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O n Wednesday, Democratic leaders unveiled their new security strategy at an event in Union Station, surrounded by American flags, "REAL SECURITY" banners and other campaign-style props. The Republican National Committee quickly dismissed the new platform as "No New Ideas." The New York Times agreed: "Most of the proposals are not new." Indeed, the Democrats rehashed their usual litany of security cliches, declaring their opposition to terrorism, proclaiming their support for the troops. And instead of offering voters a positive new agenda, they mostly complained about the Bush administration -- its approach to Iraq, its response to Hurricane Katrina, its...

Now I read that Matt Cooper’s (the journalist who received Rove’s so-called ‘leak’) wife is Mandy Grunwald; media consultant and campaign advisor to both Bill and Hillary Clinton......

MIDI - MANDY (Barry Manilow) Last week while we were in bed "Let's get Karl Rove," you said We can pull it off...the press will play What we start, I know, won't go away Together we'd be helping Hillary We'd set it up easily Wilson will comply...and so will his wife For the RNC, we'd cause so much strife Oh, Mandy...you must put on that leather pink burqa It's not my fault, you know Oh, Mandy...even with Viagra, it won't work-a If you let your face show...oh, Mandy True believers, that we are We'll be following her star We'll...

Updated: 7:29 a.m. ET Feb. 27, 2005 During tenure, he led magazine's shift to centrist view. NEW YORK - Henry A. Grunwald, a Time magazine editor who led the publication’s shift from conservatism to a more centrist view, then later became a United States ambassador to Vienna, has died. He was 82. Grunwald died of heart failure Saturday at his Manhattan home, according to his daughter, Mandy....

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, trailing his major rivals in New Hampshire, takes a few soft swipes at front-runner Howard Dean in a new television ad that began airing Friday.</p> <p>"I don't think it's right to have raised a divisive symbol like the confederate flag. Or to give up on principles like limiting the amount of money in campaigns," Lieberman says in the commercial.</p>