Tonight beating out THE DRUDGE REPORT w/ early returns..

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Edwards Vows Vigorous Campaign in N.H.

Jan 3, 10:21 PM (ET)

By NEDRA PICKLER

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat John Edwards told The Associated Press that the Iowa caucus showed that voters are choosing change over the status quo, and he vowed a vigorous campaign into New Hampshire.

Edwards, who lost a close race to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, said he would continue running as the candidate for middle-class Americans. Edwards finished second and Hillary Rodham Clinton was a close third.

"I mean, we were grotesquely outspent in Iowa five-to-one and the fact that I'm as strong as I am now under these circumstances indicates that this message of change and standing up to corporate greed and fighting for the middle class and jobs really matters," the 2004 vice presidential nominee said in an interview with The Associated Press.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080104/D8TUQDBO0.html

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Democrats | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won Projected winner
Barack Obama 911 38% 0 [Barack Obama]
John Edwards 725 30% 0
Hillary Clinton 714 29% 0
Bill Richardson 51 2% 0
Joe Biden 23 1% 0
Uncommitted 3 0%
Chris Dodd 1 0% 0
Mike Gravel 0 0% 0
Dennis Kucinich 0 0% 0
97% of precincts reporting

Republicans | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won Projected winner
Mike Huckabee 35,257 34% 0 [Mike Huckabee]
Mitt Romney 25,995 25% 0
Fred Thompson 13,786 13% 0
John McCain 13,473 13% 0
Ron Paul 9,992 10% 0
Rudy Giuliani 3,571 3% 0
Duncan Hunter 452 0% 0
85% of precincts reporting

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Chris Dodd Bows Out

DES MOINES, Iowa — Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut was set to abandon his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday after a poor showing in Iowa’s precinct caucuses.

The veteran lawmaker was to announce his decision to supporters at a post-caucus party in Des Moines, according to advisers speaking on the condition of anonymity. He was expected to travel to Connecticut Saturday with his family to thank friends and supporters.

Dodd was never able to break from the pack of Democratic contenders despite his long and distinguished Senate career. He won just 0.02 percent of the state’s caucus-goers.


http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/03/chris-dodd-abandons-presidential-campaign-after-poor-showing-in-iowa/

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Family leaders call Romney 'disaster'
Letter criticizes 'deceptive rhetoric' around candidate
Posted: January 3, 2008
1:00 a.m. Eastern

A coalition of leaders on family issues has released a letter warning about what they describe as the deception being assembled around former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

"Most of us are not allied with any presidential candidate," the letter says. "But we are troubled by the unethical and Orwellian cover-up of Mitt Romney's role in catastrophic events in Massachusetts, once the cradle of American liberty.

"Actions he took as governor were beyond the pale," the letter continued.
RINO Romney..just wrong for America!



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McCain: Negative campaigns do not work
1/3/2008, 10:00 p.m. EST
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
The Associated Press

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Sen. John McCain congratulated rival Mike Huckabee on winning Iowa's presidential caucuses Thursday and said it shows that negative campaigns — such as opponent Mitt Romney's — are doomed to fail.

Romney spent the final few weeks before Iowa cast the first votes of the 2008 presidential election engaged in an aggressive contest with Huckabee, a Baptist pastor turned politician. Huckabee resisted the temptation to respond in kind, instead relying on his wit and humor. McCain said civility is one of the lessons to take from Iowa's results.

"One, you can't buy an election in Iowa," said McCain, whose own financial woes have affected his campaign. "And two, negative campaigns don't work. They don't work there and they don't work here in New Hampshire."

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/politics-12/119941586736270.xml&storylist=politics

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Obama wins Iowa as candidate for change

* Story Highlights
* NEW: Obama supporters, many young, scream "We did it!"
* Possibility looming that Clinton may finish in third place
* Poll: 51 percent of voters who said change was top issue picked Obama

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/03/iowa.dems/index.html

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Female, religious voters propel Huckabee to victory in Iowa

* Story Highlights
* Evangelical Christians made up majority of Republican caucus-goers
* Huckabee had strong support from people who said religious beliefs matter
* He picked up support from about 40 percent of female GOP caucus-goers

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/03/iowa.gop/index.html

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Sources: Bloomberg Camp Researches Target States
Aides Also Look Into States That Have Elected Jewish Officials
Reporting
Marcia Kramer
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Most of the presidential candidates may be freezing in Iowa, but rumored contender Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn't have to leave New York City to capture the presidential buzz.

"While he says he's not a candidate, he's doing everything in his power short of being a candidate to get people to look at him and consider him," said Micheline Blum, a professor at Baruch College.

And sources tell CBS 2 that intimates of Bloomberg have already had discussions about which states to target if he does indeed decide to run.

STORY & VIDEO: http://wcbstv.com/local/bloomberg.jewish.votes.2.622741.html

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Democrats | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won Projected winner
Barack Obama 940 38% 0 [Barack Obama]
John Edwards 744 30% 0
Hillary Clinton 737 29% 0
Bill Richardson 53 2% 0
Joe Biden 23 1% 0
Uncommitted 3 0%
Chris Dodd 1 0% 0
Mike Gravel 0 0% 0
Dennis Kucinich 0 0% 0
100% of precincts reporting

Republicans | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won Projected winner
Mike Huckabee 35,621 34% 0 [Mike Huckabee]
Mitt Romney 26,524 25% 0
Fred Thompson 13,932 13% 0
John McCain 13,693 13% 0
Ron Paul 10,184 10% 0
Rudy Giuliani 3,613 3% 0
Duncan Hunter 458 0% 0
87% of precincts reporting

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Listen to your gut – not the talking heads!***NEW***
Posted: January 3, 2008
1:00 a.m. Eastern

It is refreshing to see the rich, powerful and popular people seeking the highest office in our land grovel. We watch in awe, if not amusement, as those familiar faces trudge through ice and snow in Iowa and New Hampshire, eyes red from lack of sleep, hoping to attract one last voter or caucus-goer. As entertaining as this quadrennial occurrence may be, don't let the results from those two states sway you.

Despite all the close-up media coverage, there is only a relative handful of voters in those states who care enough to brave the harsh winter weather and the crowded conditions to rub elbows and eyebrows with the candidates and, chances are, you know as much or more about these folks as the people in Iowa or New Hampshire who had a "close encounter" with one.

Don't listen to the pundits! Stop up your ears if necessary. Don't rely on the polls! When the primary is held in your state, do your civic duty and vote for the candidate whom you believe will be the best leader for our country.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59496

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Thompson Camp Denies Pullout from Campaign***NEW***
By Penny Starr
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
January 03, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - Just hours before voting got under way, a story posted by Politico.com had strategists for former Sen. Fred Thompson scrambling to deny claims by unnamed sources that the GOP hopeful would step down if he had a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200801/POL20080103d.html

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Huckabee and Education***NEW***
By Terence P. Jeffrey
CNSNews.com Editor in Chief
January 03, 2008

"I'm probably one of the few candidates you have ever seen that has the recommendation of (a National Education Association) chapter, but also has the strong national recommendation of homeschoolers," former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told me in an interview.

This unusual polarity points simultaneously to Huckabee's greatest strength and potential weakness as a Republican presidential candidate.

Among viable candidates, Huckabee is the strongest on the most important social issues, abortion and marriage, which helps explain his appeal to the culturally conservative families represented by Home School Legal Defense Association Chairman Mike Farris, who personally endorsed Huckabee.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200801/COM20080103a.html

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Supreme Court Justice Bill Clinton?+++NEW+++
Posted: 11:52 AM ET

WASHINGTON (CNN) — It is a title that would be sure to bring either fear or cheer to many Americans, depending on your political leanings: Supreme Court Justice Bill Clinton.

That provocative possibility has long been whispered in legal and political circles ever since Sen. Hillary Clinton became a viable candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Now a respected conservative law professor has openly predicted a future President Clinton would name her husband to the high court if a vacancy occurred.

Pepperdine Law School's Douglas Kmiec said, "The former president would be intrigued by court service and many would cheer him on."
O great! Another job w/ lots of interns..

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/03/supreme-court-justice-bill-clinton/

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Conservative Blackout+++NEW+++
By Lisa Fabrizio | View comments | Print This Article Print This Article

Candidates like Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson don’t have the ‘skill sets’ necessary to please the national media, but instead, have what really matters: true conservative credentials.

Back in the early days of the 2000 presidential campaign, right after John McCain beat George W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary, there were many dire media predictions along the lines of, “If Bush doesn't turn things around quickly it could turn into a McCain rout.” I thought: what in heaven’s name is going on here? Bush has all the endorsements, a terrific organization and wads of money. Could his candidacy be blasted out of contention by the machinations of the mainstream media?

Unfortunately for the media, the answer was no. Despite their best efforts, Bush regained his momentum in South Carolina — which, of course, prompted charges of dirty dealings — and went on to easily capture the nomination. Because once the process moved out of the realm of the polls and the punditry, conservative voters made their voices heard at the voting booth.

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/01/04/conservative-blackout/

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Why delegates matter in the presidential race+++NEW+++

* Story Highlights
* Candidates are trying to win a majority of delegates during the nomination process
* The delegates then vote for a nominee at the party conventions
* The Democratic and Republican parties use different methods to award delegates

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/02/delegate.explainer/index.html

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Analysis: Calendar Puts Pressure on GOP+++NEW+++

Jan 4, 8:06 AM (ET)

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - An accelerated primary calendar gives Mike Huckabee little time to savor his Iowa win and Mitt Romney a fleeting chance to stage a comeback in New Hampshire, all while John McCain angles to seize the conversation with a reprise of his 2000 primary victory.

The pivotal moment in the five-day mini-campaign could come Saturday, when the GOP presidential field convenes in Manchester for their only debate between Thursday's caucuses and next Tuesday's primary.

For Huckabee, the challenge is to capitalize on his upset win in Iowa, where overwhelming support from evangelicals cemented a victory that had been projected in polls during the past month. It's a different story in secular New Hampshire, where he pulled only 10 percent of the vote in a recent survey.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080104/D8TV2VQO0.html

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Iran's Dangerous Nuke Game: Why Israel Might Rush to Strike

Peter Brookes

Iran turned up the heat this week on still-simmering concerns about its atomic aspirations. It crowed that its 1,000-megawatt Bushehr nuclear power plant would be "online" as early as this spring, putting in place another important building block of its nuclear program.

That sort of news can't help but rattle the steadiest of nerves, no matter what the (narrowly focused) US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear-weapons program said about the current state of affairs.


Seemingly not swayed one iota by the NIE's conclusions, you have to wonder if Israel - the country most threatened by an Iranian nuclear (weapons) breakout - might take matters into its own hands.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/global.php?id=1386052

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Scientists Warn Against Religious Belief in Global Warming
By Josiah Ryan
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
January 04, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - Commentary from 400 prominent scientists from around the world, which was included in a U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee report released last week, warns of a religious-like belief in global warming in the scientific community.

In opposition to the "consensus" reached by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) last year, the committee report, sponsored by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), presents writings and statements from scientists who expressed skepticism or disbelief in global warming throughout 2007.

"It seems that in the climatic area a new faith fight has broken out, which has all the characteristics of historical religion," warned professor Francis Massen of the Physics Laboratory in Luxemburg, one of the scientists included in the report.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200801/CUL20080104a.html

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PEGGY NOONAN

Out With the Old, In With the New
Obama and Huckabee rise; Mrs. Clinton falls.

http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110011083

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Top court to decide death penalty for child rape

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court said on Friday it would decide whether the death penalty can be imposed for the crime of raping a child, expanding its review of how capital punishment is carried out in the United States.

The nation's highest court agreed to hear an appeal by a Louisiana man who is the only person in the United States on death row for a crime other than murder. He is arguing the death penalty for child rape violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

The decision to rule on the issue came just three days before the Supreme Court hears one of the most important death penalty cases in years over a challenge to the lethal injection method of execution used across the United States.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0432297020080104?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

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ABC Cuts 3 From Presidential Debates
Jan 4 09:41 AM US/Eastern
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer
24 Comments
New Hampshire Debate Exclusions Condemned by Manchester Newspaper/Video On Article

NEW YORK (AP) - ABC News is eliminating Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter and Democrats Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel from its prime- time presidential debates Saturday night because they did not meet benchmarks for their support.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TV4CIG0&show_article=1

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Al-Qaida Uses Women As Suicide Attackers

Friday, January 4, 2008 4:00 PM

BAGHDAD -- Three female suicide bombers blew themselves up within a few weeks late last year in Iraq, killing or wounding dozens _ a tactic that goes against religious taboos on involving women in fighting and could indicate insurgents are growing increasingly desperate.

The bombings come as U.S.-led coalition forces are increasingly catching militants suspected of training women to become human bombs or finding evidence of efforts by al-Qaida in Iraq to recruit women, according to military records.

With coalition forces pushing extremists out of former strongholds and shrinking their pool of potential recruits, the militants are being forced to come up with other methods to penetrate stiffened security measures, said Diaa Rashwan, who follows Islamic militancy for Egypt's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.

http://www.newsmax.com/international/iraq_female_bombers/2008/01/04/61824.html

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WASHINGTON — Six months ago, the Bush administration quietly eased some restrictions on the export of politically delicate technologies to China. The new approach was intended to help American companies increase sales of high-tech equipment to China despite tight curbs on sharing technology that might have military applications.

But today the administration is facing questions from weapons experts about whether some equipment — newly authorized for export to Chinese companies deemed trustworthy by Washington — could instead end up helping China modernize its military. Equally worrisome, the weapons experts say, is the possibility that China could share the technology with Iran or Syria.

Kucinich files complaint on ABC debate (E.T. crying)

Fight those faceless TV execs Dennis! You go cadet!

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The state attorney general's office said it was assisting the Nueces County district attorney in the criminal investigation of Mauricio Celis, 36, who has given money to major Democratic candidates including Hillary Clinton and is the subject of numerous ongoing lawsuits and charges.

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Denying Muslim Visas+++SAT. ADDITION+++


INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Posted 1/4/2008

Immigration: Ron Paul may be a fringe presidential candidate, but Muslim student visas is no fringe topic. It threatens homeland security, and the Republican gadfly deserves credit for raising the issue.

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=284342404135305

OK..most know I'm harsh re:illegals..but welcoming to all legals...this would include in my opinion not singling out muslim student visas...coming from the area in Brooklyn I live in arabs, muslims,immigrants are my neighbors,of course there have been known terrorists passing through or eminating from this area...but re: students I can't see punishing the whole class of people.
Again another Paul nutty idea!

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Pat Robertson predicts a year of violence, recession+++SAT. ADDITION+++

Associated Press Staff Reports OneNewsNow.com
January 5, 2008

NORFOLK, Va. - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says 2008 will be a year of violence worldwide and a recession in the United States, followed by a major stock-market crash by 2010.

Sharing what he believes God has told him about the year ahead is an annual tradition for Robertson.

On Wednesday's "700 Club" broadcast, the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network predicted that evangelism will increase and more people will seek God as the chaos develops.
Robertson said, "We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world."

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2008/01/pat_robertson_predicts_a_year.php

Congress Shirking Its Duty in Border Control Meltdown+++SAT. ADDITION+++
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Plato, Greek philosopher

Thousands Of Voters Change Party Affiliation+++SAT. ADDITION+++
From Dem To GOP---In Fla.

Bhutto's Husband Calls for UN Probe+++SAT. ADDITION+++

Newt Gingrich Out-Greens Al Gore?+++SAT. LATE ADDITION+++
Newt Gingrich has guzzled Al Gore’s Kool-Aid. Now he wants us and the Republican 2008 presidential candidates to drink it, too.

Mexican trucks allowed in U.S. despite ban+++SAT. ADDITION+++
Mexican 18-wheelers are being allowed deep into the U.S. interior, despite legislation last year to end funding for a pilot program authorizing the trucks to travel freely.

Global Hot Air from the BBC+++SAT. LATE ADDITION+++

Huckabee Son in Car Wreck+++SAT. LATE ADDITION+++

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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's oldest son, John Mark, was treated at a hospital and released after being injured in a car wreck Friday, the Huckabee campaign said.

The former Arkansas governor and his wife, Janet, campaigning in New Hampshire following his victory in the Iowa caucuses Thursday, spoke with their son while he was in the hospital in Des Moines.

TV VIDEO: Huckabee Discusses Iowa Victory!+++SAT. LATE ADDITION+++

To Friends and Family, a Fallen Firefighter Was ‘Johnny Nice Guy’

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THE NOTE: Alright for Fighting
Obama, Romney to be Targets in ABC's Saturday Night Debates


MANCHESTER, N.H. --

Ten presidential candidates (six Republicans, four Democrats) will pull up swiveling chairs and take to the very same debate stage Saturday night in Manchester for two of those encounters on the presidential calendar that merit circling in bright red (and blue) magic marker.

ABC's Charles Gibson has a bit of a different format in mind for the evening than we've seen in previous encounters -- more genial than gotcha, like a very chatty (and very well-lit) kitchen table. But the candidates will surely provide the fireworks: In this excruciatingly brief window between Iowa and New Hampshire, subtly just doesn't work.

The dynamics would be different even if the format was the same: We have the time crunch, of course, but we also have new frontrunners: "Barack Obama enters Saturday's Democratic debate as the undisputed front-runner with a bull's-eye on his back -- and a humbled and hobbled Hillary Clinton itching to open fire," writes the New York Daily News troika of Michael McAuliff, Ken Bazinet, and Michael Saul.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=3105288&page=1

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The Political Wire: Big-Time Obama Bounce
by FOXNews.com
Saturday, January 5, 2008
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FOX News (2:53 p.m. ET)

New Hampshire polls are all over the board, but the latest from Rasmussen shows Barack Obama with a big-time bump after his Iowa caucus win Thursday.

The Jan. 4 poll gives the Illinois senator a 10-point lead over rival Hillary Clinton, who placed third in Iowa.

The survey of 510 likely voters shows Obama with 37 percent, Clinton with 27 percent and John Edwards with 19 percent. Compare that with a Dec. 18 Rasmussen poll that put Clinton at 31 percent and Obama at 28 percent.

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At Dems Dinner, Clinton's Performance is Lackluster while Obama Remains Strong

January 05, 2008 9:14 AM

ABC News' Eloise Harper and Sunlen Miller Report: Senator Clinton just took the stage in a large auditorium for the 100 Club Dinner in the Hampshire Dome in Milford, NH. Clinton launched a new slogan with a sign that just says READY. The change message that Clinton has been driving hard was tampered down in this speech – and instead Clinton focused on being "ready to make the changes that America deserves," and on a "new beginning."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/at-dems-dinner.html

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ABC New Hampshire Debate tonight
Rick Moran

In a unique format, ABC will host two debates tonight starting at 7:00 PM EDT with the Republicans taking the stage at St. Anselm College first followed immediately by the Democrats 90 minutes later:

The network set rules to narrow the field. Candidates had to meet at least one of three criteria: place first through fourth in Iowa, poll 5 percent or higher in one of the last four major New Hampshire surveys, or poll 5 percent or higher in one of the last four major national surveys.

Democrats Joe Biden and Chris Dodd took some of the pressure off ABC by quitting the race Thursday night.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/01/abc_new_hampshire_debate_tonig.html

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GOP Candidates Back Bush Terror Strategy in New Hampshire Debate
by Associated Press
Saturday, January 5, 2008

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. John McCain said Saturday night he alone among Republican presidential contenders criticized President Bush’s initial strategy in the war on Iraq, but he and the other leading hopefuls chorused support for the administration’s overall war on terror.

“We are succeeding now in Iraq. As we blame the president for the failed strategy we should give him credit” for current success, McCain said in a 90-minute debate three days before New Hampshire holds the first primary of the 2008 presidential campaign.

The Democrats are scheduled to debate in a similar format later in the evening.

http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/05/gop-candidates-back-bush-terror-strategy-in-new-hampshire-debate/

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Election 2008: New Hampshire Democratic Primary
New Hampshire: Obama 37% Clinton 27%
Saturday, January 05, 2008

Barack Obama, fresh from his victory in Iowa, now holds a ten point lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the race found Obama with 37% of the vote while Clinton earns 27%. John Edwards is the only other candidate in double digits, with 19% support. Bill Richardson is the choice for 8%.

In a pre-Christmas poll, Clinton led Obama by three. In the poll before that, Obama led Clinton by three.

Clinton still leads nationally in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll but Rasmussen Markets data suggests the race for the nomination is essentially even.


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Clinton to Obama: Stop Changing Positions
by Associated Press
Saturday, January 5, 2008

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democratic presidential front-runner no longer, accused campaign rival Barack Obama of changing his positions on health care and “a number of issues” Saturday night in a debate three days before the New Hampshire primary.

“I have been entirely consistent in my position,” countered Obama, adding that he and Clinton have a philosophical disagreement over her proposal to require Americans to purchase health insurance or face a penalty from the government.

Obama won the kickoff Iowa caucuses last Thursday, and his remaining rivals — Clinton, former Sen. John Edwards and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson — can ill afford for him to gain a victory in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary as well.

http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/05/dems-agree-on-right-to-pursue-usama-bin-laden-in-pakistan/

Narrowed Democratic Field Faces Off in First Debate Since Iowa's Stunning Results

VIDEO:News: Undecided Voters in New Hampshire
Frank Luntz right after w/ voters---Obama was their favorite!

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CNN's Rowland Martin Suggests Most Pro-Lifers Are 'Hateful'
By Brad Wilmouth | January 5, 2008 - 19:15 ET

On Friday afternoon, CNN's liberal contributor Rowland Martin seemed to suggest that most people who are pro-life are "hateful" as he was describing Mike Huckabee's need to reach out to non-evangelical voters. During an appearance on CNN Newsroom at about 1:47 p.m. with anchor Kyra Phillips, Martin contended that Huckabee needs to pursue a strategy similar to that of President Bush in 2000: "Sure, [Huckabee is] a staunch pro-life person, but he isn't perceived as being hateful as other people who are pro-life." (Transcript follows)

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Voter challenges Romney on immigration

A weekend crammed with campaigning already is well underway in New Hampshire, which votes Tuesday in presidential primaries.

USA TODAY's David Jackson says Republican Mitt Romney faced some tough questioning at a town hall this morning in Derry. Here's his report:

A man who proclaimed himself a proud Irish immigrant drew cat-calls by asking "have you no shame?" when it comes to immigration policy. "Just remember they're human," the man said, as Romney supporters booed and one man shouted, "Shut up!"

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/01/voter-challenge.html

YES, PLEASE SHUT-UP; be they from Ireland, Japan or Mexico if you are here illegally you are a felon..and we are a nation of laws.
In my days of drinking & hanging out w/ coworkers & friends..we always favored NYC Irish bars..and made many Irish friends; some illegal.
I even am a former IRA supporter & admire the Irish spirit..but go back to your respective countries and get in line!

LIFESITE: Pro-life Huckabee Wins First Round in Hotly Contested Republican Race

NYT plays the race card for Obama

MSM Ignores Another Hillary Lie

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Kenya ready to form unity government

Airlines Raise Fares As Oil Prices Surge

Bill Bradley to endorse Obama for president

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Democrat hopes for boost from support of ex-presidential hopeful, senator

Hmmmmm..establishment dems moving his way..look maybe for Gore next.

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McCain takes N.H. lead; Obama, Clinton tie

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — A new poll released by WMUR and the University of New Hampshire Saturday shows John McCain pulling into a lead over Mitt Romney in the Republican race and Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton in a tie on the Democratic side.

Among Republicans, McCain appears to have gained strength from Romney’s Iowa caucus loss and momentum through intensive campaigning here.

According to the new survey, the Arizona senator leads Romney by 6 percentage points, 33 percent to 27 percent. McCain has gained 4 points since the previous WMUR/UNH survey, taken before Iowa, while Romney has dropped by 2 points.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7748.html

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Buchanan: Reagan Coalition Dead

Gibson sits back as candidates spar

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7 Million Non-Voting Evangelicals the Big Prize

WASHINGTON - As presidential hopefuls chase after votes in every nook and cranny, a Christian author pointed to a significant voting block they might have overlooked.

Candidates, to their credit, have persistently pursued evangelical caucus-goers and primary voters without rest as they play a major role in determining the results in several early voting states. However, the author of Understanding Evangelicals: A Guide to Jesusland highlighted a potentially untapped reservoir of evangelical voters.

“As I wrote in my book, the nearly 7 million evangelical voters who did not vote in 2004 are the prize to win, not the ‘undecided’ or ‘independent voters,’” David Jeffers contends.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080105/30747_Author:__7_Million_Non-Voting_Evangelicals_the_Big_Prize.htm

Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims

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Islamic extremists have created "no-go" areas across Britain where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter, one of the Church of England's most senior bishops warns today.

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Clinton argues she is more pro-abortion than Obama
Nedra Pickler - Associated Press Writer OneNewsNow.com
January 6, 2008

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton criticizes rival Barack Obama's record on abortion rights in a mailing sent to New Hampshire voters.

The mailer says that seven times during his time in the Illinois state Senate, Obama declined to take a position on abortion bills, while Clinton has been a defender of abortion rights.

During his eight years in the legislature, Obama cast a number of votes on abortion and received a 100 percent rating from the Illinois Planned Parenthood Council for his support of abortion rights, family planning services and health insurance coverage for female contraceptives. He voted against requiring medical care for aborted babies who survive, a vote that especially riled abortion opponents.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2008/01/clinton_argues_she_is_more_pro.php

Any Christian that supports either of these pro-abortion pro so called gay rights (a term that angers many people of color)..has blood on their hands (in my humble opinion).
Hillary & Obama are true Bible believing Christians..right???????????????????????????

A cold spell soon to replace global warming
Stock up on fur coats and felt boots!

American Al Qaeda [Scum] Leader To Bush: 'We Will Be Waiting For You'

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Native Californian Al Qaeda Leader Makes Threats Against Bush Middle East Visit

US Airways, airport seek trial in imams' suit

Magnets Increase Blood Flow, Reduce Swelling
I am a witness that magnets can help w/ knee pain, etc..as part of my treatment I typically have accupuncture twice a week & my accupuncturist afterwards applies magnets to my knees.Many athletes swear to their effectiveness.

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You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide: 925 Criminal Aliens Arrested

Jim Kouri, CPP

Officials with the Homeland Security Department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that deportation officers assigned to the Baltimore Office made a record number of arrests in fiscal year 2007.

The Baltimore Field Office area of responsibility covers all of Maryland. In the Baltimore Field Office, there were 924 arrests made in FY 2007 – an increase from the 592 arrests made in FY 2006.

ICE established its Fugitive Operations Program in 2003 to eliminate the nation's backlog of immigration fugitives and ensure that deportation orders handed down by immigration judges are enforced. The teams prioritize cases involving immigration violators who pose a threat to national security and community safety. These include child sexual exploiters, suspected gang members and those who have convictions for any violent crimes.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=1386061

Lieberman: McCain Has 'Better Judgment' Than to Name Him VP

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Islamic Misogyny
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, January 04, 2008

A Muslim girl has been murdered, and the Left, which claims to care about women and their oppression, is silent.

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=524699AF-5413-40C8-9E8F-5FC3C6C72B8E

Environmentally friendly light bulbs ‘can give you skin cancer’

CARTOON: Establishment road kill

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Election 2008: New Hampshire Democratic Primary***NEW***
New Hampshire: Obama 39% Clinton 27%

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Hillary Clinton: Don't Stop Thinking About Yesterday ...***NEW***

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Why I Believe Bush Must Go***NEW***
Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse.

By George McGovern
Sunday, January 6, 2008

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010404308_pf.html

Parties, candidates must make sure caucuses are clean***NEW***
This story was run last month, then & now there was some concern that Obama would pack out the caucuses w/ out of state students.

NOTE: Even 17 year olds, that turn 18 @ election time were allowed to vote..amazing!

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CNN MOVES ON FOX: PLANS RERUN DEBATE AS REPUBLICANS GO LIVE***NEW***
Sun Jan 06 2008 12:24:15 ET

CNN has decided to air an encore presentation of last night's ABCWMURFACEBOOK debates - at the same time FOXNEWS is airing its live Republican debate!

"We're not trying to [stick it to FOX]. If that's one of the off-chutes of it, so be it," CNN President Jon Klein Klein jabbed on CNN's 'RELIABLE SOURCES'.

CNN's aggressive counter-programming move comes as cable news ratings are in an upswing.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

Man, a repeat w/ Wooooffffffffffff Blitzer, a media prosty would turn my stomach.But the Clinton News Network is trying to divert attention from tonight's FOX NEWS event w/ the GOPers.

Anyhow don't forget:

GOP HOPEFULS SQUARE OFF TONIGHT, 8 PM ON FNC

400K Without Power Amid Calif. Storm***NEW***

Al Qaeda Offers Cell-Phone Downloads of Bin Laden, Al-Zawahiri Videos***NEW***

THERE WILL BE BLOOD***NEW***
NY POST: RISE OF OBAMA, HUCKABEE MEANS NOMINEE BATTLES COULD GO TO THE CONVENTIONS

Regulators' assault plan puts church in crosshairs***NEW***

Post-Bhutto Pakistan Powder Keg***NEW***
By former NY Mayor Ed Koch..I recently said hello to the former mayor in mid-town Manhattan, for guy w/ past medical problems & up in age he looked quite well...however I am glad I was in NJ during the Koch & Dinkins liberal days @ City Hall,when people & businesses were fleeing a failing city.

NEWS WEEK: Reviving Camelot?***NEW***
The media just loves Obama, and I must admit his family & the candidate are straight out of central casting. One thing though as I watched him on C-Span & how he jumps into & works a crowd..I think about the security risks & the nuts that are out there.A new CNN poll has him 10 pts. ahead.

Ron Paul shocker: No more 'anchor babies'***NEW***

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GOP gadfly's 'anti-immigrant' ad irks supporters

Roger Clemens, Trainer Asked To Testify Before Congress***NEW***
Great, now what do I do with my "CLEMENS 300 WINS" NY Yankees custom cap???

The NY GIANTS..NY & NJ's favorite team! GO GIANTS!

NY POST: GIANT STEP***NEW***
ELI AND DEFENSE CRUSH BUCS

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Election 2008: New Hampshire Republican Primary***NEW***
New Hampshire: McCain 32% Romney 30%

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NY POST:WORDS OF THE PROFIT***NEW***
AT AMERICA’S MOST POPULAR CHURCH, GOD IS IN THE NET SALES

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In GOP Forum, Sparks Fly Over Taxes, Illegal Immigration and Change in D.C.
by FOXNews.com

Republican candidates clashed over taxes, illegal immigration and change in Washington at the FOX News Presidential Forum Sunday night as the verbal sparring centered on who’s got the influence and record to fix Washington.

Speaking in tax-averse New Hampshire ahead of Tuesday’s primary, the five GOP candidates polling 10 percent or higher nationally ripped at each other’s records while striving to capture the essence of Ronald Reagan that the Republican base hopes to recover 20 years after the 40th president’s departure from Washington.

But immediately dispensing with Reagan’s 11th commandment not to speak ill of other Republicans, Mitt Romney laid the first blow on his top rival, John McCain.

http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/06/gop-candidates-to-strut-their-stuff-in-fox-news-presidential-forum/

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Obama Calls Rap Clinton in NH

Sunday, January 6, 2008 6:00 PM

Barack Obama's campaign fought back against rival Hillary Rodham Clinton Sunday in an under-the-radar dispute over who would best protect abortion rights

Obama's campaign made automated phone calls to New Hampshire voters accusing Clinton of "last-minute smears."

The recorded message came in response to a Clinton mailing that said Obama failed to stand up for the right to choose abortion. The mailing said that while serving in the state Senate in Illinois, Obama voted "present" seven times on abortion legislation instead of taking a yes or no position.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/clinton_obama_abortion/2008/01/06/62152.html

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Pope Calls for Special Prayers for Clergy Sex Abuse Victims

Sunday, January 06, 2008

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has called on Roman Catholics to pray “in perpetuity” to cleanse the Church of clergy who have sexually abused minors, The Times of London reports.

Vatican officials said that every parish or institution should designate a person or group each day to conduct special prayer sessions worldwide for the victims of sexual abuse by priests.

A Vatican cardinal sent out a letter to bishops urging them to promote initiatives in their dioceses for special prayers, Cardinal Claudio Hummes said in an interview published in Saturday's edition of Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano. He did not indicate when such initiatives might begin.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,320511,00.html

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MENACE FAUX POPULISM OF HUCK, EDWARDS
By GEORGE F. WILL


January 6, 2008 -- Like Job after losing his camels and acquiring boils, the conservative movement is in distress. Mike Huckabee shreds the compact that has held the movement's two tendencies in sometimes uneasy equipoise. Social conservatives, many of whom share Huckabee's desire to “take back this nation for Christ," have collaborated with limited-government, market-oriented, capitalism-defending conservatives who want to take back the nation for James Madison. Under the doctrine that conservatives call “fusion," each faction has respected the other's agenda. Huckabee aggressively repudiates the Madisonians.

He and John Edwards, flaunting their histrionic humility in order to promote their curdled populism, hawked strikingly similar messages in Iowa, encouraging self-pity and economic hypochondria. Edwards and Huckabee lament a shrinking middle class. Well.

Economist Stephen Rose, defining the middle class as households with annual incomes between $30,000 and $100,000, says a smaller percentage of Americans are in that category than in 1979 - because the percentage of Americans earning more than $100,000 has doubled from 12 to 24, while the percentage earning less than $30,000 is unchanged. “So," Rose says, “the entire ‘decline' of the middle class came from people moving up the income ladder." Even as housing values declined in 2007, the net worth of households increased.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01062008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_phantom_menace_609746.htm

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Br-r-r! Where did global warming go?
Email|Print| Text size – + By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / January 6, 2008

THE STARK headline appeared just over a year ago. "2007 to be 'warmest on record,' " BBC News reported on Jan. 4, 2007. Citing experts in the British government's Meteorological Office, the story announced that "the world is likely to experience the warmest year on record in 2007," surpassing the all-time high reached in 1998.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the planetary hot flash: Much of the planet grew bitterly cold.

In South America, for example, the start of winter last year was one of the coldest ever observed. According to Eugenio Hackbart, chief meteorologist of the MetSul Weather Center in Brazil, "a brutal cold wave brought record low temperatures, widespread frost, snow, and major energy disruption." In Buenos Aires, it snowed for the first time in 89 years, while in Peru the cold was so intense that hundreds of people died and the government declared a state of emergency in 14 of the country's 24 provinces. In August, Chile's agriculture minister lamented "the toughest winter we have seen in the past 50 years," which caused losses of at least $200 million in destroyed crops and livestock.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/01/06/br_r_r_where_did_global_warming_go/

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All that matters, they argue, is the delegate math. Since the largest voting states begin going to the polls with the Florida primary on January 29, he believes that the current frenzies over Iowa and New Hampshire are beside the points. He figures if he can win Florida the rest of the Republican Party will close ranks behind him. So America's Mayor has effectively put all his hope for presidency in one state, where he will jet on Wednesday for another tour, which will continue over the weekend.

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"Satanists" charges in Alabama church fires
Steve Coleman- Associated Press Religion Editor OneNewsNow.com

January 8, 2008

PHENIX CITY, Ala.- Two men who authorities say dabbled in devil worship have been arrested in a rash of church arsons and vandalism in rural eastern Alabama.
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Three church fires were set last week and a fourth was vandalized. The vandalism included scrawling on the wall of one church's Sunday school classroom: "Teach children to worship Satan!!"

Geoffrey Parquette and James Clark, both 21, have entered not guilty pleas. Neither had an attorney at their court appearance yesterday and both remain in custody.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2008/01/satanists_charges_in_alabama_c.php

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Says, "Political leaders, of whatever kind, should defend this fundamental institution, the basic cell of society"

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GOP hopeful says wouldn't have blown 'Tora Bora' chance

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Clinton’s Civil Rights Lesson

By Sarah Wheaton

DOVER, N.H. — As they barnstorm through New Hampshire, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband are often introduced by supporters who once backed another candidate but converted to her cause.

Today, in Dover, Francine Torge, a former John Edwards supporter, said this while introducing Mrs. Clinton: “Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually” passed the civil rights legislation.

The comment, an apparent reference to Senator Barack Obama, is particularly striking given documented fears among blacks that Mr. Obama will be assassinated if elected.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/civilrights/

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Study: 9/11 stress linked to heart trouble

By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY
Those who felt terribly stressed after the Sept. 11 attacks and continue to worry about terrorism are developing cardiac problems at much higher rates than other Americans, suggests a groundbreaking study out Monday.

It's the first large report to track the health of adults from before 9/11 to see how their responses to the terrorist attack may be contributing to illness years later.

"You don't have to be directly exposed to attacks or have pre-existing health problems to see some bad effects. It's how you react to the terrorism that counts," says Roxane Cohen Silver, a psychologist at the University of California-Irvine.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-07-Heart911-me_N.htm?csp=1

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Scholar says war against global jihad cannot be burden of one political party
Chad Groening OneNewsNow.com
January 8, 2008 A Mosque

New York Times best-selling author George Weigel says the United States cannot win the war against global Islamic Jihad until both political parties understand the motives behind jihadists and why they commit acts of terror.
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Weigel's book is entitled Faith, Reason, and The War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action. The book was born of a desire to help his fellow citizens in this election year, he says, and to help them to fully understand the threat of jihadist terrorism. The future of the human race cannot be the burden of one political party, argues Weigel. He believes the next president will have no choice but to confront this Islamic threat.

"I hope he or she understands that this kind of multi-generational contest can only be contested by America together," he says.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2008/01/scholar_says_the_war_against_g.php

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Man's Baby Was State's First Of 2008

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Speculation over Bloomberg candidacy grows

By Christopher Grimes in New York

Michael Bloomberg, who is expected to decide sometime in the next eight weeks whether to launch an independent bid for the US presidency, is on Monday meeting leading members of both main political parties who have expressed deep frustration with the state of the campaign.

Organisers of the forum, to take place on Oklahoma, say it is not meant to be a launching pad for a bid by Mr Bloomberg, New York’s mayor. But it will keep him in the national discussion ahead of Tuesday’s primaries in New Hampshire, while also giving him the chance to woo distinguished members of both parties who could add muscle to a bid if he chooses to run.

The event’s planners – David Boren, a former Democratic senator from Oklahoma, and Sam Nunn, the former Democratic senator from Georgia – have raised the possibility of supporting a third-party bid.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a2786d4a-bc88-11dc-bcf9-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

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Major Military Operation Underway in Iraq
Rick Moran
Despite the improvement of the security situation in Iraq, General Petreaus has continued to say that al-Qaeda remains a dangerous threat. In light of that, this news about a new joint US-Iraqi military operation to combat the terrorists is not surprising:

U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation to strike against al-Qaeda in Iraq and other extremists, the U.S. military said Tuesday, in an effort to build on a recent overall reduction of violence and push militants from their strongholds.

The division and brigade-level operation, dubbed Phantom Phoenix, will cover the entire country, the military said. "Phantom Phoenix will synchronize lethal and non-lethal effects to exploit recent security gains and disrupt terrorist support zones and enemy command and control," the military said in a statement.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/01/major_military_operation_under.html

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MSNBC STATS:

Democrats | Polls
Candidate Delegates
won to date Super delegates committed Delegates needed
Barack Obama 16 0 2,193
Hillary Clinton 15 0 2,194
John Edwards 14 0 2,195
Joe Biden 0 0 2,209
Chris Dodd 0 0 2,209
Mike Gravel 0 0 2,209
Dennis Kucinich 0 0 2,209
Bill Richardson 0 0 2,209
2,209 delegates needed for nomination

Republicans | Polls
Candidate Delegates
won to date Delegates needed
Mike Huckabee 30 1,229
Mitt Romney 15 1,244
Fred Thompson 3 1,256
Duncan Hunter 1 1,258
Sam Brownback 0 1,259
Rudy Giuliani 0 1,259
John McCain 0 1,259
Ron Paul 0 1,259
Tom Tancredo 0 1,259
1,259 delegates needed for nomination

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On CNN today, Donna Brazile lit into Bill Clinton with a vehemence that raised eyebrows in both of their circles:

Brazile: I could understand his frustration at this moment. But, look, he shouldn't take out all his pain on Barack Obama. It's time that they regroup. Figure out what Hillary needs to do to get her campaign back on track. It sounds like sour grapes coming from the former commander in chief. Someone that many Democrats hold in high esteem. For him to go after Obama, using a fairy tale, calling him as he did last week. It's an insult. And I will tell you, as an African-American, I find his tone and his words to be very depressing.....

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Obama's Kenyan sister stranded in U.S.
Violent unrest in native Africa keeps Auma Obama in N.H.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59598

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11.29% IN: OBAMA 36; CLINTON 38; EDWARDS 17; RICHARDSON 4; KUCINICH 2...
10.96% IN: *MCCAIN 37; ROMNEY 28; HUCKABEE 12; GIULIANI 9; PAUL 8; THOMPSON 1...
Source: Drudge Report

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MSNBC:
New Hampshire

Democrats | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won
Clinton 14,462 39% 0
Obama 13,201 36% 0
Edwards 6,176 17% 0
Richardson 1,569 4% 0
Kucinich 756 2% 0
Biden 61 0% 0
Gravel 50 0% 0
Dodd 29 0% 0
12% of precincts reporting

Republicans | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won
McCain 8,109 37% 0
Romney 6,135 28% 0
Huckabee 2,699 12% 0
Giuliani 1,955 9% 0
Paul 1,867 9% 0
Thompson 318 1% 0
Hunter 127 1% 0
12% of precincts reporting

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Study: Entrants cost AZ workers $1.4B a year
By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 01.08.2008

Arizona workers lose $1.4 billion in wages a year because companies here hire illegal entrants, according to a study commissioned by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
George Borjas, a professor of economic and social policy at Harvard University, also concluded that foreigners in the state illegally have reduced the employment rate of legal Arizona residents.

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/219519

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Drudge 8:45 PM:

15.61% IN: CLINTON 40; OBAMA 36; EDWARDS 17; RICHARDSON 4; KUCINICH 2...
15.28% IN: *MCCAIN 37; ROMNEY 28; HUCKABEE 12; GIULIANI 9; PAUL 8; THOMPSON 1...

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8:46 PM:

24.02% IN: CLINTON 40; OBAMA 34; EDWARDS 17; RICHARDSON 4; KUCINICH 2...
15.94% IN: *MCCAIN 37; ROMNEY 28; HUCKABEE 12; GIULIANI 9; PAUL 8; THOMPSON 2...

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MSNBC RESULTS @ 9PM:

New Hampshire

Democrats | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won
Clinton 26,090 40% 0
Obama 22,744 35% 0
Edwards 10,995 17% 0
Richardson 2,947 4% 0
Kucinich 1,838 3% 0
Biden 114 0% 0
Gravel 81 0% 0
Dodd 55 0% 0
26% of precincts reporting

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MSNBC @ 9:18 PM:

New Hampshire

Democrats | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won
Clinton 34,670 40% 0
Obama 31,433 36% 0
Edwards 14,597 17% 0
Richardson 4,022 5% 0
Kucinich 1,277 1% 0
Biden 164 0% 0
Gravel 122 0% 0
Dodd 72 0% 0
36% of precincts reporting

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MSNBC @ 9:36 PM..No one's calling it yet...

New Hampshire

Democrats | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won
Clinton 45,197 39% 0
Obama 42,197 36% 0
Edwards 19,387 17% 0
Richardson 5,312 5% 0
Kucinich 1,687 1% 0
Biden 237 0% 0
Gravel 152 0% 0
Dodd 94 0% 0
44% of precincts reporting

^^^Folks that's a 3,000 (exact) vote difference & it's reported this does NOT include many college towns ...hmmmmm..interesting.

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Obama's Abortion Stance Hurts Blacks, Say Pro-Life Experts
By Penny Starr
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
January 08, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) may be riding what seems a perfect wave toward the Democratic presidential nomination, but some African-Americans say his pro-abortion stance make him a danger to the black community.

"Between 1882 and 1962, 3,446 blacks were lynched," says Rev. Clenard H. Childress Jr. on his Web site, www.blackgenocide.org. "That number is surpassed in less than three days by abortion."

More than 1,400 African-American children are aborted each day in the United States, said Childress.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200801/CUL20080108a.html

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MSNBC @ 9:53PM:

New Hampshire

Democrats | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won
Clinton 53,636 39% 0
Obama 50,146 37% 0
Edwards 22,948 17% 0
Richardson 6,301 5% 0
Kucinich 1,957 1% 0
Biden 310 0% 0
Gravel 178 0% 0
Dodd 106 0% 0
52% of precincts reporting

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A 'very personal victory' for McCain in New Hampshire

* Story Highlights
* Top issues for McCain voters: War in Iraq, terrorism and the economy
* Personal qualities played a more important role than issues for many McCain voters
* Independent voters overwhelmingly chose the senator from Arizona

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/08/nh.gop/index.html

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9:57 PM:

54% IN: CLINTON 39; OBAMA 37; EDWARDS 17; RICHARDSON 5; KUCINICH 2...
46% IN: *MCCAIN 37; ROMNEY 31; HUCKABEE 12; GIULIANI 9; PAUL 8; THOMPSON 1...

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MSNBC @ 10:17-As Edwards Concedes

New Hampshire

Democrats | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won
Clinton 64,167 39% 0
Obama 59,702 36% 0
Edwards 27,319 17% 0
Richardson 7,786 5% 0
Kucinich 2,355 1% 0
Dodd 392 0% 0
Biden 362 0% 0
Gravel 224 0% 0
62% of precincts reporting

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New Hampshire

Democrats | Polls | County Results
Candidate Votes % of votes Delegates won
Clinton 70,974 39% 0
Obama 65,119 36% 0
Edwards 30,337 17% 0
Richardson 8,462 5% 0
Kucinich 2,540 1% 0
Biden 413 0% 0
Gravel 251 0% 0
Dodd 121 0% 0
67% of precincts reporting

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Clinton, McCain Win in New Hampshire
Jan 8 10:40 PM US/Eastern
By DAVID ESPO and PHILIP ELLIOTT
Associated Press Writers


CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won New Hampshire's Democratic primary Tuesday night in a startling upset, defeating Sen. Barack Obama and resurrecting her bid for the White House. Sen. John McCain powered past his Republican rivals and back into contention for the GOP nomination.

Clinton's victory capped a comeback from last week's third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and raised the possibility of a long battle for the party nomination between the most viable black candidate in history and the former first lady, who is seeking to become the first woman to occupy the Oval Office.

McCain's triumph scrambled the Republican race as well.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U245H00&show_article=1

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Now Hold On Blurbs Family:

You all are watching or listening to the news & I haven't heard anyone from Matthews to Hume bring up that @ this point the media is giving it to Hillary...but @ 10:50 Obama has the same amount of DELEGATES.

More later.....

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY January 08, 2008
Race

Status

Candidate

Votes

Vote %

(Del*)

Precincts
New Hampshire
Updated 1 minute ago


County Results
Exit Poll


Clinton

81,042

40%

(8)

74%
reporting

Obama

74,560

36%

(8)

Edwards

34,526

17%

0

Richardson

9,470

5%

0

Kucinich

2,819

1%

0

Biden

615

0%

0

Gravel

288

0%

0

Dodd

140

0%

0

That was copied quickly but bottom line at last count Obama & Clinton have same amount of NH DELEGATES.

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Why delegates matter in the presidential race

* Story Highlights
* Candidates are trying to win a majority of delegates during the nomination process
* The delegates then vote for a nominee at the party conventions
* The Democratic and Republican parties use different methods to award delegates

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/02/delegate.explainer/index.html

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Obamamania' sputters, McCain 'comeback kid'
Clinton pulls out victory despite predictions of loss, Arizona senator back in running for GOP nomination
Posted: January 8, 2008
9:00 p.m. Eastern

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won New Hampshire's Democratic primary Tuesday night, pulling out a stunning victory over Sen. Barack Obama in a contest she had been forecast to lose.

On the Republican side, John McCain has won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, beating out rival Mitt Romney by a comfortable margin.

With 40 percent of precincts reporting on the Republican side, returns showed the Arizona senator with 38 percent of the vote and Romney with 30 percent.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59604

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New Hampshire's Polling Fiasco
January 09, 2008 12:05 AM

There will be a serious, critical look at the final pre-election polls in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire; that is essential. It is simply unprecedented for so many polls to have been so wrong. We need to know why.

But we need to know it through careful, empirically based analysis. There will be a lot of claims about what happened - about respondents who reputedly lied, about alleged difficulties polling in biracial contests. That may be so. It also may be a smokescreen - a convenient foil for pollsters who'd rather fault their respondents than own up to other possibilities - such as their own failings in sampling and likely voter modeling.

There have been previous races that misstated support for black candidates in biracial races. But most of those were long ago, and there have been plenty of polls in biracial races that were accurate. (For more on past problems with polls in biracial races, see this blog I wrote for Freakonomics last May.) And there was no overstatement of Obama in Iowa polls.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2008/01/new-hampshires.html

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Voter turnout in NH sets record

By STEPHEN FROTHINGHAM, Associated Press Writer Wed Jan 9, 12:35 AM ET

CONCORD, N.H. - Voters excited about competitive races in both parties set a record for turnout in New Hampshire's primary Tuesday.

With ballots from 12 percent of voting precincts still to be counted, about 453,000 residents had cast votes, breaking the previous primary turnout record of 396,385 ballots cast in 2000.

State officials predicted that when all ballots were counted, the total would surpass 500,000.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080109/ap_po/primary_turnout

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Small Crowd Greets Romney's Mich. Push

Jan 11, 2:56 PM (ET)

By GLEN JOHNSON

WARREN, Mich. (AP) - Despite embracing Michigan as the heart of his bid to revive his campaign, Republican Mitt Romney was greeted by an anemic crowd Friday as he began his final push for votes in the crucial primary.

No more than 150 people were on hand for his appearance at Macomb Community College's Center for Alternative Fuels, in a space set up for an audience twice that size. Romney delivered an unusually short, 13-minute address, breaking with recent practice and taking no questions from his audience.

In his remarks, he tugged incessantly at a variety of heart strings as he pleaded for support in his effort to rebound from second-place finishes in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary - both of which he worked hard to win.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080111/D8U3SL400.html

I smell the decline of Rino Romney..too plastic, too many flips.

AP Poll: Economy Ties War As Top Issue

Will foreclosures spark an arson boom?

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OK, Ron Paul, You Say You're Not a Racist, Prove It

Posted January 11, 2008 | 10:10 AM (EST)

Ron Paul and his backers can sail through the ceiling, scream foul until their lungs burst, and say that it's all a big conspiracy by mainstream media hit artists, a Paul hating and fearful political establishment, and on the make Republican and Democrats to smear and slander their hero as a racist. But the one that has done more to fan charges that Paul is a closet bigot is Paul himself in writings and sentiments that express racist views that purportedly carried Paul's stamp on them.


Paul is, of course, outraged every time those embarrassing newsletters written in the 1990s with racially front loaded inflammatory quips about and bash of blacks, and now as it turns out gays, keep publicly cropping up. They cropped up again recently on CNN. The Paul-attributed digs and insults call blacks chronic welfare grifters, thugs, lousy parents, say they are inherently racist toward whites, and supposedly admonished whites to get their guns because the animals are coming. Paul vehemently denies that he said any of those things.

But there's a colossal problem with his denial. The quips appeared in his officially approved newsletters. There is no evidence that he wrote a correction, issued a clarification, or if, as some Paul groupies claim, they were written by someone else, that he publicly disavowed and fired that someone else. Since Paul did none of those things it begs the question whether those views truly represent his feelings or not. He didn't disown them at the time. He loudly protests them now because he has to. He has revved up a motley group of disaffected, disgruntled, naïve, wet-behind-the-ear teenie boppers, and political malcontents who crave for someone, anyone, to snub their nose at the political establishment. But their mix of blind adulation and desperation translates out into more media and public scrutiny than Paul has ever gotten. And that in turn has meant that his past, or alleged past words, are now wide open for public dissection and accountability. That riles up Paul backers who go nuts over any hint that he is anything less than the second coming of St. Paul and Mother Theresa.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/ok-ron-paul-you-say-you_b_81061.html

Scarier & scarier..a must to AVOID people.

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Saturday, January 12, 2008
More Santorum on McCain

AUDIO: http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/cad4cdd3-fada-4d46-bdf3-e2947de8804d

Porn Companies Challenged by Internet Sites

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DailyKos to Dems: Vote Romney!
'Progressive' site urges crossover ballots in Michigan to meddle in GOP race
Posted: January 11, 2008
5:10 p.m. Eastern

"Progressive" political site DailyKos is urging Democrats in Michigan to cross over and vote for Gov. Mitt Romney in Tuesday's primary to keep the candidate in the GOP race and thereby ensure the Republicans continue "trashing each other."

DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas posted messages both yesterday and today to explain how Democrats can meddle in the GOP primary.

Michigan is an open-primary state, which means party members are not limited to voting for one of their own.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59649

A "Top Ten" You'll never see on Lettermen

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3 Convicted in Islamic Charity Trial


Friday January 11, 2008 10:16 PM

By MARK JEWELL

Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) - Three former leaders of an Islamic charity were convicted Friday of duping the U.S. government into awarding their organization tax-exempt status by hiding the group's pro-jihad activities.

Care International Inc., which is now defunct, described its mission as helping war orphans, widows and refugees in Muslim nations. But prosecutors said the organization also distributed a newsletter promoting jihad and supported Muslim militants involved in armed conflicts around the world.

Emadeddin Muntasser, the founder of Care International; Muhammed Mubayyid, the group's former treasurer; and Samir Al-Monla, the president of Care from 1996 to 1998, were charged with tax code violations, making false statements and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0%2C%2C-7218381%2C00.html

Europe set for debate rerun on ‘Frankenfoods’


Musharraf rejects U.N. inquiry on Bhutto

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Clinton camp hits Obama | Attacks 'painful' for black voters
Many in state offended by criticism of Obama, remarks about King

http://www.thestate.com/presidential-politics/story/282561.html

Obama Giving Clinton a Race in Her Backyard
Even w/ out Oprah obama has rock star like reception here in NY; I hope he beats her here & then my fellow NYers might toss her out of the senate.W/out that credential she couldn't get elected as dog catcher.

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Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2007

Washington, DC –Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2007 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:

1. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY): In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 – and rightly so – for blocking the release her official White House records. Many suspect these records contain a treasure trove of information related to her role in a number of serious Clinton-era scandals. Moreover, in March 2007, Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint against Senator Clinton for filing false financial disclosure forms with the U.S. Senate (again). And Hillary’s top campaign contributor, Norman Hsu, was exposed as a felon and a fugitive from justice in 2007. Hsu pleaded guilt to one count of grand theft for defrauding investors as part of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.

2. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI): Conyers reportedly repeatedly violated the law and House ethics rules, forcing his staff to serve as his personal servants, babysitters, valets and campaign workers while on the government payroll. While the House Ethics Committee investigated these allegations in 2006, and substantiated a number of the accusations against Conyers, the committee blamed the staff and required additional administrative record-keeping and employee training. Judicial Watch obtained documentation in 2007 from a former Conyers staffer that sheds new light on the activities and conduct on the part of the Michigan congressman, which appear to be at a minimum inappropriate and likely unlawful. Judicial Watch called on the Attorney General in 2007 to investigate the matter.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007

Wow Clinton can still come in 1st in some arenas!

N.Y. Public Radio Donor Premium: A Bush 'White Trash' Can
The radio station & network that I many years ago did remote news for, when also working @ THE VILLAGE VOICE (how leftist can you get--but thank God I was delivered from leftist beliefs)...still a popular NY media outlet. But I don't even listen anymore.

Pat Robertson May Buy Paper

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March for Life 2008 Conference and Activities Schedule

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2008/jan/08011103.html

SC Paper Endorses McCain

How Republicans can help elect a Democrat
Folks on top of this I am hearing of republicans that like Obama.

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The Surge Effect
The gamble is paying off for Bush and McCain.
by Fred Barnes
01/21/2008, Volume 013, Issue 18

The match is almost perfect. As the surge in Iraq has succeeded, the presidential campaign of John McCain has risen from the ashes. This is no coincidence, and the message is simple and unmistakable. The surge is now a powerful force in American politics. In the jargon of the 2008 presidential race, it's a game-changer.

The surge effect is the result of gains in Iraq well beyond the most optimistic dreams of the surge's advocates. The American military, led by General David Petraeus, has under-promised and over-delivered. Violence has dropped precipitously. So have attacks on Americans and combat deaths. Baghdad has been virtually secured, al Qaeda crushed, and sectarian bloodshed significantly reduced. Provinces once controlled by insurgents are scheduled to be turned over to well-trained Iraqi forces, starting with Anbar in the spring. The war, in short, is being won.

The media now say that Iraq is a secondary issue. But the voters, so far mostly on the Republican side, disagree. In New Hampshire last week, two-thirds of Republicans who voted in the primary told exit pollsters they support the war in Iraq. Oddly enough, they like the war more than they like President Bush.

http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/587vvfoy.asp

MSNBC Senior Exec: Keith Olbermann Runs MSNBC

Media Out of Touch with People, Says Accuracy in Media Editor
Add my VERY.

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Perspectives: Study suggests gays can change -- but truth faces tough opposition
Ed Vitagliano - Guest Columnist OneNewsNow.com

A new study concerning the possibility of homosexuals leaving that lifestyle is roiling the waters of debate, challenging the dogma of mental health organizations who insist that homosexuality is immutable.

Organizations like the influential American Psychiatric Association have steadfastly refused to admit the possibility that attempts to change sexual orientation through religious and/or psychological methods can work. In 1999, for example, then-APA President Rodrigo Muñoz, M.D., said: "There is no scientific evidence that reparative or conversion therapy is effective in changing a person's sexual orientation." He added that "there is, however, evidence that this type of therapy can be destructive."

A new study, however, claims to prove just the opposite. Conducted by psychology professors Stanton L. Jones of Wheaton College and Mark A. Yarhouse of Regent University, the study, Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation, was published in book form and scheduled for an October release.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2008/01/perspectives_study_suggests_ga.php

Twins separated at birth met and married

Rhode Island school to track students with RFID tags

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A better way to choose a college

By Richard M. Freeland Thu Jan 10, 3:00 AM ET

Worcester, Mass. - This is a time of year when high school students and their families are thinking hard about college. As seniors, juniors, and parents identify their top choices, discussions typically focus on the college itself. Is the institution small or large? How strong are the academics? What is the social life like? Do I like the campus?

Such considerations are important, but they can obscure the all-important question: Where will these college years lead?

Applicants should think seriously about which college on their list can best prepare them for the real world. They should look for campuses that offer well-structured programs to help them form a direction for their lives and develop the capacity to take steps along that path.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080110/cm_csm/yfreeland;_ylt=Avc9r8R2hsyzC.bbAK.9Ihys0NUE

Officer Sues Coast Guard for Forcing Vaccine Injection Derived from Aborted Baby

Here Folks Is More On The Very Scary Ron Paul:
"Old News"? "Rehashed for Over a Decade"?

12/7 Truthers Demand: When Are We Going to Finally Get Hitler?
Get out the tin foil before reading.


Perfect Pats March on to AFC Title Game

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MAN TO BEAT ***NEW***
MCCAIN'S CROSS-PARTY APPEAL
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

January 12, 2008 -- John McCain is starting to look like the candi date to beat for the GOP nomination. Not long ago, he was dismissed, unable to compete with Rudy Giuliani's star power. But with New Hampshire, the tortoise has overtaken the hare.

If McCain wins Michigan on Tuesday (as he did in 2000), Rudy may find himself so far behind before he starts to run that he can never catch up.

McCain could even beat Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. His record taps into a latent populism that attracts Republicans, Democrats and Independents. His battle against big tobacco, efforts to address global warming, opposition to torture during interrogations and fight to reform corporate governance and to protect investors and pensioners appeal to voters of all stripes.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01122008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/man_to_beat_768964.htm

A dem told me Fri. that she found McCain very appealing.

***NEW***Durbin warns Bill Clinton

***NEW***Perfectly Aligned Galaxies Found For the First Time

***NEW***Telecommuting a bust for those left in office

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NEW YORK - Telecommuting may boost morale, and cut stress, but it can have the opposite effect on those left behind in the office, according to a new study.

When a number of their co-workers toil away from the office by using computers, cell-phones or other electronic equipment, those who do not telecommute are more likely to be dissatisfied with their job and leave the company, said Timothy Golden, a management professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Telecommuting has been a growing trend in the United States since about 2000......

***NEW***Barack Obama is a Powerful Speaker—And so is My Bose Bass Amp

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***NEW***Critics pounce on Clinton after immigration comments

By MOLLY BALL

An off-the-cuff comment Hillary Clinton made in Las Vegas on Thursday has ignited a national firestorm.

Answering a shout from a man in the crowd who said, "I'm married to an illegal woman," Clinton shot back, "No woman is illegal," grinning as the packed Mexican restaurant at which she was speaking exploded in cheers.

That comment, reported in Friday's Review-Journal, caught the attention of the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs and the Drudge Report and led to nearly 1,000 angry comments on the newspaper's Web site.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/13729182.html

***NEW***Fred Thompson: Looking Beyond the Surface

***NEW***Did George W. Bush Throw New Hampshire to Hillary?

***NEW***Illegal migrant arrested in serial juvenile rape case

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Santana Batiz Aceves, 39, a twice-deported illegal immigrant with a history of drug charges, was arrested at his Chandler home about 11:49 a.m. near Arizona Avenue and Ray Road. He was booked into Maricopa County’s Fourth Avenue Jail on suspicion of 25 felonies, including kidnapping, child molestation, sexual abuse, sexual conduct with a minor, aggravated assault, burglary and trespassing.

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***NEW***Muslim leader says families must help catch honour killers
By Andrew Johnson
Published: 13 January 2008

One of Britain's leading Muslims has called on his community to rise up against a culture of fear and help stamp out forced marriages and honour killings after the third high-profile court case in Britain in the past year.

Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, head of the Muslim Parliament in Britain, spoke out after a coroner ruled on Friday that 17-year-old Shafilea Ahmed was "unlawfully killed" and that "the concept of an arranged marriage was central to the circumstances of her death".

Mr Siddiqui said he was certain the schoolgirl, who wanted to go to university and become a lawyer, was the victim of an honour killing. No charges have yet been bought by police, a failure Mr Siddiqui blamed on members of her family and close community closing ranks, even though some may have wanted to speak out.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article3333866.ece

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***NEW***Hopes of custom-built organs as scientists create beating heart
Sarah-Kate Templeton, Health Editor

SCIENTISTS have created a beating heart in the laboratory in a breakthrough that could allow doctors one day to make a range of organs for transplant almost from scratch.

The procedure involved stripping all the existing cells from a dead heart so that only the protein “skeleton” that created its shape was left.

Then the skeleton was seeded with live “progenitor” cells, which multiplied and grew back over it, eventually linking together into a new organ. Such cells are involved in the formative stages of specialised types of tissue such as those found in the heart.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article3177646.ece

***NEW***Organs to be taken without consent

GO GIANTS ! Don't mess up !

I am no longer a betting fanatic as in years gone by- but predict Jints beat the 8 1/2 point spread @ least.





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