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Click here at peril of your soul! Ted Kennedy dancing at the Bay State's donkey gathering.

NEW YORK - Former President Clinton announced Tuesday the launch of a 10-year initiative to combat childhood obesity, saying "we've got to change the eating habits of America's young people." Joined by Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who has also battled a weight problem, Clinton said he became concerned in the subject after undergoing heart bypass surgery last year. "The truth is that children are consuming more sugar and fatty foods than ever before. We want to reverse the growth in childhood obesity," Clinton told students and teachers at a Harlem school. "We're going to give this our best shot because...

... In hindsight the country now understands that the Vietnam War was a battle in the larger Cold War. The US stood by the treaties we entered into with countries that were threatened by the advancement of communism. John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, understood and recognized this threat. He recognized it in Cuba in the Russians move to base nuclear missiles just 90 miles from our border. America’s involvement in the Vietnam War was a result of the Kennedy Administration not the Nixon Administration. Contrary to revisionist history, Kennedy and Johnson got us into Vietnam. Nixon got us out. While...

February is the hardest month of the year for me. It’s the month I give up drinking. I think Democrats should join me. Forsaking adult beverages one month each year helps me strengthen my willpower and clear out my noggin. It gives me an opportunity to stand back, reevaluate my little world and set off on a fresh course. That’s exactly what Democrats must do, because I’m convinced they’ve been hitting the sauce a little hard. Just a few days before the historic election in Iraq, Teddy Kennedy spat out his latest blather. He said Iraq was a Bush disaster...

hello all of you ,why you don't accept the fact that usa is an occupation power in irak,what are we doing there:killing innocent people,steeling their oil,distroying their country,burning their houses,they don't tell us to come,usa invade irak without the support of un,neither the support of international community,american soldiers in irak are terrorising children ,men and women killing babies ,throwing heavy bombs on their heads,it is a murder ,it is a genocide ,it is a crime it is not a liberation,it is a colonisation,a destruction of a soverein country,that's why the bush administration is a threat to our word they are...

Just as Paul Daniels and Frank Bruno once threatened to quit the UK if Labour got in, many Americans warned they would flee abroad if George Bush was re-elected. So will they honour their promises? In the run up to the US presidential election last week, Hollywood veteran Robert Redford was asked what he would do were George W Bush to be reinstalled in the White House for four more years. "I'll probably be in England, no Ireland," said Redford. Visiting or living asked the BBC reporter? "Living," replied the Oscar-winning actor. Whether Redford was sincere or not remains to...

FLINT - Former Vice President Al Gore will encourage Democrats to continue working through Election Day in an "Every Vote Counts" rally Sunday. It will be a return to familiar territory for Gore, who visited Genesee County three times in three months leading up to the 2000 election he lost to George Bush. He ended up beating Bush by 62-34 percent in Genesee County. This time, Gore is campaigning on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, who has come to Genesee County once this year, in February, before the Michigan Democratic caucus. The public is invited to the...

Bob Beckel called John O'Neill a "liar" on Hannity & Colmes. I believe that a libel suit is in order.

WASHINGTON - Sgt. Peter Damon, who lost his right arm and left hand in Iraq, never set out to be a bit player in presidential politics and is furious at Michael Moore for making him one in "Fahrenheit 9/11." "It ticked me off," Damon said of the 10-second clip in the Bush-bashing documentary that shows him being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. "I just feel it was wrong and I was violated in some way, seeing myself up there on the screen," said Damon, 31, of Brockton, Mass. "I think [Moore] should be ashamed of himself,"...

When Vladimir Lenin began his meteoric ascent to power, he was just a 30-year-old Marxist hoping to start a revolutionary newspaper called Iskra. Booted from Kazan University for "revolutionary activities," Lenin had already served a stint in Siberia. His cruelty was evident by the time he was 22, when he told friends not to raise money for famine victims because starvation would "cause the peasants to reflect on the fundamental facts of capitalist society." Lenin wrote most of Iskra's articles and did massive fund raising across Europe. He used his burgeoning power to promote his pamphlet "What Is To Be...

DesperadoesPublished: July 21, 2004 omething went awry at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas last Saturday night. Linda Ronstadt did what she has done at several concerts across the country this summer. She dedicated the song "Desperado"- an encore - to Michael Moore and urged members of the audience to go see his new movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11." Elsewhere, audiences have reacted to the mention of Mr. Moore by cheering, booing, walking out and sometimes glaring at one another in parking lots. At the Aladdin, a few audience members tore down posters, threw drinks and demanded their money back. According to...

It is shocking to me that Americans in a time of war, and we literally are at war with Americans being deliberately killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere by Islamic terrorists, will attack their own country, sapping its strength and making its enemies stronger. I am not a supporter of the xenophobic slogan “My country right or wrong.” But I do believe, when seeking to make it right if it is wrong, that none of us should endanger the country, our military personnel or our fellow citizens. Disagreeing with America’s foreign policy and seeking to change it, responsibly or irresponsibly,...

Michael Moore's politically charged movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" - which opens today throughout Orange County after weeks of controversy - has spurred strong reactions among interest groups, who are either mobilizing to see the film or urging theater owners not to show it. One Irvine activist has purchased all the seats for a 7:30 screening tonight at his local theater. He's reselling the tickets at face value and inviting attendees to a premiere party afterward. Meanwhile, another organization has launched a letter-writing and e-mail campaign, exhorting cinema companies not to carry the film.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - Director Michael Moore's controversial anti-Iraq war film "Fahrenheit 9/11" won a standing ovation on Tuesday night from an audience of film industry professionals attending its West Coast debut at Academy Award headquarters. After an audience of more than 600 people in the theater of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cheered, whistled and laughed their way through the two-hour film, they jumped to their feet to give Moore a standing ovation as he took the stage. Clearly buoyed by the reception, Moore, whose film is scathingly critical and mocking of President Bush, declared:...

Click here to VOTE for AL !!! Which 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidate Will You Vote For In The Democratic Primary? Former Senator Carol Moseley Braun (D-Illinois) (114) (3%) Former Governor Howard Dean (D-Vermont) (1,017) (26%) Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) (66) (2%) Congressman Dick Gephardt (Democrat-Missouri) (80) (2%) Senator Bob Graham (D-Florida) (60) (2%) Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) (140) (4%) Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) (146) (4%) Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) (280) (7%) Civil Rights Activist Al Sharpton(D-New York) (772) (20%) Other (Democrat) (839) (22%) Undecided (Democrat) (379) (10%

Bowling For Columbine is the latest documentary from Michael Moore, the left-wing multi-millionaire provocateur in his usual cunning disguise as an all-American lardbutt loser – baseball cap, unkempt hair, untucked shirt. This time, the nominal subject is American violence, but, by now, connoisseurs of Roger And Me and Moore’s TV work know that, whatever the subject, the routine never varies: He turns up at company headquarters unannounced and demands to see the chairman. The receptionist says he’s not available, and Moore merrily films the stand-off before moving on to some other target. If he showed up to see me without...