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A couple of legal immigrants are vying to be the Republican nominee to challenge Democrat U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper's hold on the Fifth District seat in Tennessee.

And the media doesn't help with the angst:

At the beginning of the 21st century, the typical American suburb is just about the safest place that has ever existed in the history of the world - yet it's full of terrified people.

Gonzon discusses how our leaders scare us:

Statistics have little power in the face of a media environment in which extraordinarily rare events, such as strangers kidnapping children, are presented as commonplace by profit-hungry “news” outlets, for whom the bottom line is that fear sells.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the typical American suburb is just about the safest place that has ever existed in the history of the world - yet it's full of terrified people.

The Politico seems to think Fred Thompson will be only a small factor in the South Carolina primary. They see the battle as becoming increasingly one between the foreign policy conservatism of McCain and the new evangelicalism of Mike Huckabee;