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...mayor. Maine residents will vote on whether to preserve gay marriage, and Ohioans will vote on whether to allow casinos in its major cities and whether to establish a board to set livestock care standards. And Texans will vote on a whole 11 issues, including whether to allow state militia to hold other civil offices...
...Baluchistan, the cooperation of old has shifted to a more guarded mutual distrust. On Oct. 18, Jundullah, a Baluch militia based on Pakistani soil struck the Iranian border city of Pishin, killing 41, including a number of senior figures in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. A week later, Pakistani troops detained 11 Iranian agents who had infiltrated across the border, possibly in a mission aimed against Jundullah. They were eventually released, but the incidents spotlighted the uncomfortable place Baluchistan occupies in both Tehran and Islamabad's internal affairs - and their dealings with each other...
...strongholds from three different directions, Mullah Nazir in western South Waziristan and Hafiz Gul Bahadur in North Waziristan are facilitating its movements. Troublingly for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, both groups still mount cross-border attacks there. To the east, Turkistan Bhittani, a militant leader who has mustered a small militia to fight alongside Pakistan's army, is leading it into South Waziristan through his tribe's traditional territory. So far, the Mehsuds have sat out the fight. "Our tribe is against these militants, but they are all afraid," says Maulana Banat Khan Mehsud, another elder of the Abdullah Mehsud group...
...Presidents authorized their own emergency powers with little or no congressional oversight. The ability to do so stemmed from an implicit interpretation of the Constitution's requirement that the government "provide for the common defense and general welfare" of the nation. In 1794, President George Washington personally commanded a militia and used it to suppress a rebellion against a federal whiskey tax. Although he did not use the term national emergency, the Whiskey Rebellion was the first instance in which a President gave himself a one-time use of additional power. Abraham Lincoln took emergency action against the Southern states...
...H1N1 declaration sounds more dire than it really is. Obama has neither seized property nor commanded any militia to combat swine flu. So far, he has only given the Secretary of Health and Human Services the ability to do things like allowing hospitals to transfer patients to special satellite facilities - something not usually allowed under federal...