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SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle illegally over the weekend when he collided with a car in his Brentwood neighborhood, the Los Angeles Police Department said Tuesday. Police Lt. Paul Vernon said Schwarzenegger does not have the proper motorcycle endorsement on his California driver's license, contradicting statements made by his spokeswoman since the Sunday accident that left the governor with 15 stitches in his upper lip. "He does not have the license," Vernon said. Police did not cite the governor because they arrived after the accident, Vernon said. Police referred their findings to the...

The AP along with the rest of the media continues to lie to the public about the actual numbers of this protest. So far I have only seen one photo from a distant shot. It looked no more than 2 to 3 thousand people. A far shot from the 100,000 the MSM is claiming, and pipe dream from the 300,000 ANSWER is claiming..

...U.S. companies, unlike their counterparts based in most other industrialized countries, are not required to cut emissions because President George W. Bush backed out of the Kyoto Protocol early in his first term. The pact went into force this year...

Rove breathes easier: The New York Times reports that Karl Rove learned the name of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame from columnist Robert Novak.

Against a backdrop of heightened public concern about government intrusions, six in 10 Americans favor extending the Patriot Act, but majorities oppose expanding it by adding new FBI powers to issue subpoenas and access U.S. mail. Fifty-nine percent in an ABC News/Washington Post poll favor continuing the additional investigative authority in terrorism investigations that was granted to the FBI starting in 2001. President Bush urged such an extension of the Patriot Act today. But there are some compunctions behind that support: Just half the public now says the United States government is doing enough to protect the rights of Americans...

68% of Christians favor DEATH over LIFE...? I wonder where FOX got that "fact" from.....

Schiavo recovery impossible, experts agree 21 Mar 2005 18:02:01 GMT Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - Terri Schiavo, at the center of an emotional and political storm over whether she should be allowed to die, will almost certainly never recover from her unconscious condition, neurologists agree. She is in a permanent vegetative state, and no one has ever come back from such a condition, according to the American Academy of Neurology. "Approximately 10,000 to 25,000 adults and 6,000 to 10,000 children in the United States are diagnosed as being in the persistent vegetative state," the Multi-Society Task Force on...

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices leaped back above $50 on Wednesday as President Bush (news - web sites) edged toward U.S. election victory, a result which traders said would bolster fuel demand and underpin anxiety over security of Middle East supply. U.S. light crude by 1230 GMT rose 63 cents to $50.25, reversing part of a 12 percent pull-back over the past week. Brent crude was up 57 cents at $47.12 a barrel. White House Chief of Staff Andy Card said Bush was convinced he has won re-election but will hold off a formal victory declaration to give Democrat John...

"In retrospect, it has become obvious that too few U.S. troops were assigned to perform too many assignments in the immediate aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s downfall in Iraq. It is easy to understand how, grappling with the job of restoring order in Iraq, the overextended, undermanned occupation force should have failed to guard buildings such as government offices, hospitals and museums that were looted by vandals. What is not so easy to understand, much less forgive, is the failure to guard a particularly large and sensitive Iraqi military facility."