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Pastry hit [neo]conservative commentator at Earlham College. RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) -- An Earlham College student faces a possible trial next month on criminal charges for throwing a pie at [neo]conservative commentator William Kristol as he gave a campus speech. A pretrial hearing was held Thursday for Josh Medlin, 21, who has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge. Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, was splattered by the pie during a March 29 speech about U.S. foreign policy. Members of the audience jeered, then applauded as Kristol wiped the...

No, Sen. Santorum, Catholics aren’t a protected classOkay, I think I get the idea. Republicans are very upset that Senate Democrats have held together enough to sideline three of President Bush’s most hard-line conservative judicial nominees. That unity anticipates similar steadfastness in the face of hard-line nominations to the Supreme Court if and when Bush gets the chance. And all that complaining about Democratic filibustering — whether justified or not — never caught on with voters. But that’s still no excuse for the ridiculous charges that Democrats are acting out of anti-Catholic bias or bigotry when opposing Alabama Attorney General...

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