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  • Mike Huckabee: For states' rights before he was against states' rights

    11/18/2007 11:53:10 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 9 replies · 558+ views
    The Arkansas Times ^ | November 18, 2007 | Max Brantley
    FLIP FLOP ALERT! FLIP FLOP ALERT! CALLING ROMNEY OPPO TEAM! Earlier today, we linked coverage of The Huckster on Fox News, where he couldn't have been clearer that he opposes a state-by-state solution to abortion. This is to differentiate himself from Fred Thompson, who's taken that approach and thus, in effect, would permit abortion to remain legal in at least some states, regardless of how the Bush court might rule someday on Roe v. Wade. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee rejects letting states decide whether to allow abortions, claiming the right to life is a moral issue not subject to...
  • France Elects a Thatcherite President

    05/06/2007 10:04:14 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 28 replies · 1,366+ views
    NewsMax ^ | May 7, 2007 | Kenneth R. Timmerman
    On Sunday France elected a pro-American, conservative named Nicolas Sarkozy as its new president. The 52-year-old who beat back by 10 percentage points his Socialist rival, promises an unabashed Thatcherite agenda for France. Sarkozy also replaces the embattled Jacques Chirac, a relic from an earlier age of French politics, who made anti-Americanism his hallmark. Sarkozy campaigned on a platform of sweeping reforms, pledging to dismantle large portions of the social welfare state and to make France competitive on world markets again. He also pledged to reduce taxes, shrink the size of government and shut down redundant government programs. Carrying out...