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  • By popular demand, John Edwards takes first steps to erase any evidence he ever existed.

    newsobserver.com | Fire hits mill used by Edwards to launch campaign
    ROBBINS - Firefighters from five counties responded to a fire at an abandoned textile plant in Moore County that John Edwards used as a backdrop to announce his first presidential bid in 2003.

  • Family values.

    [Upper Arlington is an upscale suburb of Columbus.]
    The Columbus Dispatch : Orphan must pay to stay in UA schools
    Upper Arlington’s superintendent has stood by his decision not to let Meagan Haught stay in the school district, but the teen and her guardians haven’t given up.
    Meagan, who will be 14 next Friday, will be a freshman [...]

  • Good question.

    Open Questions on a Closed Case - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
    … The investigators fail to address another underlying problem with their anthrax match: that Dr. Ivins was an investigator in the case before he was a suspect. After the anthrax attack, Dr. Ivins himself worked directly with the evidence. The F.B.I. asked Dr. Ivins to [...]

  • Booted.

    Missing votes spark lawsuit Columbus Dispatch Politics
    The touch-screen voting setup used in half of Ohio’s 88 counties doesn’t work properly, and the former Diebold Election Systems should pay as a result, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said in a court filing yesterday.
    The move comes fewer than 90 days before Ohio voters go to the [...]

  • Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

    Win Points for McCain!
    Spread John McCain’s official talking points around the Web — and you could win valuable prizes!That, in essence, is the McCain campaign’s pitch to supporters to join its new online effort, one that combines the features of “AstroTurf” campaigning with the sort of customer-loyalty programs offered by airlines, hotel chains, restaurants [...]

  • Right on schedule.

    U.S. in ‘Heightened Alert’ Stage
    Government officials have been quietly stepping up counterterror efforts out of a growing concern that al Qaeda or similar organizations might try to capitalize on the spate of extremely high-profile events in the coming months, sources tell ABC News.
    …
    Anti-terror officials in the U.S. cite this summer and fall’s lineup of [...]

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