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CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. John LaPook reports that Vinson called the CDC several times before boarding the plane concerned about her fever and was told she was OK to board.

A mannequin with a picture of Sen. Lindsey Graham's face taped to the head was hung in effigy in downtown Greenville by a protester. Randall Terry, a nationally-known pro-life supporter from Washington, D.C., came with three supporters to tape a portion of his television show called, "Randall Terry: The Voice of the Resistance." The anti-abortion activist filmed two skits while in downtown. One of them involved Randall's employee constructing gallows to hang the mannequin with Graham's picture on it. The other skit involved a stick and a pinata. The workers hit the pinata, which had a picture of Graham on...

It's one of those dispatches from the world of social science that leave some gloating and some fuming: A pair of researchers have concluded that when it comes to grasping basic economic concepts, liberals and Democrats are significantly less "enlightened" than conservatives and libertarians. *snip* "But the left has trouble squaring economic thinking with their political psychology, morals and aesthetics," the two write.

Don't you....feel safe boys and girls...? Just knowing the Bushies are taking SUCH good care of us in this "terrifying" post 9-11 world... Reminds me of when indicted, disgraced former House majority leaderTom Delay went to Saipan with Alaska governor Frank Murkowski in a trip paid for by the illustrious Jack Abramoff, took a look at the sweatshops and institutionalized child prostitution and said something along the lines of, "Hey, that's a-okay with me as long as American corpoartions are making money off these stinkin' people." Que nice. Also kinda reminds me of Scooter Libby's horrendously bad novel where he...