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McBama agenda: Common ground between candidates By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - John McCain and Barack Obama share common ground on a surprising selection of issues where the age-old Republican-Democratic divide doesn't cut it anymore. Both want the United States to join the campaign against global warming in earnest. Both want to cut taxes for the middle class.

Drunken driving deaths fall in 32 states By KEN THOMAS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Drunken driving deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, but the government says the number of alcohol-related fatalities among motorcycle riders climbed in half the states last year.

First CEO Convicted of Backdating Says Company Owes Him $7M By FRANK REYNOLDS, Andrews Publications Staff Writer
The former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems says the data systems company illegally stopped paying his lawyer bills when he became the first top corporate officer to be convicted of backdating stock options.

'Annoying' Man Did Not Create Hostile Environment By LINDA COADY, ESQ., Andrews Publications Staff Writer
Two female Princeton Seminary students failed to prove that the attentions of an elderly, "socially tone-deaf" tenant of school housing created a sexually hostile environment for them, a unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled.

Court allows extradition of hacker to US By JENNIFER QUINN Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) - The European Court of Human Rights has cleared the way for the extradition of a British man who allegedly hacked into secret U.S. military computers, his lawyer said Thursday.

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A New York Times Study of the Effect of Partisan Selection of Immigration Judges Illustrates Why Vetting Works, and Why Ideology Matters
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FindLaw columnist, attorney and author Edward Lazarus contends that -- despite a few prominent examples of Supreme Court Justices whose votes and opinions surprised and disappointed the presidents who nominated them -- in general, the vetting of Justices and judges for ideology is typically very effective. Lazarus points out that among the Justices who typically serve as counterexamples, some were not vetted for ideology, but were chosen for other reasons. He also points to a recent New York Times study of immigration judges selected for their politics as evidence that when presidents and their staffs do take ideology into account, the judges they choose tend to be just as conservative or liberal as predicted. View more Commentary »

 

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