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In his endorsement of Barack Obama last week, former Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell said that "I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, 'He's a Muslim and he might be associated [with] terrorists.' " This is a serious accusation to level, and Powell ought to have had the courage to name names. Nonetheless, the notion that the McCain campaign, and conservatives more broadly, have stooped to an unprecedented level of "sleaziness" with negative, nasty and mendacious campaign tactics has become the accepted media narrative over the past several weeks. "Smear" is the word...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government has agreed to provide an $85 billion emergency loan to rescue the huge insurer AIG, the The Federal Reserve said Tuesday. The Fed said the U.S. Treasury Department was in full support of the decision. The Fed determined that a "disorderly failure" of AIG could undermine already fragile financial markets. The government will receive an 79.9 percent equity stake in AIG, the Fed said

Here's our "government knows best" quote of the day.This comes from Dr. Tim Johnson, ABC's medical editor, commenting on John McCain's healthcare plan. "The idea that individuals are going to have enough knowledge and enough savvy and enough insight and, frankly, enough guts to make choices all by themselves is pretty much a pipe dream." CONSIDERING THAT MENTALITY ... Let's take a jump across the pond to Great Britain and its universal healthcare program. One half of primary care doctors are accused of ignoring National Health Service guidelines that say morbidly obese patients should have stomach surgery to reduce their...

Extremists Declare 'Open Season' on Immigrants: Hispanics Target of Incitement and Violence As the public debate over immigration reform has taken center-stage in American politics and public life, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other racists have declared "open season" on immigrants and attempted to co-opt and exploit the controversy by focusing their efforts -- and their anger -- on the minority group at the center of the controversy: Hispanics. As a result, to a level unprecedented in recent years, America's Latino immigrant population has become the primary focus of hateful and racist rhetoric and extreme violence -- aided, abetted and encouraged...

I think you stupud amerikans deserved this for a long time. Ever since you settled down in other peoples property you have been commiting ethnic cleansing and genocide against people just because they weren't white or as savy as you are. What ever to private property rights for the original inhabitants of the land? In Sweeden we don't do things like that. You forced them out at gunpoint and now you whine about Walmart taking away your homes for it's own benefit the same way. I hope you lose your land and live in the streets and die you fat...

<p>Tonight it is, March 23, 2005, over five days since Theresa Marie Schiavo commenced her ordeal of purposeful and legally sanctioned dehydration and starvation. We await a decision from the three judge panel from Eleventh Judicial Circuit as to her fate, as her family struggles with seeing Terri's physical health deteriorate.</p>

Rammstein - "America" We're all living in America America is wonderful We're all living in America America, America When there's dancing I want to lead even if you're whirling around alone Let yourselves be controlled a little I'll show you how it really goes We're making a nice round dance Freedom is playing on all violins Music is coming out of the White House and Mickey Mouse is standing in front of Paris We're all living in America America is wonderful We're all living in America America, America I know moves that are very useful and I will protect you...

"Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country."- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 25

Howard Dean for Amerika What the Governor Is For and Would Do As President Dean for Amerika... Think for a moment about the amazing politicians Vermont has introduced to America in the past decade. From Congress’ only Socialist, Bernie Sanders, to the antics of Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords, the land of Ben and Jerry bliss has not fallen short of entertaining. Perhaps it is something in the water; it would have to be to produce such a high percentage of political superstars. After years of formulation, the Green Mountain State has now produced a presidential candidate just as peculiar and complicated...