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...he will reap the benefits on March 1. Almost one-quarter of the available delegates are up for grabs that day, mostly in primaries in the Deep South. That already favors Cruz, not least because his home state of Texas offers the most delegates, but Rubio's slide will help him even more. In all of those Southern states but one, candidates must reach either 15 or 20 percent of the vote to receive any delegates at all, as we noted last week. Rubio was already only pulling about 10 percent several of those states. With his standing weakened and the so-called...

John Warner is against the war in Iraq and he sleeps better knowing the anti-war crowd is about to bring the Americans scuttling home. Surrender is an odd sleep aid for an ex-Marine. Probably something borrowed from John Murtha's prescription bottle. John Kerry is eager to stop the war he helped start so the rest of the world will think better of us. Mr. Kerry worries a lot about what America's critics think of us. He has been in Davos taking the waters and communing with the critics of America at the World Economic Forum. Someone asked him why the...

Hugo Chavez is running for Little Green Footballs' 2005 Idiot Of The Year and has pulled into second place. The Thug of Caracas and Master Latin American Idiot is closing in on the crown he deserves. Vote for Hugo. Do it for Venezuelans who have been denied the vote due to Hugo Chavez's Jimmy Carter-sanctioned electoral fraud. Venezuelans are voting in this because it will be the only legitimate vote Venezuelans will ever get. It's critical that Hugo wins this one.

The world is his laptop Matt Drudge, internet gossip millionaire, tells Cosmo Landesman about life on the wire Matt Drudge’s panama hat is the kind that cigar-sucking American newspaper men wore in the 1940s. Seeing him without it is like seeing the Statue of Liberty without her torch or Tom Wolfe without his white suit. The internet has spawned a million sites but has created few real legends — one of whom is Drudge. That hat is part of the legend, a bit of style in the void of cyberspace. Drudge runs one of the most influential and discussed websites...