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1/2/2012 ACLU report card finds fault with Obama, rivals
The American Civil Liberties Union has issued "Liberty Watch 2012," its report card for presidential candidates on issues like surveillance, torture, gay rights and immigration. No one gets an A, including President Obama. Obama, the only Democrat among the 10 candidates rated, got a perfect score

four "torches"

on only one issue, allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, for his backing of the December 2010 law that repealed "don't ask, don't tell." But he received lower marks on immigration, abortion rights and "closing Guantanamo Bay and indefinite detention," where his one-torch rating was attributed to backtracking on a promise to shut the prison for suspected terrorists and his support for holding their trials in military commissions.

The highest overall rating went to former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a Republican-turned-Libertarian, who opposes the Patriot Act and

unlike Obama

supports the right of gays and lesbians to marry. Among the leading Republican candidates, libertarian-leaning Rep. Ron Paul also got a higher score than Obama despite low ratings in several categories. The ACLU gave the Texas congressman high marks for opposing the Patriot Act and indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, condemning waterboarding and voting to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." But it criticized Paul's call for an end to "birthright citizenship" for children of illegal immigrants, his support of the law that denies federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples and his opposition to abortion. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 1/11/12                   0       9
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9/10/2010 San Bruno fire
residents tell how it started

They all thought it was an airplane. It wasn't. Freddy Tobar was upstairs in his kitchen getting ready to feed his Chihuahua Chiquita, when he heard popping sounds from under the ground and felt the house shaking. He looked outside and saw his backyard crumble into the earth. Trees disintegrated into flames. His first thought was to run outside, but the door was already melting. He pushed through, burned his hands and with his dog in one arm, ran outside with his cell phone and called his wife, Nora Orozco-Tobar. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 4/18/11                   0       0
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11/13/2009 CNN makes bet on nonpartisan news
There's a gamble implicit in CNN shuffling its lineup Thursday after the departure of controversial conservative commentator Lou Dobbs: It is betting there is a prime-time cable audience for news delivered without opinion. Talk on the three major cable news outlets

Fox, MSNBC and CNN

"drives the public conversation," said Robert Calo, a senior lecturer at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and a former NBC and ABC producer. "It is the engine of opinion." (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 11/26/10                   0       2
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8/26/2009 Feds put focus on swine flu vaccines
Federal authorities plan to initiate a nationwide campaign in the coming weeks to persuade Americans to get the swine flu vaccine and to erase any public skepticism about the flu's danger and the safety of immunizations (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 8/28/09                   0       13
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8/20/2009 Man critical of Obama wiped off the face of Flickr
Johnson apparently expressed his disdain for Obama's support of the law on the White House's official Flickr photostream (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 8/27/09                   0       12
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5/4/2009 Ammo a popular purchase at Cow Palace gun show (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/6/09                   4       19
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4/18/2009 Dems put assault weapons ban on back burner
The last time a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress banned civilian sales of some types of military-style assault weapons, it took American voters barely seven weeks to hand Republicans control of Capitol Hill for the first time in 40 years (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/11/09                   1       18
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11/26/2008 Government bailout hits $8.5 trillion
The federal government committed an additional $800 billion to two new loan programs on Tuesday, bringing its cumulative commitment to financial rescue initiatives to a staggering $8.5 trillion, according to Bloomberg News (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 7/24/09                   0       14
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6/10/2007 Shared riches bring wealth of baggage (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/5/09                   2       12
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4/12/2007 Clinton Names Activist to Campaign Post, from National Council of La Raza (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/6/09                   2       13
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2/24/2007 Security: The naked truth New airport scanner looks right through travelers' clothes
The new body-scanning machine, which went into use Friday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and will be tested later in airports in Los Angeles and New York, will screen only volunteers, at least initially. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 1/24/10                   0       14
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12/27/2006 License plate scanners help find those with unpaid parking tickets (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/5/09                   2       12
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10/1/2006 U.S. is recruiting misfits for army
Felons, racists, gang members fill in the ranks

It certainly isn't the new military Rumsfeld's been promising all these years, but there's no denying the depth of the transformation (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 7/6/09                   0       10
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9/15/2005 EPA rule loopholes allow pesticide testing on kids (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 4/28/09                   2       10
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5/8/2004 Rumsfeld warns about photos of worse abuses
ON THE HILL: Defense chief apologizes to Iraqi victims (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/29/09                   3       22
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11/9/2003 Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection
But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 7/28/09                   0       9
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3/10/2003 State's little-known history of shameful science
California's role in Nazis' goal of 'purification' (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/5/09                   2       12
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12/2/2001 CalPERS, Carlyle profit from Afghan war
What is not well known is that Carlyle's profits also benefit the 1.2 million members of the California Public Employees Retirement System, or CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the United States. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/29/10                   0       5
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9/29/2001 Suspicious profits sit uncollected
Airline investors seem to be lying low

yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/14/09                   2       21
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9/12/2001 Mayor Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel
For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport security

- a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist attacks -- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/8/09                   1       25
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1/10/1977 CIA Link to Cuban Pig Virus Reported
With at least the tacit backing of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency officials, operatives linked to anti-Castro terrorists introduced African swine fever virus into Cuba in 1971 (San Francisco Chronicle)
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posted: 5/13/09                   2       19
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