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On Obama’s 99th day, a Republican Senator defects to the Democrats

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Arlen Specter, the moderate Republican Senator from Pennsylvania who faced a primary challenge, is switching to caucus with the Democrats in the Senate.

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It shouldn’t be illegal to burn a Quran

We now live in a country where, once more, it appears to be a crime to commit blasphemy. This is the inevitable and justifiable conclusion many have made following the news yesterday that a man who burnt a copy of the Koran was charged with ‘harassment, alarm or distress’ against ‘the religious institution of Islam’.

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