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While many people have been focused on whether or not John Kerry had an affair with an intern, they overlook the two most important questions. These are: 1. Should past adultery disqualify a candidate for President of the United States on ethical or moral grounds? 2. Given your knowledge of the American people, do you believe that an accusation of adultery, even if proven, can prevent a candidate from being elected President?

I have been working on my taxes over the past couple of days. I try to file early, and not wait until April, because, from experience, doing taxes early and in a more leisurely manner, is less stressful than spending sleepless nights a couple of days before April 15. But I hate filing income taxes just as much as everyone else, and I am well aware that the income tax goes against the values on which this country was founded. Our founding fathers, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Franklin, Washington, etc., would have been on my side, but their views no longer...

Witness Says He Saw Child Giving Man Oral Sex Tue Feb 10, 7:28 AM ET ChannelCincinnati.com to My Yahoo! The hunt is on for a man accused of receiving oral sex from a 7-year-old girl in a van Monday afternoon. According to a police report, a man in a blue Dodge Caravan was engaged in oral sex with a 7-year-old at about 3:15 p.m., WLWT Eyewitness News 5's Jonathan Hawgood reported. The alleged incident happened near 8445 Wiswell Ave. in Hartwell, according to the police report. Several police agencies currently are helping in the search for the man.

Canadian Hockey Host in Trouble Over 'Racist' Jibe Fri Feb 6, 4:31 PM ET By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - The combative co-host of a popular Canadian ice hockey TV show found himself in hot water on Friday after suggesting that players from French-speaking Quebec were cowards for wearing protective visors. Although Don Cherry has made disparaging remarks about French Canadians before, his comments on CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada" that "most of the guys that wear (visors) are European or French guys" show sparked widespread unhappiness. Canada's official languages commissioner has launched a probe into the comments, which federal...

Local Couple Chooses Sex Of Unborn Child Fri Feb 13, 3:47 PM A lot of parents choose to find out the sex of their baby while they are pregnant. But now some parents are choosing the sex of the baby before it's even conceived. Melissa Marsh introduces us to a family from Pleasant Garden who got their wish after 10 years, a baby girl. Tommy and Dana Paschal's family consisted of three boys for 10 years. T.G.,18, is the oldest, Kevin, 16, is in the middle and Michael,12, is the youngest boy. But on October 12, 2001, the Paschal family's...

I just received an enquiry from a bright 20 year old sophomore, who is majoring in philosophy. She is interested in writing a paper on the historical development of ideological conservatism, and its various historical and present-day versions and offshoots, but she does not know much about the subject. Obviously, I suggested the Conservative Mind, written by the late Dr. Russell Kirk. But it is a dated book, having been published in 1953, and does not have iformation about the developments in American conservatism since then? Does anyone know of a book written in recent years, which traces the historical...

Racist Royal Saudi Arab Shoots Dead Foreign Wage-Slaves Posted: 02/13 From: Pakistan Tribune Member of Saudi Royal Family shot dead 6 Expatriate workers near Riyadh, Sudanese among dead In a tragic mystery incident, six expatriate workers, including one Pakistani have died, when a member of Saudi Royal Family shot them dead in a rage. The murderer later attempted to burn the bodies of the victims, in an attempt to hide this heinous act. Dhaka on Monday confirmed the death of three Bangladeshi expatriates near Riyadh last week in a brush fire by their employer's son who is also a member...

WIFE IN SEX PLOT MURDER BY REBECCA SHERDLEY 16:00 - 12 February 2004 Cheating wife Carol Croydon was today found guilty of murdering her husband. She stabbed him 22 times in the throat so she could be with her lover. The attack happened in room 328 at the Hilton East Midlands Hotel, Kegworth. Mr Croydon, 49, bled to death. His naked body was found at the foot of the bed. His wife tied neckties around his wrists to give the appearance he had been having kinky sex with someone else. Eight hours after the killing, Croydon, 37, was having sex...

Hating homosexuals becomes 'new racism' Editorial Volume 95, Number 6 Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Throughout almost a majority of the previous century, a good many conservative politicians enjoyed all too much treading on the wrong side of the race line. Looking back we see the racist habits of too many conservatives; indeed, it was conservatives who never wanted yesterday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, to be a recognized national holiday. It was, too, a conservative Ronald Reagan who supported for five years the apartheid regime in South Africa, and it was current Vice President Dick Cheney, at the time a...

Those of us who are ideological conservatives and libertarians, have to face up to one unpleasant fact, that we do not often like to hear. We are a small minority in this country. Conservative candidates do not win elections because most people accept our ideas. They win because of the out of touch arrogance and elitism of liberals, and the fact that so many Americans have suffered as a result of failed liberal policies. But that means that failed liberalism such as that of former Washington Mayor Marion Barry and George McGovern, has been discredited, but liberalism itself as a...

The Democrats have developed a very successful strategy, to prevent Republicans from holding them accountable for their words, their votes, and their actions. It began with the Georgia Senate race in 2002, when the Georgia GOP raised some very legitimate questions about Max Cleland's voting record. Republicans were subsequently denounced for allegedly "smearing" Max Cleland and "questioning" his "patriotism" and "courage". Following those attacks, Republicans retreated and whimpered like whipped dogs, instead of answering the distortions that the Dems promoted about the GOP's successful 2002 election year. This year, we are not supposed to notice John Kerry's 30-year long record...

Many Americans take their country for granted. They only begin to appreciate it, when they have had extensive contact with people from other nations. Today, I had lunch with with a friend from Manchester, England. He had come to America for medical treatment - he is supposed to have surgery next week. In Britain, they have socialized heath care, in which most medical treatment is provided by the inefficient state-run National Heath Service (NHS). He has been waiting to have his operation for 4 months, due to the longwaiting list, and it seems his turn to receive treatment was not...

Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, at the age of 83. John Adams died the same day, and he was just a few months short of his 91st birthday. Other long-lived Presidents are James Madison, who lived to be 85, Harry Truman who lived to be 88, and Herbert Hoover who died at the age of 90. President Gerald Ford is still going on strong, and will turn 91 this year. But Ronald Reagan holds the record of longest-lived President, as he is now 93. It is amazing how Reagan managed to remain in great physical shape throughout his...

For those conservatives who are angry about the proposed bill to legalize 10 million illegal immigrants, and the recent decision to increase funding to the National Endowment for the Arts, you all need to consider some facts. Over the past 40 years, the Republican party has been divided into two factions: the Establishment and the Conservatives. In the 1960s, the GOP establishment was headed by the then New York Governor, Nelson Rockefeller, while Barry Goldwater was the leader of the Conservatives. The ideological heirs of Rockerfeller are still with us today. They represent the corporate wing of the GOP, as...

In his recent endorsement of Dean, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa compared Howard Dean to Harry Truman. Many others have made the same comparison, especially with regard to Truman's angry 1948 election campaign. In liberal terms, this is supposed to be a complement. But what worries me about the Truman legacy, is that so many decent, respectable, intelligent, educated, patriotic, and reasonable conservative Republicans, happen to be great admirers of Harry Truman. I have never been able to understand it. How could so many good people have a distorted view of history? In his first term, Truman handed over half...

We all love the Gipper. I had the privilege of voting for him for Governor in 1966 (and in subsequent years), when I was attending college in California. In 1986, when the Reagan administration proposed amnesty for illegals, I was one of the many conservatives who begged, pleaded, grovelled, implored, and urged the administration to reconsider. We activist conservatives of the time were shouted down, and denounced as extremists and nativists. We warned that legalizing the 3 million, would lead to millions more being given amnesty in future. Back in 1986, I predicted that 15 years later, the government would...

Did any of you watch the entire Washington Journal show on C-SPAN yesterday? There was a leftist author named Daniel Levitas, who was promoting a book titled: "The Terrorist Next Door". Was the author discussing the terrorism of middle-eastern immigrants like Mohammed Atta, or the animal rights fanatics at ELF? No. That did not concern him. His book focuses exclusively on so-called "right-wing" extremists, of the sorts found in so-called "right-wing militias". Included in that group of right-wing terrorists, are anti-tax protesters, gun owners, those who thought Randy Weaver got a raw deal from the government, critics of Janet Reno's...

The behavior of leading rats this week, convinced me that rats will use every trick in the book, to try and sabotage Rush's return to radio. On Monday on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC TV show, Jesse Jackson complained that Rush was getting special treatment because he is a rich white man, while black poor drug offenders routinely go to prison. Already, Dems and their sympathizers in the media are already circulating unproven allegations that Rush bought pills with laundered money. If you will excuse my ignorance of the law, I have always assumed that money laundering is only possible using illegally...

Hating the Krauts by Paul Gottfried A rant by neocon journalist Ralph Peters in the New York Post against the Germans as continuing fans of the Third Reich, whom we should never forgive and whose products we should never buy, provides two lessons. One, the neocon hatred of Germans, like their distaste for Southern whites (the same editorial section featured denunciations of those who view the Confederate flag sympathetically), is both obsessive and overshadowing. Two, their hatreds may be more critical for understanding the neocons’ behavior than even their residual attachments to Leon Trotsky or Leo Strauss. Unlike Trotsky, but...

Dingell Joins Republicans to Protest CBS’s Mini-Series "The Reagans" Demands "Fair and Balanced" Portrayal of 40th President Washington, D.C. – Congressman John D. Dingell (D-MI) today joined the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Members of Congress and conservative pundits in demanding that CBS ensure that its upcoming two part mini-series "The Reagans" is an accurate portrayal of the Reagan legacy. In a letter to CBS President Leslie Moonves, Dingell wrote, "I trust that CBS will not be a party to a distorted presentation of American history." Rep. Dingell, who served in the Congress during both of President Reagan’s terms in office, offered...