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Two issues continue to cloud the American political scene. Gay rights and the protection of life. These two issues are seen as so important that many Americans are willing to ignore all other issues such as poverty, housing, foreign policy and health care to vote according to a candidate’s position on homosexuality and abortion. The right to life, abortion, freedom of choice issue is much the tougher issue and a healthy debate should continue until some sort of understanding is reached and codified into laws that are firmly upheld by our courts. I suspect the most workable solution is not...

New York Senator Hillary Clinton acknowledges a 3-minute ovation during the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, August 26. Democratic women Senators appears on stage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 26, 2008. U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention on August 28. US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama watches New York Senator Hillary Clinton addressing the Democratic National Convention on a TV screen in Billings, Montana on August 26. Vice Presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden (R) (D-DE) stand at the podium...

Federal investigators want to question Mary-Kate Olsen about how Heath Ledger got two powerful painkillers that contributed to his accidental overdose death, but she's refusing to talk without immunity, a law enforcement official said Monday. Olsen's lawyer has twice refused requests for her to speak with investigators, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. The lawyer, Michael C. Miller, said the "Full House" actress has nothing to do with the drugs, and has already told the government everything she knows. "We have provided the government with relevant information including facts in the chronology...

Sami al-Arian’s fondest wish is to be deported from the United States to the Palestinian territories. The US government has other plans, however, and will keep him in prison until he testifies to connections between charity front groups and terrorists. The former Florida professor claims he has immunity from further investigations, but somehow his side forgot to commit it to paper: Former university professor Sami al-Arian wants to finish serving his prison sentence for a terrorism-related crime next month so that he can be deported to the Palestinian territories. But the Bush administration is threatening to keep him behind bars...

Clinton declines comment on Spitzer By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer SCRANTON, Pa. - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton carefully sidestepped questions Monday about the sex scandal engulfing Eliot Spitzer, her home state governor and political ally. ADVERTISEMENT "I don't have any comment on that. Obviously I am sending my best wishes and thoughts to the governor and to his family," Clinton said, opening her first campaign swing through Pennsylvania, which holds its presidential primary April 22. Spitzer apologized Monday after he was accused of paying for sex with a high-priced call girl. Authorities say he was caught on a federal...

Former United Nations' chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has challenged U.S. President George Bush's assertion that Iran poses a nuclear threat and the world should take pre-emptive action. Bush has recently renewed calls for a missile defence shield in Europe, issuing grim warnings that Iran could have a ballistic missile capable of reaching Europe and the U.S. by 2015. Blix, who is the executive chair of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and headed the search for WMDs in Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion, acknowledged Iran has a nuclear enrichment program and has long-range missile capability. But he told...

CHICAGO - A federal judge Wednesday denied prosecutors' request to seat an anonymous jury in the trial of a Bridgeview, Ill., man charged with funneling money to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve ruled that prosecutors failed to show Muhammad Salah and his co-defendant Abdelhaleem Ashqar, of Virginia, are likely to intimidate or harass jurors. "(T)he mere invocation of the word `terrorism,' without more, is insufficient to warrant such an anonymous jury," St. Eve wrote in a ruling released Wednesday. Salah's attorney, Michael Deutsch, called the ruling a small but significant step toward a fair...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HIT, Iraq (Jan. 1, 2006) -- The old axiom that the Marines are ‘first in’ often brings to mind the image of infantrymen charging a fire-swept beach or leaping from a hovering helicopter into the thick of battle. However, as the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) began to set up shop in the vicinity of Hit, Iraq, the first MEU Marines to arrive did so carrying communications gear in addition to their weapons. Functioning under an umbrella of security provided by both the MEU’s combat forces and those of the unit they were replacing, the...

Doug just filed a brief After-Action report via cell phone, posted here on his behalf. Self-described rape victim and attorney Susan Estrich came to Pomona College and gave a speech about the media. About 75 mostly Liberals were in attendance. From the back of the room, DFU asked the second question of the evening of Estrich-- specifically why she would avoid speaking with Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick. According to Doug, she said several words in reply and quickly changed the subject, calling on another audience member. Is it possible that DFU was the ONLY person with a REAL question...

ATTN ADMIN MODERATOR - no link here to the ad, just the content of the description. I hope that is okay. ========================================================================= ESTRICH REFUSES TO SPEAK WITH BROADDRICK ========================================================================= SUSAN ESTRICH REFUSES TO SPEAK WITH RAPE VICTIM JUANITA BROADDRICKNOTE:  You are bidding on a print out from my computer of three emails and an unforgettable picture (see below) of Clinton defender and professor of law Susan Estrich arranged in a frame and signed by Doug from Upland (my screen name on FreeRepublic.com and caller name on talk radio).Juanita Broaddrick, known as Jane Doe No. 5 during the Clinton Impeachment, appeared on an historic NBC...

Former supporter of President Clinton to author upcoming book on threats and intimidation directed at her by Clinton's operatives. Hillary Clinton's role in the cover-up to be exposed.Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 5, 2005 -- Kathleen Willey, one-time political fundraiser and former Clinton White House employee, will author a book revealing the campaign of threats and intimidation she faced at the hands of Clinton's operatives. The book will be published by Los Angeles-based World Ahead Publishing, with a release date scheduled for August 2006. The upcoming book—entitled "Target: In the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton" (ISBN 0974670162)—will mark...

Contents IntroductionWhat is the PSM/ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! - OPPOSE GOOGLE'S PLAN Automatically send emails opposing Google's planSign a petition Introduction According to Lee Kaplan, writing for FrontPageMagazine.com: The Internet giant Google will give news agency status to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), according to an anonymous source at Google. If true, the ISM—an affiliate of the anarchist/communist wing of the PLO—would be on par with professional news services such as CNN, Fox, and Associated Press. … The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) are related and interconnected organizations that have one goal: the...

From NHfree.com Man Without I.D. Vows to Board Flight or be Jailed Manchester, NH May 21, 2005 Inspired by New Hampshire's "outlaw manicurist," another Granite Stater is stepping forward to peacefully defy license-related laws. Thirty-five-year old Russell Kanning of Keene has announced he will approach a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Manchester airport on June 11 and refuse to cooperate with the requirement to show ID. "I will either board the plane without I.D. or be arrested," he says. "In a free country you do not need government permission to travel." Kanning has a ticket to Philadelphia and, if...

ST. PETERSBURG - The mother of the 5-year-old girl who was handcuffed at school by police has withdrawn her daughter from Pinellas public schools and is moving out of state, superintendent Clayton Wilcox said Monday night. The development was the latest in a bizarre saga that began Friday, when a videotape of the handcuffing was made public. Since then, wrenching video images of the wailing kindergartener being handcuffed by St. Petersburg police have raced around the globe, airing and re-airing on television news shows in the United States, Great Britain, Spain, around Asia and beyond. On Monday morning, the Largo...

This is to all the thin skinned FReepers who got offended by Hannity's comments at the beginning of his 2/16/05 show. Ease up on the guy! Personally I like him, he's young, good looking (yea, the girls dig him), doesn't back down from a fight (something the Republicans desperately need) and he is on our side (really). The constant bashing he takes on this site makes me ill. One of the things he said yesterday was that we eat our own, who can disagree with that? 2500+ replies (at this writing) on a couple of sentences he spoke shows we...

The Education of Alexandra Polier Falsely accused of having an affair with John Kerry, the “intern” sifts through the mud and the people who threw it. On the evening of Thursday, February 12, as John Kerry had just chalked up his twelfth state-primary win in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, I was at a dinner party in Nairobi, hosted by my friend Matthew Rosenberg, an Associated Press reporter based in East Africa. The male guests were discussing a recent poker game, while the women sat around trading recipes to give to their cooks. It promised to be your...

THIS IS AN UNCORRECTED TRANSCRIPT. P R O C E E D I N G S MR. STEINBERG: Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Brookings. I'm Jim Steinberg, the Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program here. And it's my privilege to welcome and introduce Senator Hillary Clinton from New York as our speaker this morning. It's a cliché when somebody comes up to start an introduction to say, of course our speaker needs no introduction--but in this case it's no cliché. Our speaker, clearly, needs no introduction to this or any other audience. She's had a remarkable...

Coalition Educates on PSM While PSM Obfuscates By Andrew L. Jaffee, November 7, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms A broad coalition of conscientious, peace-loving individuals and organizations has done great work in exposing the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) and International Solidarity Movements (ISM) for what they are: racist, hateful terrorism supporters and enablers. Yesterday, Representative Dixie Allen (Democrat - Dayton), Rabbi Hillel Fox of Congregation Beth Jacob, Dayton, and myself, publisher of netWMD.com, LLC, held a press conference at Ohio's State House at 4 PM, trying to draw public attention to the PSM conference at OSU. We then presented a petition with...

Anti-Semitism in Solidarity Movement Conference at Ohio State By Diana Appelbaum, Guest Columnist, October 27, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms A plan to eliminate a population of five million Jews, by murdering some and, presumably, so terrifying the rest that they flee in fear of their lives, is properly called anti-Semitic.   But what if a Jew proposes such a plan?  And not an apostate Jew.  What if a professing Jew proposes such a plan?  Is it still anti-Semitic?   This is neither an historical nor a hypothetical question.    The International Solidarity Movement, its American, student affiliate the Palestinian Solidarity Movement,...

Please read text below and TAKE ACTION: Take direct action opposing the conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/). Ohio residents: sign petition opposing the conference (http://www.petitiononline.com/amcha803/petition.html). OSU alumni: sign petition opposing the conference (http://www.petitiononline.com/stopISM/petition.html). Download and distribute press release providing extensive info on opposing the conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/press/netWMD_PressRelease.doc). View press coverage regarding conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/press/). This November 7th - 9th, OSU will permit a conference to be held by the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM), the American student arm of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). PSM/ISM claims to be a peace activist organization in support of the Palestinian people, but it has a record of voicing hate-speech,...

Status Update: Opposing Terror Supporters' Meeting at OSU By Andrew L. Jaffee, October 21, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms The coalition working to oppose the Palestinian Solidarity Movement's (PSM) November 7th - 9th planned conference at Ohio State University (OSU) has made some great strides. Approximately 9,200 emails have been sent to OSU and Ohio officials voicing opposition to the conference. Over 1,000 OSU alumni have signed a petition asking the university to cancel the conference. Over 10,000 Ohio residents have signed a petition asking the Ohio Governor Taft to cancel the conference.Our efforts have led many newspapers to cover the planned...

Contents IntroductionWhat is the PSM/ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! Automatically send emails opposing the conference (APPROX 5340 EMAILS SENT TO DATE!)Ohio residents: sign the petitionOSU alumni: sign the petitionSee responses from Ohio officials NOTE: All references/links/articles documenting ISM/PSM activities have been permanently archived by netWMD. Copies available on request. IntroductionThe Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM), the American, student arm of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), will hold its three-day National Conference at The Ohio State University this November 7th through the 9th. This group was denied by Rutgers University to hold the same conference on its campus. It is the...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will speak next month at the Riley Institute's "Women & Politics: Transforming Public Leadership" conference at Furman University. Clinton and CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl will kick off the two-day conference Oct. 6. Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, will speak at the final lecture Oct. 7. The event is sponsored by the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership. Riley served as South Carolina governor and U.S. Secretary of Education. "It'd be certainly significant that Hillary Clinton is coming here...

<p>They would come from all spheres of success, gathering whenever the tie that binds them was -- or was in danger of -- being demeaned. They are corporate executives, artists, politicians, writers and moguls, and all attended one of the nation's nearly 100 public and private historically black colleges and universities. You've heard of some of them: Oprah Winfrey (Tennessee State) and Vernon Jordan (law degree from Howard), Branford Marsalis (Southern) and director Spike Lee (Morehouse), writer Alice Walker (Spelman) and poet Nikki Giovanni (Fisk).</p>

Please Oppose the International Solidarity Movement's Planned Conference at Ohio State University Home   Search   Forum   Terms Contents IntroductionWhat is the ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! Automatically send emails opposing the conferenceOhio residents: sign the petitionOSU alumni: sign the petition IntroductionThe International Solidarity Movement (ISM), will hold a three-day conference at The Ohio State University this November 7th through the 9th. This group was denied by Rutgers University to hold the same conference on its campus. It is the objective of War To Mobilize Democracy (netWMD) that this conference also not take place on The Ohio State University campus because ISM is an...

In her most extensive public comments since her legal victory last week over New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, Gennifer Flowers said Saturday that she was "delighted" over the ruling allowing her case to proceed, but added that her ongoing battle with the former first lady continues to be a scary proposition. "Am I delighted to have my day in court? Absolutely," Flowers told Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton on the legal watchdog group's weekend radio broadcast. "I am one person against a huge power structure." Monday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Philip Pro gave Flowers permission to proceed with her...

missus clinton: BILL CLINTON ISN'T THE ONLY RAPIST I GOT OFF(Tell It Early, . . . Tell It Yourself )   by Mia T, 6.30.03   Diane [Blair] and I regularly met for lunch in the Student Union. We always chose a table by the big windows that looked out toward the Ozark Hills and share [sic] stories and gossip. She and I also spent long hours with Ann at the Henrys' backyard pool. They loved hearing about the cases I handled at the Legal Aid clinic, and I often sought their opinions about some of the attitudes I encountered....

CLINTON SEX ROMP CAUGHT ON VIDEO! CLINTON Bill Clinton has been caught on videotape cheating on Hillary -- and the steamy sex romp could torpedo her political career! Now foes of Hillary are in an all-out race to obtain the tape and publicize it, an exclusive ENQUIRER investigation has discovered. The issue that goes on sale Friday reveals how Clinton was taped having sex in a pickup truck with a department store clerk, how Hillary's opponents plan to use the video to sabotage her political plans … and more. Published on: May 30, 2003

Hillary Clinton's Memoirs to Hit Stores The Associated Press WASHINGTON - After laying out a seven-figure advance for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoirs, her publishers are counting on seven-figure sales. The account of her years in the White House will have a first printing of 1 million copies, her lawyer told The Associated Press. The 576-page book, entitled "Living History," is scheduled for release June 9. An audio version, read by Clinton, will be released the same day.

Earlier this week, Dan Rather conducted an exclusive interview with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Since then, critics from Don Imus to the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz to the Media Research Center's Brent Bozell to The Nation's Bruce Shapiro have weighed about whether, on this occasion, Rather was a bare-knuckled, hard-hitting, truth-seeking reporter — or a drooling lap puppy. But you folks at home don't need to rely on "experts" to discover the answer. You can judge for yourself how well Mr. Rather performed, the same way good editors do when evaluating interviews by cub reporters. Below are all of Rather's...

<p>Americans go to the polls a week from today. And while it appears that Republicans will maintain their majority in the U.S. House, the Democrats' control of the Senate is tenuous. Friday's death of Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota only complicated the prognosticating.</p>

MIDI - I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU My sisters, all…I’m on the ball I have a rape line…all you need to do is call No need for fear…’cause I’m right here Just tell your troubles and you’ll have a friendly ear No effort’s spared…please don’t be scared We have compassion and our staff is well prepared They’ve been to school…each one’s a jewel But I must let you know we have one simple rule Do not call to say Bill raped you Do not call to say that Bill’s the one Do not call to say...