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...elections. The hard-line incumbent looks vulnerable because of domestic woes, including high inflation and unemployment, and an international environment in which Iran's relations with the West are at their most strained since the 1979 revolution. Qalibaf won't be the only challenger - others may include Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani, a former national security chief, and ex-Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel - but Qalibaf, a conservative, came in a respectable fourth in the 2005 presidential election, which makes many think he has the best chance to unseat Ahmadinejad...
With Hillary Clinton having made a bid for the White House and Nancy Pelosi holding court as Speaker of the House, it might seem that few barriers remain for women with political aspirations. But according to Debbie Walsh, the director of the Center for American Women and Politics, the statistics are "a cold splash of water to the face." A measly 16.4% of Congress members, less than a quarter of governors and only 15.7% of U.S. mayors are women...
...Democrats familiar with the Left Behind series, a fictionalized account of the end-time that debuted in the 1990s and has sold nearly 70 million books worldwide. "The language in there is so similar to the language in the Left Behind books," says Tony Campolo, a leading progressive Evangelical speaker and author...
...Problems with Pelosi House speaker Nancy Pelosi says she refused to launch an impeachment investigation into George W. Bush's many high crimes and misdemeanors because "you can't talk about impeachment unless you have the facts, and you can't have the facts unless you have cooperation from the Administration" [Aug. 11]. What a lame excuse! Did the Nixon Administration cooperate with Congress to provide the facts during its impeachment proceedings? Pelosi and her colleagues in Congress should be held in contempt for failing to uphold their oath to defend and support the Constitution when they took impeachment...
...from Illinois, arriving at 3 a.m., so he could get his turn to lambaste the Democrats for not allowing a vote on a bill to expand offshore drilling. To drive their point home, members waved empty gas cans, charts of fuel prices and blown-up photos of Speaker Nancy Pelosi...