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CONWAY, N.H. - Democrat John Edwards yesterday changed course and announced that he would accept public campaign financing, which was once the standard approach for presidential candidates but has in the last two elections become a last refuge among those unable to raise enough from private donors. The move, announced just before the end of the third-quarter fund-raising period on Sunday, allows Edwards to take up to about $21 million in matching funds in exchange for abiding by a primary-season spending limit of $50 million. But the move is likely to be perceived as an acknowledgment that he has been...

Thirty five years ago John Kerry slandered an entire generation of men who fought in Vietnam branding them as a "war criminals." Today, much of the same thing is being said about our young men and women in Iraq. Now, a lawsuit filed in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas will test the very foundation of Kerry’s anti-war persona for the first time. It isn’t dubious medals or Kerry’s disputed service record in Vietnam that is being called into question. This time Kerry may finally be forced to answer for the events that launched his public career, one that made him...