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The Dems Will Lose Fearless November 2006 predictions. By Michael Novak Just think how crushed the Left is going to be when they lose seats in the onrushing congressional elections this November. They have been so certain they would win big. They have been blowing hot air. Now, I remember when NRO editor Kathryn Lopez did not believe my prediction that Cardinal Ratzinger would be elected the new pope — and much earlier and more decisively than anyone was writing at the time. (I also remember that she still hasn’t bought me the lunch she promised then, in case I...

SAN DIEGO -- Arizona Sen. John McCain on Tuesday canceled an appearance for a Republican congressional candidate who has attacked his opponent for supporting McCain's immigration bill. McCain, R-Ariz., was scheduled to speak Wednesday at a breakfast fundraiser for Brian Bilbray, who is locked in a close runoff race with Democrat Francine Busby for the San Diego-area seat left vacant by disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. The event was expected to raise at least $65,000. The winner of the June 6 special election will fill the remaining seven months left in Cunningham's term. In an e-mail sent to the...

All seven candidates for the 13th Congressional District seat made a joint appearance Thursday, answering questions on a variety of topics, such as abortion, national security and veterans benefits. Appearing before a couple hundred people at the Tiger Bay Club at Michael's on East, the five Republican and two Democratic candidates were first asked by a moderator to describe themselves as liberal or conservative, and then to explain what they meant. The two Democrats, Jan Schneider and Christine Jennings, described themselves as moderate Democrats, while two of the Republicans, Vern Buchanan and Mark Flanagan, said they were Ronald Reagan Republicans....