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2 Riverside County cities vote to support Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

June 22, 2010

“Don’t come into my country wearing a Mexican flag. It’s insulting.”—Mayor Melissa A. Melendez.

The city councils of Hemet and Lake Elsinore, both in Riverside County, approved proclamations Tuesday in support of Arizona’s controversial anti-illegal immigration law.

The Yorba Linda City Council in Orange County approved a similar resolution earlier this month, countering actions taken by leaders in cities such as Los Angeles, who voted to boycott doing business with Arizona companies in protest of the law.

The law tells police officers to check the immigration status of people they have stopped for another reason and reasonably suspect are in the U.S. illegally.
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Mexican Drug Cartel solders shot in Arizona desert: Los Zetas officer says shoot to kill Americans in retaliation

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

By Michael Webster
Syndicated Investigative Reporter

One of my informants whom I have called Juan in previous news reports, called me recently on the cell phone he provided me at our last meeting a month or so ago. He told me that his boss, a Los Zetas Mexican drug cartel officer, wanted to meet with me and give me some important information regarding the so called war on drugs raging on the border. A date and time was set up for this meeting at a public place.

At this encounter, the Mexican I met was clean shaven with a military style “high and tight” short hair cut, who looked to be about 35 years old or so, claiming to be an officer in the Los Zetas Mexican drug cartel organization. He told me straight out that he believed two of his men were shot and killed recently in the desert in Arizona by American vigilantes and he would be taking revenge. He first said he thought that his men where killed by opposing drug cartel member gangs; saying he and his men had killed several gang members recently whom they thought were responsible for those killings and other recent attacks in the area. That bloody confrontation took place just south of the Arizona border. The shootout left 21 dead.
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Opposing Views: Would Kagan be a good justice?

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Yes. John Marshall was revered as “the great chief justice,” but before joining the Supreme Court he had never served a day in a judicial robe; he even lost the one case he argued before the high court. Earl Warren worked for 18 years as a prosecutor, with no prior judicial experience. The list of distinguished judges without prior judicial experience goes on to include: William Rehnquist, William O. Douglas, Robert Jackson and Roger Taney — all listed among the greatest jurists to sit on the high court.

Like Elena Kagan, none of them ever served as a judge prior to becoming a justice on the Supreme Court. However, many on current court did serve as federal appeals judges, immediately prior to their appointment to the high court.
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With votes looming, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan plays it cool

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

With committee and floor votes beginning this week on the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan, skeptical lawmakers could not resist the opportunity to search for a weak point that might provoke last-minute controversy.

Six Republican senators submitted questions that produced 74 pages of written responses from Kagan. In ritual form, her answers — released Friday — were finely sanded to avoid any clamor.

Kagan carefully hewed to the themes she struck at last month’s hearings: In cases in which she voiced opinion, she said, it was that of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, for whom she once worked.
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