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"Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 15, 2010, as she leaves the Republican party policy luncheon. Angle is running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. - AP Photo"Nevada Republican Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle was very well received on Capitol Hill yesterday as she lunched with a group of Republican Senators. According to Elizabeth Letchworth, our guest last night on The ANDREA SHEA KING Show, Sharron was treated like a rock star. Letchworth, founder and editor of GRADEGov.Com and former 26-year elected Secretary of the US Senate has kept her connections and contacts...

As late as eleven days before the Nevada primary the Washington Post desperately attempted to paint a smiley face on Harry Reid’s reelection possibilities. The liberal tabloid used a Mason-Dixon poll that compared Reid’s chances against the two Republicans THEY thought would were leading the race. The news was great for Harry. He was closer to either of them than he had been to that point! Over the next 11 days Sharron Angle, the Nevada TEA party’s candidate roared ahead and won going away. Putting on a brave face Reid said Angle was to opponent he wanted all along. Oh...

Rahm's acceptence statement: I know what a privilege it is to serve in the White House, and am humbled by the responsibility we owe the American people. I’m leaving a job I love to join your White House for one simple reason - like the record amount of voters who cast their ballot over the last month, I want to do everything I can to help deliver the change America needs. We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done. I have loved the time I spent in the House, both...

NORTH PERSIAN GULF (NNS) -- Seven Iraqi naval officers became the first Iraqis to participate in a Commander, Task Group (CTG) 158.1 Commanding Officers' Conference here, June 6. Every month, the COs of CTG 158.1, comprised of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, as well as Royal British and Australian navy leaders, assemble to discuss issues pertaining to the protection of the Iraqi oil terminals, training of Iraqi naval forces and the security of the maritime environment. “It allows the commanding officers of all the units who are conducting maritime security operations (MSO) up here to express some of their concerns...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tom Cruise's faith in Scientology was nurtured at a secretive Southern California desert compound that catered to his needs around the clock, it was reported Saturday. Long before Cruise sprang onto Oprah's couch or blasted Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants, the Hollywood superstar undertook intensive study and counseling at the compound in the late 1980s and early 1990s, current and former Scientologists told the Los Angeles Times. Cruise also trained at the church's better-known facilities, including those in Hollywood, Calif., and Clearwater, Fla. But much of his time was spent at the compound 90 miles east...

Comedian Talks About Personal Responsibility and His Own Lapses in Judgment Jun. 29, 2005 - It came as a shock to many last year when Bill Cosby, one of America's top TV dads and comedians, strongly criticized low-income African-Americans, and then took that message on the road. In a series of "Conversations with Cosby" held in cities with large urban and poor populations, Cosby has said African-Americans are not "holding up their end of the deal" and need to take more responsibility for their families and communities. During these events, Cosby has been tight-lipped with the media, often talking only...

Scientology's Nut Job Founder Cruise a kook? Check out these gems from L. Ron's FBI file JUNE 24--As Tom Cruise and his Scientology cohorts show Katie Holmes the religion's ropes, they surely won't be spending any time focusing on L. Ron Hubbard's wonderfully entertaining FBI file. Which, of course, is TSG's job. This Hubbard guy, the bureau documents reveal, was quite a raving lunatic (who could have imagined?). When he wasn't diming out a supposed Nazi, beefing about his wife, or complaining about being harassed by Cuban commies, Hubbard wrote to the FBI about a bizarre home invasion. Hubbard,...

Katie Holmes' new Scientology "handler" is church "royalty" whose family made millions in business and the stock market - and went on to be plagued by charges of religious harassment and linked to Medicare fraud, The Post has learned. Jessica Rodriguez has emerged as the woman who's been irking Warner Bros. Pictures by shadowing the "Batman Begins" star 24/7 during Holmes' press blitz.

CALLER: Hi, Rush! RUSH: Hi. CALLER: I just wanted to know if you happened to catch George Felos on Fox & Friends this morning. RUSH: Yes. CALLER: What did you think? RUSH: Well, there's a number of things that we have from Felos. One of the things -- what did you want to ask me about regarding Felos? CALLER: Well, when they got to the last question I thought he looked, like, totally stunned. I think he thought that he did really, really good throughout the whole thing looking real calm. RUSH: For people that don't know, what was the...

State Superintendent Jack O'Connell urged all California schools on Tuesday to drop the Narconon antidrug education program after a new state evaluation concluded that its curriculum offers inaccurate and unscientific information. "We'll get a letter out to every school district today, saying this program is filled with inaccuracies and does not reflect widespread medical and factual evidence," O'Connell said of Narconon Drug Prevention & Education, a free program with ties to the Church of Scientology. O'Connell requested the independent evaluation in July after The Chronicle reported in June that Narconon introduced students to some beliefs and methods of Scientology without...

WASHINGTONPRESIDENT BUSH'S emphasis on loyalty as opposed to stature has met its ultimate test. He has saved the biggest of his choices -- the anemic Treasury Department -- for last. The issue can be defined simply: Does he have the nerve to promote his chief of staff, Andrew Card, to the position Card appears to covet? And does he have the nerve to thumb his nose at the tut-tutters who would fault such an appointment on qualification grounds?Recent history would compel a "yes" to both questions, but in an administration in which secrecy is second only to loyalty, recent history...