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Denver is gearing up to fight global warming, and residents may soon be asked to make personal sacrifices to help save the planet. snip But the proposal also contains some ideas that may be unpopular, such as penalizing heavy users of electricity and natural gas and basing auto insurance premiums on the number of miles traveled.

Billy Donovan, who led Florida to back-to-back national championships this past season, will be named head coach of the Orlando Magic on Friday. After weeks of waiting for the Gators to finalize a new seven-year contract extension, the Magic on Thursday offered Donovan a big-money deal. Sources say the pact is for five years and $27.5 million. Orlando scheduled a news conference for Friday at 11 a.m. ET to formally introduce Donovan. -snip-

TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Charlie Crist said Wednesday that he may issue an executive order single-handedly restoring civil rights to felons who have completed their sentences. The announcement from the Republican governor drew applause from nearly two dozen Democratic lawmakers from the legislative black caucus, known formally as the Florida Conference of Black State Legislators. -snip-

Sen. John Kerry's visit to Kennedy Space Center during the 2004 presidential campaign violated the law, according to a federal watchdog agency. NASA allowed Kerry to conduct a political stump speech and rally at the space center and broadcasted it to KSC employees, and the latter part violates the law, the Office of Special Counsel ruled, according to Local 6 News partner Florida Today.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- In 2003, when Howard Dean named ``guns, God and gays'' as Southern obsessions and said he wanted to work for the white guys with Confederate flag stickers on their pickup trucks, Sen. Joe Biden must have seen Jesus. Now he's gone one better. To the litany of political pandering, Biden has added a new invocation: slavery. As in, ``Hey! I'm from a slave state, too!''

DNA swiped from John Mark Karr after his arrest last week in connection with the JonBenet Ramsey murder might be irrelevant, in part because "something got screwed up" when samples were taken from the crime scene in 1996, a former investigator on the case said.

The ACLU came into existence during World War I to defend anarchists and socialists who endeavored to sabotage the United States government. British MI-5's success in thwarting the plot to blow up a large number of transatlantic airliners reminds us that hamstringing our own intelligence forces by the ACLU and its sympathizers has a long history. The op-ed page of Monday's Wall Street Journal carries an article by David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Lee A. Casey. The authors describe the important differences between British and American legal doctrine that enabled British intelligence forces to work more effectively than can our...

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CARACAS, Venezuela - A landslide all but wiped out Wilfredo Rodriguez's small shoemaking business last year, entitling him to a loan from President Hugo Chavez's government - money he says he never would've found elsewhere. It came with strings attached - his workers get limited co-ownership and he must make mandatory donations to community projects. But no matter: the factory is thriving. Its 14 workers produce 1,200 pairs of shoes per month and has begun selling sandals to Cuba. Cooperatives and co-managed "social production" companies such as Rodriguez's shoe factory are the backbone of the new "21st century socialism" that...

Ex-Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle is considering running for president in the 2008 race, as he blasts the Republican party for allegedly spreading a message of fear. "I haven't ruled anything out or anything in at this point," Daschle told the Associated Press last night after a hometown dinner in his honor.

Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden Ex-president Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks – if only the FBI and CIA had been able to prove the al-Qaida mastermind was behind the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. "I desperately wish that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed, officially, that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole," Clinton tells New York magazine this week. "Then we could have launched an attack on Afghanistan early." Snip

The pevert who cut off his ankle bracelet yesterday has been re-arrested in Florida. Fox News reported at 10:05 A.M. 5/6/2005. Good news for a change.

It was just announced that Jack Nicklson's 17 month old grandson died apparently from a drowning accident. He was being attended to by his nanny. The toddler somehow got through a locked screen door and drowned in the family hot tub. Prayers for the entire family.