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New Mexican Republican Spokesperson Attacked 
The spokeswoman for Republican gubernatorial candidate John Dendahl’s campaign in New Mexico was severely beaten in a roadside incident and was hospitalized in critical condition.
Paige McKenzie was driving to her home north of Albuquerque around 9 p.m. Wednesday night when she got a flat tire and pulled into a bank parking lot in Bernalillo to change her tire, according to Dendahl, who faces Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson in the Nov. 7 election.
She was attacked with a tire iron in the parking lot while changing the tire. Her jaw was shattered and her teeth were splintered.
Paramedics who were across the street from the bank heard her scream, and rushed her to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where a breathing tube was placed in her throat to help her breathe.
Paige’s brother Patrick McKenzie told NewsMax that the flat tire had "apparently been slashed.”
And Dendahl said McKenzie told doctors she thought she recognized her assailant, according to the Albuquerque Tribune.
Bernalillo police are investigating the attack, and Gov. Richardson has offered state police resources to help.
County Sheriff Darren White described the attack as "really horrible. 
She’s lucky to be alive.”
Paige McKenzie worked for NewsMax beginning in November 2003, writing book reviews and serving in the marketing department, before departing in October 2004.
News Max.com ** New Mexican Republican Spokesperson Attacked
Also at: KRQE News 13 Albuquerque, NM ** Dendahl aide beaten severely
This brutal beating of an innocent cutie is too infuriating for me to comment. 
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CHICAGO -- The government can continue to use its warrantless domestic wiretap program pending the Justice Department's appeal of a federal judge's ruling outlawing the program, an Appeals Court in Cincinnati ruled on Wednesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit in March on behalf of scholars, attorneys, journalists and non-profit groups that regularly communicate with people in the Middle East.
Poor Judge Diggs-Taylor, it looks like her work for her friends at the ACLU may possibly be undone. I wonder if her upcomming lawsuit with yet another organization that she has financial ties to will console her any.
According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, a conservative Republican, goaded Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats. This source, an ally of Edmund, also adamantly proclaims that the former page is not a homosexual. The prank scenario was confirmed by a second associate of Edmund.
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ABCNEWS said in a statement: "We go to great lengths to prevent the names of alleged sex crime victims from being revealed. On Friday there was a very brief technical glitch on our site which was overridden immediately. It is possible that during that very brief interval a screen name could have been captured. Reviews of the site since then show no unredacted screen names."
But upon reviewing the records, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, the young man was in fact over the age of 18 at the time of the exchange.
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Returning to the state that dashed his presidential hopes in 2004, Democratic U.S. Sen. John Kerry rallied with college students on Tuesday for next's month elections, urging them to "Take back Ohio, take back our country."
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Dallas Air America is off the Air
Someone who signed it, Sig says : Wow, I must be surrounded by other dead Democrats. Vote early and often!!
Who are America's "Top 25" most influential talk-radio hosts?
The episode stands as proof that the nation's major talk-radio hosts have clout well beyond their listening audiences.
Close behind is America's No. 2 most influential talker, Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly's radio show is relatively new and growing -- heard on more than 400 stations. But O'Reilly's clout is backed up by a wide array of media guns, including his No. 1-rated Fox News Channel show; his syndicated column; his Web site, billoreilly.com; and his numerous best-selling books, including his latest, Culture Warrior.
You can also order NewsMax magazine online with our special free offer -- 
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Dems Hypocrites on Sex Scandals
As Deroy Murdock, a columnist for Scripps Howard News Service, wrote back in 2002: "This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate, won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate. His new job? ... Youth counselor."
Was Frank told by the Democratic leadership to resign his seat as Foley was forced to do?
As Rush Limbaugh noted Monday, "The truth is that the people on the left who are acting all outraged and stunned and angry, they don't see what Clinton or Barney Frank or Gerry Studds did as repugnant. In fact, they view those things as private matters that didn't affect anybody's work, and it's nobody's business what somebody does with their private life, particularly when it comes to sex."
A review of 15 of the agricultural trespass cases in Denver showed that heroin and cocaine charges, theft of motor vehicles and domestic violence crimes - miles away from any farm or open land - were transformed into agricultural trespass.
The review showed that illegal immigrants and a number of defendants whose immigration status was unclear entered into the same type of agreement.
He also said he insisted his office contact immigration officials whenever a defendant was an illegal immigrant or had questionable immigration status.
Emmanuel Acosta-Martinez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, allegedly slapped his pregnant girlfriend in the face and repeatedly rammed his car into the back of another car in which his girlfriend was riding with another man in June 2001.
Walter Ramo, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, was initially charged with the felony crime of sale and possession of heroin. He pleaded guilty to trespassing on farmland and received probation.
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That apparently didn't happen, because a few months later he was arrested in a gang-related drive-by shooting and charged with attempted murder. He remains in a Colorado prison with a parole hearing set for December.
Trespassing on agricultural land with the intent to commit a felony usually does not fall into any of the deportable offenses, primarily because plea agreements often cite eavesdropping or other similar crimes as part of the underlying felony charge, according to Joseph and a review of court records. Those charges don't involve moral turpitude.