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Incoming University of Michigan medical school students staged a walk-out during the pro-life keynote speaker's speech during their White Coat Ceremony. Hundreds of students had previously petitioned to get Dr Kristin Collier, assistant professor of medicine at UMMS, removed from the initiation because of her anti-abortion stance. But after their first protest failed, dozens of students got up from their seats and left the auditorium as Christian Dr Collier took to the stage to address them. Footage shows some of those present clapping as Dr Collier starts her speech, but others stood and filed out as she continued to speak....

"You have a view of America which is not a view I share." While in Indonesia this week, schoolchildren asked visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair probing questions which reflected the depth of mistrust toward the West that they may have been indoctrinated with. At an Islamic boarding school "twinned" with the Holy Family School in Keighley, West Yorkshire, Blair was given an "enthusiastic" welcome by pupils "concerned" about their "brothers and sisters" in Iraq and Palestine, followed by a question and answer session. Mr. Blair, without apology, told the students that despite their opposition to the war in Iraq,...

REPOST FROM MICHAEL MOORE: Friends, You may have heard by now that the Michigan Republican Party has called for my arrest. That's right. They literally want me brought up on charges -- and hope that I'm locked up. No, I'm not kidding. The Republican Party, yesterday, filed a criminal complaint with the prosecutors in each of the counties where I spoke last week in Michigan. My crime? Clean underwear for anyone who will vote in the upcoming election. Each night on our 60-city "Slacker Uprising Tour" through the 20 battleground states, I've been registering hundreds (and on some nights, thousands)...