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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Thousands of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge "Killing Fields" marked 30 years Wednesday since the fall of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist regime, blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people. Up to 80,000 people packed into the capital's Olympic stadium for a rally organized by the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP), descendant of the puppet government installed by Hanoi after its troops ousted Beijing-backed Pol Pot on January 7, 1979. "We have always remembered those who sacrificed their lives to save us from genocide," aging CPP President and former guerrilla Chea Sim told the cheering crowd....

WASHINGTON -- Democrats won both open-seat congressional races in Alabama Tuesday, preserving a century-long hold in the Tennessee Valley and breaking Republicans' 44-year hold in the Southeastern part of the state. Republican U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions was easily re-elected to a third term. With the election of Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright and state Sen. Parker Griffith of Huntsville, Democrats gained one seat in Alabama's House delegation. Republicans will hold a 4-3 majority in the delegation and occupy both of Alabama's Senate seats.

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats have won a majority in New York's state Senate. That gives the party control of the full Legislature and governor's office for the first time since 1935. Democrats, who outnumber Republicans by nearly 2 to 1 statewide, ended more than 40 years of GOP rule in the Senate thanks in part to the enthusiasm fueled by Barack Obama's historic presidential campaign. Democrats won at least 32 seats in the 62-seat chamber. They trailed 31 to 29 with two vacancies going into Tuesday.

BATON ROUGE, La. -- After just six months in office, U.S. Rep. Don Cazayoux faces a rocky path to re-election, with a Republican attacking him from the right and an independent attacking from the left.

By Lance Griffin Published: October 20, 2008 Hours after Republican State Senator Harri Anne Smith endorsed Democratic Congressional candidate Bobby Bright, the executive director of the Alabama Republican Party alleged Monday that Smith shopped her endorsement between Bright and fellow Republican Jay Love. John Ross told the Dothan Eagle Monday that Bill Harris, who was Smith’s campaign manager during her Republican Congressional primary race with Love, told him on Oct. 7 that Smith was prepared to endorse Bright in exchange for $150,000 to help retire her campaign debt. However, Ross said Harris told him Smith was willing to entertain offers...

I was shocked to find that the NRA has endorsed Baron Hill for IN-9. This is insane, with a good Republican (Sodrel) who could have been endorsed in a very close election. Granted, Hill has only a 36% rating from the Brady Campaign, but our solid Republican representatives all are down in the single digits (with Pence leading the way with a 0% rating -- way to go Mike!). GOA gave Hill a D- in their 2007 rating, but apparently the NRA thought he was good for an A in 2008. I've always been in the "NRA is one of...

Editors and statesmen of every capital in the world last week responded to news of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide re-election (TIME. Nov. 9) with an international ovation for the winner. In Berlin the President was hailed as an exponent of the führerprinzip ("leadership principle") of Der Führer Adolf Hitler. In Moscow a high Soviet official cried: ''We are extremely gratified!" Rome climbed on the band wagon with eulogistic comparisons of President Roosevelt to Dictator Mussolini and Fascist editors recalled his refusal to join the League of Nations in Sanctions against Italy. Geneva newspapers said that not since Woodrow Wilson has...

As both doctrine and praxis, to borrow from the old vernacular, communism may have been the most vicious phenomenon of the twentieth century. Part of the viciousness was its canny competence in purporting to be the chalice of hope for mankind. Nazism was also cruel, very cruel and industrially proficient in the mechanics of mass death. But it had no pretensions to universal humanitarianism. It was a master race ideology. Given this undisguised basic principle, its enemies and victims were evident at the near-start and they were by definition counted in the multitudes. Perhaps that is one reason why Hitler's...

So I posted a reply critical of this video on you tube. Warning, profanity. If you look at the profile of creator of the video, he states the following: heartofdrakn is back from censorship!!!...... YouTube was our last refuge for truth and free speech, the powers that be want to shut us down. Free speech is not a privilege...FREE SPEECH IS A (censored) RIGHT!!! Odd then he would reply to me thusly: Hey (censored) clown, I have three university degrees and 20 years of research in History and the Media. So please, you little pathetic remarks, keep them to yourself...

'We're the ones with the babe on the ticket." -- Rush Limbaugh, crowing about the Republican ticket. Rush was talking about Sarah Palin, right? But hey, maybe he's got a man-crush on McCain. As Limbaugh and others drool over Palin's Suzanne Pleshette-circa-1975 attractiveness, the governor of Alaska has become an overnight celebrity. Of course, such fame is relative. As of Sunday, if you googled "Sarah Palin," you got 453,000 hits. If you googled "Kim Kardashian," you got more than 7.8 million hits. God Bless America. But over the last few days, a lot of us were learning all about the...

ABC's George Stephanopoulos reports: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., wants to win the election in November. But he does not want to steal Sen. Barack Obama's, D-Ill., thunder this evening, as the Democrat becomes the first African American to accept a major party's nomination for president. A senior McCain campaign official tonight said the news of the Republican's running mate, which is scheduled to be announced tomorow in Dayton, Ohio, will not upstage Obama tonight. "There will be no announcement tonight. There will be no leak tonight. This is Barack Obama's night. His nomination is a singular achievement. Tonight's his night...

Russia put the West on alert for a new Cold War that the Kremlin is ready to fight, its President said yesterday. President Medvedev set tensions soaring when he recognised the independence of two breakaway republics inside Georgia. “We are not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a Cold War,” he said. Hours earlier he had ordered his Foreign Ministry to start establishing diplomatic ties with the secessionist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The move brought instant condemnation from the United States, Britain, France, Germany and other Western countries. President Bush appealed to the Kremlin to “reconsider this...

New York Senator Hillary Clinton acknowledges a 3-minute ovation during the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, August 26. Democratic women Senators appears on stage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 26, 2008. U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention on August 28. US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama watches New York Senator Hillary Clinton addressing the Democratic National Convention on a TV screen in Billings, Montana on August 26. Vice Presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden (R) (D-DE) stand at the podium...

He said to the press "Hey guys, I'm not the guy. See ya." Low and behold he is the guy. He has proven he will recite bald-faced lies to the American people.

First Congressional District candidate Joel Haugen (R-Scappoose), who is battling Republican officials in that district, called support from Oregon Republican Party officials a farce after they refused to rectify a situation where local county officials would not support his candidacy. “ORGOP's help is likely to be of the order of holding our jewelry while we get water boarded,” Haugen said in an email to PolitickerOR.com sent from Minnesota, where he was attending a wedding. Haugen’s anger comes after Republican Party Chairman Vance Day issued a letter saying that ORGOP would support Haugen no matter who he has endorsed in the...

Bob Barker, retired game show host of "The Price is Right," testified Tuesday at City Hall in support of a controversial ordinance that would make spaying and neutering mandatory in Chicago. Under this legislation, all cats and dogs would be required to undergo the necessary operation once they reach six months of age. “Overpopulation is one of the most tragic animal problems that we have in our country,” Barker said. “There are thousands, probably millions of people across the country who have devoted [themselves] to trying to find homes for surplus animals. And these people… are doomed to fail,” he...

LONDON — There was a time, not all that long ago, when he was the invisible man whose name was a battle cry, his appearance known to most people only from an out-of-date photograph, a hidden hero on a prison island off the coast of Africa. But as he celebrated his 90th birthday Friday, Nelson Mandela was anything but invisible, a figure of reverence whose nine decades have been marked and observed at a huge rock concert in London’s Hyde Park, a gala dinner for his children’s charity in the august, chandeliered Long Room at Lord’s cricket ground and a...

Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Merkley is excited by a new poll that for the first time shows him ahead of Republican Sen. Gordon Smith - even if the two-point lead is well within the survey's margin of error. Jeff Merkley "The fact that we're in the lead is tremendous," said Merkley spokesman Matt Canter, saying he thinks that's probably the first time Smith has found himself in such a position in his nearly 12 years in the Senate. However, Smith's own pollster, Bob Moore, said he didn't trust the methodology of the poll by Rasmussen Reports. It uses an automated...

The Capitol reports that billionaire, state Independence Party founder and three-time failed gubernatorial candidate B. Thomas Golisano is preparing to inject himself into New York politics again by spending $1 million via a new PAC to support state Senate candidates. Democratic state Senate candidates, that is. This is a big switch for Golisano, who changed his enrollment to the GOP while considering a fourth gubernatorial run in 2006 (largely fueled by his intense dislike for Eliot Spitzer). After he opted not to challenge Spitzer, Golisano started hanging out with then-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno and talking about the importance of...

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