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There are two ways to view this video of a 2005 floor speech by then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, condemning Republican leaders for not allowing members three days to read "a bill of thousands of pages" before voting on it. The video is posted on Breitbart TV and is well worth watching in the aftermath of Speaker Pelosi's legislative blitzkreig of the past week to gain passage of her version of Obamacare at all costs. It was done with not even a token nod in the direction of allowing the sort of legislative transparency she promised voters during the...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Security forces seized a walled compound Tuesday where Islamic militants had been barricaded for days, ending the kingdom's largest gunbattle with armed extremists. At least 14 of the militants were killed, including top leaders of the Saudi branch of al-Qaida, state television said. Six others were captured in the three days of fierce firefights in the desert town of Rass, state TV said, citing security officials after the battle was over. For nearly 48 hours, the gunmen had been holed up in the villa compound about 220 miles northwest of the capital Riyadh and near...

TAMPA, Fla. - Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites), shifting from the Iraq (news - web sites) war to the environment as Earth Day approaches, says President Bush (news - web sites) has presided over a "devastating deterioration" of the quality of the nation's air and water. Kerry on Tuesday was opening a three-day campaign swing centered on Bush's environmental record, starting with a Tampa event focused on clean water. He was being joined by Carol Browner, a former Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites) administrator. On Monday, Kerry's campaign released a lengthy critique of Bush's treatment of...