Hillary Clinton’s recent invocation of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1968 has damaged not only her reputation, but it’s hurt Barack Obama’s chances of becoming president. Obama’s best chance to win the "white working people" she frequently invokes--not to mention "women of a certain age" who have been her fiercest advocates—would be to ask her to join the ticket. She’s made that virtually impossible by making her candidacy nearly radioactive.
Surely any champion of freedom wants to get rid of the income tax. And surely the way to really get rid of the income tax is to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Right?
Top Twenty Reasons Hillary Clinton Should Stay in The Race
Political Humor
By Will Durst
Friday, 23 May 2008
Even though the dogged Hillary Clinton is being encouraged by friend and foe and pundit alike to drop out of the Democratic Presidential Primary, there is a contingent that thinks her best move is to dig in her heels and bite the hand off of anyone who tries to restrain her.
The US Senate passed Jim Webb’s (D-VA) update of the GI Bill yesterday by a vote of 75 – 22. The Math will tell you that three senators did not cast a vote on this measure: one was Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), who was just this week diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor after suffering a seizure, one was Oklahoma’s own Tom Coburn (R)—and, honestly, who knows what’s going on inside his head—and the third?
Canada's highest court has ruled that the country violated international law in the case of Omar Khadr, the only Canadian being held at the Guantanamo Bay US detention centre in Cuba.
John McCain, the presumptive US Republican presidential candidate, has rejected a second Christian preacher's endorsement after it emerged he had made anti-Islamic comments.
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China has said more than 60,000 people were killed as a result of an earthquake in southwest China on May 12.
