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Calif. Rep. Tom Lantos dies — WASHINGTON - Rep. Tom Lantos, who as a teenager twice escaped from a Nazi-run forced labor camp in Hungary and became the only Holocaust survivor to win a seat in Congress, has died. He was 80. — Spokeswoman Lynne Weil said Lantos, a Californian …
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Rep. Tom Lantos Dies at Age 80 — Rep. Tom Lantos, 80, a California Democrat whose experience during the Holocaust shaped his concern for human rights and his staunch view in favor of U.S. military intervention abroad, died early Monday morning, a spokeswoman told the Associated Press.
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Clinton badly needs Virginia victory — Tuesday's Chesapeake primary seems likely to continue propelling Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in opposite directions. — Obama has hearty leads and distinct demographic advantages in each of the three contests: Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
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Clinton Replaces Top Aide Amid Losses — Campaign Manager Doyle Steps Down As Obama Wins Maine — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton shook up her presidential campaign yesterday, replacing campaign manager and longtime aide Patti Solis Doyle with Maggie Williams, her former White House chief of staff …
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Clinton v. Obama: The Lawsuit — What splendid theater the Democratic Party presidential nominating process is shaping up to be. And they are just getting started. The real fun would be a convention deadlock denouement a few months from now, the prospect of which is already quickening …
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Huckabee won't concede state; GOP resuming delegate count — The results of the state Republican caucuses were called into question today after presidential candidate Mike Huckabee challenged the party's declaration that Arizona Sen. John McCain had won the delegate count.
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WE BEEN ROBBED — Here's a press release just put out by the Huckabee campaign ...
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Hate Springs Eternal — In 1956 Adlai Stevenson, running against Dwight Eisenhower, tried to make the political style of his opponent's vice president, a man by the name of Richard Nixon, an issue. The nation, he warned, was in danger of becoming “a land of slander and scare …
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Michelle Obama Solidifies Her Role in the Election — On a conference call to prepare for a recent debate, Barack Obama brainstormed with his top advisers on the fine points of his positions. Michelle Obama had dialed in to listen, but finally couldn't stay silent any longer.
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Roy Scheider, Actor in ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 75 — Roy Scheider, a stage actor with a background in the classics who became one of the leading figures in the American film renaissance of the 1970s, died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, Ark. He was 75 and lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
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Obama's Path to Victory — Last summer, George W. Bush told The Washington Examiner's Bill Sammon that Hillary Clinton would probably be the 2008 Democratic nominee. “She's got a national presence and this is becoming a national primary,” he said. “And therefore the person …
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You saw the Obama video, now watch the McCain one — Please watch this. It's from my friend Andy Cobb and his brilliant cast of insane comedians and actors out in Hollywood. (For anyone who hasn't seen the Obama video, you can watch it here first to get a flavor of the parody.) I laughed out loud.
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Obama and the Details — One anti-Obama meme that I notice has gotten a lot of support even among people sympathetic to his cause is the notion that he's somehow shallow or insufficiently well-versed in policy matters. Obviously, I can't crawl into either candidate's brain and take a look around …
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Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning — WASHINGTON — The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But when it comes to the planning for the Iraq war, even an unclassified assessment can acquire the status of a state secret. — That is what happened to a detailed study …
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Conservative Gary Bauer endorses McCain — WASHINGTON (AP) - Conservative Gary Bauer is endorsing Republican presidential candidate John McCain. — The prominent abortion foe says in a statement that McCain “has dedicated his life to defending human rights around the world, including the rights of the unborn.”
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Ron Paul: No John McCain endorsement — Republican Rep. Ron Paul told the Tribune this morning he will not back Sen. John McCain as his party's nominee unless the Arizona senator “has a lot of change of heart.” — “I can not support anybody with the foreign policy he advocates, you know, perpetual war.
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Bush orders security clampdown on flights to US — EU officials furious as Washington says it wants extra data on all air passengers — The US administration is pressing the 27 governments of the European Union to sign up for a range of new security measures for transatlantic travel …