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RUDY GIULIANI, Republican presidential candidate and former mayor of New York City, during the second G.O.P. presidential debate, responding to a comment by Representative Ron Paul of Texas, who appeared to suggest that the U.S. invited the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by invading Iraq in the early...
Most Republicans can ignore this extremism. But not anyone running for President. It is a special problem for former Governor Mitt Romney and former mayor Rudy Giuliani, both of whom used to favor abortion rights. Their different solutions test the question, What is the best way to safely dispose of a fundamental moral belief that you wish you didn't have...
...Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau operates a website proclaiming that "Dallas truly is the most liberal city in Texas!" It's wild exaggeration--Austin, home of the main UT campus and the D.A. prosecuting Tom DeLay, has valid claim to the title--but Democrats now occupy not only the Dallas mayor's office and most city-council seats (which are only technically nonpartisan) but also 57 of 84 offices in sprawling, once right-wing Dallas County...
Last fall, just six years after Dick Cheney left the Dallas office of Halliburton for Washington, Democrats swept every county-wide contested race. And on May 12, Dallas sent an openly gay candidate into next month's mayoral runoff. If city councilman Ed Oakley defeats former Turner Construction CEO Tom Leppert, Dallas will become the first big U.S. city to elect a gay mayor. Dallas would join Berlin and Paris as major cities led by gays. Wait--Dallas...
...seconds to take the nearest available cover. The city opened its bomb shelters on Tuesday for the first time since the 1967 war, 40 years ago. And the city school system canceled classes, and began moving to send children to other schools around the country. Moyal Eli, the town mayor, said that militants time their attacks in the morning in order to catch students on their way to school. "They know our schedule," he said. "My biggest nightmare is that a rocket would hit a yellow...