KKK'S DAVID DUKE TELLS IRAN HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE THAT GAS CHAMBERS NOT USED TO KILL JEWS  —  Dec. 12: David Duke, former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and former state representative in Louisiana, attends a conference on the Holocaust in Tehran.  —  TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud …

DeLay: 'Hillary Will Be the Next President'  —  Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said today that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) would be elected president in 2008 and would probably tap Senate colleague Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) as her running mate.  —  DeLay met with conservative bloggers …

A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals  —  There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture.  The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular.  —  Now, I'm a health-food guy, a fanatic …

Public Trusts Iraq Study Group More Than Bush on Iraq  —  Americans favor group's key recommendations  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The majority of Americans have not been closely following news of the newly released report from the Iraq Study Group — a group led by James Baker and Lee Hamilton …

Dumb answers of intelligence chief  —  He is expected to have an acute understanding of terrorist groups and their threats to American interests.  But the incoming chairman of a congressional intelligence committee was yesterday struggling to explain his ignorance of al-Qaeda and Hezbollah.

Insurgents kill AP cameraman in Mosul  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq — A cameraman working for The Associated Press was shot to death by insurgents while covering clashes Tuesday in Mosul, police said.  He was the second employee of the news cooperative killed in the northern city in less than two years.

'Convert or die' game divides Christians  —  Some ask Wal-Mart to drop Left Behind  —  Liberal and progressive Christian groups say a new computer game in which players must either convert or kill non-Christians is the wrong gift to give this holiday season and that Wal-Mart …

Business lobbyists flock to Centrist Democrats  —  One of the earliest signs that life for Democrats would be different in the majority came at a post-election event sponsored by the New Democrat Coalition, the pro-business group of centrist Democrats.  —  Previous affairs drew at most 20 lobbyists …

Annan chides U.S. in farewell speech … INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (CNN) — Kofi Annan had some strong words Monday for the United States in his farewell speech as secretary-general of the United Nations.  —  Throughout the address, given at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library …

Just Ask: Kucinich Answers, 'Yes, I Am'  —  In the midst of a brief chat in his office last week, Representative Dennis J. Kucinich mentioned that, oh, by the way, he planned to run for president again in 2008.  —  "Yes, I am," Mr. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, said in response to a reporter's question …

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Dec. 11  —  Guests: Tom DeLay, Mike Allen, Jim Warren, Hilary Rosen, Susan Molinari  —  MIKE BARNICLE, GUEST HOST: Tonight, six days after the Iraq commission report and 22 more U.S. troops have died.  Let's play HARDBALL.  —  Good evening.

THE SITUATION ROOM  —  President Bush Stops At State Department To Show He's Listening To New Ideas About Iraq; Rumors Say There May Be Some Effort To Get Rid Of Nouri Al-Maliki; Space Shuttle Discovery Docking With International Space Station In Series Of Dangerous Maneuvers …

Draft Democrats to help run Iraq  —  The president can one-up the Baker-Hamilton commission by establishing a bipartisan war council.  —  PRESIDENT BUSH should spend less time worrying about the tangled politics of Iraq and more time mastering the equally fractured politics of Washington.

LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FASCIST  —  The decadent whims of the world's wackiest despots  —  They're quirky, vibrant, and they march to the beat of their own military drums, when they're not off committing crimes against humanity.  Since time immemorial, autocrats, absolute monarchs …

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fidel castro Is Dead?  (Updated)  —  Been getting quite a bit of traffic via searches with "castro death" and "is castro dead" and "castro death rumors" the past couple of days so I thought I'd go ahead and clear that whole mess up right now.  —  Barring any unforeseen actions such as …

Correcting the Record  —  David Sirota recently posted some misrepresentations of my economic viewpoint.  I should note that Mr. Sirota did not attempt to get in touch with me—either to speak with me about my ideas, or to get a fuller representation of them—and instead relied on referencing one quote from a newspaper.

Bush Delays Speech on Iraq Until January  —  President Bush will wait until after the holidays to speak to the nation about a new strategy in Iraq, a strategy he said today will be designed to establish a free and self-sufficient country that will be an ally in the battle against extremists.