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John Kerry (D-MA) is not officially announcing his run for president in 2008. The key word is "officially." During the 2004 campaign he was heavily criticized for his weak record as a senator. Many detractors called him Senator Gone for his numerous absences from the Senate floor and committee meetings. According to Senate rules, Kerry owes the government the equivalent of a years pay for the number of unexcused absences over the years. Kerry, like other absent senators, has no intention of paying the taxpayers for his failure to perform his basic responsibilities.
Nevertheless, Kerry is hitting the road to tout his latest bill. A children's health insurance bill called the Kids First Act.
Kerry will be making across-country tour to Washington, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Florida.
One Democrat donor said Kerry is planning a fundraiser in Florida. No one from Kerry's PAC will comment on the Florida event.
So, is Kerry beginning another run? Sounds like it to me.
The Hill
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A soldier in the elite 101st Airborne Division was sentenced to death Thursday for killing 2 officers and inuring 14 other soldiers in Kuwait.
Sgt Hasan Akbar was sentenced by the same military jury that convicted him of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder.
Before the jury deliberated on sentencing, Akbar made a weak plea for mercy that was barely audible in the court.
The sentence will be reviewed by a commanding officer and automatically appealed. If it stands Akbar will be executed by lethal injection.
During the trial, Akbar's journal and other material demonstrated that he planned to kill fellow soldiers because they were going to kill Muslims. In a 1997 entry, Akbar wrote, "My life will not be complete unless America is destroyed."
My Way News
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The University of Colorado seems to shot itself in the foot almost monthly. The school has been plagued by scandals in its athletic department and by a renegade professor who believes the victims of 9/11 deserved it.
With all those investigations you would think the university would give investigators anything and everything necessary to clear the university of wrongdoing. You would think that, but it does not seem to be the case at CU.
Attorneys for two women who claimed they were raped at a part for recruiting CU football players may have uncovered some new information to continue their fight./ The suit was dismissed by a federal judge, but the women's attorney is seeking documents not provided to them by the school.
In a hearing on Wednesday, the attorneys alleged that there are documents the university hid from investigators that show addition instances of sexual assault involving football players and female students.
The details of the alleged instances filed with campus police remain under seal and could only be referred to in the most general of terms during the Wednesday hearing.
US Magistrate Craig Shaffer told CU lawyers during the daylong hearing that he was troubled by their conduct.
Shaffer called the university's responses to the plaintiff's efforts to get information about the alleged incidents "lousy." He said CU lawyers replied to the plaintiffs' requests with "gibberish" and "mumbo-jumbo," failed to make clear what documents existed about the alleged incidents and cited inadequate reasons for withholding the documents from the plaintiffs.
Shaffer said he will rule later in writing.
If this new information is found to be viable, the women should win on appeal and the court should find CU culpable for this incidents.
Since the university president has already resigned, it is now time for the university's Board of Regents to follow suit. The Board has known of probelms in the athletic department for years. By failing to control the athletic program, the board members have enabled the problems to continue. Now that the problems have reached criminal status, it is time for the board to resign and allow a new board to solve the problems in the athletic department and other academic departments on campus.
The current board has shown it is not capable of running a university.
Rocky Mountain News: Local
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Today's Briefs
Full text of President Bush's press conference
Former Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) is hospitalized.
UK Election Update
Ann Coulter's weekly column
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More on Monday.
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