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The first Take Back America Tour was this weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Kansas City is also on the Take Back America tour docket. Perhaps somewhere in southeast Michigan – with its sky-high unemployment numbers like Washtenaw,Wayne or Macomb County – might be fitting settings for the tour. Former Governor Sarah Palin and Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck were the first to launch the tour and spread the conservative message that America is broken and it needs to have its values, principles, and founding religious guidance restored. What is perplexing to many detractors is why is there a need...

CNN reporting the superdome to be torn down due to internal and external damage due to Katrina.

/begin my translation China: Egg-sized Hails Pound Shenyang Flood in Heilungjian Province, and now hail damage in Shenyang Following the flood in Heilungjian Province, this time, egg-sized hails pounded Shenyang, another in the recent string of  unusual weather conditions in China. At 6:46pm on June 21, hailstorm started to the city of Shenyang, China, causing extensive damages. House windows were broken, trees on the street fell down. There were over 200 reports of broken phone connection.The Weather Agency in Shenyang explained, "There is no time to issue warning. Hailstorm came so abruptly." It went on to say, "Hot air near the ground and the cold air above...

The European powers secured a pledge from Iran at the weekend that Tehran would halt its uranium enrichment programme within weeks, an agreement that may avert a showdown later this month between Iran and the west.

Blame Bush for Fidel Castro's Broken Knee? Written by Joe Mariani Monday, October 25, 2004 Most people know by now that Fidel Castro fell off a stage, apparently breaking his knee and arm, after making a commencement speech. The people of Cuba would be a lot better off had it been his neck. Despite the way Oliver Stone and many other Hollywood halfwits consider Castro some sort of demigod, he's just another thug that managed to hijack an entire country for his own personal aggrandisement. Steven Spielberg called his dinner with Castro ''the eight most important hours of my life.''...

WASHINGTON — Last month, the angry charge at the 9/11 commission was that our intelligence was weak and ineffective. That was because the terrorists were at war and we were not. This month, with the U.S. at war with terror, the angry charge is that our intelligence was cruelly un-American. Last month, Democrats joined a book-promoting author to try to place the blame for failing to stop Al Qaeda's attacks on an unconcerned President Bush and the bumbling heads of the C.I.A. and F.B.I. This month, Democrats led by Michigan Senator Carl Levin are imputing blame for the pornographic sadism...