President Obama, his administration, and attoney general Eric Holder, have come under heavy attack from critics who say that trying Guantanamo terrorists in federal court opens the door to all sorts of mischief — in particular, allowing terrorists the right to demand access to classified information and to seek the shelter of rights that are [...]

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Hutchison is shown sitting in a living room, or perhaps a hotel suite. She is wearing a white blouse with a dark vest, brown or perhaps purple. A lamp is lit on a desk behind her left shoulder. In the foreground is a built-in segment of a bookcase. A red sofa is in the background [...]

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It opens with an angled shot looking upward at the U.S. Capitol dome, through trees. Over it is superimposed a red line, as if to suggest a graph of an economic indicator, and general direction is down. The effect is very busy without being distracting; there’s a lot going on visually. The word DEFICITS flashes [...]

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In addition to the letter that I posted and wrote about on Wednesday, in which Strake urged Republicans to ask Kay Bailey Hutchison not to run for governor, Strake, as several published reports have noted, is the new campaign treasurer for Tom Mechler’s campaign for Republican Party chairman, a position that is currently filled by [...]

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It is posted, undated, on the governor’s web site. It contains this statement at the bottom: “Political Ad Paid for and Reprinted by Texans for Rick Perry” While the letter might seem to be a closed subject, Mark Miner of the Perry campaign told me yesterday, “It’s more relevant than ever.”

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