speaker Dennis Hastert,
R-Ill." -By Jim Drinkard
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Carolina - "Women
helping build homes." ... "Women Build is a partnership
of Habitat for Humanity and the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores.
It is an annual event that gives women a chance to help needy families.
Female crews have built 650 Habitat houses in the United States." ... "[Along
with Pensacola, Florida] Other cities with Mother's Day Women Build projects
are Atlanta [Georgia]; Austin, Texas; Chicago [Illinois]; Des Moines, Iowa;
Hartford, Conn. [Connecticut]; Oklahoma City [Oklahoma]; Olympia, Wash.
[Washington]; Omaha, Neb. [Nebraska]; Phoenix [Arizona]; Richmond, Va [Virginia].;
San Francisco [California]; Salt Lake City [Utah]; Tacoma, Wash. [Washington];
and Winston-Salem, N.C. [North Carolina]" -By Bill
Kaczor -APvia
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- Oklahoma
- "U.S.
Marks Anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing." ...
"For each victim, a second of silence; 168 seconds in all." ... "Ten years
after explosives packed in a rented truck smashed into a federal building
in Oklahoma City, many hundreds of survivors and families of the dead were
among those who gathered to remember at the site today." ... "They were
joined by Vice President Dick Cheney and former President Bill Clinton,
who was in office when the entire northern face of the Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building was sheared off at 9:02 on the morning of April 19, 1995.
Also present were 40 survivors of the even deadlier 9/11 attacks." -By
Terence Neilan -NYTimes
- Oklahoma
- "Oklahoma
City Bombing Remembered 10 Years Later." ... "Mourners
in Oklahoma City stood still for 168 seconds of silence -- one for each
of the victims -- on Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the bombing
of the Alfred P. Murrah federal office building by right-wing extremist
Timothy McVeigh." ... "The silence began at 9:02 a.m. (10:02 EDT/1400 GMT),
the exact moment of the blast on April 19, 1995." ... "Outside, on bronze
chairs erected to remember each of the victims at a memorial on the site
of the destroyed building, friends and family of the dead placed flowers,
photos and teddy bears to remember them." -By Ben
Fenwick -Reutersvia
-Wired
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- Oklahoma
- "Silence
Recalls Oklahoma City Victims." ... "Children who
lost their parents in the Oklahoma City bombing recited the names of the
dead, and mourners gently laid bouquets on empty chairs symbolizing each
victim Tuesday as they observed the 10th anniversary of the nation's worst
act of domestic terrorism." ... "Across the street at the Oklahoma City
National Memorial, in the grassy field where the building once stood, 168
empty chairs were a solemn reminder of the carnage of a decade earlier.
Teddy bears were placed on miniature chairs representing the 19 children
slain in the building's daycare." -By Kelly Kurt -AP
via -Guardian.co.uk
- Oklahoma
- "Oklahoma
City Survivors Rebuild Their Lives: Many Survivors
and the City Itself Are Growing Stronger Than Ever." ... "At first, the
divorce rate tripled among rescuers who witnessed the carnage and the suicide
rate jumped. Now there is a new ballpark, a new downtown and 100,000 new
residents." ... "Lavern McCloud's daughter, Nekia, is 14 now. The girl
with the sweet smile and gentle disposition doesn't say much. Nekia suffered
severe brain trauma as a result of the blast. She is developmentally delayed
and attends special-needs classes." ... ""She was walking and talking,
you know, at 4 years old," McCloud said. "And after that [the bombing]
happened she had to relearn everything all over — how to walk, talk and
everything."" (1, 2)
-ABCNEWS.com
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- "Oklahoma
City remembers bombing." ... "Timothy McVeigh was
executed for the attack on 11 June 2001." ... "Co-conspirator Terry Nichols
was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year." ... "The attack
was the worst act of domestic terrorism in US history and brought to the
attention of the American people the world of radical rightwing paramilitary
groups and their followers."-BBC
/News
- Oklahoma
- "The
Force of Fear: A Decade After the Carnage In Oklahoma
City, Washington Can Still Feel the Blast." ... ""It hasn't only affected
O.K. . . . It's affected the U.S." So wrote elementary school kid Jim Shaw
in the close aftermath of the disastrous bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Office Building 10 years ago, on April 19, 1995." ... "Shaw's signed
message, carefully printed on a ceramic tile, is one of hundreds that make
up a low wall setting off the "Children's Area" from the rest of the elaborate
memorial dedicated five years ago on the ground where the bombing took
place. The schoolboy's words succinctly explain why it's called the Oklahoma
City National Memorial." ... "The heavy terrorist weapon of choice
for Army marksman McVeigh, as we know only too well, was the truck bomb.
The rental truck left standing on Fifth Street directly in front of the
Murrah Building -- and directly under the second-floor America's Kids Child
Development Center -- was filled with about 4,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate
soaked in fuel and armed with commercial explosives and blasting caps."
-By Benjamin Forgey-WashingtonPost
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- "Donors
to DeLay fund put on ethics panel: Democrats condemn
GOP’s removal of Republican chairman." ... "Two donors to House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay's defense fund were named Wednesday to the House ethics
committee, which twice last year admonished the Texas Republican." ...
"In a shake-up of the bipartisan panel that critics called part of a purge
and a “shutdown” of ethics enforcement, Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois
Republican, also replaced the ethics chairman, Joel Hefley, a Colorado
Republican, with Washington state Republican Doc Hastings, who was already
on the panel." ... "Hastert appointed to the panel Republican Reps. Lamar
Smith of Texas and Tom Cole of Oklahoma. Both have donated to a defense
fund DeLay created in 2000 after Democrats filed a civil racketeering suit
— later dismissed with the agreement of both sides — over his fund-raising
network." -Reuters
via -MSNBC
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Inhofe - Torture
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- Prisoners
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- Human
Rights - Lawmakers
- Oklahoma
- "GOP
[Republican] senator labels abused prisoners 'terrorists':
Other lawmakers disavow comment." ... "A Republican member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee dismissed Tuesday the outrage over the abuse of
Iraqi prisoners by [United States] U.S. troops, saying Iraqis depicted
in widely broadcast photographs probably had "blood on their hands."" ...
""I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged
by the outrage than we are by the treatment," [Oklahoma Republican Senator]
Sen. James Inhofe said during a hearing on the [Iraqi] Abu Ghraib prison
scandal. (Full
story)" ... "[Republican] President Bush and other top U.S. officials
and leading Republicans have condemned the abuse of Iraqis held at the
Baghdad[Iraq's capital]-area prison, once a notorious torture chamber under
ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein." ... "Though he [Inhofe] called the
soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners "seven bad people," he added,
"I am also outraged that we have so many humanitarian do-gooders right
now crawling all over these prisons looking for human rights violations
while our troops, our heroes, are fighting and dying."" -With
contributions by Ed Henry -CNN
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- "Prison terms
for female offenders now common in U.S.." ... "Nowhere
has there been more attention focused on that trend than in Oklahoma, where
the incarceration rate for women is more than double the national average.
The Legislature set up a task force this year to learn why. Nationally,
from 1993 through 2002, while overall crime was falling, the number of
women arrested rose 14.1 percent, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime
Report. In the same period, the number of men arrested fell 5.9 percent."
... "Some individual crimes show even more striking disparities. While
the number of men arrested on charges of aggravated assault fell 12.3 percent
in the decade, the number of women arrested on the same charge rose 24.9
percent. Drug arrests rose 34.5 percent a year for men in this period,
50 percent for women. And the number of women arrested on embezzlement
charges increased 80.5 percent, actually surpassing the number of men arrested
on the same charges, the only crime for which that is true." -By
Fox Butterfield -NYTimes
via -IHT.com
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