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RALEIGH -- In an odd political bedfellows moment, three North Carolina congressmen - two progressive Democrats and one religious-right Republican - joined forces Monday to urge the Obama administration to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. At an anti-war town hall meeting in the Legislative Building, Republican U.S. Rep. Walter Jones and Democratic U.S. Reps.David Price and Brad Miller sought to keep the pressure on the administration to end the American combat operations by the middle of 2013. "Our concern is that too many times, administrations will say that the date for coming home is a year from now, 18 months...

They are the worst of the worst: killers whose brutality still has the power to shock even decades after their crimes. They were sentenced to life in prison or once sat on death row. Some killed cops. Others tortured and slaughtered children. Some are spree killers who racked up multiple body counts. These are monsters and should never see the outside of a prison again -- the ones you worry might escape in a natural disaster. Yet they've been shuffled out the door in a "conga line" for years now, thanks to the efforts of the lunatic fringe North Carolina...