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Can Obama Save the Democrats?

Can Obama Save the Democrats? The Weekly Standard Democrats in Congress may need redemption with voters next year. But can President Obama save them? Some strategists believe replicating the model that produced Democratic gains...

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Rambunctious conservatives put reason, facts and history off to one side

Rambunctious conservatives put reason, facts and history off to one side The Australian LIKE most arguments where blind fury makes you harm something you love, the fight in which life-committed Liberals are tearing apart their...

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Book Chronicles Lawyer's Fight Against Graft

When Dr PLO Lumumba penned his 76-page book on the rot in Kenya politics, little did he know he would be the man slated to take over the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission and bring "political hygiene" to this "highly political...

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Joining the Commonwealth

Kigali — If Rwanda joins as expected, it will only become the second member, after Mozambique, without any direct British colonial connection or constitutional link. A former Portuguese colony, Mozambique was admitted into the...

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Imberakuri Finally Joins Forum for Political Parties

Kigali — In a turn of events, Partie Sociale (PS-Imberakuri) has joined the Forum for Political Parties (FPP) days after its leader; Bernard Ntaganda, vowed never to join the group. The party was unveiled as part of the forum...

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Kenya Will Certainly Outlive Mwai Kibaki And Raila Odinga

I cannot be persuaded that the only important constitutional issue in Kenya is the executive powers of the president or the prime minister. In the same vein, nobody can convince me that a duly elected popular leader must be the...

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Nigeria: 2011 - Fashola Denies Claim to Step Aside

Lagos — Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has put paid to the claim that he would not seek re-election after the expiration of his four-year term in 2011. Fashola denied the claim that he would not seek...

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Between Obi, Ngige and Soludo

Jideofor Adibe, like any other person, is entitled to his choice of leaders. No one begrudges him his preference for Chukwuma Soludo and Ngige above Peter Obi for the office of governor of Anambra State as he indicated in Daily...

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Nigeria: On Anambra Leadership Crisis

opinion Lagos — Anambra state is not like any other state in this country. The Igbo man as personified in the Anambra man is one in search of a lost identity. The people rooting for Soludo have made a powerful but puerile...

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Fedele's American Dream Includes Connecticut's Governorship

In this Feb. 4, 2009 file photo, Lt. Governor Michael Fedele stands at the podium before Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell delivers her budget address to a joint session of the legislature at the State Capitol. Like most...

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