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No Child Left Behind: a maligned law that’s working, by Jay Ambrose

** Guess what? Because of the much-maligned No Child Left Behind law, fewer children are being left behind in America’s public schools, and you can thank the even more maligned president of the United States for that. **
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S. F. Examiner Endorses McCain*Palin

America is at war overseas and in an economic crisis here at home. Many of her citizens believe the country is on the wrong track. It is for times such as these that men like John McCain are made, to put country first so that it can be put right in its time of need. For this reason, The Examiner endorses McCain for president and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for vice president. S.F. Examiner

Comfortable Old Shoe Might Win in Landslide Zogby

The presidential election might be a tight race now, but one of the countrys top pollsters thinks the race will end in an electoral landslide. John Zogby, president of Zogby International, told a group of businesspeople today that its up to Democratic Sen. Barack Obama to convince voters to go with him. If hes not successful, the country will likely vote for a comfortable old shoe, that being Republican Sen. John McCain. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

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Scientists are reporting today that they have overcome a major obstacle to using a promising alternative to embryonic stem cells, bolstering the prospects for bypassing the political and ethical tempest that has embroiled hopes for a new generation of medical treatments. The researchers said they found a safe way to coax adult cells to regress into an embryonic state, alleviating what had been the most worrisome uncertainty about developing the cells into potential cures. Washington Post

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GOP conservatives present rescue alternative, by Andrew Taylor Breitbart.com

* WASHINGTON (AP) – A group of conservative Republicans in the House on Thursday proposed a financial rescue package of tax breaks and a new government-sponsored insurance program for mortgage-backed securities as an alternative to President Bush’s proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. *** Instead of the government buying the toxic mortgage securities, banks, financial firms and other investors holding them would pay premiums to the Treasury to finance the insurance coverage. *** Rep Eric Cantor, R-Va., said the plan would be to remove the burden of the bailout from taxpayers and instead place it, over time, on Wall Street. *** Under the House conservatives’ plan, institutions holding stronger assets would pay lower premiums for the government backing; higher-risk securities would require higher premiums. *** Robert Litan, an expert on banking and finance at the Brookings Institution, called the framework unworkable, saying it would not achieve the basic goal of creating a marketand establishing pricesfor mortgage securities no one’s willing to buy. * – Posted on Breitbart

Details of the plan are listed at the end of the article.

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A Marine from Washington County today plans to sue US Rep. John Murtha for publicly claiming his unit slaughtered innocent Iraqi civilians, according to the man’s attorney. A lawyer for Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, 24, of Canonsburg on Wednesday announced plans to sue Murtha…for comments he made to news outlets concerning the November 2005 killing of about two dozen people in Haditha. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (emphasis mine)

I hope this Marine is successful. Murtha should have known better than to shoot off his mouth before investigations and trials were completed. Im not sure it was ethical for him to speak on this issue at all. I believe he did it for purely political reasons. Id appreciate comments from military persons.