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The conventional wisdom is that though Ted Cruz can excite the conservative-activist base of the Republican party, he can’t beat Hillary Clinton in a general election. But the recent head-to-head polling tells a different story. Unless your name is George W. Bush, it’s tough to win 270 electoral votes without winning the popular vote. And Cruz is hanging in there against the Democratic front-runner. The RealClearPolitics average puts Clinton at 46.4 percent and Cruz at 43.9 percent; the most recent McClatchy-Marist survey has it a tie. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, the current Republican front-runner, hasn’t led Clinton in any national poll...

Forty years ago today, at precisely 8:17PM, two Americans rode a flimsy marvel of engineering down to the first manned landing on the moon. Few slept that night, the heat of another sticky July evening passed unnoticed across the United States. For several hours that night, the world briefly contracted to a square-foot of grainy black-and-white television, and millions watched as a human being set foot on another world. Forty years ago today, the possibilities were limitless. Forty years ago, I was nearly the same age my son is today, that summer that I crossed “the great divide” from primary...

I want you to be there with me on Election Night when the results come in. We're planning a big event that will include tens of thousands of supporters in Grant Park in downtown Chicago. We're saving some of the best seats in the house for 5 people who have given to the campaign before -- and who decide to make a donation one last time before Sunday at midnight. If you're selected, you can bring a guest, and we'll fly you in and put you up in a hotel for the night. You'll go backstage at the big event...

We told you back in May about Mayor Gavin Newsom's plan to install 10 bright orange parking meters - dubbed homeless meters - around the city with signs reading "Be a part of change. Don't give change." The idea was for people to drop their nickels and dimes into meters instead of giving them to panhandlers, and the money would be dispersed to nonprofits serving homeless people. The installation of the meters was supposedly just weeks away, but as you may have noticed, they're still not up.Turns out the message wasn't exactly received the way the mayor wanted. People thought...

When the human waste products peddling the Loose Change documentary got caught stealing their footage from the two French brothers who had been doing a documentary on the FDNY when the planes hit, the always classy 9/11 conspiracy crowd or as they like to be called "The 9/11 Truth Movement" (much as Holocaust deniers like to be called The Holocaust Truth Movement since it sounds better than Evil Nazi Sympathizers) began accusing the brothers of being part of the conspiracy, posted personal information and photos of women from the law firm that sent the letter and began barraging them with...

Kyle and Stan of "South Park" are living large with Colorado celebrities. In an episode that debuted last week, the boys break 100,000 points on "Guitar Hero" and become the toast of the town at a swank Denver pool party. "Dude, dude," says Stan. "That's Ron Zappolo from Channel 4 News!" "Wow," says Kyle. "Look over there. It's that Jake Jabs guy ..." In the kicking-a-guy-when-he's- (almost)-down department, there was this: "Dude, dude, that's Jay Cutler over there," says Stan. Cutler is laid out on a lawn chair, holding a beer, a woman standing on each side. "Nice to meet...

The publication Spare Change News today published one of the hugely controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad and called other Boston newspapers “cowardly” for refusing to print the drawings that have touched off weeks of rioting. The biweekly newspaper, which is mostly distributed by members of the homeless community, juxtaposed one of the offending cartoons, which has fueled riots in parts of the Middle East, with a picture of a burned-out bus in a Middle Eastern street on its op-ed page with the caption “What is more offensive?”

Toledo, Ohio -- A disastrous investment by the state in rare coins has erupted into both a financial and political scandal, with Ohio's Republicans running for cover and the Democrats seeing great opportunity. At least $10 million is feared missing from a $55 million fund that the Ohio Workers' Compensation Bureau set up in a risky and highly unorthodox foray into the buying and selling of coins. The investment was managed by coin dealer Tom Noe, a prodigious fundraiser who has showered contributions on Republicans in Ohio and beyond. In the past few weeks, a slew of Republicans, including President...