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Glen Campbell, who has Alzheimer’s, has released a superb 'final' album at the age of 75. “Ghost on the Canvas” is Glen Campbell’s album of a lifetime...literally. The stunning set, out Aug. 30, reflects on the multiple Grammy winner’s career and times often through the prism of his life-altering diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease. The 75-year old announced he had the disease earlier this year and that “Ghost on the Canvas” would be his final album. He starts a goodbye tour later this fall. Without ever skirting the dire future he now faces, Campbell and producer/co-writer Julian Raymond, have made a...

A sex trafficking case has collapsed in astonishing circumstances after a masseuse who was called to the stand pointed out the defence lawyer as one of her clients. Ukrainian immigrant Liudmyla Ksenych had been summoned to court in Chicago as one of the women said to have been forced by a pimp to provide sexual favours to clients and then hand over thousands of dollars to their boss to avoid deportation. But as she left the witness stand last week, she told prosecutors that she recognised the lawyer representing pimp Alex 'Daddy' Campbell - because the married man was one...

Company Using Aborted Fetal Cells in Flavors Shields Partners by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 7/15/11 10:13 AM PrintEmail National 3796Share The company that was found to be testing their food additives using fetal cells from abortions is now working to hide the names of the corporations it contracts with as a pro-life boycott continues. LifeNews.com reported on the controversy in March when information came to light showing biotech company Senomyx was found to be testing their food additives using fetal cells from a line based on cells from a baby victimized by abortion. Senomyx ignored a...

Third Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Jonesboro, Illinois September 15, 1858 MR. DOUGLAS' SPEECH. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I appear before you today in pursuance of a previous notice, and have made arrangements with Mr. Lincoln to divide time, and discuss with him the leading political topics that now agitate the country. Prior to 1854 this country was divided into two great political parties known as Whig and Democratic. These parties differed from each other on certain questions which were then deemed to be important to the best interests of the Republic. Whig and Democrats differed about a bank, the...

A bipartisan group of eight House members has penned a letter to President Obama urging a speedy withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in the wake of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) spearheaded the letter, which is also signed by three other Republicans and three other Democrats: Reps. John Garamendi (D-Calif.), Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Rush Holt (D-N.J.), John Campbell (R-Calif.), John Tierney (D-Mass.) and John Duncan (R-Tenn.). ..."we urge you to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan that are not crucial to the immediate national security objective of combating al Qaeda."

LARGO, Florida, March 30, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After the release of information yesterday on corporations partnered with a biotech company found using aborted fetal cells lines in food flavor testing, LifeSiteNews.com has learned that two of those companies – Solae and Campbell Soup – are no longer partnered with the unethical testing company. Solae wrote LSN that while their company did sign an agreement with Senomyx biotech company in 2007 and is listed on their website as a partner, they have not been in partnership for over a year. “This letter is to inform you that Solae does not currently...

Campbell urges Seoul to ‘re-engage’ North October 08, 2010 Wrapping up another visit to South Korea in four months, Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs said yesterday that the United States is intent on watching the two Koreas “reengage.” “The critical component in terms of developments on the Korean peninsula in the current environment is to see a reengagement between North and South Korea,” Campbell told reporters yesterday to a question on the likelihood of summit talks between the two Koreas. The envoy also added that the United States “believes there are some signs...

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, chairman of the soi-disant Cordoba Initiative, has gotten all the attention he deserves for his astonishingly insensitive attempt to build a 13-story mosque and community center at the site of Ground Zero. Rauf has largely escaped attention for his efforts to build a sawed-off version of the same on the grounds of the venerable and historically Christian Chautauqua Institution in western New York State. Although the resistance to Rauf at Chautauqua has not made the news, it is deeply felt, and it is coming from both Christians and Jews. As shall be seen, the forced feeding...

While Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, took the stage late into a pro-Israel rally held in front of the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles this afternoon, the candidate for the U.S. Senate made sure to give a louder and more fiery speech than those of the nearly two dozen people who came before him. Almost all of the speakers, which included Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., defended the actions of Israeli soldeirs who last week boarded a Turkish ship trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. The soldiers killed nine people aboard...

WASHINGTON – Behind in the polls and the race for money, Senate GOP candidate Tom Campbell has dropped his plan to run network television ads statewide, an admission that the campaign is in dire financial shape as the campaign enters its final days. It's bad news for the former congressman and good news for Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard and the front-runner in the race. She led Campbell by 38 percent to 23 percent in the latest Los Angeles Times/USC poll. "We had a buy reserved through the end of the campaign, and we canceled," Jamie...

The conversation eventually became quite heated, going from Fiorina's defense of Prop. 26 on the merits -- it had bipartisan support from Republican former Gov. Pete Wilson and the business community, and was narrowly tailored towards the cause of school construction -- to Fiorina ripping on DeVore's third-place position in the polls. "I'm sure it's very frustrating for Chuck DeVore to have so many conservatives supporting me," said Fiorina. "But I wonder why, maybe it makes him feel better, maybe it makes Chuck DeVore, who is dog-paddling at 14% in the polls, maybe it makes him feel better to belittle...

California's three GOP Senate candidates found some common ground today. All three said they want to get tough on illegal immigration. All three said they oppose government bailouts of failed companies. And all three said they oppose tax increases. Former Rep. Tom Campbell, former businesswoman Carly Fiorina and Assemblyman Chuck DeVore met in their third and largely uneventful debate on the "John & Ken" show, a Los Angeles radio talk show. Among their pitches: DeVore said companies should be allowed to go bankrupt before receiving taxpayer help. "You have to let capitalism work," . . .

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A new KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll of likely Republican primary voters finds that Carly Fiorina has shot to the top of the nomination race for U.S. Senate, and Meg Whitman has retaken a huge lead in the gubernatorial race, as well. But the latest poll, released Monday, shows Whitman recapturing the lead by 27 points with a 54%-27% advantage over Poizner -- a wild swing of 25 points in less than two weeks. The poll numbers for the Senate race show Fiorina with 46%, former Congressman Tom Campbell at 23%, and Chuck DeVore at 14%. This represents a 34-point net...

Can this be for real? From Carly Fiorina's Twitter feed: @CarlyforCA Breaking news: Fiorina 46%, Campbell 23%, DeVore 14% according to new Survey USA poll. Proof that hard work pays off! This, I'm told by the Fiorina campaign, was just reported on television on L.A. The last SurveyUSA poll showed Fiorina trailing Campbell 35% to 24%, with DeVore in third at 15%. So, if true, this new poll would represent a huge swing--such a huge swing that I'm curious to see the actual poll.

The National Organization for Marriage, which opposes gay marriage, said Friday it is launching robocalls against former Rep. Tom Campbell in the Republican U.S. Senate primary. The New Jersey-based group previously aired an independent television ad against Campbell attacking him for his fiscal policies and stance on gay marriage. Campbell supports gay marriage and opposed the 2008 constitutional amendment, Proposition 8, which recognized marriage in California only between a man and a woman. NOM says it intends to reach 609,000 likely GOP primary voters. "The explicit message of this campaign is: don't vote for Tom Campbell, because he supports gay...

According to the poll, DeVore is now within seven points of Campbell in the CA GOP Senate Primary Race.

JUNE PRIMARY With the June primaries less than a month away, the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination has significantly tightened. Although Meg Whitman (38%) still leads Steve Poizner (29%) among Republican primary likely voters, there has been a stunning drop in her support since March. In January, Whitman led Poizner by 30 points (41% to 11%) and in March by 50 points (61% to 11%). Today, three in 10 voters are undecided, up 6 points since March, but far lower than in January (44%). Republican primary likely voters include the 12 percent of independent (decline-to-state) voters who say they...

A Bright Day for Team Chuck Written by Melanie Morgan    Thursday, 20 May 2010 05:50 The latest PPIC poll is out and shows Carly Fiorina with 25%, Tom Campbell with 23%, and Chuck DeVore with 16%. The margin of error is +/-5% The previous PPIC poll showed Fiorina with 24%, Campbell with 23%, and DeVore with 8%.Here's what you need to know: Chuck DeVore has doubled his support from the last PPIC poll -- and he's within the margin of error of the front-runner.The distance from the first to third is narrowed into the single digits -- ground easily...

Anchors aren't known for admitting their shortcomings but Campbell Brown is accepting defeat. The eponymous host of CNN's "Campbell Brown" has stepped down from the "toughest timeslot in cable news" due to low ratings. "Simply put, the ratings for my program are not where I would like them to be," Brown said in a statement released Tuesday. "It is largely for this reason that I am stepping down as anchor of CNN’s 'Campbell Brown.’ " Brown added that she had been ruminating over the move "for some time" and that she felt the urge to reveal the truth behind her...

CNN's Campbell Brown has resigned. The following are statements from both CNN President Jon Klein and a heartfelt letter from Brown explaining her reasons for leaving. STATEMENT FROM JON KLEIN, PRESIDENT OF CNN/U.S. "Today is about Campbell. We want to wish her well as she begins the next phase of her life. We respect her decision to leave. We will announce our programming plans in the coming weeks." An Excerpt From Brown's Statement "Simply put, the ratings for my program are not where I would like them to be. It is largely for this reason that I am stepping down...

Breaking: News emerging that CNN's Campbell Brown will leave the network. Mediaite's Steve Krakauer reports that CNN has granted Brown's request to be let out of her contract early, and that Brown will remain as primetime anchor of her eponymous show until a replacement is found: A source with knowledge of the situation tells Mediaite Brown made the request months ago -- and before all the 'how to fix CNN' articles began rolling out. We hear she originally lobbied for the 7pmET opening, with the thinking the show would work better at an earlier hour (and without the Bill O'Reilly/Keith...

GOP U.S. Senate candidate and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said Wednesday that the latest Public Policy Institute of California poll shows that she is gaining advantage over former South Bay Rep. Tom Campbell. And coming on the heels of this week's election results, she said, it means that incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer should "be afraid, be very afraid." The latest poll shows Boxer leading all GOP comers, and gaining significantly with independents -- details below.

Carly Fiorina tells The Brody File that she is a "real pro-life candidate" and that Barbara Boxer has extreme views on abortion. The Republican Senate candidate from California spoke with The Brody File in DC. Watch the clip below and a partial transcription. The Brody Files also covers the endorsements of Fiorina by Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum.

GOP Senate hopeful Tom Campbell has been attacked by both the right and the left in recent weeks, as National Rifle Association attacks his position on gun rights and the liberal group Courage Campaign California targets his support of Arizona's controversial immigration law. With three weeks to go until the June 8 primary, Campbell downplayed the attacks as well as his lack of resources compared to the robust campaign war chests of rival Carly Fiorina and incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. The NRA reportedly started sending mailers last weekend urging members to oppose Campbell for casting "anti-gun votes" in the...

The hotly contested race for the Republican nomination in both the U.S. Senate and Attorney General races are tightening up with the primary only three weeks away, the Small Business Action Committee/M4 Strategies Poll found. In the U.S. Senate contest, Tom Campbell leads with field with 32.6%, with Carly Fiorina close behind at 28.2%, and Chuck DeVore tallying 15.3%. Fiorina has made the biggest movement since the SBAC/M4 Strategies poll in February. At that time, Campbell had a similar 32%, Fiorina was at 18% and DeVore stood at 11%. The poll conducted on May 12, 13, and 16 of 600...

Tom Campbell is seen as a moderate Republican, although he’s a Friedmanite conservative on economic issues. But his moderate pose has made him the most acceptable to the general electorate in California among the three candidates in the June GOP Senate primary. Campbell posts the best numbers against Barbara Boxer, basically in a dead heat, while Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore trail. Given this reality, you’d think that Campbell would be pressing this advantage and making sure he wins the nomination from a state GOP that trends far to the right. But instead, he’s chopped his ad buy. Ex-Rep. Tom...

Chuck DeVore is a solid conservative, very well-qualified to be senator or to hold other important offices or positions, but he doesn’t seem to have a prayer of both overtaking Carly Fiorina and defeating Tom Campbell in the June 8 Republican senate primary. He should drop out and, following Sarah Palin’s lead, endorse Fiorina for the good of the conservative movement, the state, and the nation. I’m not going to attempt to compare Fiorina to DeVore: That would have been a more worthwhile undertaking if Campbell, supposedly at the behest of gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, hadn’t switched to the senate...

Hours after Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina contributed $1.1 million more of her own money to her primary campaign, a new snapshot poll Friday showed her faring worse in a head-to-head matchup against incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer than former South Bay Rep. Tom Campbell. A May 12 Rasmussen poll of 500 likely voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points, shows Boxer leading Campbell 42 percent to 41 percent while the senator tops Fiorina by seven percentage points. Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, fares better than Fiorina in a head-to-head matchup, trailing...

Open Letter to Carly Fiorina: Please Quit and Support Chuck DeVore Posted on 15 May 2010 by admin Share I am offering an open, heartfelt letter to Carly Fiorina, GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in California. I hope many people will send it to her and she will take this advice. I give this advice, as someone not paid for this commentary by any individual or by any campaign, though I do support Chuck DeVore. I write this to you Carly, because I am your age, I have been covering politics since the late 1970s and I have seen a...

Once arrested, a terrorist suspect should be interrogated for information regarding any imminent terrorist attacks. That is the top priority. It is critical not to give such suspects the chance to delay answering questions while waiting for a court-appointed attorney. Reminding the terrorist suspect that he or she has the right to remain silent can only increase the possibility that the terrorist suspect will remain silent. It is completely contrary to our country's immediate interest in preventing the loss of innocent life from more terrorist attacks. It was, therefore, amazing to hear Carly Fiorina and Chuck Devore in the recent...

It looks like Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Carly Fiorina in the California GOP U.S. Senate race is actually a “negative.” It also appears from the latest poll that Californians who care about the abortion issue are supporting Chuck DeVore, even though Fiorina (who supports the appointment of pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and campaigned as “pro-choice” for John McCain in 2008) inexplicably received the California Pro-Life Council endorsement. You want polls to prove that Chuck DeVore is on the way UP and Carly Fiorina is on the way DOWN? Here it is! Poll results from Team DeVore, followed by...

...Campbell said that if he were in the Senate, he would vote “no” on the nomination — with the caveat that he would consider any additional information that emerges in the Senate hearings. Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore would also vote against Kagan’s nomination if he were in the Senate, his spokesman said, adding that DeVore would release a statement detailing his reasons later this evening. Fiorina said she would reserve judgment until the vetting is completed. “Given Ms. Kagan’s brief litigation experience, lack of any judicial experience and in light of some of the information publicly available about her...

Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, co-chair of the Republican Leadership Council, said Monday that GOP candidates in the current election cycle must reject the "the party of no" profile and the idea that "compromise is a dirty word" -- and endorsed former Rep. Tom Campbell in California's hotly contested GOP U.S. Senate race. "We feel he is the candidate which, besides being able to win in the fall...also brings those kinds of characteristics to play to the office that will make him a very effective Senator, and one that can start to solve problems,'' Whitman said in a...

In his two unsuccessful runs for U.S. Senate, former South Bay Rep. Tom Campbell touted his unusual political pedigree: He is a Republican who supports abortion and gay rights. That perch may help the 58-year-old Campbell should he advance to a November match-up against three-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. But as he battles more conservative challengers in the June 8 Republican primary, Campbell is trying to tamp down his social positions.And he is getting criticized for it from the left and the right in a season where anti-Washington sentiment and Tea Party rabble-rousing are everywhere.So far, Campbell's tightrope walk...

Washington (CNN) – Sarah Palin broke ranks with the conservative movement on Thursday and endorsed former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in California's Republican Senate primary, prompting a flurry of criticism from many of her loyal supporters. After Palin announced the endorsement on her Facebook page, a number of her followers questioned why she would side with Fiorina instead of the more conservative candidate in the race, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. DeVore has the backing of several leading voices in the conservative movement, including Sen. Jim DeMint, RedState.com editor Erick Erickson and the Tea Party Express. Though a handful of readers agreed...

WASHINGTON – In California and across the nation, it's open season on RINOs. For many conservatives, there's nothing worse than being a RINO – that's a Republican In Name Only, a moderate, a politician who's considered squishy on core principles and a little too independent. When California Republicans go to the polls to choose a U.S. Senate candidate next month, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore says he'll be the only non-RINO on the ballot. He says both of his challengers, former Rep. Tom Campbell and former businesswoman Carly Fiorina, are true RINOs: Campbell because he backs gun control, abortion rights and gay...

Fans of First Read and MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" know how much we've enjoyed Carly Fiorina's "Demon Sheep" Web video, which continually sits atop of our list of Top 10 TV ads this cycle. Now the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has gotten into the act, with its own "Demon Sheep" Web video hitting Fiorina, Tom Campbell, and Chuck DeVore -- who are all running for the GOP nomination to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) in the fall. DSCC gets into 'Demon Sheep' act - First Read - msnbc.com

The Demon Sheep of Zion It is time to say openly what Jewish Republicans in California whisper quietly: throughout her years in public life, Carly Fiorina never associated demonstrably with those supporting a secure and safe Israel with united Jerusalem as her capital. Quite the contrary: everything she has written, down to her memoirs, points otherwise. Everything she has said – the curious way and timing of her pronouncements on the Middle East – points otherwise. Even her close associations, as with the Reverend Jesse Jackson , augur otherwise. There is something unseemly in Ms. Fiorina’s posturing on Israel in...

In California Senate primary, Republicans fear RINO label WASHINGTON — In California and across the nation, it's open season on RINOs. For many conservatives, there's nothing worse than being a RINO — that's a Republican In Name Only, a moderate, a politician who's allegedly squishy on core principles and a little too independent. When California Republicans go to the polls to choose a Senate candidate next month, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore says he'll be the only non-RINO on the ballot. He says both of his challengers, former Rep. Tom Campbell and former businesswoman Carly Fiorina, are true RINOS: Campbell because he...

DeVore and Campbell explained their reasoning in interviews. "I certainly view it as a symptom of the fact that the federal government has still not become serious about implementing or enforcing immigration law," DeVore said. "You know, the Arizona law is a cry for help for the federal government to start doing its job. And I think the reaction from Democrats against it is just more proof that not only do the Democrats not oppose illegal immigration, they in fact celebrate it." Should California pass a similar law? "I think California would benefit from passing a similar law, but it...

MEAN MORRIS Some California conservatives were scratching their heads over an email being sent around by longtime Democrat and Clinton adviser Dick Morris, telling California Republicans not to support Senate candidate Tom Campbell, who has been leading a number of different polls, and who has declined to sign the Americans for Tax Reform pledge to not support tax increases. "Guess Campbell didn't take any of Morris's advice or a phone call," joked one California political consultant. Morris has gained the reputation for using his emailed newsletter and Fox News appearances to criticize candidates he has attempted to rope into any...

Youngstown's NBC affiliate, WFMJ, is reporting that a Campbell city ordinance banning the sale of guns within the city has been repealed after sparking controversy among council and residents. From the story: The ordinance was originally passed in January with the intention of stopping gun shops from opening in the city. Last weekend, protesters gathered to voice their opposition to the ordinance, which also prohibited residents from selling firearms privately. Council said they will attempt to craft a new law that would be more narrowly tailored at some point in the future. According to earlier coverage from The Vindicator, the...

Get used to seeing a clip of Sen. Barbara Boxer asking an Army Corps of Engineers brigadier general to call her "senator" rather than "ma'am" during a 2009 hearing. GOP Senate candidate Tom Campbell has just launched a TV ad featuring the clip from last year.

An Iowa-based conservative group announced Monday it has launched an attack ad against Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Campbell focusing on his past tax positions. The American Future Fund's 30-second commercial declares, "Campbell has a more than 20-year record of higher taxes and spending." AFF spokesman Nick Ryan said his group is spending $1 million for a one-week ad airing mostly on cable stations throughout the state. Campbell is in a competitive three-way Republican primary against former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine. . . .

"The greatest threat facing gay people worldwide is the spread of radical anti-gay Islam. Unfortunately, Tom Campbell's record makes it clear he either doesn't understand that or is unwilling to confront it." -- Jimmy LaSalvia, Exec. Dir. GOPProud From Eric Dondero: We're generally not in the business of endorsements here at Libertarian Republican. That's the job of the Republican Liberty Caucus. And as members of the RLC we back 99% of all the candidates Dave Nalle, and the RLC Board endorse. Though, no official endorsements have been made, it's safe to say that the vast majority of Libertarian Republicans are...

Election 2010: California Senate California Senate: Boxer's Support Remains in Low 40s Incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer now receives no more than 43% support against any of her top three GOP opponents in her reelection bid for U.S. Senate in California, but they aren't gaining ground either. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of likely voters shows Boxer barely ahead of Congressman Tom Campbell 43% to 41% for the second straight month. Only six percent (6%) of voters would choose some other candidate in this match-up, while 10% are not sure. These results are identical to those found in March,...

Republican Senate candidate in California Tom Campbell is the frontrunner in the nomination fight and his ties to radical Muslims, specifically Sami al-Arian, have become an issue, but the story is bigger. Campbell has surrounded himself with people tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, who recruited him for their political agenda in a campaign that ultimately reached the Bush White House. In November 2001, a Brotherhood document called “The Project� from 1982 was found by Swiss police raiding the home of Youssef Nada, a Brotherhood leader thought to be financing terrorism. It detailed a sophisticated plan to incrementally bring Sharia...

... The former California lawmaker, finance director, Stanford law professor, congressman and Berkeley business school dean offers substance over flash, insight over sound bites, accomplishment over confrontation. We recommend him. If civility and bipartisanship really are important to voters, Campbell ought to have the upper hand in the race against Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore. Unfortunately, Campbell's gentlemanly demeanor and thoughtfully nuanced positions can be a handicap on today's campaign trail. The electorate in the primary, more conservative than the general population, may be inclined toward the more charismatic and simplistic Fiorina, if not DeVore, who is furthest to the...

Republican Senate candidate in California Tom Campbell is the frontrunner in the nomination fight and his ties to radical Muslims, specifically Sami al-Arian, have become an issue, but the story is bigger. Campbell has surrounded himself with people tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, who recruited him for their political agenda in a campaign that ultimately reached the Bush White House. In November 2001, a Brotherhood document called “The Project” from 1982 was found by Swiss police raiding the home of Youssef Nada, a Brotherhood leader thought to be financing terrorism. It detailed a sophisticated plan to incrementally bring Sharia Law...