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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...

“I used to think when people cut me off it was because I was in a fancy car. These days when someone cuts me off, I wonder if it’s because of Elon.”

A threat made Friday that mentioned U.S. Sen. Susan Collins forced several schools from Machias to Bangor and Aroostook County into a “soft lockdown.” School remained in session, but no one could enter or leave the buildings without authorization. A business in Orono received the threat Friday morning through a “vague, email message,” according to Orono High School Principal Reg Ruhlin. Scott Porter, the superintendent of Machias schools, said the threat specified Collins and listed high schools in Bangor, Brewer, East Millinocket, Caribou, Houlton, Madawaska, Jonesport, Machias and Harrington. School districts did not see the actual message, according to Brewer...

The Judicial Murder Of Your Nation By William A. Mayer, Editor & Publisher June 27, 2002 If we needed any further evidence that this great nation is under the most serious assault in its history, the Wednesday June, 26 decision by the notoriously inept [reversed 19 out of 20 cases in the latest US Supreme Court session] and manifestly leftwing Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals, declaring the Pledge of Allegiance to be unconstitutional, certainly provides it. This essay started out as an attack on the June, 20 U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Atkins v. Virginia, in which 6 activist jurists...