Bummer. This would've been great for the Truth movement. Though Congress is a lost cause at this point; creating a sound monetary policy outside of the Federal Reserve is where it's at. -- KM


Former Gov. Jesse Ventura on Monday burst the trial balloon he has been inflating for months, telling a national TV audience that he won't join Sen. Norm Coleman and DFL candidate Al Franken in a campaign that had promised to become the most-watched Senate race in the country. Although his appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live" Monday night had all the trappings of an incipient campaign -- his friend Arnold Schwarzenegger had announced his run for California governor on another national TV talk show, after all -- Ventura squelched weeks of hints that he was planning to enter the arena against Coleman, whose pro-Iraq War record he despises, and Franken, whom he has characterized as an opportunist for returning to Minnesota after years away to run for office.

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