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Senator John Kerry is taking heat for having sat largely mute when University of Florida student Andrew Meyer was being manhandled and tasered by campus police all for asking the wrong questions at Tuesday's town hall meeting. "Kerry was absolutely impotent in the situation," radio talk show host Michael Savage told a caller to The Savage Nation last night. While most are aware that Kerry did nothing while Meyer was writing on the floor in pain after being tasered, only a handful of people know that Kerry insulted a group of war veterans just two days before. On that occasion,...

"If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god -" Emmy winner Sally Field said before the Emmycast cut her off her sound and pointed the camera away from the stage so viewers would be distracted. Cut off were the words "g-d d--ned wars in the first place." "This belongs to all the mothers of the world - may they be seen and valued," she added when she won best actress in a drama series for her work as matriarch Nora Walker on "Brothers & Sisters."

Genoa, Ill. - In a memorial service almost devoid of the military trappings that have become so familiar with those of other soldiers killed in Iraq, Army 1st Lt. Brian Slavenas was remembered Thursday as a gentle man."I met him as a freshman in high school and I never heard him put another kid down," said Phil Heinisch of Decatur, one of nine friends who told humorous and sometimes touching stories about Slavenas.Slavenas, 30, was one of 16 soldiers killed in Iraq earlier this month when the Chinook helocopter he was piloting was shot down.Also killed were Iowans, Sgt. Paul...