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I was born and raised in the Republic of Panama.  My parents moved to the U.S. when I was 16 years old.  I finished high school  in the Charleston, South Carolina area.   I graduated from Baptist College at Charleston (now Charleston Southern University) with a degree in political science and history. I attended law school for a year after graduating from college, but I had learned to fly airplanes while in college and chose to pursue that as my career. After a mid-life career change preciptated by medical issues, I graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in the Spring of 1997 and was admitted to the South Carolina Bar that fall.

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Tuesday
25Mar

Gunmen kill 5 in attack on Mexico police

Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:41pm EDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Suspected drug cartel gunmen killed five people in an attack on a police station in central Mexico and during their subsequent escape, authorities said on Saturday.

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Tuesday
25Mar

Peru says Chavez backs domestic revolt

Peruvian Officials Accuse Venezuelan Leader Hugo Chavez of Bankrolling Subversives

ANDREW WHALEN
AP News

Mar 22, 2008 03:06 EST

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Tuesday
25Mar

Torture Allegations Dog Guantanamo Trials

Posted March 21, 2008 | 02:30 PM (EST)

From the moment that the Toronto Star unleashed a gruesome, and previously unpublished photo of the chest wounds sustained by 15-year old Omar Khadr, after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002, it was clear that the resumption of Khadr’s pre-trial hearing at Guantánamo last week would once more raise murky issues of torture and untrustworthy intelligence that the administration — desperate to secure a “clean” conviction in its much-reviled Military Commission process — hoped would remain buried.

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Tuesday
25Mar

Meet The (White) Man Who Inspired Wright's Controversial Sermon

 Sam Stein

The Huffington Post

Meet The (White) Man Who Inspired Wright\'s Controversial Sermon

March 21, 2008 02:00 PM

Meet the man who inspired Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s now famous tirade about America’s foreign policy inciting the terrorist attacks of September 11.

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Tuesday
25Mar

Obama tells the Best Political Team on Television: You Have a Choice

In Wolf Blitzer’s instant analysis, Obama’s big speech on race in America boils down to a “pre-emptive strike” against attacks yet to come. In fact it was a speech aimed right at him and other makers of political television.

(I don’t usually do quick reax posts, but….)

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Tuesday
25Mar

Coca fumigation in Colombia

The Washington Office on Latin America just published a study about fumigation of coca in Colombia. Here is the main conclusion:

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Tuesday
25Mar

Obama's church pushes controversial doctrines

  • Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008
Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. gives a sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois in October 2006.

E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune / MCT

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Tuesday
25Mar

Exxon Must Undo False Accusations Against Venezuelan Oil Company

The Orinoco Oil Belt is located in Venezuela's Orinoci river basin. It is estimated that Venezuela has about 250 billion barrels of extra-heavy oil.

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