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PBC News & Comment Monday, April 2

7 dead in shooting spree at Christian college in Oakland as feds raid Oaksterdam U, the medical pot school in Oakland, and Occupy San Francisco takes over abandoned building.  Also:
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–Supreme Court OK’s strip searches of any suspect taken to jail

–Wisconsin recall of Gov. Scott Walker underway

–Keith Olbermann fired from Current TV

–“liberal” Ninth Circuit upholds Prop 209’s attack on affirmative action in public universities

–Curveball confesses to the lies used to justify invasion of Iraq

–British debate increased surveillance

–local cops in US make widespread use of GPS tracking without court orders

–ACLU exposes FBI investigations of Muslims as part of  “community outreach”

–poll shows Californians don’t trust big web companies with personal data

–E. J. Dionne, the Beltway centrist, makes some good points about how weak Democrats empower extreme Republicans