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I am speaking again tonight to Democrats as much as Republicans, asking them to contemplate the recent statements and actions of their Congressional surrogates in both houses - Senator Richard Durbin (D. Illinois) and Representative Charles Rangel (D. New York) - and ask yourselves if they represent you, your values, and your viewpoints. Because, I submit that what is being Left is increasingly at odds with the sensibilities of the majority of both the Democrat Party and the people of America. On Tuesday, Senator Durbin chimed in with his latest denigration of the U.S. Military's actions in the War on...

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CHICAGO -- Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says he won't apologize for comments comparing American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Nazis and Soviet gulags. News of the Democrat's comparison created a buzz around the Internet today, fueled by sound bites of yesterday's Senate floor speech on radio talk shows. By this afternoon, Illinois Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna asked Durbin to apologize. Durbin says the Bush administration should apologize for abandoning the Geneva Conventions. Human-rights activist groups and some lawmakers -- mostly Democrats -- want Bush to close the prison. But administration officials say some of the people who have...

NOTE: Seldom will I do a song in which the parody does not have anything in common with the original. This is one of those cases. The tune just works for what I wanted to say. Nitwit, Dick, weasel MIDI - A SUMMER PLACE You're a Dick Durbin...a Dick Durbin you are...watch your falling star Get your butt...butt off the stage...your phony rage we hear We will say it clear...you are scum, real scum As you give aid and comfort...real aid and comfort Terrorists cheer you on You're a Dick Durbin...a Dick Durbin you are...you've gone way too far You...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The President and First Lady are spending the weekend at Camp David, and there are no planned public appearances. President and Mrs. Bush reported total income last year of $784,219 and paid $207,307 in federal income taxes, according to documents released by the White House on April 15, 2005. Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne reported $1.3 million in taxable income, the White House said. THE WEEK AHEAD: Monday, the President will go to Columbia, South Carolina, where he'll make remarks on strengthening Social Security. Tuesday, the President will go to Springfield, Illinois,...

Father, son arrested as Cheney motorcade passes By PATRICK LESTER Bucks County Courier Times Plenty of people had choice words for Vice President Dick Cheney as they waited in traffic for his motorcade to make its way through Bucks County Monday. But a 68-year-old Warwick man and his son, frustrated that closed roads prevented them from getting home, went beyond what police were willing to tolerate, and an officer used a stun gun to subdue the father before arresting them. Jay Saddington and his son, Randy, 36, both were arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest at York and Almshouse...

ST. LOUIS — Dick Weber (search), considered by many to be among the greatest bowlers ever and a three-time bowler of the year, has died. He was 75. Weber died in his sleep Sunday night at his home in the St. Louis area, said Steve James, retired executive director of the American Bowling Congress Hall of Fame (search). A cause of death was not known. Weber had just returned from the opening of the congress' championships in Baton Rouge, La. James spent Sunday morning with Weber, who gave no indication he was ill. "He was a lot bigger than the...

The President, First Lady and their parents relaxed at the White House today. Former President GHW Bush visited the press corps on duty in the WH press briefing room. QUOTE OF THE DAY: This week, Washington has been marked by pomp and circumstance. In a free nation, these ceremonies are more than pageantry. They underscore that public office is a public trust. America's elected leaders derive their authority from the consent of the American people, whom we serve. This is a high privilege, and that privilege carries a serious responsibility: to confront problems now, instead of passing them on to...

Okay. If your children are listening... Well, never mind. This is okay for children because the UN is doing this. Never mind. If your kids are with you, it's fine. Don't worry. Forget I said that. (story) "A new global campaign to stop the spread of AIDS uses three animated characters dressed as condoms who deliver a serious message in humorous public service spots in 41 languages: If you're going to have sex, use a condom. The short spots are being offered free to broadcasters, community groups and universities and have the potential of reaching 80 percent of the world's...

HUMAN EVENTS has learned that Vice President Dick Cheney has agreed to speak at the 32nd annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). CPAC is the nation’s largest gathering of grassroots conservative leaders and activists and was a favorite annual event of President Ronald Reagan. Mr. Cheney, who did speak at CPAC last year, will be the featured speaker at the "Presidential Dinner" on Thursday, February 17. As HUMAN EVENTS reported yesterday, also speaking at this year's event will be bestselling author Ann Coulter, one of the conservative movement's favorite pundits. According to sponsors, this year's conference is...

Liberal nightmareDonald Rumsfeld agrees to stay on as Sec. of Defense     This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

WORLD Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound has called for a hearing into allegations former Olympic sprint champion Marion Jones used steroids. Victor Conte, head of controversial San Francisco laboratory BALCO, told an ABC television programme due to be aired in the US tonight he had witnessed Jones injecting herself with banned substances. "It's evidence (Conte's comments)," Pound told Reuters in a telephone interview from his Montreal office today. "I would say it is now time when we can test her credibility and decide whether you believe him (Conte) or her. "We would look to USADA (US Anti-Doping Agency) to do...

Bill’s library is launching pad for Hillary By DICK MORRIS Syndicated Columnist Last week’s events in Little Rock had less to do with a library retrospective of the Bill Clinton years than a campaign launch for the prospective presidency of Hillary Clinton. Doubt it? Then why was it Hillary, not Bill, who appeared on all the talk shows? It’s his library. But it’s her candidacy. So she did all the softball TV interviews, not him — reminding voters of her availability for 2008 while seeming to talk about the ’90s. The timing is perfect: Democrats demoralized by John Kerry’s defeat...

The behavior of candidates for political office often reflects what they are seeing in their private polls. That being so, I suspect that the Kerry-Edwards private polls look pretty grim, unlike the public polls which purport to show them running neck-and-neck with the Bush-Cheney ticket. To put it bluntly, both John Kerry and John Edwards are beginning to look more than a little loony. Take for example Kerry's astonishing comparison of terrorists with prostitutes and gamblers. In an interview with the New York Times Magazine, Kerry said: We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are...

Keep reading if you wore your official aluminum Kerry/Edwards hat during the debate. Also, if you still get your news from The Daily Show, read on. You can stop reading if you remember riding the NYC subway's during the RNC (I did). Here I go again, like Michael Moore with more facts, less fat. I give you - Part 4: You are so liberal if.

On Friday September 24th I and my fellow college republicans will attend a fundraising dinner for Senatorial candidate Dr. Tom Coburn. Vice President Cheney will be there as well! The dinner is $500 a place. BUT..since we are college republicans we have been given a special rate. $50 a plate. I will take my camera and report back to you how the event went. I am so excited. I just found out about the dinner today! You guys think I'll get to meet the man himself? What should I ask him? Dare I say..I might get my pic taken with...

Clintonistas move in for the kill — of Kerry The Democratic convention failed to give Sen. John Kerry the bounce that he needed and anticipated because, at the end, after Clinton, Obama, and Edwards had oriented the convention to a domestic agenda, he tacked the wrong way and emphasized foreign policy and war to the exclusion of healthcare and the economy. The Republican convention, by contrast, was carefully aimed at promoting the saliency of President Bush’s anti-terror agenda and emphasizing the dangerous threat under which we all live. Now comes the third convention: the anniversary of the attacks of Sept....

Dick Cheney is on C-Span now.

THE BAGEL CANDIDACY By DICK MORRIS --------------------------------------------------------- July 30, 2004 -- I LOVED Bill Clinton's speech. I was inspired by John Edwards. Bar ack Obama thrilled me. Max Cleland made me grow as a person as I heard him . . . And then there was John Kerry. All around him was eloquence but, in the center of the bagel, there was a speech that was a letdown. And did he just tell 140,000 men and women fighting in Iraq that they are there because of a mistake?

It’s the 2004 Democrat Veep Pageant!who’s gonna win???