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George Allen appeared on CNN’s “Inside Politics” yesterday. He discussed issues ranging from John Roberts to stem cells, to his own presidential ambitions. Allen gave the traditional non-answer when asked about 2008, but was more detailed on the question of expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research: What I'm looking to do is find a way that we can advance stem cell research in a way that it actually helps people. And of course adult stem cell research right now is finding cures and helping people. So far as the embryonic stem cell research, there are three filters that I'm...

How do we have an Administration lecturing Newsweek about "journalistic standards"--the failure to get on the record confirmation before printing a story -- when we went to war in Iraq on similar sloppy standards. Anybody remember Curveball? Or have we all forgotten the Senate Intelligence Report on WMD that discusses how our entire Intelligence Community and President Bush were duped by one bad allegedly "crazy" source who provided "dead wrong" intelligence?

PREMATURE 2008 PUNDITRY [Rich Lowry ] Here is how one GOP insider sees the state of play (in other words, not necessarily my take on things). Rudy Guiliani wasn't fundamentally hurt by the Kerik flap. Its ultimately Kerik's problem, not Giuliani's. The former mayor is loved by GOP crowds and has great all-around political skills. He has something of George W. Bush's ability to connect with individuals in a crowded room. He was a wonderful surrogate for Bush last year. But his problem on gays, guns, and abortion is probably insurmountable. It is likely he can't fix it short of...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stun gun maker Taser International Inc. on Monday said it won U.S. government approval to use its products on some commercial airline flights to protect passengers from potential harm. The company's shares rose as much as 10.3 percent in early morning trading on the Nasdaq. They recently traded up $4.01, or 8.6 percent, at $50.50, after earlier rising to $51.30.

CHATTING WITH A LONGTIME GOP OPERATIVE I wish Bush supporters who feel pessimistic or jittery could listen to the phone conversation I just had with a longtime GOP operative. This gentleman, who has been in politics longer than I have been alive, states: * If the Washington Post/ABC tracking poll gets any more separation in the coming days, and there’s one or two good state polls for Bush, this race is over.

Battlegrounders IOWA: THE UNDECIDEDS [Brian Kennedy 10/19 11:28 AM] How will the indecisive Iowan decide? When the swing voter in Iowa can't make up his or her mind, my experience is that they fall back on a sense of cultural affinity. Here the clear advantage goes to President Bush. Or maybe it's more apt to suggest the clear disadvantage goes to Kerry. As Des Moines Register political columnist David Yepsen offered this morning: "Kerry has particular trouble connecting with rural voters. A survey conducted last month for the Center for Rural Strategies showed Bush leading with rural voters by 13...

Contact: Transportation Security Administration, 571-227-2829 WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced the release of the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for the testing phase of the Secure Flight program along with a proposed order to airlines to provide one month's worth of Passenger Name Records (PNR) data to be used for program testing. The PIA includes details of TSA's privacy policy for the testing phase of the program and the system methodology for Secure Flight. "This is an important moment in aviation security; we are advancing a vital tool to combat terrorism and checking...

UPDATE: I have now heard from more than one source that CBS is going to talk to 86-year-old Marian Carr Knox, former secretary to Lt. Col. Jerry Killian. Hey, I think it's great to hear CBS might quote someone who says the memo is fake (other than Marcel Matley, their first expert, who said he could not authenticate it).

Hannity just said a story will be filed later today that from sources inside CBS that the source of the documents is also the one who provided the Abu Grihab prison photos.

Wonder no more what gets the good ol' boys' juices flowing, and don't pay no never mind to them talking heads on this particular question. The answer is simply this: real men taking charge, talking straight, telling truth, and leaving the girlie men to fuss about the nuances of terrorist sensitivity. Miller's fiery, brimstone-studded speech on the penultimate night of the Republican convention was a quintessential testosterone moment that got professional harrumphers flustered and swing voters inspired. While pundits wondered whether Zell was over the top, too hot or too tough, Heartland Americans (and not a few journalists who shall...

Former senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) took the defense a step further by comparing the Republicans' misleading statements to those of Nazi Germany. "You've just got to separate out fact from fiction. . . . Too often, too often, in this country, if you hear something repeated, it's the old Hitler business -- if you hear something repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated, you start to believe it," he said.

My Democratic friends are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it any more. They are worried, having watched as another August smear campaign, full of lies and half-truths, takes its toll in the polls. They are frustrated, mostly at the Kerry campaign, for naively believing that just because all the newspapers and news organizations that investigated the charges of the Swift Boat assassins found them to be full of lies and half-truths, they wouldn't take their toll. The word on the street is that Kerry himself was ready to fire back the day the story broke, but...

Micheal W. Smith just announced he's doing "There She Stands" tonight before W speaks...

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HUGE GOP TURNOUT IN COLORADO THIS WEEK [08/12 01:24 PM] From the subscription-only Hotline: “Mason-Dixon pollster Brad Coker notes there was a 33% jump among GOPers from the high of ANY competitive GOP primary in CO's history. What’s energizing voters in MO and CO? Is the RNC's 72-hour-program that good in CO? Early voting getting popular? As Coker explains, polling can look skewed if turnout increases as greatly as it did in CO. Keep that in mind when examining polling for Nov. as anecdotal evidence continues to show we’re headed for one of the highest turnouts ever.” Traditionally, higher turnout...

<p>Laura hits 250 stations. I think she's the fastest rising conservative radio star right now. She cuts through the bull, she has no vulgarity or profanity on her show (even the little ones) and she tells it like it is about conservative values. She lets people know who is calling themselves conservative but is really off the reservation.</p>

Just heard on 1190 WGKA here in Atlanta that Herman Cain will be on the Micheal Medved show this afternoon.

Seems being close to Moore isn't playing well in Rapid City...

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just breaking.. Hopefully we got another bagful of bad guys.