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Despite Denials, Administration Knew About Bush Donor's…

Politics – Today, the House Oversight Committee released documents connecting the Bush administration to an Iraqi oil deal by Hunt Oil, which is owned by Ray L. Hunt, a former Halliburton board member who has donated $35 million…

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Presidential campaign trail

Politics – McCain to meet Mexican president on Thursday at end of Latin American trip ... Obama, McCain competing for the center, an elusive, disengaged yet crucial crowd ... Wary evangelical leaders discuss rallying around…

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McCain Wants Much Larger US Military

Politics – WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain wants the U.S. military to be much larger than current expansion plans envision, an adviser to the Arizona senator said this week.

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Is McCain's War Record Sacrosanct?

Politics – How do you make the case that a decorated war hero, a former Navy aviator who was shot down behind enemy lines and suffered more than five years' incarceration as a prisoner of war, is not well qualified to be Commander…

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Bush Officials Condoned Regional Iraqi Oil Deal

Politics – Bush administration officials told Hunt Oil last summer that they did not object to its efforts to reach an oil deal with the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq, even while the State Department was publicly…

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McCain Denies Grabbing Foreign Official

Politics – John McCain says he never acted inappropriately toward a one time associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, contradicting a recent claim made by one of the Arizona senator's Republican colleagues.

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Nicaragua: Do What We Want or Else

Politics – Anyone stepping back from the recent hyped-up drama engineered by the minority right wing parties in Nicaragua and their overseas allies will see all the tell-tale signs of yet another instance of US and allied…

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The reluctant operative

Politics – The question bounced around the Internet and tumbled from the lips of Washington insiders: Why would Barack Obama choose Caroline Kennedy, a reluctant public figure with little affection for modern politics, to…

This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / 1 sink

The Non-Issue that Should Be an Issue

Politics – Today our ruling parties tacitly agree that no government department can be eliminated, that major spending reductions are forbidden and that the spending spree must continue.

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The Nation as an Object of Service

Politics – In Stengel's view, only through such service can "citizens" attain fulfillment and all of them together become a unified "We." It's sheer collectivism and nationalism, the history of which isn't terribly attractive.…

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The Predictable Return of the National Black Republican…

Politics – Now that the 2008 election if upon the nation, the NBRA has re-emerged with a new series of ads - one calling the Democratic Party racist, the other calling Barack Obama an elitist.

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Obama challenges nation to give back

Politics – Sen. Barack Obama outlined Wednesday the national-service expansion that his White House would push and fund, saying that the nation must remember that "history calls us" to give back.

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Seven Things Barack Obama Should Do to Keep from Blowing…

Politics – Arianna Huffington: I took part in an interesting panel last night at the Aspen Ideas Festival, discussing the ins and outs of Barack Obama and John McCain with David Brooks, Stuart Rothenberg, Jim Wallis, Jonathan…

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More Homeland Insecurity

Politics – In another bizarre twist to Washington's often illegal, irrational "war on terror", peaceful, lawful human rights campaigners are now apparently being refused entry to the US -- without any right of appeal.

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Iraq Oil Deals Fulfill Cheney's Goals

Politics – Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain "a prisoner of its energy dilemma" as long as Saddam Hussein was…

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Coinkydinks? McCain Travels To Columbia; Hostages Freed

Politics – There are "coincidences", and then there are true coinkydinks. Particularly in the political world.

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Caroline Kennedy: The reluctant operative

Politics – The question bounced around the Internet and tumbled from the lips of Washington insiders: Why would Barack Obama choose Caroline Kennedy, a reluctant public figure with little affection for modern politics, to…

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American President Pleads Guilty to Hopeless Idealism

Politics – Or perhaps after working with Torquemada Cheney all these years, W. simply feels more at home in a monarchy. At the end of dinner he posed under a portrait of Elizabeth I in the drawing room and gayly promised:…

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Obama Reacts to June Job Numbers, Slumping Economy

Politics – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama released a statement reacting to new Labor Department statistics that revealed that another 62,000 people lost their jobs in June.

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McCain tours Basilica, will meet Mexican president

Politics – MEXICO CITY - John McCain toured Mexico's holiest Roman Catholic site and received a blessing from its monsignor Thursday, the final day of a three-day Latin America tour.

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McCain's day to day Campaign

Politics – John McCain put a top adviser in control of day-to-day campaign operations Wednesday after weeks of private concerns among Republicans that the GOP presidential campaign had not made the transition for the general…

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Most Americans Still Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident

Politics – In the early summer days of 1776, a group of men gathered in Philadelphia to craft a document that has become one of history's great declarations of liberty. In an time and place where challenging the King was considered…

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McCain orders shake-up of his campaign

Politics – McCain, responding to Republican concerns that his candidacy was faltering, put Steve Schmidt in charge of day-to-day operations and abandoned an effort to have the campaign run by 11 regional managers, the senator's…

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Analysis: NSA Spying Judge Defends Rule of Law, Congress…

Politics – Days before the Senate will convene to give a final blessing to President Bush's secret, warrantless wiretapping program, a federal court judge ruled that his legal justification for the surveillance has no legal…

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Poll shows Americans cool to Michelle Obama Ã;â;;Ã;«

Politics – She's been at times a lightning rod for criticism from some Republicans over the course of the presidential campaign, and a new poll out Wednesday suggests more Americans hold a negative view toward Michelle Obama…

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