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Seeds of Destruction
The Clintons should be ashamed of themselves for deliberately trying to wreck the presidential prospects of their party’s likely nominee.Republicans Vote Against Moms; No Word Yet on Puppies, Kittens
It was already shaping up to be a difficult year for congressional Republicans. Now, on the cusp of Mother's Day, comes this: A majority of the House GOP has voted against motherhood.(close)Related info:
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Republicans vote against Mother’s Day. (5/9/2008)
A Second McCain Aide Resigns
Doug Davenport, the regional campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, founded the DCI Group's lobbying practice and oversaw the contract with Myanmar in 2002. "Doug has tendered his resignation and we have accepted it," Jill Hazelbaker, McCain's communications director, wrote in a e-mail. He joins former DCI Group CEO Doug Goodyear, who resigned yesterday from the post of convention CEO after Newsweek reported that DCI was paid more than $300,000 to represent Myanmar's ruling junta.
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An Optics Problem For McCain (5/11/2008) 
McCain's Convention Chair Worked for Burma's Military Junta (5/11/2008) - The McCain Decimation: The Inside Story: UPDATED (7/10/2007)
McCain Hires Blog Sockpuppet (12/21/2006)
Already, Obama and McCain Map Fall Strategies
Even before the Democratic nomination fight ends, the candidates are focusing on independent voters, Latinos and about a dozen states.McCain Plane Still Flying
Cindy McCain said she would never release her personal income tax filing even if her husband was elected president. But records indicate that she appears to be using her personal wealth to help his campaign, through the continued use of her corporate jet.
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Cindy McCain says she'll never release her tax returns (5/9/2008) 
Cindy McCain Refuses to Release Her Tax Returns... Ever (5/8/2008)
Party Like It’s 2008
Almost every wrong prediction about this election has come from those trying to force the round peg of this year’s campaign into the square holes of past political wars.Is She a Trojan Rabbit?
If Hillary Clinton were to become Barack Obama’s vice president, would she take the back seat or would she just always be plotting, draining him of his magical powers?(close)Related info:
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The Transition (5/11/2008)
Iraq Contractor in Shooting Case Makes Comeback
Blackwater’s government contract has been renewed and no charges have been brought in the United States against its guards.Obama's Pragmatic Politics, Forged on the South Side
Barack Obama’s ability to replicate and expand the eclectic coalition he built in Chicago has brought him to the brink of the Democratic presidential nomination.As Losses Mount, GOP Begins Looking in the Mirror
Since losing 30 seats and their 12-year stranglehold on power in 2006, House Republicans have kept asking themselves the same question: Can it get any worse?Limbaugh: 'My impact will increase'
Diverted for now by Operation Chaos and the Democratic primary, Rush looks ahead to a McCain presidency and says he "will thrive."
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West Virginia could spell trouble for Obama
In Hardy County, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 2 to 1. But there is little enthusiasm for Barack Obama in this mountainside enclave, a portent of trouble for the Illinois senator in next week's West Virginia primary and the general election beyond.(close)Related info:
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- Split Dominion (2/8/2008)
Los Angeles Times: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama beat John McCain in Los Angeles Times poll
WASHINGTON — Although Democrats are tangled in a fractious primary contest, both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama probably would win the White House against presumptive GOP nominee John McCain if the election were held now, according to a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll. Arizona Sen. McCain remains competitive, but the poll identified one important vulnerability: Voters ranked him lowest among the three candidates on who could best handle the nation's economy -- by far the most pressing concern for the public irrespective of party, gender or income.
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama beat John McCain in Los Angeles Times poll (5/11/2008) 
CBS Poll: Clinton, Obama Tied, McCain Has Big Lead Among Republicans; Also, Most Americans Think Economy Is In Recession (2/4/2008) 
State poll shows huge gains by Obama, McCain (2/3/2008) 
Clinton Up 49-41 in Texas Poll; Obama May Win More Delegates (2/16/2008) - Additional stories related by date and content:
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- West Virginia could spell trouble for Obama (5/10/2008)
- McCain Plane Still Flying (5/10/2008)
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama beat John McCain in Los Angeles Times poll
WASHINGTON -- Although Democrats are tangled in a fractious primary contest, both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama probably would win the White House against presumptive GOP nominee John McCain if the election were held now, according to a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll. Arizona Sen. McCain remains competitive, but the poll identified one important vulnerability: Voters ranked him lowest among the three candidates on who could best handle the nation's economy -- by far the most pressing concern for the public irrespective of party, gender or income.
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- Los Angeles Times: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama beat John McCain in Los Angeles Times poll (5/11/2008)
- CBS Poll: Clinton, Obama Tied, McCain Has Big Lead Among Republicans; Also, Most Americans Think Economy Is In Recession (2/4/2008)
- Obama catches Clinton in N.H.; Iowa remains a 3-way contest (12/29/2007)
- Exactly what "threshold" did Hillary Clinton cross that prepared her to be commander in chief? (3/7/2008)
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- Michelle Vetoes Hillary (5/11/2008)
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Growing Deficits Threaten Pensions
The funds that pay pension and health benefits to police officers, teachers and millions of other public employees across the country are facing a shortfall that could soon run into trillions of dollars.
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Careless Detention | System of Neglect (5/11/2008)
McCain's Convention Chair Worked for Burma's Military Junta
John McCain's choice to manage the GOP convention this summer is lobbyist Doug Goodyear, whose firm once represented Burma's repressive regime.
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- 05/11/2008
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- A Second McCain Aide Resigns (5/11/2008)
Key activists arrested in Burma (10/14/2007) - McCain's Ties to Lobbyist Worried Aides (2/21/2008)
- McCain's Ties To Lobbyist Worried Aides (2/21/2008)
Careless Detention | System of Neglect
As Tighter Immigration Policies Strain Federal Agencies, The Detainees in Their Care Often Pay a Heavy Cost
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Judge bars general from war-court case
Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, legal advisor to the convening authority, Office of Military Commissions, meets reporters at the Pentagon, Monday, March 31, 2008 announces formal charges against a Guantánamo prisoner with war crimes for the deadly 1998 al Qaeda attack on the American embassy in Tanzania.(close)Related info:
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- Learning to Link: The Military Commission Decision Disqualifying the Legal Adviser, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann (5/11/2008)
Guant´namo Bay case thrown out (6/4/2007) 
From a Critic of Tribunals to Top Judge (12/13/2007) - Judge’s Guantánamo Ruling Bodes Ill for System (5/11/2008)
Krugman has some decent ideas. Robinson has a sense of entitlement
We know, we know—by all press corps scripts, it’s Clinton who feels so entitled. And no one knows such scripts better than Gene. He launched that particular Standard Assessment in today’s opening paragraph: ROBINSON (5/9/08): From the beginning, Hillary Clinton has campaigned as if the Democratic nomination were hers by divine right. That's why she is falling short—and that's why she should be persuaded to quit now, rather than later, before her majestic sense of entitlement splits the party along racial lines. Perfect scripting!
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An Optics Problem For McCain
Item: The McCain campaign's handpicked RNC convention czar, Doug Goodyear, resigns after Newsweek reports that his firm, the DCI Group, was working to make the government of Myanmar look good. “Today I offered the convention my resignation so as not to become a distraction in this campaign. I continue to strongly support John McCain for president, and wish him the best of luck in this campaign.” Discussion: Optics. What becomes now of Doug Davenport, the DCI lobbying czar who is a campaign regional manager? A campaign spokesperson referred comment to Davenport, who did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
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- The McCain Decimation: The Inside Story: UPDATED (7/10/2007)
New McCain Fund Gets Around Donation Limits (4/22/2008) - McCain Raises $15M In March (4/7/2008)
Learning to Link: The Military Commission Decision Disqualifying the Legal Adviser, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann
On Saturday, the New York Times reported a major development in the military commission proceeding against Salim Hamdan, something it properly called "a new blow to the Bush administration’s troubled military commission system": On Friday, the Commission disqualified from the case Brig.
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Admin Prevents Former Gitmo Prosecutor from Testifying before Congress (12/11/2007)
Judge’s Guantánamo Ruling Bodes Ill for System
The disqualification of a top official in a war crimes case is a major new challenge to the Bush administration’s legal approach to the war on terrorism.(close)Related info:
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- Judge Drops General From Trial of Detainee (5/10/2008)
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On GI Bill, McCain really is ‘full of it’
A couple of weeks ago, John McCain talked about the importance of increasing the size of the U.S. military. To entice more volunteers, he said, the government should focus on incentives: “[O]ne of the things we ought to do is provide [the troops with] significant educational benefits in return for serving.” A few days later, McCain announced that he opposes a bipartisan measure to renew and expand the GI Bill for a new generation of veterans. Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), the leading proponent of the modernized GI Bill, called McCain out.
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McCain’s bizarre reluctance on the new GI Bill (4/11/2008) - BREAKING: Warner, McCain To Propose Toothless, Watered-Down Version Of Webb Amendment (9/19/2007)
- McCain: ‘Anyone Who Worries About How Long We’re In Iraq Does Not Understand The Military’ (2/13/2008)
- One Year Later, Market Where McCain Strolled ‘Freely’ Is Controlled By Sadr, Too Unsafe For Americans To Visit (3/17/2008)
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Michelle Vetoes Hillary
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama. The Democratic front-runner's wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party's nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility. A footnote: Support is growing in Democratic ranks for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland as vice president.
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Bill Clinton: A Clinton-Obama ticket would be 'unstoppable' (3/9/2008) - Breaking News: Barack Obama rejects VP idea (3/8/2008)
Clinton Apologizes to Black Voters (3/13/2008) - Additional stories related by date and content:
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Some War Dead Were Cremated at Facility Handling Pets
The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of American service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere at a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended yesterday when the Pentagon banned the arrangement.In mortgage market, ‘walkaway’ homeowners may be urban myth
Bankers and housing market analysts are warning of a chilling new trend in the mortgage world: Homeowners voluntarily defaulting on their loans even though they can actually afford to make the payments.(close)Related info:
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- Bush gives out wrong mortgage hotline phone number. (12/7/2007)
The Transition
MoDo seems regretful that she will have less reason (at least outside the context of blind dates) to snigger about Bill Clinton's sex life. But she holds out faint hope for a Vice Presidential nod: Aside from the delight Bill would get from living at the Naval Observatory and having a huge telescope to window-peep with, there wouldn’t be much joy in Hillaryland. Hahahahahahahaha! That's the kind of legendary wit that can get you a Pulitzer prize, or the Tuesday night slot at Yakov Smirnoff's comedy club in Branson if Carrot Top cancels at the last minute. But won't Obama think of poor Dowd?
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