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WASHINGTON (Nov. 29) -- The release of more than 250,000 classified State Department documents forced the Obama administration into damage control, trying to contain fallout from unflattering assessments of world leaders and revelations about backstage U.S. diplomacy. The publication of the secret cables amplified widespread global alarm about Iran's nuclear ambitions and unveiled occasional U.S. pressure tactics aimed at hot spots in Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea. The leaks also disclosed bluntly candid impressions from both diplomats and other world leaders about America's allies ...
Republican Rick Snyder, Political Newcomer, Wins Michigan Governor's Primary
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRick Snyder, the Gateway computer entrepreneur and political novice, stunned six-term Congressman Pete Hoekstra to win the Republican nomination for Michigan governor. According to the Detroit Free Press, Snyder led the five-man GOP field with 36.8 percent of the vote, with Hoekstra trailing closest with 27.3 percent. Snyder will face Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, the Democratic nominee, in the November general election. Bernero trounced his primary opponent Andy Dillon with 61 percent of the vote. Snyder has never served in public office. He spent $6 million of his own fortune to finance his ...
Races in Michigan and Kansas Launch a Busy Primary Season
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe August primary season begins in earnest Tuesday with the focus on Republican voters in Michigan, who will choose their candidate for governor, and in Kansas, where two long-serving congressmen are competing for the seat of GOP Sen. Sam Brownback, long a leading conservative. Both the crowded Michigan race and the Kansas contest between Reps. Todd Tiahrt and Jerry Moran, are close, according to the latest polls. It is also primary day in Missouri, but there isn't much question that the namesakes of two of the state's longstanding political families -- Democrat Robin Carnahan and ...
Race is Tight as Michigan Republicans Prepare to Pick Governor Candidate Tuesday
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyMichigan Republicans are heading into Tuesday's gubernatorial primary with three candidates bunched together in a close race, according to an EPIC/MRA poll conducted July 26-27 for the Detroit Free Press/WXYZ-7. Political newcomer and former Gateway computer chief executive Rick Snyder leads the pack with 26 percent followed by state Attorney General Mike Cox at 24 percent and Rep. Pete Hoekstra at 23 percent. Two other candidates shared 11 percent and the rest were undecided. The margin of error is 4.9 points. The poll said Snyder has a big lead among primary voters who describe themselves ...
Michigan Governor's Race: 'Undecideds' Rule Democrats, Tight Contest for GOP
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyDemocrats in Michigan will choose their candidate for governor in two weeks and while House Speaker Andy Dillon has the lead, the largest number of voters in a Detroit News/WDIV poll conducted July 12-13 are those who are undecided. On the Republican side, three candidates are bunched together as the August 3 primary approaches. Dillon runs ahead of Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero by 34.3 percent to 25.1 percent with 39.5 percent undecided. The margin of error is 4.9 points. Dillon has leads over Bernero ranging from 6 to 8 points when it comes to who voters think has the best plan to improve ...
Republicans Lay Down the Gauntlet on Bush Prosecutions
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyCongressional Republicans, led by House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), came out swinging against President Barack Obama's apparent new-found willingness to entertain the possibility of prosecuting former Bush Administration officials for decisions made regarding enhanced interrogations. Hoekstra (R-MI), penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal declaring that if Democrats wanted to conduct an investigation, Republicans would make sure Congressional Democrats were the subjects of the probe right along with the Bush Administration."[L]ast week Mr. Obama overruled ...
GOP Congressman on Islam and Free Speech
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyGOP Congressman Peter Hoekstra has an article in the WSJ entitled, "Islam and Free Speech." The impetus for Hoekstra's piece is the upcoming release of Dutch political leader Geert Wilders' critical film on Islam. The film, Fitna, apparently contains several images which Muslims are bound to find offensive. Thus, the Dutch are again at the tip of the spear in a cultural (sometimes literal) battle between radical Islam and Western democracies. A few excerpts of Rep. Hoekstra's piece are below, but the entire piece is worth a read: Reasonable men in free societies regard Geert Wilders's ...
Veto Threat for Waterboarding Ban
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe House of Representatives passed a bill barring the CIA from using waterboarding in its interrogations of terrorist detainees on a close vote yesterday. The measure passed 222-199, far short of the 2/3 majority needed to override a presidential veto. The White House quickly issued a veto threat on the bill, saying that it would "prevent the United States from conducting lawful interrogations of senior al Qaeda terrorists to obtain intelligence needed to protect Americans from attack."House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) called the bill a step toward exercising ...
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