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Cowboy Justice

Law enforcement officers did not act with excessive force when they fired 104 times at an armed suspect, hitting him 34 times and killing him, investigators announced.

Seven Bakersfield Police Department officers and four Kern County Sheriff's deputies were found to have acted properly in the fatal shooting of Jesus German Sarabia, 24, who was killed when he refused to drop his weapon, investigators with the Bakersfield Police Department's shooting review board announced Friday.

Sarabia is not thought to have fired his weapon, Sheriff Donny Youngblood said.

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Top Swiss banker attacks US lending standards as 'unbelievable'

America is taxing for all but the very rich

Warren Buffett, the world's third-richest man, blasted the U.S. tax system earlier this summer because he pays a lower rate of taxes than his secretary. Buffett said, without trying to avoid taxes, he paid 17.7 percent on the $46-million he made in 2006 while his secretary who made $60,000 was taxed at 30 percent.

Unseemly? Immoral? Outrageous? You bet! This imbalance is a consequence of decades of tax reforms that have benefited those at the top, with a marked acceleration under President Bush.

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