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Maxine Defends Ex-Klansman May 8, 2003 Imagine if you will, California congresswoman Maxine Waters, defending an ex-Klansman just because he’s a Democrat. The depths of desperation to which these people are plunging is unbelievable. Maxine just plunged further by echoing Robert Byrds latest Bush bash on the Senate floor. In doing so, she opened the door into her own face and bloodied her nose - as is becoming standard Democrat operating procedure. Maxine appeared on the News with Brian Williams Wednesday night on CNBC, where she and great moderate Peter King got into it. You just have to hear this,...

"We still have a window of opportunity tonight," said Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., the only House member who voted against a resolution over a year ago authorizing President Bush to use force against anyone associated with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. We are worried that the war on terrorism is taking a back seat to a pre-emptive strike on Saddam Hussein," Waters said. "Yes, every country should be able to defend itself, but we're in no danger from Iraq. Striking Saddam is not fighting terrorism."

HISPANICS AT THE CROSSROADS Tom Adkins Are you Hispanic, Latino, South American, Spanish, Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, or from the Bronx? Congratulations! You are now America's second largest racial minority. Now that you've achieved this wonderful distinction, a stark choice looms. Should you be a Republican or Democrat? I have some advice. Find the nearest black Democrat. A national bigwig like Cynthia McKinney would be great. Snag a high-profiler like NAACP's Julian Bond, filmmaker Spike Lee, or especially Jesse Jackson, and you'd be all set (although squeezing Brother Jesse's ego through your front door is a challenge). Sit them down...

Leave it to the Log Cabin Republicans, the GOP's resident gay organization, to applaud a nasty insult of a Democratic member of Congress and lend it a certain consumerist panache. "Rhymes with Abercrombie and . . . " begins Wednesday's LCR Congressional Briefing on Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and her fight with the Los Angeles Police Department over Police Commission President Rick Caruso's use of the b-word to describe her during a recent meeting with top brass. The item in LCR's "Inclusion Wins" newsletter, which is e-mailed weekly to 2,000 subscribers, then notes: "OK, it's tacky to call a Congresswoman...