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Southern Poverty Law Center Cites Violent Incidents; Lou Dobbs Calls SPLC Director 'Paranoid' ### Anti-government sentiments in the U.S. have reached levels so high they could result in another attack like the Oklahoma City bombing, according to a report released Tuesday by an organization that tracks right-wing extremists – and the authors of the report place part of the blame on Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin. *snip* A host of recent attacks on law enforcement, plots against President Obama, and a shooting at Washington, D.C.'s Holocaust museum are "signs of the times," said Mark Potok,...

State Senate President Ken Bennett Wednesday said he likely will challenge Gov. Janet Napolitano in next year's elections. Bennett, a Republican businessman from Prescott, told The Business Journal that chances are "very good" he will take on the Democratic governor next year. "I will make a decision within the next several weeks," said Bennett, a conservative who is president of Prescott-based Bennett Oil. Bennett's likely run also could end speculation to whether U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona or Marilyn Quayle (the wife of former vice president Dan Quayle) might mount 2006 campaigns. Some top GOP strategists have been trying to...