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Entries from December 2007

Blogger Offers Major Bowl Game Predictions

December 31st, 2007 · 7 Comments

I must be honest and admit that the college football bowl games that matter begin tomorrow morning. That in mind, I offer my predictions below for the eight major bowl games* being played during the next seven days: JANUARY 1 OUTBACK BOWL Tampa, 11 a.m. ET, ESPN HD Wisconsin Badgers vs. Tennessee Volunteers Though Wisconsin [...]

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Contest Reveals Liberal Democrat of the Future

December 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments

If Hillary Clinton was in the market for a campaign strategist or speechwriter, she needed only open a newspaper or turn on a television set to find one. Such a staffing prospect gained 15 minutes of fame today in the form of a 6-year-old Texas girl who exhibits all of the tell-tale signs of being [...]

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Why is ‘Grandma Obama’ Still Living in a Hut?

December 29th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Speaking before a crowd of would-be voters in Coralville, Iowa, yesterday, Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama said the following, according to ABC News Political Radar: “It’s that experience, that understanding, not just of what world leaders I went and talked to in the ambassadors house I had tea with, but understanding the lives of the [...]

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Magazine Writers Paint Portraits of Candidates

December 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments

While numerous ballot-casting events are sure to capture the nation’s attention next month, magazine writers are doing their best to make or break some White House bids. In an Elle Magazine article, The H Bomb, it appears writer Judith Pollitt’s mission is to help Democrat Hillary Clinton by painting her as a much-vilified and misunderstood [...]

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It Doesn’t Pay to Be ‘First’ in Pakistan

December 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Today’s assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto marks the second time in 56 years that a “first” prime minister of Pakistan has been assassinated. While Bhutto the first female prime minister of Pakistan, the Southwest Asian nation’s first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assassinated in October 1951, barely four years after taking [...]

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Bhutto Killed One Day After Her Party Goes Online

December 27th, 2007 · 6 Comments

The Pakistan People’s Party, under the leadership of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, used a news release yesterday to announce it had turned to the Internet to raise funds for the party’s efforts to win parliamentary elections in January 2008. The PPP web site , designed and supported by Washington, D.C.-based Aristotle International, Inc., included [...]

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Benazir Bhutto Assassinated!

December 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Under the headline, Pakistan’s Bhutto killed in attack, Pakistani blogger Arshad Jamal reported a short time ago on the assassination death of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Click here to read his account of events thusfar.   More to come. For other Bob McCarty Writes posts on Bhutto’s assassination, click on one of the [...]

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