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Anti-Catholic Bigotry?

We've already seen allegations of anti-Mormon bigotry in this campaign ... now come charges of anti-Catholic bias. This fight is between the presidential campaign of Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, who converted to Catholicism, and the campaign of former Arkansas Gov....

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July 31, 2007 in Religion | Permalink | User Comments (22)

Teddy Bear

On the same day Democrats were heralding a new lobbying and ethics reform package, both the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate today refused to comment on the FBI raid on the home of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. The...

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July 31, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (3)

Northern Exposure

For a decade Bill Allen, CEO of the energy company VECO, used to throw a Summer political fundraiser (LINK) called "The Pig Roast." But Allen and the legislators who benefited from his largesse are the ones feeling the heat these...

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July 31, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (5)

Cash for cleavage?

Frequent readers of "Political Punch" may be tickled to see how a blog posting from Friday (LINK) ended up as a Good Morning America report today (FREE VIDEO HERE) as well as a dot-com story (LINK)… Your blog at work!...

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July 30, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (5)

Is the surge working?

Many Republicans -- and some reporters -- are convinced of the importance of an op-ed in today's New York Times by think-tankers Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack essentially saying that the surge is working and should be given more time...

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July 30, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (14)

Democrats as victims?

There's an interesting meme of Democratic victimology developing here… In addition to former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, saying that media attention on his hair stems from powerful interests who "want to shut me up", it should be noted that Sen....

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July 27, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (34)

The Gay debate

In what may be just an opening salvo, the conservative group "Americans for Truth" is attacking the Democratic presidential debate to focus on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues hosted by the Human Rights Campaign…(LINK). The debate (LINK) to be...

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July 27, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (132)

Surf and Click

As avid Political Punch readers may have heard, I have been nominated for one of these contests that spring up every now and again in DC on a very fun website called FishbowlDC -- the question being who is the...

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July 27, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (5)

Clinton campaign defends netroots to O'Reilly

Following up on our O'Reilly v Kos coverage (LINK), here's some interesting video of Clinton campaign aide Howard Wolfson -- disappointingly not clad in his "Guys and Dolls" pinstripes -- debating Bill O'Reilly about Senator Clinton's decision to attend the...

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July 26, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (9)

Afternoon delight

What did Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, say at a closed-door, off-the-record meeting with media mavens and corporate titans at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan Tuesday evening? Read more about it HERE. -- jt

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July 25, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (12)