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Race gets snippy: Barack beats scissors. Papers cover Barack. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, leader of the Rainbow Coalition and director of United Eunuchs, wants action, not distraction, against an overpopulation of politicians. In a recent interview in the second stall of the Fox News studio bathroom, Jackson said the overwhelming number of stray politicians who are issuing Civil Rights messages should be dealt with sooner, rather than later.“There’s too much talkin’ and rappin’,” said Jackson. “And not enough happenin’. People need to see works, not words.”

The Review-Journal editorialized recently, ridiculing the California Legislature for wasting its time -- and again confirming the late Rafael Tammariello's prediction that everything which isn't banned in California will eventually be made mandatory -- by proposing criminal penalties for those who don't neuter their pets. "The Democrat-dominated body that sought to make spanking a crime, wanted calorie totals listed on restaurant menus and tried to allow workers to sue their bosses if they were abused by customers has another meddlesome measure up its sleeve: fining pet owners who don't sterilize their cats and dogs by the time they turn 6...

WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Three men, including a former Topeka resident, accused of operating what police described as a sadomasochistic "dungeon" that included castrations have been sentenced to jail time. Richard Peter "Master Rick" Sciara, his partner of 20 years Michael Mendez, and the man they called their slave, Danny Carroll Reeves, pleaded guilty to felony castration and maiming. Sciara had worked as a physician's assistant at the Colmery-O'Neil VA Medical Center in Topeka from February 1976 to June 1999. Superior Court Judge Dennis Winner said it was difficult to call the dungeon's willing patients "victims," but he said six...