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AS SPECIAL COUNSEL to President Richard Nixon Charles Colson was known as Nixon's hatchet man and one of the most hated men in America. After he left the Nixon administration he was caught in the snare of Watergate. Although he was only peripherally involved in the scandal, he pled guilty and served seven months in prison on an attenuated criminal charge related to the Ellsberg break-in.In 1976 Colson published Born Again, a best-selling account of the conversion experience that followed his government service but preceded his incarceration. When Nicholas von Hoffman reviewed the book for the Washington Post that year,...

'We're not suggesting that [Supreme Court nominee John Roberts] condones clinic violence," said NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan recently. But that's exactly what NARAL's new television ad attacking Judge Roberts does. ----------------break------------------ As for the ad, it focuses on Emily Lyons, who was injured when Eric Rudolph bombed an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., in 1998. Says Mrs. Lyons, "When a bomb ripped through my clinic, I almost lost my life." The announcer then says, "Supreme Court nominee John Roberts filed court briefs supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber." The "court briefs" in question is an...

How many stories has Newsweek written about the Bush administration allegedly "skewing intelligence" by relying on raw, insufficiently sourced data? How many times has it lamented that these mistakes have hurt the U.S. abroad? Too many to count. What would be funny if it weren't so tragic is that some of them were authored by reporters Michael Isikoff and John Barry, the very duo that has itself dealt the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan a blow by stretching poorly sourced information into a false report about the deliberate desecration of the Koran by U.S. interrogators. Isikoff and Barry wrote in the...

On Thursday, March 24, the director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida sent an e- mail to advocates for the abortion operation telling them how to "express your appreciation" to Florida Republican senators who split with the GOP leadership by voting against a bill intended to save Terri Schiavo, according to David Bereit, national director of American Life League's STOPP International. Story Continues Below The message listed the names and contact information for the six senators. In a Wednesday, March 30, phone conversation with David Bereit, the Planned Parenthood executive admitted to sending the e-mail...

Jeff Gannon A Voice of the New Media The voice goes silent. Because of the attention being paid to me I find it is no longer possible to effectively be a reporter for Talon News. In consideration of the welfare of me and my family I have decided to return to private life. Thank you to all those who supported me.

WASHINGTON Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, has been pilloried for suggesting that women may be biologically unsuited to succeed at mathematics. He may have a point. Just look at Condoleezza Rice. She's clearly a well-educated, intelligent woman, versed in Brahms and the Bolsheviks, who has just been rewarded for her loyalty with the most plum assignment in the second Bush cabinet. Yet her math skills are woefully inadequate. She can't do simple equations. She doesn't even know that X times zero equals zero. If you multiply 1,370 dead soldiers times zero weapons of mass destruction, that equals zero...

Hannity chomping on him for that comment. I can't wait to see that scum's face tomorrow night....if he shows up, that is. He may be hiding in George Soros' lap.

ctober 18, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST The Lowest Blow By WILLIAM SAFIRE ashington The memoir about the Kerry-Edwards campaign that will be the best seller will reveal the debate rehearsal aimed at focusing national attention on the fact that Vice President Cheney has a daughter who is a lesbian. That this twice-delivered low blow was deliberate is indisputable. The first shot was taken by John Edwards, seizing a moderator's opening to smarmily compliment the Cheneys for loving their openly gay daughter, Mary. The vice president thanked him and yielded the remaining 80 seconds of his time; obviously it was not a...

PRESIDENT Bush has surged to a six-point lead in his battle to stay at the White House — amid a backlash against election rival John Kerry among women voters. Senator Kerry’s popularity plunged after he singled out vice-president Dick Cheney’s daughter as a lesbian in the final head-to-head TV debate. The comment while answering a question on beliefs about homosexuality enraged her family. Mum Lynne Cheney demanded an apology after accusing Kerry of a “tawdry political trick”. Bush now leads his Democrat challenger by 50 points to 44 — his strongest lead for three weeks, according to a poll by...

Moderator: Senator Kerry, Do you think people are born gay? Kerry: Bob, Did you know that Vice President Cheney's daughter is a lesbian? That's right folks...She's a lesbo. Let me spell it for you: L E S B I A N. For all you people in the swing states, a lesbian is a woman that prefers to have sex with another woman and that's not how God wanted us to be. Now my own daughters might look like horsefaced dykes, but they are actually not gay. They are straight. They are heterosexual. So when you go to vote this fall,...

President Bush gingerly waded into the controversy over John Kerry's remarks about Vice President Cheney's lesbian daughter yesterday. "The President of the United States does not believe it was appropriate for Sen. Kerry to bring [up] Mary Cheney at the debate," said White House press secretary Scott McClellan. <...snip of Kerry's stupid excuse on the subject> Mayor Bloomberg offered his 2 cents. "I think it was inappropriate," Bloomberg said. "I think everybody's orientation is their own business.... Nobody should be talking about that."

The group attacking U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave in television ads is now on the hunt for Rep. Tom Tancredo - with a radio ad that began airing Wednesday.In the ad, a woman is typing a letter to Tancredo. Then the narrator Says:"My husband and I work hard to teach our children the values of acceptance and the evils of racism, which is why we're so disappointed in your conduct."You make a career of trying to punish immigrant workers, then turn around and use cheap, illegal labor to remodel your home. It's insulting to us all."The reference to illegal labor is...

In a desperate attempt to win the White House, John Kerry and John Edwards have sunk to practicing the lowest form of politics — using the personal lives of the other candidates and their family members for political gain. Both John Kerry's and John Edwards's specific mention of the sexual orientation of Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter during the debates was a deliberate and calculated political attempt to suppress religious conservative voters from turning out to the polls for President George W. Bush. During last night's presidential debate, Senator Kerry said, "If you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter,...

Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, had the final rebuttal in Wednesday's final presidential debate. Speaking to a crowd of supporters in Pittsburgh, Mrs. Cheney said, "[John Kerry] is not a good man." It was a response to Mr. Kerry's unsolicited and gratuitous reference to the Cheneys' lesbian daughter, Mary, during the debate. Somehow the fact that Mr. Cheney has a lesbian daughter means that the president is a hypocrite for supporting the Federal Marriage Amendment— or something like that. It doesn't, and Mrs. Cheney has every right to return Mr. Kerry's insult in kind. Initially, John...

WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate John Kerry (search) launched into damage control Thursday afternoon after angering Vice President Cheney (search) and his family and alienating some voters by mentioning that Cheney's daughter, Mary, is gay.“I love my daughters. They love their daughter. I was trying to say something positive about the way strong families deal with this issue,” Kerry said in a statement released from the campaign trail in Las Vegas. Kerry was there to speak to the AARP, the nation's largest organization for seniors. First lady Laura Bush had addressed the crowd earlier. But the remarks may have come too...

CORAOPOLIS, Pa. Oct. 14, 2004 — Lynn Cheney accused Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry of pulling a "cheap and tawdry political trick," apparently for invoking her daughter's sexuality in his debate with President Bush. Asked Wednesday night whether homosexuality is a choice, Kerry noted that one of Vice President Dick Cheney's daughters is a lesbian, and said she would probably affirm that she was born that way. "We're all God's children," Kerry said during the debate in Tempe, Ariz. Mrs. Cheney made clear she thought Kerry had crossed a line into family privacy when she introduced her husband to a...

Jimmy Carter provides us all with moments that make us wonder about what was in the drinking water back in 1976. The funeral of a stricken child in Maryland provided yet one more infamy to add to that list. The encounter went as follows: Mattie J.T. Stepanek, a 13-year-old Rockville, Md., boy who "wrote books of inspirational poems that climbed the bestseller charts," died last week of muscular dystrophy. Among those attending his funeral, the Washington Post reports, was Jimmy Carter... Why would Jimmy Carter go to such trouble? To hurl more invective at President Bush. The man has stooped...

<p>He was also America's first divorced president. But Ronald Reagan's marriage to second wife Nancy was as close and strong a partnership as the White House has ever seen.</p> <p>"I miss her if she just steps out of the room," he wrote in a 1990 autobiography, "Ronald Reagan: An American Life," adding in his dedication, "I cannot imagine life without her."</p>

<p>This week, Sen. John Kerry accused the administration of playing global politics with gas prices. Under scrutiny, that scandalous charge raises more questions about Mr. Kerry than President Bush.</p> <p>The source of the allegations was Bob Woodward's recently published book, "Plan of Attack." Mr. Woodward wrote that the Saudis planed "to fine-tune oil prices to prime the economy in 2004." Mr. Kerry seized upon the text to accuse Mr. Bush of making a "secret deal" with the Saudis to reduce oil prices in time for the election.</p>

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Colorado Avalanche forward Steve Moore will miss the rest of the season with a fractured neck after a hit by Vancouver Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi, prompting a police investigation. Moore also sustained a concussion and deep facial cuts, the Avalanche said Tuesday. He will remain hospitalized in Vancouver indefinitely, Colorado trainer Pat Karns said. Bertuzzi has been suspended indefinitely pending a hearing at the NHL office in Toronto on Wednesday. Moore was slugged in the side of the head by Bertuzzi late in Monday night's game, a 9-2 Colorado victory. Bertuzzi struck him from behind and...