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    20080517
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  • JOHN MCCAIN News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John Sidney McCain III News.John McCainTHOMAS LOEFFLER News. Texas Republican Politician Thomas Gilbert ''Tom'' Loeffler News. Lobbyist and Republican John McCain's 2008 Election Presidential Adviser Thomas Loeffler News.Thomas LoefflerFOREIGN News.ForeignPOLITICS News. POLITICIAN News.PoliticsSAUDI ARABIA News. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia News.Saudi ArabiaFRENCH News. FRANCE News.FrenchAEROSPACE News. AIRPLANE News.AerospaceMILITARY News.MilitaryMANUFACTURING News.ManufacturingTEXAS News.TexasUS AMERICAN NewsUS2008 ELECTION News2008 Election - "Mccain vs. Lobbyists." ... "Stung by the news that two aides once lobbied for the Burmese junta, [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain last week rolled out a sweeping new conflict-of-interest policy for his campaign, requiring all staffers to fill out questionnaires identifying past or current clients that "could be embarrassing for the senator."" ... "One top campaign official affected by the new policy is national finance co-chair Tom Loeffler, a former Texas congressman whose lobbying firm has collected nearly $15 million from Saudi Arabia since 2002 and millions more from other foreign and corporate interests, including a French aerospace firm [EADS] seeking Pentagon contracts. Loeffler last month told a reporter "at no time have I discussed my clients with John McCain." But lobbying disclosure records reviewed by NEWSWEEK show that on May 17, 2006, Loeffler listed meeting McCain along with the Saudi ambassador to "discuss US-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia relations."" ... "Another potential problem: Loeffler's firm started paying $15,000 a month last summer to one of its lobbyists, Susan Nelson, after she left to become McCain's full-time finance director, said a source familiar with the arrangement (who asked not to be identified talking about sensitive matters)." -By Michael Isikoff -Newsweek 
  • 20080502
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  • RON PAUL News. Texas Republican Politician Ronald Ernest 'Ron' Paul News. 2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Ron Paul News.Ron PaulJOHN MCCAIN News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John Sidney McCain III News.John McCainBARACK OBAMA News. 2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama News.Barack ObamaUS AMERICAN News.USIRAQ News.IraqFOREIGN News. COUNTRY News.ForeignMILITARY News.MilitaryFEDERAL News.FederalDOLLARS News. CURRENCY News. MONEY News.DollarsLAW News. CONSTITUTION News.LawBOOK News.Book2008 ELECTION News2008 ElectionTEXAS News.TexasARIZONA News.ArizonaILLINOIS NewsIllinois - "Paul: Not ready to endorse McCain, likes Obama's foreign policy." ... "Having a Republican win the upcoming presidential election is “secondary” for [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Texas Representative Ron] Paul who is more interested in defending the Constitution, having the country go in what he considers the right direction, having a sound currency, and achieving balanced budgets. Paul parts ways with [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator John] McCain over McCain’s support for the Iraq war, his approach to U.S. [United States] foreign policy in the Middle East and his willingness to spend federal dollars to support military operations in Iraq." ... "Instead, Paul favors [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator] Sen. Barack Obama because of positions on foreign policy. “But that’s doesn’t mean that’s an endorsement,” Paul quickly added." ... "Paul recently released a new book titled “The Revolution: a Manifesto.” “Unfortunately, it is revolutionary to talk about obeying the Constitution,” Paul said of the book’s title." -CNN
  • 20080430
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  • RACISM News. RACIAL PROFILING News.RacismTEXAS News.TexasPRISON News.PrisonHISTORY News.HistoryPEOPLE News.PeopleDNA News. GENETICS NewsDNAHUMAN RIGHTS News.Human Rights - "DNA frees Texas man imprisoned for 27 years." ... "James Woodard [a black male], 55, spent more time in prison than any other wrongfully convicted inmate in U.S. [United States] history who was subsequently freed by DNA testing, local media reported." ... "He was also the eighteenth person freed in Dallas County [Texas] based on a post-conviction DNA analysis, according to the Innocence Project, a New York-based legal center that specializes in righting grave miscarriages of justice." ... "That is more than any other U.S. county, highlighting problems in the local justice system that include what critics have said is a history of racism and racial profiling." -By Ed Stoddard with contributions by Todd Eastham -Reuters 
  • 20080422
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  • JACK ABRAMOFF News. CONVICTED CRIMINAL REPUBLICAN LOBBYIST JACK ABRAMOFF News.Jack AbramoffJOHN DOOLITTLE News. California Republican Politician John T Doolittle News.John DoolittleCRIMINAL News. INVESTIGATION News.CriminalMONEY News.MoneyPOLITICIAN News. POLITICS News.PoliticsSPORTS News. SPORTS Pages.SportsGOVERNMENT News.GovernmentTEXAS News.TexasCALIFORNIA News.California - "Former Justice official pleads guilty in Abramoff probe." ... "The [Republican President Bush] Justice Department lost one of its own to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal Tuesday as a former high-ranking department attorney pleaded guilty to conflict of interest." ... "Robert E. Coughlin II admitted in federal court in Washington that he accepted meals, concert tickets and luxury seats at Redskins and Wizards games from a lobbyist while helping the lobbyist and his clients. He pleaded guilty to a single conflict-of-interest charge and faces up to 10 months in prison under a plea deal with the government." ... "The lobbyist is identified in court documents only as "Lobbyist A," but details make clear that he is Kevin Ring, a former member of Abramoff's lobbying team who also is under investigation." ... "Coughlin, now 36 and living in Texas, accepted the gifts from 2001 to 2003 while working on legislative affairs for the Justice Department. He later became deputy chief of staff of the department's criminal division - the same division handling the Abramoff probe - before he resigned a year ago, citing personal reasons." ... "Ring worked for [California Republican Representative John] Doolittle, who's retiring from Congress at the end of this year, before going to work for Abramoff." -By Erica Werner with contributions by Matt Apuzzo -AP via -Courier-Journal.com
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  • 20080411
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  • US AMERICAN News.USIRAQ News.IraqMILITARY News.MilitaryMEDIA News.MediaPOLITICS News. POLITICIAN News.Politics2008 ELECTION News2008 ElectionTEXAS News.Texas - "Bush was upbeat on Iraq even when fearing failure." ... "[Republican] President George W. Bush said on Friday he was worried in 2006 that the United States would fail in Iraq but stated publicly at the time that it was winning because he needed to maintain morale." ... ""I was worried. Look, I'm worried any time it looks like we're going to fail in Iraq," Bush said during an ABC News interview at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he was spending the weekend with family." ... "Bush, due to leave office in January 2009 after the U.S. [United States] presidential election in November [2008], said he became worried about a U.S. failure when violence spiked in Iraq in mid-2006 and he began to seek out opinions on what to do." ... "He ultimately decided to boost troop levels by 30,000 in 2007 in a so-called "surge."" ... ""I thought it was failing, yes, I did," Bush said." ... "Despite mounting violence, Bush gave upbeat assessments throughout the summer of 2006, saying as late as October 11: "It's my responsibility to provide the American people with a candid assessment on the way forward ... Absolutely, we're winning."" (1, 2) -By David Alexander with contributions by David Storey and John O'Callaghan -Reuters
  • 20080410
    JUSTICE SYSTEM News. LAW News. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT News. ATTORNEY News.
  • US AMERICAN News.AmericanWOMEN News.WomenKBR News.KBRCORPORATE News.CorporateGOVERNMENT News.GovernmentCRIMINAL News. LAW ENFORCEMENT News.CriminalPOLITICS News. POLITICIAN News.PoliticsMILITARY News.MilitaryIRAQ News.IraqAFGHANISTAN News.AfghanistanFLORIDA News.FloridaOHIO News.OhioTEXAS News.Texas - "U.S. fails to move on Iraq sexual assault complaints." ... "While working in Iraq as a ''morale coordinator'' for a U.S. [United States] government contractor, a Tampa [Florida] woman says, she was raped by a drunken colleague who secured a key to her apartment from an unlocked storage box." ... "That was in December 2005, and her attorney said he's unaware of any criminal charges in the case." ... "The U.S. Justice Department has the authority to prosecute, but she and at least three other women who say they were assaulted complain of being trapped in legal limbo between a military system that doesn't oversee the private contractors and a justice system that appears unwilling to do so." ... "''American women are vulnerable not only to assault, but to achieving justice,'' said [Florida Democratic Senator] Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat who since December has been pressing the [Republican President] Bush administration for answers over the treatment of U.S. citizens sexually assaulted by contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan." ... "''I'm in a war zone, and I have to worry about my co-workers,'' said Mary Beth Kineston, an Ohio woman who drove a truck in Iraq for Houston[Texas]-based military contractor KBR and said she was raped by another driver." -By Lesley Clark-MiamiHerald via -McClatchyDC.com
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  • SAFETY News. Unsafe News.SafetyENFORCEMENT News. INSPECTIONS New.EnforcementCORPORATE News.CorporatePOLITICS News. POLITICIAN News.PoliticsFEDERAL News.FederalAIRLINES News. AVIATION News. American Airlines News. Federal Aviation Administration News. FAA News.AviationLAWMAKERS News. LAW News.LawmakersILL News: ILLINOIS News.IllTEXAS News.Texas - "Lawmakers blame FAA for mass flight cancellations." ... "Outrage over mass cancellations of American Airlines flights spilled into Congress on Thursday as lawmakers blamed regulators at the Federal Aviation Administration for indirectly contributing to the hardships shouldered by thousands of stranded travelers." ... "Nicholas Sabatini, the FAA's associate administrator for safety, endured relentless questions by members of a Senate subcommittee on aviation, who took turns denouncing "systematic" regulatory failures by the FAA. Several suggested that the cancellations may not have been necessary if the agency had been tougher in the past." ... "In the past three days, American Airlines has grounded nearly 2,500 flights to repair wiring bundles in the wheel wells of its MD-80 fleet. The repairs were ordered after the FAA toughened its oversight of commercial airlines following allegations that FAA officials in Texas allowed Dallas-based Southwest Airlines to fly potentially unsafe airplanes that were overdue for inspections." ... ""I don't think there is any question that the FAA has been lax in enforcing safety regulations," [Illinois Democratic Representative] Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Ill. [Democratic-Illinois], chairman of the House aviation subcommittee, said in a telephone interview." -By Dave Montgomery -McClatchyDC.com 
  • 20080409
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  • IMMIGRATION News. Illegal Immigration News.ImmigrationPOLITICS News.PoliticsTEXAS News.TexasSCHOOL News. School District News.School - "Athens School 'Attack' Proven To Be False, Girl To Be Charged." ... "Charges are being filed against 13 year old Melanie Bowers by Athens ISD [Independent School District] through the Henderson County District Attorney's office for filing a false report, said AISD officials today." ... "Bowers claimed earlier this week that she was beaten and threatened - with killing and rape, no less - by a group of students at Athens ISD last Friday, for creating a protest sign saying, "If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration."" ... "After Melanie's accusations, administrators reviewed school survellience videotape of the incident - which, instead of showing students beating or attacking her, showed Bowers scratching herself on her arms, face, and neck, and walking through the halls of the school calmly long after she claimed the incident happened." ... "After Melanie's parents were presented with that information and the video, the school confronted Melanie, and she admitted that she made the story up." -KLTV.com 
  • 20080403
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  • CORPORATE News. COMPANIES News. MONEY News.CorporateGOVERNMENT News.GovernmentAIRLINE News. AVIATION News. FAA News: Federal Aviation Agency News. PLANES News. FLYING News.AviationSAFETY News.SafetyAUDIT News.AuditTRANSPORTATION NewsTransportationLAW News.LawTEXAS News.Texas - "FAA Whistleblower Says He Was Threatened: Tells Congress Agency Viewed Airlines More Like "Customers" Than Companies To Be Regulated." ... "The FAA [Federal Aviation Agency] last month took the rare step of ordering the audit of maintenance records at all domestic carriers following reports of missed safety inspections at Dallas[Texas]-based Southwest. The airline was hit with a record $10.2 million fine for continuing to fly dozens of Boeing 737s that hadn't been inspected for cracks in their fuselages." ... "Both FAA whistleblowers - Charalambe Boutris and [Douglas] Peters - said the agency views the airlines as its "customers" instead of companies to be regulated. They said the FAA's chief maintenance inspector at Southwest, Douglas T. Gawadzinski, knowingly allowed Southwest to keep planes flying that put passengers at risk, and that another inspector knew of the problem and did nothing." ... "Gawadzinski is still employed by the FAA, but has no responsibility for safety decisions, said Nicholas Sabatini, the agency's associate administrator for aviation safety. The FAA will "take whatever action the law will allow" when the investigation into the Southwest episode is complete, he added." ... "Gawadzinski was not asked to testify at Thursday's hearing because he was considered to be a hostile witness who would most likely refuse to answer questions that could have incriminated himself, according to a spokesman for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee." -AP via -CBSNews 
  • 20080402
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  • JOHN HAGEE News. Republican Televangelist Politician John C Hagee News.John HageeJOHN MCCAIN News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John Sidney McCain III News.John McCainPOLITICS News. POLITICIAN News.Politics2008 ELECTION News2008 ElectionTEXAS News.TexasUS AMERICAN NewsUSISRAEL News.Israel - "Jewish Leader Calls Hagee 'Extremist'." ... "The leader of the largest branch of American Judaism said Wednesday that synagogues in the movement shouldn't work with the [Reverend] Rev. John Hagee [who Republican President Presidential Candidate John McCain sought and accepted an endorsement from], a Christian Zionist, calling him an "extremist" on Israeli policy who disparages other faiths." ... "[Rabbi Eric] Yoffie also condemned Hagee's views on Roman Catholicism and Islam. The San Antonio [Texas] pastor has suggested that Catholic anti-Semitism shaped Adolf Hitler, among other comments." -AP via -SFGate.com 
  • 20080325
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  • AMERICAN News. US AMERICAN News.AmericanWORKER News.WorkersHEALTH News.HealthSAFETY News.SafetyLAWSUIT News. LAWYER News. LAW News.LawsuitKBR News. HALLIBURTON News.KBR HalliburtonCORPORATION News. MONEY News.CorporationGOVERNMENT News. FEDERAL News.GovernmentHISTORY News.HistoryTEXAS News.TexasOIL News.OilCONSTRUCTION News. BUILDING News.ConstructionSCIENCE News.ScienceIRAQ News.IraqCAYMAN ISLANDS News.Cayman IslandsPOLITICS News.Politics - "Iraq contractor fights suit over toxic exposure: Tax loophole may subject construction firm to damages." ... "When the American team arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2003 to repair the Qarmat Ali water injection plant, supervisors told them the orange, sand-like substance strewn around the looted facility was just a "mild irritant," workers recall." ... "The workers got it on their hands and clothing every day while racing for 2 1/2 months to meet a deadline to get the plant, a crucial part of Iraq's oil infrastructure, up and running." ... "But the chemical turned out to be sodium dichromate, a substance so dangerous that even limited exposure greatly increases the risk of cancer. Soon, many of the 22 Americans and 100-plus Iraqis began to complain of nosebleeds, ulcers, and shortness of breath. Within weeks, nearly 60 percent exhibited symptoms of exposure, according to the minutes of a meeting of project managers from KBR, the Houston[Texas]-based construction company in charge of the repairs." ... "Now, nine Americans are accusing KBR, then a subsidiary of the oil conglomerate Halliburton, of knowingly exposing them to the deadly substance and failing to provide them with the protective equipment needed to keep them safe." ... "But the workers, like all employees injured in Iraq, face an uphill struggle in their quest for damages. Under a World War II-era federal workers compensation law, employers are generally protected from employee lawsuits, except in rare cases in which it can be proven that the company intentionally harmed its employees or committed outright fraud." ... "KBR is citing the law, called the Defense Base Act, as grounds to reject the workers' request for damages." ... "But the company's own actions have undermined its case: To avoid payroll taxes for its American employees, KBR hired the workers through two subsidiaries registered in the Cayman Islands, part of a strategy that has allowed KBR to dodge hundreds of millions of dollars in Social Security and Medicare taxes." ... "That gives the workers' lawyer, Mike Doyle of Houston, a chance to argue to an arbitration board that KBR is not an employer protected by federal law, but a third-party that can be sued." -By Farah Stockman -Boston/Globe 
  • 20080312
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  • JOHN MCCAIN News. 2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John Sidney McCain III News.John McCainCORPORATE News. MONEY News. COMPANY News. Lobbyists News.CorporatePOLITICIAN News. POLITICS News.PoliticsEUROPEAN UNION News.EuropeanMANUFACTURING News.BuiltAIRPLANES News. European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company News, EADS News. Aerial Refueling Tankers News. Airbus News. Boeing News. Northrop Grumman News.PlanesUS AMERICAN NewsUSMILITARY News. Air Force News. Defense Department News.MilitaryGOVERNMENT News.GovernmentSPACE News.SpaceARIZONA News.ArizonaLOS ANGELES News. LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA News.Los AngelesCALIFORNIA News.CaliforniaTEXAS News.Texas2008 ELECTION News2008 Election - "McCain Advisers Lobbied for Europeans to Win Air Force Tanker Deal." ... "A co-chairman of [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona] Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign and other top campaign advisers and supporters were lobbyists for the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, part of a group that beat out Boeing for a $35 billion contract to build aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force." ... "Boeing, which has filed an appeal with the Government Accountability Office, is expected to focus at least in part on Mr. McCain’s role in the deal, including letters that he sent urging the Defense Department, in evaluating the tanker bids, not to consider the potential effects of a separate United States-Airbus trade dispute." ... "That contract was won by the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, known as EADS, the corporate parent of Airbus, and Northrop Grumman, the military contractor based in Los Angeles [California]." ... "Mr. McCain’s campaign co-chairman, former Representative Thomas Loeffler, a Texas Republican, also runs a lobbying firm, the Loeffler Group, which earned $220,000 working for EADS in 2007. Mr. Loeffler was the McCain campaign national finance chairman when his firm was hired to lobby for EADS." ... "Two other Loeffler executives who were registered to lobby for EADS are now top campaign advisers for Mr. McCain: Susan Nelson, the finance director, and William L. Ball III, the former Navy secretary. Ms. Nelson and Mr. Ball left the lobbying firm to join the campaign." ... "Another major money raiser for Mr. McCain, Wayne Berman, who was named vice chairman of the campaign last year, also worked for EADS through another lobbying firm, Ogilvy Government Relations, where he is a partner. Ogilvy earned $240,000 from EADS in 2007." ... "Also supporting Mr. McCain and lobbying on behalf of EADS was Kirk Blalock, a national chairman of Young Professionals for McCain and a former aide to [Republican] President Bush. Mr. Blalock’s lobbying firm, Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock, earned $320,000 from EADS in 2007, according to disclosure forms required by Congress. " -By David M. Herszenhorn with contributions by Michael Cooper and Steven R. Weisman -NYTimes 
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  • Amarillo, TX
  • Globe-News 

  • Angleton, TX
  • The Bulletin 

  • Austin, TX
  • American-Statesman 
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  • Baytown, TX
  • BaytownSun 

  • Beaumont, TX
  • BeaumontEnterprise 

  • Brownsville, TX
  • BrownsvilleHerald 

  • Bryan, TX
  • TheEagle 

  • Canyon, TX
  • CanyonNews 

  • Clute, TX
  • TheFacts 

  • Conroe, TX 
  • thebulletin 

  • Corpus Christi, TX 
  • Caller-Times 

  • Dallas, TX
  • BusinessJournal 
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  • DallasObserver 

  • Decatur, TX
  • WiseCountyMessenger

  • Denton, TX
  • Record-Chronicle 

  • Fort Worth , TX
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  • FortWorthWeekly 

  • Fritch, TX
  • EaglePress 

  • Granbury, TX
  • HoodCountyNews 

  • Gainesville, TX
  • DailyRegister 

  • Galveston, TX
  • TheDailyNews 

  • Greenville, TX
  • HeraldBanner 

  • Harlingen, TX
  • ValleyMorningStar 

  • Houston, TX
  • BusinessJournal
  • HoustonChronicle
  • HoustonPress

  • Jacksonville, TX
  • DailyProgress 

  • Kilgore, TX
  • NewsHerald

  • Laredo, TX
  • LaredoMorningTimes

  • Longview, TX
  • News-Journal 

  • Lubock, TX
  • Avalanche-Journal 

  • McAllen, TX
  • TheMonitor.com 

  • Midland, TX
  • Reporter-Telegram 

  • Mount Pleasant, TX
  • Daily Tribune 

  • Pampa, TX
  • Pampa News 

  • Paris, TX
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    Plano, TX
  • StarCourier 

  • Port Arthur, TX
  • PortArthurNews 

  • San Angelo, TX
  • Standard-Times 

  • San Antonio, TX
  • BusinessJournal 
  • Express-News 
  • MySanAntonio 
  • PrimeTimeNewspapers 

  • Sherman, TX
  • HeraldDemocrat 

  • Stephenville, TX
  • EmpireTribune 

  • Temple, TX
  • DailyTelegram 

  • Texarkana, TX
  • TexarkanaGazette 

  • Tyler, TX
  • MorningTelegraph 

  • Three Rivers, TX
  • TheProgress 

  • Uvalde, TX
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  •  Van Horn, TX
  • VanHornAdvocate 

  • Victoria, TX
  • Advocate 

  • Waco, TX
  • Tribune-Herald 

  • Waxahachie, TX
  • DailyLight

  • Weatherford, TX
  • WeatherfordDemocrat 

  • Wharton, TX
  • JournalSpectator 

  • Wichita Falls, TX
  • TimesRecordNews 

  • Wills Point, TX
  • VanzandtNews


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