Are politicians cut from the same cloth?

From NPR:

Sen. Barack Obama and Vice President Dick Cheney are distant cousins. President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have dozens of shared relatives. Megan Smolenyak, chief family historian at ancestry.com, talks to Alex Cohen about tracing back the family tree.

Looks like Walt Disney is also George Bush’s 13th cousin, once removed… interesting.
Better get back to work on my family tree.

An imported fence – to keep out the imports

That huge fence along the US-Mexico border to keep out illegal imports immigrants is facing some scrutiny in Congress again.
Carlos Mencia says the US will need to use illegal immigrants just to get the fence built, but now lawmakers are concerned that the fence will be built with imported steel as well.
Something that makes the Chinese very happy and patriotic Americans not so much.
From NPR