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Can you actually believe this crud? Okay, I get it Democrats, you don't like Republicans because they oppose your social ideology - so just have your leftist media promote violence against them?.. Are you really showing your true colors (SEIU purple?) as the progressive and tolerant political party which you claim to be ?

Juan Williams was beyond belief tonight on FOX. He started in on the "jobless recovery" and how "hurting" the average guy is out here in America. Fred Barns started bi+(h slapping him and telling him that he ought to try reading a newspaper and get his facts straight. Juan looked totally surprised that he was being called on these talking points and then Krauthammer lit into him and essentially said that he was enjoying the a$$ kicking Fred was administering. I wonder how the hell much they pay Juan to sit there and be a punching bag like that? I...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The good news: video game fans have a chance to star in an upcoming game release. The bad news: your digital likeness will be beaten with lead pipes and body-slammed into concrete pool decks. British video game publisher Eidos on Friday said it has struck a deal with games news company IGN Entertainment Inc. to sponsor a contest in which the winner will appear as a character in the upcoming game 'Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home.' The game is set for release this summer on the PlayStation 2 (news - web sites) and Xbox...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police mistakenly beat up their own undercover detectives when a demonstration turned violent in the northern city of Hamburg. Police were monitoring a rally of some 3,000 people protesting against the demolition of illegal squatters' homes when violence broke out late last Saturday evening. Several hundred helmet-clad riot police then clashed with the protesters, including plain-clothes officers who had been shoved into the centre of the crowd. Local political leaders from the Hamburg Social Democrats investigating the matter said the officers tried to identify themselves with a password. But communication efforts failed and riot police beat...

The Fatah Reference Secretary in the West Bank, Hussein al Sheikh, speaking to Albawaba.com, confirmed that Palestinian cabinet minister Hassan Asfour was hospitalized Monday evening in a Ramallah hospital after five masked people beat him. The identity of these people or their motives are unknown. Asfour, minister of nongovernmental organizations affairs, was taken to hospital with light injuries. "This is a cowardly and dirty assault against minister Asfour," Yasser Arafat's aide, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, told Reuters at the hospital. "The leadership considers this assault as a criminal act aimed against the Palestinian legitimacy and intended to create sedition among Palestinians," he...