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Romney punished himself by introducing crime at the debate.
Last weekend, fresh upon news that a killer freed without bail, by a judge appointed by ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, had allegedly killed two people in Graham, Washington, crime emerged as a new issue in the campaign for the 2008 Republican nomination.
This was not a necessary development. True, according to October figures from Gallup, 57 percent of Americans view crime as an "extremely serious" or "very serious"...

Hillary Clinton may be an object for revulsion on the part of many conservatives, but give her credit for achieving something that few thought possible. With Hillary’s recent bashing of free trade, she’s made her NAFTA-backing husband look like a good guy – even among those on the right side of the political spectrum.
It all started last month, during a speech in Iowa, in which Hillary called for U.S. trade agreements to be reviewed every five years, and for...