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With his Confederate-flag-draped past, Sen. George Allen is in trouble for using a term for monkeys -- and racial slur elsewhere in the world -- to ridicule a dark-skinned man at a campaign rally.
  • The American People

    Michael Scherer writes, "When you face the American people, sooner or later, they are going to figure out who you really are."

    Unfortunately, and to the woe of this country, all too often those realizations occur far too late. Let us hope that the notoriously short memories of Americans in the political realm don't extend to this faux-country, fake Bubba, lest we elect yet another bully to the Oval Office.