Coincidentally, both The New York Times and The Washington Post ran stories about how the suddenness of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto was a sort of pop quiz on foreign policy for the presidential candidates. The Times called it “a ghoulish sort of test: a chance to project leadership and competence - or not - […]

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The Boston Globe reports that debate-weary voters are looking past the rehearsed sound bites to non-verbal cues in order to glean more meaningful insight into a candidate’s psyche than their poll-tested words can convey:
The talking heads gab about front-runners and wannabes, attacks made and deflected, answers carefully parsed. But when Newbury Street hairstylist Mario Russo […]

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Mike Huckabee Latest ‘Media Darling’
Lots of Press Love Also Mean Lots of Press Scrutiny
Son David’s Troubles
Is the Romance with Press Over? 
Mike Huckabee has found that along with press love comes press scrutiny.
Touted with headlines such as the “surging” Huckabee, the “Huckabee support strong” and “Surprising Huckabee”, Huckabee’s campaign has to now deal with the “A […]

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The Press Fascination with Mike Huckabee
What’s his P-Harmony Score?
Why not Date for awhile first? 
The news these days is full of Huckabee gushing. Words like, Huckabee “surges” to the head of the Iowa Poll. Gosh, darn, look at that Huckabee go. What a “nice” guy this Huckabee is.
Makes one wonder, all these head-over-heels in love with […]

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At Times Revealing, Often Humorous 
Some Forget, Some are Too Young to Remember 
14 Bill Clinton Quotes to Start the Day Right
Bill Clinton, variously referred to as “Bubba”, “Boy President” and “The Man from Hope”, has recently been traveling the country stumping for his wife, Hillary.
Bill, fondly recalls the 1990s as a time that the country was […]

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Three months to the day after the Dem presidential candidates gathered at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL, for the “Univision” debate, the Republican candidates did the same. For those who were watching the Pittsburgh Steelers get their asses kicked by the New England Patriots and tuned in late or not at all, […]

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Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) have taken the lead among Iowans who say they “definitely” or “probably” will attend their respective party caucuses on January 3rd, according to The Des Moines Register’s latest poll.
This is the first time Obama has beaten Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in the Register’s poll (28 […]

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Before your New Year’s resolutions have all been broken and forgotten, the presidential nominations could be a done deal, what with IA holding its primary January 3rd, followed in rapid succession by NH on January 8th , MI on January 15th and more than 20 states holding primaries or caucuses Feb. 5th. Reports the Los Angeles […]

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The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson captured The Stiletto’s sentiments to a T when he wrote in a recent column, “Finally, we’ve got a real presidential campaign on our hands. Wake up, those of you in the back row, because it looks as if the long-running seminar is finally over.” After detailing the internecine fighting between […]

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Remember the warm reception that Rudy got when he spoke at Regent University back in July? Conservative televangelist Pat Robertson all-but-endorsed him then, and just made it official the other day at the National Press Club in Washington.
The announcement came on the heels of Fmr. Gov. Mitt Romney (MA) snagging endorsements from Moral Majority co-founder […]

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Though Fred Thompson finally ended his dance of the seven veils and revealed his candidacy to Jay Leno in a taped appearance on NBC’s “Tonight Show,” it’s Mike Huckabee – who has always made the most of his limited time in the spotlight as a second-tier candidate – who’s looking sexy after Wednesday’s “The First […]

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On Thursday, Jim Bob, 42, and Michelle Duggar, 40, gave birth to their 17th child. Jennifer Danielle was born at 10:01 a.m. at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Rogers, Arkansas by VBAC, or vaginal birth after Caesarean. Michelle Duggar began feeling contractions Wednesday night and went to the hospital at 5 a.m. on Thursday. Within 30 […]

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A coach for the Tulsa Drillers was killed by a foul ball during a minor league baseball game on Sunday night. Coach Mike Coolbaugh was hit in the head by a line drive while coaching first-base during a Texas League game with the Arkansas Travelers. The ball was hit by Tino Sanchez in the ninth […]

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On Saturday, a dozen riders on the X-Coaster at Springs & Crystal Falls amusement park were stuck hanging upside down and 150 feet off the ground after a power outage shut down the ride. It took 30 minutes for the Hot Springs city fire department in Arkansas to get the riders down using a ladder […]

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The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands.
In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases are […]

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First gypsies impersonate Dr. Phil and now someone is selling tickets to the Oprah show that smell a little “phishy.”
Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan warned the public in a official statement:
In this case, e-mail recipients are asked to submit personal information and told they will receive tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show after verification of […]

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If this isn’t a public service announcement for the dangers of internet dating, than I don’t know what is. A man who was wanted on two counts of murder in Arkansas, was arrested in Wisconsin after he placed an ad on an internet dating site that included his name, address and picture and a line […]

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South Australia is set to follow the US State of Arkansas by banning smoking in cars when children are present - and has taken the ban even further. Where Arkansas has a US$25.00 fine for smoking in a car prohibits smoking in a car that is carrying a child who is required to be restrained […]

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I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now - I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.”
I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were selling […]

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