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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)
Sit Back, Relax, Get Ready to Rumble
He's taken everything in stride, it seems. How Obama and his team will battle the GOP onslaught.
Bush May Be as Harmful to McCain as Wright Is to Obama
John McCain’s association with George W. Bush makes 38% of likely voters less likely to support McCain in the presidential election, slightly more than the 33% who say this about Barack Obama and his ties with Jeremiah Wright.
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- 05/12/2008
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The GOP ad John McCain doesn’t want you to see (4/25/2008) 
Is Jeremiah Wright a colossal disaster for Barack Obama or a press trick? (4/30/2008) 
McCain Aide Suspended For Pushing Racially-Charged Obama-Wright Video (3/21/2008) 
Who Won Super Tuesday? (2/6/2008)
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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- 05/11/2008
- 05/12/2008
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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) 
Reform Watchdog Group To McCain: Fire The Lobbyists (5/12/2008) - The McCain Decimation: The Inside Story: UPDATED (7/10/2007)
'Ghost city' Mosul braces for assault on last bastion of al-Qa'ida in Iraq
Mosul looks like a city of the dead. American and Iraqi troops have launched an attack aimed at crushing the last bastion of al- Qa'ida in Iraq and in doing so have turned the country's northern capital into a ghost town.(close)Related info:
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- 05/12/2008
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In Dixie, Signs of a Rising Biracial Politics - Democratic Party Resurgent (5/12/2008) - Stories with possibly similar content:
Kurdish Iraqi soldiers are deserting to avoid the conflict in Baghdad (1/21/2007) 
Bombs strike Baghdad and northern Iraq (11/23/2007) 
Baghdad's Sadr City residents fear intensifying fight (5/10/2008) 
Opium fields spread across Iraq as farmers try to make ends meet (1/17/2008)
Quake Kills Thousands in Western China
A powerful earthquake struck a mountainous region of western China, killing more than 8,500 people and trapping more than 900 students beneath a collapsed high school.(close)Related info:
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- 05/12/2008
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- China quake death toll rises above 8,700 (5/12/2008)
- Earthquake in Peru Kills Hundreds (8/16/2007)
Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions
WASHINGTON -- The number of Americans being secretly wiretapped or having their financial and other records reviewed by the government has continued to increase as officials aggressively use powers approved after the Sept. 11 attacks. But the number of terrorism prosecutions ending up in court -- one measure of the effectiveness of such sleuthing -- has continued to decline, in some cases precipitously. The trends, visible in new government data and a private analysis of Justice Department records, are worrisome to civil liberties groups and some legal scholars.
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- 05/12/2008
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World's Top Surveillance Societies -- Updated with link (1/2/2008) - War Crimes Prosecutions in the U.S.? Dream On (4/10/2008)
U.S. Gets Access to Worldwide Banking Data (6/23/2006) 
Cry Me a River: DOJ Hurting for Funds (9/1/2007)
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.(close)Related info:
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- 05/11/2008
- 05/12/2008
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- Emanuel to Kennedy: That’s Not Nice (5/12/2008)
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, The Defining Moment for Climate Change
Already climate change -- in the form of a changing pattern of global rainfall -- seems to be affecting the planet in significant ways. Take the massive, almost decade-long drought in Australia's wheat-growing heartland, which has been a significant factor in sending flour prices, and so bread prices, soaring globally, leading to desperation and food riots across the planet. A report from the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia makes clear that, despite recent heavy rains in the eastern Australian breadbasket, years of above normal rainfall would be needed "to remove the very long-term [water] deficits" in the region.
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- 05/12/2008
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- Report Describes Systematic White House Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Science (12/12/2007)
- Emissions Already Affecting Climate, Report Finds (4/6/2007)
An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change (2/12/2007) 
Press Release - Nobel Peace Prize 2007 (10/12/2007)
Bill O'Reilly Goes Insane [Video]
This is an insane video of bill-o being... insane. I don't know how most newscasters act when behind the cameras, but it's obvious enough to most of us that some laughs are forced and some smiles aren't real. However, am I insane to think this goes too far on Bill-Os behalf? Am I missing something?
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- 05/12/2008
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Bill O'Reilly Loses His Mind (4/6/2007) - Bush-Cheney invite far-right "hate" Freepers to White House (9/24/2007)
- Bill O'Reilly endorses Joe Lieberman's (6/16/2006)
Watching Bill O'Reilly get pushy at Obama rallly. - By John Dickerson (1/5/2008)
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
- 05/12/2008
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- # 26
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- An Optics Problem For McCain (5/11/2008)
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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)
Bush Hits New Low as 'Wrong Track' Rises
According to a new poll, the Bush's approval rating has dramatically dropped. Eighty-two percent of Americans now say the country's seriously off on the wrong track, up 10 points in the last year to a point from its record high in polls since 1973. And 31 percent approve of Bush's job performance overall, while 66 percent disapprove. Click here for a PDF with charts and full questionnaire. The country's mood -- and the president's ratings -- are suffering from the double whammy of an unpopular war and a faltering economy. Consistently for the last year, nearly two-thirds of Americans have said the war in Iraq was not worth fighting.
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- 05/12/2008
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New Lows in the New Year for Bush Ratings (1/15/2008) 
Bush Approval Dips to 32% (2/7/2007) 
Bush's post-election approval hovers near lowest of presidency (11/13/2006) - Military Times Polls (12/30/2006)
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- Americans Losing Confidence in Current Leadership (5/12/2008)
Emanuel to Kennedy: That’s Not Nice
Ted Kennedy’s comments about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s prospects on an Obama ticket constituted a “gratuitous attack on her,” Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois called to say.
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- 05/12/2008
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- Already, Obama and McCain Map Fall Strategies (5/11/2008)
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- Leading Democrats To Bill Clinton: Pipe Down (1/20/2008)
- Sharpening Their Shivs (1/22/2008)
- Clinton's LBJ Comments Infuriated Ted Kennedy (2/1/2008)
- Back to Rahm (8/6/2006)
In Dixie, Signs of a Rising Biracial Politics - Democratic Party Resurgent
The South went solidly red state in the ’90s, but that tide may be receding.(close)Related info:
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- 05/12/2008
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'Ghost city' Mosul braces for assault on last bastion of al-Qa'ida in Iraq (5/12/2008)
W Virginia keeps distance from Obama
Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican. “I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.
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- 05/12/2008
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Obama wins Williamson County and SD5 (3/10/2008) 
West Virginia could spell trouble for Obama (5/10/2008) - Rove: "It's A Lie" (2/27/2008)
- Clinton: I've crossed commander-in-chief threshold (3/6/2008)
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- Clinton creaming Obama in Ky. (5/12/2008)
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?Halliburton/KBR is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful corporation I’ve ever known in my life.
KBR/Halliburton has a position for you Washington Times editor* Robert Stacy McCain defends meek trembling KBR/Halliburton from the greedy advances of Jamie Leigh Jones: I don't think she's doing the lawsuit to get rich. Her lawyer, yes; herself, no. She'll get hers from the book deal and the movie rights. Excuse my extreme cyncism, but Jamie Leigh Jones' story has got "NYT bestseller/Oscar-winning movie" written all over it. Gang rape is a crime, and the perpetrators should be punished, but Halliburton didn't rape Jamie Leigh Jones.(close)Related info:
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- Pentagon Won't Probe KBR Rape Charges (1/8/2008)
GOP Lawmaker Presses Rice Over Iraq Rape Case (1/30/2008) 
Another KBR Rape Case (4/4/2008) - Another KBR Rape Claim Brings Scrutiny (12/14/2007)
Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship
Supporters of a measure in Missouri cite concerns about illegal immigrants voting, but critics say tens of thousands of legal residents could be disenfranchised.(close)Related info:
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- 05/12/2008
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- Citizenship on hold for many immigrants (2/9/2008)
Barr announces Libertarian White House bid
Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr launched a Libertarian Party presidential bid Monday, saying voters are hungry for an alternative to the status quo who would dramatically cut the federal government.(close)Related info:
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- 05/12/2008
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GOP pressures Barr not to run (5/12/2008) 
Bob Barr to run as Libertarian (5/8/2008)
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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McCain Abortion Flip-Flop?
Likely Republican contender challenged Bush on abortion position in 2000.(close)Related info:
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- 05/12/2008
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- McCain and Abortion: The Dance of Disingenuousness Continues (11/20/2006)
Drive in Basra by Iraqi Army Makes Gains
Three hundred miles south of Baghdad, Basra has been transformed by its own surge, now seven weeks old.(close)Related info:
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- 05/12/2008
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Police Mutiny, Refuse to attack Sadrists; Clashes continue in Basra; Sadrists open New fronts throughout Shiite South (3/29/2008) - Iraqi Army Takes Last Basra Areas From Sadr Force (4/20/2008)
- Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides (3/28/2008)
China quake death toll rises above 8,700
A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing more than 8,700 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades.(close)Related info:
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- 05/12/2008
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- Quake Kills Thousands in Western China (5/12/2008)
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.Reid to Bush: Drop Hans or Let Us Drop Him
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) responded to President Bush's uncompromising compromise from last week today with the obvious response.
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- 05/12/2008
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- Reid Unmoved by Calls For Iraq Compromise (7/21/2007)
POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Presidential primary fight doesn't bother Reid (3/25/2008) - A Conversation With Senator Harry Reid (12/11/2006)
- Reid Opens Door to Pact With Antiwar Republicans (8/31/2007)
Sadr City residents fear a cease-fire means more violence
BAGHDAD — One day after an agreement between followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr and the Iraqi government to end more than six weeks of fighting, the streets in parts of the vast Shiite slum of Sadr City were deserted, amidst signs of a battle. Wires snaked out of potholes and from underneath tires - signs of past or future roadside bombs; abandoned pickup trucks, destroyed by airstrikes, littered the streets, and bullets or shrapnel scarred the houses.
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- 05/12/2008
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Iraqi military orders Sadr City residents to evacuate (5/10/2008) - Iranian general played key role in brokering Iraq cease-fire (3/31/2008)
Toll the Bell for the Polls, Part III (5/10/2008) - Baghdad's Sadr City residents fear intensifying fight (5/10/2008)
Ron Paul's forces quietly plot GOP convention revolt against McCain
Virtually all the nation's political attention in recent weeks has focused on the compelling state-by-state presidential nomination struggle between two Democrats and the potential for party-splitting strife over there. But in the meantime, quietly, largely under the radar of most people, the forces of Rep. Ron Paul have been organizing across the country to stage an embarrassing public revolt against Sen. John McCain when Republicans gather for their national convention in Minnesota at the beginning of September. Paul's presidential candidacy has been correctly dismissed all along in terms of winning the nomination.(close)Related info:
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- 05/12/2008
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- Yep, It's an Outrage (1/1/2008)
Laugh of the day: Winger blog Red State bans Ron Paul supporters (10/27/2007) 
Lieberman willing to star at Republican convention (4/16/2008) - Ron Paul's record in Congress (11/12/2007)
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- Clinton creaming Obama in Ky. (5/12/2008)
Reform Watchdog Group To McCain: Fire The Lobbyists
http://www.campaignmoney.org/pressroom/2008/05/12/reform-watchdog-group-to-mccain-fire-the-lobbyists
Washington, DC – Campaign Money Watch called on Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today to fire three Washington lobbyists working on his campaign team whose lobbying clients include brutal foreign interests and big oil companies. The demand comes after a weekend that saw key figures in McCain’s campaign resign for lobbying for Myanmar’s military junta.
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- 05/12/2008
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- McCain Campaign Banked on Taxpayer-Funded Bailout (2/19/2008)
McCain: ‘I’m The Only Candidate That The Special Interests Don’t Give Money To’ (2/22/2008) - An Optics Problem For McCain (5/11/2008)
Telecom lobbyists tied to McCain (3/24/2008) - Additional stories related by date and content:
- Bush May Be as Harmful to McCain as Wright Is to Obama (5/12/2008)
- Ron Paul's forces quietly plot GOP convention revolt against McCain (5/12/2008)