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Rielle Hunter compared John Edwards with Gandhi and went around trashing his cancer-stricken wife, it was reported Sunday. A Newsweek writer who courted her as a source during Hunter's affair with the presidential candidate portrays Edwards' mistress as a charming but hugely indiscreet muddlehead who called reporters with New Age babble about Edwards' "old soul." Asked about Elizabeth Edwards, who is unusually well-liked by political operatives and reporters, Hunter told reporter Jonathan Darman, "She does not give off good energy. ... I've only met her once.... She didn't make eye contact with me." Darman wrote of meeting Hunter, a former...

The Nation's Pulse Rage and Righteousness By Ralph R. Reiland 11/22/2005 12:04:42 AM In judging the electorate that turned him out of office, state Supreme Court Justice Russell Nigro said Pennsylvania's voters were "blinded by rage." In fact, it was the exact opposite. In a welcome change, the voters took off their blinders and could clearly see an entrenched political class in Pennsylvania that has become increasingly pretentious, over-paid, and corrupt. As a case in point, directly related to Nigro, the voters, rather than being "blinded by rage," saw a judiciary that has turned a blind eye for decades as...