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Arnold Schwarzenegger is California's most famous personality and counts on that to persuade voters to enact three measures that would shift the balance of power in the Capitol - but as he called a special election Monday, he was at least partially upstaged by the acquittal of another famous Californian, Michael Jackson, on child molestation charges. Many television stations elevated the Jackson verdict over Schwarzenegger's three-minute speech in which he declared that "our broken state government will be modernized and revitalized" either through his initiatives or compromises with the Democrat-controlled Legislature, the latter being, however, an infinitesimal possibility. Schwarzenegger aides...

Now, let's talk about the president, the trip to Iraq, and let me give you my analysis of this thing, and we'll get into the nuts and bolts and the details of it. The president's Thanksgiving. It was a morale booster for the military. It was shock and awe for liberals and the media. I mean, we kept hearing about Shock and Awe on the opening night of the Iraq war. Well, shock and awe finally happened on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, Eastern time, when the press aboard Air Force One was able to let loose with what they knew, and...