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Dave Ross

After the third debate, Dave Ross says the reason the race is so close is that for all the efforts ...
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What they didn’t debate

Here's the challenge Romney faced: he's in a debate - he's got to accuse the other guy of something, but they're just not that different on foreign policy.
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The bottom line is this debate is about who do you trust, when he gives an order, to be right the f...
Dave Ross

Foreign policy star of tonight’s debate

But tonight's foreign policy debate is probably the most important, because it's the only area the president can actually control by himself.
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Kountze High School cheerleaders create some of the football banners that prompted a complaint by t...

Touchdown for God

In Hardin County, Texas, of Kountze High School cheerleaders that want to include bible verses on football banners have prevailed, thanks to a court's injunction.
14 years ago
The traditional Al Smith Dinner was held at the posh Waldorf Astoria in NYC last night to raise mon...
Dave Ross

Who won the Al Smith Dinner?

The traditional Al Smith Dinner was held at the posh Waldorf Astoria in NYC last night to raise money for Catholic charities. Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney sat with Cardinal Dolan, delivered their best punch lines, and today of course the question is: Who won the Al Smith Dinner?
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Both President Obama and Mitt Romney are pushing the Keystone Pipeline, while Texas farmers fight t...
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The other side of the Keystone pipeline story

No matter who wins the election, America will be a pipeline friendly country. But you know who's not pipeline friendly when it comes to the Keystone pipeline? Texans! And in particular, the farmers whose land it would cross.
14 years ago
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Question number one

First question in last night's debate. Jeremy Epstein asks: "What can you say to reassure me, but more importantly my parents, that I will be able to sufficiently support myself after I graduate?"
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President Bush checks his watch during the debate on Oct. 15, 1992. (AP Photo)...
Dave Ross

Why all those debate rules?

The campaigns are in a tizzy because Candy Crowley, moderator of tonight's Town Hall debate, says she will not be merely a fly on the wall; she plans to focus the questions if necessary.
14 years ago
It was a tremendous feat of courage, and a tremendous feat of marketing for Red Bull. Whose stunts ...
Dave Ross

Space research becomes an action sport

How about that Felix Baumgartner?! Highest jump, fastest free-fall -- breaking the sound barrier in just a pressure suit, and the largest number of live YouTube views: 8 million live viewers, plus three million tweets.
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A love letter from the boss

Westgate Resorts David Siegel sent an email to his employees saying he'll have to fire most of the staff if Obama is re-elected because taxes will make it too expensive for him to run a business.
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One question…

This is the one question most people wanted answered in Thursday night's Vice Presidential debate: "Can you get unemployment to under 6 percent and how long will it take?"
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Is it time to just make cheating part of the sport of cycling after the latest revelations about La...
Dave Ross

Lying on steroids

Lance Armstrong is in his "I did not have sex with that woman" moment. Whether he finally faces the truth and makes his Sixty Minutes confession depends on whether his remaining supporters and the donors to his foundation can continue pretending there's nothing wrong.
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All in the name of God

In Pakistan Tuesday a 14 year old girl was the target of assassins. What made her such a political threat? She wanted to go to school.
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More gang activity in Washington DC

As sure as the earth revolves around the sun, and the solar system hurtles through the Milky Way, the US Government is tumbling toward the fiscal cliff.
14 years ago
The president’s surrogates tried their best to cut down Mitt Romney on the weekend talk shows...
Dave Ross

The Twittocracy speaks

The President's surrogates tried their best to cut down Mitt Romney on the weekend talk shows.
14 years ago
Dave Ross

Xtreme Sunday Hiking: Escaping from the Sun

Too much damn sunshine -- so we spent Sunday hiking the old Snoqualmie Tunnel. Two and a half miles of dark and damp fed by a chilly draft, the way Northwest hiking should be.
14 years ago
Liam Neeson has been heavily promoting his new movie, “Taken 2”, and appeared on ESPN t...
Dave Ross

Liam Neeson, my new favorite actor

Dave Ross has no idea why ESPN brought in actor Liam Neeson to talk about football, since he obviously doesn't even know the rules.
14 years ago
As we all know Mitt Romney’s performance Wednesday was stunning — but now that the chee...
Dave Ross

Is anyone feeling confused?

As we all know Mitt Romney's performance Wednesday was stunning -- but now that the cheering has died down, some conservatives have to be asking themselves: which end zone did he run for?
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This all boils down to Donald Trump. (AP Photo/file)...
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It boils down to…Donald Trump

The scoring consensus seems to be Romney dominated, Obama showed up, and if you make your living in the artificial yellow feather business -- update your resume.
14 years ago
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Another new old tape!

Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller website has a tape of Barack Obama, first aired in 2007, where he tells a mostly black audience he thinks the federal government shafted the people of New Orleans after Katrina.
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World’s fastest human

Felix Baumgartner is a skydiver from Austria. He's jumped rom the outstretched arm of the statue of Christ in Rio; the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lampur; he flew solo across the English channel, wearing glider wings on his back -- after preparing by strapping himself to the top of a Porsche.
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President Obama warns he may be off his game when it comes to zingers in Wednesday’s debate w...
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Is he up to the challenge?

Dave Ross questions whether President Obama is ready for this week's debate with Mitt Romney
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Storm Leave Fans Hoarse and Without Fingernails

It was loud enough to shatter the Chihuly glass last night as crazed Storm fans willed the team to victory in double overtime 86-79 . The Lynx led most of the game but by the fourth period it was like trench warfare.

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In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mit...

The first 90 seconds

I've heard it said that Mitt Romney has exactly 90 seconds in the first debate to turn his poll numbers around, so let me give his speech-writing a try.
14 years ago

A political arrest?

We have freedom of speech in America. The GOVERNMENT cannot go after an ordinary law-abiding citizen for speaking out.

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