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Gingrich May Run in 2008 If No Front-Runner Emerges — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) expects to run for president in 2008 if the contest for the Republican nomination still seems wide open late next year, he said yesterday. — In remarks that were critical of both parties' recent performance …
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Gathering Highlights Power of the Blog — LAS VEGAS, June 9 — If any more proof were needed of the rising influence of bloggers — at least for the Democratic Party — it could be found here on Friday on the Las Vegas Strip, where the old and new worlds of American politics engaged …


Iraqi claims U.S. GIs beat wounded man — BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on the scene of the U.S. airstrike targeting Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said he saw American troops beating a man who had a beard like the al-Qaida leader. — The witness, who lives near …
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Al-Zarqawi spoke, then died as US medics tried to save him — IRAQI police discovered Abu Musab al-Zarqawi alive in the rubble of his bombed safe house, then watched him try to roll off a stretcher before dying, it emerged yesterday. — Announcing his death, US officials said on Thursday …

A Dying Al-Zarqawi Tried to Get Away — BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could barely speak, but he struggled and tried to get away from American soldiers as he lay dying on a stretcher in the ruins of his hideout. — The U.S. forces recognized his face, and knew they had the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Iraq War Critic Surprises Democrats — Murtha Says He Will Run for Majority Leader if Party Wins — Rep. John P. Murtha (Pa.), one of the Democrats' leading antiwar voices, startled his political colleagues yesterday by announcing he would seek a senior leadership position if the Democrats win control of the House in November.
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Iraq war foe Murtha eyes Democratic leadership — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rep. John Murtha, an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq, unexpectedly announced on Friday he will run for the No. 2 leadership post in the U.S. House of Representatives if Democrats regain control of that chamber in elections this fall.

9/11 Commissioner Criticizes Coulter — A member of the Sept. 11 commission on Friday lashed out at conservative pundit Ann Coulter for a "hate-filled attack" in saying the widows whose husbands died in the World Trade Center used the deaths for their own political gain.
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Senate Candidate Webb Caught In Bigotry Web — Yes, Virginia, in Virginia you should file this one in your Reprehensible Department File: … THEN READ MORE: … True. And he didn't show him with horns, cutting a pound of flesh from a Christian child, or digging a new Grand Canyon …
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Flier Blasted on Drawing of Jewish Opponent
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Councilman asks Geno's to lose 'Speak English' sign — PHILADELPHIA - — At a City Council meeting Thursday, Councilman Jim Kenney asked Geno's Steaks to take down its sign that says, "This Is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING SPEAK ENGLISH." — That's just the latest example of how an English …
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Teacher witnessed transformation of some bomb-plot suspects — A Muslim religious leader in Toronto who knows some of those charged in the suspected bomb plot says the young men underwent rapid transformations from normal Canadian teenagers to radicalized introverts.


Time's "Corrections" About Haditha — This is a now all too familiar pattern with our one party media. — The following "corrections" have been added to the very bottom of Time's two blockbuster exclusives on Haditha in their current online versions:
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Secret report brands Muslim police corrupt — Fury over internal Met study which says Asians need special training — A secret high-level Metropolitan police report has concluded that Muslim officers are more likely to become corrupt than white officers because of their cultural and family backgrounds.

Poop prank has Musgrave staff fuming — A UNC emeritus professor is charged with returning the congresswoman's mailer - with interest. — A former professor of French at the University of Northern Colorado has been cited for allegedly making a special delivery to U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave that reeked of political partisanship.

Pilot with 9/11 links found in NZ — EXCLUSIVE - A Saudi Arabian linked to one of the September 11 hijackers spent four months in New Zealand before being expelled as a national security risk. — The United States-qualified pilot, Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali, was admitted to New Zealand …