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After calling for and then deleting his demand for the left to “exterminate” conservative “cockroaches,” Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt is still walking back his incendiary comment, claiming he meant to say “exterminate at the ballot box.” In a recent set of angry tweets, Steven Van Zandt defended his use of “cockroaches” to describe the political opposition after someone pointed out that the same insult was used in Rwanda to foment genocide. Van Zandt claimed his use of “cockroach” was just “symbolism” and that he really meant to say “exterminate at the ballot box.” He called...

WINESBURG (OHIO) — Arriving by pickup truck, car, buggy and on foot, Ohio’s Amish turned out at polling stations in Holmes, Wayne and Stark counties in what some described as record numbers. Drawn to support Issue 1, the constitutional amendment forbidding gay marriage, civil unions and legal standing for other relationships, the Amish also voted for George W. Bush for president, saying his moral values parallel theirs. Some, however, were troubled about his leading the country to war in Iraq. At the Paint Township Fire Department in Winesburg in Holmes County, Amish stood with “English” voters for 45 minutes, nearly...