I don't know that Mike Huckabee will win the GOP Iowa Caucus, but right now he looks like a solid choice to finish second, and at 5-1 I like his odds to win Iowa outright. The chart below shows Huckabee's...
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ORLANDO -- Ahead of the Republican presidential debate tonight, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort and live on Fox News, top Florida Republicans profess their neutrality in the race for the GOP nomination. And while many think the large number...
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Doha: What 'development round'?
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Winning wars one irrigation ditch at a time.
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The sudden burst of corporate affection for Democrats is good news for the party's campaign committees, but not necessarily good news for progressives.
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Here's the word that may help bridge the divide between civil liberty and national security.
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A new job for Blair?; Peace in Pakistan; Beacon of morality
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The head of the National Black Police Association says more young people should be searched to fight gun and knife crime. Do you agree?
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With the 51st BFI Film Festival underway we want to know what's your favourite film and why.
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 Rick Kilmer has spent much of October lying in a seventh-floor bed at Seton Hospital while physicians work to get him as close to death as possible without actually killing him. His head is bald from chemotherapy.
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Were you at the game? Where did you watch the match? What do you make of the end result?
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In a straw poll held at this weekend's Values Voters Summit in Washington, social conservatives sent two messages and previewed how an important segment of the GOP electorate will react after one of their own, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, called...
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Lightning a thousand times more powerful than ordinary bolts on Earth crackles at the poles. A red-eyed storm gathering force in southern latitudes has barely entered babyhood, but it is already big enough to swallow our world — and probably will rage for centuries.
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DAMASCUS, Syria — On the first day of class, just after the students rose to attention as the professor entered the room, my best efforts at blending in failed. "Where is our guest from?" the professor asked in Arabic, picking me out from 100 or more students.
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WASHINGTON — Sixteen years after his Supreme Court confirmation hearings riveted the nation, many still see Clarence Thomas as a polarizing figure.
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 The president is smilingly oblivious. What did Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates talk about when the secretaries of state and defense recently met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow?
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 I stood on the cottonwood-lined banks of the San Pedro River in Arizona recently and watched it flow freely under a "water gap" fence — two strands of barbed wire and two of wound cable.
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David Kuo questions Ralph Reed about Rudy Giuliani and gets a very interesting response: Kuo: Do you think an evangelical Christian should have problems voting for Rudy Giuliani given his liberal social policy positions? Reed: Rather than particularize that answer...
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You'll have to get your values voter news somewhere else, 'cause it's Friday afternoon and I'm in a value free zone: Gray Friday: On 20th the anniversary of Black Monday, the Dow drops 300. Mel, We Hardly Knew Ye. Martinez...
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This clip of Obama talking about the black (via Ben Smith) is well worth watching:...
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As I wrote below, here's the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, talking about an eBay auction featuring his letter to Rush Limbaugh, which was signed by 40 other Democratic senators, in words and tone which make one almost forget what...
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Just hours before Mitt Romney takes the stage at the values voter conference in DC, Rudy Giuliani's campaign released a "research briefing" titled, "Mitt & Hillary Sing From the Same Song Sheet," which uses past quotes from Romney and Clinton...
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With 23 minutes left, Harry Reid's letter to Rush Limbaugh lambasting his "phony soldiers" comments, signed by 41 Democratic senators, is up to $2,100,100 on eBay. Rush put up the letter for auction about a week ago. Not entirely sure...
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A week ago, we took Barack Obama to task for going after Hillary Clinton, instead of concentrating on laying out an alternative vision. Apparently, his campaign can't help itself. Now, it's been reported in several places that his new twist...
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SurveyUSA is out with with a batch of Senate approval ratings. The relevant ones (i.e. those running for reelection next year) are as follows: Republicans Gordon Smith (Oregon): 49% approve, 42% disapprove Norm Coleman (Minnesota): 49% approve, 42% disapprove Mitch...
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