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By Rob Long EDITOR'S NOTE: This article appears in the November 29, 2004, issue of National Review. Church Newsletters From All Over From "Light the Lamp!": The monthly newsletter of the Holy Flame Pentecostal Church of Little Rock, Ark. We welcome back to the area Senator Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.), who has been spending so much time here in Little Rock lately that she's practically joined the church choir! "I'm here spending time at my husband's library," she told the Lamp when we caught up with her after a Sunday camp meeting, "and of course, I always take time to...

(The) "nuclear option," (is) a parliamentary maneuver to effectively change Senate rules so that only a simple majority is needed to end a filibuster of a judicial nominee. Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said he has not decided whether he would invoke that option next year. Robert F. Bennett, R-Utah, the chief deputy majority whip, said such a move would occur only if Democrats filibuster a Supreme Court nomination. It's the last paragraph in the source link.

It was a historic moment for the Grand Old Party: At the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, black conservatives took center stage, delivered speeches in prime time, raised their voices in a gospel choir and locked hands with the white men who, by an overwhelming majority, run the party. By the end of the convention, the future national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and secretary of state, Colin L. Powell, had emerged as black conservative stars, and a concerted effort by Republicans "to invent new black leaders" -- as former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) once put it -- was...

Party Insider: Wesley Clark to Run for President 8/20/03 3:29:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Jeff Dailey, 501-801-8683 e-mail: Jeff@DraftClark2004.com, or Mike Frisby, e-mail: MikeFrisby@DraftClark2004.com, both of Draft Clark 2004 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Retired General Wesley Clark will announce his plans to run for president by the end of the month, according to Democratic Party insider Donna Brazile. In a luncheon speech to the Utah Democratic Party, Brazile said that General Clark would enter the campaign and that President Bush is vulnerable on domestic and foreign policy issues. Brazile ran...

<p>President Bush's upcoming meeting with the Urban League, coupled with his snubbing of more-militant black groups, mirrors his outreach to moderate Palestinians while ignoring Yasser Arafat.</p> <p>In both cases, Mr. Bush hopes to turn nearly hopeless relationships into constructive dialogues with groups not known for their fondness of conservatives.</p>

<p>Forty-eight hours after President Bush told a cheering throng of sailors on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln that major combat in Iraq was over, the nine candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination held their first debate, in Charleston, S.C. It would have been a perfect occasion for a serious discussion of the national-security challenges that we as a nation face in the wake of the Iraq war. Instead, we were seen fighting among ourselves on national television over whether the United States will continue to be the world's dominant military power.</p>

What Would Scoop Do? By DONNA BRAZILE and TIMOTHY BERGREEN Forty-eight hours after President Bush told a cheering throng of sailors on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln that major combat in Iraq was over, the nine candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination held their first debate, in Charleston, S.C. It would have been a perfect occasion for a serious discussion of the national-security challenges that we as a nation face in the wake of the Iraq war. Instead, we were seen fighting among ourselves on national television over whether the United States will continue to be the world's...

Dems are so crooked they couldn't even lie straight in bed Addison Ross New York Thursday 29 May 2003 There is something particularly comical in seeing one of the Democrats' leading liberals self-righteously adopt the mantle of aggressive patriotism, as did Donna Brazile in What Would Scoop Do? (WSJ May 21, 2003). She begins with the admission that the Democrats had given "short shrift to security issues." This was an indirect way of saying that the party had ignored the country's national security. (One should note that this was said as if she herself had always been deeply concerned with...

<p>Democratic strategist Donna Brazile says she backs President Bush's war to overthrow Saddam Hussein and wants her party's leaders to project a stronger message that they support what U.S. troops are doing in Iraq.</p> <p>Miss Brazile, who managed Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, said she is not happy with the way Democratic congressional leaders have handled the party's message on the war.</p>

New York Junior Senator Hillary Rodham Cliton has become deeply involved in assembling and raising money for an orginization designed to provide a voice to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. The group is said to be a 501(c)3 non for profit or 501(c)4 aimed at 'countering the efforts of the political right wing in terms of reasearch and policy development as well as communications outreach,' according to a source.One observer said that the entity could become both a 501(c)3 functioning as a Democratic think tank and 501(c)4 as a rapid research and response outlet.A democrat strategist, who described...

So we were wrong. Apparently Carol Moseley-Braun couldn't hear the laughter and has decided she will at the least dip her toe into the candidacy pool for the Democratic presidential nomination. Moseley-Braun, as we reported late last week, was thought to have decided to nix the presidential run, and instead was planning to announce on Friday that she would seek to regain the Illinois Senate seat she lost six years ago to Republican Peter Fitzgerald. But that's not what happened. She's not going to run for the Senate. But she is going ahead with a possible presidential try. According to...

According to one Democratic source who reached us right before deadline former Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun talked by phone last night to Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who seems to have been on his cell phone at Georgetown's Cafe Milano, where he ran into some of Americas leading political reporters.In any event, per this one 'Golden Source' Ms. Braun told McAuliffe that she was planning to announce that she is NOT running for the Illinois Senate seat, but that she just might want to reserve one of those Presidential candidate slots at the upcoming Democratic National Committee meeting...

12-14-02 AL GORE ON SNL: The pot calls the kettle white DEMONSTRATES HIS UNFITNESS TO BE PREZ In a spoof of the MSNBC talk show "Hardball," Gore portrayed Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, who in recent days has repeatedly apologized for remarks he made that seemed to support racial segregation. "I meant no disrespect to any white people," insisted Gore-as-Lott. "As long as I am in office, we will leave no white person behind." Al, Tipper Gore Campaign for SNL Laughs 09-09-00 Black Democratic Congresswoman Denounces Al Gore's "Negro Tolerance Level"     McKinney Blasts Secret Service   August...

The concept: Showtime asked seven of international cinema's best directors to each make a 10-minute film on the subject of time. The deal: They would have total creative freedom to express their vision. The seven: Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, Chen Kaige, Aki Kaurismaki and Victor Erice. The result is an uneven but always interesting and occasionally dazzling series of 10-minute films. The series premieres tonight at 10:45 with Lee's We Wuz Robbed, a documentary that revisits Nov. 7, 2000, in Florida -- one of the most controversial election nights in the history of American presidential politics...

Former Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile finally has found something nice to say about President Reagan, who she slammed last month on his 91st birthday as a "big spender, deficit spender. And that's what he'll be remembered as." "Here's a belated birthday gift," Brazile offered Tuesday, with a little prodding from nationally syndicated radio talker Sean Hannity. "I was asked to say something about Ronald Reagan and I didn't come up with anything. But I should have said this: He had the guts to stand up to conservatives and support the Martin Luther King holiday bill. And for that I...

Foul-mouthed Democratic operative back on board as the national party's voter rights ombudsmanShe's baaaaack!Just when you thought it was safe to practice politics again comes word from the Democratic National Committee that the party's leaders have selected the rough and tumble DONNA BRAZILE as national chair of the Democrat's Voting rights Institute. Brazile's appointment signals that the Democrats plan to "go to the mattresses" during the upcoming midterm elections in an effort to take control of the Congress and win back a White House that they still believe was stolen from them by crazed Republicans in Florida with the help...