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Weekend Watchdog

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....

Slowly Turning The Energy Ship Around

When the energy bill hit the floor of the Senate, I echoed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid observation that it's "just the first step." And I also raised concerns that special interests could dirty up the bill and make it not even that. Now, the bill has passed the...

Progressives Have The Mojo Now

The Take Back America Conference this year drew 3,000 leaders and activists from 40 states, 150 speakers, a bloggers’ boulevard and radio row larger than ever, and an energy that couldn’t be contained. This year was not only a larger gathering than any previous year;...

Poll: Progressives Favor Obama

Politico.com just announced the results of the presidential straw poll of Take Back America attendees. The percentages are: Obama 29 Edwards 26 Clinton 17 Richardson 9 Gore (write-in) 8 Kucinich 5 Biden 1 Dodd 1 Gravel 1 Isaiah J. Poole writes: Illinois Sen. Barack...

What The Boos Were About

Sen. Hillary Clinton being booed during her remarks is likely to be the big story coming out of Day 3 of Take Back America. What the boos were actually about is likely to be misreported. Byron York at the National Review writes that the boos began after Clinton said,...

An Unabashed 'Hope-Monger'

The pundits have been saying that Sen. Barack Obama lost his stride at the most recent presidential debates, but there was no evidence of that Tuesday when he made a passionate, forceful speech at the Take Back America conference. What a standing-room-only-crowd heard...

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