Mexican cartels and vast US illegal drug market.

NEW YORK (AP) - The Mexican drug cartels battling viciously to expand and survive have a powerful financial incentive: Across the border to the north is a market for illegal drugs unsurpassed for its wealth, diversity and voraciousness. Homeless heroin addicts in big cities, "meth heads' in Midwest trailer parks, pop culture and sports stars, teens smoking marijuana with their Baby Boomer parents in Vermont—in all, 46 percent of Americans 12 and older have indulged in the often destructive national pastime of illicit drug use...Link

A national sales tax..................

With budget deficits soaring and President Obama pushing a trillion-dollar-plus expansion of health coverage, some Washington policymakers are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: a national sales tax...Link

"The Goode Family"..............

Meet the "Goode Family". Mike Judge and the people behind "Beavis and Butthead" and "King of the Hill" are going green with their new animated series for ABC....Link

We are never leaving.................

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday. Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, said the world remains dangerous and unpredictable, and the Pentagon must plan for extended U.S. combat and stability operations in two wars. "Global trends are pushing in the wrong direction," Casey said. "They fundamentally will change how the Army works."...Link

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Judge threatens to penalize Obama lawyers...

A District court judge is threatening to "sanction" Obama Justice Department lawyers who've refused to respond to an order requiring the Department to provide a plan for how the case of a charity caught in a warrantless wiretap should proceed. Reports The Washington Post's Carrie Johnson...Link

Obama nominates Sotomayor..............

If confirmed, Sotomayor, 54, would be the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice and the third woman to serve on the high court. Sotomayor "is an inspiring woman who I believe will make a great justice," Obama said at a White House announcement...Link