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A protest at UC Berkeley turned fiery and violent Wednesday night, shutting down a scheduled speech by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. The Breitbart News editor was set to deliver a speech inside a UC Berkeley campus building but hundreds of protesters began throwing fireworks and pulling down the metal barricades police set up to keep people from rushing into the building. Windows were smashed and fires were set outside the building as masked protesters stormed it, and at 6 p.m., one hour before his scheduled speech was to begin, police decided to evacuate Yiannopoulos for his own safety. The Berkeley...

Here are some photos from Olympian Online which show what happened to the "peace activists" who tried to block the delivery of Stryker armored vehicles to our troops in Iraq:     Just in time for the Memorial Day weekend!

How’s your 'Progenitor A?' By David Rennie, Europe Correspondent (Filed: 07/03/2006) Spain has taken another step in its journey from conservative to liberal bastion by creating new birth certificates to avoid discrimination against same-sex couples. According to an announcement in the Official Bulletin of State "The expression "father" will be replaced with "Progenitor A", and "mother" will be replaced with "Progenitor B"."The head of the national Civil Register, Pilar Blanco-Morales, told the newspaper ABC that the change took account of a new law on same-sex marriages passed by the socialist government in July. The move has prompted sharp criticism from...

WASHINGTON - Porn is like heroin, researchers told Congress yesterday, asking for money to study "porn addiction" and launch a public health campaign about its dangers. The Internet is the top source for porn that corrupts kids and hooks adults into addictions that threaten their jobs and families, anti-porn advocates said. They called for billboards and bus ads warning people to avoid pornography, strip clubs and prostitutes.The Associated Press Originally published on November 19, 2004

Even to the party faithful, an hourlong speech dense with terms like "costing the differential" is a tough sell. But Teresa Heinz Kerry came to Pueblo and sold it Friday. The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry was nearly an hour late when she finally showed for a town hall meeting at the Colorado State Fair Grounds, in the 4-H Pavilion just down the row from the sheep, swine and goat barn. By the time she got there, the crowd of more than 500 had gone through a God Bless America singalong and round-robin cheers of "John! Kerry!...

Teresa Heinz-Kerry was quite the spectactle today, during an interview in Arizona, she did not like being told that her husband was down in the polls. "He's still down in Arizona," the interviewer said. "Who cares?" she replied, "One state is not a whole state." [I think she meant it's not the whole country] Who cares? That's quite the attitude to have now isn't it? Watch the video... it speaks volumes... Arizona is a state the Kerry campaign really wanted to win... Now they shrug it off with "who cares?" John Kerry certainly cared not too long ago... Just days...

Live tonight on C-Span at 8:30 eastern, rally for President Bush in Michigan. I predict there'll be a live thread tonight on Free Republic. Also, look for Freeper Hillary's Lovely Legs on stage with the president. She's sitting on the top row of the bleachers, stage left, wearing a fuchsia coat.

CHICAGO - In a flash, the ball that came to symbolize the Chicago Cubs' cursed history was blown up Thursday night, reduced to a pile of thread by a Hollywood special effects expert. Hundreds of fans sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" before the ball — the foul fly touched by Steve Bartman in last October's playoffs — was obliterated. Bartman had not been expected to attend the event, held in a tent outside Harry Caray's Restaurant. Some fans were decked out in Cubs gear, others wore replicas of the famous broadcaster's signature glasses and one man was...

Ordinarily, it is difficult to get through for a while, since everyone calls starting at 9:00 pm. Tonight, there was no dial tone in parts of the Raleigh, NC area. Well after 60 minutes, there is a "quick busy", meaning the telephone system is not working correctly. I continually received busy signals even after only dialing the '1'. How can the voting be tabulated fairly if people in the home city of Clay Aiken can't even cast their votes??

    It's not about smoking, it's about constitutional guarantees! 42 tyrants and a ring leader named Bloomberg It is saddening to see the people of one of our nation's 13 original states, whose founding fathers were among those who pledged their "...lives, fortunes and sacred honor..." in order to secure the blessings of liberty and establish protection of individual rights associated with property, allowing 42 tyrants and a ring leader named Bloomberg, to trample upon and disregard these fundamental protections written into our constitutions, state and federal. It is equally saddening to observe two factious groups in New...

"The fall may be the make-or-break time for MSNBC," NEW YORK TIMES TV hotshot Bill Carter is preparing to write in Monday editions. According to newsroom sources, Carter is set to warn how "future investment and promotion budgets for the channel" may be at risk during the coming months, as the all-news network continues to slump in the ratings, lead by the nearly still-born DONAHUE. The pressure is coming from the very top of the MSNBCNBCGE tree. Earlier this year, at a meeting of NBC's top management, Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman of GENERAL ELECTRIC, specifically cited MSNBC as the area...

There are 800+ signatures on this screed saying Gore is the REAL president. If you have an idle moment, you might care to do some freeping by clicking on the above link.