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Don Surber, on Michael Bloomberg unprecedented one billion dollar self-financed bid for the presidency.
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James Joyner says this morning:
Steve Bainbridge thinks we should take a break from good ol’ boys next November and elect a non-Southern president who’s knowledgeable about high culture, science fiction, football, and is otherwise very much like Steve
I am sure Karl Rove is losing sleep over this one. Chuck Hagel is floating the idea of running as an independent with Michael Bloomberg. I am sure that a Hagel-Bloomberg ticket could get four, or even fives votes. The

Evidently Howard Dean does not like the reporting that he told Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius Katrinaize the recent Kansas tornados.
Sister Toldjah has the low down on Dean’s thugs at the DNC trying to intimidate Free Republic. It is not
Kevin Drum, over at Washington Monthly, shows his usual keen understanding of political history when he asks:
Here’s a question for any old-timers who might be reading this blog: was George Romney’s Mormon faith an issue for him when
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Linda Mason, CBS News, purports to talking about Katie Couric and her sinking ratings, but Mason could just as well be talking of Mrs. Ciinton’s campaign:
Linda Mason: I’m just surprised at how, almost 30 years after I
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I’ve noted in recent days, since the French election, that there is a serious set of parallels between Hillary Clitnon and Segolene Royal. Parallels, in fact, that would seem to indicate some serious trouble in front of Hillary Clinton.
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What we know, in the wake of the Kansas hurricanes which killed ten thousand twelve people, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius issued a Katrina likes statement blaming the response on President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq. The White
Radley Balko, Reason Magazine, has a list of polictians who would rather enforce the law than obey the law: Jon Corzine, Bill Richardson. Bill Janklow, Ed Rendell, and Adrian Fenty. There simply is no excuse for driving at ninety
To a person, each Democratic presidential candidate wants to undermine the global war against jihadist terrorism — wherever it may be and especially in Iraq. The Democrats see a civil war in Iraq, where the Republicans view a growing al
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The junior senator from Illinois must have the wettest feet in town because he keeps putting his feet in his mouth.
RICHMOND, Va. -AP- Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech Tuesday, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died. The death toll was 12.
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Mrs. Clinton’s theory of winning the presidency based her sex took a hit when French voters rejected socialist Ségolène Royal. David Bouder reports on another hit to Mrs. Clinton’s theory:
NEW YORK (AP) – It surely wasn’t what
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Kerstin Gehmlich reports on a potential pitfall for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign:
PARIS (Reuters) – Socialist Segolene Royal failed to win over a majority of women voters in France’s presidential election and may have paid a price for focusing
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Financial Times– Paris– Let the finger-pointing begin. Ségolène Royal’s defeat on Sunday night left the French Socialist party in disarray and searching for someone to blame. There is hardly a shortage of scapegoats.
It is the party’s third consecutive presidential
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