Southern Poverty Law Center Warns of Militias

By: EURweb.com

A veteran civil rights organization - the Southern Poverty Law Center - last week issued a report carrying a severe warning.

It suggested that the recession, hatred of President Barack Obama and anger at Democratic Party control of the federal government were producing a rise in well-armed militia groups which are often racist and which have the potential of resorting to “domestic terrorism.”

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Emboldened by Nomination Win, Barack Obama Takes Over DNC -- and Meets with Clinton

By: Associated Press

Likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton met privately Thursday night to talk about uniting the Democratic Party.

"Senator Clinton and Senator Obama met tonight and had a productive discussion about the important work that needs to be done to succeed in November," their campaigns said in joint statement.

The statement included no details of their talks.

Robert Gibbs, an Obama spokesman, would not say where the former rivals met, except that it was not at Clinton's home in Washington, as had been widely reported.

Reporters traveling with Obama sensed something might be happening between the pair when they arrived at Dulles International Airport after an event in Northern Virginia and Obama was not aboard the airplane.

Asked at the time about the Illinois senator's whereabouts, Gibbs smiled and declined to comment.

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OBAMA'S WEEKEND SWEEP

Barack Obama's bid to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee has come a step closer to happening.

On Saturday, the freshman senator from Illinois scored a clean sweep from the West Coast to the Caribbean. Then on Sunday he won again in the Maine caucuses, giving him even more momentum in a campaign where every delegate has become crucial to capturing the nomination.


On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee easily won Saturday's GOP caucuses in Kansas and narrowly won the Louisiana primary over his party's front-runner, Senator John McCain, giving a breath of life to the former Arkansas governor's uphill campaign. Meanwhile, the Republican Party chairman in Washington state declared John McCain the narrow winner of the state's caucuses, the Associated Press reported.


Obama won the Nebraska and Washington caucuses by greater than two-to-one margins against Senator Hillary Clinton and easily captured the Louisiana primary by a double-digit margin with heavy support among African-American voters. Obama also swamped Clinton in the US Virgin Islands caucuses.


Sunday, Obama once again defeated Clinton in the Maine presidential caucuses, grabbing a majority of delegates. Despite snowy weather and gusty winds, turnout was “incredible,” said Arden Manning, the state party’s executive director. Obama won 15 delegates to the national convention. Clinton won nine.


But because of the proportional awarding of delegates in the Democratic contests, the two contenders remain locked in a close battle for the 2,025 delegates needed to secure the party's nomination.

The attention now moves to Tuesday's "Potomac Primary," in which Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia will hold primaries.


Polls suggest Obama is leading in Virginia and Maryland, and is expected to win in the District, so the Clinton campaign is banking heavily on wins in bigger states next month to keep her in the running.