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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Vandals spray painted vulgar messages on the walls of the North Carolina Republican Party headquarters and left a burned effigy depicting President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, police said. Authorities detained several suspects early Saturday, hours after the attacks took place Friday night, but had not filed any charges, police spokesman Jim Sughrue said. A police officer reported Friday that about 100 people wearing masks and gloves were walking down a street near the headquarters, authorities said. The Republican president won re-election Tuesday after a challenge by Kerry, a Democrat. John Edwards, who was Kerry's running...

November 7, 2004 Suicide Is Suspected in Death at World Trade Center Site By MICHAEL BRICK young man who told his family he was distraught over the result of the presidential election was found dead yesterday, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, inside the gated pit where the World Trade Center once stood, the authorities said. The man was identified as Andrew J. Veal, 25, of Athens, Ga. A woman who answered the telephone at the home of Mr. Veal's parents, Jerry and Sharon Veal of Temple, Ga., identified herself as a close friend and said the family would not...

<p>These photos were taken at the post-election anti-Bush rally in San Francisco on November 3, 2004.</p> <p>The rage and frustration of another Bush victory was more than many San Franciscans could take. As soon as Bush's re-election was confirmed in the middle of Wednesday, November 3, people started gathering at Powell and Market streets. By 5pm the crowd had swelled to several thousand.</p>

The 25-year-old son of newly elected congresswoman Gwen Moore was arrested Friday by Milwaukee police and later released in connection with the election day slashing of tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party, according to police records. Advertisement Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde, also known as Supreme Solar Allah, arrived at the Milwaukee police administration building Friday morning with his attorney, was arrested at 9 a.m. and held in the police holding facility for several hours before being released, according to records. Omokunde is one of three suspects who had been arrested as of late Friday. Opel E....

Area church target of vandals By CAROLYNN BRIGHT - IR Staff Writer - 11/03/04 Rev. B.G. Stumberg doesn't think that gay and lesbian marriages should be recognized by law and he emphasizes that, in a free country, it's his right to hold that belief. However, since he shared his opinions on CI-96 with the media recently, he's learned that not everyone agrees with that philosophy — and his parish at the Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church paid the price for that. On Tuesday, Stumberg arrived at the church to find that vandals had spray-painted several phrases on the walls of...

Named today as suspects in the election day tire slashing of GOP rented vans to help the elderly and disable get to the polls were the sons of two prominent MIlwaukee politicians. The son of former democratic mayor MARVIN PRATT, and the son of NEWLY ELECTED CONGRESSWOMAN GWEN MOORE have been identified as suspects in this incident. I will post most details as they become available. GWEN MOORE was just elected tuesday to her first term as a UNITED STATES CONGRESSWOMAN, the first african american in WISCONSIN history to be elected to the US HOUSE. She is currently a member...

Charlottesville, VA—America's "culture war" was on full display last night at the Joan Baez concert. Tickets to the concert were a present to my mother-in-law for her 69th birthday. My mother-in-law certainly fit the demographic of the audience, or as she described it, "All the old hippies are out tonight." Let's just say that by attending, my wife and I dropped the average age of the audience by several months. Sixty-three year old Baez came out on stage and asked how the audience felt about the election? Of course the audience groaned and moaned—after all, this IS a Joan Baez...

Police are planning to question the adult children of two prominent Democrats as early as today in the wide-ranging probe into who, early on election day, slashed the tires of 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party. The investigation has already led to the Tuesday arrest of Opel E. Simmons III, a veteran party activist from Virginia in town to work on John Kerry's presidential campaign. Simmons, 33, was released Thursday afternoon without being charged. Sources told us that police, who are being assisted by the FBI, plan to speak to Michael Pratt, son of former Acting Mayor...

I cannot believe this...ho here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1316497

Gwen Ifill leads a discussion about how the country can reunite after the hotly contested election. GWEN IFILL: Both President Bush and Senator Kerry appealed across party lines today for unity in the wake of another election that left the nation split in shades of blue and red. But in a year when gay marriage bans passed in 11 states, to what degree is the debate over values contributing to that split? For more on that, we turn to: Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, and author of the best-selling book, "The Purpose Driven Life";...

Stan Stafford of North Park didn't want to risk any more trouble. So on Saturday, three days before the presidential election, he took down the big Bush/Cheney yard signs that had dominated his North Park front yard. It didn't matter. Vandals trashed his house sometime early yesterday morning, splashing red paint on his sidewalks, plants, garage and house. "Charles Manson did this," he said. Stafford, a diehard Republican who lives on the busy corner of Texas and Meade streets, has been the target of several attacks. This most recent one did the most damage, he said. He had hoped to...

What now? Three local progressives reflect and talk about the future By Aaron Nathans November 4, 2004 'There's absolutely no reason why religious Americans should feel obligated to vote Republican to be consistent with their faith. We simply have to break that stranglehold.' Alta Charo What does the progressive movement do now, after suffering a major political loss in Tuesday's election? The Capital Times posed this question to three prominent professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all with ties to the political left. Alta Charo, an associate dean in the Law School, noted the struggle for civil rights began in...

Hours after the election returns showed that a Bush win was inevitable, Rev. Al Sharpton told a reporter for the Black Press USA Network: "Let’s all head to the airport and get out of the country." The remark was supposedly delivered in a facetious tone, but Sharpton said he had serious concerns about a second Bush term. I think we are in for some serious times. He will appoint judges to the Supreme Court that I think will try to erode some of the gains we made under the Civil Rights Movement and he clearly will have economic policies that...

Milwaukee's News Radio 620 WTMJ reported today that Milwaukee police are investigating the children of prominent local democrat politicians in connection with the election day tire slashing incident involving approximately 30 vans rented by the local GOP for use in getting out the GOP vote. Stay tuned . . . .

We wonder where people get the idea that Republicans are so mean and evil. Well the liberals start something like this and people start to believe it. They have now introduced the yellow star of liberalism campaign. Origins:The Jewish Badge The yellow star, inscribed with the word "Jude," has become a symbol of Nazi persecution. Its likeness abounds upon Holocaust literature and materials. But the Jewish badge was not instituted in 1933 when Hitler came to power. It was not instituted in 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their citizenship. It was still not implemented by Kristallnacht in...

In the biggest fight of his charmed life, John Kerry swung between bewilderment and anger when things didn't go his way on the campaign trial. "I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot," the Massachusetts Democrat sighed to a staffer when President Bush's poll numbers surged in April. "Why the f--- didn't he take it?" he wondered when Republican Sen. John McCain refused to be his running mate a half-dozen times. "It's a pack of f---ing lies, what they're saying about me," he shouted at an adviser as a group of Swift boat veterans stepped up attacks on his Vietnam...

I erroneously stumbled across this pile of steaming offal when I attempted to access the SwiftBoat Vets page in order to thank them for their heroic "last mission".

. No, not from us liberals, but you can't alienate 6 billion people without serious repercussions, and much as you'd like to, you can't kill off 1.3 billion Muslims. More lethal terrorists are, as I write, being created. There will be a day of reckoning, probably sooner, rather than later. My regret, is not that you will suffer, but that the rest of us will. There will be a terror attack that will dwarf 9/11, both in terms of human loss and financial devastation. And the world will not only turn its back, it will take the opportunity to strike...

"Started by Arkel at 06:02pm Nov 3, 2004 BST" "Does what it says on the tin. Democracy has failed, the time must surely have come for a world patriot to perform this act for the good of humanity. " "You seem to be quite offended by this thread but don't seem to offer alternatives to mass murderers." Etc. . .