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AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Democratic Party said Monday it had denied a request by Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign that it take extra steps to verify the signatures of election night caucus-goers before party conventions being held at the end of the month. State chairman Boyd Richie said Texas Democrats will not "set up an unnecessary, ad hoc ' ( Read more... )

KOGELO, Kenya -- American shock jocks, dirty tricks masterminds and political bloggers: Beware the wrath of an 86-year-old Kenyan villager.A frown replaces the dimpled beam of Sarah Hussein Obama, grandmother of Barack Obama, when asked on Wednesday about recent attacks on her grandson that include the spreading of rumors that he is secretly a ( Read more... )

You know what would be totally lulzy, you guys? If we showed a presidential candidate "thanking" Osama bin Laden in our "comedy" segment that we run about nine times a day. For maximum hilarity, it should be one who's been dogged by rumors that he's secretly a Muslim terrorist!

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If you're running into anybody who enjoyed CNN's eye-gougingly stupid "ZOMG DREAM TICKET!" closer at the LA debate, you might show them this piece. Political gossip mavens like Dowd can't be trusted 100%, but if this account of the tarmac incident is even half true, it explains a lot. As I recall, there was this whole media narrative about how ( Read more... )

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Someone in my graduate English program just forwarded that awful "Who is Barak Obama?" email! This person is working on her PhD and teaches Professional Writing!!

So I answered with a plea to please actually check that crap out before forwarding it, and then followed with this:

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Obama was the first to suggest a cooling of the rhetoric on race, calling reporters together to say he didn't want the campaign "to degenerate into so much tit-for-tat, back-and-forth that we lose sight of why all of us are doing this."Referring to Clinton and former Sen. John Edwards, he said that while they may have disagreements, "we share the ( Read more... )

Clinton, on defense over comments that she and her husband made regarding Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and Obama's fitness for the White House, tried to turn the tables on her top primary rival. She accused his campaign of looking to score political points by distorting their words ( Read more... )

Nevada’s state teachers union and six Las Vegas area residents filed a lawsuit late Friday that could make it harder for many members of the state’s huge hotel workers union to vote in the hotly contested Jan. 19 Democratic caucus in Nevada.The 13-page lawsuit in federal district court here comes two days after the 60,000-member Culinary Workers ( Read more... )