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This CONSERVATIVE ALERT is a special message for Bob Johnson from RightMarch.com: ALERT: Do you think we have a hard time fighting against the left-wing bias of the liberal mainstream media? Well you're right -- but it's worse than you thought. Now, it turns out the people running the big search engines are liberally biased, too -- and they're CENSORING conservative search ad results! Specifically, we're talking about the biggest search engine: GOOGLE. Everyone uses Google. It's even a verb now -- "I'll Google that to find out." But it's also an advertising vehicle -- you can pay Google money,...

AUSTIN - Travis County prosecutors Thursday dropped a felony indictment accusing a California corporation of making illegal campaign contributions in 2002 in exchange for the company agreeing to testify against other defendants in the investigation of Texans for a Republican Majority. The agreement ends the prosecution of Diversified Collection Services Inc., a company that specializes in assisting federal and state government agencies in recovery of delinquent and defaulted debt. The company gave $50,000 in corporate cash to Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee, in 2002 to help the GOP take control of the Texas House. Corporate contributions...

Earlier this year, Tom DeLay correctly diagnosed the disease that infects his congressional majority. "If 1994 was the year we stopped thinking like a permanent minority," DeLay told Republicans gathered for a February party retreat in Philadelphia, "2004 is the year we start thinking like a permanent majority: unified, aggressive, rightfully confident of victory." DeLay, of course, thought permanent-majority status would be a good thing for the GOP, but nine months later he's become the symbol of a party corrupted by its lock on power. When House Republicans voted last month to allow members who have been indicted to keep...