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Fred Thompson spoke Friday at the Lincoln Club in Orange County. Coming a day after the Republican debate, Thompson’s speech focused on extremely easy Republican targets: low taxes, government bureaucratic inefficiency, states rights, securing the borders, Social Security and Medicare reform, and controlling spending. The most controversial subject among them was probably letting states take [...]

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Bill Richardson reneged on his promise to sign HPV vaccination legislation after considering the concerns of doctors.
Richardson visited North Korea in order to negotiate the return of the remains of soliders killed during the Korean War. He also brokered a deal, whereby North Korea would allow weapons inspectors to return.
Announced that he raised $6,246,382.01 [...]

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Announced that he raised over $25,709,104.90 ($23.5 million of which is for the primary) from over 100,000 donors
2008 Central previewed Obama’s debate weakness, which turned out to be an accurate prediction for his performance in the first Democratic Primary Debate
Obama backed out of debate co-sponsored by Fox News & the Congressional Black Caucus
Obama’s response to [...]

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Well, what’s new about that, you might ask? The Times gave up long ago. First, to the editorial:
WHATEVER THE future holds, the United States has not “lost” and cannot “lose” Iraq. It was never ours in the first place. And however history will judge the war, some key U.S. goals have been accomplished: Saddam Hussein [...]

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AND THE WINNER IS … RONALD REAGAN Yahoo! News - 11 hours ago But, of course, there is another maxim in American politics: Never mention your opponent's name. Why give him free publicity? And the 10 Republicans who … Thompson's Politics Much Like McCain's Washington Post Debate Wrap Up Washington Post President who? Albany Times Union all 806 news articles

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Announcement: We apologize for the poor audio quality of previous podcasts. Thanks to the feedback we have received, we’ve invested in new equipment. The quality issues have been largely addressed in this podcast and will be completely fixed by the next one. Many thanks to all of our listeners who have made [...]

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This Week (ABC) — John Edwards, Tom Tancredo
Face the Nation (CBS) — Charles Rangel, Newt Gingrich.
Meet the Press (NBC) — George Tenet.
Fox News Sunday — Chris Dodd, John Boehner, Rev. Richard Land.
Late Edition (CNN) — Richard Lugar, and Chuck Schumer, Jim Gilmore, Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha; Iraqi Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie; Egyptian Ambassador Nabil [...]

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The shamelessness of ‘progressive’ political types has no equal when it comes to slanders of the right, particularly those with no foundation in reality.  It should comes as no surprise, then, that the LA Times has a story speculating on whether there will be any blowback for Fred Thompson for portraying a racist in an [...]

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Guardian Unlimited

In Lincoln's footsteps Guardian Unlimited, UK - May 4, 2007 For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon. In normal circumstances, it would be unthinkable for a politician … Man of the moment Scotsman all 3 news articles

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TIME steals my completely original grading the candidates concept here, with the grading done by Mark Halperin.  He gives the debate to Romney with an A- (in retrospect, I was too rough on Romney’s performance, overly influenced by my largely negative opinions of him).  Here he is on Rudy, who gets a B:
Sold his New [...]

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Wednesday night, possible White House contenders Mike Bloomberg and Chuck Hagel ate at a Washington DC steak house. The New York Sun took this as an opportunity to chide Hagel for his record on terrorism. Given that they are the only two Republicans who could potentially run who have spoken out against the Iraq [...]

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On Wednesday (5/2/07), Gov. Bill Richardson met privately with Mel Gibson to the film industry and international politics…   
 According to [Richardson spokesperson] Gilbert Gallegos, Richardson had no reservations about meeting with Gibson despite the actor’s anti-Semitic remarks last year after a drunken driving arrest in California.
Gallegos said Richardson was open to meeting with film production [...]

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Yesterday, Sen. Clinton announced that she along with Sen. Robert Byrd will be introducing legislation that will de-authorize the Iraq war on October 11, 2007 (the 5 year anniversary of the resolution that authorized the war)…
Madam President, I rise to join my colleague and friend, Senator Byrd, to announce our intention to introduce legislation which proposes [...]

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