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How 'What It Takes' Took Me Off Course — MORE than any other book, Richard Ben Cramer's "What It Takes," about the 1988 battle for the White House, influenced the way I cover campaigns. — I'm not alone. The book's thesis — that prospective presidents are best evaluated by their ability …
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I'll Just Say He's Right and Leave It At That — This Mark Halperin op-ed is really stunning. I'm glad I've got a long car ride in my future this afternoon, because maybe it'll give me the opportunity to really process why and how this is happening. At a first glance, though …
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WHAT IT TAKES....In the New York Times today, conventional wisdom …
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Ezra Klein
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Thompson charges Fox News is biased against his campaign — Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) suggested on Sunday that Fox News is biased against his campaign, charging that the network highlights commentators who have been critical of his run for the presidency.
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Fred Thompson Attacks Fox News — This morning on Fox News Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) charged "that Fox News is biased against his campaign, charging that the network highlights commentators who have been critical of his run for the presidency."
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Pro-Patriot Act Giuliani meets anti-act Ron Paulites — NASHUA, N.H.—Attempts to cut back on government surveillance and "aggressive questioning" of suspected terrorists are irresponsible and undercut the country's war on terrorism, Republican Rudy Giuliani said this weekend.
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Liberal Values, The Gun Toting Liberal™, About.com US Politics, JammieWearingFool and The Heretik
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Giuliani presses the flesh in N.H. — CONCORD, N.H. — Rudy Giuliani took the bus Saturday, pushing through this first-in-the-nation presidential primary state in a daylong, people-to-people tour. — Courting voters face-to-face at diners and holiday parades would normally be all in a day's work …
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Why You Can Believe all Those Warnings About The Death of the West — I suggest that the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams read a little history about the British experience in India before he offers politically-correct but historically laughable sermons like the one he gave to a Muslim "lifestyle" magazine:
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Bizarro World — If conservatives seized on a mirror image of the journalistic clusterf**kery of Joe Klein it wouldn't stop at Glennzilla beating up on him and the rest of us laughing at him. Drudge would put up a big siren. Limbaugh would spend a week turning Joe Klein into public enemy #1 for his dittoheads.
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Time magazine's FISA fiasco shows how Beltway reporters mislead the country
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DE PALMA IRAQ FLICK BOMBS — November 25, 2007 — IT'S hard for Hollywood pacifists like Brian De Palma to capture the hearts and minds of America if — Americans won't see their movies. While the public is staying away in droves from "Rendition," "Lions for Lambs" and "In the Valley of Elah …
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NPR Loves Bad Cinema — If It's 'Laudable Agitprop' Against the Troops
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Right Wing News
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Investors fear new round of turmoil — By Gillian Tett and Jennifer Hughes in London and Krishna Guha in Washington — Investors fear the financial system is moving into new credit turmoil, which could create further losses for financial institutions - and potentially hurt sentiment in the "real" economy.
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Hey, Young Americans, Here's a Text for You — Is America still America if millions of us no longer know how democracy works? — When I speak on college campuses, I find that students are either baffled by democracy's workings or that they don't see any point in engaging in the democratic process.
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Al-Qaeda kingpin: I trained 9/11 hijackers - — From his Turkish jail, a senior terrorist claims a key role in atrocities around the world — Insight: Chris Gourlay and Jonathan Calvert — IN a small windowless cell lit by a single light bulb, Louai al-Sakka sits isolated from the world and fellow inmates for 24 hours a day.
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Tax for 2 Cents Plain Is Anything but Simple — VOTERS in Upper Freehold Township passed a bond question this month that will raise an additional $264,000 annually to preserve farmland in their Monmouth County community. — Or did they? — It turns out the ballots were misprinted.
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Stumping for wife, Clinton can help, or hurt, anybody — Bill Clinton will get his chance in the Iowa caucuses after all. — The Democrat who skipped campaigning in the state during his own bid for the presidential nomination is stepping up his role as chief advocate for his wife, Hillary Clinton.
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In Iowa and N.H., 2008 election more volatile than most
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Prairie Weather
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Memo To New York Post: The Bush Administration Was Warned About 9/11 — New York Post reporter Andy Soltis writes of the latest Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll that finds a great majority of Americans believe the government failed to heed warnings about 9/11.