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“Ordinary judicial proceedings become impracticable when the people paid to execute federal law coordinate to prevent its execution.” —EKO on “X”. Now, try to imagine Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (Jabba the Pritzker) as a Confederate general, his juddering bulk astride a panting war-horse, as he gallops into battle against federal positions in Millennium Park, Chicago. . . . Yeah, in the immortal words of Homey D. Clown, I don’t think so. Yet these seem to be the fantasies typically entertained in our times by the Big Dawgs of the Democratic Party: a confederacy of dweebs. While Mr. Trump uses presidential...

Police say a woman who was killed by a co-worker at a food distribution center in suburban Oklahoma City was beheaded. Moore Police Sgt. Jeremy Lewis said Friday that the woman, who has not been identified, was beheaded by a man who attacked her and another woman Thursday at Vaughan Foods in Moore.

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Here's the deal: Buy your dream home and pay only interest - no principal - for the next few years. That will give you an unusually low monthly payment while you get on your feet. Or better yet, pick one of our Option mortgages, and pay even less... . So goes the pitch for the hottest subset of the old-fashioned adjustable rate mortgage. With names like Interest-Only (I-O), OptionARM and Pick-a-Payment, these products offer borrowers far lower payments than they would face with traditional fixed- and adjustable-rate loans. According to some surveys, these especially risky products now account for half...

Why Bush is teetering Martin F. Nolan ... Both demographics and history suggest the president's lead is perilous. ............ Bush faces historic odds, four facts he can not change, truisms that confound poll-driven punditry. -- Bush and his party represent a declining demographic. The Republican Party is a white, male, Anglo-Saxon Protestant party... According to exit polls in 2000, Bush got 9 percent of the black vote and 35 percent of the Hispanic vote, so the question is "Que pasa?'' ............. -- Re-election is not the presidential norm. ... most presidents are either re-elected easily or defeated. Incumbents either consolidate...

When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review Lawrence v. Texas, pro-family conservatives were filled with foreboding. Something was afoot and it wasn't good. The court heard oral arguments in the case on March 26th.Lawrence involves the appeal of two Texas convictions for consensual homosexual sodomy. Like three other states, Texas makes it a crime for two people of the same sex to engage in "deviate sexual intercourse," that is, sodomy. In the Texas case, police investigating a false complaint of a weapons disturbance stumbled upon the homosexual defendants in flagrante delicto. The men were arrested, charged, and fined after...