Thompson shrugs off Dobson criticism
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Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson on Thursday shrugged off harsh criticism from James Dobson, saying he has friends who likely know the influential Christian leader and they hold him in high regard.
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Fred Thompson, the latest US actor-politician to consider running for the presidency, will meet Margaret Thatcher tomorrow in an apparent effort to enhance his conservative and foreign policy credentials ahead of an expected entry into the race for the Republican nomination.
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Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson told New Hampshire voters Monday that efforts in some states to recognize same-sex marriage are a "judge-made controversy."
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Bloomberg - Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson, who has based his campaign on appealing to conservative voters, said he isn&#39;t a regular churchgoer and doesn&#39;t plan to speak about his religion on the stump.
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RICHMOND, June 2 -- Actor and former senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee rallied a crowd of several hundred Republicans here last night, offering a bluntly conservative appeal in his first major appearance since taking a formal step last week to run for president.
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Environment secretary rejects criticism, as tests suggest latest case linked to August outbreak.
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Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Thursday he was unaware that a federal judge had ruled last week that lethal injection procedures in his home state were unconstitutional.
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Leader dismisses Conservatives who he claims are putting in peril the party's resurgence.
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Rangers striker Steven Thompson is hoping he has done enough to fire his way into Alex McLeish&#39;s first-team plans for the Tennent&#39;s Scottish Cup clash against Celtic.
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Actor-politician Fred  Thompson began an autumn scramble for the Republican  presidential nomination on Thursday, pushing Ronald Reagan-like  conservative themes and shrugging off concerns that he had  entered the race too late.
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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) head Dick Pound has refuted former French sports minister Jean-Francois Lamour's criticism of the organization and accused him of running away from a fight he could have won.
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DENVER, Sept. 19 -- James Dobson, one of the nation's most politically influential evangelical Christians, made it clear in a message to friends this week that he will not support Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson.
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Come next weekend, presidential candidates will be opening up their second quarter finances and placing their spending and their donors up for a new round of scrutiny. Fred Thompson will not.
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The UK's leading Christian leader has tried to damp down controversy surrounding comments he made suggesting that some aspects of Muslim Sharia law could become part of British law.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The venue was vintage Fred D. Thompson: a gun shop. Perfect for the down-home, Washington-outsider candidate who campaigned across Tennessee in the 1990s with a red pickup truck, rolled-up shirt sleeves and a straight-talking attitude.
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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief Dick Pound has rejected criticism that sanctions against athletes who contravene doping regulations are too harsh.
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Brian Westbrook dismisses his critics the same way he shrugs off tacklers.