A gay activist has decided that Westboro Baptist Church is good for the gay community. So he’s launched a new website: www.PhagsForPhelps.com

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In a speech today in Ohio, Hillary Clinton denounced speeches.

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(AP) A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts.

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The National Council of Churches has released its list of the 25 largest denominations in the U.S. The group cautions against reading too much into its findings that all of the largest liberal Protestant churches are losing members.

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The ground appears to be shifting dramatically, if this Rasmussen Reports survey is correct. Rasmussen, by the way, never had Obama ahead, until this week. Now, he’s up 12 points. Why is the Clinton campaign apparently imploding? Time Magazine has the answer.

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BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) – Southern Baptist pastor Wiley Drake said Wednesday that he is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service for his endorsement of GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee in a press release written on church stationery.
Under federal tax law, church officials may legally discuss politics, but they cannot endorse candidates or parties in their official capacity as a minister without putting their tax-exempt status at risk. Most who do so receive only a warning.

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What Mark Halperin said is worse than the “pimped-out” comment that got an MSNBC reporter in deep trouble. And he’s offering a weasily “apology.” In the “apology,” Halperin says he was merely “conveying other people’s words” when he slurred Obama. But the “other person” he supposedly was “channeling” is former presidential candidate John Edwards.

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Gov. Huckabee’s going to campaign tomorrow in Wisconsin in Madison, La Crosse, Wausau and Green Bay. But don’t bother asking when or where. As of noon CST, all the campaign website says is this: “TBA.” ["To be announced."]

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More money, of course.
Harvard, today, suggested in an e-mail today that I include them in my will….

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Clinton supporters say she just needs to hold on a little while longer, ’til March 4 when Texas and Ohio cast their votes.

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It took AP all of five minutes, tops, to declare him the winner of the Virginia primary. Look for Maryland and DC to follow when the clock strikes 8 p.m. EST. That’s when the polls close in those two sites.

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The exit poll data suggests a huge win in Virginia for Barack Obama, a “better than expected” finish for Mike Huckabee.

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Mike Huckabee, the Baptist minister who received 0 percent of the Mormon vote in the Nevada Republican caucus and 0 percent of the Mormon vote in the Utah Republican primary, “says it is ‘unfounded’ for anyone to say he has alienated the Mormon community” the Salt Lake Tribune reported today.

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People want to know why the GOP stopped counting votes and declared John McCain the winner of the Washington state caucuses Saturday night with 13 percent of the vote still outstanding and McCain barely ahead.

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