Editor’s note: As the most compressed, earliest, and most costly primary cycle in the history of the nation’s presidential elections narrows the field to two Democrats and one or two Republicans, with the Rev. Mike Huckabee competing for the vice presidency, one potential independent candidate waits in the wings. He is the current mayor of […]

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Big Tent, Big Fight—Conservatives are struggling to come to terms with a presidential candidate who doesn’t share the nativism of Tom Tancredo, voted against tax cuts, sponsored campaign-finance reform law, and once demonstrated an indifference to abortion and an animus to the leaders of the Christian right. The attacks on John McCain began before he […]

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Refrigerator Note—At a House Armed Services Committee hearing on January 17, committee chair Ike Skelton (D-MO) told Lt. General James Dubik and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Mark Kimmitt that he wanted “some sense of a timeline” on Iraq. Iraq’s Defense Minister had told Skelton that Iraq’s army would be able to handle internal security […]

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MIKE HUCKABEE OFTEN MIXES RELIGION with politics. But the former Arkansas governor jumped the shark on the eve of the Michigan primary, when he told a crowd of cheering (and faithful) supporters that the Constitution needs a religious fix: “I have opponents in this race,” he said, “who do not want to change the Constitution. […]

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CNN NEWS ANCHOR ANDERSON COOPER BEGAN his wrap-up of the New Hampshire presidential primary by observing that it was “a remarkable night.” John McCain, who would refer to himself as “Lazarus,” had risen from the dead. And Hillary Clinton, who let down her guard and showed genuine emotion, defied pollsters and also ended up the […]

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