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• Jerry Brown proposes billions in cuts. Are Californians getting his message? - Yahoo! News

  Source: Yahoo! News

  Jerry Brown proposes billions in cuts. Are Californians getting his message?   With California's budget shortfall soaring, Gov. Jerry Brown proposes broad, painful cuts for state workers and programs. Without new taxes, he warns voters, the cuts will be even worse.

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• When Half a Million Americans Died and Nobody Noticed

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  Was the US drug Vioxx responsible for far more deaths than has been acknowledged so far?   ARE American lives cheaper than those of the Chinese? It's a question raised by Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, who has produced a compelling comparison between the …

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• Jurors acquit rapper Lil Boosie of murder

  Jurors have acquitted the rapper known as "Lil Boosie" in the 2009 slaying of a man gunned down in his home.

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• I met some tea partiers today, and they seemed mentally unbalanced

  Source: Daily Kos

  So, as I listened, here is what the tea partiers said to me. This is in relative order. None of them disagreed with anything another said, and there was widespread agreement on most of it. Here goes.... 1. Obamacare: It is a plot by Obama to take over the American health …

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• Dog braves traffic to stick by fatally struck pal

  Los Angeles county animal control officials are heralding the loyalty of a black Labrador retriever that braved traffic to stay by another dog that was fatally struck by a car.

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