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While Hillary Clinton aides don't acknowledge it directly, her momentum from a win in Pennsylvania may be blunted on Tuesday by one of the persistent problems of her candidacy: her struggles with black voters. While polls show her effectively tied with Barack Obama in Indiana, she would gain more among both delegates and in the popular vote if she won the other state voting on May 6, North Carolina. But experts expect that more than a third of the voters in the Tar Heel state will be black, and according to National Election Pool exit polling, Obama has won by...

FORGET DELEGATES AND the popular vote for the Democratic presidential nomination. The most important thing Hillary Clinton gained by winning the Pennsylvania primary yesterday was a better argument--indeed, a much better argument. Chances are, Clinton will trail Obama in the delegate count when the primaries end on June 3, as she does now. And while she may cut into his lead in the popular vote in the Democratic contests, she's not likely to exceed his vote total. So the only way she can capture the nomination is by convincing roughly 300 uncommitted super-delegates that Obama cannot defeat Republican John McCain...

The Ron Paul Factor By Matt ToweryThursday, November 22, 2007 As we continue to poll and observe the various states involved in the early caucus/primary battles for the Republican presidential nomination, one thing is becoming increasingly clear to me: While Ron Paul may lag behind most of his GOP competitors in the polls, the intensity of devotion from his supporters makes his candidacy deserving of more attention than it's gotten to date. His sometimes-quirky mannerisms and oddball demeanor fly in the face of what most Republicans traditionally look for in their presidential nominees. And his comments startle many for their...

Chris Wallace brings out the real Bill and Hillary each time he interviews one of them. For those who have ever visited Clintonland, it’s sometimes hard to recognize the slickly-scripted, post-White House media personalities of the Clintons: the affable, smiling Hillary seen on the campaign trial or the laid back, take-it-as-it-comes Bill who periodically surfaces for softball interviews. But every once in a while, there’s a rare moment of clarity. That happened last year when Wallace interviewed the former president. At the end of the interview, Bill lost it. Suddenly the veneer was off, exposing the enraged, snarling, lunging Bill...

By Shir Haberman shaberman@seacoastonline.com July 11, 2007 6:00 AM MANCHESTER — New York Sen. and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will bring her Ready for Change, Ready to Lead tour back to New Hampshire on Friday and Saturday. Joining her for the Friday events will be her husband, former President Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton campaign stops Tickets: Visit www.hillaryclinton.com/nh for tickets to the Keene, Manchester and Rochester events. Also available at designated locations in Keene, Nashua, Manchester, Rochester and Salem. For details: Call the state headquarters at 634-4455. Schedule: Friday • Hillary and Bill Clinton at Alumni Field, Keene High...

A voodoo ritual has been performed to jinx President George Bush during his trip to Indonesia. Black magic practitioner Ki Gendeng Pamungkas slit the throat of a goat and a small snake and then stabbed a black crow in the chest during the ceremony. He mixed their blood with spice and broccoli before drinking some of the potion and smearing some on his face. "I don't hate Americans, but I don't like Bush," he said. Pamungkas said the ritual would succeed as "the devil is with me today". "I am doing voodoo, because other ritual would not work," he added....

Hillary Rodham’s first brush with fame came about in 1963, when she was elected Vice-President of her Junior Class at Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. The following year, she was the first girl to ever run for the office of President of Student Council. She did not even make it through the Primary vote to the general election, which was ultimately won by the captain of the football team. To this day, she looks at her failure as a learning experience: “I was just ahead of my time. I was a militant feminist when the political climate...

LONDON, August 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ancient quest of fashionable women to stave off the effects of age has always left them open to the claims of swindlers. The latest edition of the snake oil chronicles, according to the UK’s Daily Mail, has a more “scientific” cachet and involves injecting stem cells gleaned from aborted babies as well as umbilical cord blood directly into the skin. Scores of British women are opting for a procedure that stem cell experts are condemning as charlatanry. A private British clinic makes arrangements for well-to-do English women to travel to Rotterdam in the...

>The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily Thursday, 5, June, 2003 (05, Rabi` al-Thani, 1424) Kingdom’s Leading Executioner Says: ‘I Lead a Normal Life’ Mahmoud Ahmad, Arab News Staff —   JEDDAH, 5 June 2003 — Saudi Arabia’s leading executioner Muhammad Saad Al-Beshi will behead up to seven people in a day. “It doesn’t matter to me: Two, four, 10 — As long as I’m doing God’s will, it doesn’t matter how many people I execute,” he told Okaz newspaper in an interview. He started at a prison in Taif, where his job was to handcuff and blindfold the...

Would you get P.O.’d if . . . 1. Your ten-year old son was kidnapped out of your front yard by two pedophiles and then taken to a taxpayer funded public library and shown, via the internet, a website that displays men having sex with boys? 2. Or, after your son had been force-fed this sick crap, the two kidnappers tried to sexually assault your boy? Would that make your blood boil? 3. Or how about after your son warded off the initial attempted assault, these sick SOBs killed your child by choking him with a gasoline saturated rag, then...

Sunday, Aug. 7, 2005 1:43 p.m. EDT Candy Crowley: Hillary Seen as 'Goddess' 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is considered a "goddess" in Democratic Party circles, CNN's Candy Crowley reported Saturday. "I honestly hear the word 'goddess' attached to her," Crowley told fellow CNN'er Joe Johns, who asked her to survey the 2008 political landscape. "She's kind of this – she doesn't have to show up in New Hampshire for another three-and-a-half years, because she's such a presence there," Crowley continued to gush. In the next breath Crowley seemed at a loss for words to explain the awe-inspiring power of...

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has criticised President George Bush's administration for its record on unemployment, women's rights and the environment, saying it is "intent upon consolidating and abusing power". "We are living in a time when the other side doesn't want us to see the facts. Facts are inconvenient - facts about global warming, facts about mercury in the air, facts about people staying unemployed longer," said Senator Clinton, a possible Democratic contender for the US presidency in 2008. The former first lady spoke yesterday at a New York Women for Hillary breakfast, which raised $US250,000 ($327,000) for her Senate...

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A judge ruled Thursday that the state's social services agency cannot delay the removal of the feeding tube keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive. The Department of Children & Families had asked for a 60-day delay in the removal of the feeding tube, now scheduled March 18. The agency said it wanted time to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect by the woman's husband, Michael Schiavo. But Circuit Judge George W. Greer ruled that the agency's attempt to get involved at this point was inappropriate and "appears to be brought for the purpose of circumventing the court's...

Ex-Stan Lee Chief Paul to Plead in Securities Case Mon Mar 7, 2005 05:20 PM ET By Gina Keating LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Stan Lee Media co-founder Peter Paul said on Monday that he would plead guilty to a federal securities charge. However, Paul said the plea was not part of an agreement to cooperate with prosecutors probing alleged campaign finance violations by Sen. Hillary Clinton's staff. Paul told Reuters he would plead guilty on Tuesday in New York federal court to one count of manipulating the share price of Stan Lee Media, an online entertainment company he founded with...

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A man carries an injured child who escaped from a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, sending hostage-takers and their captives fleeing in a scene of chaos amid explosions and gunfire. More than 100 children were wounded in the assault, some running from the building naked and covered in blood. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) An injured schoolgirl who escaped from the seized Russian school holds a cross in her hand in a hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia Friday,...

Breaking from Al Jazeera.

Every time we worry about whether the American people will have the heart and will to see this worldwide struggle against terror through, we realize that we needn’t worry. Because we will soon enough be reminded of the nature of the threat against us, and of the character of our enemy in this struggle — whether in Iraq or Afghanistan, at home or around the world. It happened again yesterday: another bloody beheading for the edification of Web watchers everywhere. This — and worse — will continue to happen until these people are utterly defeated. Until they are, they will...