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Maxine Defends Ex-Klansman May 8, 2003 Imagine if you will, California congresswoman Maxine Waters, defending an ex-Klansman just because he’s a Democrat. The depths of desperation to which these people are plunging is unbelievable. Maxine just plunged further by echoing Robert Byrds latest Bush bash on the Senate floor. In doing so, she opened the door into her own face and bloodied her nose - as is becoming standard Democrat operating procedure. Maxine appeared on the News with Brian Williams Wednesday night on CNBC, where she and great moderate Peter King got into it. You just have to hear this,...

Ex-Klansman Heads to Trial for Murder Mon May 6, 6:11 AM ET By BOB JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer The murder trial of a former Ku Klux Klansman could be the final chapter in one of the worst cases of violence against the civil rights movement — the 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls.Bobby Frank Cherry, 71, is accused of helping other Klansmen plant the powerful bomb that blew a hole in an exterior wall of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963, killing the girls as they were preparing for church service.The church had become a...