By Matt Daily NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is seen as a strong advocate for opening new areas to oil drilling, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but has taken a hard line in negotiations with oil companies and raised...
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, top McCain advisers, proposed legislation to counter the worst excesses of the Supreme Court's Boumediene ruling, which gave enemy combatants a constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court. Responding to attorney general Michael Mukasey's plea for congressional intervention, the bill would reaffirm...
I had great respect for Sen. John McCain. Although I'm not a supporter of either party, when asked who I wanted for president, I used to say I'm OK with either Obama or McCain. Then McCain started talking, changing his positions, looking more and more like...
HYBRID CARS MIGHT be great for the environment and for fewer trips to your neighborhood gas station, but as a state senator from Long Beach points out, there is a hidden potential for injury particularly to those who are blind or visually impaired. These vehicles don't make any noise and...
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By James Carlson THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL The effectiveness of economic development incentives remains unanswered after a state review of legislative efforts offered little concrete results. The 200-page report released earlier in the week by the Division of Legislative Post Audit found that...
By Jan Biles THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL DENVER -- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said she will play the role of surrogate in the campaign to elect Sen. Barack Obama to the presidency after the Democratic National Convention is over. Sebelius made her remarks Wednesday...
As self-inflicted wounds go, the e-mail blunder by Jim Slattery's campaign staff was a doozy. There were signs that Slattery already faced an uphill climb in his bid to unseat Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., but his path only got steeper Tuesday when his campaign inadvertently sent out...
NEW YORK AP -- A carefully timed roll call and a sudden recognition of history may prove to be a turning point for Democrats at a convention that hadn't been going well for them as a television event. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's move to proclaim rival Barack...
PARK CITY -- Utah lawmakers do not want to put the welcome mat out for illegal immigrants. Members of the Legislature's Immigration Interim Committee beat up the conservative Sutherland Institute on Wednesday, after the group put out a policy statement saying, "We should welcome all people of...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain has decided on his running mate, two Republican strategists in contact with McCain's campaign said Wednesday. He is expected to reveal his choice at a rally at a basketball arena in Dayton, Ohio, at 11 a.m. on Friday. McCain's decision is known...
-- Only a few hours before being officially named the Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama arrived on his campaign plane in Denver. Although he was not expected to appear at the convention, he surprised the crowd by strolling onto stage after his vice-presidential running mate, Delaware Sen. Joe...
Regarding James McMahon questioning John McCain's leadership record (Readers' Forum, Aug. 26), I ask, has McMahon ever been in the military up close to fighter pilots? I have. Has he ever been an officer in the military? I have. Is he familiar with the training in leadership all officers undergo,...
Democratic convention: Cable networks CNN, C-SPAN, FNC and MSNBC will provide coverage all day long. In prime time, presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama gives his speech at Invesco Field. PBS (Ch. 7) will be on from 7-10 p.m.; ABC (Ch. 4), CBS (Ch. 2) and NBC (Ch. 5) all plan...
DENVER -- On Day Three of the Democratic National Convention, three delegates from the East Bay broke from the endless speeches, political melodrama and the pursuit of hot party tickets. Instead, Fred Feller of Berkeley, Kathy Klein of Lafayette and Ken Richard of Walnut Creek -- all...
Federal prosecutors asked a judge late yesterday to throw out defense subpoenas for law school application records of State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's son-in-law, saying it was an "improper fishing expedition" to get personal records of a government witness. The filing was another indication of the growing tension over the...
By Tim Carpenter THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL A campaign worker for Democratic Senate candidate Jim Slattery sent an e-mail Tuesday to thousands of people that contained bogus quotes and an offensive word to describe Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. Abbie Hodgson, spokeswoman for Slattery,...
By Jan Biles THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL DENVER -- Kansas Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson took exception Tuesday morning to one of the slogans being tossed around at the National Democratic Convention. The slogan is "Witness History." "It's time for you...
By Jan Biles THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL DENVER -- Speaking from the podium Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said the lesson Sen. Barack Obama learned from his grandfather and the motto of Kansas are the same. "Barack's...
By Tim Carpenter THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL A campaign worker for Democratic Senate candidate Jim Slattery sent an e-mail Tuesday to thousands of people that contained bogus quotes and an offensive word to describe Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. Abbie Hodgson, spokeswoman for Slattery,...
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