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Hillary Campaign Acknowledges That County Chair Backing Hillary Passed Along Obama Muslim Smear Email — A day after the Hillary campaign hit the Obama camp for bullying voters in nasty phone calls, the Hillary crew has just acknowledged that an Iowa county chair volunteering …
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CLINTON CAMPAIGN COUNTY CHAIR PUSHING OBAMA SMEAR... The infamous Obama-is-a-secret Muslim smear (repeatedly shown to be false) has been winging around the internet via an email forward since late December last year. As I documented for the Nation, it's a permutation of a charge first leveled …
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Clinton staffer received anti-Obama e-mail — Blog: Copy of Obama-Muslim smear e-mail apparently sent by Clinton volunteer.
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TPM Election Central
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MORE NIE STUFF....In the Washington Post today, David Ignatius passes along what his sources are telling him about how the new Iran NIE was put together: … Ignatius also notes that the new attitude toward analysis the produced the NIE was largely the work of Deputy Director of National Intelligence Thomas Fingar.
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Dems aren't buying Bush's account of Iran report — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden on Tuesday said he can't believe President Bush hasn't known for months about a recent intelligence estimate that downplays the nuclear threat from Iran.
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How Fox News covers the NIE — or in this case, doesn't
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Think Progress
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Documents Expose Huckabee's Role In Serial Rapist's Release — Little Rock, Ark — As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike again.
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The Story Mike Huckabee Dreads
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Zogby Latest:Zogby Latest: Iowa: Dead Heats; New Hampshire: Clinton suffers shrinkage; Romney recovers strong lead after autumnal fade; The Angry Electorate: Four of five Democrats and two-thirds of Republicans say they are angry at the U.S. political system — Utica, New York …
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The Inside Story Of The SwiftBoaters Finally Told — This is the most important book you'll buy this year: To Set The Record Straight, How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry, by Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler, with Forward by John O'Neill.
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Bookworm Room
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Oprah rally moved to football stadium — COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) - Relax, University of South Carolina football fans. Your season may be over, but Williams-Brice Stadium won't be empty for long. — Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign announced Wednesday afternoon …
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Thompson: Don't let the government tell you what to eat — SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (CNN) — Fred Thompson wants the government to keep its hands off your dinner plate. — That's what he told a questioner Tuesday in South Carolina, anyway. — Standing about 15 feet away …
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THE PARTY'S OVER — medinar@phillynews.com 215-854-5985 Staff writer Gloria Campisi contributed to this report — JOCELYN SARAH Kirsch had planned to throw a 25th birthday party tonight at an upscale Rittenhouse Square eatery for her live-in love, Edward Kyle Anderton.
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Libertarian Enemy Number One: Ron Paul — As the 2008 Presidential campaign unfolds, various storylines are appearing. The supposed inevitability of Hillary, the evolution of Obama, and the musical chairs of the Republican candidates. None of them however are as intriguing to me as the story of Ron Paul.
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Tancredo's newest ad: Immigrants are Child Rapists — With each new ad from Team Tancrazy, the level of hysteria gets ratcheted up one more notch. — Last month it was terrorists flooding over the southern border to blow up a shopping mall near you. — Now comes his newest ad …
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Intercepting Iran's Take on America — There are two intelligence analyses that are relevant to the balance of power between the U.S. and Iran — one is the latest U.S. assessment of Iran, which certainly gave a much more complex view of what is happening there.
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The System Is Working — Maybe this isn't acknowledged enough, but it seems to me that the Founders would for the first time be pleased with how the United States has been adjusting policy and personnel in wartime this past year. I think when historians look back, they will note a few things.
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The Agonist
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Aide: Firm told Romney's son it didn't use illegals — (CNN) — Tagg Romney, a son of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, received personal assurances from the owner of a landscaping company that the firm no longer employed illegal immigrants, a senior Romney aide told CNN.
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More than 10,000 jet into Bali for global warming conference — U.N. official rejects notion attendees adding to problem — BALI, Indonesia — Never before have so many people converged to try to save the planet from global warming, with more than 10,000 jetting into this Indonesian resort island …