Too many wildfires caused by gun owners, says Utah governor ( video)

The Dump fire in Utah, touched off by ricocheting bullets sparking dry cheatgrass, became the 20th wildfire this year caused by target shooters. Many states, including Utah, are prevented from imposing emergency gun controls.

By Patrik Jonsson,?Staff writer / June 23, 2012

Emergency responders work on a wild land fire that is threatening homes in Saratoga Springs, Utah, Friday, June 22 About 1,000 homes are being evacuated after high winds kicked up a fire near a dump accidentally started by target shooters.

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Some of the wildfires scorching the West this year were sparked by unusual culprits: Gun owners. Or, more specifically, gun shooters.

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As with the Dump fire in Utah, which flared hard enough on Friday to force the evacuation of 1,500 homes and 9,000 people, nearly two dozen conflagrations, officials say, have started accidentally by careless target shooters whose bullet sparks touch off dried-up pinon and wild grasses.

?Now is not a good time to take your gun outside and start shooting in cheat grass that?s tinder dry,? Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Friday.

While authorities can ban certain fire-related activities when fire risks are high, that?s not true with guns, the carrying and use of which are staunchly protected by state and federal law, including several recent Supreme Court decisions.

?In Utah, for example, a state law prohibits the state from enacting emergency bans on guns, putting Gov. Herbert in a position of instead asking county governments to issue emergency rules for outdoor gun use as wildfire conditions prevail across the West.

In North Carolina, gun rights activists have successfully fought legal battles to make sure governors can?t ban guns during emergencies.

IN PICTURES: Wildfires sweeping the West

Moves to protect gun owners from emergency gun bans is an emerging front in the national debate over gun rights.

In March, a committee in the Colorado legislature killed a proposed bill that would have restricted the state from banning citizen-carry of guns during an emergency. ?Common sense dictates that in an emergency situation? guns only make things worse,? a witness from the League of Women Voters told Colorado legislators at a hearing.

Recent Supreme Court decisions affirming the right of Americans to arm themselves for protection have played a major role in the changing legal dynamic around the citizenry?s ability to access their guns during emergencies.

The Supreme Court decisions have flipped ?the burden onto the government and legislatures to show why they need to restrict what the court has already said is an individual right,? John Velleco, a spokesman for Gun Owners of American, told the World Net Daily news site.

Authorities now say 20 of Utah?s wildfires this year were started by target shooters, compared to 24 in total last year ? with three months left in the western wildfire season. The Dump fire near Saratoga Springs, Utah, started near a landfill when the spark from a bullet hitting a rock set off a patch of grass, which then quickly spread, fueled by dry conditions and gale-force winds.

Colorado officials are also trying to figure out if the 1,200 acre Lake George wildfire was sparked by a ricocheting bullet.

Although this has been a fairly standard year for wildfires following the massive Texas wildfires in 2011, hundreds of fires have burned and dozens continue to burn in places like Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Hawaii, and New Mexico, where the state?s largest wildfire ever is still smoldering through the Gila National Forest. The Fort Collins fire in Colorado has destroyed nearly 200 homes and caused one death.

Humans, whether accidentally or on purpose, start six times as many fires as lightning in the US every year. Activities such as barbecuing and camping-related fires are often cited as causes of wildfires, while arson or careless disposal of cigarettes also remain problems. Authorities regularly target such activities under emergency wildfire declarations.

When it comes to shooting guns on the tinder-dry western plateaus, though, even local authorities so far have refrained from trying to impose emergency bans on shooting, instead urging gun owners to voluntarily refrain from loading up and heading out to the range.

?Citizens do not surrender their civil rights just because of a natural or man-made disaster,? Alan Gottlieb, the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said in support of a lawsuit in North Carolina filed by gun owners after a 2010 snow storm put a gun ban into effect.?

IN PICTURES: Wildfires sweeping the West

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Does Google CEO Suffer From Mystery Illness?

Google Inc. ?says Chief Executive Larry Page has "lost his voice," but it won't say much more about the matter. Some corporate governance experts think the Internet company should speak up.

The billionaire co-founder missed Google's annual meeting Thursday, and the company said he will miss two other important engagements over the next several weeks.

Google gave no further information about Mr. Page's problems, though it said he continues to lead the company. The lack of details surrounding the matter prompted some speculation on Wall Street about whether he may have a serious medical condition.

In an email to employees on Thursday, however, Mr. Page wrote that "there is nothing seriously wrong with me" and that he would "continue to run the company," according to a person familiar with the matter.

The 39-year-old Mr. Page took over as chief executive last year, his second stint running Google in its 14-year history. He was absent from the shareholder meeting at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.

At the meeting, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said Mr. Page had "lost his voice" and "can't do any public speaking engagements for the time being," including the coming week's Google annual conference for software developers and at the second-quarter earnings conference call that is expected in mid-July. He added that "Larry will continue to run the company, he's running all the strategic business decisions and all that."

Mr. Schmidt, who wished Mr. Page a "quick recovery," also joked that co-founder Sergey Brin "has said that this problem will make Larry a better CEO because he's going to have to choose his words very carefully."

Few watchers of the Internet giant seemed in a joking mood, however. That is especially true in Silicon Valley, where the death of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs is still fresh in people's minds.

Apple's disclosures about the health of Mr. Jobs, who died in October after a battle with pancreatic cancer, were criticized at times for providing few details about his condition.

"We have no specific reason to think there is anything more to Larry's condition, but we find it odd that the company would already rule him out of the 2Q call which is likely still a few weeks away," wrote JP Morgan stock analyst Doug Anmuth in a note to clients.

He added, "We think this could raise some questions among investors."

Mr. Anmuth also noted that Mr. Page, who regularly posts links and comments on his Google+ social network account, hasn't posted anything publicly since May 25.

Inside Google, some executives were told Mr. Page's issue isn't serious and that he's "OK," according to a person familiar with the matter.

Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Herman Leung says he's started to get calls from investors, asking if they should be worried about this. "Yeah, probably a little bit," he said. "Hopefully, Google will give us an update."

Mr. Page's voice generally sounds slightly strained, raspy or hoarse. A recording of a 20-minute speech last month in London showed Mr. Page noticeably pausing several times to swallow before continuing to speak, but it is unclear whether that was a symptom of his current problem.

Some leadership experts contend Google should divulge more about Mr. Page's voice problem. As the CEO of a public company, "he's not entitled to his privacy,'' said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a senior associate dean at Yale School of Management.

"We need to know if it [his voice] is imperiled," he said.

The Google board should inform shareholders about the cause and likely duration of Mr. Page's condition, according to Mr. Sonnenfeld, author of several leadership books. A degenerative health problem "could have a material adverse impact on the company,'' he added.

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Italy turns on the style in win over England

By ANDREW DAMPF

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 8:22 p.m. ET June 24, 2012

KIEV, Ukraine (AP)Italian football has long been known as overly tactical and defensive, while the English game is characterized by its long balls and constant attacking.

Sunday's European Championship quarterfinal turned the table on that generalization.

While in the end, the match was decided only by a penalty shootout, Italy produced an overwhelming majority of the opportunities over the 120 minutes with 35 attempts on goal to England's nine and 20 shots on target to the Three Lions' miserable four. The Azzurri hit the post twice.

As Italy coach Cesare Prandelli said afterward, Serie A clubs should learn a lesson from this match.

"Coaches need to start playing football more, and not just look for results," Prandelli said. "There are two years of work behind this and I think this is the future of football. In terms of quality, we're not lacking anything to anyone.

"I knew we could control the match. The only thing I was worried about was conceding counterattacks," Prandelli said. "We did well to construct our opportunities, and closing down their counterattacks quickly really helped, too."

After a 0-0 draw, Italy won 4-2 on penalties.

England coach Roy Hodgson, who learned his defensive tactics by managing Inter Milan and Udinese in Italy, called shootouts pure luck.

"Penalties are 80 percent luck, but then there are certain players who make fewer mistakes than others. They have a certain coolness in those situations," Prandelli said.

Prandelli was referring to players like Andrea Pirlo, the midfield maestro who fooled England goalkeeper Joe Hart with a softly struck spot kick in the shootout. And goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, who smothered Ashley Cole's effort to set up the winning strike from Alessandro Diamanti.

"Champions are reliable and they focus on the technical task at hand, without letting themselves get disturbed," Prandelli said. "(Buffon) has an extraordinary amount of skill and he was very motivated tonight. He knew he could obtain a result like this."

Unpredictable forward Mario Balotelli wasted chance after chance during the 120 minutes, but he, too, was cool under pressure at the end, converting the first attempt of the shootout.

"He played 120 minutes and I thought he had a great match," Prandelli said. "He created chances, and sure there were mistakes but that's OK. He showed character. When a player feels prepared to begin a shootout, that means he has personality."

While it has four World Cup titles, Italy has won the Euros just once, back in 1968. The last time the Azzurri reached the semifinals came at Euro 2000, when they lost the final to France following David Trezeguet's golden goal.

Italy next faces Germany on Thursday in Warsaw.

"Right now this is a huge satisfaction, but we need to recuperate our strength and injured players now," Prandelli said.

Both key midfielder Daniele De Rossi and fullback Ignazio Abate left the England match with muscle problems, while defender Giorgio Chiellini injured his hamstring in the final Group C match with Ireland and did not play Sunday.

"Germany is the tournament favorite along with Spain," Prandelli said. "To win, we need to get our injured players back. But I have some ideas. We're going to challenge them."

If the England match was any indication, Italy will attack Germany from start to finish. The days of Italy's notorious "catenaccio" lockdown defense are gone.

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New Colorado wildfire erupts, grows out of control

People watch as smoke billows from a wildfire west of Colorado Springs, Colo. on Saturday, June 23, 2012. The fire has grown to an estimated 600 acres and The Gazette reports authorities are evacuating the exclusive Cedar Heights neighborhood as well as the Garden of the Gods nature center. (AP Photo/Bryan Oller)

People watch as smoke billows from a wildfire west of Colorado Springs, Colo. on Saturday, June 23, 2012. The fire has grown to an estimated 600 acres and The Gazette reports authorities are evacuating the exclusive Cedar Heights neighborhood as well as the Garden of the Gods nature center. (AP Photo/Bryan Oller)

Smoke billows from a wildfire west of Colorado Springs, Colo. on Saturday, June 23, 2012. The fire has grown to an estimated 600 acres and The Gazette reports authorities are evacuating the exclusive Cedar Heights neighborhood as well as the Garden of the Gods nature center. (AP Photo/Bryan Oller)

Stephanie Stover, with the City of Colorado Springs, directs traffic away after a mandatory evacuation was announced for the Garden of The Gods due to a wildfire burning west of Colorado Springs, Colo. on Saturday, June 23, 2012. The fire has grown to an estimated 600 acres and The Gazette reports authorities are evacuating the exclusive Cedar Heights neighborhood as well as the Garden of the Gods. (AP Photo/Bryan Oller)

Colorado National Guard members stop a motorist trying to head down Larimer County Highway 74W as a wildfire continues to burn near Livermore, Colo., on Saturday, June 23, 2012. Authorities sent out 992 evacuation notices Friday due to the wildfire burning on more than 100 square miles in northern Colorado as winds pick up. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

A U.S. Forest Service truck heads down Larimer County Road 74W as a wildfire continues to burn near Livermore, Colo., on Saturday, June 23, 2012. Authorities sent out 992 evacuation notices Friday due to the wildfire burning on more than 100 square miles in northern Colorado as winds pick up. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

(AP) ? A wildfire near Colorado Springs has quickly grown to more than 2,000 acres and prompted thousands of residents to flee their homes, while another fire to the north claimed more than a dozen cabins and structures after sweeping through a Rocky Mountain neighborhood.

Hot, dry and gusty conditions are expected to continue into Sunday after fueling the two fires that erupted a day earlier. At least seven wildfires are now burning across Colorado, where officials have been challenged by one of the most severe wildfire seasons in recent memory.

The larger of the two new fires Saturday was the Waldo Canyon Fire near Colorado Springs, which flared up around noon. The Colorado Springs Gazette reported early Sunday that the 5,000 residents of Manitou Springs, just several miles west of Colorado Springs, were ordered to evacuate.

Evacuation orders also had been in place on the west side of Colorado Springs and in the towns of Cascade and Ute Pass.

In some neighborhoods, Colorado Springs police cruisers rolled down streets, issuing the order to leave through a loudspeaker.

"Colorado Springs Police Department," an officer said. "This is a mandatory evacuation notice. Evacuate now."

Hundreds of other residents were under voluntary evacuation orders and have been packing up, the newspaper reported.

The fire was zero percent contained, but no structures had been claimed by the fire, and homes in Colorado Springs or Manitou Springs were not immediately threatened, authorities said.

Fire officials in the two towns said the evacuations were in place as a precaution.

"We're looking around 10, 11 o'clock in the morning. The temperatures are going to start going up, the humidity is going to start going down. That's when fires can change their behavior dramatically," said the Rev. David Hunting, the Manitou Springs fire department's chaplain and public information officer.

Meanwhile, crews near the mountain community of Estes Park were mopping up after the Woodland Heights fire that also sparked Saturday destroyed 21 structures.

The Denver Post reports investigators are determining whether the fire started in a cabin before spreading or started as a wildfire before moving toward the homes.

The fire was attacked quickly by air and ground crews.

"Even though we lost 21 (structures), which is a huge tragedy, we saved many homes because of firefighters' efforts," the Post reported Estes Park Fire Chief Scott Dorman as telling evacuees.

Firefighters contending with the largest and most expensive fire in Colorado history gave up some ground before the weekend. Crews stationed near threatened homes Friday had to retreat for their safety, and containment slipped from 60 percent to 45 percent.

The fire near Fort Collins has scorched more than 118 square miles and destroyed at least 191 homes.

Heat that set back firefighting efforts Saturday are expected to continue Sunday, with the National Weather Service forecasting temperatures nearing 100 degrees throughout much of the state.

Elsewhere in the West, firefighters made progress against wildfires in Utah, New Mexico and California.

In Utah, about 2,300 Utah wildfire evacuees were allowed to return to their homes Saturday evening after officials determined the blaze no longer posed a threat to them.

The decision came after the fire had burned Friday within a quarter mile of some homes in Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain, about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City, Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Teresa Rigby said.

The fire that officials believe was started Thursday by target shooters was 30 percent contained Saturday evening, with full containment expected Tuesday.

Crews also were battling a 16,500-acre brush fire on high desert near the town of Delta in central Utah.

In California, a wildfire that broke out about 60 miles north of Los Angeles has triggered evacuations of campgrounds around an off-road recreation area. The Ventura County Fire Department says the fire was reported shortly after noon Saturday near the Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area. It has burned at least 400 acres. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Hungry Valley is located along the Interstate 5 corridor, in Gorman.

In New Mexico, a lightning-caused wildfire that destroyed 242 homes and businesses is 90 percent contained after crews got a break in the weather. Heavy rain Friday helped crews increase containment lines on the 69-square-mile fire near Ruidoso that began June 4.

Meanwhile, the more than 464-square-mile Whitewater-Baldy blaze, the largest in state history, is 87 percent contained. It began May 16 as two lightning-caused blazes that merged to form one fire.

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Ecuador's quandary over asylum for WikiLeaks chief

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ? President Rafael Correa's objections to what he deems American interventionism in Latin America and his delight in Julian Assange's massive uncorking of U.S. secrets appear to have persuaded the WikiLeaks chief that Ecuador offers his best shot at avoiding extradition to Sweden.

But four days after Assange ducked into Ecuador's London embassy seeking political asylum, this South American nation's leftist leader has yet to announce a decision. The choice may not be easy.

Correa was cagey on Thursday night, telling reporters that Ecuador was consulting with the other governments involved.

"We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom," he said.

The question he faces is whether it's worth risking a backlash from Washington and the European Union against his small, petroleum-exporting nation of 14 million.

On the plus side, Correa would deepen his anti-establishment reputation by identifying himself with someone who also rates the mainstream media as beholden to moneyed interests and powerful governments.

"By giving Assange asylum, Correa (would be) burnishing his anti-US credentials," said Michael Shifter, president of Inter-American Dialogue, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. "Correa and Assange not only have a personal chemistry ? they also see themselves as victims of U.S. power."

The two seemed to get on well when Assange interviewed Correa last month for his Kremlin-funded TV program. "Your Wikileaks have made us stronger," Correa told Assange, adding later: "Welcome to the club of the persecuted."

"It is hard to escape the irony that Correa, who has suppressed press freedom in Ecuador, is associating himself with the professed champion of transparency," said Shifter. "What this reveals is that it all comes down to ideology."

Correa has angered human rights and media freedom activists by using criminal libel law and media ownership restrictions to gag opposition-owned outlets that he claims are corrupt and intent on destroying him.

The tactic hasn't hurt him domestically, however. The leftist economist who took office in 2007 is popular with lower-class Ecuadoreans who benefit from his generous public spending. His approval ratings top 70 percent.

Nor is Correa as relentlessly hostile to Washington as President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Unlike Chavez, he has never accused the U.S. of trying to overthrow him. But he does relish courting U.S. global counterweights including Russia, China and Iran.

And he boycotted April's Summit of the Americas in Colombia to protest Washington's continued insistence on excluding Cuba from such hemispheric summits.

Correa has also expelled three U.S. diplomats whom he considered threats, including an ambassador who suggested in one of the more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks laid bare that Correa was deliberately overlooking high-level police corruption.

But none of that guarantees he'll grant the Australian activist refuge.

"The internal political and economic costs of asylum don't square up with the benefits," says Grace Jaramillo, an international relations expert at Ecuador's FLACSO university.

"We're in an election year in which a strangling of relations with European countries and the United States, with which we are, respectively, negotiating a trade agreement and the renewal of preferential tariffs, would give them a good excuse to stop negotiations," she said.

"Ecuador could basically forget about any renewal of the trade preferences if it granted safe haven to Assange," said Cynthia Arnson, Latin America director at the Woodrow Wilson center in Washington.

Forty-five percent of Ecuador's exports go to the U.S. and account for about 400,000 jobs. And a failure to reach a trade pact with the European Union could cut exports by 4 percent and cost tens of thousands of jobs.

There's also a risk for Correa of having Ecuador "become catalogued as a country that obstructs justice" and "protects transgressors of international law," said political scientist Vicente Torrijos of Rosario University in Bogota, Colombia.

That could cost him votes when he runs for re-election early next year.

On the other hand, he would win points with Latin American leftists for whom Assange is a "gigantic symbol" of the crusade against what they see as America's heavy-handedness in the region, said international relations specialist Sandra Borda of the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota.

But she doesn't believe Washington would punish Ecuador if it accepted Assange. And in Washington, the State Department sought to keep out of the crossfire.

"This is a UK-Ecuador-Sweden issue," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Wednesday. "We want to see justice served; let's leave it at that."

On the streets of Quito, some had only a vague notion of who Assange is.

One man who did know, 43-year-old lawyer Julian Amaya, didn't think bringing the former hacker to Ecuador was a good idea.

"It doesn't make sense," he said, "because who is going to guarantee that he doesn't do the same thing here: reveal the secrets of the government, or of the opposition or whomever he wished?"

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Bajak reported from Lima, Peru. Associated Press writer Vivian Sequera contributed to this report from Bogota, Colombia.

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Wired.com - Flipboard Lands on Android, Gets Google and YouTube Integration - Gadget Lab - Wired.com

Flipboard is now fully available on Android phones of all shapes and sizes. Image courtesy Flipboard

Flipboard is on a mission to become your destination for social news, no matter what device you?re on. In addition to being on iPhone and iPad, the animated news-browsing app is now available for Android phones, the Kindle Fire, and Barnes & Noble?s Nook tablet.

Flipboard?s claim to fame is that it takes input from a variety of social media destinations and aggregates them in an aesthetically pleasing, magazine-like spread. This includes everything from Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, to your Google Reader subscriptions and Flickr, and even SoundCloud for podcasts. Along with officially launching on Android, Flipboard is also adding integration with Google+ and YouTube to this update.

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue told Wired that one of his company?s main goals is to surface great content to the user through the app?s ?Cover Stories? section. With so many places to find great content, there?s a lot of noise to sift through, so Flipboard tries to bring the highlights that you?d be most interested in straight to the surface. To do this, the app uses a mix of social, editorial, and algorithmic curation that?s mixed and matched in different ways on a per-user basis to identify the best influencers for you.

As for the Android version of the app, Flipboard carefully engineered the app so that it looks sharp on Android phone and tablet displays from 3 to 7 inches in size. It uses the same upward page-flipping action as the company?s iPhone app, which it released in December, rather than the larger, more magazine-inspired iPad user interface. It?s important to note that there?s no specific version for larger Android tablets yet, only a version for phones and for the 7-inch tablets from Amazon and B&N, so the less-complicated, phone-optimized navigation makes the most sense.

Flipboard is also bundled with the new Samsung Galaxy S III, with the app itself and a slick widget that cycles through your cover stories.

Flipboard is free and available from Google Play, the Amazon Appstore, the Barnes & Noble Nook Store, and from Samsung Apps.

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Maher on GOP?s Fast and Furious crusade: ?Republicans don?t care about dead Mexicans?

On Friday?s ?Real Time with Bill Maher? on HBO, panelists debated the relevance of the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal and the competence of Attorney General Eric Holder.

Maher assumed much of his audience was unaware of the details about the scandal, so he gave them a refresher before unloading his own opinion.

?[House oversight committee Chairman] Darrell Issa says this is a giant scandal,? Maher said. ?I?ve heard on Fox News this week it?s worse than Watergate because 200 Mexicans have died. First of all, let me just say Republicans don?t care about dead Mexicans, A. And B ? I think those 200 dead Mexicans would be dead even if we hadn?t sold them guns. They would have gotten the guns somewhere else. So is it really a scandal??

Later, Reason magazine?s Nick Gillespie, MSNBC?s Rachel Maddow and Maher debated that question, with Gillespie questioning Maddow?s and Maher?s reasoning behind their dismissal of the Fast and Furious congressional probe as a partisan event.

Transcript as follows:

GILLESPIE: You will always take the side of the Democrat over a Republican.
MADDOW: No I won?t. You don?t even know me.
GILLESPIE: What?s an example ? I?ve seen your show ? So, what?s a Republican that you pick over a Democrat in an issue?
MAHER: That?s not a fair question. If there were Republicans ? you could ask me the same question, I could answer that question twenty years ago but Republicans have changed. I haven?t changed. You would probably say the same thing. It is they who have changed, not us. Twenty years ago there were Republicans who absolutely were reasonable. They are an extinct species now.
GILLESPIE: But the important thing is that you?re not a partisan. This is my point.
MAHER: Yes. Both things can be true, absolutely.
GILLESPIE: You?re not partisan. But you will always be against the Republicans.
MAHER: Only if they continue to act like the party of the mental patients.
MADDOW: What are you mad about?
GILLESPIE: I?m not mad. All I am saying is I refuse to be put into a false choice of ?you?re either with the Democrats or the Republicans.? And that?s the way this conversation ? this conversation has been framed as ?aren?t the Republicans just doing this as a show trial, etc.?? It?s like, whoa, ?Well Eric Holder is bad, the Republicans are bad, the drug war is bad.?
MAHER: The drug war is bad and the Republicans are mental patients. I don?t know if Eric Holder is bad.

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