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The Donald to W: "You stink." Donald Trump trashed President Bush Tuesday as a "terrible" president who has destroyed the world economy - but insisted the global crunch wouldn't stall his planned $2 billion golf resort. "We have a president in the United States who's terrible. He stinks," Trump said. "Now the world is in chaos." Trump said he can't wait to see Bush head back to Texas after the November election is done. "Hopefully we'll have a good, new president, whoever he is," Trump said. He praised both major party candidates, but gushed over Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic...

F ormer Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson announced yesterday that he is running for the Republican presidential nomination and is betting that he will do well in Iowa, the neighboring state where he has been campaigning for months. Speaking on ABC's This Week, Thompson said he is confident he will win in January's Iowa caucus, despite polling in the low single digits. "I've been in Iowa every single week since the first week in December," he told host George Stephanopoulos. "I've been visiting individuals and groups and talking to people every single week, and I've been into over 30 counties, one-third...

In his Monday chat with Charlie Rose on PBS, Ted Koppel played armchair general or armchair Secretary of State and explained why he would not have gone to war with Iraq, didn't see the urgent need to remove Saddam, saw no connection with terrorism, and worst of all, smeared Ronald Reagan as not caring about the gassing of Kurds in northern Iraq in 1988. This is, as a matter of historical record, untrue. Reagan went and denounced the gassing from the podium of the United Nations. Secretary of State George Shultz also denounced it in no uncertain terms. The ironic...

It was the ultimate bad hair day for a would-be drug smuggler. Investigators say a bad toupe tipped them off to more than $100,000 worth of heroin hidden underneath -- superglued to the man's head. Customs and border protection officers say the man, arriving on a flight from Columbia, glued 40 packets of heroin to his head. "Because he used superglue, they took him to a medical facility to have it removed," said Officer Jennifer Conners. "Even at that, it pulled out the hair wherever they removed a package, so he ended up looking like a spotted cat." Agents said...