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A Long Island federal jury rewarded Nancy Genovese, 58, a mother of three, $1.12 million in compensatory damages after being arrested in 2009 for attempting to photograph a helicopter at a Air National Guard base in the Hamptons. Genovese intended to use the photo on a “Support the Troops” website; she was arrested for trespass and insulted as a "Teabagger." From The New York Post: Southhampton cops searched her and found a legally owned rifle that she was transporting from a nearby rifle range. She contends a deputy sheriff arrived on the scene later and said to her, “I bet...

Venezuela's caretaker president, Nicolas Maduro, asked Barack Obama to halt a plot to kill the opposition candidate in next month's election. You see, it's complicated. Maduro - sort of a "Hugo-lite" - announced last week that his government had uncovered an insidious plot to kill Henrique Capriles, leader of the opposition which would be followed by a coup of army officers friendly to America. Obviously, Maduro is worried that he doesn't have the election in the bag. From Reuters: "I call on President Obama - Roger Noriega, Otto Reich, officials at the Pentagon and at the CIA are behind a...

A Rasmussen poll this month shows that by the definitions of some most Pennsylvanians are right-wing extremists.

Excerpt from Pat Buchanan: "As in New Deal days, our Cultural Revolution, and the high times of the Great Society, a conservative today must be a counterrevolutionary. While Bush’s judges and Supreme Court justices have been top of the line and his tax cuts conservative, his democracy crusade and his open-borders immigration policy, his Big Government conservatism and free-trade-über-alles globalism owe more to FDR and LBJ than Goldwater or Reagan. But the returns are now coming in from the Bush experiment with a Rockefeller Republicanism that he calls “compassionate conservatism.” The rising casualties and soaring costs of an unnecessary war...

Man chops off hand in front of Japanese parliament--police First posted 10:32pm (Mla time) Mar 22, 2006 By TOKYO -- A man almost completely severed his left hand with a machete in front of Japan's Parliament on Tuesday, apparently to protest his country's policy toward North Korea, police said. The 54-year-old man approached the front gates of the building by car, stepped out, silently placed his left hand against the hood of his car and swung the 40 centimeter (16 inch) blade down across his left wrist, according to Tokyo police official Hideyuki Yoshioka. The man, who identified himself as...

The coming economic crisis. Unemployment. Health care for the poor. The almost 1,500 dead soldiers. The almost 100,000 dead Iraqis. Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher. The Christian Conservative takeover of our nation. The missing 9 billion. The missing weapons of mass destruction. The impending invasion of Iran, and Syria. The total failure to protect us on 9-11.

Daddy, What Is a Right Winger? When my daughter was growing up she asked me that same question that your children probably asked you. The answer was given during the Clinton times, but today the issues seem pretty much the same. Those on the so-called political right hold some general beliefs in common. Not all of those on the right hold all of the same views. I began the explanation with an exercise. We went into the middle of our street in front of the house. I had her take three steps to the left, and I took three steps...