Calderon Hits Stride in Mexico Election

He wasn't expected to win his party's primary, let alone surge ahead in the latest poll for the presidency. But soft-spoken, conservative Felipe Calderon has managed to overtake his charismatic left-wing opponent, and suddenly the campaign is looking like a roller coaster.

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Scalia Dismisses 'Living Constitution'

People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn't change with society are "idiots," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says.

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Weld's Gov Campaign Altered News Clips

GOP gubernatorial candidate William Weld made changes to his campaign Web site after being criticized because newspaper articles posted there were altered to remove criticism of him, and any mention of a criminal investigation at a technical college he once led.

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Senate Intelligence Chairman: Bush Can Spy

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts said Friday the Bush administration's domestic spying is within the president's inherent power under the Constitution, and he rejected criticism that Congress was kept in the dark about it.

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GOP, Dems Spar Over Tax Cut Priorities

Republicans and Democrats are battling over whether investors or alternative minimum tax sufferers should get immediate attention in tax-cut legislation moving through Congress.

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Bush: U.S. Must Get Free of Mideast Oil

A politically weakened President Bush declared Tuesday night that America must break its long dependence on Mideast oil and rebuked critics of his stay-the-course strategy for the unpopular war in Iraq.

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Random thoughts

Thomas Sowell shares with us some of his thoughts on the issues and events of today.

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What Fame Will Bring to DailyKos

From the article: The obvious focus will be on DailyKos founder Mark Moulitsas himself. While his writings—and the controversies they have caused—are an old topic in the blogosphere, they have remained largely unexamined in major media outlets.

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DeLay Exits, Stage (Hard) Right

Lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- "one of my closest and dearest friends," as DeLay once described him -- was one of the chief financiers of DeLay Inc., trading on his access to DeLay and his office to make millions.

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The Two Worlds of the Liberal Blogosphere

From the article: There’s no doubt we’re turning the political world upside down,” said DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas Thursday night as he gave the “keynote” address to open the YearlyKos convention here at the Riviera Hotel. “We have arrived.

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'Godless' author Coulter unknown at church she claims to attend

From the article: Appearing on the cover of her latest manifesto, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, adorned with a wooden crucifix necklace, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter takes on liberals on explicitly religious grounds.

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Tactless: The Evil Brilliance Of Ann Coulter

Say what you will, but professional provocateur Ann Coulter should have a red-state parade thrown in her honor.  I have been pining for months for someone to do what she is doing, to take the debate tactics used by the left and slap them right upside the head with them.

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A Small, Outnumbered Fish

As a Republican in New York City, I think it's fair to say that I'm outnumbered. I don't mind being surrounded by Democrats under two conditions. One, they actually know what they are talking about. Two, they are truly Democrats.

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Explosive Facts

From the article: The grand political fallacy of the age is that the Republicans are the party of wealth, while the Democrats are the party of compassion for the little guy.

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Preserving the Liberal Vision - Part IV

From the article: The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned.

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GWB: Darling of the Left? by Susan Hogarth

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The world according to Hitch

"It's fallen on the United States to be the country that resists the renewal of barbarism, of religious barbarism in the world," Mr. Hitchens answers.

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In a Solidly Conservative State, a Loyal Core of Support for Bush

As President Bush's core group of supporters shrinks in size, it increases in intensity.

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Librarians Defy the FBI

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Heather has two mommies… and three daddies

-- A vote on a constitutional amendment to protect marriage in the United States as a union between one man and one woman is expected on June 6.

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Preserving the Conservative Vision

Dr. Sowell shows how the right is just as guilty as the left in shaping the tone of the media to create a certain vision. From the article: Ronald Reagan made the same argument and his "tax cuts for the rich" produced the same result.

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Political group to hold first ever virtual convention

One of the group's innovative ideas is to make their party convention virtual.

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Germany's Right-Wing Expansion: The Friendly Neo-Nazis

Right-wing radicals in Germany seem out of control -- as if electrified by the recent heated debate in the country over travel warnings for foreigners and so-called "no go" areas for those with darker skin color.

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Things I’m Sick of Hearing

I’m sick of hearing that the president’s low poll numbers are due to his handling of the war on terror, especially the war in Iraq.

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Conservatives Must Hold Firm on Immigration

I strongly believe we need to preserve a Republican majority, even though that majority is often controlled by dictatorial moderates – as in the Gang of 14, seven of which are Republicans.

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Just How Does One Become A Socialist?

I am trying here to get some feedback on how Newsvine members have come to embrace their various economic ideologies. Specifically I am looking for a connection between actual life-experience and the views one holds in regards to economic policy.

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Preserving the Liberal Vision - Part II

Dr. Sowell illustrates how the liberal media distort economic facts. From the article: For decades, the liberal media and the intelligentsia have had to struggle mightily against good economic news. Their whole vision of the world -- and of themselves -- is at stake.

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Preserving the Liberal Vision - Part I

Dr. Sowell shows how the rise of liberalism in the 60's was detrimental to the country and to the black population in this country.

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Op-Ed: Nighthawks - Conservative optimism turns to pessimism

Do you detect a difference among conservatives these days? The talk about exporting American values to the Middle East is waning--eclipsed by worries about whether such values can survive unregulated immigration at home.

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Anti-gay group protests at cemetery

ARLINGTON, Va. - As throngs came to the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery to honor the fallen on Memorial Day, a handful of protesters from an anti-gay group stood across a four-lane highway from a conservative group supporting the troops.

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Bush BS for years to come, unless...

Ok, I'll give it to the Bush administration, they don't lie...but they are some of the best BS'rs in the world.

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