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Huckabee Wins Iowa's Republican Caucuses - DES MOINES, Jan. 3 -- Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee rode a wave of evangelical fervor to victory over Mitt Romney in Iowa's Republican caucus Thursday, an outcome that hardly seemed possible two months ago. (READ MORE)
After Bhutto's Death, Sharif Steps Forward - LAHORE, Pakistan, Jan. 3 -- In the polished marble foyer of his mansion, former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif keeps two ferocious-looking stuffed lions. They were purchased in Africa, and they greet visitors with piercing eyes. (READ MORE)
No Murder Charges Filed in Haditha Case - After a two-year investigation into the killings of up to 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps has decided that none of the Marines involved in the incident will be charged with murder. Instead, two enlisted Marines and two Marine officers will face trial in coming months for the killings and for failing to investigate them. (READ MORE)
Navy's Use of Sonar Is Severely Limited - A federal judge yesterday severely limited the Navy's ability to use mid-frequency sonar on a training range off the Southern California coast, ruling that the loud sounds would harm whales and other marine mammals if not tightly controlled. (READ MORE)
Huckabee, Obama Win in Iowa - Sen. Barack Obama decisively won Iowa's Democratic presidential caucus last night, toppling one-time front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who placed a close third to former Sen. John Edwards. (READ MORE)
N.H. Race Centers on Undecided, Not Iowa - The voters of New Hampshire, fiercely independent and, right now, mostly undecided, don't much care what happened last night in the Iowa caucuses, and they often flaunt their independence at the ballot box. (READ MORE)
Enthusiastic Democrats Outshine Gloomy GOP - Enthusiasm among Republican voters on the Iowa campaign trail rarely matched the crowds of eager Democrats, who turned out in record numbers last night. (READ MORE)
US Airways, Airport Seek Trial in Imams' Suit - US Airways and Minneapolis airport officials are demanding a jury trial in a civil rights lawsuit filed by a group of Muslim imams who were removed from a flight for suspicious behavior. (READ MORE)
From the Front:
Eighty Deuce on the Loose in Iraq: One year anniversary - Today is Jan 3rd, 2008. It is a significant milestone for us today. Exactly 1 year ago, 365 days ago, 8760 hours ago, 525600 minutes ago and 31536000 seconds ago (wow) we left American soil to begin our journey to Iraq, not knowing what exactly we would be doing, where we were going to be going, and when we would do it. All we knew was that President Bush was getting ready to "officially" announce the troop surge and that we were the 1st ones to deploy as a part of this new change in strategy in Iraq. (READ MORE)
Iraq Pundit: Predictions for 2008 and Beyond - While Gen. David Petraeus is busy working in Iraq, some journalists in Washington are busy predicting his failed mission. Someone please remind these reporters that Petraeus heads the good guys. The Washington Post 's William M. Arkin, irritated by the attention the General has got recently, starts with this back-handed compliment: "Indeed, Petraeus has shown himself to be an honest ambassador and inspiring commander, and his change in military strategy will earn him accolades long after year-end lists have been forgotten." (READ MORE)
A Surgeon's Letters Home From Iraq: 4 JAN 2008 No good deed goes unpunished - I'm waiting for 1600. At 1600 it will be okay to start surgery on my patient. We would be done by now but he decided to have a nice big egg and fruit breakfast. "Oh yes", he said yesterday in the clinic, "I understand" as we instructed him that he couldn't eat or drink anything after midnight. No food, no drink, not anything, I explained. I had the translator repeat it several times. Last night I was on call. (READ MORE)
never as funny the second time… : Mustache Five - before even beginning this entry, credit must be given where it is due. the idea of high-fiving someone while stating the reason for the high-five, i.e. “no-panties Five, Ms. Spears”, or “my-head-got-this-big-naturally Five, Mr. Bonds” was originally used in the TV Show “Scrubs”. The proponent of the five is Dr. Todd Quinlan, known simply as “the Todd”. (READ MORE)
LTC Rich Phillips: New Year, New FOB, New Mission - Happy New Year! For me, a new year in a new job, in a new place. High atop "Alexander's Castle" in Qalat, Afghanistan. I have left FOB Salerno and the Salerno Hospital and begun my new job at my new FOB. Unfortunately, you won’t find news about FOB Salerno or the hospital here anymore. I don’t know of anyone blogging from there anymore, but they do have a unit website with information. I will share that address as soon as I can. Fifteen month tours are long, and it is nice to have a change of pace and a change of scenery at the 12-month point. I think the next 3 months will go quickly. (READ MORE)
On the Web:
The Belmont Club: Here I come, ready or not - Hillary is "unbowed" by her third place finish in Iowa, says the AP. "Sen. Hillary Clinton, unbowed by a third-place finish in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, hailed a 'great night for Democrats' and said the strong turnout pointed for sure to the election of a Democratic president in November. She said she would 'keep pushing as hard as we can.' ... With former President Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, standing to one side of her and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to the other, Clinton said, 'I am so ready for the rest of this campaign and I am so ready to lead.'" (READ MORE)
A Soldier's Mind: Turning On The Lights, Restores Sense Of Safety - Despite being in a combat-zone, our Troops are doing many things to improve the lives of the Iraqi people and restore a sense of normalcy to the region. In the past, we’ve told you about water treatment plants being built, factories and schools being reopened, streets cleaned of garbage and sewage as well as many other projects. In Arab Jabour and Al Buaytha that sense of normalcy and safety has been enhanced recently with the addition of street lights; something that we take for granted here in the United States. (READ MORE)
Ace of Spades: Professor: I'm Too Selfish To Buy Energy Efficient Appliances Or Vehicles Even With Subsidies, So The Government Must Outlaw Products To Keep Me From Buying Them - He's a global warming bleeding heart, but he admits he continues, and will continue, to purchase high-energy-demand stuff. He says that a surtax on high-energy-demand products isn't enough to change his behavior. Nor would even be a direct government subsidy to purchase more energy-efficient products. He can see only one solution for himself, and thus only one solution for you. Shockingly enough coming from a college professor, it involves government coercion. (READ MORE)
The Captain's Journal: The Sunni Tribes Respond to Osama Bin Laden - When the pivotal awakening figure Abdul Sattar Abu Risha was assassinated by a roadside bomb, the response from the Anbaris was swift and stern. “All the tribes agreed to fight al Qaeda until the last child in Anbar,” his brother, Ahmed Abu Risha.” This loss of the heart of the population has harmed the effort by al Qaeda, most particularly in Anbar, but extending into Baghdad and North to the Diyala province as well. With their rooms of horror in Anbar and torture complexes in Diyala, Bin Laden had to come up with something for the Sunnis in Iraq, and in his latest audio he apologized for a few mistakes here and there, but reminded the Sunnis that everyone is human and humans make mistakes. (READ MORE)
Ed Morrissey: Hillary Responds To The Loss, Badly - It didn't take Hillary long to re-message the campaign in the wake of her stunning third-place loss to Barack Obama and John Edwards in Iowa. Instead of insisting on change, a theme more amenable to her opponent, Hillary will instead work on the inexperience of her opponents -- and use a tack that Democrats often claim Republicans use against them. It's all about the risk: (READ MORE)
Don Surber: Democrats 220,000 Republicans 124,000 - Hillary finishes third. The left is happy. The right is happy. The winners in Iowa, in order: Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Fred Thompson and John McCain. The losers in Iowa in order: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Mitt Romney. Ron Paul got 10%. So? 2008 is off to a lousy start for Republicans as Adam Nagourney of the New York Times reported: (READ MORE)
Bill Roggio: Seven al Qaeda killed in Miqdadiyah - The region north of the city of Miqdadiyah remains al Qaeda in Iraq-controlled territory. Raids against al Qaeda in Iraq occur in the Miqdadiyah region on a daily basis, while al Qaeda continues to launch attacks into Baqubah, the provincial capital of Diyala on an almost daily basis. The latest Coalition raid in Miqdadiyah occurred on Jan. 3, resulting in seven al Qaeda fighters killed. Coalition special forces, part of Task Force 88, the hunter-killer teams assigned to hunt al Qaeda's networks, "targeted associates of an al Qaeda in Iraq leader allegedly responsible for coordinating and directing a large terrorist group, and carrying out executions in the Diyala River Valley region." (READ MORE)
Jules Crittenden: Gunplay Good - For boys. It’s official, from the Brit government to nursery schools. Daily Mail, h/t The City Square: “Playing with toy weapons helps the development of young boys, according to new Government advice to nurseries and playgroups. Staff have been told they must resist their ‘natural instinct’ to stop boys using pretend weapons such as guns or light sabres in games with other toddlers.” Well, I could have told you all that. I’m raising my kids in suburban Massachusetts. Gunplay, frowned upon. One day, I told my boy John Eade’s story. He had met John, seen his eyepatch, and I told him a little about what John Eade done at the Ia Drang, how he fought on, about his friends, how he misses them even to this day. (READ MORE)
McQ: Thoughts on Iowa - Naturally, there's a lot of opinion and spin beginning to emerge about what happened in Iowa tonight and what it means. Here are my thoughts. First, Iowa is an odd political animal. It's a caucus state which, as I explained previously, really means that its selections aren't really made as they are in traditional primary states where an actual vote is taken as on any election day. Voting is at a specific time during the day and that sort of a set up has a tendency to attract more activists than a normal election might. But Iowa is also the first chance for candidates to make an impression on an electorate, and thus, despite the system, that state gets more attention than it probably deserves. That said, for the caucus winners, Iowa got all the attention it needed. (READ MORE)
Lorie Byrd: Some Thoughts on Iowa -- Big Wins for Huckabee and Obama - It will be interesting to see how tonight's results from Iowa influence upcoming primaries in New Hampshire and beyond. Iowa is an expectations game. If you are expected to do well, but don't do as well as expected, you take a hit. Those who appear to be taking the big hits tonight are (obviously) Romney and Clinton. Huckabee finished stronger than expected, with an overwhelming win, but it remains to be seen how much tonight's results will help him in New Hampshire. (READ MORE)
ROFASix: Islamic Dad Kills Secular Daughters in Texas - Killing one's lively and vivacious teen aged daughters goes beyond understanding. How does one raise, care, and nurture one's daughters for nearly two decades and then blow them away in a taxi with a pistol? The Star-Telegram story "Slaying of popular teens stuns friends" goes completely politically correct and says "a domestic dispute may have led to the shooting." It is a wussy-wishy washy way of refusing to focus on the really ugly part of the story. Their father killed them, for being 'too' secular. Pamela over at Atlas Shrugs does a good job of calling out the news media for it and provides some pictures of the young girls that leave no doubt what their "crime" was - they were typical teen aged girls in America. (READ MORE)
TigerHawk: A brief note on "white" Iowa and the vote for Obama - Everywhere I turned last night, from television to the blogs, people were marveling that a state as "white" as Iowa would vote for a black man, Barack Obama. Is this not a sign of change for the better? Well, it is and whites and blacks should rejoice in it, but it is not surprising that Iowa would do such a thing. In the 1970s, more than 30 years ago, Iowa City's state senator was an African American named Bill Hargrave. In a town with 45,000 residents and fewer than 500 blacks, the voters sent Hargrave to Des Moines because he was a great guy (there's some background on the Hargrave family in this story about one of his coaching sons). Yes, Iowa City is more liberal than most of the rest of the state, but the students do not really vote. Hargrave was elected by the townies, most of whom are as Iowan as the day is long. (READ MORE)
Mark Tapscott: Fred Thompson: The Quiet Man of 2008 campaign scores an invisible win - Let's see now: Fred Thompson started way late, has had a tumultuous staff lineup, spent virtually nothing compared to others like Mitt Romney, was almost unseen in Iowa until three weeks ago, was either ignored or written off by the mainstream media (and many in the Blogosphere) and for the most part depended upon Internet devices like YouTube to get his message out. Despite it all, Thompson finished third in Iowa, nosing ahead of the revived media darling John McCain , trailing only Multi-millions Mitt and the political pop-bottle rocket from Arkansas. That 17-minute conversation on YouTube earlier this week keyed a gathering recognition detected by Zogby that Thompson has a serious case to make. (READ MORE)
SemperFi Wife: The Wheels on the Bus - 16 years ago in the fall, I walked my little boy down to the bus stop for his first day of kindergarten. He had his backpack filled with all the things the school said he should have. He had his lunch box packed with goodies (all nutritious). His double crown had been tamed, at least for the time being, his clothes were clean and tidy and his shoes were tied. I will never forget the catch in my throat as he tried to get on the bus and he couldn't quite get his foot on that first step. He's gotten on many buses since that day and he can certainly reach the first step now. Today, he got on another bus. (READ MORE)
Smooth Stone: Israel Retaliates, Targets Islamic Jihad in Gaza - When Palestinian Arab Muslims screw up, they blame Israel. Considering the fact that Palestinian Arab Muslims screw up in scope in every category from civility to being able to commit to a peace treaty, well, that's a lot of blaming they have to do, so that they don't have to take any responsibility. Now, the Palestinian Arab Muslim cry babies are saying they are retaliating for Israel's retaliation. Typical talkspeak for the Muslim community. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for the PA, said that Israel's counter-terrorism operations were: “a bloody Israeli message in which Israel shirks itself [sic] of any commitment.” (READ MORE)
Dan Riehl: Post Caucus Analysis - Funny, everyone will say Romney is done for coming in second, but Hillary is fine with third? I'll make this short, because Iowa only proved one thing - the Republicans are in big trouble. The energy and participation is off the charts on the Dem side. It went up on the Republican side due to the Evangelical vote. That's great, but it isn't enough to win a general election. The fact is, as things stand, the Republicans don't have a candidate that can win nationally in 2008. As for the Dems, Edwards is now the spoiler. (READ MORE)
Right Truth: National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) Apologizes to Muslims for Sins of Christians - You read that headline correctly. The National Association of Evangelicals does not speak for me, nor does it speak for true Conservative Christians. In October of 2007, 138 Muslim leaders from around the world sent an open letter to the Pope saying "The very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake", and asking for a meeting. Some saw that statement as a plea for peace between Christians and Muslims, others saw it as a declaration of war. In November, NEA President Leith Anderson and NEA Vice President Richard Cizik signed onto a Christian response to that October invitation to dialogue from 138 Muslim leaders around the world. (READ MORE)
John Hawkins: Paul & Enthusiasm - Even though I have beaten up on Ron Paul and his supporters a lot, I'm starting to feel a twinge of pity for them and I'll tell you why: I don't have any illusions about politics. The right side doesn't always triumph, the best ideas usually don't make it through the sausage grinder, the best man doesn't always win -- and, yes, Republicans can decide to pick a guy like a Gerald Ford over Ronald Reagan. I'm not cynical about it, but I am realistic. The Paul people? Not so much. In fact, they remind me of a scene in the movie, Knocked Up, where this father looks at his children, happily blowing bubbles in the park, and says wistfully, "wish I liked anything as much as my kids like bubbles." (READ MORE)
Rhymes with Right: Some Thoughts On Iowa - Obama and Huckabee. I can't say I'm surprised by those results. What is surprising, though, is the margins and the positioning of candidates below the winners. “Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, a first-term Democratic senator trying to become the nation’s first African-American president, rolled to victory in the Iowa caucuses on Thursday night, lifted by a record turnout of voters who embraced his promise of change. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas who was barely a blip on the national scene just two months ago, defeated Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, delivering a serious setback to Mr. Romney’s high-spending campaign and putting pressure on Mr. Romney to win in New Hampshire next Tuesday.” (READ MORE)
Baron Bodissey: First They Came for the English Bloggers - I have said a number of times that what I do here would be illegal in some countries in Europe, and that a European citizen doing what I do can be arrested there. Britain is such a country. Its recent laws concerning the incitement of racial and religious hatred have made illegal much of what is published in the Counterjihad blogosphere. And now the first British blogger is about to face the Multicultural perp-walk. Lionheart is a well-known patriotic blogger in England, and is on our blogroll. He is currently outside the UK, and has been informed that he will be arrested for stirring up racial hatred as soon as he returns home. (READ MORE)
Dave Ross: Unto Caesar - There are good reasons why the United States has never elected a minister, priest, rabbi, imam or other religious leader as president of the United States. While there is actually no "separation of church and state" in the U.S. Constitution (that was a phrase Thomas Jefferson used in correspondence and which secularists jumped on gleefully a century or more later), keeping religion out of the deliberations of government is actually a pretty good idea. While the Constitution limits itself to saying that there will be "no establishment of religion," Jesus himself in the New Testament provided a pretty good common sense way to delineate the relationship of church and state: "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s." (READ MORE)
Augean Stables: London’s Muslim Leaders Publish Letter Supporting Mayor Livingstone - Today, London’s Muslim leaders called Mayor Ken Livingstone an outstanding mayor who stands against injustice and prejudice. Mayor Livingstone invited Yusuf al-Qaradawi to speak at a conference in London in 2004. Al-Qaradawi avidly supports Palestinian suicide bombings against all Israeli civilian targets, considering “this type of martyrdom operation as an evidence of God’s justice.” He is a believer in Zionist plots to control the world. The European Council for Fatwa and Research, the prominent Muslim legal body (closely affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood) that he heads, used The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in a theological debate. (READ MORE)
Yankeemom: DJ - To find out who DJ is, go here. I made it to Dulles Airport a bit late yesterday morning, having got caught up in the commute traffic around Leesburg. I have to say, I’ll take their commute traffic over California’s any day! And then, there were lots of parking places at the airport. I love Virginia! I texted (I can’t believe I do things like that now…) Laughing Wolf to see if he had made it in. One never knows about the flights from Kuwait, as so many military families know. I received a message back that he and DJ had just cleared customs and were on their way to baggage claim. (READ MORE)
The Sundries Shack: Horton Hears…Well, Probably Not Anything from the Pentagon - Bilal Hussein is a photographer who works for the AP. He had a habit of getting some very timely photographs of terrorist attacks in Iraq, including onw that on a Pulitzer Prize. His photographs were so timely in fact that the blogosphere got a bit suspicious. So did the military, which arrested Hussein on suspicion of being one of the terrorists. Scott Horton is a journalist who writes for Harper’s magazine. He recently wrote at least one article on the Hussein arrest that basically libelled the heck out of our military. What Horton forgot to mention is that he actually worked on Hussein’s defense team. (READ MORE)
Michael Barone: The 16-Year Itch - The Iowa caucuses have just passed and we await, with just two weekday prime-time news nights in between, the New Hampshire primary. The biggest surprise of the campaign so far is the success of candidates with minimal credentials and little if any experience in national governance. The Wall Street Journal went to press before the results in Iowa were in, but Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, and Mitt Romney, a one-term governor of Massachusetts, were leading in Iowa Republican polls. (READ MORE)
Kimberly A. Strassel: GOP, R.I.P.? - Iowa Republicans went to the polls yesterday, and pity those who thought they were merely choosing a presidential nominee. Turns out they were taking a mallet to the modern frame of the Grand Old Party. Or so goes the thinking of certain pundits and political gurus, who've taken the fractured state of today's Republican race as evidence the Reagan coalition is dead. The party is shrinking, its groups flying off in all directions, they say. "It's gone," says Ed Rollins, the former Reagan adviser and current Mike-Huckabee muse. "The breakup of what was the Reagan coalition--social conservatives, defense conservatives, anti-tax conservatives--it doesn't mean a whole lot to people anymore." It's time for something new, these people say. Though don't ask them what. (READ MORE)
Peggy Noonan: Out With the Old, In With the New - And so it begins. We wanted exciting, we got exciting. As this is written, late on the night of the caucuses, the outlines of the decisions seem clear: Barack Obama won. Hillary Clinton, the inevitable, the avatar of the machine, lost. It's huge. Even though people have been talking about this possibility for six weeks now, it's still huge. She had the money, she had the organization, the party's stars, she had Elvis behind her, and the Clinton name in a base that loved Bill. And she lost. There are always a lot of reasons for a loss, but the Ur reason in this case, the thing it all comes down to? There's something about her that makes you look, watch, think, look again, weigh and say: No. (READ MORE)
Diana West: A 'Defining Atrocity'? Yes, Against Our Marines - A major story of 2007 was the progressive unraveling of the case against the seven Marines and one Navy corpsman charged in connection with the Nov. 19, 2005, killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha during a day of intense action. To date, charges against four of the men have been dismissed altogether. Two men have been ordered to a court martial. Two cases are pending. What a difference a year has made since charges came down at the end of 2006. The New York Times in October mourned -- I mean, noted -- the shift: (READ MORE)
Oliver North: Crude Awakening - WASHINGTON -- The frozen water pipe this morning was a rude awakening. I managed to thaw the pipe without bursting it, thus saving the cost of a plumber. However, a few hours later, I opened our bill for home heating oil. At $2.70 per gallon, it was a blunt reminder that, with petroleum at $100 a barrel, the future cost of keeping fuel in our furnace -- and gasoline in our cars -- will make the plumber's price pale in comparison. According to the "experts," those of us who drive to work will be paying $4 per gallon for motor fuel soon, and we all will be paying more for electricity, consumer products, air travel and to heat our homes. Happy New Year. (READ MORE)
Charles Krauthammer: The Necessity of Democratic Survival in Pakistan - "My mother always said, democracy is the best revenge." -- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of the late Benazir Bhutto WASHINGTON -- Of all the understandings of the democratic idea, none could be more wrong than this one. Democracy at its very core is an antidote to the kind of dynastic revenge young Bhutto was suggesting. For the Bhuttos, elections are a means for the family to regain power. Benazir was always avenging the death of her father, the former prime minister hanged two years after a coup. Bilawal is now pledged to do the same for his mother's martyrdom. (READ MORE)
Jonah Goldberg: Held Hostage in Iowa - I'm writing this just hours before Iowans head to the caucuses to pick their party's nominee. The day before the caucuses, Hillary Clinton proclaimed the "eyes of the world" were on Iowa. This is something of an overstatement, of course. Something tells me very few of the women around the village well in some shanty outside Lahore are, at this moment, debating whether Joe Biden will have enough drivers to get his people to the Martin Memorial Library, at 406 Packwaukee St., in New Hartford on caucus night. And the cafes in Saigon are hardly abuzz with the question of whether Mike Huckabee nailed his closing argument to the guests of the Council Bluffs Cracker Barrel. (READ MORE)
Linda Chavez: The Sound of Silence - Arizona has been ground zero in the fight against illegal immigration -- but a funny thing happened this week when a new anti-illegal alien state law went into effect. Nothing. The law, one of the toughest in the nation, requires jurisdictions to investigate complaints by ordinary citizens against local businesses that may be employing illegal aliens. But apparently most Arizonans have better things to worry about. A spokesman for the state attorney general said his office had received about a half dozen calls. Some jurisdictions, including Pima County, which runs along the border with Mexico, received no complaints. (READ MORE)
Mona Charen: Joe Kennedy, Hugo Chavez and That Free Heating Oil - You've probably seen the TV commercials -- former congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II beckons you to enjoy reduced-price heating oil if you are struggling to keep your house warm, thanks to "our good friends in Venezuela." He then offers a few heartwarming examples of poor people who have taken advantage of the program and offers the toll free number: 1-877-JOE-4-OIL (1-877-563-4645). So what if Joe Kennedy and Hugo Chavez get a propaganda bonanza, you may say, so long as poor people are benefiting? Kennedy himself has defended the program as "righteous." (READ MORE)
Harry Stein: No Conservatives!!! - Here is just a tiny, tiny sample of the reaction on the Huffington Post to the announcement that William Kristol will be writing a weekly column in the New York Times: “William ‘the Bloody’ Kristol is a beady eyed warmonger.” “Worthless suck up Kristol should be cleaning toilets in public restrooms for his GOP ‘friends.’” “I will never, ever, buy another issue of the newspaper, I will never again be a subscriber to your newspaper and I will do my level best to avoid any purchases from any NY Times advertiser.” And so it went, on this and dozens of other left-of-center sites. Sputtering fury. Vicious name-calling. Denunciations of the Times for this unspeakable act. Threats to cancel subscriptions and otherwise exact revenge. (READ MORE)
Andrea Shea-King: IT'S AN OUTRAGE! IT'S CENSORSHIP! AND IT'S DANGEROUS TO OUR COUNTRY - Whether you support Ron Paul for President or not, it isn't fair to him or the American people that Fox News has decided to eliminate Dr. Paul or Cong. Duncan Hunter -- two presidential candidates -- from their next debate. In fact, it is unconscionable. The excuses Fox News is giving are as flimsy as a feather in a stiff breeze. First they said it was because the "super bus" they were broadcasting the event from wasn't big enough to accommodate all the candidates. NOT BIG ENOUGH??? (READ MORE)
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