| 6/29/07 | | Michael Bloomberg: The Anti-Perot
When Mayor Michael Bloomberg flees New York for his weekend retreats in Bermuda, his neighbors include Ross Perot, the independent candidate for president who shook up the 1992 election. Careless pund . . . .
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| 6/29/07 | | Supreme Speech
"There are few areas where I think common sense is more sorely lacking than in our public debates over free speech, and there's no better proof than two recent Supreme Court decisions," writes Jonah G . . . .
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| 6/28/07 | | Lobbyists Scramble Ahead of 'No. 1' Gun Vote
The members of the Senate Appropriations Committee are scheduled to vote July 28 on the Tiahrt amendment, a piece of legislation that has been in the crosshairs of Mayor Bloomberg since the beginning . . . .
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| 6/28/07 | | Muzzles Off
Let us hope that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who is rarely right about First Amendment matters, was right about what he said in April. During oral arguments about a challenge to a use of the . . . .
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| 6/26/07 | | Court Rules For Funding Of Issue Ads
The Supreme Court ruled June 25 that the First Amendment protects the rights of businesses and unions to fund advocacy ads in the closing months of an election, striking a blow to campaign-finance law . . . .
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| 6/26/07 | | Dismantling Campaign Finance Reform: Restoring Your Free Speech
On the last day of its term, the Supreme Court began dismantling the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA). Anyone who cares about the First Amendment should be cheering.
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| 6/21/07 | | Journalists Giving Money To Politicians
MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the . . . .
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| 6/21/07 | | Gatekeepers Of Hillaryland
Hillary Clinton`s coterie from her White House days is back together, and it`s all for one and one for all. And there are at least a dozen more onetime White House aides who remain on staff or in clos . . . .
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| 6/20/07 | | Surprise Party Swap For Mike
Mayor Bloomberg took his biggest step toward a White House run--and potentially plunged the 2008 contest into chaos--when he announced he`s quitting the Republican Party to become an independent.
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| 6/19/07 | | Democratic Congress Shows Cracks
Republican campaign strategists and independent election analysts say that after five months of contentious House Democratic rule, the Republican Party`s once-bleak congressional prospects for 2008 . . . .
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| 6/15/07 | | States Can Put Rules On Use Of Union Fees
The Supreme Court yesterday ruled unanimously that states may require public-sector labor unions to get permission from workers before using their union fees for political activities.
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| 6/15/07 | | Misguided Hero Worship
"In an age when Fox News is a ratings juggernaut and Katie Couric is ratings roadkill, it seems almost antique to talk about liberal media bias." writes Jonah Goldberg. "But it's still out there, my f . . . .
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| 6/14/07 | | Ex-Marine At GMU Presses To Let Students Have Guns
Soon after Virginia Tech`s mass shooting, some George Mason University students formed a group to do something about guns on campus: They want the right to carry them.
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| 6/13/07 | | Constitutional Amendment for Hunters Passes Tennessee House
The Tennessee House has unanimously passed a measure to amend the Tennessee Constitution to further protect the rights of hunters and fishermen.
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| 6/12/07 | | Red Nation, Blue Nation
"Listening to the recent debates among the candidates, monitoring their Web sites and reading the poll numbers," writes Michael Barone "one gets the impression Republican and Democratic primary electo . . . .
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| 6/6/07 | | Anti-Gun Foundations Bankrolling Advocates For Aliens
Wealthy philanthropic foundations are helping bankroll the pro-immigration movement, while groups advocating for tighter control of U.S. borders say they take a more grass-roots approach to raising mo . . . .
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| 6/6/07 | | Clinton, Obama Tied In New Poll
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois are, for the first time, in a statistical dead heat for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a nationwide Gall . . . .
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| 6/5/07 | | A Media Scholar?
"Al Gore`s new book, "The Assault on Reason," has definitively established one fact: Al Gore is still the sorest loser in American politics, Writes Brent Bozell. "Even liberal book reviewers are winci . . . .
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| 6/5/07 | | Jefferson Charged In Bribery And Corruption
A federal grand jury in Alexandria yesterday indicted Rep. William J. Jefferson, Louisiana Democrat, on charges of bribery and corruption in his promotion of telecommunications equipment and services . . . .
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| 6/4/07 | | Why Americans Don`t Like Hillary Clinton
A wave of new books about Hillary Clinton casts tinder into the ongoing flames of discomfort with the New York Senator and Democratic presidential candidate. You might suspect that damaging books abou . . . .
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| 6/1/07 | | John Lott: Moore`s Myths
Michael Moore is at it again. For someone who saw conspiracies in the 2000 presidential election or completely mangled almost all the facts in "Bowling for Columbine," Moore`s claim that Cuba has a be . . . .
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| 6/1/07 | | Cleveland`s Gun Lawsuit Draws NRA Fire
Cleveland`s challenge of a state law that prevents Ohio cities from making their own gun laws faces a new opponent -- The National Rifle Association.
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