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According to Angus Reid Consultants, 76% of citizens in Britain agree with this statement:

It may be necessary sometimes to take action against people who have not yet committed any offence, but about whom the intelligence services have evidence that they are planning an act of terrorism.

The Iraq Health Ministry is saying that the U.S. military used nerve gas and mustard gas in Fallujah.

Sacramento County Judge Judy Holzer Hersher gave Arnold Schwarzenegger a bit of a kick in the butt today when she tentatively ruled that he illegally blocked a law increasing the number of nurses in California hospitals.

And finally...

I say we tell those liberal, tree-hugging, Birkenstock stocking-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals to go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else.

These poetic words were uttered by U.S. Representative Jim Gibbons, a Nevada Republican., during Friday night's Lincoln Day Dinner in Elko. Except Gibbons isn't as clever as you may think: He plagiarized this part of his speech from an equally inane, Constitution-bashing speech given by Alabama State Auditor Beth Chapman. I would love to use this idiocy against Republicans, but plagiarizing is, unfortunately, not limited to the moral-high-ground group.