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Looking just as suave as Jack Donaghy, his character on “30 Rock,” Baldwin appeared before a packed audience to participate in a Q&A session with Rick Berke, national editor of the New York Times. Throughout the evening, Berke and Baldwin maintained a playful banter while also conducting more serious political discussions on the Iraq war, Sarah Palin, and whether or not Baldwin would date a Republican—the answer...
...conflict in Idaho escalated in January, when Rick Hobson, a local activist, made a public-records request for the names of hunters who had killed wolves during the season, then posted all 122 on a website and took out an ad in the Idaho Statesman directing people to the list. "There's a small local group of hunters who feel that they and only they have a right to decide what happens to wildlife on state and federal land," he says. "I posted the list to remind them that it's a public process, that hunting is not a right...
...Southern conservative activists would be inspired by the type of impassioned rhetoric that has made the high court a lightning rod of anger and agitation on both sides of the political spectrum for more than a generation. But speakers from Sarah Palin to Newt Gingrich to Governors Rick Perry and Haley Barbour bypassed hand-wringing over the potential implications of a liberal new Justice and the provocative, incendiary topics of abortion, guns and gay rights. Instead, they directed their fire at Obama's health care law, deeming it the ultimate manifestation of the Democrats' determination to expand the size...
...been reading World War II history for more than 50 years, and when I read that Tom Hanks thinks the writing of academic historians is "often too dull to grab regular people by the lapel," I flashed on the works of Rick Atkinson, Richard Bessel, Martin Gilbert, Richard Overy and a hundred other academic historians who have made the war real, capturing both its grand scale and its smallest details. David Jacobs, LOS ANGELES...
Other possible contenders who attract buzz, including former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, South Dakota Senator John Thune, Texas Governor Rick Perry and Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, are doing very little to make themselves known, conceive a strategy or raise sufficient funds. The later one starts, the harder it is to put together a winning plan. On the other hand, as long as no single prospect is running fast ahead of the pack, there is less of a price to pay for a late entry. As the deadline approaches, as happens every cycle, we are likely to see a number...