Supporters of the immigration bill, including President Bush are trying to revive the immigration bill that looked dead last week. Read about it here.
Newt Gingrich is warning of large Republican losses in 2008 unless the GOP nominee is a sort of anti-Bush, who doesn't have to run on the defensive the entire campaign. I suspect Newt thinks that he would fill that role nicely. For my money, the eloquent Romney is the right man to fill this role. Read more about Gingrich's comments here.
Apparently McCain is having trouble raising money. It is still a long way off until the primaries, but it looks as if McCain is done. Read about it here.
Bush may not be popular in the United States, or in most of the rest of the world, but tiny Albania gave Bush a hero's welcome when he visited Sunday. It seems the tiny former communist country was thrilled to host its first visit from a US President. Read more about the visit here.
Colin Powell is giving Barack Obama foreign policy advice. What is up with that? Read about it here. Speaking of Obama, read this article talking about how he is starting a grass roots campaign of street campaigning.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is constitutionally barred from serving another term is not ruling out running again in 2012. Mark my words, he will run, and he will win. Russia's experiment with democracy is fast ending. Read more about Putin's comments here.
Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman has recently said that the US should consider a military strike on Iran on account of their meddling in Iraq. Thank you Joe, for the clear thinking and courage to take an unpopular position, especially for a Democrat. Read more here.
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I saw the thing about Putin. If you look at Russian history they have never been any other rule than strong handed, absolutist rule, whether it be by monarchical, communist, or nominal democratic systems. I found it very interesting that they have never had a democratic transfer of power. Russia has never truly been a free country in even the most liberal definitions of the term. The most interesting thing is that there has never been a transition of power in the normal democratic sense. What a very interesting subject. It is of particular interest to me because I worked with a few Russians in the past and they described to me what they claimed as this great period of democracy and freedom, but they would not speak ill of their government even in the United States. After the events in England and throughout Europe, it is easy to understand why. Russia is indeed a harshly ruled country and I often wonder if men are free to preach the Gospel in the streets. Voice of the Martyrs no longer lists Russia as a restricted or hostile nation, but one can only ponder what the Putin regime does to those who preach true freedom, freedom from sin. We can at the least (and the very most) pray for this nation that they not only might see the freedom that we so often take for granted in the West, but so much more than that they would exult in the freedom of Christ. The men who preach might be in chains, but the Gospel is not.
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