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  • Labor-backed candidate battles DeLay crony in southwest Texas

    Labor-backed candidate battles DeLay crony in southwest Texas

    December 8, 2006

    News Analysis The race for the 23rd Congressional District Seat is as hot as a San Antonio jalapeño pepper. Labor-backed Democrat Ciro Rodriguez is pitted in a Dec. 12 runoff election against Bush Republican Henry Bonilla,...

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  • Two victories for civil liberties: more to come?

    Two victories for civil liberties: more to come?

    December 8, 2006

    News Analysis As 2006 winds down, two court victories were racked up for civil liberties against the Bush administration’s authoritarian policies. More such triumphs are likely. In Los Angeles, Ninth District Federal Judge Audrey Collins gave...

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  • NATIONAL CLIPS

    NATIONAL CLIPS

    December 8, 2006

    PORTLAND, Ore.: City Council says ‘Bring the troops home’ Most Nov. 7 congressional races were decided by voters’ demands to halt the Iraq occupation, but voters are not naïve — just changing faces does not necessarily...

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  • Texas GOP in disarray

    Texas GOP in disarray

    December 8, 2006

    Commentary HOUSTON — In the wild, wild west of Texas politics, Republicans have set a new standard since the November election. In a bizarre twist following Tom DeLay’s reign of terror, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs won a special...

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  • Sean Bell: What justice requires

    Sean Bell: What justice requires

    December 8, 2006

    Commentary Fifty bullets. One bullet can kill a person — imagine what 50 did to 21-year-old Sean Bell and his two friends. What happened to these three unarmed young men on Nov. 25 in Queens, N.Y.,...

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