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Public Policy Polling is one of the most accurate pollsters aroind, Indeed, they were the first to signal that Brown would win the special election in Massachusetts called to replace the late Senator Ted Kennedy. They know Massachusetts well. The socialist thinking Warren has not been reacting well to the fact that she has been trailing.

According to records obtained from the Brookline Town Clerk, since 1996 Childs has consistently voted in Democrat primaries. Only when she decided to run for Congress did Lizzy finally vote in this year’s presidential Republican primary. During a recent Talk 1200 AM debate, she touted support from dignitaries such as former Gov. Bill Weld, who endorsed Barack Obama in 2008. She also listed former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and ex-Massachusetts Republican Party Chairwoman Jennifer Nassour, widely seen as RINOs — Republicans in name only — in conservative GOP circles.

The U.S. military is preparing for the maiden flight of a football-field-size airship laden with surveillance gear designed to do the work of a dozen drones—and destined for Afghanistan. The experimental craft, known as the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle, or LEMV, is designed to loiter over combat zones for weeks at a time, outfitted with high-tech sensors that can intercept phone calls, shoot full-motion video or track the movement of insurgents. [Full article available only to subscribers.]

Protesters stormed into a university, many of them with their faces covered by masks, and worked through the hallways Wednesday on the hunt for classes to disrupt. The intrusions were orchestrated by protesters seeking to enforce their declared strikes. They resented the fact that some students had used legal injunctions to return to school. “They’re trying to make us afraid to go back to class,” UQAM law student Celina Toia said after talking to the officers, who were sitting in a van. “Teachers are more than willing to give their classes, so they’re trying to make it extremely inconvenient. They’re...

A new poll has put Alberta's Wildrose Party firmly on track for a majority government, holding a 13-point lead over the incumbent Progressive Conservatives who just months ago were a shoo-in for victory. The poll was conducted Monday and Tuesday through an online panel of 1,050 respondents and shows the right-wing Wildrose at 43 per cent of decided voters, the PCs [Progressive Conservatives, “Tories”] at 30, the New Democrats [leftist] at 12 and the Liberals at 11 per cent province-wide. Of those sampled, 19 per cent were undecided.

With his first majority budget, Stephen Harper has laid bare his vision for the future Canada: Government will be smaller and less intrusive, individuals will take more responsibility for their own retirement and business will return to driving the economy. The 2012 budget is a showcase for Mr. Harper’s hands-off political approach, one that combines sweeping spending cuts to the public service with a handful of targeted policy changes geared to drive future investment. Ottawa plans to chop 19,200 public-service jobs, cut federal program spending by $5.2-billion a year and, in perhaps its most controversial move, extend the retirement age...

With polls now closed in Mississippi and Alabama, exit polls show Romney with a slight lead in Mississippi and Santorum with a slight lead in Alabama as the race in both states remains too close to call.

A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator. At a morning press conference, the Attorney General said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. “Al-Gebra is a problem for us,” the Attorney General said. “They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search...

For the second time in two years, European debt troubles threaten to slow the momentum of the fragile recovery in the United States.

The North Korean football team that advanced to the round of eight during the 1966 World Cup in England received a hero's welcome when they returned home. But they ended up taking the brunt of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung's wrath two years later when he purged the Kapsan faction in the Communist Party, which took credit for the team's World Cup victory. Most of the athletes were subjected to a self-criticism session and sent off to farms in North Hamgyong Province. The players were falsely accused of losing their strength by sleeping with foreign women before their final World...

Friday, 11 Nov, Goldwater will be featured on the celebrated C-Span history series “The Contenders.”

But as Newfoundland and Labrador gear up for an election race that kicked off Monday, the usual political chatter was muted by a belief the governing Progressive Conservatives will romp to an easy win in the Oct. 11 vote. “There isn’t a sense here that people have much of a choice,” said Stephen Tomblin, political science professor at Memorial University in St. John’s. “I think everyone knows what the result will be no matter what anyone does.”

A 5-4 liberal majority orders the release of tens of thousands of prisoners.

“To comply with the PLRA, a court must set a population limit at the highest level consistent with an efficacious remedy, and it must order the population reduction to be achieved in the shortest period of time reasonably consistent with public safety.”

H.R. 822, introduced in the U.S. House by Representatives Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), would allow any person with a valid state-issued concealed firearm permit to carry a concealed firearm in any state that issues concealed firearm permits, or that does not prohibit the carrying of concealed firearms for lawful purposes. A state's laws governing where concealed firearms may be carried would apply within its borders. The bill applies to D.C., Puerto Rico and U.S. territories. It would not create a federal licensing system; rather, it would require the states to recognize each others' carry permits, just as...

The records also show that the Bloomberg fleet has been the single largest user of scarce slots allocated to private aircraft at La Guardia airport. The flights continued apace even after the mayor two years ago called for curbs on small commercial planes at La Guardia and other area airports to reduce congestion.

DOLLAR WEAK, COMMODITIES UP: Commodities chalked up broad gains as the dollar weakened and investors sought some protection against the prospect of inflation. GOLDEN RECORD: Gold set another record high as investors sought it out for its reputation as a safer risk during uncertain economic times. Silver prices rose 6.2 percent.

One reason Chilean officials may have thought the drilling could take far longer was that they were not familiar with the type of drill that carved the rescue hole. ... “To tell you the truth, I don’t think anyone had a whole lot of faith in us,” said Brandon Fisher, president of Center Rock, a company in Berlin, Pa., that supplied the Plan B drills. “They didn’t understand the technology.” Mr. Fisher and others lobbied the Chilean government to let them use the drills, known as downhole hammers, which have air-powered bits that pound the rock as the drill rotates....

There is a real fear that government, with all its layers, its growth, its size, its imperviousness, is changing, or has changed, who we are. And that if we lose who we are, as Americans, we lose everything. This is part of what's driving the sense of political urgency this year, especially within precincts of the tea party.

To some extent, Ed Miliband has spent much of the first 40 years of his life in the shadow of his older, better-known brother David, the former foreign secretary. During the leadership contest, both Miliband brothers made much of the fact they went to an ordinary North London comprehensive school. And while this is true, their childhood will probably have been a little more colourful, and certainly more intellectually stimulating, than that of the average North London schoolboy. Their father, Ralph, a Polish Jew who fled the Nazi invasion of Belgium in 1940, was one of the leading Marxist theorists...