news brief, animosity reigns supreme

Around the web: CNN’s political news ticker

• Racial threats on Barack Obama
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday he was reluctant to ask for Secret Service protection this early in the 2008 presidential race. “I’m not an entourage guy. You know, up until recently, I was still taking my wife Michelle’s grocery list and going to the grocery store once in awhile,” the Illinois senator said. Obama, who is black, acknowledged that some of the threats against him were racially motivated.
• Black Sheep of Hardesty ABC News atheism story
  A Family of Atheists Sues Their Religious Town Claiming Violation of Separation of Church and State. If you are interested in this stuff, take a look at the Nightline summary and commentary I made on “proving God using logic, no bible.“
• Al Qaeda holding POWs, calling it revenge for raped teenager by US troops last year
  BAGHDAD - An al-Qaida front group that claims it has captured American soldiers warned the United States on Monday to stop searching for them and suggested it attacked the U.S. convoy as revenge for the rape and murder of a local teenager last year.

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