Police took David Duke  into custody Friday on suspicion of denying the Holocaust, which is a crime in the Czech Republic. Prague's Charles University also banned him from giving a lecture there Friday. Authorities have released former Ku Klux Klan leader Duke from detention and ordered him to leave the country.


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A 10% increase in Congressional operations budget was needed, IN PART, because Senate Republicans wanted to retain previous staff levels despite having lost roughly 20% of their ranks in the 2008 election.

A GOP leadership NUTJOB said it's unfair to blame Republicans for the increase. "I just don't know how they can get away with blaming us for that 10 percent figure," he wrote in an e-mail. "Republicans aren't getting a dime more in committee money for staff than we got last year.

A Democratic leadership aide, however, said the fact that "Republicans aren't getting a dime more" misses the point, noting that while they aren't getting extra, they aren't getting less, either, even though they have far fewer members.

"This would be funny if it wasn't from someone associated with the the so-called party of 'fiscal responsibility'," wrote the aide. "THIS IS THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY and utterly fails to acknowledge the fact that in the past, when the spread has been like it is now, THE MINORITY PARTY GETS FAR LESS MONEY THAN THEY EVENTUALLY GOT. It was an unprecedented deal that is more outrageous when you realize that they will end up voting against the bill."