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Mitt Flip-Flops On Tax Cuts
Romney’s new either/or proposition on taxes is just the politics of division, plain and simple. As if you only have the choices of a European tax system or adopt the Reagan t...

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The GOP’s 2008 Prospects
The writing is on the wall for the Republican presidential hopefuls, and it isn’t good. McCain, Romney and Giuliani aren’t very po...

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Chuck Hagel: The “John McCain” of 2008?
It looks like the list of 2008 Presidential wannabees is getting longer. The Washington Post reports today that Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel is mulli...

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Heard About Obama’s Extremist Muslim Education?
Well, CNN debunks it, and they do it the way news organizations should do it…by visiting the school he went to and doing some very basic fact checking. Do note that many on the right...

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Hillary Is Running For President?
What? Since when? Jan. 20, 2006 — Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has announced that she is forming an exploratory committee for president, thereby launching a bid to become ...

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The Right Candidate?
Now this is interesting. Because the top three Presidential nominees are potentially more socially liberal than Bush, Evangelicals are scrat...

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Schwarzenegger To Challenge Boxer?
Senator Schwarzenegger? From Washington Whispers… There’s growing buzz in Washington and California that just re-elected Gov. Arno...

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McGovern Voted For Ford?
Yep. He said it on Larry King Live. “I have to tell you something I’ve never said before publicly. I voted for him in 1976.R...

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Giuliani’s Team Did What?
They left the planbook in a hotel room? Oh no!!! From NY Daily News: Giuliani leads most public opinion polls of Republican primary voters though he has...

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John Edwards Is In
No surprise, but has he figured out something he couldn’t in 2004? After all, he lost the nomination to John Kerry…of all people....

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“End The War. Pay For Health Care.”
That could be the next big Dem meme coming down the pike…so says Dan Conley of Political Insider… Democrats will use the Iraq War...

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