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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Giuliani Has No Real Chance With GOP Voters . . . or Does He? — The 2008 presidential campaign is just weeks old, but already an article of faith within the Republican Party — the belief that no politician who favors abortion rights and gay rights can win the GOP nomination …
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Romney Wins Conservatives' Straw Poll — Presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney yesterday won a straw poll of conservative political activists gathered in Washington, a very early indication of how an important Republican constituency might vote.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
A LOOK AT GIULIANI'S SURPRISING VIABILITY among Republican voters …
A LOOK AT GIULIANI'S SURPRISING VIABILITY among Republican voters …
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Washington Times:
Romancing the conservatives
Romancing the conservatives
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Romney Loses The Straw Poll — No, Really (Bumped)
Romney Loses The Straw Poll — No, Really (Bumped)
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Bryan / Hot Air:
The problem with Ann — Check this out: Ann Coulter is raising campaign cash for John Edwards! … There's a great deal of political silliness and wishful thinking in that letter-it is a political money pitch for a third-place candidate, after all-but at its core it contains a message that's likely to resonate.
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
protein wisdom: the site that LOVES ANN COULTER AND HATES TEH GAYS!
protein wisdom: the site that LOVES ANN COULTER AND HATES TEH GAYS!
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Normalizing Crazy — Glenn Greenwald does a nice job today dealing …
Normalizing Crazy — Glenn Greenwald does a nice job today dealing …
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NY Times' Nagourney compares hatemonger Coulter to Sen. Clinton
NY Times' Nagourney compares hatemonger Coulter to Sen. Clinton
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New York Times:
A New Mystery to Prosecutors: Their Lost Jobs — After Daniel G. Bogden got the call in December telling him that he was being dismissed as the United States attorney in Nevada, he pressed for an explanation. — Mr. Bogden, who was named the top federal prosecutor in Nevada in 2001 …
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
A Mass Firing Puts Justice on the Hot Seat — Gonzales: Prosecutors from his Department of Justice were fired despite good reviews — The firings of eight U.S. attorneys has put the heat on top Justice Department officials—and some GOP members of Congress.
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Pete Williams / MSNBC:
Expert in Russian poisoning case is shot — FBI joins investigation, but officials think it's just local crime — WASHINGTON - FBI agents say they are assisting police in suburban Washington who are investigating the shooting of a Russian expert — a man who spoke out on "Dateline NBC" …
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
How Gore's massive energy consumption saves the world — Stop me if you've heard this before, but the other day the Rev. Al Gore declared that "climate change" was "the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced.'' Ever.
Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
Why so threatened by a union card? — A measure to aid membership drives faces daunting opposition. — CONGRESS IS debating a measure to change the way workers can form a union. Instead of holding a secret-ballot election, a union could be formed if a majority of employees sign a card indicating they want a union.
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David Leppard / Times of London:
Children of 11 to be finger printed — CHILDREN aged 11 to 16 are to have their fingerprints taken and stored on a secret database, internal Whitehall documents reveal. — The leaked Home Office plans show that the mass fingerprinting will start in 2010, with a batch of 295,000 youngsters who apply for passports.
Business Wire:
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery - AIPAC Policy Forum — Thank you so much for your kind introduction and the invitation to meet with you this morning. — Last week, this event was described to me as a small gathering of friends.
New York Times:
The Must-Do List — The Bush administration's assault on some of the founding principles of American democracy marches onward despite the Democratic victory in the 2006 elections. The new Democratic majorities in Congress can block the sort of noxious measures that the Republican majority rubber-stamped.
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Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
FDA Rules Override Warnings About Drug — Cattle Antibiotic Moves Forward Despite Fears of Human Risk — The government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonia-like disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups and a majority of the agency's own expert advisers …
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Nico / Think Progress:
Brit Hume On Walter Reed: 'It Looks Terrible' For The Bush Administration, 'Which Is The Problem' — This morning on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume spoke about the Walter Reed scandal in entirely political terms, saying "the problem" is that it "looks terrible" for the administration.
Stephen Prothero / Washington Post:
Blind Faith — What Every American Needs to Know — and Doesn't — HarperSanFrancisco. 296 pp. $24.95 — The United States is the most religious nation in the developed world, if religiosity is measured by belief in all things supernatural — from God and the Virgin Birth to the humbler workings of angels and demons.
Telegraph:
Iran poised to strike in wealthy Gulf states — Iran has trained secret networks of agents across the Gulf states to attack Western interests and incite civil unrest in the event of a military strike against its nuclear programme, a former Iranian diplomat has told The Sunday Telegraph.
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Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
Numbers Drop for the Married With Children — Institution Becoming The Choice of the Educated, Affluent — PORTLAND, Ore. — Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households — a share that has been slashed …