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...small-arms shot heard 'round the blogosphere: John McCain popping off on a conference call about Mitt Romney's opposition to the current immigration bill. "Maybe I should wait a couple weeks and see if it changes," the Senator said. "Maybe he can get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his yard...
...Some 50 people were killed Sunday in a series of intense gun battles fought in the streets of Tripoli itself and nine miles north of the city in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, which is also headquarters of the Fatah al-Islam faction. The violence spread to Beirut late Sunday when a 22-pound bomb exploded in a car park in the Ashrafieh district of east Beirut, killing one woman and wounding 12 others...
...They have proved a tenacious foe. In Sunday's street battles, several of the well-armed militants holed up in residential buildings in the Zaharieh district of central Tripoli firing machine guns and hurling grenades at Lebanese soldiers who sought cover behind armored personnel carriers on the street below. Soldiers battered the cramped apartment buildings with rifle and heavy machine gun fire, ripping chunks of masonry from the walls and filling the air with dust and acrid gun smoke. It was not until early evening that the army managed to kill the last of the militants...
...Although a crowd of onlookers cheered as Lebanese troops poured machine gun fire into the buildings, one soldier grumbled that when the troops first arrived on the scene some local residents has tried to hide the militants. "They have supporters here," he said. The government is vowing to finish Fatah al-Islam once and for all, but the struggle to contain rising Sunni extremist sentiment in Lebanon promises to be a long battle...
...latched onto an issue that affects more Americans more directly than gun violence or Islamic terrorism. The folks in Flint needn't worry overmuch that al-Qaeda will bomb the Longway Planetarium (whose Classic Vinyl laser show begins today), but they can count on getting ill and needing to pay the bills. It's something most Americans worry about; Moore says they shouldn't have to. As he said to AP: "We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world...