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You’ve made a huge political comeback. You’re deeply suspicious of the Washington bureaucracy. You’re contemptuous of liberal elites and the media they control, especially TV networks and The New York Times. You’re trying to get America out of a war you didn’t start and which you regard as a drain on US resources. You’ve just delivered a massive shock to your allies. You really want them to rely less on the US for their security. You also want to counter their competition with US manufacturing. You’re aiming to achieve piece in the Middle East between Israel and everyone else. And...

Sep 3, 2006 — A member of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held an umbrella over Wrightsville resident James Lewis on Saturday, keeping the steady drizzle from his tall pointed hood and long white robe with black accents. The robe's an old one. His other one has green stripes added to show his new status as Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania chapter of the Klan, a position he took two weeks ago. Lewis, a Klansman since he was 15, was one of three in white robes who led a group of about 26 Klan members and supporters...

Spivey's Corner ready to holler SPIVEY'S CORNER, N.C. — For the 37th year, people from all over the world are converging on a small North Carolina town to hear a nearly lost art: hollerin'. About 3,000 people are expected for the contest today. The winner receives a trophy and the recognition of being the champion hollerer. The Annual National Hollerin' Contest raises funds for the town's all-volunteer fire department. But, equally important, it preserves what contest chairman Wayne Edwards calls a North Carolina "oddity." Edwards says hollerin' was Eastern North Carolina's first form of communication. He says people were identified...