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Sarkozy walks out; The local food craze; German priorities
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Murder is a horrible thing. The pain and suffering experienced by the victim and his/her family and friends are beyond description. However, is capital punishment the proper response of a civilized society to this horrible crime?
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Executions in the United States have essentially been put on hold in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's announcement in late September that it would decide the constitutionality of the lethal injection protocol used by almost all death-penalty states.
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The government has admitted more immigrants are working in Britain than it first said. Have you lost confidence in the recording system?
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Campaigners are urging the UK government to take action to close the 17% difference in pay between men and women. Send us your views.
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Right before filing for the New Hampshire primary today, Bill Richardson called on his fellow Democrats to stop the negative campaigning: "You see how some of the candidates in our own party are starting to get negative," Richardson said. "We're...
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NRO's Jim Geraghty is having some fun at Chris Dodd's expense....
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SurveyUSA released head-to-head match ups in New York showing Hillary Clinton crushing the GOP field, including a 34-point whupping of Rudy Giuliani....
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Obama and Clinton are like two dance partners - one seemingly can't make a move without the other doing the same. That's ultimately good news for John Edwards -- who has a chance to make a break between the two...
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Sen. Judd Gregg endorsing Mitt Romney yesterday: More videos in the Vlog....
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Believe it or not, tonight marks one of the final debates the Democrats will have before Iowa in only two months. And. the press is playing up tonight's MSNBC encounter as the debut of the "new Obama" -- building expectations...
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Councils in England will be allowed to pilot schemes to charge households according to how much rubbish they throw out. Is this the best way to promote recycling?
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Ron Paul launched two TV ads in New Hampshire today: "Catching On": "Troops and Deficit":...
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Monday, October 29, 2007 I was "present at the creation" — the creation of the Lyndon B. Johnson National and State Historical Parks. The time was 1969-72. I was chief historian of the National Park Service and worked for the greatest director in the history of the Service, George B. Hartzog.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Getting into Iraq was easy, a piece of cake; Saddam Hussein's legions were a bunch of bush league (no pun intended, scout's honor) warriors.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Drug use in schools made national headlines again recently, rattling parents from Connecticut to California. But this time, it wasn't marijuana, cocaine or heroin creating the furor. And the suppliers weren't dealers on some street corner or deserted alley. Nope.
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The Conservative leader David Cameron is calling for a coherent strategy to deal with Britain's population growth. What do you think?
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Sen. Judd Gregg, dean of the New Hampshire congressional delegation, will endorse Mitt Romney today at the state capitol, the Union Leader reports this morning. Gregg will join Romney before the former governor treks across the street to file papers...
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Commenting on the new University of Iowa poll, the Weekly Standard's "Richelieu" makes a nice point: The big news in the Iowa poll is a statistical tie between Hillary Rodham Clinton at 29 percent and Barack Obama at 27 percent....
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As Reid Wilson noted this morning, Tom Tancredo says he will leave Congress at the end of 2008. As the Rocky Mountain News reported: The decision is not a surprise, considering Tancredo's repeated complaints that his presidential run was taking...
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Rudy talks healthcare in his new radio ad for New Hampshire, which the campaign launched today: More ads and political videos in the Vlog....
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The University of Iowa Hawkeye poll is out today showing Mitt Romney with a commanding lead and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a virtual tie. Republicans: Romney 36 (+9 vs. Aug. 5 poll) Giuliani 13 (+2) Huckabee 13 (+10)...
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At the end of his column today on how the GOP has overreact to the threat of Islamic terrorism since 9/11, Paul Krugman hits another low: Most Americans have now regained their balance. But the Republican base, which lapped up...
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Fred Dicker of the New York Post reports Governor Eliot Spitzer's administration is claiming executive privilege in "an effort to limit the Public Integrity Commission's ongoing probe of the Dirty Tricks Scandal." In addition to that ongoing saga, Spitzer has...
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On Friday, I offered the first of a two-part column on Fred Thompson. In it, I was quite positive about Thompson's campaign. I think he is taking some calculated risks by refusing to campaign as the press presumes he "must."...
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