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FACT CHECK: Missteps in final presidential debate

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters didn’t always get the straight goods when President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney made their case for foreign policy and national security leadership Monday night before their last super-sized audience of the campaign. A few of their detours into domestic issues were problematic too. A look at some of their [...]

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Obama Lead in Foreign Policy Tested in Debate

From the start of his re-election campaign, President Barack Obama’s aides have said national security would be the toughest flank for opponents to penetrate. Instead, the president who oversaw the killing of Osama bin Laden, persuaded NATO to help bring down Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and ended the Iraq war has been put on the defensive, [...]

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Questions and answers on third presidential debate

WASHINGTON (AP) — Libya. Israel. The Palestinians. Iran. Afghanistan. Pakistan. China. Terrorism. Think world hotspots. Think hot rhetoric. Watch the third presidential debate Monday night. The final debate of the 2012 campaign will be about foreign policy, although there’s certainly a strong connection between China and the U.S. economy. President Barack Obama has now had [...]

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The last presidential debate: A wish list

Spoiler alert. Bob Schieffer of CBS’s Face the Nation will moderate Monday’s third and final presidential debate, and unlike the first two, the candidates–and the public–have a chance to gander at the topics to be addressed, all in the realm of foreign policy and national security. They are: “The Changing Middle East and the New [...]

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Women Decide for Whom the Buck Stops

There’s a new woman voter out there. Empowered women are holding themselves to the same standard they hold men to, and it’s showing up in the public opinion polls. Female concerns over the debt and the deficit, not the usual gender issues, have dramatically increased as the Nov. 6 election bears down upon us. The [...]

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Red, Blue and Faithful

Apparently, Paul Ryan and Joe Biden are both theocrats willing, nay eager, to use state power to impose their religious views on the rest of us. In last week’s vice presidential debate, moderator Martha Raddatz asked the two Roman Catholic politicians “to tell me what role your religion has played in your own personal views [...]

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Pressure on Obama for feisty debate

20121015_5922030120121015060651[1] President Barack Obama said on Sunday his debate preparation was “going great” and aides said the Democrat would be more aggressive in his next face off with Mitt Romney after their last encounter gave the Republican challenger a boost. Since that first debate in Denver on October 3, polls indicate Romney has erased Obama’s lead [...]

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On the Road to Death Panels

  With the first presidential debate and the only vice-presidential debate behind us, it seems pretty clear that so-called “social issues” are not going to get much attention in this year’s presidential politics. It’s unfortunate, I think. We deceive ourselves to permit the assumption that values and behavior are not the real drivers behind our [...]

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Will Supreme Court finally enter 2012 campaign?

WASHINGTON A closely divided Supreme Court. Four justices in their 70s. Presidential candidates with dramatically different views of the ideal high court nominee. And yet, until late in Thursday’s debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, hardly a word about the court had passed the candidates’ lips. When the [...]

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Ryan’s Reason Contrasts Biden’s Buffoonery

Over the next few days, news media and Republicans will share video snippets of Thursday night’s vice presidential debate. Voters will get an extra helping of Vice President Joe Biden chuckling, interrupting, laughing, mugging, smirking and otherwise behaving completely inappropriately. What Team Obama described as “just Joe being Joe” steadily devolved into Joe just being [...]

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Vice presidential debate coverage

The Human Events team will be reporting live online for the vice presidential debate — which begins at 9 p.m. EST — between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan this evening. Among the Human Events coverage: Live online video feed of the debate, courtesy of Youtube Politics, starting at 9 p.m. EST. Human Events reporters and [...]

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