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Haley Wins in South Carolina     Permalink

Nikki Haley won the South Carolina Republican nomination for governor over Rep. Gresham Barrett (R-SC) by about 62% to 38%. She will instantly discussed as a kingmaker or even potential Vice Presidential material for 2012, as if 2 years as governor of a small state qualifies one to be President. On the otheer hand, that is also Sarah Palin's curriculum vitae and she is endlessly discussed as a potential nominee.

Marshall to Face Burr in North Carolina     Permalink

In the Democratic senatorial primary in North Carolina, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall beat the establishment candidate Cal Cunningham. Marshall will face Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) in November. This is the famous cursed seat, which has flipped parties five times in a row. Marshall is aiming to make that six in a row.

Lee Wins in Utah     Permalink

At the state Republican convention, Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) came in a distant third and therefore did not make it to the primary, an extreme rarity for a sitting senator to be rejected by his own party at a state convention. The primary was held yesterday and attorney Mike Lee won it narrowly, 51% to 48%. He will face Democrat Sam Granato in November and is the heavy favorite to replace Bennett in this reddest of red states.

clarke2001 wrote: Monsters. To burn a little girl with a Molotov cocktail...they're just monsters.

1)They are monsters if they were doing this with knowing who will be inside.

2)They aren't monsters if they were oblivious to this fact, even this crime is quite horrible.

Look, I understand that it looks terribly, but there were four guys. Who will get life sentence, one of them ? Two of them, or all of them ? And who will get let's say 8 years ?

Everyone who does this is bad. As far as I know, it's first Molotov attack in recent history of Czech Republic, so people are scared. But when you want to kill someone like that, to see and hear them burn alive, it's far worse than when you just want to burn the house down, without knowing that someone is inside.

It's up to judge to decide. Let the facts reveal themselves and don't get fooled by bias.

If they're guilty, they will suffer consequences. According to law. 

And it's not good to have moral relativism in this case, because (I don't want to compare with US, because crime rate is far bigger there and also capital punishment takes place there) it's not working like that.

You commit a crime, no matter how big crime it is, you will be judged and sentenced ACCORDING to law. If our society wants to be democratic one, we can't just burn them down in retaliation. Crime they commit isn't fair/nice/good, but as I said, eye to eye isn't going to work. 

^ Fair comment. Incident as dangerous as this is isolate one, I agree. Even though we have some fights, some people (white / gypsy, both) crippled because of racism (again, from both sides, because I'm not sure how known it is to outside world that it works both ways). Fights, brawls, some demonstrations, nothing big as this.

Even our breaking out of communism was without one single death, which is something I'm proud of and quite happy about. I was born that year you know, in February 1989.

I should also tell that father of this little girl was convicted criminal who was avoiding prison sentence (robberies). These four guys who did it were unemployed / lowly payed manual workers, mostly poor and with only basic level of education. Same as victim's family.

Just saying, just saying. Don't mock me for that.

In one of discussions about this, someone raised a concern, how this can be racial hatred, when there are basically only three races. Europoid, Negroid and Mongoloid. Is it racial anymore ?

Moris, by the way, how it is in your own country, how it is with Serbs & others in Balkan ?