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Brendan Bouffard / lsj.com:
Protesters shout down anti-Islam speaker at MSU — Audience uses chants, obscenities to interrupt British Nationalist's speech — EAST LANSING - When British Nationalist Nick Griffin took the podium at a Friday night Michigan State University event, he tried to explain how Islam is a threat to Western civilization.
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Little Green Footballs:
BNP Leader Invited to MSU by 'Conservative' Students — In the boneheaded move of the year, conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom invited British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin, a flat-out racist and Holocaust denier, to speak about the dangers of Islam …
Michael Moore / Missoulian:
Medical marijuana advocate kills herself — Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Another Drug War Victim — A woman kills herself to stop the pain of an illness she tried to alleviate with marijuana: … That DEA statement should go down in history as an emblem of the anti-federalist agenda of today's conservatives. It's up there with protecting people from the alleviation of their own pain.
April Castro / Associated Press:
Roswell incident not explained to Richardson's satisfaction — ROUND ROCK, Texas — If he wins his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson may be just the man to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery. — Answering questions …
Normanm / CNN Political Ticker:
Edwards tours Iowa's 99 counties — again — COULTER, Iowa (CNN) — For the second time in his life, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards completed campaign visits to all of Iowa's 99 counties on Saturday with a stop in the city of Coulter, part of Franklin County.
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Bennett Roth / Houston Chronicle:
Ron Paul's campaign takes to the airwaves — Maverick boosts pursuit of votes in early primaries — WASHINGTON — Hoping to defy more expectations, Rep. Ron Paul is ratcheting up his maverick Republican presidential campaign by launching TV and radio commercials in early primary states …
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Don Surber:
Holocaust survivor trumps Dutch — "Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay" — He'll probably apologize for the remark later but Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, told it like it is to some Dutch politicians …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Evangelical Crackup — The hundred-foot white cross atop the Immanuel Baptist Church in downtown Wichita, Kan., casts a shadow over a neighborhood of payday lenders, pawnbrokers and pornographic video stores. To its parishioners, this has long been the front line of the culture war.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Judicial Races Now Rife With Politics — BUTLER, Pa. — It's always packed for Wing Night at American Legion Post 117, and in the crowd Seamus McCaffery saw the building blocks of his electoral success. — The local sheriff, the union guys, the daughter of a veteran who said, "I like your commercial about being a Marine."
New York Times:
Yet Another Photo of Site in Syria, Yet More Questions — The mystery surrounding the construction of what might have been a nuclear reactor in Syria deepened yesterday, when a company released a satellite photo showing that the main building was well under way in September 2003 — four years before Israeli jets bombed it.
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David Greenberg / Washington Post:
Rudy a Lefty? Yeah, Right. — You wouldn't know it from reading the papers, but the favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination is a confirmed right-winger. On issues such as free speech and religion, secrecy and due process, civil rights and civil liberties, pornography and democracy …
John Cheves / Lexington Herald-Leader:
McConnell marks funds for contractor — FIRM UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR BRIBERY — JCHEVES@HERALD-LEADER.COM — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is pushing $25 million in earmarked federal funds for a British defense contractor that is under criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department …
Gary Schmitt / Weekly Standard:
But Who Will Surveil the Judges? — The FISA court and its failings. — For one who recently returned from Europe, where a colleague and I interviewed an array of domestic security officials in key European democracies, it is a bit of an out-of-body experience to examine the various bills …