While the Secret Service has a budget of $83.5 million, nearly $10 million more than the last presidential election,  Sen John McCain travels the campaign trail without Secret Service protection.  However, during an interview today with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, he said he is reconsidering Secret Service protection.

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  Chelsea Clinton won’t do media interviews. The Clinton’s, both mother and father, Hillary and Bill, have put child, now adult, Chelsea on the political trail to stump for her mother for President of the United States. But they have done so with some provisions that, they the Clinton’s, feel entitled to, that Chelsea will not do any [...]

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Barack Obama was asked today on The View what would the first three things he would do if he got in the White House.  He said call a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and give them a new mission, to withdraw the troops from Iraq; give healthcare to all Americans and deal with [...]

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An interesting letter to the editor appeared in the Sarasota (Fl.) Herald Tribune on March 26th from a Vietnam veteran who put some perspective on the Iraqi war and the daily death tolls and injuries reported by the US media. He said, “I fully understand the meaning of war.  I take nothing away from anyone [...]

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“I remember landing under sniper fire.  There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base,” said Hillary Clinton during a speech last Monday recounting a trip to Bosinia in March of 1996. But that [...]

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Just as he seemed to be getting over a bad week in his association with Pastor Wright, Barack Obama,  stepped into another minefield when the Washington Times discovered there may be a political motive behind the breaches of presidential candidates passports that might is linked to an Obama advisor.

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Although it was well written, brilliantly delivered, Obama’s speech today on race and his 20 year association with an individual he called a member of his “family, ” the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose anti-American invective he condemned, but did not “disown” was outrageously disingenuous.

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While condemning his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright for “incendiary language” Barack Obama said he would not “disown” him.

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  Obama is going on national TV tomorrow to take on the race and his personal pastor issue. An issue that he apparently was somewhat oblivious to while attending the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for some 20 years and developing a relationship with a pastor he calls Uncle and who he attributes [...]

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There’s a lot of condemnation going on in the Democratic Party these days, the latest by Barack Obama who called remarks made by his spiritual advisor, the person who married he and his wife Michelle and baptized his children, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, “inflammatory and appalling” statements.

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