Japan PM, facing no-confidence vote, says won’t quit
Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday refused to step down in the face of a no-confidence motion in parliament this week, saying he wanted first to resolve the world’s worst nuclear crisis in 25 years.

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Former Texas governor Clements remembered for individualism
Bill Clements, who founded an international oil-drilling firm before becoming Texas’ first Republican governor of modern times, died Sunday in Dallas.

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Longtime Democratic state lawmaker Jeff Smith of Columbus has finally decided to sever ties with the party he has been estranged from for several years.

With people like Limbaugh as the loudmouth image of the Republican Party — you need no enemies. But something far more serious has happened than an image problem: the Republican Party has become the party of obstruction at just the time when all Americans should be pulling together for the good of our country. Instead, Republicans are today’s party of obstruction sabotaging American economic recovery.
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Former Texas Gov. Clements dead at 94
AUSTIN (AP) — Former Gov. Bill Clements, who in 1979 became the first Republican elected governor in Texas since Reconstruction and whose belief that state government should operate like a big business helped change the face of Texas politics, has died. He was 94.

Texas bill restricting airport pat downs derailed
A bill that would prohibit federal agents from intrusive searches during airport security pat downs is likely dead in the Texas Senate after a threat from federal officials to close airports if the measure passed