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PHOENIX - Arizona Senator John McCain is getting some heat because of video made by his campaign. A Web video just released by the McCain campaign is under the guise of being a message from his U.S. Senate race opponent former Congressman J.D. Hayworth. "I've stood up against the grave threat of man-horse marriage," the announcer says on the video, followed by Hayworth's own comments, "if you really had affection for your horse, you could marry your horse." CNN's Anderson Cooper says the video attacks Hayworth on things that some Republicans take seriously. Republican strategist Ed Rollins says McCain should...

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WASHINGTON - If Democrats win the 15 seats they need to get control of the House and the five seats they need to regain the Senate, how will that change the nation’s direction? For some Democratic activists outside Washington, the overriding need, once their party regains the majority in Congress, is for them to shift the balance of power away from a president they see as dangerously powerful. Democratic blogger Matt Stoller said in an e-mail interview with MSNBC.com, “We have policies we’d like to see passed,” mentioning such items as an increase in the minimum wage and “a fix...

Washington, DC – “Buy American” laws and similar state and federal legislation would be gutted by CAFTA procurement rules that prohibit all laws that give a preference to domestic or local businesses according to U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood, who says CAFTA Article 9 overturns every state and federal law that requires federal, state, and local government agencies to buy American products, or use American workforces. CAFTA Article 9.2. No Party (Nation) may treat a locally established supplier any less favorably than another locally established supplier on the basis of degree of foreign affiliation or ownership, or …on the basis that...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The former national finance director for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign was acquitted Friday of lying to the government about a lavish 2000 Hollywood fundraising gala. David Rosen was charged with two counts of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission about the cost of the star-studded gala, which attracted such celebrities as Cher, Melissa Ethridge, Toni Braxton, Diana Ross, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The jury deliberated about six hours before reaching its verdict. "It was hard for me to hold back tears. My whole family is crying, and my attorney is crying. It...

WASHINGTON - Longtime political foes Newt Gingrich and Hillary Rodham Clinton joined cheerfully Wednesday to promote legislation on health care changes, joking that some might view it as a sign of a soon-to-come doomsday. ADVERTISEMENT Clinton, D-N.Y., and Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker, appeared outside the Capitol to promote a bill that would modernize medical record-keeping.The senator joked that their joint effort has raised plenty of eyebrows since they began working together behind closed doors on a panel examining ways to improve military effectiveness."At our first meeting when we were agreeing so much with each other I think people...

I recently checked out a book at the library, "The Strange Death of Vince Foster". It's been too long since I read it last. I told the librarian, "Wow! No one checked this out for five years?" The librarian looked at the stamp marks and nodded. I said, "I don't want this book lost. If you ever have a clearance sale, is there any way of putting me on a list to buy it?" [Not only would it save the book, I'd get an incredible bargain.] He told me there wasn't any such list, but then he explained the book...

Today's lesson is: What goes around, comes around. And sometimes it comes with two heads. Robert Shapiro, owner of an East Village T-shirt shop, can attest to this. When not devising morally upright T-shirts - "No child is born a racist," "There's more to life than looking like a Gap ad," etc. - he spends his spare time rescuing unwanted reptiles. And this summer, one of them - a constrictor - gave birth to a bouncing baby boa. With two heads. It is the only known two-headed boa in the world, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. "It's like a...