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...image because it is powerful and rich enough not to have to care. Maybe it could have been counted on to keep its word a generation ago, when combating Colombia's epic social inequalities was still its primary objective. But today the FARC, which controls a mammoth swath of southern Colombia, is widely considered to be a ruthless mafia that earns as much as $1 billion a year via ransom kidnapping and protecting the country's cocaine trade. The U.S. State Department has listed both the FARC and Colombia's right-wing paramilitary armies as terrorist groups...
...polls, Huckabee pointed to divine intervention: "There's only one explanation for it, and it's not a human one. It's the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of 5,000 people." A few days later Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister, asked a New York Times reporter whether opponent Mitt Romney's faith holds that Jesus and Satan are brothers. The question came off as calculated and narrowly religious, and the national press jumped on it. Huckabee had to apologize to Romney...
Wandering across the hall from one office to the other on a weekend afternoon, I could sense the different metabolisms of the two operations. The Huckabee headquarters, which used to be a United Airlines ticket office, is populated mostly by polite young women with southern accents who rushed to greet me at the door and addressed me as "ma'am." The Paul office is an edgier place, an all-male operation by appearances, and much bigger. Indeed, thanks to the millions that have poured in over the Internet, it has expanded to quadruple its original size, practically swallowing Huckabee...
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Hicks was guarding a Taliban tank in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, before heading north to the front lines near Kunduz. He was then captured and handed over to U.S. troops for a fee, and transferred to the Guantánamo Bay Prison in Cuba, where he was detained for five years without charge - and where, his supporters say, he was beaten and tortured...
...some of these events, if you close your eyes, you would think a Democrat was speaking - Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton turned Southern Baptist. "I really think that a lot of people who are elected to government forget," Huckabee will say. "They are not elected to the ruling class but to the servant class." But the trick with Huckabee is that his populist rhetoric is only rarely matched with progressive proposals. He supports continuing President Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in the short term, and advocates the so-called Fair Tax, which would replace the progressive income...