| Judge to decide gambling case on Friday
A decision is due Friday in Topeka on a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's newly enacted gambling law. Shawnee County District Judge Charles Andrews will issue his ruling at 10 a.m. Friday, according to the court. The decision will be posted on the court's Web site, www.shawneecourt.org. The lawsuit was filed last year by the Kansas attorney general's office to determine whether the new gambling law is constitutional. The law allows large casinos to be built in four areas of the state, including Sumner County. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius urged the filing of the lawsuit to clear up any legal questions surrounding the law and -- supporters hope -- allow casino construction to proceed. The issue at hand is whether the casinos envisioned by the law meet the Kansas Constitution's allowance of a "state owned and operated lottery." Friday's ruling will be just the first step in the lawsuit, which is expected to go to the Kansas Supreme Court for a final ruling.
Edwards team: brokered convention
Barack Obama would have somewhere between 35 percent and 40 percent each. Mr. Prince speculated further that the delegates might be assembling amid public poll numbers depicting Mr. Edwards as the strongest Democratic candidate facing the Republican choice in November. "You're in brokered convention land," he said. Mr. Edwards and his strategists insist that the Democratic nomination quest will remain a three-person race. But the challenge of making it one in any meaningful way has become progressively more difficult with every successive Edwards loss. None was more damaging to that perception battle than Saturday's third-place finish in South Carolina, the state of his birth and one that he captured in 2004. But the Edwards officials insisted that a deadlocked convention was not essential to revive their candidate's chances of winning the nomination.
International Crime
Stephen Lendman: Holiday Hypocrisy (1 comments) The corruption and hypocrisy of our federal holidays for patriotism and profit. Friday, December 29: STUART HUTCHISON: *New Jersey Impeach Time (6 comments) People in New Jersey are engaged in a campaign to pass in our state's legislature A Resolution to Impeach Bush-Cheney. Passage of the resolution will invoke Jefferson's Rule and direct the U.S. House to initiate proceedings against Bush-Cheney. Thursday, December 14: Wayne Madsen: Litvinenko's Death: Where the Far Right Meets International Crime (3 comments) Far from a sympathetic figure battling the Kremlin, Litvinenko was a central player in a global crime and terrorism network. Saturday, December 2: Larisa Alexandrovna: Was a former KGB agent murdered over false-flag terrorism within Russia? (1 comments) Larisa Alexandrovna speaks with two former CIA agents regarding what many believe to be a state-sponsored assassination in the death of Alexander Litvinenko.
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THEY like it spicy down here in South Carolina. Locals pour hot sauce on their catfish, on their grits, even on their greens. Their politics is spicy too. Charleston, a city with some of the richest and poorest people in the state within spitting distance, has a political scene "as gothic as New York City," a local journalist says. Some folks who live in the historic mansions in Old Charleston actually commute to New York regularly. Meanwhile North Charleston has pockets of desperate poverty, and there are people living in run-down trailers not far outside town. The polls are open today in a state that has once again reminded America of its reputation for hard-ball politics. After all the antics of the past week, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards are in the hands of Democratic primary voters.
Spears Among Top Yahoo Search Topics For 2007
Saddam Hussein was the most popular news topic for Yahoo Search users in 2007. "Saddam Hussein loomed larger in death than in life," said Heather Cabot, Yahoo Web Life Expert. The former Iraqi dictator was the ninth-searched term in 2006. Americans wanted to read about the Middle East: Iran (second), Iraq (third) and Afghanistan (ninth) all made the list. President George W. Bush came in fourth, while Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama (sixth) and Hillary Clinton (seventh) jockeyed for Internet users' attention. National disasters -- the San Diego fires (eighth) and the Virginia Tech shooting (10th) -- and oil and gas prices (fifth) rounded out the top ten. In compiling the top searches, Yahoo filtered out company names, general topics (such as "movies" or "downloads"), X-rated content and technological terms.
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