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THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S FECKLESS RESPONSE TO THE RUSSIAN INVASION. — It is impossible to think about the Russian assault on Georgia without feeling like a heartless bastard or a romantic fool. Should we just let Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev roll their tanks into Tbilisi in recognition …
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Georgia ‘overrun’ by Russian troops as full-scale ground invasion begins — Georgian officials tonight claimed the country had been ‘overrun’ by Russian troops after a full-scale ground invasion. — Amid reports that Moscow forces had taken the town of Gori - and were marching on the capital Tsblisi …


Georgian army flees in disarray as Russians advance — The Georgian Army was in complete disarray last night after troops and tanks fled the town of Gori in panic and abandoned it to the Russians without firing a shot. — As Russian armoured columns rolled deep into central and western Georgia …
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BEWARE — You can see the extremely bellicose statements of Vice President Cheney and Sen. McCain (soul mates on this issue) on the conflict in Georgia. And a number of Democratic-affiliated foreign policy hands are roughly on the same side of this issue, if not quite as utterly nuts …

Georgia: A Reality Check for the Left
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Russia Steps Up Its Push; West Faces Tough Choices
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Salon Radio: Professor Charles King on Russia/Georgia
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Bush: Russians looking to depose Georgian government; Update: Video added
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President Bush to Russia: Back off Georgia
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Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis? — A Wikipedia editor emailed Political Wire to point out some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia. Given the closeness of the words and sentence structure …
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Defining Plagiarism Down? — Taegan Goddard is getting a lot of attention from the leftosphere right now for posting allegations that John McCain's campaign lifted text from the Wikipedia article about Georgia (the nation-state, not the U.S. state). But as a writer and former professional journalist …
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McCain warns Russians of “severe, long-term negative consequences”
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The Front-Runner's Fall — For all that has been written and said about Hillary Clinton's epic collapse in the Democratic primaries, one issue still nags. Everybody knows what happened. But we still don't have a clear picture of how it happened, or why.
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Why Howard Wolfson is Out of a Job
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Olympics: Spain's eye-catching faux pas — Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures. The advert for a courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation …

Obama Wisconsin Radio Ad Attacks McCain Over Harley Quip — To our knowledge the Obama campaign didn't release it to the national press, but Team Obama is airing a new radio spot in Wisconsin — the home of Harley-Davidson — attacking John McCain over his recent quip at a biker rally …

25 Hints You're Not Voting for Obama — Today's Rasmussen daily tracking poll has 80% of Democrats supporting Obama and 87% of Republicans supporting McCain. There are still a healthy number of undecideds. This conflicts with the stream of media reports that Obamacons, evangelicals …

MCCAIN'S MEMOS — In a sense the revelations of Mark Penn's ‘xenophobia’ memos is old news, a post-mortem on a campaign that was all-consuming three months ago and now part of history. But seeing the memos beyond the message is instructive, highly instructive for another reason.

More Fun With the Dumbest People on the Internet — It's been a while since I suited up and dumpster-dived in the Obama conspiracyverse. In my absence, I reckon that the average IQ there has dipped by 20-25 points. Take this latest revelation from Larry “Whitey Tape” Johnson. … Incredible!
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Taking Back The Campaign Nominee — What the Obama campaign has lost sight of, I think, and what it needs to regain control of, is the essential message of his candidacy. After the last eight years, we simply cannot risk a continuation of the same reckless, belligerent, argument-losing …


RWV Excl: McCain Caught In Photo With Younger Woman … “I want John McCain,” the young strawberry-blond now confides to anyone who will listen, just days after spending hours of primping, riding in a car and waiting in line under the hot sun to enter a steamy town hall in the Midwest where …
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COKIE: HAWAII TOO FOREIGN FOR OBAMA — This is the sort of mind-numbingly banal observation that passes for political analysis these days. Tut-tutting over the timing of Barack Obama's family vacation, Cokie Roberts yesterday on ABC's This Week added that Hawaii was not an appropriate destination: too foreign and too exotic.

Is John Edwards Still Lying? — Former Friend of Ex-Mistress Says Edwards Still Not Telling the Whole Truth — A one-time close friend of John Edwards' ex-mistress says the former Senator is still not telling the whole truth about how his affair with Rielle Hunter began.
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Election 2008: Iowa Presidential Election — Race tightens in Iowa, but Obama Still Ahead 46% to 41% — John McCain has cut Barack Obama's lead in Iowa in half over the past month but still trails the Democrat 46% to 41%, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state.