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Internet Home Of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Richard Clarke,"I think the American people needed to know the facts" Since his appearance on 60 Minutes last Sunday, Richard Clarke has faced a barrage of attacks, which he says are coming from people in black helicopters talking to him through voices he is hearing in his head. "It pains me to have Condoleezza Rice and the others mad at me," he told Good Morning America. "But I think the American people needed to know the facts, my friend Saddam Hussein was mistreated by this administrations he is a nice person who...

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, keynote speaker Dick Cheney made an appeal for unity with Europe when he spoke of "our common understanding that today’s threats must be met where they are or those threats will come to us." He also stated that the key to security is through prosperity, adding: "But while we know that security and prosperity are mutually dependent, we must go a step further and ask how they are best achieved. The answer lies in the values of freedom, justice and democracy…Democracies do not breathe the anger and the radicalism that drag down whole...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush will travel to Orlando next weekend for his first major campaign rally, underscoring how important Central Florida is in winning the White House. The noon rally, expected to draw 12,000 supporters to the Orange County Convention Center on Saturday, will cap a week in which Bush and other administration officials barnstorm the country to focus on the first anniversary of the war in Iraq and on the global battle against terrorism.

from a Chicago Sun-Times article from January 12, 2004: "Still blond and even boyish at 62, Gephardt has changed little in style and physical appearance. Although he joins obligatory criticism of Bush by calling him a ''miserable failure,'' he sometimes slips by referring to him as ''President Bush'' instead of calling him just ''Bush'' in the current Democratic style. The old pro-life, pro-tax cut (urging a 30 percent top marginal rate) Gephardt disappeared long ago, but he still evokes moderation and restraint."

Mon Dec 1, 6:05 PM ET Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dick Gephardt (news - web sites), D-Mo., casts a shadow on the flag as he is introduced to speak at a rally Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, at the police station in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Gephardt, faulting President Bush (news - web sites) for ``gambling with our safety,'' on Monday called for spending $100 billion over five years on homeland security.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Dick Gephardt's disgraceful rhetoric underscores perfectly why Washington politicians rarely become Presidents. As Retired General H. Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11, has said, "Sometimes people in a position of power lose perspective on right and wrong." Unfortunately, Congressman Gephardt is one of those who has lost perspective on right vs. wrong. He is so intent on winning the Democratic primary, that he has forgotten the effect his words have, not just on those serving overseas, but on our enemies as well. It is one thing for the Congressman to disagree with President Bush's stance...

<p>TOKYO -- Nintendo's Game Boy Advance hand-held machine will work as a videophone with an attachment that comes with a digital camera, earphone and microphone and is expected to go on sale in December only in Japan.</p> <p>The Campho Advance from Kyoto-based Digital Act, which makes mobile and Internet equipment, slips into the top of the Game Boy Advance just like any video-game cassette.</p>

"Open Letter to Dick Morris" Posted by Doc Farmer Saturday, August 23, 2003 Dear Dick Morris, I recently read your article regarding media bias (see link at the bottom) and found it quite interesting. Granted, I’ve been aware of media bias for a long time now. Accuracy in Media (AIM) and the Media Research Centre have been telling folks about the leftist slant in the news for years. Bernard Goldberg’s ''Bias'' was a well-written eye opener regarding just the kind of shenanigans that really go on in the newsroom. I understand how censorship works, and you did a very good...

I have been working for some time on the conversion of a Democrat friend of mine. She naturally accepts as legitimate any criticism which she hears of President Bush, regardless of the source. Today she has sent me an e-mail concerning a supposed disclosure by Senator Richard Durbin of testimony of CIA Director George Tenet in a closed hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Senator Durbin stated that Tenet admitted that the White House had insisted upon the inclusion in the President's State of the Union speech of the sentence concerning uranium from Africa. Before replying, I would like some...

<p>WASHINGTON - In an article headlined "The Middlest Middle-of-the-Road Democrat," Fortune Magazine highlighted Rep. Richard Gephardt's willingness to challenge his party's liberal traditions.</p> <p>"With his Robert Redford good looks, telegenic personality and relative youth, Gephardt is the very picture of a New Democrat," the magazine gushed.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is debating whether it is worth holding further nuclear talks with North Korea, following Pyongyang's vague threats to a U.S. envoy this week that it might test or even export nuclear weapons, senior U.S. officials said Friday.</p>

GepCare Will "Destroy" Economy Six Times Over April 24, 2003 Congressman Dick Gephardt's health care plan proposes to take money from workers, and lavish it on corporations who do the congressman's bidding. This isn't a healthcare plan; it's a win-the- Democratic-presidential-nomination plan. This is a classic example of how the left totally distorts the free market and tax cuts, and gets away with proposing programs that are far more damaging to the budget and the overall health of the economy than any press person will dare point out. According to Gephardt himself, the first three years of his stupid universal...

<p>By Nedra Pickler, Associated Press, 4/23/2003 09:59 NEW YORK (AP) Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt on Wednesday detailed his plan to give all Americans access to health insurance, the centerpiece of his presidential campaign and what he called the ''moral issue of our time.''</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic Rep. Dick Gephardt said Wednesday that if elected president, he would move to scrap President Bush's reduction of income tax rates in favor of a tax credit to help businesses pay for health care.</p> <p>"I do not believe that we can retain any of the relief on rates," Gephardt said of the provision in the 2001 law. "But I will argue, as I have throughout, that my tax cuts will be of more benefit to all taxpayers, and certainly with middle income and low income taxpayers, than with the president's tax bill."</p>

I can count on two hands the number of votes I'll get!

Received this in an email today from an old friend in my TH days. Get the free powerpoint viewer here, to view this. OK, so it's a vanity post. So SUE me!

<p>During his years in Congress, Dick Armey was a firm and incisive defender of conservative values. Individual constitutional liberties against the government were very much among them. In his December 6 farewell address at the National Press Club, the retiring Republican Majority Leader warned of the "awful, dangerous seduction" of sacrificing our freedoms for safety in our war to defeat "this insidious threat that comes right into our neighborhood."</p>

Smelling blood in the water, Democrats and their media sharks have renewed their complaints about Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's speeches in the 1990s to the Southern white-rights group, the Council of Conservative Citizens. But there's a reason Democrats stopped pretending in 1999 they were outraged by Lott's visits to the allegedly racist group. That's because top House Democrat Richard Gephardt did the same thing in the early 1980s, when he courted a Missouri chapter of the group's more extreme precursor, the Metro South Citizens Council. News of Gephardt's ties to the white-rights group was an open secret in Missouri,...

You either flip or you flop. That's the political philosophy of Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.). By keeping his ear close to the ground, he has won a lot of elections and stood on both sides of controversial issues. As a candidate for re-election, he is a walking contradiction. In his latest television commercial, a shirt-sleeved Durbin portrays himself as a staunch ally of working people. He says that tariffs from steel imports should be used to help steelworkers with their pensions. Sounds like a good idea. But Durbin has failed to win legislative approval for this proposal. The ad...