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Mr. Spillane, I have to admit that I'm puzzled by one of your recent columns accusing me of a “cheap shot” on Barney Frank. You said: “So today, Bielat is out with a press release announcing that Barney Frank 'cooked the books' for House Financial Services Committee member Maxine Waters but he offers no fair-minded evidence that that was the case.” I know you're an intelligent man, and even the smartest of us make mistakes. So let's go look again at the evidence, shall we? Last week, The Washington Post broke the story that OneUnited Bank received special treatment from...

Rudy Giuliani could be the death knell of the Reagan Coalition, that successful alliance of economic, defense, and social conservatives forged in the 1976 Republican primary. In his insurgent campaign against President Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan built the architecture for a durable political coalition of supply-siders, budget hawks, Cold Warriors, law-and-order advocates, welfare reformers, pro-lifers, defenders of the Second Amendment, and others. He integrated these main elements of the post-war conservative intellectual movement into a successful, winning political juggernaut that was, until recently, the Republican Party. In recent years the social component of the coalition has been augmented by pro-family...

April 28, 2007 -- Rudy Giuliani's stormy personal life will be a "serious" liability in his campaign for president, Democratic National Committee boss Howard Dean charged yesterday. "His personal life is a serious problem for him," Dean said in a CNN interview, adding that Giuliani "has a lot of character issues." Dean's attack comes days after Giuliani claimed that the Democratic presidential hopefuls are surrendering in the war on Iraq and that America would be safer under a GOP president.

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Forgive this latest bunch of Palestinian bombers if they are a little puzzled today: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has actually issued a statement condemning them for Thursday's murderous blast in Gaza, and they are not accustomed to getting scolded by the UN, which usually finds reasons to blame their Israeli victims for pretty much everything instead. This time around, though, the world is looking at a Gaza strike that is, quite unmistakably, a flat-out terrorist defiance of new Palestinian chief Mahmoud Abbas' peacemaking program. Even Kofi is obliged at this point to find these gangsters at least semideplorable. For...

In his column today, Robert Novak salutes the only man who could put Bush-bashing Ron Reagan in his place. "Nobody knew how to respond in a time of national mourning. Nobody, that is, except William F. Buckley Jr.," Novak writes. Among the shots junior Reagan fired at the president: that his father never wore "his faith on his sleeve," that his "father did not know George W. Bush from Adam," that his "father was a man - that's the difference between him and Bush." And: "This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, they're...

RON REAGAN TO ADDRESS DNC Making the rounds today is a story hot off the presses that Ron Reagan, Jr. is going to address the Democratic National Convention this month. You see, Ron is a big-time leftist, and a liberal Democrat. This should come as no surprise to anyone, except of course, the media. Apparently Ron is going to speak about stem cell research. You see, the Bush administration is opposed to federal funding of stem cell research, which some say could one day help Alzheimer's patients like Ron Reagan's father. But the left and the media have done a...