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Left-wing media outlets that support the Democratic Party have a message to worried activists: stop complaining, because you’re stuck with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Democrats are worried, given a trend in recent polls that show former President Donald Trump defeating the incumbent president in a rematch of their 2020 contest. The Washington Post‘s David Ignatius, an influential columnist who helped amplify claims of “Russian collusion” in 2017, wrote last week that Biden should drop out.

Muslim business travellers are boycotting Glasgow airport, according to a leading Scottish figure. Bashir Mann, from the Muslim Council of Great Britan, complained of heavy-handed and humiliating searches by anti-terrorist police officers. Dozens of executives have said they are no longer prepared to fly from Scotland and are using Manchester instead. Strathclyde Police said it was looking at training to raise awareness of cultural and religious sensitivities. Mr Mann said: "I'd never experienced anything like that before in Scotland. "This was a show of sheer discrimination, victimisation of certain sections of the community in Scotland." Glasgow businessman Mohammed ashraf said...

A HECKLER from the Falun Gong spiritual movement, who entered White House grounds as a reporter, interrupted a formal arrival ceremony for Chinese President Hu Jintao today, prompting President George W. Bush to apologise to his guest. After being welcomed by Mr Bush, the Chinese president was just beginning his response when a woman, who had been allowed into the press section, started shouting. She was escorted away by a uniformed US guard. "President Hu, your days are numbered. President Bush, make him stop persecuting Falun Gong," the woman yelled. US officials later identified her as Wang Wenyi, 47, a...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's controversial report on the cost of illegal immigration apparently has created an emerging political storm that will play out in the 2006 legislative session and next year's elections. The report, which estimates undocumented immigrants and their children cost Minnesota taxpayers about $175 million a year for state services, may have roused a "sleeping giant" in immigrant communities that have been politically apathetic until now. Pawlenty told a group of police chiefs Thursday that illegal immigration is a large and growing problem that will be at the top of his public safety agenda in the coming legislative session....

From the major Japanese TV network TBS, here is a short video clip from a segment of their evening news, broadcast coast-to-coast in Japan. Probably seen by nearly 10-30 million people over there. Cut, paste, and view in your browser (Windows Media format, 300k):http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20050903-00000016-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm300kAnd a slower link:http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20050903-00000016-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm56k(Or just hit the link above)

No, seriously. Remember Republicans? Sober men in suits, pipes, who'd nod thoughtfully over their laterst paen to market-driven fiscal conservatism while grinding out the numbers on rocket science. Every one of those serious-looking 1950's-1960's science guys in the movies -- Republican to a one. They were the grown-ups. They were the realists. Sure they were a bummer, maaaaan, but on the way to La Revolution you need somebody to remember where you parked the car. I was never one (nor a Democrat, really, more an agnostic libertarian big on the social contract, but we don't have a party ...),...

MILAN, Italy (Reuters) - Controversial U.S. author Gore Vidal said Tuesday President Bush (news - web sites) organized last year's invasion of Afghanistan (news - web sites) to gain control of nearby oil and natural gas resources rather than to fight terror. Reuters Photo "We know what they want. They want Caspian oil," the outspoken writer told Reuters in a telephone interview from Rome. "Every important player in the administration is from the oil and gas business, mostly Texas." The Bush administration led a coalition last year that toppled Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement, which Washington said harbored militants responsible for...