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McCain Dancing in End Zone One Week Too Soon

January 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I wanted to shake some sense into John McCain tonight as I watched him give the political equivalent of an end zone dance after defeating Mitt Romney in the Florida Republican primary. Doesn’t he know the big game — Super Tuesday, not the Super Bowl — is still a week away? Mike Huckabee knows it. [...]

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Highlights of Florida GOP Debate Offered

January 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Five Republican candidates participated in the GOP Candidates Debate in Florida tonight. Rather than rehash everything covered during the 90-minute event held on the campus of Florida Atlantic University campus in Boca Raton, I’ll offer a handful of highlights: The biggest buffoon of the night was MSNBC’s Tim Russert. Based on the tone and content [...]

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Anti-McCain Effort Teeters on Brink of Failure

January 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Today, it appears the future of one anti-John McCain effort rests upon how well the Arizona Republican performs in tonight’s Republican Presidential Candidates Debate in Florida and in the upcoming Florida and Super Tuesday primaries. I first reported on the effort — dubbed the ‘Apostrophe T Campaign’ by its organizers — 15 months ago in [...]

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Photos Show Rudy in Three Different Lights

January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

I took the photo below of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani during a Nov. 12 campaign stop in St. Louis. No, that photo wasn’t taken during the trip that landed the former New York City mayor in a St. Louis hospital with “flu-like symptoms.” Had I taken a photo of him during that trip, he [...]

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Blogger Lists Threats to Humanity, A to Z

January 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

A man needs only peruse the headlines of his local newspaper or online news site to encounter a seemingly-endless list of threats to his very existence. That in mind, I decided to provide a one-day snapshot of the current threats, all taken from today’s headlines, in A-to-Z* order: A = Al-Qaeda (See Padilla sentenced to [...]

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Majority of Presidential Candidates Ignore Military

January 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

An article published Saturday in Stars & Stripes offered members of the overseas military community a glimpse into the minds of five presidential candidates on issues related to national defense and military spending. Unfortunately, seven other candidates remain a mystery to readers of overseas daily. Why? Because, apparently, those candidates chose to pass on the [...]

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New Hampshire GOP Presidential Forum Notes

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Tonight’s New Hampshire Republican Presidential Forum on the Fox News Channel began this way: “One of the five men sitting at this table tonight will be the Republican presidential nominee.” Those words, used by Fox News moderator Chris Wallace to open the forum at Saint Anselm College, must have riled supporters of Ron Paul and [...]

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