Category Archives: Politics

Hillary’s Mystery Aide

From the Times of India Nov. 29: Huma Abedin, who is now 32, is the only daughter of parents of pre-partition India. Her father Syed Zainul Abedin was an alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University and came to the United States … Continue reading

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The End Of Giuliani?

Brilliant at Breakfast writes: Can you imagine if a Democratic presidential candidate had as a business client someone who harbored Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, otherwise known as "the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks"? Well, if Rudy Giuliani wants to run as … Continue reading

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The Big Clinton Story

Bill Robinson writes: I’ve just spent two weeks traveling and speaking with media elites in L.A., Chicago, NYC, and D.C. and among other things, I was repeatedly told that The New York Times and The L.A. Times are "sitting on … Continue reading

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Trent Lott Fallout: The Gay Escort Who Knew Too Much

From Big Head DC: Once upon a time, there was a twentysomething boy-next-door type with reddish blond hair and a brilliantly white smile. Not one to shy away from attention, he wrote a blog called “Fifteen Minutes,” and also became … Continue reading

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Escort Throws Cold Water On Lott Rumor

From the Huffington Post: A San Antonio-based gay male escort categorically denied Monday that outgoing GOP Sen. Trent Lott had ever procured his services, putting to bed one of the more stunning rumors to emerge following Lott’s announcement earlier in … Continue reading

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America, Here Are Your Democratic Presidential Candidates

Dennis Prager writes on Townhall: If you want to know what the Democratic presidential candidates and the Democratic Party believe, the debates, often derided as intellectually inconsequential, reveal a great deal. The problem is that news media almost never report … Continue reading

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Tancredo Confronts Heckler on Sharia (Islamic Law)

Brenda Walker writes on VDare: Recently Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo reminded America in Churchillian fashion of the still active threat from Islamists to destroy Western civilization. For Tancredo’s trouble, his ad was called “fear mongering” and worse. Did these critics … Continue reading

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‘Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics,’ by Bill Boyarsky

Peter Schrag writes in the LA Times: Not only was Unruh a central player in the forging of California’s great postwar highway, university and water systems and the creation of its progressive governmental institutions, he also was a man with … Continue reading

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A sweet Saturday mystery: Clinton, Obama and Mr. X

From the LA Times: …[Robert] Novak reported this morning in a notebook-style weekly online collection of items that "agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles" that they have scandalous information on Sen. Barack Obama but … Continue reading

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Camera Of Death Vs. Jesse Unruh

Here’s video of the Nov. 13 panel discussion between author Bill Boyarsky, historian Kevin Starr, former politician Robert Hertzberg and attorney Constance Rice. Part Two with Grover McKean, former assistant state treasurer Interview With Political Organizer David I. Shapiro Bill’s … Continue reading

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