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Medvedev's pro-Putin maneuvering and his willingness to leverage supply power has made him a top gun at Gazprom. And more important, he who controls Gazpromexport controls Gazprom, says Mikhail Krutikhin, chief analyst for RusEnergy, Russia's authoritative energy think tank. Though Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller is also a Putin man, Medvedev was installed directly by the Kremlin independently of Miller, Krutikhin maintains. Both toe the same line, but the Kremlin runs them separately. Mutual mistrust makes for cooperation, to paraphrase Stalin...
...Giuliani was having a good debate even before he reduced Paul to history. He had taken Gilmore's clever attack on the front-running flip-floppers--"Rudy McRomney"--and turned it into an attack on Hillary Clinton. "We can ... discuss all that," he said, referring to abortion, gun control and gay rights, "but there's something ... really big at stake here." And he launched into what a threat to the republic Clinton would be because she believes "an unfettered free market is the most disastrous thing in modern America." When Tancredo accused him of being soft on immigration, Giuliani successfully...
...embryo farming" an actual issue in Massachusetts while Romney was Governor? Well, maybe. Romney's problem is that flip-flops use up a lot of stored credit and goodwill, and he has been to that storage closet too often lately on other matters, such as gun control...
Giuliani's approach can be labeled "lemons into lemonade." Rather than changing his mind, or pretending to, he is sticking to his pro-choice guns (his pro-gun-control guns, too, for that matter) and hoping to get credit from Republican voters for being a feisty, independent-minded old cuss. He's also hoping that there are Republicans who care more about winning than about fetuses...
...Padilla first caught the government's eye in the 1980s. He was a teenager, a Chicago gang member who pulled an armed robbery and got sent to juvenile detention. Later, he went to adult prison for brandishing a gun in Florida, and he stayed there until 1992, when he turned 22. After his release, Padilla embraced Islam, and in 1998 he moved to Egypt. While on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in February 2000, he got cozy with al-Qaeda operatives, who recruited him to train for jihad in Afghanistan, the government claimed in court records. On July...