ANALYSIS
Mike Huckabee lost in Michigan. But the really bad news for Huckabee fans is in the exit polls. They strongly suggest Huckabee won’t be able to win the 2008 Republican nomination. [Click here for complete exit poll results.]

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Pat Robertson might be interested in buying one of the nation’s top newspapers…

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Presidential candidate John McCain has a new commercial out in predominantly-evangelical South Carolina.

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Ga. church leader accused of perjury after positive paternity test leads to other allegations

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Mitt Romney was born in the wealthy suburbs of Detroit, and his dad served as governor in Lansing. Romney launched his presidential campaign at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, and he has blanketed the airwaves with upbeat ads from Bay City to Kalamazoo.

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ANALYSIS
To paraphrase Mark Twain, there are four kinds of falsehoods: lies, darned lies, statistics. And polls.

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The good news for presidential candidate Mitt Romney: three new polls show him leading in Michigan. The bad news: Nationally, he trails Hillary Clinton by 18 points and Barack Obama by 22.

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities on Saturday beheaded an Indonesian maid convicted of killing her employer, the Interior Ministry announced.

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Episcopal Church Bans Bishop for 2 Mos.
By GARANCE BURKE –
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The Episcopal Church banned a California bishop Friday from practicing his religious duties until March after he led his congregants to secede from the national church.

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A new poll, cited on the McLaughlin Group this week, shows President Bush’s approval ratings in single digits in five different European countries. He does worst in France, where 3 percent approve of the job he’s doing.

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I’m in Grand Rapids this morning, trying to ascertain how Michiganders are going to vote in Tuesday’s primary. So is presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. First event on Huckabee’s schedule — a meeting with local pastors.

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By Frank Lockwood
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
DETROIT — Rejecting what he called the “Republican National Committee talking points,” presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Friday that the American dream is slipping away for many hardworking families.

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Motion on the Church of England draws number 666 in House of Commons
LONDON (AP) — The beast of the Book of Revelation intruded into the
banter of the House of Commons on Thursday when a motion calling for
the disestablishment of the Church of England was numbered 666.

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Anti-Barack Obama forces are slinging mud and spreading lies via the Internet about Barack Obama’s religious faith. I’ve been forwarded at least three such e-mails in the past week from co-workers. These are flying through cyberspace and I’ve posted an example below.

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Bob Novak suggests that Mike Huckabee may not have smooth sailing in South Carolina because “there are substantially fewer evangelicals in South Carolina than in Iowa.” Really? Is Council Bluffs more born-again than the Bible Belt? Is Des Moines more evangelical than Dixie?

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