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WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before he was on the shortlist for vice president, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was working to portray Donald Trump and Republicans to the American public as “just weird." “These are weird people on the other side. They want to take books away. They want to be in your exam room,” Walz said in a TV interview last month.

<p>The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.</p>

STORY HIGHLIGHTS * Trump has a 70% unfavorable and 23% favorable image among women * Men also give Trump net negative rating, but it is significantly better * Trump's gender gap is larger than any other major candidate's PRINCETON, N.J. -- Donald Trump's image among U.S. women tilts strongly negative, with 70% of women holding an unfavorable opinion and 23% a favorable opinion of the Republican front-runner in March. Trump's unfavorable rating among women has been high since Gallup began tracking it last July, but after rising slightly last fall, it has increased even further since January. These monthly averages...

Without ever leading in a single poll, Ted Cruz has become the frontrunner in Iowa. The Texas senator and conservative firebrand has closed the gap on real-estate mogul Donald Trump and is now trailing Trump by only a margin of 25% to 23% in the Hawkeye State, according to a poll released on Tuesday by Quinnipiac University. But, more than that, Cruz has been notching up key endorsements in Iowa and positioning himself to win the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses on 1 February. The poll comes in the aftermath of Cruz’s successful appearance at the Presidential Family Forum in Des Moines...

As with most things his administration does, I’m sure Obama will be shocked when he reads in the newspapers about the State Dept. declaring a $10 million bounty on the head of what it calls an “enemy of Islam.” From a State Department Press release: The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the cowardly attacks today in Baghdad. These attacks were aimed at families celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The terrorists who committed these acts are enemies of Islam and a shared enemy of the United States,...

I have obtained this document sent by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It appears the Washington Post is about to push the bounds of intelligence reporting. The intelligence agency seems concerned. See letter below. More coming later.

. . .Breitbart is adding to his network of vertical blogs. The newest site to join the Breitbart network is “Big Journalism,” which will launch in January of next year. His target is much bigger than HuffPo — or any other website for that matter. Breitbart is gunning for the institution of mainstream media, or what he calls “the Democratic-media complex.” In an exclusive interview with Mediaite, Breitbart shares his vision for his expanding network of “Big” right-of-center sites . . . Breitbart: “If these traditional media outlets can’t be shamed into telling the truth, diverted for doing the wrong...

"We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we'd lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night." So famously said Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman in the marvelous conclusion of one of the greatest films of all time, "Casablanca." On Wednesday, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell shamelessly used a version of this line on White House advisor David Axelrod. During her interview about yesterday's election results, including Bill Owens' victory in New York's 23rd Congressional district, Mitchell asked Axelrod about the Obama campaign documentary aired on HBO Tuesday. ...more (w/video)...

WashPost Hails How Iraq War Opponents Aren't Gloating About How Right They Were Posted by Tim Graham on February 4, 2007 - 07:55. On the front page of Sunday's Style section in the Washington Post is an article headlined "No I-Told-You-Sos." Reporter Lynne Duke hailed anti-war voices and their predictions of doom as correct, but there is "no gloating" among them. But there's one nagging issue for readers. Duke never quotes an actual prediction from 2002 or 2003. Among her heroic non-gloaters were skeptical hawks (William Odom, Anthony Zinni), but she also focused on doves: Jimmy Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew...

Notice the organizations that Google considers to be reliable media outlets for news on the "Haditha massacre":    Web    Images    Groups    News    Froogle    Maps    Desktop    more »   Advanced News Search  Preferences     Haditha Massacre Darting against BushPrensa Latina, Cuba - 56 minutes agoWashington, May 31 (Prensa Latina) The indelible stain caused by the Haditha massacre continues to strongly shake the administration of US President George W. ... Haditha Massacre: Was it an Isolated Event and Did the Military ...uruknet.info, Italy - 16 hours ago... [includes rush transcript]. We take a look at the Haditha massacre and the aftermath, which has continued to rock the military and political establishments. ...Massacre at Haditha: how the occupation turned an...

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Hoo-boy. It's a hot time in the old blogtown. The pajamahadeen are firing their virtual bullets into the cyber-air in celebration of CBS anchor Dan Rather's announcement on Tuesday that he was retiring as the top talking face of the network after 24 years. "This has been a simply outstanding month," crowed a poster on http://www.freerepublic.com. "Bush won, Arafat died, we're kicking ass in Fallujah, and now this!" Typically, the above-quoted "Freeper" didn't get that Rather may be down, but he certainly isn't out. When he steps down as front man for The CBS Evening News on March 9, he...

First, there was cBS, now there's the L.A. Times. Anyone that still thinks the media doesn't have a bias against Republicans, or more specifically President George W. Bush, simply doesn't want to acknowledge the truth. Yesterday, the L.A. Times ran a story about a poll that had John Kerry leading Bush by 15% in California: In California, Voters Stay in Kerry's Corner California voters remain strongly in favor of ousting President Bush and replacing him with Sen. John F. Kerry ... With the election less than six weeks away, the findings suggest that California is all but locked down. But...

From Reuters: “Her affair with Clinton while he was in office and his subsequent denials of it led to his impeachment in December 1998 after a lengthy and expensive investigation by independent counsel Ken Starr.” 'Destroyed' Lewinsky Speaks Out on Clinton Memoir, By Jeffrey Goldfarb Put aside for one moment your personal feelings about President Clinton and what you think about his presidency. Forget whether you think Clinton should have been impeached for what he did. Doesn't the press at least owe us the whole truth in stating the reasons for Clinton's impeachment? Reuters is one of the largest news...

The hour-long Nightline on Tuesday night, after the New Hampshire primary, featured a lengthy taped piece by Judy Muller admiring the influence of the far-left group, MoveOn.org, though she never once tagged them as liberal. Instead, she trumpeted how “nearly two million Americans are members of this burgeoning Internet group,” gushed about how “they want to re-engage people in the democratic process as a whole," championed their contest in which members created anti-Bush TV ads as she giddily oozed, “that ordinary citizens could create such sophisticated ads may seem surprising, but this group is full of surprises," only much later...

<p>In one of Patrick O'Brian's novels about the British navy during the Napoleonic wars, he dismisses a particularly foolish politician by saying that his political platform was "death to the Whigs." Watching the primary campaigns among this year's pathetic crop of Democratic candidates, I can't help but think that their campaigns would be vastly improved if they would only rise to the level of "Death to the Republicans."</p>

Every legislative body in America has a few idiots, dolts, nincompoops -- elected officials who would hardly draw any notice at all were it not for their incompetence, bigotry or venality. You can find them in City Halls, state legislatures and even the hallowed halls of Congress. So it hardly qualifies as front-page news that U.S. Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.) recently made blatantly racist statements in which, in essence, she tarred all black Americans as drug users. Cubin's remarks punctuated a debate over a bill to limit lawsuits against gun manufacturers -- a debate that was already offensive since it...