More On Obama’s First Race for Public Office in 1996 - The New Editor According a source cited by National Review’s Jim Geraghty, then-State Sen. Alice Palmer, the incumbent Obama had thrown off the ballot, had many of the signatures on her petition disqualified on technicalities — names were printed instead of written in cursive. There is nothing illegal in this, but in the previous election, Alice Palmer won the 1992 Democratic Primary race for the 13th District Illinois State Senate seat over opponent Charlie Calvin, 83% to 17%, or 29,115 to 5,987.

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Oliver Kamm The diplomatic efforts to ban cluster munitions, moreover, have costs. These weapons are not indiscriminate, and they do have a place in warfare. They are effective against moving or dispersed targets such as tank formations and airfields. If they are not used against such targets, then something else will be: probably rocket barrages or massed artillery. These have a humanitarian impact too - in civilian lives and in destroying infrastructure - and there will be more of them.

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The Reference Frame: Freeman Dyson vs RealClimate.ORG Freeman Dyson vs RealClimate.ORG Freeman Dyson reviews two books about the climate change policies - books written by William Nordhaus and Ernesto Zedillo, respectively. David Archer of RealClimate.ORG responds. This exchange is mostly about policies which is why the extreme political colors of the RealClimate.ORG activists become even more obvious.

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