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Once again, America’s colleges will showcase an excess of liberals and radical progressives during their commencement ceremonies to speak to the nation’s top grads one last time before they enter the real world. Campus Reform took stock of this year’s line up (according to US News’ top 100 schools) and assessed each speaker based on his political views, rating each one as either liberal, conservative, or apolitical. Any speaker who has, at one point or another, openly expressed support for a political party or platform was then placed in a corresponding category. Matt Damon, for example, who has wired thousands...

[Italicized text from Associated Press article] President Bush charged Tuesday that anti-war protesters like Cindy Sheehan who want troops brought home immediately do not represent the views of most U.S. military families and are "advocating a policy that would weaken the United States." Bringing our troops home from the quagmire that he has gotten us into will be weakening the United States? George: even if you pretend you didn't know that Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction and Iraq was not threat to the USA before you invaded--Americans know differently. We have read the reports and the Downing...

Oregon gives inmates a pass State's budget problems force emergency release after tax hike rejected 01/30/2003 Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. - A county jail began freeing inmates Wednesday as state agencies across Oregon implemented emergency spending cuts after voters rejected a temporary income tax increase. "It's a party atmosphere at the jail today," said Multnomah County Sheriff Bernie Giusto as he announced the early release of 31 inmates - among 114 scheduled to be freed Wednesday. Some of the inmates had been in jail pending trial. Others were serving time for crimes including assault, drug manufacturing and sex abuse....

If I hear one more whinny Democrat complain that it just isn’t fair that Republicans have a monopoly on all news outlets, radio talk shows, political research groups, as well as Internet sites, I might scream myself. Democrats’ problem today is they just don’t get it; their premise is so off base, not able to see the truth. It is time for Democrats to start answering questions honestly about their message and who is listening and proclaiming “their’ good news. A huge majority of the influential media elites vote for what political party on a regular basis? Which political party...