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Louisiana's Governor Bobby Jindal believes that President Obama is a U.S. citizen. He'll also sign Louisiana HB 561 if it reaches his desk. The bill, introduced by state Rep. Alan Seabaugh (R-Shreveport) and Sen. A.G. Crowe (R-Slidell), requires that all candidates for federal office present original or certified copies of their birth certificates before appearing on Louisiana ballots. Similar bills have been drafted in other states, fueled by belief that Obama isn't really a U.S. citizen. Donald Trump has hammered the issue, claiming that there is "a real question" about Obama's birth certificate. Trump's stance on this has earned him...

The oldsters hit back. Two of the best movies this year have been by directors in their seventies, namely Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and Roman Polanski's The Ghost, and here comes a third. At the grand old age of 72, Sir Ridley Scott makes a triumphant return to form with this magnificent epic. It's an affectionate nod to one of the world's favourite legends, but it isn't content to be just a roistering romp, along the lines of the classic Errol Flynn picture of 1938.

(P I blog - not a story - Russell Crowe celebrated the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last month by enjoying an all-night drinking session with his wife. The Oscar winner was awarded the 2,404th star in Hollywood on April 12 and his plaque was placed on the sidewalk in front of the Kodak Theater, where the Academy Awards are held. But instead of marking the honor with a lunch, Crowe asked organizers to host a bash for his family - and the "Gladiator" star was still partying with wife Danielle when the sun came...

AN ACT To enact R.S. [Revised Statutes] 22:971.2, relative to preserving the freedom of all citizens of Louisiana to provide for their own health care; to provide that no law or rule shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer or health care provider to participate in any health care system or health insurance plan; to provide for legislative intent; to provide criminal penalties; and to provide for related matters. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana: Section 1. R.S. 22:971.2 is hereby enacted to read as follows: §971.2. The Louisiana Health Care Freedom Act A. Legislative findings and...

Louisiana State Senator A.G. Crowe (R, Slidell) is introducing a bill for the 2010 legislative session in Baton Rouge that would make Obamacare illegal if it violates state laws, effectively making Obamacare null and void in the Pelican State. Senator Crowe states that his bill "provides that no law or rule shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer or health care provider to participate in any health care system or health insurance." Crowe's proposed Senate Bill (download .pdf file) begins as follows... Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

LONDON — Russell Crowe is in the early stages of negotiations to reprise the role of Jack Aubrey as a British sea captain in a new movie version from the Master & Commander series of novels. Crowe told The Associated Press on Friday that a script based mostly on the eleventh novel of Patrick O'Brian's 20-novel series, The Reverse of the Medal, had been written, but that discussions were at a very early stage. (snip) The AubreyMaturin novels consists of 20 books and one partly written before his death in 2000 by O'Brian, all set during the Napoleonic Wars. The...

"What does it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" reads the verse from the New Testament in the book of Matthew (16:26). Yes, we know that old adage about "speak no ill of the dead," but we have an idea, from where the portly admiral is right now, he'd have a hard time reaching out to us in retribution. After all, we're doing something the "mainstream media" failed to do in their fawning and sanitized obituaries. MilitaryCorruption.com is reminding you of the evil this once-respected military leader did later in his...

Archbishop Raymond Burke made it to the Fox Theatre Saturday — but only as a punch line. When Bob Costas, the evening's host, walked onto the stage he scanned the crowd, gazing into the back rows of the upper balcony before breaking the prolonged silence."All right," Costas quipped. "I guess the archbishop is not showing up."Last week, Burke resigned from the board of the Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center Foundation because Crow — a vocal supporter of embryonic stem cell research — was scheduled to headline the annual fundraiser and concert. "Sheryl Crow made it clear that she is coming...

TALLAHASSEE - Governor Charlie Crist today met with Laurie David and Sheryl Crow at the University of Florida to discuss his environmental priorities. The Governor joined the Stop Global Warming Virtual March sponsored by www.StopGlobalWarming.org and affirmed his commitment to host an environmental summit following the 2007 Legislative Session. “Global warming is one of the most important issues our state and our country will face during this century,” said Governor Crist. “The Stop Global Warming Virtual March is a broad-based, non-partisan effort to address this monumental challenge.” The Stop Global Warming Virtual March is a non-profit, non-partisan effort to create...

A rare albino crow has been spotted in B.C.'s Fort Langley area, but it has now gone missing and members of an animal rights group are asking for help finding it. Peter Hamilton, of the Lifeforce Foundation, says the group received a call last week that the bird had been spotted in the Fraser Valley community east of Vancouver. "We went down and determined it was, in fact, an albino crow," he said in an interview Wednesday. The bird was being guarded by its parents and is not a full albino as it does not have the pink eyes which...

Monday, 5 September 2005, 17:39 GMT 18:39 UK Actor Crowe's message for America Russell Crowe has launched his Depression-era film Cinderella Man at the Venice Film Festival saying the US cannot take its wealth for granted. Crowe, 41, who plays boxer Jim Braddock and Renee Zellweger who plays his wife, both attended the European premiere. He said: "A really important part of making this film is to remind America that the current abundance they are experiencing is not an absolute right." The film got a lukewarm reception when it was released in the US in June. It was also overshadowed...

explains al-Qaida plot © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com "Al-Qaida kidnaps actor Russell Crowe." That was a headline that was never written. But it nearly was, according to the star of "Gladiator." Russell Crowe In the upcoming issue of GQ magazine, the Australian-born actor tells, for the first time, the details of a broad terror plot by the Islamic terror network to kidnap Hollywood stars as part of a "cultural destabilization plan." Crowe has revealed he was approached by the FBI in the months leading up to his Academy Award win for Gladiator in 2001 and warned, vaguely, of the threat: "That was the first...

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network wanted to kidnap Russell Crowe as part of a "cultural destabilization plot," the Oscar-winning actor is quoted as saying in an Australian magazine. In an interview published in the March edition of Australia's GQ Magazine, Crowe said FBI agents told him of the threat in 2001, in the months before he won a best actor Oscar for his role as Maximus in Gladiator. "That was the first (time) I'd ever heard the phrase al-Qaida," Crowe said. "It was about - and here's another little touch of irony - taking iconographic...

WASHINGTON - The CIA has told Henry Kissinger to kiss off, saying his services as an informal adviser to Director Porter Goss are no longer needed. The pink slip came in the form of a terse communiqué from Goss to Kissinger - the vaunted diplomat and counselor to Presidents - and other members of an intelligence advisory board that meets several times a year, Newsweek magazine reported yesterday. The council of wise men recently sacked by the new CIA honcho includes 9/11 Commissioner and ex-Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), who heads New School University in New York; former Sen. Sam Nunn...

(CNSNews.com) - Two of Sen. John Kerry's surrogates on Monday accused President Bush of politicizing the military strategy in Iraq, but when a reporter asked how the senator's plan would be better than Bush's, a Kerry aide promptly halted the discussion. The episode took place during a 2:15 p.m. conference call that featured two military advisers to the Kerry campaign. They spoke about a press report that suggested the United States would hold off on any major combat operations in Iraq until after the Nov. 2 election. At the start of the question-and-answer portion of the call, Agence France-Presse reporter...

The General Accounting Office reported last week that 16 percent of our National Guard and reserve pilots and aircrew have transferred out of their combat positions. An additional 18 percent of those surveyed have stated their intent to transfer or leave. Did they suddenly lose their zeal for flying? Are they fatigued after years of service? Are they avoiding possible deployment for an invasion of Iraq? None of the above; the pilots' departure has nothing to do with flying or with war. The GAO discovered that those pilots departed because the Clinton administration ordered them to receive the anthrax vaccine,...

Recent Letters to the Daily Oklahoman..... Friday, July 2, 2004 Moore film is mainly propaganda I've just seen "Fahrenheit 9/11" and my first impression is that Joseph Goebbels would be very proud. From the fallacy that the Republicans stole the 2000 presidential election in Florida to the claim that Afghanistan was just a prelude to President Bush's long-planned attack on Iraq, solely to avenge his father, Michael Moore uses selected sound bites, video clips, ambush interviews, discredited experts and emotionally charged testimonials to model a story that's little more than propaganda. Admittedly, some questions need to be asked and Moore...

News Advisory: Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change, a group of retired ambassadors and senior military officers, will hold a Morning Newsmaker news conference Wednesday, June 16, at 8 a.m. EDT at the National Press Club (Zenger Room), 13th floor, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. The topic will be "The Need for Change in U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy." The group includes former ambassadors Jeffrey Davidow, William DePree, Charles Freeman Jr., William Harrop, Arthur Hartman, H. Allen Holmes, Samuel Lewis, Princeton Lyman, Jack Matlock Jr., Donald McHenry, Richard Murphy, David Newsom, Phyllis Oakley, John Reinhardt, Ronald Spiers, Nicholas Veliotes...

Those who go to sleep at night with the threat of terrorism on their minds might be surprised to learn that Muslim CEOs are running companies that watch over our safety. • Fuad El-Hibri is CEO of BioPort, the only U.S. maker of anthrax vaccine. • Houssam Salloum is CEO of Axiolog, a Detroit firm developing a high-tech system for tracking international cargo into vulnerable U.S. ports. • Nafa Khalaf is CEO of Detroit Contracting, which after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 secured the five major treatment plants that supply water to 4.5 million residents of the Detroit area....

MOVIE REVIEW | 'MASTER AND COMMANDER'Master of the Sea (and the French)By A. O. SCOTTPublished: November 14, 2003 O you want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly? Do you want your children to grow up singing the 'Marseillaise'?" This is Jack Aubrey, commander of H.M.S. Surprise, rousing the patriotism of his men as they prepare to engage a faster, larger French vessel somewhere off the coast of South America. This ship is England, he proclaims, and "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," which opens nationwide today, makes his point with magnificent vigor and precision.This stupendously entertaining movie,...

<p>Twentieth Century Fox on Friday will release the first of what it hopes will be a series of movies about a courageous British naval captain named Jack Aubrey. But "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" is just about the opposite of the Hollywood norm for would-be movie franchises.</p>

Louisiana State Representative A.G. Crowe, R-Slidell, introduced House Bill 3, which creates the "In God we Trust" specialty license plate. The bill has been signed by the Governor. The establishment of the plate requires that there is a minimum of one thousand applicants for the plate. The plate will be restricted to passenger vehicles. The Dept. of Public Safety, who would issue the plate, would collect an annual fee of $25 and disburse the money received equally to area Boy Scouts of America councils, area Girl Scoouts of America councils, and to the ARC (Association for Retarded Citizens) of Louisiana....