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Text of Doug Hampton's letter to Fox News — Editor's note: Doug Hampton, the husband of Cynthia Hampton, who had an affair with Sen. John Ensign, explains in a letter to a Fox News Channel anchorwoman, Megyn Kelly, how the senator's affair with his wife has"completely ruined" the couple's lives.
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Spouse in Ensign affair sought help in letter to Fox News — Husband's account of how wife's affair with Ensign ‘ruined our lives and careers’ comes to light — Doug Hampton, husband of Sen. John Ensign's affair partner, Cynthia Hampton, appears in this KLAS-TV video Wednesday.
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Fox News Denies Report: We Didn't Force Ensign To Admit Affair — Fox New is denying claims that Doug Hampton — whose wife Cynthia is the other woman in Senator John Ensign's sex scandal — sent the network a letter pleading for help exposing the affair five days before the Senator announced …
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As Confrontation Deepens, Iran's Leader to Speak — TEHRAN — As another day of defiance and uncertainty loomed in Iran's capital on Friday, it was increasingly apparent that there was no clear path out of a deepening confrontation that has posed the most serious challenge to the Islamic republic in its 30-year history.
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A Different Iranian Revolution — WE look over this wall of marching people to see what our friends in the United States are saying about us. We cannot help it — 30 years of struggle against the Enemy has had the curious effect of making us intrigued. To our great dismay …
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Ayatollah demands end to protests — Iran's supreme leader has issued a stern warning that protests against the country's disputed presidential election results must end. — In his first public remarks after days of protests, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the outcome had to be decided at the ballot box, not on the street.
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House approves Iran bill 405-1
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Obama Misses the Point With Iran Response — Millions of Iranians take to the streets to defy a theocratic dictatorship that, among its other finer qualities, is a self-declared enemy of America and the tolerance and liberties it represents. The demonstrators are fighting on their own …
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Obama Needs to Change Stance on Iran — President Obama's first response to the protests in Iran was silence, followed by a cautious, almost neutral stance designed to avoid “meddling” in Iranian affairs. I am reminded of Ronald Reagan's initially neutral response to the crisis following …
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Will the Conservatives Please Attempt An Argument? — President Obama has taken a cautious tone toward the demonstrators in Iran, with his stated reason being that more open support would discredit their cause. This strikes me as a sensible position. The revealed preferences of both sides suggest …
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There Will Be Blood — The Washington Post's increasingly strident op-ed page offers a double-barreled neocon assault on President Obama's Iran position today by Charles Krauthammer and Paul Wolfowitz. And it's interesting to see these fellows—among the smartest of the neos …
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Obama health plan imperiled — President Obama's campaign for health care reform by this fall, once considered highly likely to succeed, suddenly appears in real jeopardy. — Top White House advisers, especially Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, are still privately predicting massive changes to the health care system in 2009.
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Poll: Republican Party Now Less Popular Than Dick Cheney — Lost in the news yesterday about the polls showing eroding support for Obama's policies was a funny detail in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll: The overall popularity of the Republican Party has now dropped below even the abysmal level of approval enjoyed by Dick Cheney.
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Obama press secretary chronically tardy — WASHINGTON (CNN) — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs delayed the start of his daily briefing Thursday — which is only remarkable for the fact it's so unremarkable. — The Bush White House briefings were only rarely delayed.
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Froomkin v. Washington Post — The Battle Continues
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DEPT. OF ELECTIONS, CONSEQUENCES.... In light of George W. Bush's …
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Gay Rights Lawyers: Obama Administration Rebuffed Our Requests For Dialogue — Two prominent gay rights lawyers litigating high-profile cases against the Obama administration tell me that their requests to meet with administration lawyers to discuss the cases were rebuffed …
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U.S. Military Set to Intercept North Korean Ship Suspected of Proliferating Missiles, Nukes — The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense official. — FOXNews.com
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U.S. Fortifies Hawaii to Meet Threat From Korea
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Pick for Protocol Post Corrects Failure to File Taxes in 2 Years — President Obama's choice as chief of protocol for the State Department, a position that carries the status of an ambassadorship, did not file tax returns for 2005 and 2006, errors she corrected last November.
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Mom fined to tune of $1.9M for 24 illegal songs — (CNN) — A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each — a total of $1.9 million — for 24 songs. — Jammie Thomas-Rasset's case …
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At fundraiser, Obama laughs at critics — As he looks to expand Democratic majorities in Congress, President Obama on Thursday night also used a fundraiser for his congressional allies to target his critics. — The president, speaking at a joint fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee …
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Obama aides toned down Iran resolution — The White House worked with House Democrats to moderate a fire-breathing resolution circulated by Republicans to rebuke Iran for its post-election crackdown on dissent, according to an Obama aide. — The new resolution, similar to a version introduced …
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Live-blogging Friday's Events in Iran
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Protests Are a Real Threat to Iran's Rulers — What's happening on the streets of Tehran is a lesson in what makes history: It isn't guns or secret police, in the end, but the willingness of hundreds of thousands of people to risk their lives to protest injustice.
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Dem Congressman: 'We cannot stand silent in the face of this assault …
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Obama's Doctor Knocks ObamaCare — Dr. David Scheiner took care of Obama for 22 years. But they don't see eye-to-eye on how to fix the health care system. — David Scheiner, an internist based in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park, has a diverse practice of lower-income adults …
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Out of the Shadows — Would the Obama administration's plan for financial reform do what has to be done? Yes and no. — Yes, the plan would plug some big holes in regulation. But as described, it wouldn't end the skewed incentives that made the current crisis inevitable. — Let's start with the good news.
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How Republicans can crack the AmeriCorps scandal — What's next in the budding scandal over President Obama's abrupt firing of Gerald Walpin, the inspector general of AmeriCorps? — Republican investigators on Capitol Hill know one thing very well. As minorities in both House and Senate …
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Pajamas Media, Nice Deb, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Not Tucker Carlson and Gateway Pundit
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Data Must Rule the Debate on Gays in the Military — The Supreme Court announced last week that it would not review a lawsuit challenging the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy forbidding homosexuals from serving openly. The Obama administration had asked the court not to take the case …