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I read today that Sen. Phil Gramm [R-Tex] resigned under pressure from the McCain campaign because the media was having a field day over his comment that America "had become a nation of whiners". Once again we have allowed these charlatans of television news and print media to dictate what goes and what doesn't go in a presidential campaign. I mean it was bad enough that we let them saddle us with two of the three worst candidates in history [hillary clinton was terrible too]. A decent man or woman wouldn't dare subject himself and his family to the type...

LONDON (AFP) - An Irish journalist working for the British newspaper The Guardian has been kidnapped by armed men in Iraq, the London-based newspaper said. "Rory Carroll was... kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad. Carroll, 33, an experienced foreign correspondent, had been conducting an interview in the city with a victim of Saddam Hussein's regime. He had been preparing an article for today's (Thursday's) paper on the opening of the former dictator's trial yesterday," the paper said in its online edition. "Carroll, who was accompanied by two drivers and a translator, was confronted by the gunmen as he left the house...