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CRA Launches AdmitTheLie.com Website Targeting CBS Conservative Group Calls On CBS To Admit It Lied and Misled Public in Bush National Guard Document ScandalThe California Republican Assembly today launched a website calling on CBS to admit it lied by using forged documents in a report by Dan Rather attempting to discredit President Bush. The website, www.AdmitTheLie.com, contains a form to email CBS President and CEO Lesley Moonves. In addition, CRA is making contact information for all CBS affiliates available. “It is clear that CBS and the CBS News staff harbor intense bias against President Bush,” commented CRA President Mike...

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Published: Friday, June 25, 2004 'All must examine their consciences' on worthiness By Nancy Frazier O'Brien As the U.S. bishops attempted to move the debate about abortion and politics away from the Communion rail and into the hearts of individual Catholics, reaction to their June 18 statement on "Catholics in Political Life" indicated that discussion of the topic would continue. Groups with differing stands on the issue of refusing Communion to Catholic politicians who support keeping abortion legal all seemed to find some support for their position in the 1,000-word document, approved on a 183-6 vote during the special...

Judiciary Committee has now cleared 100 of 102 Bush nominees over 16 months. Of those, 80 have been approved by the full chamber. WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee, in its last meeting under Democratic control, raised its 98% approval rate for President Bush's judges by clearing two more on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Dennis Shedd of South Carolina, a protege of retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), won a narrow vote to serve on the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Shedd's nomination was held up last month when civil rights groups, led by the National Assn. for the Advancement...

John & Ken, the rabble-rousing KFI-640am hosts, are going to replay their Freep of Governor Gray "Play to Pay" Davis' Los Angeles Office that took place on October 3. This freep featured our own eGray transvestite hooker, AKA RonDog! For those who don't know, John & Ken have the highest rated talk show during afternoon drive time, and are NOT conservatives. They speak to the common man, who is disgusted with politics and wants a change. It is very significant that they are touting Simon as the candidate of ordinary people. All of us here love Hugh Hewitt, but, unlike...

IT IS HARD to imagine a worse parody of a judicial confirmation process than the unfolding drama of Miguel Estrada's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Opponents of Mr. Estrada, a well-regarded appellate lawyer who served a stint in the solicitor general's office, are convinced that the young, conservative Hispanic represents a grave threat to the republic. Yet Mr. Estrada has not done his foes the courtesy of leaving a lengthy paper trail of contentious statements. And this creates something of a problem for those bent on keeping him off the bench: There is no...

All I did was ask Lawrence Tolliver what the reaction was at his barbershop on Florence near Western Avenue. "Wait a minute," Mr. Tolliver responded, holding the phone out. On the count of 3, everyone in the shop cursed the Rev. Jesse Jackson. For those who missed the news, Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton demanded an apology from MGM for irreverent references to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other black leaders in the hit movie "Barbershop." Must be slow times in the rabble-rousing business. .... "Barbershop" was made by black producers, Rollins said, it's got a black...

WASHINGTON -- Washington attorney Miguel Estrada, whose nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals has split Latino groups, assured Senate Democrats in a surprisingly low-key hearing Thursday that his personal and political views will not affect how he decides cases as a judge. "Although we all have views on a number of subjects from A to Z, the first duty of a judge is to put all of that aside," said Estrada, President Bush's choice for a seat on the evenly divided appeals court in Washington. "I'm not worried in the least that anybody could detect any bias or lack...

Live thread of hearings to examine the nomination Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit; Go here to listen to the hearings. They are on right now. Scroll down to the Judiciary Committee and click on the SD-106 link to bring up your audio player.

Barbershop (review) Movie Review September 13, 2002 Three Stars (out of four) Rated:PG-13 “BARBERSHOP”: A CUT ABOVE “Barbershop” not only delivers on the earthy humor promised by its promotional materials, but also provides unexpected elements of substance, sweetness, style and soul. In the process, a universally brilliant ensemble cast and a prodigiously gifted young director manage to trim and shape one of the season’s most welcome surprises. Ice Cube plays the struggling proprietor of a neighborhood barbershop on Chicago’s South Side. He’s inherited it from his father, but in the course of the single day that provides the movie’s ingenious...

SACRAMENTO -- In a symbolic challenge to Bush administration efforts to restrict stem-cell research, Gov. Gray Davis today will sign legislation aimed at positioning California at the forefront of the controversial and potentially revolutionary biomedical field, state officials said. Senate Bill 253, by Sen. Deborah Ortiz (D-Sacramento), creates a review process for stem-cell research and paves the way for the state government to shift some of its millions of dollars in biomedical research funds to the emerging stem-cell field, government and private health experts said. Scientists and representatives of California's multibillion-dollar biomedical industry say the measure is a badly needed...

Courts: The former instructor argued that the youths were framing him, but a judge doesn't buy it and gives him the maximum term. A former elementary school teacher who molested boys in two Orange County school districts was sentenced Thursday to 24 years in prison after the victims' parents spoke of how the crime devastated their children and violated their trust. The parents said they thought Jason Abhyankar, 28, was helping their three boys--only to learn he was abusing them. The betrayal was all the worse, they claim, because he was able to commit crimes even though administrators had suspicions...

LAS VEGAS -- Tanya Joan Hadden, the San Bernardino teacher whose relationship with a 15-year-old student began with innocent car rides and after-school French fries but strayed into romance, was given a suspended sentence Thursday and will avoid prison for now. As Hadden sobbed and struggled to dab away her tears, with her rail-thin wrists chained to her waist, Clark County District Court Judge Joseph Bonaventure handed down a 13-year prison term--then suspended that sentence and put Hadden on probation for five years. Technically, Hadden, 33, will spend the first six months of her probation in the Clark County Detention...

Taking bids: Challenger Bill Simon Jr.'s campaign, playing off his "pay-to-play" and "coin-operated-governor" gibes at Gov. Gray Davis' fund-raising, has launched "EGray," a sendup of the Internet auction site EBay, portraying Davis as seeking donations in exchange for "favorable government action."

After many months of pre-primary and pre-general election campaigning in the Governor’s race, there are growing signs that the contest may be decided not on the basis of which major party candidate is preferred by the voters but who is disliked the least. A just completed statewide Field Poll reveals the electorate to be in an unusually negative mood in the way it perceives both Democrat Gray Davis and Republican Bill Simon. The poll finds Davis leading Simon 38% to 31%, and 9% preferring other candidates. And, at a time when preferences usually begin to harden, instead since July there...

Politics: Under pressure from conservatives, the GOP candidate for governor denies signing supportive responses to questionnaire. SACRAMENTO -- Under pressure from conservative supporters, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon Jr. on Tuesday disavowed his campaign's response to a gay rights questionnaire, saying someone signed his name on it without his approval. The response to 24 questions from a gay rights group, the Log Cabin Republicans of California, included pledges to sign a Gay Pride Day proclamation and to support job benefits for partners of gay state employees.

Ventura County, California: Major donor may cut gifts because he wasn't told of decision to stop funding groups that ban gays. United Way of Ventura County could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations because of its failure to tell contributors about a decision to stop funding groups that ban gays. One of its largest individual contributors, former United Way board member Dennis Mark Weinberg, who gave $100,000 this year, said he was not told by the nonprofit agency about the policy change scheduled to take effect in September. He warned that he and others might reduce or cut...

This is very long, but very thoughtful and well worth your time if you want to really start to understand this crisis. THE CHURCH'S SEX-ABUSE CRISIS What's old, what's new, what's needed--and why Peter Steinfels Peter Steinfels writes the "Beliefs" column on religion and ethics that appears biweekly in the New York Times. He was that paper's senior religion correspondent from 1988 to 1997. There are scandals and then there are scandals. Most are ugly, absorbing, and quickly forgotten. A few change history. The current flood of revelations about Catholic priests sexually preying on minors and the failure of Catholic...