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… An overwhelming 90% of you responded ‘no’; you do not think women between the ages of 40-49 should be denied access to life-saving mammograms. This Task Force features prominently in the health care legislation being considered by the Senate, and its recommendations will carry tremendous weight under any government takeover of healthcare,” a message on Kirk’s blog read several days later.
But even as Republicans raced to blast the task force recommendations, they also found themselves on the defensive.
Democrats snickered after incumbent Sen. David Vitter, a conservative Republican facing a potentially tough 2010 re-election bid, recently cast one of two GOP votes for a Democratic amendment requiring insurance companies to cover breast cancer screenings – even as the legislation came under fire from abortion opponents, who said the amendment could lead to an expansion of coverage for abortions.
John Maginnis, a Louisiana political analyst, said the vote made sense for Vitter, whose support from women sunk after he was tied to a Washington prostitution ring in 2007.

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Sex trafficking ring broken
ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 13 (UPI) — Police in Athens say they have broken up a sex-trafficking ring that lured more than 40 Nigerian women to Greece with promises of legitimate jobs.
Instead of jobs, the women were held for ransom or forced to work as prostitutes, Kathimerini reported Friday.
Police broke up the ring with the rescue of five young Nigerian women who were being held captive until each of their families paid a ransom of $119,000.
They arrested a 20-year-old Nigerian woman believed to be part of the ring and are seeking her husband, a Nigerian with Greek citizenship in the scheme.
Police say members of the ring blackmailed some of their victims to work as prostitutes by threatening to place voodoo curses on their relatives.

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The argument that a prohibition against firearms will eliminate the possession of firearms by anyone is clearly refuted by the ample empirical evidence that prohibition simply does not succeed in its intended objective when the subject of the prohibition is something that enough of the population wants. No matter how draconian the restrictions or dire the legal consequences prohibition is defeated by desire.
Prostitution, booze, and drugs are or have been prohibited by law with no appreciable effect on eliminating any of them. In fact, illegal drugs consistently find their way into prisonsâthe most secured, restrictive institutions in society. Obviously, if prison inmates can gain access to drugs, and military base personnel can gain access to guns, in spite of heavy security and strict prohibitions, how will laws prevent anyone from having either?

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San Angel owner and curator Hank Lee was blown away by Perkinss instinctive technique, the message he could get across in six gestures, just a few lines, using whatever color he had access to. Those gestures he had, and that scratchy, drippy surface, they were like Motherwell, and [his use of] text as an element, that was like Ed Ruscha.
A lot of the public discourse about Reverend Perkins centered around his house on Hackberry, an ever-evolving artwork and a refuge for prostitutes and drug addicts, leading some to believe that Perkins must have been a pimp, a drug dealer, or, at the very least, an enabler of vice. Lee isnt having it, saying that Perkins would offer what help he could muster, from kind words to a place to stay, and that those who rush to judgment  over such monuments as the notorious pregnant hookers bench surely espouse a flawed version of Christianity.

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Week of Oct. 19 Synopses are from the publishers. →”The Scarpetta Factor” (Kay Scarpetta Series No. 17) by Patricia Cornwell (Penguin Group, $27.95).
“The Scarpetta Factor” finds the familiar cast of characters in New York. Marino is working for the police department; Benton Wesley uses his forensic psychological expertise at Kirby and Bellevue; and Lucy dazzles with her expertise in forensic computer investigations as she works with prosecutor Jaime Berger.
“What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown & Co., $27.99).
Journalist Malcolm Gladwell’s writings in The New Yorker are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers more money for ads that run within his articles. The best of his New Yorker pieces are collected in this anthology.
“SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance” by Steven D. Levitt (HarperCollins, $29.99).

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… I do believe the work it has done over the years has been a good, solid attempt to level the playing field and bring poor people into some level of participation in our society, and Lord knows we need that,” he said. “So I hope the result is not the complete demise of the organization. I think the system works better when poor people have advocates at the table.”
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, runs voter-registration drives and provides low-income people with home-foreclosure advice, free tax preparation and other services.
Fallout from video
The organization has been embarrassed by a video, recorded on a hidden camera, showing ACORN workers offering tax advice to people posing as pimps and prostitutes. ACORN has also been accused of voter-registration fraud in several states.

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The review comes on the heels of several Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Lamar Smith of San Antonio and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, call for a full investigation into the practices of the group.
“ACORN is an important organization that does important work,” Cisneros, who has worked closely with the group over the years, said Thursday night.
Cisneros said while ACORN has been instrumental in helping low income families find affordable housing, he admits that positive work has been overshadowed by allegations of widespread voter fraud during the 2008 Presidential election and further damaged by a series of undercover videos that surfaced last week on several conservative Web sites.
The videos, shot by a self-described activist film maker in several U.S. cities, show actors portraying a pimp and his hooker getting disturbing advice from several ACORN workers as they attempted to set up a fictitious child prostitution ring. Cisneros said he was shocked by what he saw on the videos.

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Monday highlights and the day ahead
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison did not take part Monday in an overwhelming Senate vote to withhold federal funding from ACORN, the increasingly controversial community organization. On Monday evening, she attended a fundraiser at the Dallas-area home of former Dallas Cowboy Roger Staubach.
The Senate voted 83-7 to deny funding and community grants to ACORN, which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The organization has faced a series of setbacks over the last year, including the recent circulation of videos in which some of its employees gave tax-avoidance advice to conservative activists posing as pimps and prostitutes. The organization is also the subject of voter-fraud investigations.

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As I was researching William Lacey’s story, one of the little footnotes that bothered me was the location of Lacey’s burial plot. Back in 1900, the San Antonio Municipal Cemetery was a well-maintained graveyard, an honored place to put the dead to rest. The surrounding neighborhoods were dotted with huge three story Queen Anne-style mansions and wide open horse pastures. It would have been a lovely, serene location–at least back then.
But these days, the Municipal Cemetery is surrounded by some of San Antonio’s roughest streets. From the corner of the facility known as Cemetery #4, where the newspapers said Lacey was laid to rest, you can watch drug dealers and prostitutes walking the streets. You can see the homeless sleeping on bus benches. You can hear TVs blaring from clapboard houses hovering on the verge of collapse. Police cars sprint up and down the streets all day long, their lights and sirens lit up like pinball machines going full tilt. At night, the area echoes with gun fire. To me, it seemed a curious place for a policeman’s grave, and I was struck by a desire to go see him.

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Monday highlights and the day ahead
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison did not take part Monday in an overwhelming Senate vote to withhold federal funding from ACORN, the increasingly controversial community organization. On Monday evening, she attended a fundraiser at the Dallas-area home of former Dallas Cowboy Roger Staubach.
The Senate voted 83-7 to deny funding and community grants to ACORN, which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The organization has faced a series of setbacks over the last year, including the recent circulation of videos in which some of its employees gave tax-avoidance advice to conservative activists posing as pimps and prostitutes. The organization is also the subject of voter-fraud investigations.

See the full article from “Austin American-Statesman”