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Rush Limbaugh Voted America's Most Influential Conservative By Noel Sheppard Created 2009-11-29 23:36 A poll done by CBS's "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair found Rush Limbaugh to be America's most influential conservative. In second place was Fox News's Glenn Beck, followed by former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Fox News's Sean Hannity, and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio). In fairness, those were the...  

Dec. 1: Karl Rove, former senior adviser to President George W. Bush, talks to TODAY’s Matt Lauer about President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy ahead of the president’s scheduled address tonight.Add this to your queueAdded: Tue Dec 01 15:52:05 UTC 2009Air date: Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 UTC 2009Duration: 04:58  

Right after the September 11, 2001, attacks, then-US President George W. Bush talked about possible links between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda, a key adviser to former British Premier Tony Blair said Monday. David Manning, who served as Blair's top foreign policy aide before being appointed ambassador to Washington in 2003, told.  

Your Browser DoesNot Support IFrames. As part of their research for Monday's GOP polling package, The Washington Post's Dan Balz and Jon Cohen conducted focus groups with Independents and Republicans in Colorado to get a sense of their feelings on former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Learn what they found, above. (Credit: Dan Balz and Jon Cohen/The Washington Post) For more on this topic, see: Palin particularly popular among fans of Limbaugh...  

Almost 40% of William Howard Taft’s cabinet officials were from the private sector. Ike had nearly 60% of his appointees sporting private sector experience. Reagan had about 55% and George W. Bush about 53%. Even FDR and Truman had half their cabinet officials with private sector experience. And Obama? Less than 10%. That means that only about 7% of Barack Hussein Obama’s cabinet appointees ever worked in the private sector. So is it any...  

BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERTby Jeffrey JosephEven by its own standards, FOX News has been getting an awful lot wrong in its broadcasts of late. Somehow, though, they managed to forget one of their favorite rallying cries in an effort to heap praise upon President George W. Bush and simultaneously denigrate President Obama.  On an appearance on Sean Hannity's show, Dana Perino exhibited an immense lapse in memory in stating with relief that "we did not...  

1 GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin. (Harper/HarperCollins, $28.99.) A memoir by the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate. 2 OPEN, by Andre Agassi. (Knopf, $28.95.) The tennis champion’s autobiography. 3 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. (Hyperion, $23.99.) A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief. 4 ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others. (Mercury...  

by Mark Silva Radio's Rush Limbaugh -- he of the "golden microphone'' and the potentially $400-million eight-year contract -- claims a listening audience of about 12 million. Cable television's Glenn Beck -- he of the Communists-in-the-White House crusade on his...  

Among the highlights: Fiorina said she shares Sarah Palin's values, that her primary opponent can't beat Barbara Boxer because he's a white man and that she probably would have voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.  

This seemed inexplicable at the time, and is even more inexplicable now: >U.S. forces missed chance to get bin Laden: WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - The U.S. military could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden in 2001 if it had launched a concerted attack on his hideout in Afghanistan, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. >The report, written by staff working for the Democratic majority on the committee, said the...  

The other night Karl Rove was talking with Greta Van Susteren about the Sarah Palin phenomenon and her record-breaking book sales of "Going Rogue." He says he's started the book, finds it a very good read, is impressed by her...  

"She has more management experience and executive experience than Barack Obama." Hillary Clinton? Carly Fiorina? Nancy Pelosi? Nope: Sarah Palin, according to former Republican Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who told Katie Couric in an interview that he'd "absolutely" vote for the erstwhile Alaska governor who quit her job over the president of the United States. Huckabee also [...]  

In her campaign to promote her new book "Going Rogue," ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been all over the airwaves, but she has purposely chosen not to appear on CBS, reports Hotline On Call.Palin told Fox News' Sean Hannity that she had bad experiences with Katie Couric on the “CBS Evening News” and was just as displeased with her "Late Show" stint with David Letterman.-- Allison J. Waldman  

Exactly how many Bush administration tell-alls will it take before everything's been told?Following in the footsteps of former press secretary Scott McClellan, Vice President Dick Cheney, first lady Laura Bush and President George W. Bush himself, top White House aide...  

GENEVA — The United Nations called Switzerland's ban on new minarets "clearly discriminatory" and deeply divisive, and the Swiss foreign minister acknowledged Tuesday the government was very concerned about how the vote would affect the country's image. U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said Sunday's referendum to outlaw the construction of minarets in Switzerland was the product of "anti-foreigner scare-mongering." The criticism...