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You just can’t make this stuff up. Eric Holder gave a talk today at the annual NAACP conference in Houston. The far left Attorney General slammed the recent state voter ID laws. In order to cover the event as a journalist you had to show a photo ID. Via the Joe Pags Show: *******MEDIA ADVISORY******* ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER TO DELIVER REMARKS TOMORROW TO NAACP NATIONAL CONVENTION WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder will deliver remarks at the NAACP National Convention during the plenary session on TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2012, at 12:00 p.m. EDT/11:00 a.m. CDT. WHO: Attorney General Eric...

<p>HANOI, Vietnam (Reuters) -- Communist Vietnam is giving the hometown of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh a facelift in the hopes of making it a bigger draw for tourists.</p> <p>Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has approved the project to conserve Kim Lien village, the central Vietnam birthplace of the president who died in 1969 at 79.</p>

MANILA: Government forces killed a communist guerrilla leader and captured two of his wounded comrades after a gunbattle in the central Philippines island of Negros on Thursday, the military said. The slain Revolutionary People's Army (HMB) rebel leader, Lino Silvano, is wanted by police for a number of murders, extortion, and robberies, Army spokesman Colonel Jose Mendoza said in a statement. A unit of infantrymen tracked Silvino's 10-member band near the town of Kawayan and overwhelmed them in a brief firefight, he added. There were no casualties on the government side. The military described the HMB as a "communist breakaway...