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February 2008 - Posts
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to refer the House's contempt citations against two of President Bush's top aides to a federal grand jury. Read More...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton can bank on the support of women. Conservatives will never trust John McCain. Southern white men won't vote for Barack Obama. Read More...
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A White House official who served as President Bush's middleman with conservatives and Christian groups resigned Friday after admitting to plagiarism. Read More...
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his advisers are doing their best to brush aside questions — raised in the liberal blogosphere — about whether he is qualified Read More...
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An economist has found increases in the number of federally declared disasters in presidential election years and speculates that it's because a president Read More...
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N.Y. senator campaign spot comes as polls show her losing ground to Obama in Texas and Ohio. Read More...
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Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton discovered an unlikely foreign-policy role model this week: George W. Bush. Read More...
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Eleanor Clift column on the desperate state of the Clinton campaign. Read More...
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Newspaper endorsements were once a major measure of popular support and momentum, before polls and the blogosphere. Even as papers have declined in circulation Read More...
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The dust-up caused by the photo that popped up this week featuring Senator Barack Obama in traditional Somali clothing during a trip to Kenya in 2006 hasn't Read More...
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Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) is sponsoring the Artist-Museum Partnership Act, which would allow artists to file tax deductions for the market value of works they Read More...
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The New York Senator's campaign concerns, just days before the contest, is drawing a warning against legal action from the state's Democratic Party. Read More...
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Ohio's vote in Tuesday's primary will be crucial, but there could be a delay in getting results. The state is making major changes in the way its residents Read More...
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GOP candidate, born in Panama Canal zone says issue was put to rest in 1964 during Barry Goldwater's run for the White House. Read More...
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The Nation of Islam minister says backers of the Illinois sentor shouldn't be dissuaded by the senator's denunciation during Tuesday's Democratic debate Read More...
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On this leap day, senior producer Steve Proffitt offers a solution to eliminate calendar confusion and give each month exactly 28 days. He gets some support Read More...
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The N.Y.C. mayor, no longer a potential presidential candidate, said McCain, Obama, Clinton all in contention to receive his backing. Read More...
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People here like to say everything is bigger in Texas, and their oversized presidential race is no different with a primary election and a caucus added Read More...
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Voters in Texas are already coming out in record numbers. Evan Smith, editor of Texas Monthly magazine discusses where Democrats are campaigning and who Read More...
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The Internet gun dealer who sold gun accessories to the Northern Illinois University campus shooter Stephen Kazmierczak and a gun to Virginia Tech campus Read More...
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if Mr. Obama becomes the Democratic presidential nominee, he is sure to face an onslaught from Republicans and their allies that will be very different Read More...
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A poll from NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health reveals Americans' attitudes toward requiring that everyone have Read More...
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As many as a tenth of the Texans voting in the Democratic contests next week could be Republicans, and overwhelmingly they favor Barack Obama, polls show Read More...
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The House Speaker wants an investigation into whether White House chief of staff and former counsel should be prosecuted for contempt of Congress. Read More...
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Major Republican losses this year could help shield Democrats from vulnerability that comes with controlling Congress and White House. Read More...
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Virtually all polls fall somewhere in the middle of the continuum that runs between completely trustworthy and utterly flawed. Read More...
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Rebounding from weak fundraising in January, the presidential hopeful had a remarkable recovery and her biggest fundraising period of her campaign. Read More...
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The Democratic candidate blamed economic policies espoused by the president and GOP presidential contender for the U.S. being on 'brink of a recession' Read More...
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said his remark that American troops could stay in Iraq for 100 years has been distorted, yet he still suggests Read More...
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The independent presidential candidate selected a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, to be his running mate. Read More...
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The president strongly disagreed with the Democratic candidate's willingness to meet with the leaders of Iran and Cuba. Read More...
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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton is offering a plan to improve childhood nutrition and setting a goal to reduce by half the 12 million youngsters living Read More...
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It’s not just Obama versus Clinton in the battle of newcomer versus established favorite this year. In Iowa’s 3rd congressional district, it’s insurgent Read More...
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For Barack Obama, it is an ember that he has doused time and again, only to see it flicker anew: links to Islam fanned by false rumors, innuendo and association. Read More...
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Hillary Clinton three hours Wednesday trying to persuade Ohioans her plans to revive the economy can also resuscitate her dwindling campaign. Read More...
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Early voting in urban areas has swelled to record numbers in Texas, outpacing the high turnout in areas of the state viewed as more favorable to Hillary Read More...
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When Democratic Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the White House, many immediately became concerned for his safety. U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson Read More...
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U.S. officials are investigating whether the director of a psychiatric hospital in Baghdad was involved with two suicide bombers who killed nearly 100 Read More...
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Storms that struck the Pacific Northwest this winter have uncovered quite a few unusual items, including red towers and ancient forests. Tiffany Boothe Read More...
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Congress is asking the Justice Department to investigate whether baseball star Roger Clemens lied to a House committee about using performance enhancing Read More...
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Former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra has been in exile, mostly in Britain, for the past 17 months after being deposed by the Thai military. He is set Read More...
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Visiting Congress to provide an update on the struggling U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he expects very slow growth in 2008, Read More...
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Robert Siegel talks with Robert Samuelson, a contributing editor to Newsweek magazine, about the term "stagflation," which is being tossed around a lot Read More...
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates is calling on Turkey to end its incursion into Northern Iraq. Thousands of Turkish troops entered Iraq last Thursday to Read More...
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The Supreme Court heard arguments from Exxon today that the amount the corporation has been ordered to pay as a result of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill Read More...
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Less than six months before the Olympics begin, host country China is facing a crescendo of criticism that it is not honoring its pledge to improve human Read More...
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The Bush administration has scaled back plans to quickly build a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, delaying completion of the first phase of Read More...
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Harold M. Ickes may be Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s last hope for winning the Democratic presidential nomination. Read More...
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Sen. Barack Obama's challenge to his rivals to rein in spending has boomeranged into a test of Obama’s own ability to balance principle and politics in Read More...
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg writes in a New York Times editorial that he's not running for president. Read More...
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The U.S. Mint has rejected three designs for a commemorative District of Columbia quarter because they include the slogan "Taxation Without Representation. Read More...
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An aggressive campaign by the White House and its allies to win approval of a new electronic spying bill is escalating partisan tensions on Capitol Hill. Read More...
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Could you give up complaining and gossiping for three weeks? The Rev. Will Bowen says it's worth trying, and he has launched a global campaign to help Read More...
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Since the 2000 elections, the number of young Americans going to the polls has increased steadily. But another trend is also emerging: the widening voting Read More...
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Those watching the 2008 electoral process could be forgiven for thinking that the general election for president has already begun. In strong and mocking Read More...
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In their last scheduled debate, Sens. Clinton and Obama talked of their support for Israel and argued over whether to renounce or reject Louis Farrakhan. Read More...
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Sen. John McCain denounced remarks that Bill Cunningham made at a rally for the Republican senator, in which the radio host repeatedly referred to Democratic Read More...
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The Internal Revenue Service is investigating the tax-exempt status of the United Church of Christ for allowing presidential candidate Barack Obama to Read More...
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President Bush is going to hold a news conference to press Congress to pass an intelligence law making it easier for the government to eavesdrop on phone Read More...
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One of the last remaining civil rights leaders of the 60s says he will cast his coveted superdelegate vote for the Illinois senator. Read More...
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John McCain mocked Barack Obama's view of al-Qaida in Iraq, and the Democratic contender responded that GOP policies brought the terrorist group there Read More...
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The commissioners of the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball, the union leaders for those leagues, and other sports officials head to Capitol Hill Read More...
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High court to decide whether to prevent victims of the 19-year old oil spill disaster from collecting a $2.5 billion judgment. Read More...
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William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism has died; he was 82. While the Read More...
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Fed Chairman Bernanke is set to give Congress a fresh assessment of the country’s economic health, which has been pummeled by a housing bust, a credit Read More...
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