Aug 14 2012
LA Times: A closer look at Paul Ryan’s federal budget plan
Rep. Paul D. Ryan’s proposed federal budget — now starring as the centerpiece of the presidential campaign as he joins the Republican ticket — would reshape American government, achieving long-sought conservative goals and reversing an 80-year path of larger, more expensive federal programs.
Under Ryan’s plan, which has passed the Republican-controlled House twice in slightly different versions, the Internal Revenue Service would tax the wealthiest Americans less, but many of the poorest ones more; Medicare would …
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Student protesters in Chile clashed with police last Wednesday as a march in the Chilean capital Santiago turned violent, resulting in 75 arrests and dozens of injuries. Unrest has gripped the South American nation for more than a year, when Chilean youth, angry about high tuition and inequities in the country’s education system, took to the streets in May 2011. …
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The Korean American Film Festival of Los Angeles began yesterday and is the first of its kind in the city that is home to the largest Korean American population in the United States. 
Two weeks after the shooting of twelve people in a movie theater in Colorado, 40 year old army veteran Wade Michael Page walked into a Sikh Temple, called a Gurdwara, in Oak Creek, Wisconsin this past Sunday morning and opened fire. Using a 9mm semiautomatic handgun, Page killed five men and one woman and left three others in critical …
