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John McCain just can't seem to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up: A Republican or a Democrat. After campaigning half-heartedly for George Bush, he now tells NBC's Tim Russert that Hillary Clinton would make a good president...

When the Pope compared abortion to Hitler's Holocaust in his new book "Memory and Identity: Conversations Between Millenniums", he stated that both occurred because "people decided to abrogate the law of God". The Holy Father drew immediate criticism, most notably (and ironically) from Germany's Central Council of Jews. Paul Spiegel, head of the Council, told the Netzeitung daily newspaper that such statements indicate that the Pope "has not understood or does not want to understand that there is a tremendous difference between factory-like genocide and what women do with their bodies"...

If the liberals in the mainstream media did not have double-standards, they would have no standards at all...

Freedom of speech is often tinged with pain, especially when the ideas expressed are repulsive and abhorrent and plainly outside of community standards, and often, simple decency. In a quiet, affluent neighborhood in Sacramento, CA, this freedom is being pushed to the very limits of tolerance, and a local couple are finding that regardless of the Constitution, actions bear consequences

If you can believe an article by Ronald Brownstein in today's Los Angeles Times, the Democratic Party is the party of Rip Van Winkle, which has just now awoke from a coma to find themselves on the outside looking in. Apparently losing the House and Senate for 10 years, and the last two presidential elections, was not enough to shake them into reality. But now, with George Bush not following historical precedent and instead launching the most ambitious second-term in memory, they are wide awake and desperate, and desperate people do desperate things...

Al Franken's big mouth has gotten him into trouble once again, and placed him in the delicious position of looking like an even bigger blow-hard than usual...

When America's borders cease to exist as divisions of sovereignty, and become undefended and unprotected gateways allowing millions of poor, unskilled laborers to cross illegally and without apparent consequence, the rule of law and our country's stability are threatened. Beyond that, however, are the very real costs of such an invasion...

While most political pundits are wrapped around the axle trying to predict whether Hillary Rodham-Clinton will run for President in 2008, there is the very real and growing possibility that she will have an uphill battle to even retain her Senate seat in 2006, and may even have to fight harder than that to stay out of prison.