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Sorry for the vanity. I'm in Tennessee with no news from home. Katrina passed right over my town, but I can find no info. I only have internet access for a few minutes and am trying to find out how Slidell, Louisiana fared. Please let me know if you can share any news. Thanks.

   Guests and topics on Tony's show today include: Now that space shuttle Discovery has returned safely to Earth after a perilous trip, Tony looks at whether privately funded space flight will eventually eclipse government sponsored ones. Tony will talk to the man behind the private space flight, Burt Rutan. Jeanine Pirro, the Republican District Attorney from Westchester, hopes to challenge Hillary Clinton in the 2006 election. Renowned political guru Dick Morris will join to provide his insight about the 2006 NY Senate race.   Confirmation hearings won't begin for a month, but the liberal attacks are ratcheting up against the...

Osama Bin Laden's niece is giving an interview on CNBC now.

Zell's on C-Span II now.

HAMMOND -- As a boy, family members recalled, Louis David Lamonica never cursed or smoked. He was called to serve the Lord, said his sister Liz Lamonica Roberts on Friday, and he wanted to be a preacher just like his daddy. And so when news broke this week that Lamonica, 45, and seven other members of his church in Hammond were arrested for allegedly participating in, or failing to report, sex acts with children, family members were horrified. It's not that Lamonica has been perfect over the years. To the contrary, family members said Friday that he has been filled,...

President George Bush has a nice-sized lead over Senator John Kerry in Louisiana, according to a UNO poll conducted over the past week. Pollster Susan Howell and 40 students surveyed 700 registered voters across the state and Bush was favored over Kerry by a margin of 48 percent to 40 percent. Two percent of the voters favored Ralph Nader and the rest were undecided or wouldn't say. Howell said that the poll showed that race and feelings about Iraq were the top factors in deciding who a voter supported, with two-thirds of white voters supporting Bush and 71 percent of...

I just watched the funny clip that was played at the end of Special Report tonight. My jaw dropped. I wish I could get it verbatim, but I'm doing to do the best I can with it. They spliced some footage of Kerry's midnight speech, which ended up showing Kerry at the podium, saying, "As president I will allow the islamofascists to penetrate and destablize the United States." My quote isn't exact, but it's close.

I just caught the tail end of an interview with a columnist whose name I didn't catch, who said that John Kerry answered a written question about his favorite dog with yet another lie about his four months on the swift boats. I remember reading that Kerry's answer to the question began, "When I was in Viet Nam..." Well, he said they had found a dog in VN and named him VC. Now, the story goes, VC was on the swift boat with them when the boat hit a mine. The dog was thrown from the boat, flew through the...

Y'all have to see this web ad I just found. I did a search for "psycho democrats" and couldn't find this already posted. If this is a duplicate, I apologize. Follow the link, click on Quick Time, Real Media, or Windows Media, and enjoy.

I was in the Dollar Tree (everything in the store sells for $1) a few minutes ago and saw a table with Al Gore's book, published in November 2002, "Joined at the Heart," for sale for $1. The hardback edition. May his TV network be as successful. :-)

Laura Bush is coming on C-SPAN now.

In a sworn statement to investigators, Pfc. Lynndie England explained the mystery of why soldiers at Abu Ghraib took pictures of detainees masturbating and piled naked with plastic sandbags over their heads by saying, "We thought it looked funny so pictures were taken." [snip] "Picture 000015 was basically us fooling around," she said, pointing to a photograph of detainees stacked naked in different positions in 1A, the area of the prison where the soldiers now charged with abuse worked. "She wanted a picture because she wrote `I'm a rapist' on one of the detainees," Private England explained, pointing to two...

Please forgive the vanity, but I've done a search and cannot find any reference to this. I saw Monsoor Ijaz on FNC an hour or so ago, and he said that he has been asked to testify before the 9/11 commission. He appeared to be anxious to do so. If this has been posted elsewhere, I'll ask the mod to take this down.

<p>LAFAYETTE — It was a race down to the final minutes of qualifying for Democratic presidential candidate the Rev. Al Sharpton of New York.</p> <p>But a payment mix-up will leave Sharpton out of the open primary in Louisiana on March 9. The deadline for candidates’ to register was Friday.</p>

<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When President Bush comes to New Orleans on Thursday to vaunt his ideas that federal dollars should go to church-affiliated social programs, he will be speaking to a sympathetic audience.</p> <p>"Historically, churches have always been a pro-active advocate and activist in the community," said Marion R. Taylor, who is in charge of a faith-based initiative to help New Orleans homeless. "People always go to the church for help, especially here in the South."</p>

You know you're a New Orleans native if... ...You proudly claim that 'Monkey Hill' is the highest point in Louisiana. ...You drive your car up onto the 'neutral ground' if it rains steadily and heavily for more than two hours. ...You have 'flood' insurance. ...Someone asks for an address by compass directions and you say it's 'Uptown, downtown, backatown, riverside or lakeside.' ...Your idea of a 'cruise ship' is the Canal Street ferry, and your idea of a 'foreign cruise ship' is the Chalmette ferry. ...Your burial plot is six feet 'over' rather than six feet 'under.' ...You know the...

I'm putting together a response to this and could use a little help. There are surely articles from reputable sources here that will refute most or all of this person's points, but I know that I won't be able to find them all. I'm searching for these as well, but could use the input from anyone interested in helping. Here's what I'm responding to: "Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.” State of the Union Address – 1/28/2003 Not a drop of any...

I heard a radio ad today, paid for by the Terrell campaign, that featured a Clinton impersonator endorsing Mary Landrieu. Among other things, "Bubba" said: "Mary Landrieu is so liberal, she may be closer to Hillary than I am." "All of my Hollywood friends just love Mary." "Landrieu will fit in just fine in Washington." Terrell cleaned up corruption in her last office. I sure hope that Terrell doesn't end up in the U.S. Senate. She'll ruin all the fun."

My brother Terry is going in for a biopsy of the prostate on December 7. My dad just had surgery for prostate cancer this July, and your prayers helped, so I'm here to ask for more. :-) My brother is very special. He's 46 years old and severely autistic. He doesn't speak at all. Other than that, he's a lot like the Dustin Hoffman character in Rain Main. He's been evaluated at a three-year-old level. My dad had the same type of biopsy that Terry is scheduled for a few months back, and he said that it is quite painful....

HAMMOND -- A poll released Tuesday by Southeastern Louisiana University shows incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu leading Republican challenger Suzanne Haik Terrell in the U.S. Senate runoff. Landrieu received 51.4 percent to Terrell’s 36.4 percent in the poll of 554 Louisiana voters. Just over 12 percent of those polled were undecided or refused to state a preference. According to SLU associate professor of political science Kurt Corbello, who conducted the survey, turnout among black voters is critical to Landrieu. “The lower black voter turnout versus white voter turnout, the smaller becomes Landrieu’s lead,” Corbello writes. “If black voters turnout at a...