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In perusing the left blogosphere looking for reaction to the ABC mini-series The Path to 9/11 one would think that the project was chock full of lies, historical inaccuracies, and pro-Republican propaganda. But look a little closer and you find that all liberal blogs highlight the same 3 scenes as proof of bias by Disney and the writers. That’s three scenes in a 5 hour movie. Is that reason enough to condemn the entire project with the most outrageously exaggerated, end of the world rhetoric imaginable? One would think that the film they are talking about was a Republican campaign...

A MAJOR investigation has been launched at a Dublin hospital after the remains of a British tourist were sent home containing two hearts and four lungs. The organs were discovered inside the body of 55-year-old Louis Selo during a second post-mortem examination in the UK. Mr Selo, from New Malden in Surrey, died of a massive heart attack at Dublin Airport on 2 August. Mr Selo hit the headlines five years ago when he flew his son to Australia for extremely rare brain surgery.

The voters in the state of California decided yesterday to maintain the status-quo and voted to reject Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reform ideas. Why did an electorate, that only 2 years ago voted a reform candidate into office, not vote to give him the tools to achieve that reform? Before we answer that question, I want to examine a few things that went right in this election. First of all it is obvious that we were successful in getting our people to send in their absentee ballots. When the results of the permanent absentee ballots were dumped at 8:15, it looked...

WASHINGTON - The rusty iron coffin stubbornly resisted hammer and chisel as researchers in a warm Smithsonian laboratory sought a glimpse of an American who lived more than a century and a half ago. An electric drill, its orange cord snaking around the pre-Civil War artifact, finally freed the lid. "This is a person and we want to tell this person's story. She is our primary obligation," anthropologist Doug Owsley said as the lid was lifted to reveal a young body wrapped in a brown shroud. Story continues below ↓ advertisement The scientists hope to identify the remains so they...

After the 2000 presidential campaign, strategists for President Bush came to a startling realization: Democrats watch more television than Republicans. So by buying millions of dollars' worth of television advertising time, Republicans were spending their money on audiences that tended to vote Democratic. What to do? With the luxury of four years until the next election, the Bush team examined voters' television-viewing habits and cross-referenced them with surveys of voters' political and lifestyle preferences. This led to an unusual step for a presidential campaign: it cut the proportion of money that it put into broadcast television and diverted more to...

CAPTION: Odai Hussein, in 2000 and in a photo released by the U.S. military on July 24, 2003. CAPTION: Qusai Hussein, in 2001 and in a photo released by the U.S. military on July 24, 2003. CAPTION: An X-ray analysis of Odai Hussien's leg, which was injured in an assassination attempt in December 1996. The U.S. military said X-rays, dental records and four former members of Saddam's regime confirmed that the two dead were the ousted Iraqi leader's eldest two sons. CAPTION: X-rays of Odai Hussien's leg, which was injured in an assassination attempt in December 1996. The images...

This Elk Grove voter, using a new touch-screen voting machine, was in a minority of potential voters this year: most didn't bother to vote. Sacramento Bee/Florence Low Post Mortem on the Election, Thursday, November 7, 2002 Published 6:00 a.m. PDT Sunday, November 17, 2002 After each general election, Daniel Weintraub, The Bee's public affairs columnist, and the editorial board of The Bee invite some of the state's leading political figures, campaign strategists and polling experts to discuss how the election was won or lost. This year seven experts gathered on Nov. 7, two days after the election, to share...