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When Donald Trump heard that Ted Cruz had taken out a loan from Goldman Sachs (against his own investments, by the way), he lashed out at his rival. The loan proved that Cruz was owned by the banks! He could not be trusted! He'd just do Goldman's bidding! Oh my, how terrible! Yes, Cruz was clearly a crony of the big banks. This criticism caused the Cruz campaign to study Trump's own finances a bit. What they've discovered is downright shocking: Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz on Sunday said GOP front-runner Donald Trump owes “hundreds of millions or even billions”...

For months, anti-regime activist claims that the Syrian government has cultivated a beneficial relationship with al-Qaeda groups in order to undermine the opposition have fallen on deaf ears. After all, the idea that Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has staked his leadership platform on a campaign against “terrorists”—his term for all anti-government fighters and supporters—would engage with the most radical of all rebel groups, reeks of conspiracy theories. Yet an emerging consensus among analysts and Western diplomats reveals that there might be some truth to the accusations after all. The opposition is now hoping that a shift in the current...

David Letterman Curses Out Andrew Breitbart, Fox News,Conservatives in Heated Discussion with Rachel Maddow QUOTE:Maddow: ..Scaring white people is good politics on the Conservative side of the spectrum, and it always has been.Quote:1:38...the idea is your sort of rile up the white base to be afraid of an other to be afraid of scary immigrants or scary black people (agesticulating wildly as if counting items off a list ) somebody coming to take what is white people's "rightful property " Letterman:There's a guy who apparently takes interviews, press conferences and edits them and cobbles them together so they give the...

As questions have been raised over how thoroughly Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign vetted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for the V.P. slot, it seems the McCain campaign was unaware of a video -- available online -- in which Palin talks about God's role in U.S. military action overseas, according to a political operative familiar with the situation.

NEW YORK: It's unusual. But, it's a fact. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic party's presidential nominee, is seeking the blessings of Hanuman in his battle for the White House. The 46-year-old senator from Illinois, who defeated his rival Hillary Clinton in an epic 17-month long electoral battle for Democratic party nomination, carries a "tiny monkey god" apparently representing "Hanuman" with him for good luck. A recent photo posted on Time's White House Photo of the Day collection shows the first ever Black-American nominee of a major US party for the Presidential elections carries with him a bracelet belonging to an...

He might be the man who brings down Karl Rove. Former Olympic Peninsula carpenter Joseph Wilson speaks in Seattle on Oct. 26. Here’s a rundown of the blossoming GOP scandals and what he thinks about them. In an August 2003 talk here, former diplomat Joseph Wilson offhandedly mentioned that it might be fun to see George W. Bush's key political adviser, Karl Rove, "frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs." Wilson later worried he'd put too fine a point on the then-nascent scandal over the outing of his wife as a CIA officer. Maybe he'd gotten caught up in...