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Drilling for oil a hot topic at GOP
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- It may have been in vogue in Alaska forever, but drilling for oil has never been so hot with Republicans as it was on the floor during the final night of the Republican National Convention....
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Detroit mayor pleads guilty
DETROIT — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was bounced from office Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to jail and put an end to the sex scandal that embarrassed this chronically struggling city and preoccupied its government for months.
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Lieberman in the Dog House?
WASHINGTON--Sen. Joseph Lieberman has been a persona non-grata for quite some time in the Democratic caucus. But there might be even more love lost after this week, when the Democrat-turned-Independent from Connecticut spoke in prime time at the Republican National Convention in support of…
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Is it as simple as: Democrats care and Republicans don't?
Paul KrugmanMy first reaction to Bill Clinton's convention speech was sheer professional jealousy: Nobody, but nobody, has his ability to translate economic wonkery into plain, forceful English. In effect, Clinton provided an executive summary of the new Census report on income, poverty and health insurance, but he did it so eloquently, so seamlessly, that there was no sense he was giving his audience a lecture.