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Lobbyist parties for lawmakers bend rules
San Francisco Chronicle - By Zachary Coile - Aug. 20 (News Report)
the House ethics committee opened a huge loophole in the rule by issuing guidelines in December saying it was fine for lobbyists or their employers to throw parties for a group of... More »
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Cindy McCain's half sister emerges to put down 'only child' claim
The Independent - By Leonard Doyle - Aug. 20 (News Report)
Now a half-sister has emerged from the shadows to challenge that family history, claiming she and her offspring have been carefully airbrushed out of the would-be First Lady's... More »
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Race for the presidency: The colour of money
The Independent - By Stephen Foley - Aug. 20 (News Report)
Given this uninspiring state of affairs, it is little wonder that the two candidates are scrambling to win endorsements from those with genuine economic credentials: big business... More »
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Poker Lobby Wants New Deal From GOP
Congressional Quarterly - By Bart Jansen - Aug. 20 (News Report)
The Poker Players Alliance, which spent $1.2 million lobbying during the first half of 2008, aims to legalize virtual versions of the game now played under the table... More »
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Arizona's Go-To Senator
Washington Independent - By John Dougherty - Aug. 19 (Special Report)
for complicated issues that require a proven ability to reach political consensus, patience and attention to detail, Arizona's leaders often seek out the state's junior senator,... More »
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The critical pick: secretary of State
Christian Science Monitor - By John Hughes - Aug. 18 (Opinion)
The world the new president will confront is a restless one. India and China are ascendant. Russia, as we have seen recently in Georgia, seeks renewed territorial influence... More »
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Dissent doesn't belong in a cage
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 15 (Opinion)
The bulwark against tyranny is dissent. Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions... More »
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Candidates for Sale
Rolling Stone - By Matt Taibbi - Aug. 10 (Opinion)
The truth is that the campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain are being inundated with cash from more or less exactly the same gorgons of the corporate scene... More »
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Who Do You Want Running the West Wing?
Huffington Post - By Janet Ritz - Aug. 19 (Blog Post)
A recent NYT article has detailed the dysfunction of the McCain campaign, in what the authors referred to as a "loose style" of "infighting" and... More »
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McCain Outspending Obama By Hundreds Of Thousands In Many Core Battleground States
Talking Points Memo - By Greg Sargent - Aug. 19 (Blog Post)
The McCain campaign has outspent the Obama camp by hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in some cases by as much as a million dollars or more, in virtually all of the nearly... More »
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The Long Run - Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine
New York Times - By David D. Kirkpatrick - Aug. 17 (News Report)
"Just as Sept. 11 revolutionized our resolve to defeat our enemies, so has it brought into focus the opportunities we now have to secure and expand our freedom," Mr... More »
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Lobbyist parties for lawmakers bend rules
San Francisco Chronicle - By Zachary Coile - Aug. 20 (News Report)
the House ethics committee opened a huge loophole in the rule by issuing guidelines in December saying it was fine for lobbyists or their employers to throw parties for a group of... More »
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Reconcilable Differences
Atlantic Monthly - By Ronald Brownstein - Aug. 19 (Special Report)
In November, whether most voters pull the lever for John McCain or for Barack Obama, they're likely to get a president who's more competent than Bush... More »
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Ghost of Abramoff haunts McCain
PolitiFact - By Alexander Lane - Aug. 16 (News Analysis)
McCain has championed his role in bringing lobbyist Jack Abramoff to justice. Now, allegations that McCain is raising money through an Abramoff associate hit hard. More »
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Poker Lobby Wants New Deal From GOP
Congressional Quarterly - By Bart Jansen - Aug. 20 (News Report)
The Poker Players Alliance, which spent $1.2 million lobbying during the first half of 2008, aims to legalize virtual versions of the game now played under the table... More »
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The critical pick: secretary of State
Christian Science Monitor - By John Hughes - Aug. 18 (Opinion)
The world the new president will confront is a restless one. India and China are ascendant. Russia, as we have seen recently in Georgia, seeks renewed territorial influence... More »
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The Missing Debate
The Nation - By Stephen F. Cohen - Aug. 14 (Opinion)
Because the first steps in this direction were taken in Washington, so must be initiatives to reverse it. Three are essential and urgent: a US diplomacy that treats Russia as a... More »
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A Cut-and-Paste Foreign Policy
Real Clear Politics - By Joe Conason - Aug. 14 (Blog Post)
The discovery that John McCain's remarks on Georgia were derived from Wikipedia, to put it politely, is disturbing and even depressing -- but not surprising... More »
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Election Database: Yes, the Race is Tightening
3BlueDudes - Aug. 20 (News Analysis)
So, since it was time to update the Election Projection Database, it was also time to update the munch numbers and truly determine if the race to 270 is indeed tightening... More »
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Race for the presidency: The colour of money
The Independent - By Stephen Foley - Aug. 20 (News Report)
Given this uninspiring state of affairs, it is little wonder that the two candidates are scrambling to win endorsements from those with genuine economic credentials: big business... More »
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McCain nets $1.75 million at Reed-linked event
Associated Press - By Philip Elliott - Aug. 19 (News Report)
John McCain raised more than $1.75 million for Republicans Monday at a fundraiser that became high profile after a political operative connected to disgraced lobbyist Jack... More »
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Fixing the Machine
Harvard Review - By Joey Michalakes - Aug. 19 (Interview)
a lot of very qualified candidates just aren't able to raise the money to run for president. It's not that their ideas aren't good anymore--at some point they can't pay their... More »
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Arizona's Go-To Senator
Washington Independent - By John Dougherty - Aug. 19 (Special Report)
for complicated issues that require a proven ability to reach political consensus, patience and attention to detail, Arizona's leaders often seek out the state's junior senator,... More »
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For Obama, Taxes Are About Fairness
Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By William Mcgurn - Aug. 19 (Opinion)
it doesn't really matter whether a tax increase actually brings in more revenue. It's not about robbing from the rich to give to the poor... More »
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Dissent doesn't belong in a cage
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 15 (Opinion)
The bulwark against tyranny is dissent. Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions... More »
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Local journalists' take on the presidential campaign
Los Angeles Times - By James Rainey - Aug. 10 (Opinion)
'Dialing for dummies" is what campaign pros once called the practice, and it goes like this: As presidential candidates tour the country, their political operatives offer... More »
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Obama flip-flop: Bagmen to the Philly streets
Hot Air - By Ed Morrissey - Aug. 19 (Blog Post)
I complimented Barack Obama for his principled stand against the corrupt practice of providing "street money" to political organizers in Philadelphia... More »
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Obama Plays the Patriotism Card
Power Line - By John Hinderaker - Aug. 19 (Blog Post)
Obama comes across as a whiner who is happy to dish out personal attacks, but thinks he should be entitled to some kind of immunity. I suspect that he played the patriotism card... More »
