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If you think speeches attacking the U.S. Federal Reserve couldn't excite a Friday night crowd on a college campus, think again. About 2,000 people -- students and older adults who were in the majority -- filled Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota to cheer libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, as he joined Rep. Michele Bachmann to preach the gospel of a less powerful federal government. Before Bachmann, R-Minn., introduced Paul, she hailed legislation of his that would require a detailed audit of the Fed. The crowd jumped to its feet and roared approval. When she described the...

The following text is the full statement released on Thursday by North Korea's KCNA news agency. North Korea refers to itself as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). "Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) - The DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement Thursday to clarify its stand to cope with the grave situation created by the US hostile policy toward the DPRK. The statement says: The second-term Bush administration's intention to antagonize the DPRK and isolate and stifle it at any cost has become quite clear. As we have clarified more than once, we justly urged the US to...

Just on now. CNN is showing a massive blast, a lot of noise. No one really knows what's going on.

Starting sometime in June, Pinellas County residents will, for all intents and purposes, be compelled to ingest a product used in rat poison which will be added to their domestic water supply. The addition of fluoride to the water supply is not meant to make the water supply safe to drink, but rather, will be added to the water supply because some folks in government have taken it upon themselves to make a medical decision ... This forced ingestion of an identifiable substance for its alleged health benefits would appear to violate what Michael Schiavo’s lawyer might claim is a...