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U.S. Senator John McCain, pounded from the GOP right by conservatives on immigration and from moderates on his support for the president's Iraq policies, faces another challenge this week -- trying to scoop campaign cash from California's political ATM while being elbowed by a crowd of presidential hopefuls. The presidential candidates who have been crisscrossing the Golden State this week include the Republican front-runner, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who just concluded a fundraising trip; former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who visits Southern California and San Francisco on Wednesday for fundraising; and a new and potentially formidable GOP challenger,...

Prime minister will hold trade talks, discuss environment and foreign policy - British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives in San Francisco today to kick off a packed five-day California trip with political implications both here and abroad -- and an agenda including trade discussions, an environmental roundtable with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and business leaders, and a major speech on foreign policy. The surprise trip by Blair, the first ever by a sitting prime minister to California, has been shielded by unusual secrecy and was announced just this week -- setting off a flurry of competition among celebrities for invitations to...

Give me one reason why "judicial extraordinaire" Harriet Miers is qualified to sit on the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court. One.

It's time for politicians to protect the film industry and implement stiff anti-piracy laws. According to the Motion Picture Association of America, "pirates are costing the film industry billions of dollars each year." Thank you, J. Scott Davis

The following AP story is excerpted from this morning's Washington Post: 'Terminator' in Calif. Recall Race By ERICA WERNER The Associated Press Thursday, August 7, 2003; 7:55 AM LOS ANGELES - With a surprise jump into California's recall race, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger touched off the heaviest tremors in the state's political earthquake to date, saying he wasn't afraid of attacks sure to come from Democrats and conservative Republicans alike. But the aftershock from a day of topsy-turvy developments in the drive to recall Gov. Gray Davis came just hours later, when Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante broke party ranks to...