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The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups. So as long as you are white and don’t work at 7/11, you should be okay! In all seriousness, this is a necessary tool.

  We are back to the no-preconditions policy for meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad   Withdrawl is off the table in Iraq  Obama also now embraces John McCain’s call for a League of Democracies Mr Obama and his advisers stress the Democratic candidate’s readiness to sit down with Iranian leaders without ­conditions.

“Iraq has the potential to develop into a stable, secure multiethnic, multi-sectarian democracy under the rule of law,” Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq said

A protester hangs a sign in the “free speech zone” near the site of the Democratic National Convention July 28, 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Getty Images | William B. Plowman) I won’t touch the fact that it is a black man in that cell  free speech zone!  Yikes!  So now it is 2008, and the

Let the discussion begin: Iraq threw open the world’s third largest oil reserves to foreign firms on Monday, putting British and U.S. companies in poll position five years after U.S.-led troops invaded the country to oust Saddam Hussein.

On John McCain:  “He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn’t held executive responsibility,” Clark said. My first thought was to Emil Jones, the kingmaker for Obama.  More of Clark’s comments: When asked by host Bob Schieffer

Warner Todd Huston has the story about Google shutting down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message.   Take a look at the Philosophy of Google: “The perfect search engine,” says Google co-founder Larry Page, “would understand exactly what you mean

Nearly half a billion dollars raised and yet these two have no qualms about going to the people and asking them to help pay off a nearly $30 million debt! Obama Asks Donors to Help Pay Clinton Debt Have no fear though, Clinton, Obama: So happy together

It isn’t clear if the uniforms were organic and union made, but there is no doubt that these people were not cops.  ICE is saying that the Monday invasion was not committed by the Mexican Army, yet on Thursday, another invasion occurred: The residence might have been a drop house used for smuggling

Already weakened by several court rulings and state referendums, affirmative action now confronts a challenge to its very reason for existing. If Americans make a black person the leading contender for president, as nationwide polls suggest, how can racial prejudice be so prevalent and potent that it justifies special efforts to place minorities in coveted jobs and schools?