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Throughout his partnership with President George W. Bush, Karl Rove argued that a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens would be a political winner for the Republican Party... But on what premise is this theory based? First, it assumes that all U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent favor a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens, whether those aliens come from Malaysia, Ireland, Kosovo, Somalia or Russia. While it obviously is true that the leftist, top-down, unelected leadership of the ethnocentric advocacy organizations La Raza, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the League of United Latin American Citizens, as well...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Sen. John Kerry drew election-year fire from President Bush and other Republicans on Tuesday for saying college students could "get stuck in Iraq" if they do not study hard. ADVERTISEMENT But Kerry, who unsuccessfully challenged Bush in the 2004 presidential election, refused to apologize and said his remark was a "botched joke" aimed at the president, not U.S. troops. With the Iraq war a dominant issue in the November 7 elections, Kerry's comment on Monday gave Republicans, struggling to maintain control of the U.S. Congress, a chance to fight back. Kerry's office said later the...

OK, so last week or so there was a thread about Rove having a nice surprise for the Dems this election cycle. Some have said that there may not be an actual surprise and he's just playing with what minds the Dems have left.What I'm looking for is a post with your guess when Karl Rove will let his surprise out of the bag. Date, time if you want. The winner wins... our undying respect here on FR.Have fun.

NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices turned lower Monday as traders apparently shrugged off worries about whether production cuts by two key producing nations were harbingers of further restrictions by OPEC members. On Friday, Venezuela said it would reduce oil output by 50,000 barrels a day to try to stem the recent fall in crude prices. Nigeria on Saturday said it was cutting oil exports by 5 percent, which the state-owned oil company described as a routine seasonal reduction. By midday trading in New York, light, sweet crude for November delivery fell $1.36 to $61.57 a barrel in electronic trading...