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Barbara Boxer needs to give it a rest – heck, she needs to give us a rest. We’ve got six more years to go with Boxer in the Senate, and perhaps the worst part is that she seems intent on making us, and everyone else, remember it. Week before last, Boxer put on her tin-foil hat and objected to the certification of President Bush’s victory in Ohio, thereby forcing a debate of the issue. And although some of her Democratic Senate colleagues paid lip service to the needless (and meaningless) disruption, when it came time actually to vote on whether...

In an incident the YMCA is calling "a very regrettable scheduling error," kids arriving for an early-morning swim meet Sunday walked into a gender-bending scene of the kind most of them wouldn't be allowed to watch on TV. Several of the kids' angry parents clashed with participants in a transgender fashion show, which had been under way at the New City YMCA since about midnight, resulting in a chaotic melee that was eventually broken up by private security guards and East Chicago District police. A YMCA member had reserved the entire facility, at 1515 N. Halsted, from 11 p.m. Saturday...

Jimmy Strikes Again MIAMI (AFP) - Former US President Jimmy Carter called Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) "a powerful human symbol and forceful advocate" who united Palestinians in their pursuit of a homeland. "Yasser Arafat's death marks the end of an era and will no doubt be painfully felt by Palestinians throughout the Middle East and elsewhere in the world," Carter said. "He was the father of the modern Palestinian nationalist movement. A powerful human symbol and forceful advocate, Palestinians united behind him in their pursuit of a homeland," he said in a statement distributed by his Atlanta, Georgia-based...

I sure hope they keep putting Max Cleland out front on this deal. He is a collosal embarassment for the Kerry campaign. I have no way to describe this man other than as a "disgruntled ex-Senate employee" being used by Ketchup Boy to carry his baggage for him. Cleland's indignation rings so hollow that it will be obvious to even the most uninformed among us. This is such a transparent ploy to stretch the time out before Kerry must inevitably respond directly to the issues raised by the Swift Vets, that even a blind man could see through it. They...

Not on the helpful list are meetings and public appearances with former Vermont Governor Howard Dean.But given Kerry's tough financial bind, and the need to help Dean's percieved base of young voters happy, Kerry will appear with Dean in Michigan.Dean is now operating only in tightly choreographed events that have been fully vetted by Kerry senior advisors.His remarks are scripted by the Kerry campaign, ahd he has been asked not to 'ad lib' so as not to embarass Seantor Kerry. 'There are a lot of people who agree with the things Dean says,' a former Dean campaign staffer now waiting...

12:05 AM Eastern. Former President Jimmy Carter reads pornography on the Leno/Tonight Show. What is wrong with this man? Can't he be committed to a mental institution? What happened to dignity and respect for the office????

Speaking at U of Arkansas

Was poking around DU a few minutes ago and came across this (coloring mine): Tonight Thursday, February 06, 2003 Exclusive: Former President Bill Clinton joins Larry live for the hour. (LOL, should be some interesting posts here on FR tomorrow.)

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