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The conservative blogger who first broke the Anthony Weiner scandal revealed today he has an X-rated picture of the shamed congressman - and will release it if the Democrat attempts reprisals against him. Andrew Breitbart admitted he considers the image an 'insurance policy' against any future 'jihad' from the congressman, and claimed he could have ended Mr Weiner's career if he had chosen to publish it previously. The political commentator dramatically stole the show at Mr Weiner's press conference yesterday, hijacking it just before the disgraced politician was due to appear. Insurance policy: In an appearance on the Today show...

Last Friday, I inadvertently found myself in the midst of the opening salvo of a battle to turn the Twin Cities upside down next year. I was driving home at rush hour from downtown Minneapolis, when several hundred bicyclists blocked the street leading to Interstate 394. My fellow motorists and I sat obligingly for several minutes, missing green light after green light. Finally, folks began angrily honking their horns. If two police cars hadn't moved the riders along, people might have leaped from their cars to take on the bicyclists themselves. Later, the protest ride turned ugly. Two officers tried...

While viewing some Yahoo pics, I came across this photo and caption (emphasis added):Separated by police, anti-Bush protester Rigo Irizarry of New York, right, yells at members of the Texas-based pro-Bush group Protest Warrior outside Madison Square Garden in New York Thursday, Sept. 2, 2004, on the final night of the Republican National Convention. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson) Now, IIRC, Kfir and Alan operate out of Austin these days, so this isn't a lie. Still, the words "Texas-based" leaped out at me. You never see ANSWER described as "Manhattan based" or any other such references being used with liberal groups. Suddenly...

Israel released scores of Palestinian prisoners, including the oldest and longest-serving inmate, on Tuesday as a goodwill gesture ahead of a summit in Jordan US President George W. Bush and Palestinian Premier Mahmud Abbas. But disagreements remained on the fate of about 100 Israeli settlement outposts set up in the West Bank during the past several years. Ahmad Jubarah, 68, was released from the Ashkelon prison in southern Israel after serving nearly three decades for his role in a 1975 Jerusalem bomb attack that killed 13 people, the Israel prisons service announced. He was to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser...

MONACO Jan. 22 — An American male nurse convicted in the arson death of billionaire banker Edmond Safra escaped from prison overnight, police said Wednesday.Ted Maher, originally of Auburn, Maine, was convicted of arson in a 1999 fire in Monaco that also killed one of Safra's other nurses, Vivian Torrente.Copyright 2003 The Associated Press.