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Rep. Bill Toomey (R-PA) is set to give Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) a huge primary battle this spring as Specter tries for reelection...Iowa caucus night, Jan. 19, may produce some surprises according to overnight trend polls at this point….Wesley Clark "proposed a broad overhaul of the tax code that would eliminate federal income tax payments for families of four earning up to $50,000 and cut taxes for families with incomes of up to $100,000," the New York Times reports. The Wall Street Journal notes Clark's "proposal stands in stark contrast to the approach taken by" Dean, "who so far has unveiled no broad tax-relief plan and has called for the repeal of all tax cuts enacted under Bush -- including breaks given to lower- and middle-income families."…..Former Colorado Senator Gary Hart is inching closer to challenging incumbent Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO) to regain his old Senate seat….The U.S. Army War College, founded in 1901 and operated by the Army, has published a report asserting that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and has diverted precious resources and focus from the more serious battle against Al-Qaida...Uninvited to Martin Luther King's 75th anniversary of his birth, President Bush came anyway, costing the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars for a brief "official" wreath laying, then left in a cloud of dust as he went to the real reason he was in Atlanta, a fundraiser in which he netted $1.3 million….The president of the National Congress of American Indians (news - web sites) pledged Wednesday to mobilize 1 million Indian voters in eight states this fall. "These are key states, these are key races," Tex Hall said in his second annual "State of Indian Nations" address in Washington. He said the Indian turnout in Arizona, South Dakota, New Mexico, Alaska, Minnesota, Michigan, Oklahoma and California will be "critical to our
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