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[snip] They’re being discredited because no one has stepped forward and really stated what it is they’re after. The whole group is just coming across like a bunch of jacked-up, jobless, wannabe hippies. That’s not going to change anything in this country. You’ve got to state your goals clearly if you want to accomplish something. So in the absence of any clear goals, let me comment and offer some helpful advice in some areas that seem to be getting a lot of disorganized OWS attention. [snip]

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...10:51 AM -- 'Hardcore' Republicans voting Democrat The two precincts at Broad Ripple Family Center selected Republican Jon Elrod over Democrat Andre Carson in March's special election for U.S. Congress. But by 9 a.m., just 21 voters in one of those precincts had requested Republican ballots -- out of 168 cast. Amid heavy turnout, Republicans appeared to be crossing over in droves today in Marion County and suburban counties, where fewer Republican voters might impact down-ticket primary races....

This is an analysis of Mitt's CURRENT positions and proposals: He's got problems with his past, but no frontrunner doesn't, but that's for another thread. I'm taking all information from his website and current news releases, starting with his entrance into the race. Mitt's catching on it seems, so I'm posting this largely for my own reference and for other freepers to join in if they want. The other purpose is to catalogue his positions so we can spot changes OVER THE COURSE OF CAMPAIGNING. It'll be a good measure of overall campaign consistency. Conservative: -"I believe that we are...

In late November, PARADE sent Contributing Editor Gail Sheehy to Pakistan. Sheehy traveled with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto as she campaigned through her home provinces. Sheehy had two long interviews with her—the first in Bhutto’s home in Islamabad, a second at her residence outside Karachi. Bhutto told Sheehy that she had long been a target of terrorists. She knew she was also now a target of the Musharraf government. Today’s suicide bombing mirrors the earlier attempt on her life that Bhutto described to Sheehy.

What happened? A bunch of DU's come by and spam it? http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=193;results=2 This happened in like 2 or 3 minutes.

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Capitol Police reported four fires in Senate office buildings Wednesday. All were extinguished by midafternoon, but an investigation continued. "They are suspicious in nature," said Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. She said two fires in the Dirksen Senate Office Building and one in the Hart building next door were reported in women's bathrooms and were extinguished between 10:45 a.m. EDT and 12:30 p.m. A fourth, also in Dirksen, was reported later and extinguished by mid-afternoon, Schneider said. Police were still investigating. [entire text]

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions — New England and the South — are sitting down to talk. Tired of foreign wars and what they consider right-wing courts, the Middlebury Institute wants liberal states like Vermont to be able to secede peacefully.

The rise of the baby bundlers — people who ask friends and family to donate for a candidate and then direct the money to the campaign — is adding a face-to-face dimension to tactics used in 2004 to spur an explosion of Internet donations. The influx of these new players, combined with unorthodox appeals by the candidates, also is fundamentally reshaping the parties’ donor bases. The surprising end result could be that the Democratic nominee will buck historic trends and have a significant financial edge in a cycle when the nominees alone are expected to spend an unprecedented $1 billion.

'I've just finished reading this long article in your paper on the corrosion of the American empire," declares Gwyneth enthusiastically from her perch on a hotel-room couch.

For a politically polarized nation, a campaign pitting President Bush against Sen. John F. Kerry presents the starkest of choices — and almost certainly a close election.

Drudge report only has the audio, and I haven't been able to find a video... Fox doesn't have it on their site... can somebody post the link to a frothing Howard Dean?

Man Accused of Kidnapping Neighbor's Cat Thu Sep 4, 9:41 AM ET Add AP - Feature Stories to My Yahoo! GILLETTE, Wyo. - Deryl Miles is accused of cat nabbing. Miles, 55, allegedly kidnapped his neighbor's cat and held it hostage for $50 after the animal wandered into his yard. He was arrested Tuesday on misdemeanor larceny charges for allegedly trapping the cat, named Brunswick, in a wooden shed behind his mobile home, according to court documents. Surrounded by police, Miles called a local newspaper from his trailer and said "I've taken (the cat) legally because it was trespassing on...

Hey, I'm just looking for the text to Bush's 9-11 speech because I have to do an interpretive reading in a college class tomorrow and I want to excerpt from it. Unfortunately, a work meeting ran long and i had to do other classwork, otherwise I'd do the research myself. So I turn to my FRiends: where can I find it? thanks in advance!

A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Aug. 25-26, finds Americans disapproving of the way Bush is dealing both with Medicare, by a margin of 48% to 40%, and with healthcare policy more generally, by 48% to 43%.

GREENPEACE MORONS PRINT DECK OF 'EVIL' CARDS (excerpted title)

We went to war just to boost the white male ego.

<p>But the cease-fire represents a conundrum of sorts for the United States, which has classified the Mujahedeen Khalq as a terrorist organization. The United States went to war against Iraq in part to dismantle what it said were terrorist networks supported by Saddam's regime.</p>

It's a serious matter when a good kid is expelled from school, suspended, or sent to a detention facility to take classes with real delinquents. Here are some recent examples of how the zero tolerance hatchet is wielded in public schools. http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2003/apr03/03-04-23.shtml