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RICH LIBERALS are planning to fund a talk radio network because they believe ? as The New York Times put it ? they have been "overshadowed in the political propaganda wars by conservative radio and television personalities." If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now. But liberals insist they need a radio network "to counterbalance the conservative tenor of radio programs like 'The Rush Limbaugh Show.'" Rush has been driving them crazy for years. In 1994, CNN dedicated an entire program to figuring out how...

    United Nations   S/2002/1198    Security Council   Provisional 7 November 2002 Original: English   <![if !supportMisalignedColumns]>             <![endif]>   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America: draft resolution  [Adopted as Resolution 1441 at Security Council meeting 4644, 8 November 2002]          The Security Council,          Recalling all its previous relevant resolutions, in particular its resolutions 661 (1990) of 6 August 1990, 678 (1990) of 29 November 1990, 686 (1991) of 2 March 1991, 687 (1991) of 3 April 1991, 688 (1991) of 5 April 1991, 707 (1991) of 15 August 1991,...

Several House lawmakers say they?ve been the victims of an Internet extortion that attempted to link their names to a racist organization. The scheme also involved House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and at least two senators. Sites named after Reps. John Mica (R-Fla.), Porter Goss (R-Fla.), Ric Keller (R-Fla.), Hastert and 18 other House members brought web-surfers to the National Association for the Advancement of White People and other unsavory home pages. Keller said he grew suspicious when he got an e-mail offering to sell him an Internet address bearing his name for $499. Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla) called...

? We remember when our friend Christopher Hitchens was a card-carrying (or at least Scotch-hoisting) member of the left. But the British-born polemicist has apparently come a very long way since he stopped writing for the Nation magazine last year. In the new issue of Doublethink, a Washington-based right-wing quarterly, Hitchens reveals that if the election were today he'd support President Bush -- never mind his recent Vanity Fair puff piece about Democratic hopeful John Edwards. "I don't believe in [Edwards]," Hitchens tells Doublethink interviewer Tom Ivancie. "I mean, I told him I wouldn't vote for him. . . ....

"I SUPPORT THE  COMMANDER IN CHIEF" THE ISSUE... Jane Fonda is at it again... Along with Rev. Al Sharpton, Susan Sarandon, Oliver Stone and others are supporting a group called NION (Not In Our Name). And what is NION's goal? To "resist the war and repression that has been loosed on the world by the Bush Administration. It is unjust, immoral and illegitimate." Click here  to read shocking excerpts from NION's statement. At Grassfire.net we are outraged by this anti-American stand by Fonda and nearly 30,000 signers of NION?s declaration. Just one year ago, political leaders, and even the Hollywood...

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<p>"The United States will continue to make clear that it reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force ? including potentially nuclear weapons ? to the use of [weapons of mass destruction] against the United States, our forces abroad, and friends and allies," the document, National Security Presidential Directive 17, set out on Sept. 14 last year.</p>

There was a post yesterday concerning the web site takebackthemedia.com and their attempt to get advertisers to stop advertising with Rush, I wrote all the advertisers in support of Rush. I received a positive responce (company name withheld for lurkers) My Message.... Dear Sirs, As you well know the thought police are attempting to have advertisers pull their advertising from Rush's show, in this time of the possibility of war, these people have nothing better to do with their time than harass you in an attempt to stop an opposing view from their own socialist ideology. If you give in...

WASHINGTON - Iraq sent spies from Canada to New York and Washington this month to snoop and stir up anti-war demonstrations, according to a government report obtained by the Daily News. The classified document also reveals a plot by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Zimbabwe to attack American targets in that country and elsewhere if the U.S. declares war on Iraq. It suggests the group, Tablik Ja'maat, could be a "conduit for communication" between Osama Bin Laden's terror network and Iraqi leaders. The threats, disclosed to U.S. spy agencies yesterday, are detailed in a secret report prepared by an intelligence unit...

SEN. JOHN KERRY, D-Mass., was looking a little glum Tuesday night. Last week Kerry gave a speech saying: "Mr. President, do not rush to war!" Rush to war? We've been talking about this war for a year. It's been three months since Kerry duly recorded his vote in favor of forcibly removing Saddam Hussein. In 1991, Kerry voted against the Gulf War, saying the country was "not yet ready for what it will witness and bear if we go to war." Having been taunted for that vote and that prediction ever since, this time Kerry made sure to vote in...

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Outspoken Hollywood star Susan Sarandon used the premier of her new film to criticise Tony Blair and his relationship with President Bush. The 56-year-old actress was attending the premier of The Banger Sisters, in London's Leicester Square, along with co-star Goldie Hawn. They play the parts of former rock groupies who meet up again after 20 years. Sarandon, wearing a red and black floral dress, purple leather jacket and matching boots said: "I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions." She added that there were questions which needed asking about the prospect of war with Iraq. And the...

Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN), the new Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate, has established a new polling page on his official website. It's not well-known yet, so this is our chance to make a difference in getting CONSERVATIVE opinions heard! The first question Sen. Frist wants your opinion on is, "Should the United States use force to remove Saddam Hussein from power?" Only 3,000 people have responded so far... and the answers are running neck-and-neck. What do YOU think? ACTION ITEM: Go to Sen. Frist's site below to let him know YOUR opinion:Bill Frist

It appears that former U.S. presidents don't just leave office and fade away. Rather, they brood over their dwindling influence and compulsively seek public attention with ever more ridiculous public pronouncement and publicity stunts. Enter America's biggest walking, talking political joke, William Jefferson Clinton. As popular Big Apple columnist Mugger recently opined: Clinton is a national embarrassment, a bored and bitter politician whose weekly routine is a mixture of lucrative (and usually incoherent) speeches around the world, socializing with celebrities and criticizing Bush with an unprecedented zeal, demolishing the tradition of an ex-president keeping mum, at least for several years,...

ALBANY, New York - Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, a harsh critic of the Bush administration's push toward war with Iraq, suggested that recent news reports of his arrest in an Internet sex sting last year were part of an attempt to silence him. He said the publicity forced him to cancel a trip to Baghdad, where he said he would have offered an alternative to military action. "The timing does stink. I was supposed to be on an airplane yesterday to Baghdad," he said. "Let's not forget, we're on the verge of a major conflict in which thousands...

WASHINGTON – As early as 1997, even as growth was high, unemployment was low and inflation appeared dormant, there were battles within the Federal Reserve Board on whether the economy and stocks were overheating, newly released Fed documents show. But it wasn't until June 1999, toward the end of the Clinton administration, that the Fed began raising rates, infuriating investors who blamed Chairman Alan Greenspan for the ensuing stock-market collapse. Transcripts of the Federal Open Market Committee are regularly released after five years. The Fed documents, reported on today in the Washington Post, show that some Fed staff felt the...

The FBI, under political pressure from the Clinton administration, purposely covered up evidence of a terrorist missile strike against TWA Flight 800 in 1996, charges a book to be released in early March. "First Strike," by investigative reporters Jack Cashill and James Sanders, shows the overwhelming evidence ignored, obscured, buried and destroyed by FBI agents placed in charge of investigating the air disaster July 17, 1996, off the coast of Long Island. Some 230 people died in the explosion – making the incident the biggest, deadliest terrorist strike on American soil prior to Sept. 11, the authors say. Cashill and...

<p>ON his debut day as a presidential candidate, Al Sharpton upstaged most other Democratic wannabes at the first 2004 cattle show and showed why he gives big-time agita to a lot of Dem strategists.</p> <p>His rivals embraced the driving force behind the Tawana Brawley hoax as an equal aspirant to the Oval Office and even competed to curry favor with him. Both former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts claimed Sharpton had offered them the vice presidency.</p>