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DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton told Iowa's Democratic Party faithful on Saturday that the actions of "an extreme sliver" of the Republican Party have backfired and "profoundly divided" the country. "We've got a big responsibility. Forget about 2008. Forget about the politics. Just go out and find somebody and look them dead in the eye and say 'You know, this is not right'...This is America," Clinton said. "We can do better and this year, it's a job that Democrats have to do alone." More than 3,500 Iowa Democrats paid $100 each to attend the fund-raising banquet...

The trial of seven animal rights activists under domestic terrorism laws focuses attention on a threat which law enforcement officials say has become greater than that of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and right-wing militias. Defendants in the federal trial in New Jersey, which has just begun and is expected to last into August, are charged with conspiracy and interstate stalking involving the vandalism and harassment of employees of labs that use animals to test drugs and chemicals. Officials say this is part of a growing trend that in recent years has included more than 1,200 incidents of arson, bombings,...

California has not exactly been the prime target for terrorists but that process could be speeded up with help from a judge who is sending the wrong message on a case of domestic terrorism. Kathleen Soliah was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a group fond of assassinating innocent civilians such as Marcus Foster, the first black school superintendent in Oakland. They also robbed banks and Soliah was on the scene in 1975 when the SLA hit a bank near Sacramento and gunned down Myrna Opsahl, a 42-year old mother of four depositing church collections. The SLA gunners wrote...