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Political commentator James Carville said Monday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that Democrats should “pummel” Republicans by running ads on “Nazi hags at school board meetings trying to ban Rosa Parks.” Carville said, “Democrats don’t lose elections anymore. We haven’t lost an election in the last year and a half. We have an advantage right now, and we need to pummel him right now. I used to have a saying when I ran campaigns: the more you pummel them, the more they plummet. We have to jump on this abortion issue. We have to jump on this book-burning issue. Run ads on...

The costumed New York City bar crawl SantaCon was initially created to marry getting into the holiday spirit and copious amounts of alcohol. Unfortunately, when revelers have been drinking all day, things tend to get out of hand.

The county's weather is about to go from mild to wild. A late-fall blast of air from northern Canada should bring an abrupt halt to nearly 2½ months of unseasonably warm, calm weather in this region. Over the next week, temperatures should plummet to well below normal, a series of storm fronts could bring heavy rain at the coast and inland valleys, and howling winds and snow could create blizzard conditions in the mountains. “This is the kind of classic winter storm that we haven't seen too much of in recent years,” said Ed Clark, a meteorologist for the National...

Barack Obama pummeled Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the latest round of their battle for the White House nomination on Saturday, earning momentum and valuable delegates with big wins in Washington and Nebraska caucuses. Obama registered comfortable victories in both states, outscoring Clinton by margins of roughly 2 to 1, according to media projections. His triumphs will boost the Illinois senator's campaign to be the country's first black president, after a fierce Super Tuesday duel that saw the two share the honors. It was not immediately clear how many delegates Obama picked up from his victories on Saturday, with the...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2007 – Taliban fighters are facing overwhelming coalition firepower and abject rejection from Afghan citizens, a U.S. Army commander said today. “I think we have the Taliban in pretty bad shape,” Col. Thomas McGrath told online journalists and “bloggers” during a conference call from Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second largest city. “They lost thousands of fighters in the last six months, and they continue to lose more on a daily basis.” McGrath leads Afghan Regional Security Integration Command South, which oversees the training of Afghanistan’s army and police forces. He said Taliban fighters simply refuse to face coalition...

Girls pummel man who exposed himself Friday, October 31, 2003 Posted: 11:06 AM EST (1606 GMT) PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -- A man described by authorities as a known sexual predator was chased through the streets of South Philadelphia by an angry crowd of Catholic high school girls, who kicked and punched him after he was tackled by neighbors, police said Friday. The girls came and started kicking him and punching him, so I wasn't going to stop them. -- Robert Lemons, neighbor Rudy Susanto, 25, who had exposed himself to teen-age girls on as many as seven occasions outside St....