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As McCain widens his lead as the likely Republican candidate, he skipped a difficult Senate vote Wednesday on whether to make 20 million seniors and 250,000 disabled veterans eligible for rebate checks as part of a proposed economic stimulus package.

Mitt Romney is suspending his campaign for president, having made the final decision Wednesday night, according to a campaign source who asked to remain anonymous.

Come on people! I’m glad people are so interested in this important election but we shouldn’t get carried away.

The problem for Democrats is that the race is opening up the kind of sensitive divides that go to the party’s very identity as an institution that unites races and genders. Among Republicans, the split that is becoming both more obvious and more nasty is between the party’s core conservatives, who often are distrustful, if […]

The New Mexico Democratic Party caucus may be tainted by three ballot boxes that spent the night in the home of the Rio Arriba County party chair or the homes of other local election officials instead of being reported to the state party.Those ballots still haven’t been counted, but they have been retrieved by the […]

A video of Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez and Hall of Famer Juan Marichal at a cockfight – in which, one of the birds is killed – was posted on Youtube. The clip has since been removed.

Silent clip of the Audobon Ballroom immediately after the assassination of Malcolm X on February 21, 1965.Malcolm had just begun delivering a speech when a disturbance broke out in the crowd of 400. A man in the audience created a diversion, yelling ‘Get your hand outta my pocket! Don’t be messin’ with my pockets!’ As […]

http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/Rejecting the non-violent approach of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X explains: ‘One white man named Lincoln supposedly fought the civil war to solve the race problem and the problem is still here…and then another white man named Kennedy came along, running for president, and told Negroes what all he was going to do for them […]

An article on Hecklerspray says that Steven Sielberg has signed on to be a creative advisor to the same Chinese Government funding the killings in Darfur.

The director of national intelligence said Tuesday he is concerned that al-Qaida in Iraq is shifting its focus to attacks elsewhere in the region.

The storms swept across Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas as Super Tuesday primaries were ending, ripping the roof from a shopping mall, blowing apart warehouses and crumpling a campus’ dormitory buildings as students huddled inside.

Clinton wins Arkansas, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Tennessee.