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O.J. Simpson was beaten unconscious in a savage prison yard attack, according to a report in the National Enquirer. The assault was so brutal and debilitating that the disgraced NFL great is now afraid to leave his cell. The Enquirer said inmates cheered on a beefy young skinhead as he beat the most famous inmate at Nevada's Lovelock Correctional Center to a "bloody pulp," knocking him to the ground and inflicting serious injuries. Simpson, 63, reportedly spent three weeks in the infirmary while prison officials attempted to hush up the incident. Supposedly Simpson was targeted in the lockup because his...

Is the ultimate outcome of Operation Chaos a third party bid by Hillary? Could her and Bill's egos be so large that they would bolt the Democrat Party to make a third party bid? Perhaps. Let us think about the possibility. Hillary wins Pennsylvania by ten points, wins Indiana and loses North Carolina and Kentucky. She still makes up no ground on Obama in delegates but keeps winning these big states. Hers and Bills ego alarms go off when on Wednesday Howard Dean tells them to get out of the race. Then comes the visit. By Algore and Jimmy Carter...

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MEXICO CITY - Robert Zoellick, the U.S. choice to head the World Bank, warned Saturday that Venezuela's economic and political troubles were growing under President Hugo Chavez's leftist government. "It's a country where economic problems are mounting and we are seeing (that) on the political and press side it's not moving in a healthy direction," Zoellick told a news conference in Mexico City. He also suggested that the World Bank's influence would not suffer if Chavez goes through with his plan to pull Venezuela out of the lending institution. "If a country feels it doesn't need or want the services...

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A judge has ordered Paris Hilton returned to jail and she was taken from court screaming. A crying Hilton was taken to court in a police car Friday for a hearing on her early release from jail, heightening the struggle between the judge who sentenced Hilton and the sheriff who turned her loose. Hilton appeared to be in handcuffs when she was placed into a black-and-white patrol car, which sped away from her Hollywood Hills home with lights flashing. Paparazzi sprinted in pursuit and news helicopters pursued overhead, broadcasting live TV coverage.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A week ago, I pondered whether public-school integration was dead. I got my answer Monday as I sat in the audience listening as the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court probed and prodded on the matter of race. Diversity, as a tool of public education, is dead as a doornail. It was in the air. The elegantly gilded courtroom turned somber as one justice after another dismissed the notion of purposeful diversity efforts in public education. Someone next to me whispered they had just seen the widow of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. As a...

Bible scholars claim to have fixed the bug in their decoding that caused their earlier mistaken predictions. As a result they have so many different scriptural calculations leading to the same month for the UN bomb, that "coincidence is no longer an option" for their research team.

The votes have been counted yet again, but the losing presidential candidate is threatening the peace by failing to recognize the result. A COUP D'ETAT IS BREWING in Mexico. Even as he runs out of legal ways to challenge the July 2 presidential election results, the contest's sore loser, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is planning to proclaim himself president and establish a parallel "people's government" on the national Day of Independence, Sept. 16. The defiance by the leftist former mayor of Mexico City comes after a unanimous ruling Monday by the nation's top electoral tribunal, which rejected claims filed by...

A system that provides electricity, refrigeration and water - the three vital elements of emergency situations such as hurricanes and war - has been created by two University of Florida professors. William Lear, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and S.A. Sherif, a mechanical engineering professor, combined a gas turbine power plant with a heat-operated refrigeration system. The cool air from the refrigerator makes the turbine more efficient and powerful, Lear said, while waste heat from the turbine then powers the refrigeration. The engine, which runs on conventional fossil fuels, biomass-produced fuels or hydrogen, also forms about one...

The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The policies of President Bush are prompting the exodus among left leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray and agree with Bill O'Reilly. Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal rights activists and Unitarians crossing their fields at night. ''I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer...

Slaughter as gunmen fight to control Somalia's capital By Mike Pflanz, East Africa Correspondent (Filed: 11/05/2006) Somalia's lawless capital Mogadishu was engulfed in violence yesterday as fighting between rival factions brought terror to civilians. At least 14 people were killed in a fourth day of fighting between gunmen allied to conservative Islamic leaders and others loyal to a group of powerful businessmen. The bloodshed took the death toll to 96 since Sunday, with an estimated 200 people wounded. Most of the dead and injured were civilians. The two sides have used heavy machineguns, rocket-propelled grenades and artillery. A mortar round...

BACK FROM THE DEADIt was not lost on any senior leaders in the Democratic Party that Florida Democratic Party Chairman Scott Maddox endorsed former Vermont Gov. Howie Dean for DNC chairman on Monday. That it was a Southern state, and one viewed as critical to the Democrats' future, only compounded the fact that the Florida state delegation's support adds a great deal of momentum to a candidacy some thought was dead. Maddox's endorsement, followed by his remarks that he had no problems with Dean's liberalism or lack of Southern roots, set off all kinds of alarm bells in Washington. Maddox's...