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U.S.—The nation's Christians said they were really pleased that they voted for Republicans to control the White House and Senate so that Planned Parenthood abortions and funding could hit another all-time high.

You know when a politician starts a sen tence with "frankly," he's about to lie to your face. The same principle applies to campaign-finance legislation dubbed the "DISCLOSE Act." The voter's instinctive reaction should be: What are they trying to hide now? Drafted out of public view and rammed through Congress after bypassing committee hearings, this bum bill would have been better named the CLOSED-DOOR Act. At a Rose Garden press conference on Monday, President Obama decried the influence of "shadow groups" on elections and urged the Senate to pass the Sen. Chuck Schumer-sponsored "reform." But the loophole-ridden package exempts...

Those who thought that Dr Goebbels came to an end on a stretch of waste ground in Berlin in 1945 have been forced to think again. The piece of theatre that concluded in London on Thursday was one of the great confidence tricks of our lifetimes. Just getting the 20 most important heads of government on the planet together in one place and not being unpleasant about each other was, we must concede, something of an achievement. But it won't make a blind bit of difference to the world's economy. Nor, I imagine, will it have any effect on the...

Al Gore's $100 Million Makeover "Not long ago, he was the butt of jokes--lockbox, earth tones, a postelection beard. Then he dusted off an old slide show and jumped with both feet into the private sector. The untold story of how an epic loser engineered what may be the greatest brand makeover of our time." From: Issue 117 | July 2007 | Page 70 | By: Ellen McGirt Al Gore is a funny guy. And, for his $175,000 speaking fee, he tells this story: after leaving the White House and heading back to Tennessee sans motorcade--"in a rented Ford Taurus,"...