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The Washington Post has a good test of the various candidates for President: how they reacted to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Here is the summary of results: THE ASSASSINATION of Benazir Bhutto presented U.S. presidential candidates with a test:...

Mrs. Clinton on Pakistan

Last week, observers were quick to jump on Mike Huckabee for his response to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. He offered "apologies" to Pakistan (later clarifying he meant "condolences") and then placed Afghanistan on Pakistan's eastern border rather than western....

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Sorry for the light posting today... In the meantime, more on the immigration issue.

New Hampshire GOP withdraws support

I have previously posted on Fox News not inviting Ron Paul to its New Hampshire Forum. Now the New Hampshire GOP withdraws its support: Following a week of controversy over Fox News' decision to exclude Rep. Ron Paul from a...

Huckabee Finn Tries Tom Sawyer Maneuver

Huckabee’s Nutty Flip-Flop One of the most vivid incidents in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer was the inimitable fence-painting incident (commemorated annually in Twain’s boyhood home of Hannibal, MO - but I digress) in which Tom managed to present the job in such a light to his passing friends that they ended up “bribing” him to do [...]

Blognote

Blogging has been off lately - yeah, of course, the holidays, right? That hasn’t been too bad…but the touch of pneumonia has been another story. Things are on the upswing…and hopefully will continue to be so.

Vehle running for Senate

Just got a call from a reporter from the Mitchell Daily Republic saying that Representative Mike Vehle is running for the District 20 Senate seat in 2008. The reporter?s question was relative to the talk on the Internet about my...

What's New with the Blogs

Turnaround is fair play?

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Political Gross-Out of the Year So Far

Michael Barone on Election 2008

Relative of murdered Dallas girls: ?This was an honor killing;? father abused daughters

South Dakota Blogs

Peggy Noonan on Huckabee's Victory

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

Primary Reform

Rendezvous at the Rendezvous Rib Joint

A Few Other Notes on the Primaries

Abortion and Cultural Marxism

What's the talk in DC today? I hear it's this article...

More Holiday Cheer!

SD Delegation Had A Good Year

Iowa Interpreted 2

Things are going well.....

Prince of the Ozarks

Building A Better Election

DBA was propaganda?

Laptops, REED, and highways

Much ado... Much ado...

Political Poetry

No politics in this post...

American Blogs