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Official Dennis Kucinich Tin Foil Hat Tracker - 27,902 followers to date New Hampshire - 3,104 South Carolina -  1,277 Missouri - 4,876 Arizona - 3,644 New Mexico - 5,166 Delaware - 343Michigan - 5,183Maine - 2,382Washington - 1,927 Dennis is still out there, fighting for votes. Numbers compiled from the AP

SOCIALIST PARTY IN TURMOIL. Last fall, the Socialist Party-USA nominated retired Oregon State Senator Walt Brown as its Presidential nominee for 2004. Brown -- a former Democrat -- was the most mainstream of the democratic socialists contenders in last year's nomination fight. More strident Marxists in the party opposed Brown, but were not able to block him. Now, months later, a vocal faction in the party is trying to force Brown from the ticket because of his views on the abortion issue. The SP-USA platform is solidly pro-choice, and without exceptions. Brown, it turns out, personally supports the ban on...

Arizona (1/31) - American Research GroupKerry 32Clark 21Edwards 11Dean 10Lieberman 9Undecided 24 Arizona (1/27) - SurveyUSAKerry 30Clark 24Dean 23Lieberman 10 Edwards 7 Arizona (1/30-2/1) - ZogbyKerry 40Clark 27Dean 13Other 13Undecided 5 Delaware (1/29) - American Research GroupKerry 27Lieberman 16Dean 14Gephardt 11Edwards 9Clark 8Sharpton 1Undecided 24 Delaware (2/1) - Survey USAKerry 42Dean 12Lieberman 10Edwards 11Clark 9Other 2Undecided 4 Missouri (1/29) - Survey USAKerry 41Edwards 17Dean 16Clark 8Other 9Undecided 9 Missouri (1/30-2/1) - ZogbyKerry 50Edwards 15Dean 9Other 11Undecided 11 Oklahoma (2/1) - American Research GroupKerry 25Clark 28Edwards 21Dean 8Lieberman7Undecided 9 Oklahoma (2/1)- Survey USAClark 31Edwards 23Kerry 25Dean 9Other 9Undecided 3 Oklahoma (1/30-2/1)...

This morning, while listening to the Bruce Jacobs show on KFYI 550 here in Phoenix, I was genuinely surprised to hear the voice of Jay Carson, the press secretary for Howard Dean, being interviewed. Jacobs is a staunch conservative, so hearing him lob softballs to Carson made me feel like I was in some sort of twilight zone. To get to the point, Jacobs asked Carson how the campaign was doing financially. Carson expectedly replied that things were great, that the future of the campaign was strong and so forth.Then Carson got hit with the mack truck of surprises. Bruce...

And yet another case of Bush hatred trumping all. The Senate Democrats have debuted a new Blog called "From the Roots: Pulling the Bush out". Good for them if they want use the power of the internet to organize. But I have to break some news to the Minority Leadership. I know with the constant filibusters, many Senate Democrats have forgotten about the Constitution. The last time I heard, the Executive and Legislative branches were two different animals. Does the site show any sort of goals, edicts or plans in case America decides to turn control of the Senate back...

A Good Way to Lose Subscribers... Thu Jan 22, 8:44 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - A hiking magazine apologized on Thursday after it published a route plan that would have sent walkers striding into thin air off the north face of Britain's largest mountain, Ben Nevis. The magazine, Trail, missed out a vital bearing needed to guide climbers off the summit of the Scottish mountain in bad weather. Anyone who had followed the magazine's directions would have plunged down a sheer cliff into nearby Gardyloo Gully. Editor Guy Procter, himself a keen hillwalker, said that Trail published 200 routes every...

An announcement to those of you in the Southern Arizona region. The Catalina Country is about to have it's kickoff Bush/Cheney 2004 event. Pima County Campaign E-chair Walt Opaska wanted to pass this along from his post at the Official Bush BlogPima County, Arizona is Bush Country! On January 17, over 200 Bush supporters from Southern Arizona took time on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon to learn how they could help President Bush win Pima County this November. The event was a combination Bush 2004 kick-off rally and training session for Bush supporters in Southern Arizona. During the event, we signed...

By Mary Carmichael Newsweek Jan. 26 issue - For years Rukmini Devi helped Indian couples in the impoverished state of Bihar choose the sex of their children. But in her decades of work, she never once used PGD. Bihar has few ultrasound machines and fewer fertility labs; many of its towns lack even basic health clinics, and most couples don't know their children's gender before birth. But boys are a treasured commodity in Bihar, and if a couple can't choose a child's sex prenatally, they can see a dai like Devi. For 80 cents, says Devi, who is now retired,...

<p>The anticipated exodus of teenage girls from the strife-torn, polygamist communities of Colorado City and Hildale, Utah, began in earnest this weekend as about 10 fanned out to towns in southern Utah seeking protection, anti-polygamy activists said Sunday.</p> <p>The movement followed a ruling by a Maricopa County juvenile court judge late Friday that two 16-year-old teens from Colorado City, who had fled to the Valley last week, would be allowed to stay in foster homes rather than remain in state custody.</p>

DETROIT - A long-simmering dispute between the beefy sport utility brands Hummer and Jeep has heated up with one-upmanship claims and accusations of copied designs. The mud-slinging between the off-road SUV brands began nearly three years ago when DaimlerChrysler AG’s Jeep claimed the about-to-be launched Hummer H2 from General Motors Corp. copied its grille. That battle ended when a judge allowed the H2 to go into production, but now the war has moved from the courtroom to television commercials, the printed page and the auto show floor. At stake is one of the fastest-growing and most profitable segments of the...

<p>The Phoenix Suns are embroiled in a battle between a conservative religious group and some Valley churches over anti-gay-marriage literature that accompanied invitations to "Church Night" at a March basketball game.</p> <p>The Suns dropped the Center for Arizona Policy as its "Church Night" sponsor for the March 19 game after several Valley clergy members complained about invitation packages sent by the Suns and the center.</p>

A week out of the caucuses, as the Democratic nine jockey and manipulate their way into Iowa living rooms, the Army of Bush volunteers have stood up in the nation's heartland. Iowa For Bush has made its debut. Keep up to date on the in-state activities and what the Democrats on the ground are actually saying.

Political heavyweight Madonna sent me an email today, imploring me to step up and support the "virtues" of Wesley Clark. Here's the email. Dear Friend, I've never done this before.  But life is about taking risks is it not?I know that people seem to pay attention to everything I do.  Big or Small.  Ridiculous or Sublime.  So I am hoping they pay attention to this:I am supporting General Wesley Clark for President.Not only as a "celebrity," but as an American citizen and as a mother.  I want my children to grow up with the same opportunities that I had -- to know and...

Dedicated to sharing the true positions, statements and actions of the Democratic Candidates, devoid of each's campaign spin.If you see or know of a link that isn't on this page about any of the candidates listed here, email us and help us spread the word.Army General Wesley Clark 08/04/99 - Clark fired from NATO SACEUR03/09/00 - British Gen to Clark: I will not start World War III for you05/15/00 - Newsweek: The Kosovo Coverup06/15/03 - Clark: 'This country was founded on the principle of progressive taxation' 08/21/03 - William Cohen - 'I rue the day I made him SACEUR'08/26/03...

This little nugget was slipped into a US News and World story on how the major 2004 candidates and the President all attended Yale in the 60's. I find it quite ironic that it was just "slipped under the rug" so to speak. "I had a strong feeling about social justice," he says. "But politics was discredited in my eyes because of Nixon." Dean also avoided campus organizations, which were widely seen as too "establishment." He'd been active in prep school extracurriculars, and, while he played intramural football at Yale, he reveled in his freedom. He got decent grades without...

Clark: Fire Clinton for Failing to Stop 9/11 Attacks (2003-12-23) -- Bill Clinton should be fired as ex-president because he failed to stop the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, according to Democrat presidential candidate Wesley Clark. Mr. Clark's remarks came just after news reports that he had praised Mr. Clinton, rather than George Bush, for applying pressure to Libya that resulted in that nation agreeing to abandon its weapons of mass destruction. "After I gave my former commander-in-chief credit for squeezing Libya," said Mr. Clark, "I realized that I would also have to blame him for not stopping the...

Should the Supreme Court Clean Up Its Own Mess? The justices have destroyed all the rules, customs, and traditions that used to restrain gerrymanders by Stuart Taylor Jr. .... Overshadowed by the December 10 decision upholding the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law was an important oral argument that morning over whether the Supreme Court should arrogate to itself vast new powers to redraw every congressional district in the nation. The goal would be to clean up the incumbent-entrenching, polarizing, gerrymandered mess that redistricting has become, or at least to strike down partisan gerrymanders so extreme as to mock majority rule. The...