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How A Dark-Horse Can Win The Nomination By Thomas F. Roeser - The Wanderer PressCHICAGO — Two weeks ago I played political strategist for Ron Paul. In the old days of my mis­spent youth, when I was a hired gun political strategist working for the Minnesota Republican Party, nobody asked whom I was for. They didn’t care. My boss just showed me a candidate and or­dered me to devise a strategy for him/ her at lowest possible cost. And because I liked to continue eating, I did it.It didn’t work out too badly. Af­ter a few of us got the...

The founder of an outlawed Pakistani Islamist terrorist group, blamed by India for deadly bombings on trains in Mumbai in July, was released from detention on Tuesday under a court order. Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, former leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, was put under house arrest in the city of Lahore in August shortly before he was due to address a rally. Saeed was freed on Aug. 28 on the orders of the Lahore High Court but almost immediately re-arrested under a public order law which allows authorities to detain anyone without trial for up to three months. But a...

John Edwards says the Iraq problem has NOTHING to do with 9/11. He says he'll now back the administration on Iraq. He's obviously depressed and humiliated; right now on FOX with John Gibson. "Here's a man who's lied consistently..." Edwards is speaking of Hussein, not his friend Bill Clinton.

Senator Bill Nelson of Florida was just interviewed live by John Gibson. Astronaut Bill told Gibson he was in meetings with the Secretary of Defense today and Donald Rumsfeld has made no case against Iraq. Bill says the American people will support an attack against Iraq, but the President must offer proof of Iraq's danger.Nelson didn't offer any explanation on how to respond to Iraq's repeated violations of the terms of the Gulf War, or his Party's President Clinton's weak (non-existent) response to world wide terrorism. Of course, John Gibson didn't ask him, either.