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Channel 4 in Minneapolis reported the following. 8 people arrested earlier in the week are being held on 75,000 dollars bond. Their group rnc welcoming committee had been infitrated by undercover agents. a group called "rage against the machine" is playing at the target center in Minneapolis and the police are ready for trouble. My comments: The people arrested earlier claimed the buckets of urine and human feces were being stored from a man who had no plumbing. The nail spikes and homemade slingshots were innocent items found in any garage. The size of the bond indicates the undercover cops...

New Jersey Public TV is carrying this hearing live. Click on Watch Live Online, and post what you hear, here. Tony

You know a politician has stayed too long at the fair when a wide range of folks feels free to josh amiably about the practicality of his demise. That's what happened when sleazebag Robert Torricelli of New Jersey announced he was bowing out of an increasingly unwinnable re-election race in an effort to help save his Democrats' one-vote margin in the U.S. Senate. Republicans quickly offered up a legal memo arguing that the only way under Garden State law that Torricelli could be replaced on the ballot this late in the campaign was if he died. Democrats believe they have...

New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Torricelli speaks during a news conference in Trenton, New Jersey, September 30, 2002. Torricelli quit his bid for re-election amid an onslaught of corruption allegations and a steep drop in his poll numbers, forcing Democrats to scramble in an effort to hold their Senate majority in the pending election. (Chip East/Reuters)