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Published: Friday, June 26, 2009
Updated: Friday, June 26, 2009
In the summer, it’s easy to forget that campus is as dangerous as it is during the rest of the year. Even with fewer people around, thieves and brigands lurk about in full force, committing unspeakable crimes.
On June 5 of this year, according to UTPD’s Campus Watch e-mail, a “non-UT subject … initially stated that he had been robbed at machete point and was forced to change into lingerie… [but later] admitted to wearing the lingerie as a costume to solicit prostitution.” This is but one example of the nefarious figures that don’t stop their criminal dealings just because it’s the summer. Despite the relentless heat and the tempestuous thunderstorms, crime stays at high levels, endangering students’ safety, and more importantly, the safety of their bicycles.

See the full article from “UT The Daily Texan”

The legal battles continue to spin around Texas’ so-called “pole tax,” a $5 entrance fee at strip clubs that has been ruled an unconstitutional regulation of free expression.
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The Texas Entertainment Association, which represents strip clubs across the state, sued and a state district judge struck down the law in 2008. A 2-1 ruling last week by the Austin-based 3rd Court of Appeals said the tax improperly singles out a form of expression, nude dancing, for regulation.
Stewart Whitehead, an attorney for the strip clubs, declined comment.
The state has argued that it can impose the fee because it applies only to clubs that sell alcohol while offering live nude entertainment. The strip clubs have countered that fee is unconstitutional because it applies only to clubs that have nude dancing.
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The Houston Chronicle reported in May that about half the strip clubs in Texas aren’t paying the fee.

See the full article from “San Marcos Daily Record”

Appeals court strikes down strip club tax
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline)- A state law imposing an admission tax on strip club patrons has been declared unconstitutional by a panel of state appeals court justices.
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In a 2-1 opinion, the judges said lawmakers were wrong to raise sexual-assault prevention funds on the backs of strip club patrons. The court rejected the state’s argument that the fee was an alcohol regulation levy.
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Should state Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican, decide to appeal the case to the state Supreme Court, the tax would continue to be levied and deposited in trust. If no appeal is brought forth or if the state loses at the Supreme Court, the money will be returned to strip club owners.
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In his ruling, the ruled that the pole tax didn’t pass constitutional muster because, among other things, there was no nexus between what the fee was bankrolling and strip clubs.

See the full article from “Legal News Line”

The Texas Longhorns are playing the LSU Tigers in the College World Series, and that can mean only one thing: an entirely dull press release announcing some stupid bet between the governors of the respective states.
And voila!! Rick Perry’s putting up Texas barbecue, Bobby Jindal is putting up seafood, and they bothzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Barbecue vs. seafood? This is the best they can do? We think not. Here are some bets that might really be worth talking about.
1. The internet was abuzz two years ago when Louisiana’s US Senator David Vitter got caught up in a call-girl scandal that at one point involved charges that he, ummm, liked to wear diapers. Now, come on: when it comes to bets, you can’t beat that. Losing governor gets Vitter’s diapers. (We assume they’re in evidence somewhere.) If it’s a sweep, losing governor wears Vitter’s diapers. Call girls optional.

See the full article from “Houston Press”

Moreover, this course is the only way to paralyze Iran from forcefully fighting back. Even so, it, like any other sort of incursion, would lead to great strife throughout the Middle East — one involving several nations. At the same time, it would generate repercussions around the world relative to oil deliveries, further contention amongst other nations and some major decisions in alignments amongst various countries like Russia, China, US, Venezuela, Great Britain and others.
Now, do you think Bom-Bom McCain would be upset were this sort of offensive to occur *? Do you think that most of the American public would care either way? Do they even now care about the Iraqi people — people already in deep, barely manageable pain?
In an analogous vein, do American feminists care about Iraqi women and girls being forced into prostitution as a direct result of invasion in the name of an American type of democracy? Is there real concern whatsoever? If so, why have they not risen up en masse over this issue rather than discuss ad infinitum the general repression of Moslem women?

See the full article from “MWC News”

The LAT gets its hands on a new report by the Government Accountability Office that states the United States doesn’t have a strategy to stop weapons smuggling into Mexico. More than 90 percent of the firearms captured by Mexican authorities that could be traced have come from the United States. Although individual agencies have taken up disparate efforts to combat the problem, “they are not part of a comprehensive U.S. government-side strategy for addressing the problem,” states the report that will be released today.
In the WP’s Style section, Monica Hesse talks to crisis management professionals who say Sen. John Ensign’s admission that he had an affair isn’t really that big of a deal and might blow over quickly if he handles it properly. “The message is: Senator, if you want to shock us, you are going to have to do worse than that.” More details could certainly come out that would make the whole thing less palatable, but compared with Larry Craig’s adventures in bathroom stalls, Mark Foley’s exchanges with underage pages, and Eliot Spitzer’s visits to prostitutes, Ensign’s affair “is really vanilla,” as one expert put it.

See the full article from “Slate”

The risk for the supreme leader and Mr. Ahmadinejad if the mullahs shift away from them is that the idea that the government carries an Islamic stamp of approval will be undermined.
“The ranks of the government supporters will dwindle and the government claim that endorsing the results is a religious duty will collapse,” said Abbas Milani, author of the book “Eminent Persians” and chairman of Stanford University’s Iranian studies program.
Criticism from the mullahs would also make it nearly impossible to portray the demonstrations as some foreign plot.
“When they start coming out with such strong language, the idea that this is an American phenomenon, that this is a color revolution created by a bunch of liberal, anti-Islamic prostitutes who want to walk around half naked well, that is not going to fly,” Mr. Milani said.

See the full article from “New York Times”

They have remained there ever since, despite mounting pressure from the Iranian government. Over the past three days, the Iranian regime has authorized a massive mobilization of security forces. It has also instituted a virtual electronic embargo, revoking the work permits of foreign journalists, blocking broadcasts by the BBC’s popular Persian service, limiting Internet access and stopping SMS text messaging. There are even reports that it has enlisted foreigners to help control restive crowds in a sure sign that Iran’s ayatollahs are nervous about the mounting social discontent on the Iranian “street.”
They should be. By any yardstick, Iran is a country in the grip of massive socio-economic malaise. Inflation now stands at nearly 30 percent. Unemployment is rampant, officially pegged at over 10 percent but unofficially estimated to be as much as two-and-a-half times that figure. Nearly a quarter of the Iranian population now lives under the poverty line, and both prostitution and drug addiction are rampant. Add to these Ahmadinejad’s gross mismanagement of the national economy over the past four years, and it is easy to see why Iran’s leaders fear that outrage over a stolen election could spiral into something more.

See the full article from “American Spectator”

As he glanced around a holding cell, the answer came to him: Security cameras. Since then, a vindicating video from the club’s cameras has spared the brothers a possible prison term, resulted in two officers’ arrest and become the basis for a multimillion-dollar lawsuit.
The officers, who are due back in court June 26, have pleaded not guilty, and New York Police Department officials have downplayed their case.
What was she thinking? Palin brings attention to Letterman â could she be his Hugh Grant?
NEW YORK (AP) â Sarah Palin would no doubt be horrified by the idea, but there’s a chance she could become the same boon to David Letterman’s career that Hugh Grant was to Jay Leno’s.
Grant’s 1995 appearance on NBC’s “Tonight” show after a prostitution arrest, where Leno famously asked “what were you thinking?,” was seen in retrospect as a turning point in the late-night race. It drew a huge audience and propelled Leno to the top of the ratings, a spot he would not relinquish.

See the full article from “guardian.co.uk”

The risk for the supreme leader and Mr. Ahmadinejad if the mullahs shift away from them is that the idea that the government carries an Islamic stamp of approval will be undermined.
“The ranks of the government supporters will dwindle and the government claim that endorsing the results is a religious duty will collapse,” said Abbas Milani, author of the book “Eminent Persians” and chairman of Stanford University’s Iranian studies program.
Criticism from the mullahs would also make it nearly impossible to portray the demonstrations as some foreign plot.
“When they start coming out with such strong language, the idea that this is an American phenomenon, that this is a color revolution created by a bunch of liberal, anti-Islamic prostitutes who want to walk around half naked — well, that is not going to fly,” Mr. Milani said.

See the full article from “Haber 27″