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(CNSNews.com) – In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is mulling whether to recommend a commutation for the two former Border Patrol agents jailed for more than a decade each for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in the buttocks. The case is now before the DOJ’s Pardon Attorney Donald Rodgers. The Office of Pardon Attorney works in consultation with the attorney general’s office to assist the president, who has sole power of clemency in federal cases under the Constitution. Ultimately, it is the president’s call regardless of what the Office of Pardon Attorney recommends....

ATLANTA -- They will give us Mariah Carey, Kool & the Gang, the Village People, along with Gladys Knight & the Pips. About the only thing missing from the circus that has become the NBA All-Star Weekend is a full-fledged freak show. Which is why they should let Mike Tyson throw up the ball for the opening tip Sunday night on TNT. After all, in a year when one of the main features is supposed to be a salute to His Airness, wouldn't it be as appropriate to have a visit by His Earness? Through the first three-plus months of...