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On Friday, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, whose 5th District includes the City of Atlanta, said of Donald Trump that “I don’t see the president-elect as a legitimate president.” Trump characteristically fired back with a two-part tweet suggesting that Lewis “… spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results.” As would be expected, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution rushed to Lewis’s defense. In its apparent haste to do so, a pair of journalists at the paper committed a colossal math blunder...

On April 8, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi headlined a Boston conference on ''media reform.'' She was joined by four other congressmen, a senator, two FCC commissioners, a Nobel laureate and numerous liberal journalists. The 2,500-person event was sponsored by a group called Free Press, one of more than 180 different media-related organizations that receives money from liberal billionaire George Soros. Soros, who first made a name for himself in investing and currency trading, now makes his name in politics and policy. Since the 2004 election, the controversial financier has used his influence and billions to push a laundry list...

For nearly $7 million a year, taxpayers are leasing three private jets for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to use in case of emergency. But they're rarely used, according to records and interviews. CDC officials say the jets are critical to their mission, giving the Atlanta-based agency the ability to mobilize disease fighters across the country or around the globe at any time of the day or night. In the past year, the three jets have been used for a combined total of nine emergency flights. Even so, CDC officials say they need all of them and their...

NEW YORK--A Democratic congresswoman from Georgia is suing The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for libel. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney filed charges against the newspaper's editor Cynthia Tucker and publisher John Mellott for an editorial column that ran in the Sunday July 30 paper about McKinney’s alleged altercation with police, according to All Headline News. McKinney’s attorney, J.M. Raffauf, said the column describes McKinney whacking a police officer with her cell phone, a charge McKinney denies. The suit says that other facts were misstated including a reported suggestion by McKinney that President Bush had known about the September 11 terror attacks in advance, and...

...Terry McAuliffe called the program "an illegal in-kind contribution" to the Bush campaign and said the Democratic National Committee is filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Over at the FCC, Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps interrupted his Columbus Day holiday to dub the broadcast "an abuse of the public trust." More ominously, Kerry adviser Chad Clanton told Fox News yesterday that "I think they (Sinclair) are going to regret doing this, and they better hope we don't win." ...It wasn't the intention of the Founders to give elected officials veto power over press reports.... The excuse for such broadcast...

This week began just as usual on the sleepy Yahoo Finance Web site where Southern Co.'s investors post their thoughts occasionally. A message or two a day, nothing exciting. Someone mentioned an upcoming dividend. Someone answered: Southern Co. "remains a safe harbor, except for the MIR fiasco, which still bugs me," the poster wrote, referring to the now-bankrupt Southern spinoff, Mirant Corp. A few hours later, investors burned in that fiasco roared in and hijacked Southern's placid message board. By Monday night, they had overrun the Yahoo message site assigned to Mirant's former parent. These were the same investors who...

From the Washington Politics & Policy Desk, 3/21/2003, 10:49 PM HIGHLANDS, N.C., March 21 (UPI) -- This here's the 342nd Report ta the Folks Back Home from the (More er Less) Honorable Billybob, cyberCongressman from Western Carolina. Newspaper articles ain't jus about sports, celebrities, car crashes n astrology. Nope. More important stuff is bein printed these days. How accurate r the papers onna subjeck ov the UN n war? Since ma able assistant, J. Armor, Esq., takes truth in ink azza serious matter, I'll turn this over ta him. Don't Trust My WordsWe are at war. It is more important...