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The Liberals are dead in the West and French Quebec. Only Ontario can save them now. Will they? And do they know what Alberta and Quebec will do if Paul Martin's corrupt party is renewed by Ontario? The Conservatives have done everything Ontario voters "told" them to do to make themselves palatable as an alternative. Their leader, Stephen Harper, is young and bilingual and has made the party's policies more centrist. On the other hand, the Liberal party is in a shambles. Chretien's former staff and ministers fire public broadsides at Paul Martin. Liberal MPs are defecting, like Edmonton's David...

Chretien's lawyers back in court in challenge to GomeryFormer prime minister Jean Chretien. (CP PHOTO/Tom Hanson) OTTAWA (CP) - Lawyers for Jean Chretien are objecting to an effort by Justice John Gomery to send his own lawyer to court to defend his impartiality as head of the federal sponsorship inquiry. The former prime minister has asked Federal Court to remove Gomery from his post, alleging that the judge is biased and unable to deliver an objective evaluation of Chretien's role in the sponsorship affair.Prime Minister Paul Martin has said his government will fight to defend Gomery and keep him in...

OTTAWA—A former senior Liberal official who took secret cash payments to pay party bills says he's willing to testify he met with Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin during the controversial sponsorship program. Benoît Corbeil, the executive director of the Liberals' Quebec wing in 1999-2000, told the Star he met former prime minister Chrétien in a room on the 33rd floor of Montreal's tony Chateau Champlain hotel in the spring of 2000, where the pair talked for 90 minutes. He also said he will testify to regular discussions with Jean Pelletier, Chrétien's former chief-of-staff, whom he met "at least every three...

Prime Minister Paul Martin apologized to the nation Thursday night for a corruption scandal that has shaken his Liberal Party, delivering a rare televised address aimed at rescuing his minority government. Acknowledging an "unjustifiable mess" created by the allegations of money laundering and kickbacks, the embattled leader pledged to call an election within a month after an investigation, expected to be completed by Dec. 15. "Those who are in power are to be held responsible, and that includes me," Martin said of the charges, which have disgusted Canadians and prompted the opposition Conservative Party to threaten a no-confidence vote that...

Allegations of sleaze could topple the government and break up the country Ottawa – Suddenly, an abyss has opened up under Paul Martin's minority Liberal government. Only a few weeks ago, Mr Martin's supporters were looking forward with equanimity to the prospect of the prime minister calling an election some time next year to restore their party to the parliamentary majority it enjoyed for more than a decade until last year. Now, Canada is contemplating the possibility of the Conservative opposition forcing a June poll and going on to form a minority government. In due course, say some alarmed federalists,...

OTTAWA SUN Tue, April 12, 2005 Deputy Tory leader wants Mounties off the case By BILL RODGERS, Parliamentary Bureau Canada's national police force can't be trusted to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into new criminal allegations made at the Adscam inquiry, Conservative deputy leader Peter MacKay suggested yesterday. MacKay points to RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli's "perceived" cosy relationship with the previous government of Jean Chretien and the fact the force was itself tangled up in the ad scandal. "There's already been significant examples of where the RCMP have been too -- and I emphasize 'too' -- closely linked to the Prime...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- C-Murder is no more. The rapper, whose real name is Corey Miller, will now go by C Miller, his publicist said. Miller, brother of Master P, is being held in the Jefferson Parish jail on a second-degree murder conviction. ''People hear the name C-Murder and they don't realize that the name simply means that I have seen many murders in my native Calliope projects neighborhood,'' he said in a statement.

Hugh's been strong in defense of Terri -- till yesterday, when he devoted a lot of time denouncing those (like Dr. James Kennedy) who have called for Jeb to step forward - despite Judge Greer's injunctions - and take action to save Terri Schiavo from a judicially-decreed death. Hugh was going on about the "rule of law" and quoting the old chestnut from "Man for All Seasons," about how if we tear down the laws to get at the devil, we have nothing to defend ourselves when he turns on us.But Hugh doesn't get it: IT's the ACTIVIST JUDGES who've...

If you, gentlemen, really want “to see US politics from another angle”, compare it with politics of present-day totalitarian regimes in Central Asia, for instance. And you’ll realize that there are practically no differences for our “democratic” state and e.g. authoritarian government in Turkmenistan. It’s common knowledge that Turkmen authorities abridge liberty of speech, freedom of the press, exercising control over mass and I-net. They bow down, imposing restrictions on freedom of association and assembly, in order to curtail political activity of non-governmental organizations, including groups of religious minorities. Nijazov does it with the aim of exercising control over latitude...

<p>What is this palce? Are you peeple for reel? Is this some kind of joke?</p>

Hello fellow conservatives I am a junior at the University of North Carolina and I am planning on going to Cancun for spring break. I would just like to have some good advice on how to avoid the evils of spring break while enjoying spring break. I know this is very hard to do as it will be tough to control myself as I see a hole bunch of hot girls walking around in their little bikinis drinking cornonas and margritias. The though of that makes me crazy. As a good conservative I have never kissed a girl and won’t...

Everyone in this American nation of "We the People" is invited to participate actively in reaching the goal of including the EQUAL WORTH AMENDMENT (EWA)in our Constitition of the United States of America! Please go to http://www.equalworthamendment.org for more information. ------------ EQUAL WORTH AMENDMENT (EWA) All persons are fundamentally equal worths in themselves with none superior and none inferior unconditionally and unexceptionally, regardless of age, race, gender, ethnic heritage, formal education, political affiliation, socioeconomic status, religion, profession, or any other title, status, or situation. As such, all persons have the inherent and inalienable basic right to be related to respectfully...

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/11025163.htm HAHAHA ALL YOUR MANDATE ARE BELONG TO DEAN!!!!

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I made a Petition to Pardon Charles Graner. It will be presented to President Bush. Thank you

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

No No, All of the people in the picture survived. This due to quick acting by-standers who immediately helped two people with mouth2mouth but all others did not need help, but rather minor medical attention to cuts and bruises. The cameraman on the van/truck survived as well.

Why Is FR Afraid Of Etherzone and BATR?

I live in a college town in North Carolina, and recently I went into a coffee shop to innocently purchase a cup of coffee. What I instead found was a veritable den of sin, filled with Marxists and DemocRATS. To wit: -The entire place stunk of patchoulli -Patrons were reading 'Tropic of Cancer', 'The Communist Manifesto', and 'Stupid White Men' -- titles that I would never want my good G*d-fearing children getting a hippie's length away from (of course, not a Bible to be found) -Two women were kissing (of course, I could only tell they were women upon further...