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Newsweek columnist Eleanor Clift says that Democrats shouldn't fear nominating Hillary Clinton as their presidential standard bearer in 2008, claiming that Republicans were just as nervous about Ronald Reagan's White House bid in 1980. "I was trying to think, who in my lifetime has been such a dominant frontrunner and yet people had been nervous about his electability - and I came up with Ronald Reagan," Clift told the Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" on Sunday. The Newsweek scribe noted that Reagan "was the oldest person, at that time, to try to contest for the presidency as a frontrunner."...

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  HILLARY'S TRIPLE PLAYthe clinton putsch + filegate + the gorelick wall by MIa T, 7.11.05   resident's Bush's failure to purge the ranks of clintonoid infestation and the resultant Joe Wilson bed-bug bite beg a reexamination of the clinton Putsch, the firing and replacement of every U.S. attorney extant. The clinton putsch mustn't be examined in isolation, however. This purge wasn't about simple housekeeping. Rather, it was one of three parts, the Filegate-clinton putsch-Gorelick Wall triple play, a grand scheme that would enable the clintons to methodically and seditiously and with impunity auction off America's security, sovereignty and economy...

2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is blasting President Bush for lax enforcement of the nation's immigration laws, saying the White House has dropped the ball on border security and put the country at risk for another major terrorist attack. In a statement posted to her newly revamped official Senate web site, Clinton charges: "The Bush administration is failing to meet what should be the basic requirements of immigration policy: continuing our American tradition of welcoming immigrants who follow the rules and are trying to build a better life for their families, while strengthening national security in a post 9-11 world."...

Colonel Olson knows first hand how important properly equipped vehicles can be when it comes to a soldier's survival. Olson said, "The doors work. They work real well."The doors Olson mentioned are armored doors that are installed on Humvees and other vehicles used by troops. At the Watervliet Arsenal, armor kits for those doors are assembled and shipped overseas. Olson said, "We need to do everything we can for this. We are here. We're working around the clock to make sure we can produce to our max-capacity for the doors." As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator...