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Photo British politician George Galloway, known for his anti-Israel views, lost the Rochdale constituency in Thursday’s parliamentary election, just months after winning it. Galloway, leader of the Workers Party of Britain, received 11,508 votes, behind Labour’s Paul Waugh who won the seat with 13,047 votes. He had just won the seat in a February by-election. Galloway, a former Labour lawmaker, is known for his radical stance and longtime support for various terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. He was expelled from Labour in 2003.

President Barack Obama's whirlwind tour of political battleground states is so dizzying it's no wonder he slipped up last week in South Florida, giving a shout out to "Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio."

We here in south Florida need some Freepers help here. I live in Palm Beach County and mitt Romney showed up here to campaign yesterday and many here are in a trance like a bunch of drones. I was getting emails urging me to come to the Romulan rally and now this column. I have been shocked to see people who I have never dreamed would fall for this fraud - fawning over him. He's owned the airwaves for the past month but TODAY I heard his first attack ads on SANTORUM surprisingly - instead of Newt. Evil is cunning...

A Greenacres motorcyclist died Wednesday evening after doing a wheelie on Military Trail and then crashing into a median, authorities said. Fabio Garcia, 28, was driving northbound on a 2009 Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle around 6 p.m. when he lifted the bike into a wheelie, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office traffic report.

JALPAIGURI (Indo-Nepal-Bhutan-Bangladesh Border), July 24: Over 165 Maoist cadres are being trained in Bhutan at present, as Bhutan has been included in the future Maoist country, ‘Dandkaranya Desam’. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) are imparting the training. A senior leader of the Standing Committee of a Maoist outfit confirmed this to the South Asia Tribune.

The excerpt presented below provides a glimpse of the organization, boats, and mission of Coast Guard Patrol Boats and Navy Swift Boats in Viet Nam in 1968. It is presented to help FReepers better understand the context of the relationship between the two branches of the service, the boats used in routine patrol and offensive operations, and the change in mission from coastal interdiction to offensive operations that occurred in the latter half of 1968.