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Dennis Miller: "I know this will anger a lot of folks but I really don't think Liberals have handled Hillary's loss all that well."

FBI Director James Comey stood before the nation and issued a list of Hillary Clinton’s astounding wrongdoings Tuesday as regards America’s national security — and then said he was not recommending prosecution because, in essence, what Mrs. Clinton did was “extremely careless” but not criminal. As he spoke, I recalled F. Scott Fitzgerald’s peerless description in “The Great Gatsby” of a feckless wealthy couple: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into . . . their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean...

HUDSON, N.H. — In his last appearance before the primary here on Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton said he wishes "sometimes" that he wasn't married to Hillary Clinton because then he could speak more freely. "Sometimes when I am on a stage like this, I wish that we weren't married, then I could say what I really think," Bill Clinton said before introducing his wife at a rally. "I don't mean that in a negative way. I am happy." The 42nd president, who until now had been notably restrained in stump speeches for his wife, unleashed some harsh words against...

I hope Mike Huckabee meant it when he said recently that he's not sure he wants to make a second run for president. Though he's right up there with Sarah Palin in polls of the prospective Republican field for 2012, his odds of success are suddenly slim to none. You could argue that the former Arkansas governor is a victim of bad luck. You could argue that he's a victim of his own bad judgment. What's inarguable is that Huckabee commuted the prison term of a man killed by police after he allegedly shot and killed four police officers Sunday...

Have the media given Obama a free pass?

At least on Wall Street, the honeymoon is over for President Barack Obama. Polls still show the President has strong popularity among the general U.S. population, and Obama continues to command power in Congress. But among investors, fairly or unfairly, there is griping that the new Obama Administration is at least partly to blame for the recent slide in stocks. Since Nov. 4, Election Day, the broad Standard & Poor's 500-stock index is off about 25 percent, and since Jan. 20, when Obama took office, the "500" is down 15 percent.

Republican Sen. John McCain's standoff with the White House over treatment of detainees _ an issue the former POW knows intimately well _ threatens to exacerbate his already contentious relationship with conservatives. "Maverick status is looked upon as a strength in Congress, but a maverick in the White House is not looked upon with great admiration from our folks," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said Monday. Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006 during a hearing to consider the nominations for commander of the...

US President George W. Bush said overnight that building democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan would embolden reformers in Iran, and he branded the Islamic republic's hardline president "an odd guy." "The stakes in Iraq are beyond just making sure that Iraq is not a safe haven for Al-Qaeda," the network behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Mr Bush told PBS television in an interview. "Iran's got a president that, that, you know, second-guessed the Holocaust and has announced ... the sort of destruction of Israel," said Bush. "He's an odd guy." Washington has accused Iran of seeking nuclear weapons,...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A teenager fell six stories Friday after trying to leap from one parking garage to another, but suffered only a broken shoulder and other fractures. Timothy Bargfrede, 18, of Longwood, and a friend realized they were at the wrong parking garage, so the friend jumped from one roof to the other, about a 2 1/2-foot leap, Orlando police Lt. Orlando Rolon said. Bargfrede fell when he tried to jump, and became wedged six stories down between the two buildings. Firefighters had to cut through the concrete to free him, Rolon said. "He's very lucky to be...