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Dear folks, You guys are good. Real good. You are truly a force on World Wide Web and I tip my hat to you. That's based on my first hand experience of your work regarding our CNBC Republican candidate debate. After the debate, we put up a poll on our Web site asking who readers thought won the debate. You guys flooded it. Now these Internet polls are admittedly unscientific and subject to hacking. In the end, they are really just a way to engage the reader and take a quick temperature reading of your audience. Nothing more and nothing...

Rudy Giuliani Has Got What You Need Posted by Mark Radulich on 02.15.2007 It won't matter what Giuliani thinks about about abortion if Iran drops a bomb on us. And quite frankly I'm much less worried about Islamic terrorism with President Giuliani in charge than President Brownback or Clinton.The story right now being bandied about by the mainstream media and the talk radio world is that the GOP has no front-runner for the 2008 Presidential election or that the front-runners are not exactly inspiring anyone. The three most prominent names right now are obviously John McCain, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani....

Yeah, I know. Another vanity. But I'm wondering...any chance he might flip?

Is Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg weighing a run for president? The answer, depending on where you are these days, could seem to be "maybe." Just about everywhere he goes, Mr. Bloomberg fields a question or two about whether he is interested in a run for the White House. His answer is generally no. Sparring with the New York press corps, Mr. Bloomberg has issued flat denials, tending toward some version of "What part of no don't you understand?" But on Sunday night at a cozier event where apparently just one reporter was present, Mr. Bloomberg appeared to flirt with the...

Sparked by today's Washington Post story that suggests Vice President Cheney's office is involved in the Plame-CIA spy link investigation, government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice president might step aside and that President Bush would elevate Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "It's certainly an interesting but I still think highly doubtful scenario," said a Bush insider. "And if that should happen," added the official, "there will undoubtedly be those who believe the whole thing was orchestrated – another brilliant Machiavellian move by the VP." Said another Bush associate of the rumor, "Yes. This is not good."...

Rep. Tom Tancredo, a vocal critic of President Bush's immigration policy, says he will run for president in 2008 if no one else steps forward to press the issue.The Colorado Republican was in Nashua, N.H., on Monday, speaking to the Nashua Republican City Committee."I don't consider myself a candidate today," Mr. Tancredo said, when asked if he is considering a presidential run, adding: "If no one will take this banner up - and I say this with great trepidation - yeah, I will. I don't know what else to do."

Sen. John F. Kerry is still the well-oiled President Bush-basher he was on the campaign trail last year, but he claims it is ``too early'' to say whether he will take another run at the White House in 2008. ``Honestly I know it sounds bizarre . . . but it is not bizarre,'' Kerry (D-Mass.) told Herald editors and reporters. ``It is so crazy, too early to be talking about 2008. . . . You've got to see where the country is . . . then you sort of begin an evaluative process. The important thing right now is to...

<p>Arabic posting:  "Tomorrow you will watch the destruction of an American Aircraft Carrier"  Within the past half hour, a posting was made on an Arabic language jihad forum that has proven credible in the past.  The posting makes a threat on the USS Kitty Hawk for tomorrow, March 30.  NEIN Director Douglas Hagmann has already notified the appropriate officials in the US military of this posting.</p>

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