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Here’s my take on the democrats’ strategy to hammer away with “what did the President know, and when did he know it.” The democrats know that taking such a critical stance against a popular president is risky, however they are faced with a two far more dangerous threats. The democrats are bleeding potential voters in several critical segments; Women, Hispanics, Labor (male voters). One way to stop the bleeding is to tempt the republicans to dredge up Clinton failures in regard to Osama bin Laden. This will force voters to take a side not unlike the 2000 election. Hence, 50/50....

Condoleezza Rice once described her childhood as one where she couldn't sit at the lunch counter at Woolworths, but her parents still told her she could grow up to be president. Racism and segregation ruled her world in the deep south, but inside the Rice home, the great American myth prevailed. Stay in school, work hard, trust in God, and yes, you - a little black girl from Birmingham, Alabama - might actually move into the White House. One can only imagine the howls of laughter this would have elicited from the Rice's white neighbours. Well, as the old saying...

Cheney for Chief JusticeBy Bruce Walkerweb posted April 8, 2002The Pickering defeat and subsequent Democrat posturing makes it clear that the necessary battle to reclaim the federal judiciary from liberals will have to be a political campaign, and not a refined discussion of legal theory. That means presenting judicial nominees who are actually political candidates, and it also means picking political candidate who is perceived as suitable to be good judges. Most Americans are properly unimpressed by what insiders in the mammoth legal industry consider good qualities in judges. The justice system is seen as something of a racket, with...

Bush-Rice 2004 is the latest fad among political junkies. But a lot of questions have to be answered first. SPECULATION about Condoleezza Rice as a possible vice presidential choice for the GOP ticket in 2004 has reached the proverbial tipping point. Everyone's talking about it, from Eleanor Clift on the left, to the good folks at National Review Online on the right, to Andrew Sullivan on the . . . well, wherever he is (the gay-Tory-Catholic center-right?). The Weekly Standard's own William Kristol has mentioned Bush-Rice 2004 as a serious possibility in several recent TV appearances, and lately the blogger...

Bush-Rice 2004? The rise and rise of Condi Her presence is not obtrusive but it is constant. President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, is rarely that far away from the president. Her office is a few doors down the corridor from the Oval Office, she's a weekend guest at Camp David almost all the time, she's central to Russia policy, a fixture at war counsels, and reliable crisis-avoider and manager in all types of emergencies. When Bush, for example, realized that he would face embarrassment at this weekend's Monterrey summit on foreign aid, it was a "Get me Condi"...

Condi Rice is Tim Russert's interview guest for his 1-hour show on CNBC. The first broadcast today started at 10:00 pm EST, the final one will be at 1:00 am EST tonight.