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Politicians use their wives in campaigns. It's just how politics is played in the 21st century. Hell, even George Washington probably got some political mileage out of Martha. However, to anyone in attendance at the Giuliani fundraiser at the Sheraton in Midtown Manhattan this evening, watching Judith Giuliani introduce her husband, the former mayor, it became clearer than ever that Rudy Giuliani has some serious female problems. Yes, we all know about his three marriages — and particularly about his very messy and public divorce from his second wife, Donna Hanover. The question going forward, however, is how does he...

~snip~ Thompson, meanwhile, advocates rolling back Clintonomics, fighting crime with tougher sentencing and the death penalty, reducing welfare rolls, enacting strict term limits, etc. On abortion, both Thompson and Cooper are pro-choice. But Thompson favors parental notification, Cooper voted against it. Cooper accepts money from the tobacco industry (a major Tennessee employer) while leading the anti-smoking crusade. Thompson proudly puffs a pipe. ~snip~

Febuary 2007 – Popular Ex-Mayor of New York, pro-choice Republican Rudy Giuliani, announced the creation of his 2008 Exploratory Committee. This is wonderful news for all Americans, especially GOP moderate Republicans who are counting on someone like Mr. Giuliani to help bring our Grand Old Party back to its roots – to once again be the Party of individual rights that advocates that the government that governs least is the government that governs best. He has been a supporter of Republicans for Choice since its earliest days. ~snip~

Disgusting cartoon by one of the worst in the country.

(2051-09-11). As part of the nation’s month-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, ABC television tonight will show an educational drama called ‘The Path from 9/11‘. The docudrama recounts the initial resistance to global jihad mounted by the infidels of the former United States of America in the immediate aftermath of the great martyrdom operation. But then the tide turns in favor of the budding Islamic caliphate (Allah be praised!). As memories of the 2001 attacks fade, world opinion turns against the Great Satan. Then the Great Satan turns on itself, consumed from within by a toxic...

<p>ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Zoo Atlanta announced the birth of a giant panda cub Wednesday. On its official Web site, the zoo said the cub was born to Lun Lun at 4:51p.m. ET.</p> <p>The zoo announced little else but that the mother and cub appeared to be doing fine. A news conference is scheduled for Wednesday evening.</p>

John F. Kerry has a filbuster petition.

January 19, 2006--Our latest poll of the race for Pennsylvania governor shows Republican Lynn Swann, the former receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, narrowly leading Democratic Governor Ed Rendell 45% to 43%. Fifty-four percent (54%) of voters view Swann favorably; 47% view Rendell favorably. Swann formally declared his candidacy just two weeks ago, on January 4. But he has enjoyed early success in securing endorsements from two of six regional caucuses in his quest for the party nomination. The Republican state Committee will endorse a candidate on February 11. Rendell does much better against former Lt. Governor Bill Scranton III, leading...

Senate Democrats have scrapped a "good-faith" agreement they made two months ago to allow the Judiciary Committee to vote today on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. "This is a new low in our confirmation process," said Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican. "Not only because it is virtually unprecedented, but also because it reflects a breach of trust." According to Judiciary Committee rules, either party can stall a nomination in committee for only one week, meaning that Judge Alito's nomination will likely be approved by the panel during an executive committee meeting next Tuesday. The entire...

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy belongs to a social club for Harvard students and alumni that was evicted from campus nearly 20 years ago after refusing to allow female members. According to the online membership directory of the Owl Club, the Massachusetts Democrat updated his personal information -- including the address of his home that is in his wife's name -- on Sept. 7. The club has long been reviled on campus as "sexist" and "elitist" and, in 1984, was booted from the university for violating federal anti-discrimination laws, authored by Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy has spent much of this week's...

New orbital data on two moons of Uranus and two rings suggest the seventh planet may be a more chaotic place than thought. The two new moons, dubbed Cupid and Mab, were discovered in 2003 using the Hubble Space Telescope and archived images from the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Since then, the moons' discoverers, Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute and Jack Lissauer of NASA Ames Research Center, both in California, US, have refined the orbits of the moons and spotted two previously undetected dust rings. “To me, the exciting part of this discovery is the fact that there were these...

After failing to block a Democrat filibuster of a Senate defense bill which carried a provision to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said he would employ a rare parliamentary maneuver to finally achieve passage for the ANWR measure. “Today, we’ll introduce a bill to grant pre-emptive immunity from prosecution for treason to The New York Times and any government official who leaked classified information to the Times about the NSA anti-terrorist eavesdropping program,” said Sen. Frist. “The immunity bill will carry the ANWR drilling measure as an amendment. With support from...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key Republican senator asked Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Monday about President George W. Bush's domestic spying order and whether war gives the president a blank check when it comes to civil liberties. In a letter to Alito, Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, who will preside at Alito's Senate confirmation hearing next month, also asked what approach he would use to assess Bush's authority. "Historically, the court has shied away from checking executive power while a military conflict was going on," Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, wrote the 55-year-old conservative in preparation for the hearing set...

There appears to be no war on Christmas at the Supreme Court. President George W. Bush and other federal officials have been criticized in recent weeks for not using the word "Christmas" in greeting cards or in describing parties or other traditional December events. But at the Supreme Court, employees were invited to the annual "Christmas Recess Party," set for today. At the party in the Great Hall of the Court, attendees will see a majestic fir that is decorated and unabashedly called a Christmas tree. This is nothing new at the Court, where the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist...

Earlier today, I posted about John Murtha's stance on Somalia based on a Newsmax article. Various CQ readers have had an opportunity to research the subject further, and have discovered several references to the cut-and-run position Murtha urged on the Clinton adminstration -- advice it took, and helped to create the paper-tiger reputation that led to a decade of escalating attacks on the United States. These remarks come not from Newsmax but from Nexis searches of mainline press and from the Congressional Record itself. Let me be clear on one point. In 1993, many people espoused the cut-and-run position from...

November 11, 2005 Democrats Deny Having Pre-War Intelligence by Scott Ott (2005-11-11) — Democrats in Congress today rejected President George Bush’s accusation that they’re trying to rewrite history, which shows they supported the Iraq war based on the same intelligence that drove his decision to send in the troops. “We had no pre-war intelligence,” said Sen. John Kerry, “History will show that none of the leading Democrats had substantial intelligence. Anyone who remembers what we did then knows that the president is making a baseless allegation. I think history will bear out my contention that we Democrats lacked the intelligence...

The latest news about Harriet Miers' record hardly seems likely to assuage the concerns of conservatives in and out of the Senate who already have serious doubts about her conservative credentials. As president-elect and president of the Texas Bar Association, she supported (passionately according to one report) a scheme for preferential treatment of minorities and women that surely would pass the duck test as a quota system in the judgment of most conservatives. Doubtless Miers' supporters will stick with their reassurances about her conservative philosophy – whatever her personal views about quotas – while implying that in any case this...

WASHINGTON - George W. Bush's rising political fortunes provided a windfall for Harriet Miers' law firm. ADVERTISEMENT Campaign records show Bush's Texas gubernatorial campaigns paid Miers a total of $163,000 in legal fees, most of it for work done during the future president's 1998 re-election bid. Some senators are planning to explore Miers' legal work for Bush during her confirmation process to be the newest Supreme Court justice, but the White House says it won't release any memos detailing that work. "I think people across the country recognize the importance of attorney-client privilege," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. Reports...

The long-standing relationship between high court nominee Harriet Miers and Texas jurist Nathan Hecht entrances and puzzles their friends. By Scott Gold and Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writers HOUSTON — He was a country boy who grew up on a wheat farm, she a city girl who played on her high school tennis team. The lives of Nathan Hecht and Harriet E. Miers began to intertwine in the early 1970s, shortly after they finished law school at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. ADVERTISEMENT Soon, they were rising stars at the same law firm, and their lives seemed to be...

In what she described as her "first interview" for the paperback edition of her blockbuster bestseller, "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)," conservative icon and author Ann Coulter says she is breaking a long silence to take on the liberal establishment, which is trying to fool people once again in the wake of Katrina and other controversies. We asked Ann about the timing of the new edition of her book. [Editor's Note: Get your copy of Ann's new book at a price cheaper than Amazon PLUS get our FREE report "Coulter's Fight" -- Click Here Now.] -Snip-...