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Some are more equal than others, I guess: Nearly 2,000 officials in central China have violated the nation’s “one child” family planning policy, further revealing difficulties in implementing population controls. Family planning departments have exposed 1,968 officials in populous Hunan province who have breached the law, Xinhua news agency said Sunday. One “national” level official…

The N-word has been buried in Detroit: Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by holding a public burial for the N-word during its annual convention.The ceremony included a march by delegates from across the country from downtown Detroit’s Cobo Center to Hart Plaza. Along the…

It’s easy to battle little girls, they don’t fight back. With their teacher absent, 10 students were allowed to leave school early. These were the girls the gunmen saw first, 10 easy targets walking hand-in-hand through the blue metal gate and on to the winding dirt road. The staccato of machine-gun fire pelted through the…

Aren’t you guys glad that you have someone like me who makes sure you don’t miss really important stories like this one?

Very suspicious changes to the LA Times story on Thompson.

Amazing! The BBC has not been a supporter of the Iraq war so it is quite something when its World Affairs Editor John Simpson concludes that America might finally be pursuing the right tactics in Iraq. Mr Simpson made his conclusion at the end of a report on BBC1’s main evening news bulletin. After interviewing…

And asks when he thinks he’ll be entering the race, what he thinks of the Libby pardon, the LA Times hit piece, and can a president really win running as a fiscal conservative. Audio here.

It’s like King Kong vs. Godzilla or Alien vs. Predator or Freddy vs. Jason, you don’t know which side to root for: Cindy Sheehan, the soldier’s mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to seek House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in…

This is for those on the left who don’t quite get that the war with al-Qaeda is being fought in Iraq. Al-Qaeda’s number two seems to think they are fighting in Iraq: A new video by al-Qaida’s deputy leader Thursday left no doubt about what the terror network claims is at stake in Iraq –…

Just at a time when you need them the most they bail. Typical! The tide of Republican defections from President George W. Bush’s camp widened Saturday when two more US senators joined the chorus of critics of his Iraq policy, demanding change. But while expressing sharp disagreement with the strategy of “surging” the number of…

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