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FULL TRANSCRIPT “DENISE THE MILITARY MOM” ON “THE ADAM TAXIN SHOW.” SEPTEMBER 11, 2007, 1-2 PM. WNWR 1540 AM PHILADELPHIA WNWR.com - - - - - - - - - If anyone wants to hear the audio version of the interview, they should tune into “The Adam Taxin Show” at approximately 1:30 PM today, Tuesday, September 11 on 1540 WNWR in the Philadelphia area, or broadcast on the internet at wnwr.com. If people want to hear the whole show, it’s from 1-2. And if anyone wants a fairly large MP3 of the segment or the entire transcript, just e-mail me...

First of all, the lyrics say it all: "Blue Monday" written and arranged by Alexis Dean pka Skillbill copyright 2005 Chorus: Blue Monday I can’t stand the rain It’s a shame it came I can’t imagine your pain Blue Monday Things will never be the same But some way we got to maintain Blue Monday 1st verse A tragedy that we don’t understand let’s help our fellow man you see them reaching out their hands who saw it coming "damn" I never saw it coming "slam" but we’re all Americans Katrina got my country looking like a foreign land I...

Bush's Bagmen Rolling Stone (4/1/04 issue) Meet the Pioneers and Rangers, the president's A-team for campaign cash By Barry Yeoman Carole Bionda darted through the halls of the Capital Hilton, armed with a red-white-and-blue tote bag bulging with checks made out to Bush-Cheney '04. Three hundred executives from the nation's most influential construction firms were meeting at the hotel last June, just two blocks from the White House, and Bionda was drumming up money for the president's re-election campaign. As the executives split up into regional caucuses, she ran from room to room, pitting South against East, West against Midwest....

January 22, 2004 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Nation of Second Guesses By BARRY SCHWARTZ PHILADELPHIA — In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Bush elaborated on a theme that is near to his heart: the virtues of personal choice. "Younger workers should have the opportunity to build a nest egg by saving part of their Social Security taxes in a personal retirement account," the president said. "We should make the Social Security system a source of ownership for the American people." Mr. Bush also made clear that "any attempt to limit the choices of our seniors, or to take...

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (JTA) — When Rabbi Mitchell Ackerson blew the shofar this past Rosh Hashanah, it reverberated throughout one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces. More than 100 Jewish members of the U.S. forces stationed in Iraq attended the High Holiday services at the former Iraqi dictator’s Baghdad compound. They seemed shocked and awed, not least by the echo. “It was a 25-foot ceiling, so it really goes,” Ackerson said, describing the shofar’s blast in a telephone interview from Baghdad on Monday. Many of the young Jews also “kept looking at all the marble, the gold, the fancy chairs,”...

Frustrated by Arab anti-Semitism? Upset by people’s insensitivity toward Jewish concerns? Think you’re powerless to influence your school or community? Think again. A group of Harvard students spoke out against hate speech in the Middle East and, thanks to the support of the community, achieved results. I helped organize the group and our efforts resulted in shutting down an Arab League think tank that distributes hate speech against Americans and Jews. It all started last year when I was a student at the Harvard Divinity School. In December, I helped organize a panel on the rise of global anti-Semitism. One...

Why black America distrusts conservatives Rush Limbaugh proved what many African-Americans fear: Even if right-wingers aren't racist, they'll kick blacks to score political points. By Robert A. George Oct. 2, 2003 Rush Limbaugh's resignation from ESPN's "NFL Countdown" should bring the immediate controversy over his comments about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb to a mercifully quick end. However, his remarks have damaged his reputation and once again delivered another body blow to the conservative movement in the area in which it can least afford it: race. And this time it's not a creation of the liberal media; this was a...

MONTERREY, Mexico -- Jose Maiz Garcia, a 100-pound power hitter, played left field on this city's Little League team in 1957, when it became the first non-American team ever to win the Little League World Series. Now Maiz hopes to make more Mexican baseball history by bringing the first Major League Baseball team south of the border. Maiz, a construction magnate, is one of the partners bidding to move the vagabond Montreal Expos to a new permanent home here in Mexico's richest city. "When I was 8 years old I started playing baseball -- I just love it," said Maiz,...

Jewish leaders continue to decry Mel Gibson’s forthcoming Jesus movie for supposedly threatening to whip up anti-Semitism. Due out next April, "The Passion" identifies Jewish priests as instigators of the crucifixion. Maimonides, too, in his Mishnah Torah, affirms Jewish involvement in Jesus’ execution — which must make the greatest of medieval Jewish sages an anti-Semite, too. But the film I’d like to see produced that would really make some Jews nervous, while teaching a healthy lesson: an honest depiction not of Jesus’ death, but of his preaching. The Christian Bible makes clear what was probably the main theme of his...

The Republican firebrand David Horowitz is mad at the Colorado media. Seems that when the Centennial State started mulling ways to enact the Academic Bill of Rights, a document devised and promoted by Horowitz's group Students for Academic Freedom, the local press suggested that it would amount to a quota bill for right-wing professors. Replied Horowitz: You cannot impose quotas or promote balance under the provisions of a bill that says in so many words: "No faculty shall be hired or fired or denied promotion or tenure on the basis of his or her political or religious beliefs."...Could anything be...

A REPORTER AT LARGE THE NEW YORKER SEPTEMBER 15, 2003 THE JESUS WAR. Mel Gibson’s obsession. BY PETER J. BOYER One rainy Wednesday afternoon this summer, I made my way to the Sony Building, on Fifty-fifth Street and Madison Avenue, where, through the accommodation of a friend in the entertainment business, I attended a private screening of “The Passion,” Mel Gibson's unfinished film about the final hours and Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. I didn't know quite what to expect. I'd heard that some people had been so moved by the film that they openly wept, and that others were...

The state's top Republicans are hatching a plan to balance what they see as a higher education system that leans to the left. State Senate President John Andrews, R-Centennial, is among Republican leaders working on an "Academic Bill of Rights" for next year that would at least encourage - if not require - the state's colleges to hire faculty and invite speakers with conservative views. "This is about tolerance," Andrews said Sunday. "It is about a process, not outcomes. It is extremely important that all viewpoints are protected." So far, it is unclear whether the conservative push would be a...

Top Republican legislators are working on a plan that would require Colorado colleges and universities to seek more conservatives in faculty hiring, more classics in the curriculum and more "intellectual pluralism" among campus speakers. Next year, the GOP leadership hopes to implement the "Academic Bill of Rights," which sets out "to secure the intellectual independence of faculty and students and to protect the principle of intellectual diversity." In hatching the idea, Gov. Bill Owens and Republican legislators quietly met in June with David Horowitz, a controversial and outspoken Los Angeles conservative who is leading the national effort with his group...

Congress Weighs Anti-U.S. Biases At Key Colleges: Columbia, NYU Cited in Testimony New York Sun, June 20-22, 2003 (Front page) By Timothy Starks - Staff Reporter of the Sun WASHINGTON -A House subcommittee yesterday held a public hearing to investigate whether anti-American views pervade federally funded international-studies programs on college campuses -- including Columbia and New York University -- and to get ideas for what, if anything, should be done about it. . The hearing came as Congress moves to renew the Higher Education Act, and as a key group of Senate Republicans considers whether Congress should intervene in an...

An e-mail sent by a Yale professor naming Jewish students from an Israel advocacy group as a "pro-war cabal" has caused an uproar at the elite Ivy League university. Students charge that listing the Jewish names was anti-Semitic; many claim they are outspoken opponents of the war against Iraq. "Just to insinuate that people who espouse pro-Israel views at Yale are automatically complicit in promoting the war is ridiculous and offensive," said Nelson Moussazadeh, co-president of Yale Friends of Israel. The e-mail, sent Saturday by an associate professor of genetics, Mazin Qumsiyeh, to the several hundred members of Yale’s anti-war...

<p>One Republican "moderate" has been conspicuously absent in the revolt against President Bush's tax cut: Pennsylvania's Sen. Arlen Specter. The reason is Pat Toomey.</p> <p>Mr. Specter, who's seeking a fifth term next year, must first face Mr. Toomey, a GOP congressmen from Allentown, Pa., in an April 2004 primary. What is more, the primary is closed, which means that only Republicans may participate. This helps not just Mr. Toomey but Senate Republicans in general, at least for the next 11 months.</p>

WASHINGTON--Like many members of the House of Representatives, Pat Toomey, a 41-year-old Pennsylvania Republican, hankers to move to the chamber on the other side of the Capitol. But he has a wee problem. Pennsylvania already has two Republican senators. Rick Santorum, 45, is a rising star--he is chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, the third-highest leadership post--midway through his second term. The other Republican senator is Arlen Specter, 73, who next year will seek his fifth term. Toomey, who term-limited himself by pledging to serve only three terms and who is in his third, says, with sincere serenity, he will...

WASHINGTON--Like many members of the House of Representatives, Pat Toomey, a 41-year-old Pennsylvania Republican, hankers to move to the chamber on the other side of the Capitol. But he has a wee problem. Pennsylvania already has two Republican senators. Rick Santorum, 45, is a rising star--he is chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, the third-highest leadership post--midway through his second term. The other Republican senator is Arlen Specter, 73, who next year will seek his fifth term. Toomey, who term-limited himself by pledging to serve only three terms and who is in his third, says, with sincere serenity, he will...

The main drawback of being a professional opinionist is that you’re expected to have opinions on everything. When your average moviegoer leaves the theater, he shrugs and says, "Let’s go eat." That’s not an option available to Roger Ebert, who has to string it out for a few more paragraphs. But just lately, on being urged by various correspondents to weigh in on this or that allegedly burning controversy, I find myself shrugging, "Let’s go eat." Example One: Senator Santorum’s thoughts on homosexuality. I won’t bother printing the quote, since it’s rambling and incoherent, and even when you fill in...

WASHINGTON — Organizations representing thousands of universities are expressing concerns about a Senate effort to slash their federal funding if they don’t promote "ideological diversity " — a legislative effort to remedy anti-Semitism on campus. The possibility of withholding funds arose at a March meeting between top Senate Republicans and Jewish activists who reported rising incidents of anti-Semitism and an increasingly anti-Israel agenda among college professors. A legislative solution would alter the funding formula under Title IX of the Higher Education Act to include not only sexual equality but also "ideological diversity" as a precondition of receiving the funds. The...