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****PART1: The South African mirage There's more wrong in Africa than AIDS, although you'd never know it from the headlines. All the focus seems to be on that totally preventable killer disease because of the price tag and the massive lobbying behind it. The Senate last week passed HIV-AIDS bill which is close to identical to the one approved by the House earlier this month. It's big money: $15 billion over 5 years for 12 countries in Africa plus Haiti and Guyana. We already spend $1.2 billion a year on AIDS. This will more than double that. It's said that...

This spring, white students at Johnson County High in Wrightsville, Ga., continued a tradition they have followed since desegregation. They held a prom separate from the school prom – for white students only. As did the juniors at neighboring Taylor County High. News of the separate proms reached Bill O'Reilly at Fox News, who angrily demanded that Gov. Sonny Perdue attend the official Taylor County prom in protest. As columnist Sam Francis writes, O'Reilly seemed miffed that there was no law or authority to stop this outrage: "You can't sue because the event is being held off-campus. It's a private...