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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Friday, July 24, 2015

RSN: In Major Loss to Environmentalists, Obama Gives Final Approval to Arctic Drilling, Obama's Guantanamo Prison Closing Plan in Final Drafting, Here's Why America's National Parks Are So White




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Frank Rich | The GOP Only Has Itself to Blame for Weaponizing Donald Trump 
Donald Trump. (photo: Stephen B. Morton/AP/Corbis) 
Frank Rich, New York Magazine 
Rich writes: "Whatever else is to be said about Trump, he is a master salesman. And in the GOP presidential marketplace, he has a near-monopoly on the product he is selling now: hard-line, unapologetic, xenophobic opposition to both immigration reform and Mexican immigrants." 
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'At a Loss': Sandra Bland Left Voice Mail Before Death in Texas Jail 
Al Jazeera America and Associated Press 
Excerpt: "The Illinois woman was charged with assaulting a public servant after a July 10 traffic stop in Texas turned confrontational. Three days later, her body was discovered in what the medical examiner ruled a suicide by hanging. Her family disputes that finding." 
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Immigration Activists to Protest at Donald Trump Border Visit 
Adam Gabbatt, Guardian UK 
Gabbatt writes: "The Republican presidential hopeful has been roundly criticised for a series of slurs on the Latino community and Mexico, and activists say he will face a hostile environment when he arrives in the city of Laredo, which has a 95.6% Hispanic and Latino population." 
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More Than 100 Doctors Tell Big Pharma to Stop Making Cancer Drugs So Expensive 
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress 
Culp-Ressler writes: "The pressure is mounting on pharmaceutical companies to lower their prices for lifesaving drugs, as a group of more than 100 prominent oncologists is calling for grassroots solutions to the skyrocketing cost of cancer treatment." 
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Obama's Guantanamo Prison Closing Plan in Final Drafting 
Toluse Olorunnipa, Bloomberg 
Olorunnipa writes: "The Obama administration is nearing completion of a plan to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that it will then send to Congress, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said." 
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Here's Why America's National Parks Are So White 
Tanya Golash-Boza, Safiya Noble, Vilna Bashi Treitler, and Zulema Valdez, Al Jazeera America 
Excerpt: "The disparate treatment of black visitors and misconceptions about African-Americans relations with the outdoors is part of the United States' legacy of racial violence and segregation." 
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In Major Loss to Environmentalists, Obama Gives Final Approval to Arctic Drilling 
Timothy Cama, The Hill 
Cama writes: "The Obama administration gave its final stamp of approval Wednesday to Shell Oil Company's application to drill in the Arctic Ocean." 
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