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Only in today's political climate, where so much of the "civil rights movement" is comprised of bottom-feeding race hustlers and shameless liberals who deliberately exploit racial tensions for their own political benefit -- could anyone demean the real civil rights movement that occurred during the sixties by comparing the struggles those brave people faced -- to what has been happening in Jena, Louisiana. That may not be the impression most people have gotten at first glance, but that's because many of the facts about this story have been distorted to such a point that they have little to do with...

A federal appeals court sided with the Justice Department yesterday in overruling a North Carolina judge who had decided that a man convicted of cross-burning could avoid prison time because he had been provoked into the act. Robert Nelson May and an accomplice were accused of erecting a cross 20 feet from the home of an interracial couple in Gastonia, N.C., and setting it on fire in 1999. Prosecutors said the pair sat in lawn chairs drinking beer while the cross burned. They had previously taunted the black victim verbally, using a racial epithet that they also wrote on a...