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With the untimely death of Antonin Scalia Saturday, President Barack Obama has been handed the opportunity of a lifetime to tilt the Supreme Court to the left for decades to come. It's also given Democrats an issue to demagogue from now until election day and beyond. About an hour after Scalia's death was confirmed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell "threw down the gauntlet," announcing that the Senate would not be confirming a replacement for him until after the 2016 election, a move Politico called, "an historic rebuke of President Obama's authority and an extraordinary challenge to the practice of...

In an explosive rant, the British actor claimed that "political correctness is crap," and advised people to "take a f—ing joke." Gary Oldman didn't hold anything back in an interview with Playboy magazine, where he defended Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic remarks, Alec Baldwin's public tirades and went after liberal Hollywood. In a lengthy — and extremely candid — chat for the magazine's July/August issue promoting Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the 56-year-old British actor says he believes "political correctness is crap." "I don’t know about Mel. He got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said those...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003 6:37 p.m. ESTCharlie Rangel: Gore, Dean are Harlem Hypocrites When Al Gore said during his endorsement of Howard Dean on Tuesday that it was "good to be back in Harlem," Congressman Charlie Rangel and his staff wondered what the ex-VP meant by "back." "Of all the congressional districts we have in the country, I would think mine is one that Gore is least familiar with," Rep. Rangel complained to Newsday. The leading black Democrat was no kinder to Gore's Vermont sidekick, telling the New York Post, "From what I gather, Howard Dean brought...