A border-state governors conference may be the latest casualty of the Arizona immigration law. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was set to host the September conference this year in Phoenix — but after all six Mexican border governors threatened to boycott over the state’s immigration law, Brewer announced she was canceling the whole thing.
Source:Border Conference in Jeopardy After Brewer-Mexico Immigration Dispute
The Upshot – Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul has been the darling of the tea party. (His father, Texas GOP Rep. Ron Paul is indeed among the movement’s initial founders.) But after a spate of recent reports about the younger Paul cozying up …
The Upshot – As if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed a reason never to fly commercial: American Airlines lost a bag belonging to a member of Netanyahu’s security detail Tuesday during his trip to the White House. And this wasn’t just any …
Source:American Airlines loses Israeli leader's luggage, guns
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The Upshot – The newly formed U.S. Cyber Command is supposed to centralize and focus the military’s ability to wage war over the Internet, but so far it’s basically famous for brainteasers. The command’s fancy logo contains a super-secret code in its inner …
Source:The secret code in U.S. Cyber Command's logo
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As Dean of Harvard Law School, Supreme Court Nominee Reached a Fundraising Record
Former Ohio U.S. Rep. James Traficant has been disqualified in his bid to return to Congress after seven years in prison because he did not turn in enough valid petition signatures to make the fall ballot, a county elections official said Tuesday.
Source:Former Rep. Traficant Disqualified From Comeback Bid for Office
The bipartisan panel investigating allegations that the Justice Department wrongly abandoned a case against the New Black Panther Party plans to issue a new round of subpoenas and call for a separate federal probe following explosive testimony from an ex-Justice official, a commissioner said.
Source:Civil Rights Panel to Renew Subpoenas, Pursue Federal Probe in Black Panther Case
Republican Party chairman Michael Steele has canceled a planned appearance in Aspen.
The No. 2 general in Afghanistan says he doesn’t expect significant changes in battlefield rules now that there has been a change of command for the war.
