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Responding to a National Enquirer story alleging he had multiple extramarital affairs, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday blamed the report on Donald Trump and "his henchmen." Cruz said the report was untrue. He called Trump "a rat" and said there is no level to which he won't stoop. "The question that people are asking is how low will Donald go," Cruz said. Cruz accused Trump of being a coward who has problems with "strong women." Cruz was in Oshkosh Friday morning at Lakeside Plastics for a campaign stop. Later speaking to reporters, he went on the attack against Trump...

The Hour of Peril Comes First For CruzMany things about this campaign have been unfair, but are no less real for being unfair. One is that the primary calendar is not evenly distributed. As I have argued for months now, the front-loading of states favorable to Ted Cruz in the first week of March is both an opportunity and a challenge for Cruz. Now, the hour of peril is here. If ever there was a time for Cruz's projections of millions of non-voting true conservatives to materialize, this is it. But if Cruz doesn't have a very good showing on...

Are you confused about the claim that Ted Cruz is not a natural-born citizen, with all its attendant disinformation? Well, here is your answer. We have gathered together the top arguments of those who challenge Senator Cruz’s eligibility to serve as president, along with exhaustive research and links to original sources, and condensed it all into one, bite-sized yet authoritative piece.  We have done all the work for you, assembling a definitive reference you can use any time you hear someone say that Ted Cruz is ineligible to run for and serve as president.So without any further ado, here are the Top Ten Birther*Arguments...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has come under heavy fire this week as journalists grilled him about the three scandals hitting President Obama’s administration at once. On CNN Thursday night, however, Carney explained to Piers Morgan that he has actually enjoyed his job this week. “Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve kind of enjoyed it,” Carney said, as Morgan asked him how his week has been. Carney has hosted only two press briefings this week. “I dismiss the premise, the idea that these are scandals,” Carney said flatly, calling the controversy over Benghazi a “total concoction by Republicans,” and...

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"The war in Iraq is the wrong war. No matter how many times the president wants to say it, the war in Iraq is not the war on terror. The war in Afghanistan was." House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made that comment Wednesday in a speech on the House floor. She was blasting a Republican resolution marking the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Pelosi says Republicans have introduced a partisan and "congratulatory" resolution: "It praises Congress for some reason," Pelosi complained. "Instead of having the focus on the innocent victims of 9/11, it talks about the accomplishments of...

• Q2 jumps by 67 percent year over year • Buyers done in by ‘creative mortgages’ according to figures released Monday by Foreclosures.com, a Central Valley-based real estate investment advisory firm and publisher of foreclosure property information. "Year over year at the end of the second quarter of 2006, foreclosure activity in California has increased more than 67 percent," says Alexis McGee, president of Fair Oaks-based ForeclosureS.com. The once hot housing markets in Las Vegas and Phoenix are cooling off rapidly and defaults there are on the rise as well, she says. "Both Las Vegas and Phoenix were impacted by...

YOUNG Welsh Muslims have accused the Government of master-minding this week's plot to blow up transatlantic jets mid-air to justify Tony Blair's war on terror. Some followers of Islam have claimed the arrest of more than 20 people on suspicion of scheming to kill thousands of passengers travelling to America using liquid explosives is designed to bolster the Prime Minister's flagging credibility over the Iraq and Lebanon-Israel crises. Speaking to Wales On Sunday last night, members of the Cathays Dar-ul-Isra Muslim Community Centre in Cardiff said it was a ploy to reinforce Mr Blair's alliance with US President George W...

Declaring he “absolutely” believes “the truth” of his discredited story based on forged memos, about President Bush's National Guard record, on Wednesday's Larry King Live on CNN Dan Rather contended that “we had a lot, a lot of corroboration, of what we broadcast about President Bush's military record. It wasn't just the documents.” Rather then attacked those who dared to expose his misdeeds: “It's a very old technique used, that when those who don't like what you're reporting believe it can be hurtful, then they look for the weakest spot and attack it, which is fair enough. It's a diversionary...

by Mark Finkelstein June 7, 2006 There comes a point at which denial drifts into delusion, and Mary Mapes has crossed it. Incredibly, she is out with a Huffington Post piece calling the assertion of the irrefutable fact that the Rathergate documents were blatant forgeries a 'lie.' Excerpts: "[Critics] claimed that CBS used forged documents and they repeated that lie so often that it stuck. The mainstream media picked it up, repeating bloggers' criticisms without making any serious effort to investigate the story." "As for document analysis, it is a mind-numbing and arcane discipline, an imperfect undertaking reserved for courtroom...

EUGENE (AP) — Howard Dean says Democrats must have faith in their ability to attract religious voters. The former presidential candidate, who will speak at this weekend’s Oregon Democratic Convention in Eugene, says his party must do a better job of winning the support of evangelical Christians, who have voted Republican in recent elections. To that end, Dean recently appeared on Pat Robertson’s “700 Club.’’ The appearance wasn’t without its bumps. Dean had to later apologize to gay-rights leaders for incorrectly stating during the program that the party’s platform said “marriage is between a man and a woman.’’

Iranian president Mahmoud Amadnutjob has given an interview to Germany's Der Spiegel: Germans should stop feeling Holocaust guilt: Ahmadinejad BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Germans they should no longer allow themselves to be held prisoner by a sense of guilt over the Holocaust and reiterated doubts that the Holocaust even happened. In an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, Ahmadinejad said he doubted Germans were allowed to write "the truth" about the Holocaust and said he was still considering traveling to Germany for the World Cup soccer tournament. "I believe the German people are prisoners of the...

Knowing one's adversary, according to Sun Tzu, the author of "The Art of War," is a prerequisite for victory. Costly missteps in the war on terror, especially the invasion of Iraq, suggest that the Bush administration doesn't grasp al-Qaida's ideology. As a result, the United States, though scoring short-term tactical victories against the jihadists, all too frequently furthers Osama bin Laden's long-term strategic aims. A deeper understanding of al-Qaida's philosophy would help the United States gain the initiative in the war of ideas. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, the Bush administration settled on a simple narrative to explain why...

On the Web site of an unofficial alumni organization at the University of California, Los Angeles, there are profiles "exposing" the university's "most radical professors" who "actively proselytize their extreme views in the classroom." These professors are described as "brainless" and are berated for never having left the "fantasy world of college." [snip] There are other disturbing examples today and throughout history. In Colorado and Indiana, as a result of widely publicized student allegations of left-wing bias in the classroom, several professors have received hate mail and at least one received a death threat. The number of organizations across America...

NEW YORK Appearing on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert this week, two broadcast veterans, Tom Brokaw of NBC and Ted Koppel...declared that Bill Clinton would have gone into Iraq just like George Bush if were still president in 2003. Along with Russert, they also argued that it was a "uniformly held belief" that Saddam Hussein had WMD when the Iraq war began. KOPPEL: I mean, the only difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration was 9/11. BROKAW: Right. KOPPEL: If 9/11 had happened on Bill Clinton's watch, he would have gone into Iraq. BROKAW: Yeah. Yeah.

MA. Sen. John Kerry said last night that if Dems retake the House, there's a "solid case" to bring "articles of impeachment" against President Bush for allegedly misleading the country about pre-war intelligence, according to several Dems who attended. Kerry was speaking at a holiday party for alumni of his WH '04 bid. About 100 campaign vets gathered at Finn McCool's bar in D.C. to hear him. In a short speech, Kerry praised Dems who were working on Senate and House campaigns, and then said, according to one listener: "If we take back the House, there's a solid case to...

“We’re coming, and we’re going to getcha,” the usually mild-mannered Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa told the gathering Saturday. Did Disney World make these Democrats a bit, well, goofy? Hardly. They have plenty of reasons to feel optimistic about next year’s elections. Bush’s poll numbers remain at politically perilous levels, although they have begun to inch up. The public also is still dissatisfied with how the Bush administration has handled the Iraq war, the economy, and Hurricane Katrina. In addition, ethics scandals have ensnared Republicans: A Texas prosecutor has indicted Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, on political money-laundering charges, forcing DeLay...

EX-CBS producer Mary Mapes, fired over a controversial "60 Minutes II" story on President Bush's National Guard service, says she still believes the report was "true" — and accurate. "No one has proved that the documents were not authentic," Mapes says on this morning's "Good Morning America." Mapes is breaking her silence to promote her new book, "Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power." --Snip-- She says she "did not have it in for George Bush" and says she doesn't feel responsible for what happened to her colleagues in the scandal's aftermath. --Snip-- What Mapes...

The Danish People's Party finds no support with the prime minister for its description of street riots in France and Århus as terrorism Calling rioting immigrant youths in France and Denmark terrorists is wrong, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday, brushing aside the Danish People's Party's (DF) claims that street disturbances in European towns in recent weeks are acts of terrorism. Rasmussen made his statement at a press conference after DF, his government's support party, said new anti-terrorism legislation ought to be used to prevent street riots. Last week, the government presented a 49-point plan to fight and...

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan met today in with French President Jacques Chirac in Paris, where he arrived yesterday at the start of two-week trip that will also take him to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Pakistan. Mr. Annan and Mr. Chirac had a wide ranging discussion covering Syria and Lebanon, Côte d'Ivoire, Iraq, UN reform and development issues, according to a UN spokesperson. Immediately following his meeting with the President, the Secretary-General took off for Cairo, where he will begin a two-day official visit tomorrow morning. Early in that visit, he is expected to deliver a lecture in honour...