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...report also said that Malaysian authorities closed the investigation into bribery accusations earlier last week due to lack of evidence...
...call it a lack of proper housekeeping and honest oversight by his staff,” he said. “When you’ve got young kids and a wife running around, details can get away from you. I don’t see a cover-up here...
...residents have long taken umbrage at their lack of political power. Until 1975, when it elected its first 20th-century mayor, the city was effectively governed by Congress, which to this day still has to approve the city's budget. Three years later, a constitutional amendment that would have made D.C. a state passed Congress, only to fail ratification in 1985 after receiving support from only 16 other states. In 2000, the city instituted a new slogan on its license plates: "Taxation Without Representation." (President Bush eventually traded in his limo tags for ones without the slogan...
...lack of excitement about the Republican field may help Obama as well. His general favorability rating amongst red state voters equals that of Rudy Giuliani at 56%. And because Obama has a relatively low unfavorable rating in red states (30% versus Giuliani's 35%), his net favorability rating among red state voters (+26%) is actually better than any of the Republican candidates. Nor do his Democratic opponents come close - Edwards' net rating is +13 and Clinton's is zero, with 48% of red state voters on each side of the question...
...emanating from "al-Qaeda central" doesn't necessarily do much to limit the danger from homegrown imitators - the recent British attacks occurred even while Britain was on heightened standby. The London and Glasgow attempts, like another failed attack on trains in Germany last year, were notable for their comparative lack of sophistication. The suspects in London and Glasgow apparently got the know-how to make their bombs off the Internet, as did the two men who failed to detonate a bomb on a passenger train in Germany last year. So, even as the threat of a major professional attack emanating...