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Pollster John Zogby updates our weekly Obama Report Card with a grade on the president’s performance. Zogby uses his polling, expert analysis and interaction with major players to come up with a grade and some comments that capture how he sees the president’s week ending.

John Zogby on Week: 121

“If only President Obama could send in Navy SEALs to take down the price of gasoline. Voter anger over pump prices are the big drag on a White House that is still reaping political benefits from killing Osama bin Laden.

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Reagan at his Oval Office desk, his leather-bound collection of notebooks and 3X5 joke cards beside the phone.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library today revealed that it has found the “Rosetta Stone” of the Gipper’s political life: His neatly written and organized collection of speech and joke note cards.

“It rivals the Reagan diaries themselves,” says John Heubusch, executive director of the Reagan Foundation. “This is what speechwriters and his top aides have been talking about for a very, very long time,” says Heubusch, who helped to find them.

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The world’s most populous country will continue its strict family planning policy that permits, in general, only one child per couple living in urban areas, President Hu Jintao announced last week. The policy is controversial in many ways, but its most noticeable impact has been badly skewing the country’s gender ratio in favor of men. For every 100 girls born in China, there are 119 boys born. There had been speculation that the government in Beijing would take steps to relax the birth policy. Hu’s statements last week counterintuitively suggest, China watchers say, that party elders are actively evaluating the policy and possible changes may be in the offing. Chine

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Chalmette man opens fire, thwarts vehicle burglary Tweet Share 2 Share close Google Buzz Digg Stumble Upon Fark Share Email Print

Two young men trying to burglarize a truck in Chalmette got the worst of it when one got his arm rolled over by the getaway driver and the other was shot at by the owner of the vehicle, St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy James Pohlmann said.

Both men escaped in a gray Dodge following the 7 p.m. incident Wednesday night in the 2300 block Corinne Drive.

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A reported 200 tornadoes swept through several states–from Mississippi to Maryland– leaving at least 45 people dead and neighborhoods destroyed. But there could be more severe weather ahead. A cold front from the Rocky Mountains is expected to push eastward Tuesday and Wednesday and collide with warm air from the south, a combination that could result in more twisters, thunderstorms, and hail. In and around Raleigh, N.C., shopping centers and neighborhoods were virtually wiped out. Survivor stories abound. A Lowe’s home improvement store was pulverized by the storm. Just as the front of the store blew in, the store manager acted quickly and moved everyone to the back of the building.

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Angola 3 project puts local residents in a prison cell

Published: Sunday, April 17, 2011, 6:40 AM

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For 39 hours, starting Sunday morning, 39 New Orleanians, including notables such as trumpeter Kermit Ruffins and former Entergy New Orleans CEO Dan Packer, will each spend an hour alone inside a re-created prison cell in the 7th Ward to pay tribute to Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, two of the so-called Angola 3.

View full sizePhotos by Chris Granger, The Times-PicayuneRobert King, who spent 29 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, stands in the wooden prototype of his 6-by-9-foot cell, created by artist Jackie Sumell. Read Full Post here…