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Every now and then, Hillary Clinton lifts the curtain and gives the world a peek at her real views. It's not pretty. New York's junior senator spoke this week to the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp., raising the issue of tax-funded school vouchers — which many reformers see as a key tool, one that gives parents immediate alternatives to public schools that are failing to educate their kids. Now, vouchers face a major obstacle in New York: The state constitution's Blaine Amendment arguably bans sending public funds to parochial schools. Then there' the implacable opposition to vouchers of the...

Who is really happy about Edward Klein's new book "The Truth About Hillary"? If you believe the big media, it's the "right wing" and websites like NewsMax.com. But we hear the book may also be well received among some Democrats, a high-ranking party insider in Washington tells NewsMax. Could these ranking Democrats include Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, Al Gore and Howard Dean? As NewsMax's Insider Report has revealed before, these four liberal Democrats - the so-called "Gang of Four" -- detest Hillary Clinton and have pledged to stop her no matter what from getting the Democratic nomination. Each member of...

Democrats are demanding that White House adviser Karl Rove immediately retract and apologize for comments that liberals responded to the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes by wanting to ``prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.'' ``The one thing New York has had since Sept. 11 is unity,'' said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. ``To inject politics into this and to defame a large number of people'' is outrageous, he said. ``It's not what New York and America is all about.'' Rove, Bush's chief political adviser, said in a speech Wednesday that ``liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks...

On the campaign trail, U.S. Senate candidate Chirinjeev Kathuria groans whenever he ends up next to opponent Jack Ryan in a photo. There's just no competing with Ryan's million-watt smile. Or his chiseled good looks. Or his toned body. "The reaction to Jack is always very strong," Kathuria said. "The initial reaction to him is absolutely different from the reaction to me." Kathuria, a Sikh who wears a traditional turban and beard, normally wouldn't care how he stacks up against the western definition of dreamy. But in a crowded Senate race, he knows it matters. Conventional wisdom suggests that good-looking...