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Both NBC News and the BBC have put out videos offering fact-checks on some of President TrumpÂ’s claims about what took place in Charlottesville. Both agree there were violent anti-fascist protesters who came to the protest looking for a fight. First, hereÂ’s NBCÂ’s report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73VkD5CeEv8 "Since the weekend, witnesses have told us that in fact, both sides were antagonizing for a fight,"; NBC's Tom Costello says. Later, the report shows a clip of Trump's Tuesday press conference in which he said, "What about the alt-left? What about the fact that they came charging ... with clubs in their hands, swinging...

As prospects dimmed on immigration legislation yesterday, senators from both parties started targeting scapegoats in a bid to limit the political backlash from a failure to pass the sweeping bill. New opponents and roadblocks surfaced yesterday, threatening to tear apart the fragile, bipartisan coalition that has stayed intact for weeks. But the biggest obstacle was the process. Republicans balked at initial Democratic efforts to limit debate and move to a final vote on the far-reaching bill, which would establish a process for 12 million illegal immigrants to win legal status. Regardless of the outcome of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...

When Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani came to the home county of Terri Schiavo last month, he said he supported the controversial effort by Congress to intervene to keep the severely brain-damaged woman alive. But now it's not so clear where he stands on the Schiavo case. In a televised presidential debate Thursday night, Giuliani suggested the Schiavo controversy should have been left to the courts. "The family was in dispute. That's what we have courts for. And the better place to decide that in a much more, I think in a much fairer and even in a deeper way,...

SAN FRANCISCO – One victim was a young convenience store clerk and military veteran who moved back to California to fight for custody of his daughters. The other three were family members who owned a motel they wanted to sell because the neighborhood had grown rough. For all four, plans to change their lives were cut short by the sawed-off shotgun of Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams during a pair of 1979 robberies in Los Angeles County that have put him on death row. Their stories are part of the pitch prosecutors have made to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to deny...

Californians on both sides of the immigration debate decried President Bush's speech Monday as insufficient and called for a more comprehensive plan to deal with illegal immigrants and border security. Bush outlined a guest-worker program that would allow migrants to work in the United States in three-year stretches, proposed tougher border enforcement and vowed to work with Congress to reform immigration laws. He made the pitches in a speech in Tucson, Ariz., and is scheduled to talk about immigration again today in El Paso, Texas. As in California, immigration is an issue of concern for many residents in those border...

WASHINGTON – For very different reasons, Republicans and liberal Democrats found themselves together last week protesting Hillary Rodham Clinton's effort to stake out ground in the political center. But the New York senator holds such a dominant position in the jockeying for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination – even 2½ years before the first caucus – that she has been able to brush off the early attacks from both her right and left. When Clinton appeared in Columbus at the annual meeting of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, Ohio Republican Chairman Bob Bennett hurried to the scene to make sure...

SACRAMENTO - It's like a credit card bill that California lawmakers can't seem to get under control - the state budget deficit born of a perpetual imbalance between what the state spends and what it takes in. The gap stood at $17 billion last year, had been projected to be almost $9 billion this year and is likely to be about $5 billion in the 2006-2007 fiscal year. Despite a balanced-budget agreement struck this week, economists and fiscal analysts warn that future shortfalls are likely to continue until a long-term fix is found. "We haven't come to grips with the...

(PRWEB) October 26, 2004 -- An Undecided Voter Form is now available at the site of Scipolicy-The Journal of Science and Health Policy, http://scipolicy.net. It is presented as a public service and strictly non-partisan method of analyzing one's personal perspectives about the candidates for President of the United States. The election is on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. It is not a poll or a survey. It is a voter's personal inventory, analysis, and assessment of the candidates. The author is Stephen Miles Sacks, Ph.D. who is Editor and Publisher of Scipolicy Journal (http://scipolicy.net). "The form-analysis is an adaptation of the...

Sacramento -- In publicly railing against legislative Democrats, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has increasingly referred to the political bogeymen that played a key role in getting him elected: special interests. Schwarzenegger, who promised to sweep the Capitol of influential campaign contributors, charged Sunday that trial lawyers, unions and other special interests were "dug in" at the Capitol "like Alabama ticks, and we cannot get rid of them." But as an ever-lengthening state budget fight has come to focus on rather obscure disputes involving a new labor law and school busing, Democrats are blasting back at the governor and Republican lawmakers for...

http://ynucc.yeungnam.ac.kr/~bwlee/midi_b.htm#Back%20Here MIDI - BOTH SIDES NOW He had voted for the war...what Dubya's done he's now not for John Kerry really is a whore...our nation doesn't need He had been for gay marriage ban...but secretly he is their man It is part of a wider plan...we can't let him succeed Just look around and you can see...he'll play both sides quite easily The man is scum, you must agree...John Effin Kerry, you won't be...leading me First he served his country well...and then he told it, "Go to hell," He can't be trusted, you can tell...our nation he will screw The...

<p>The two sides in the recall battle traded signature-gathering statistics Thursday as it became increasingly likely that those hoping to remove Gov. Gray Davis from office will succeed in forcing an election.</p> <p>Recall proponents said they had shipped a total of 1 million signatures to county elections offices and are well on their way to submitting more than 1.3 million signatures by next week.</p>

<p>LIKE the weather in Sacramento, the attempt to recall Gov. Gray Davis is getting hot.</p> <p>And the governor is starting to sweat.</p> <p>With the unveiling of ``Taxpayers Against the Recall,'' the initially quixotic attempt to unseat Davis achieved its first goal: It forced the governor to confront it.</p>