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A sad story
One day after giving birth, a woman finds out she has become a war widow. The price of war. Read more HERE. -- jpt
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September 26, 2007 in Current Affairs | Permalink | User Comments (2)
Let the SCHIPS fall where they may
The president claims he thought this debate over expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program would be about policy and philosophical differences. The Democrats have another idea altogether. Read more about it HERE. -- jt
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September 25, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (4)
Black out?
Not one of the Republican presidential frontrunners are scheduled to attend Thursday night's PBS debate focused on minority issues. In an interview, former Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., called this decision "stupid." Read more HERE or watch our GMA report HERE...
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September 25, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (16)
Sunshine State of Mind
Florida Democrats and the national party are feudin'.... Want to know more? WATCH HERE... -- jpt
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September 24, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (3)
Santayana
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. -- Vietnam vet, ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, presidential candidate -- does not approve of Columbia University's invitation to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "To host the leader of Iran when he supports terrorists...
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September 24, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (5)
Clinton and Obama -- Drags on the Ticket?
Very interesting Democratic poll, revealed in today's Washington Post (LINK), showing that GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani is more popular in key congressional Democratic swing districts than Obama or Clinton. This would seem to show that despite enthusiasm among Democrats (and...
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September 23, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (30)
Verdict: New York Times Gave MoveOn a Discount
We've covered this for a couple weeks here on the blog (LINK)... And it turns out we were right to. Clark Hoyt, the New York Times public editor, today confirmed the suspicions of conservative critics of the newspaper, writing in...
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September 23, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (85)
Rudy Takes a Call
In the middle of his address to the NRA this morning, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani took a moment to answer a cell phone call from his wife. While he was commenting on the Second Amendment, the cell phone...
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September 21, 2007 in 2008: Republicans | Permalink | User Comments (22)
Glass Houses
One of Sen. Hillary Clinton's top advisers, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, attacked the personal life of GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani ... and Clinton, who has long derided the "politics of personal destruction," seems fine with that. "There's a lot...
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September 21, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (10)
Signs of the Pending Apocalypse
The Clinton health care debacle of 1993 and 1994 that helped delivered Congress into the hands of the GOP for the first time in decades, is now being trumpeted as a strength. Rev. Jesse Jackson says Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois,...
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September 19, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (10)


