POLITICAL INSIDER: Pawlenty: DC like 'drug dealer'
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:20:39 AM
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| WASHINGTON (AP)Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is likening the federal government to a drug dealer. In an interview Thursday with Fox News' "Your World With Neil Cavuto," Pawlenty defended his order that seeks to limit his state's participation in the new health care overhaul law that makes available funds for states to try new medical models. The potential 2012 Republican presidential contender said it would be wrong to take the money. "Instead of all just running around saying, 'We'll take the money because it's free money,' let's call it what it is: The federal government is basically a drug dealer trying... |
POLITICAL INSIDER: Pawlenty: DC like 'drug dealer'
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:20:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Drug Detoxification
| WASHINGTON -- Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is likening the federal government to a drug dealer. In an interview Thursday with Fox News' "Your World With Neil Cavuto," Pawlenty defended his order that seeks to limit his state's participation in the new health care overhaul law that makes available funds for states to try new medical models. The potential 2012 Republican presidential contender said it would be wrong to take the money. "Instead of all just running around saying, 'We'll take the money because it's free money,' let's call it what it is: The federal government is basically a drug dealer... |
Dips in Mexico Told To Leave Kids at Home (Dips = US Diplomats)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:20:39 AM
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| U.S. diplomats at the Consulate General in Monterrey, Mexico, will no longer be allowed to bring their children with them, the State Department said today, citing increased violence and kidnapping in the area. U.S. government personnel from the Consulate General in Monterrey have been advised that the immediate, practical and reliable way to reduce the security risks for children of U.S. Government personnel is to remove them from the city, states a new Travel Warning issued today. The new restrictions follow a shootout that broke out last Friday in front of the American Foundation School in Monterrey in an apparent... |
1 dead in Mexico shootout on border with El Paso
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:20:39 AM
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| CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico A gunbattle erupted between Mexican police and gunmen near the Rio Grande on Saturday, killing one person and prompting U.S. authorities to close a highway that runs along the border in El Paso, Texas. There were no reports of bullets crossing into the U.S. side, El Paso police Detective Mike Baranyay said. The gunmen attacked a municipal police patrol on a boulevard in Ciudad Juarez next to the border river, said Ramon Salinas, a spokesman for Mexico's federal police. The fighting escalated when federal police rushed to help, he said. One gunman was killed and three... |
Mexico's Richest City Plagued by Violence
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:20:39 AM
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| MONTERREY, MexicoA surge of drug violence in Mexico's business capital and richest city has prompted an outcry from business leaders who on Wednesday took out full-page ads asking President Felipe Calderón to send in more soldiers to stem the violence. The growing violence in Monterrey, long one of Mexico's most modern and safe cities, is a sign that the country's war against drug gangs is spreading ever further from poorer battlegrounds along the border and into the country's wealthiest enclaves. |
Mexico Confirms Car Had Explosive Device Aboard (Second Cartel Car Bomb)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:20:39 AM
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| MEXICO CITY Investigators said Friday there was an explosive device aboard a car that blew up outside police headquarters in the border state of Tamaulipas, the second car-bomb attack against law enforcement in less than a month. Authorities are still working to determine what explosives were used, who planted the bomb and how it was detonated, according to a state police spokesman who was not authorized to be quoted by name. No one was hurt by Thursday's blast in a parking lot outside a police station near Ciudad Victoria, the state capital, but two police vehicles were damaged. On... |



