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Polls show former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and John McCain tied this morning in Florida's pivotal Republican primary. The two were at each other's throats all day yesterday, drawing the clearest lines yet between the former Massachusetts governor, Mormon and self-made millionaire, and the Arizona Senator, Vietnam POW and self-styled straight-talker. It's the first closed GOP primary where McCain cannot rely on the independents that handed him victories in New Hampshire and South Carolina. Romney has found his footing hammering away on the economy, while McCain made what Romney loves to call a detour from the straight-talk express by falsely accusing Romney of endorsing a withdrawal timetable on Iraq. The campaign has widened the split in the Republican party between so-called "national greatness" neoconservatives backing McCain and the libertarian wing who loathes his big-government forays on everything from war to taxes to global warming.
Florida finishes No. 2 in foreclosures in 2007
The two states joined Michigan, California, Colorado, Ohio, Georgia, Arizona, Illinois and Indiana as the states with the highest foreclosure rates in the nation. Florida also finished second in total foreclosure filings behind California, which had 481,392 filings on 249,513 properties. Nevada was 10th in overall foreclosure filings. South Dakota, Vermont, Maine and West Virginia had the best foreclosure rates, combining for just 799 foreclosures. RealtyTrac includes properties that are in default, up for auction or owned by the lender in its statistics. .
Press Briefing by Ed Gillespie, Counselor to the President, on the ...
It also talks about his approach to policy and to governing and to what works best for keeping us safe and prosperous as a nation. He talks about the need to trust the American people and empower them, to improve their quality of life and to create jobs and to make informed decisions when it comes to their health care and education and other aspects of their lives. And so it does have a philosophical core to it that does reflect the President's philosophy of government as well, and then has some policies consistent with that. That's not to say while it has a philosophical core it doesn't identify areas where we can find common ground with a Democratic-led Congress, and there are areas where we believe we can do that, and the President identifies what he thinks are some common ground areas where this Congress and this White House can come together to get some accomplishments done.
CASTILLO GETS REVENGE BUT NO TITLE
This result was a thunderous end to a wild weekend that saw Castillo miss the target weight of 135 pounds on three occasions on Friday and included a suspension for Castillo's doctor for tampering with the scale. The card remained intact but there was no title on the line due to Castillo's infraction. The challenger from Mexico showed no ill effects and controlled Corrales early. Castillo consistently landed left hooks in the first round and forced some swelling around Corrales' eyes by the second. The 31-year-old Castillo combined a left hook and a straight right during the third that staggered the champion and wasted little time in the fourth. The decisive blow came in an instant as the two combatants leaned on each other in the middle of the ring.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Officials of the Zavorovo state farm near Moscow had prepared carefully for the big day last August. They had even built a special staircase to spare their distinguished visitor the indignity of climbing down a hill to the potato fields below the main road. Mikhail Gorbachev would have none of it. Stepping out of his ZIL limousine, he gave the staircase a dismissive wave and scrambled down the steep incline in his neatly pressed gray business suit, leaving his surprised entourage to run after him in full view of television cameras. At the bottom of the hill, Gorbachev asked the farmers, lined up beside their equipment like soldiers on parade, about the mood on the farm. "Good. Businesslike," came the replies. Gorbachev was not satisfied. "I always hear the same answer," he said. "[But] there are always problems." For example, he asked, was everything available "except for vodka," a teasing reference to his antialcoholism campaign.
Knocking Hillary for All the Wrong Reasons
Today, it is front-page news in the New York Times. This just in: Hillary Clinton is a human being! The horror! After months of bashing Hillary for being a cold, calculating, machine, we now get the pile-on for her show of emotion under extreme stress. This is not the way I want to see the first female front-runner for President go down. Let's call the focus on Hillary's brief teary-eyed moment what it is: pure sexism. If it's national news when her voice cracks for a moment and her eyes well up, but no tears roll, it is only because reporters have been waiting for her to act like a girl. Mitt Romney, you may recall, looked nearly hysterical in his speech in Iowa after the drubbing he took from Huckabee. He got all emotional about the campaign and switched between giggles and near-tears several times.
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