Some Alaskan lawmakers are beginning to question Sarah Palin’s commitment to Alaskan affairs. They state that she no longer seems to mingle with them at the Capitol or engage herself in Alaskan affairs as in years past. Most are attributing the distraction to her likely run for the Presidency in 2012.
“I think her speech (state-of-state [...]

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Iraqi authorities have ordered the removal of a giant shoe sculpture  honoring the shoe-throwing incident against George Bush.
The sculpture was placed outside a Tikrit state orphanage. Tikrit is the hometown of Saddam Hussein. Iraqi police said that the state-run orphanage was not the proper place  for a political display.
It is a good bet that the [...]

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Not unexpectedly, KKK membership is up since Barack Obama’s win. Former Imperial Wizard Johnny Lee Clary, now an outspoken critic of the Klan, said the difficult economic times and Obama’s win both contribute to a rise in Klan membership.
At a recent rally in Alabama, 300 people signed up. Clary called that “unprecedented.”
“They (KKK) actually sent [...]

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With inflation running at 231 million percent, Zimbabwe has scrapped its currency.
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa announced that the accepted foreign currencies “include the South African rand, the United States dollar, Botswana pula, euro, pound sterling among others.”
Chinamasa presented a 66,500,000,000,000,000,000-Zimbabwean dollar ($3 billion) budget in both the Zimbabwean and foreign currencies.
Signs at both private and [...]

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Marion Barry, the Lazarus of Washington, D.C., politics, is at it again. Despite his decades of legal problems, he always seems to make it back.
The former D.C. mayor has failed to file his taxes again. Now a councilmember, Barry did not file his 2005 taxes and was hauled into court by federal prosecutors. After being [...]

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Everyone knows politicians have big egos, but the Serbian Parliament must be loaded with them.
The Serbian Parliament went on a two-hour strike Thursday to protest state television’s decision to air a tennis match instead of riveting parliamentary debate. This is not the first time they have stopped work when television switched to tennis. It is [...]

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It looks like Obama is still learning the details of his new digs — like where the doors are. Obama was returning from a meeting with Republican Congressional leaders when he approached a paned window. The door was a few feet to his right.

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The election of an African-American to President may signify change from a past when politics and race mixed uncomfortably, but the ultimate barometer of change will be Alabama.
In that state, no African-American has been elected to a statewide office without first being appointed.
Democratic Congressman Artur Davis released a poll showing that if he ran for [...]

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Perhaps Rod Blagojevich has a strategy in his Senate impeachment trial, after all. Blagojevich, who has alienated just about everyone in the country except for talk show hosts, has stayed away from the Illinois Senate during his trial. Now, as the Senators gleam through the evidence, some are starting to question if the case against [...]

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Two-and-a-half months after the November 4 election and the FEC has released its final totals. Barack Obama garnered 69,456,897 and John McCain 59,934,814. Far back in third place with a little over one-half a percent was Ralph Nader with 738,475 and, in fourth, Bob Barr with 523,686. For the record, official last place (from those [...]

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