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Immigration took center stage in the show's debut. Host Attkisson explored why Lewiston, Maine has become an unlikely refuge for Somali asylum-seekers, "Full Measure" correspondent Scott Thuman examined life in European refugee camps, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump explained why he wouldn't welcome any Syrian refugees to America. The GOP newsmaker also exclusively revealed to Attkisson why he would be second to no other presidential candidate.

Armstrong was open about his doping with Crow, never suspecting that she would tell anybody about it. "Rather than try to hide the transfusion from her, Armstrong was completely open about it," the authors write, according to the Daily News. "He trusted that Crow would have no desire to tell the press or anyone else about the team's doping program. He explained that it was simply part of the sport - that all cyclists were doing the same thing."

Pop-star and courageous anti-toilet-paper crusader Sheryl Crow apparently has a new political concern: Tea Partiers. The country crooner told CBS journalist Katie Couric that Tea Party members are uneducated, angry and potentially dangerous in an interview with Glamour magazine this June. After Crow complained in the interview that Americans have become too blasé about politics, and that nobody has taken to the streets to cause "a riot or a revolution," Couric correctly pointed to the Tea Party as an example of modern day activism.

Democrats demand bank return bailout fundsFebruary 25, 2009 U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., has asked Northern Trust Corp. to return U.S. bailout funds equivalent to the bank's allegedly lavish entertainment expenses. In a letter to the bank, Frank, chairman of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, said we insist that you immediately return to the federal government the equivalent of what Northern Trust frittered away on these lavish events. The letter, signed by Frank and 17 Democrats, referred in part to the bank's entertainment expenses connected with a PGA golf tournament that the company sponsors, the Chicago Tribune reported...

  "I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required" - Sheryl CrowThis cartoon/graphic is free for noncommercial use in emails, blogs, and forums.  IowaPresidentialWatch.com

US Postal team rider Lance Armstrong of the United States wears the leader's yellow jersey as he receives a kiss from his girlfriend, U.S. singer Sheryl Crow, after the fourth stage of the Tour de France, a team time trial from Cambrai over 64,5 km to Arras, northern France, July 7, 2004. The US Postal team won the time trial in one hour, twelve minutes and 03.26 seconds. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

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Sheryl Crow blames Israel for this war....hmmm....forget 911 Sheryl? Forget the weapons of mass destruction? Would you have taken Hitler on - you know, innocent lives would be lost there also......She has no understanding of the world.... Quote from her manifesto: "Do we ignore the relationships we have worked hard to build with our allies and do we try everything in our power to rid the planet of evil using nonaggression, or are we a country that will use force and in the meantime, be responsible for the loss of innocent lives in the name of freeing oppressed people and...