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HUMAN EVENTS Endorses Fred Thompson — The 2008 presidential election is the most unusual and most important in many years. It's been more than five decades since such a race didn't feature an incumbent President or Vice President. Since World War II, America has not had a presidential election …
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Let's have some fun in Michigan — In 1972, Republican voters in Michigan decided to make a little mischief, crossing over to vote in the open Democratic primary and voting for segregationist Democrat George Wallace, seriously embarrassing the state's Democrats.
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Matthew Yglesias, Captain's Quarters, Middle Earth Journal, Confederate Yankee, The Newshoggers, You Decide 08!, Personal Democracy Forum, Flopping Aces, Human Events, TownHall Blog, michellemalkin.com, Althouse, Firedoglake, Publius Endures, Threat Level, race42008.com, Riehl World View, Sister Toldjah, Blue Mass. Group, TBogg, Emptywheel, Democracy in America, MyDD and Pollster.com
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Exchanges in Latest Debate Highlight a New Dynamic in the Republican Field — Fred D. Thompson tried to salvage his faltering presidential campaign at a debate Thursday night with a barrage of sharp attacks on the “liberal” policies of Mike Huckabee, the fellow Southerner whom he clearly sees as a rival in the South Carolina primary.
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GOP Candidates Debate in South Carolina, but Look Ahead
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Matthew Yglesias
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Paul Warns Against Rush To War With Iran, All Other GOP Candidates ‘Ready To Attack’
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McCain emerges unscathed
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The Hill, TownHall Blog, Detroit Free Press, The Stump, TIME, The Carpetbagger Report, race42008.com and Flopping Aces
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LAS VEGAS STOP: Clinton pitch hits home — Democratic hopeful goes door to door — People in the Las Vegas neighborhood saw all the cameras and trucks and buses and police on the streets Thursday, and they began to trickle out of their houses to find out what was going on.
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Clinton Bashes the Process Ahead of Nev. Caucuses — ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: With the Nevada caucuses approaching on Jan. 19, Sen. Hillary Clinton reflected upon her defeat in the Iowa caucuses at an appearance in Las Vegas' District 11, a lower-income and predominately Hispanic part of town …
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Snow falls on Baghdad for first time in memory — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Snow fell on Baghdad on Friday for the first time in memory, and delighted residents declared it an omen of peace. — “It is the first time we've seen snow in Baghdad,” said 60-year-old Hassan Zahar. “We've seen sleet before, but never snow.
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Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
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A first! Snow falls in Baghdad — BAGHDAD - After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they'd pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning, as muezzins were calling the faithful to prayer, the people here awoke to something certifiably new.
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The Impolitic
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Massive US Air Attack South of Baghdad — ZAMBARANIYAH, Iraq (AP) - U.S. warplanes unleashed one of the most intense airstrikes of the Iraq war Thursday, dropping 40,000 pounds of explosives in a thunderous 10-minute onslaught on suspected al-Qaida in Iraq safe havens in Sunni farmlands south of Baghdad.
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More Proof That The Surge Is A Success: The Return Of “Shock And Awe”
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The Moderate Voice
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Paul the Peter — Andrew Sullivan: … [Me] Just so. Furthermore, I doubt Paul has ever been any different. I had a most interesting email yesterday from a friend in Texas. My friend's father was a slightly-cranky far-rightist who'd corresponded with Paul in the early 1980s.
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Vox Popoli
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Civil Rights Tone Prompts Talk of an Endorsement — WASHINGTON — Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, said he was rethinking his neutral stance in his state's presidential primary out of disappointment at comments by Bill …
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Bringing Obama Back to Earth — WASHINGTON — Was it the tears in the New Hampshire coffee shop? Whenever there is a political upset, everyone looks for the unscripted incident, the I-paid-for-this-microphone moment that can account for it. Hillary Clinton's improbable victory in New Hampshire …
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THE AD MS. DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE — The American Jewish Congress submitted this understated advertisement about the status of women in Israel to Ms. Magazine. Underneath the attractive photographs of Israel's foreign minister (Tzipi Livni), Supreme Court president (Dorit Beinish) …
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PR Newswire, Yourish.com, A Blog For All, Likelihood of Success, Gateway Pundit and BitsBlog
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The Comeback Continent — Today I'd like to talk about a much-derided contender making a surprising comeback, a comeback that calls into question much of the conventional wisdom of American politics. No, I'm not talking about a politician. I'm talking about an economy — specifically …
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John Edwards is a loser. He has won exactly two elections in his life and lost 31. Only one of his wins and all of his losses were in presidential primaries and caucuses. He remains perfectly positioned to continue to lose with a Kucinich-like consistency. Nothing but egomania keeps Edwards in the race now.
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Top Giuliani staffers to go without pay — MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (CNN) — CNN has learned that top staff members of Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign were asked to work without pay for the month of January, and perhaps longer, so that campaign resources could be focused on the Florida Republican presidential primary.
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The Moderate Voice, The Politico, San Francisco Chronicle, Cameron's Corner, Boston Globe, Hot Air and The Page
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Bush: US should have bombed Auschwitz — JERUSALEM - President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial Friday and told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz to halt the killing, the memorial's chairman said.
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