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Obama Camp Uses Disputed Gerth Account Of Clintons' 20-Year-Plan To Fault Hillary — Barack Obama has unveiled a new line of criticism against Hillary: In speeches he's started to point to the allegation made in Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta's Hillary book that the Clintons secretly formulated …
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John Fund Identifies The Obama "Rumor" — Why does it seem that Republican columnists have better sources among Democrats than everyone else? — Here's John Fund, writing in today's OpinionJournal.com: … Pretty thin stuff. And haven't we heard the Tony Rezko tale already?
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Novak and Clinton and Obama ... oh my — If the acrimony between the Clinton and Obama presidential campaigns was kindling, Robert Novak's shamelessly unethical column was a match. — If you're just joining us, Novak reported yesterday that Hillary Clinton's "agents" …
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The Carpetbagger Report, The Corner, Blogometer, News Hounds, The Democratic Daily, Taylor Marsh and Political Machine
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Attack! — I highly recommend Reed Hundt's new post over at TPMCafe …
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Brendan Nyhan
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Ferguson won't seek re-election — Rep. Mike Ferguson will announce today that he will not seek re-election to a fifth term in 2008. The 37-year-old Republican, who won re-election last year by just 1% against Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Stender, wants to spend more time with his four young children.
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Ferguson announces surprise retirement
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CNN Political Ticker
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A Response to Andrew Sullivan — In my article "The Case for Bombing Iran" (COMMENTARY, June 2007), in my book World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, and in various public appearances (including a televised debate with Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek), I quoted the Ayatollah Khomeini as having said the following:
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NPod Responds — He gets Amir Taheri to cite his Khomeini quote as existing in an out-of-print compilation of Khomeini quotes from 1981. It appears that Podhoretz originally used the quote without knowing of its provenance. Taheri, whose reliability has come under suspicion before …
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Bush homeland security adviser resigns — WASHINGTON - Fran Townsend, the leading White House-based terrorism adviser who gave public updates on the extent of the threat to U.S. security, is stepping down after 4 1/2 years. — President Bush said in a statement Monday morning that Townsend …
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GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ. — A few weeks ago, in Britain's Prospect magazine, the paper's foreign editor, Bartle Bull, published a bold essay saying that the high tide of violence in Iraq was essentially behind us and that the ebb had disclosed some interesting things.
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The LBJ Analogy — Dave Roberts comes away impressed by Hillary Clinton: … To me, this is the most convincing case to Clinton. Rather than Sean Wilentz's Stevenson versus JFK analogy, I would analogize it to Lyndon Johnson versus every well-known liberal politician of the 1950s and 1960s.
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WHAT IS HILLARY CLINTON'S FOREIGN POLICY?
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U.S. Hopes to Arm Pakistani Tribes Against Al Qaeda — A new and classified American military proposal outlines an intensified effort to enlist tribal leaders in the frontier areas of Pakistan in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as part of a broader effort to bolster Pakistani forces …
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New Hot Air video: The Politics of Planting — Why did so many of the "undecided voters" who asked questions at last week's Democrat debate turn out to be either anti-war, labor, race politics or Democrat party activists? — Watch this video on blip. — Links: — Riehl World View
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MTV in the Middle East — I've often wondered what it would take for MTV to clean up its act. Now, we know. The aging music network wants Middle Eastern eyeballs, and it'll do anything to cater to its audience-including toning down raunchy content and covering up scantily-clad hostesses.
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Clayton Cramer's BLOG
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Fox Cable Guy Edges Into the Big Pay Leagues — Roger Ailes, the chairman of the Fox News Channel, calls Shepard Smith his "go-to guy," the person he wants leading the channel's coverage any time news breaks. — Mr. Ailes has put his network's money where he wants its chief voice to be.
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Mi Casa, Sue Casa — Nancy Pelosi tries to force the Salvation Army to hire people who can't speak English. — It's been less than a week since New York's Sen. Hillary Clinton and Gov. Eliot Spitzer had to climb down from their support of driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
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Goldman Sachs Rakes in Profit in Credit Crisis — For more than three months, as turmoil in the credit market has swept wildly through Wall Street, one mighty investment bank after another has been brought to its knees, leveled by multibillion-dollar blows to their bottom lines.