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Conservative ‘Lion’ Henry Hyde Was Targeted by Feds in a Four-Year Bribery Investigation

Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), who died in 2007, was a staunch defender of “traditional values” and a prime mover in the impeachment of Bill Clinton. And according to documents obtained by Gawker, the FBI thought he was on the take.

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Conservative ‘Lion’ Henry Hyde Was Targeted by Feds in a Four-Year Bribery Investigation

Lupe Fiasco Agrees With Controversial Bill O’Reilly Comment

Chicago MC says talk-show host had ‘credible argument’ when he compared Chicago to Haiti. By Shaheem Reid Lupe Fiasco Photo: MTV News Controversial comments by TV talk show host Bill O’Reilly hit the Internet Wednesday (January 27), causing plenty of talk on the chat boards. Audio from an O’Reilly appearance in Westbury, New York, was posted on mediamatters.org, featuring O’Reilly comparing Chicago to Haiti.

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Coldplay, Led Zeppelin Album Covers Featured On New British Stamps

Album art from Pink Floyd, Blur and David Bowie also included.

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Coldplay, Led Zeppelin Album Covers Featured On New British Stamps

In Peru’s Amazon, finding gold but leaving mercury

On a sweltering day in Peru’s Amazon, Riquelme loads a bag of rocks onto his back, sticks a plastic hose in his mouth, and steps off the back of a makeshift barge into the chai-colored Tambopata River. He’ll spend the next two hours with his eyes closed, vacuuming up sediment from the river bottom. On the barge, his partner Borian works the vacuum’s motor and sprays the mixture onto a rug.

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In Peru’s Amazon, finding gold but leaving mercury

Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dicatatorship soon in the US’

Gore Vidal said, “America has “no intellectual class” and is “rotting away at a funereal pace. We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together

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Dwayne Taylor seeks election for the Florida Legislature despite atrocious record and failures at the Daytona Beach City Commission

Despite mounting corruption complaints against the Daytona Beach City Commission, including a failing grade in a state audit that revealed multiple ethics violations and widespread misuse of taxpayers funds, Commissioner Dwayne Taylor is running for election to the Florida House of Representatives. Taylor's record at the City Commission is abysmal, he has approved every measure that raised the tax burden of Daytona Beach citizens while awarding millions of dollars to multi-millionaire campaign contributors and friends to fund various pet projects and personal hobbies.

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Dwayne Taylor seeks election for the Florida Legislature despite atrocious record and failures at the Daytona Beach City Commission