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Newt Gingrich believes there should be a "green" movement within conservative politics. In 2008, Newt Gingrich appeared with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) in a commercial sponsored by Al Gore's group The Alliance for Climate Protection. Pelosi: "Hi, I'm Nancy Pelosi, life-long Democrat and Speaker of the House." Gingrich: "And I'm Newt Gingrich, life-long Republican, and I used to be Speaker." Pelosi: "We don't always see eye-to-eye, do we, Newt?" Gingrich: "No, but we do agree our country must take action to address climate change." OneNewsNow caught up with Gingrich in Washington, DC, and asked him if he believes alleged...

Last week, I had the pleasure of addressing the Senate-House Annual Republican Dinner. The MC for the evening was actor Jon Voight. Before he spoke, a video tribute for Voight was shown, including clips of him playing Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a movie. In one scene, Roosevelt is being told by his generals and advisors all the reasons why achieving victory in World War II was too hard. In response, Voight -- playing Roosevelt, who, remember, was confined to a wheelchair due to polio -- dramatically lifts himself up using the table and stabilizes himself on his non-functioning legs. He...

He was talking about Obama's SCOTUS nomination and showed on the RV screen Free Republic's Logo and a quote from an un named poster that was saying something about Sotomayor something like... she won't last long she has diabetes... It re airs tonight.He called FR, VERY right wing and quoted only this making FR look hateful.

Re: Your on-air bashing of Free Republic So, you think that because one poster on FR comments that a diabetic supreme court nominee might not live to a ripe old age that all 350,000 of us are insensitive right-wing loons? Got news for you pal. The owner of Free Republic (namely me) is diabetic and I've already lost one leg due to this despicable disease and the other leg looks like it's ready to fall off any day now. My sister died of complications brought on by juvenile diabetes at the tender age 43. I've out-lived her in years, but...

CHECK, PLEASE! Steyn on the World Tuesday, 05 May 2009 HAPPY WARRIOR from National Review At the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, they’re premiering a new ballet about a young French boy who’s befriended by a giant helium-filled balloon. Any balletomanes at the US embassy might be forgiven for assuming it to be some hastily concocted metaphor to Euro-American harmony in the Age of Obama: a lithe young Continental prancing around the stage enraptured by his dazzling bag of gas. But, as it happens, The Red Balloon is an adaptation of some fey French movie from the Fifties, when...

Vice-president-elect Joe Biden likened the country’s economic crisis to the attacks of 9/11 Monday in a private meeting on Capitol Hill. “We’re at war,” Biden told congressional leaders of both parties during their sit-down with Barack Obama in the Capitol, according to two sources familiar with the exchange. It’s not the first time the vice-president-elect has used stark language to underscore the perilous state of the economy. In an interview last month on ABC’s “This Week,” Biden said that a stimulus package was needed to keep the economy from “absolutely tanking.” Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said Biden “was speaking of...

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Senate Majority leader Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) (L) and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) address the media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington September 25, 2008. REUTERS/Mitch Dumke (UNITED STATES)

This is an excerpt from an e-mail we received from former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on why he participated in an ad for WE. Many of you have written to me to ask why I recently taped an advertisement with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for The Alliance for Climate Protection, a group founded by former Vice President Al Gore. I completely understand why many of you would have questions about this, so I want to take this opportunity to explain my reasons. First of all, I want to be clear: I don't think that we have conclusive proof...

I just saw a TV ad starring Newt Gingrich and his pal Nancy Pelosi pitching their bipartisan solution to the nonexistent "climate crisis". You can join Newt and Nancy at http://wecansolveit.org/, if you wish to join their delusional bipartisan crusade. "The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance." Michael Crichton

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling,...

IRAQ IS OVER. Iraq has not yet begun. These are two conclusions from the American debate about Iraq.

IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT AND THE VICE PRESIDENT, THEY ARE TRAITORS TO AMERICA, AND SO ARE ALL OF THEIR SUPPORTERS. IMPEACH!

Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, are raising concerns about President Bush's nominee for ambassador to Belgium because he gave money to the group that impugned Sen. John Kerry's war record during the 2004 presidential campaign. With a vote set today in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Dodd, D-Conn., said Tuesday he opposes the nomination of St. Louis businessman Sam Fox because Fox "refused to apologize for his behavior" during a confirmation hearing last month. "U.S. ambassadors need to be both responsible and credible, and Mr. Fox's support for an organization known to have spread falsehoods illustrates neither," said Dodd,...

H aven't we heard enough from Al Gore, the U.S. windbag turned Hollywood celebrity who presumes to lecture Canadians on their environmental responsibilities? The failed U.S. presidential candidate spends a lot of time in Canada, perhaps because he finds it fertile ground for self-enrichment. The multi-millionaire with a carbon footprint the size of a Sasquatch was in Toronto at the weekend, preening himself among adoring fans. He was introducing a showing of his Oscar-winning movie An Inconvenient Truth, that apocalyptic vision of a world in meltdown that has earned him the soubriquet of "the world's most famous environmentalist." Gore, whose...

From NationalLedger.com DC Journal Broder: Harry Reid a 'Bumbling Embarrassment', Begala Cries 'Gasbag' By Jackson Simpson Apr 28, 2007 US Senate leader Harry Reid believes that the Democrats can pick up seats if America loses the war in Iraq. To accent and move forward his point military strategist Harry Reid has offered up a surrender and has proclaimed that the 'war is lost.' Party before country? You decide. Washington Post columnist David Broder seems to believe that Harry is a dim bulb, along with the rest of the country. Broder: Harry Reid a 'Bumbling Embarrassment', Begala Cries 'Gasbag' Broder blasted...

OK, class, it’s time for a multiple choice quiz. Ready? The federal government recently conducted a study of 100 illegal immigrants who were arrested for a crime and then released into the general population. Students, what is the average amount of times each of these illegals were arrested? Is it: a) one time; b) three times; or c) five times? How about if I told you that none of the above choices is high enough? What if you found out that the average number of times that this study group of 100 illegal immigrants have been arrested was SIX TIMES...

On site report from Kristinn at a Cindy Sheehan anti war rally being held at the Independence Mall outside the Constitution Center. , Cindy said that she is determined t not only wants to see George Bush impeached but she wants to see him tried for Crimes Against Humanity. She states is so determined to see this done she says she will live for 1000 years. She went further by saying that even if she were involved in a fiery plane crash she would walk out alive just to see this done. Kristinn yelled out to her as she was...

With Connecticut Democrats intent upon tossing Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman overboard, one must wonder if Sen. Christopher J. Dodd realizes he is following the same path that led to the party's mutiny against his Senate colleague and friend. Sen. Dodd has caught the presidential bug from Sen. Lieberman. Last weekend, his say-anything-to-get-elected speech to Florida Democrats was warmly received. Though the 2008 presidential race is about as wide open as it can be, Sen. Dodd's candidacy faces considerable odds, in everything from fund-raising to name recognition. He has the further disadvantage of being a Democratic senator from New England, a...

Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd believes Florida is a must-win state to become president, and he made a good impression Saturday talking to party activists in his first major appearance since announcing he'll explore a 2008 White House run. He warmed up a luncheon crowd by talking about his friendship with popular Florida Democrats like former Sen. Bob Graham and the late Gov. Lawton Chiles, mentioning the state's 2000 presidential recount and his efforts to fix voting problems and encouraging the crowd to take back the governor's seat this year. "Everybody's talking about 2008," he said. "If you do not get...

Democrats will be hard pressed to deny their extremism as long as they have mad Howard Dean as their party spokesman. Then again, cashiering Dean wouldn't solve all their problems on that front either, given their leadership's propensity to take the wrong side on important national security issues. On the day Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki was addressing a joint meeting of Congress seeking America's continued support for Iraq, Dean said, "The Iraqi prime minister's an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion bringing democracy in Iraq to turn it over to people who...

Dodd promises "bruising" fight over Bolton 14 minutes ago Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd (news, bio, voting record) of Connecticut on Sunday promised a bruising fight in the U.S. Senate against confirming John Bolton to be the country's ambassador to the United Nations. President George W. Bush bypassed the Senate and installed Bolton into the position last year when lawmakers were on recess. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee scheduled a confirmation hearing on Bolton for Thursday after Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich (news, bio, voting record), who previously opposed the nomination, expressed support for Bolton. "This is going to be a...

US President George W. Bush said he probably would not see the new documentary by former vice president Al Gore, seen here at the 59th edition of the Cannes Film Festival 20 May 2006. Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" focuses on the dangers of global warming.(AFP/File/Francois Guillot)

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper attend the East Coast premiere of the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' in Washington May 17, 2006. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

The rise of Iran is an unintended consequence of the war in Iraq, but the United States would be wise to counter the nuclear threat with direct talks instead of saber rattling, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Tuesday night in Seattle. "It's not appeasement. You've got to deliver a tough message," she told a sellout audience of 800 people at Town Hall. But with the U.S. military already "overstretched," she said, "the last thing we need is to invade another country," especially when it is unclear where any nuclear material might be in Iran. Albright believes that someone...

Let's have some fun with statistics, shall we? In the senate judiciary committee hearings this morning, Ted Kennedy clumsily attempted to make use of a Cass Sunstein "study"... Writing for National Review Online two days ago, Byron York pointed out in advance that, with all its caveats, qualifications, and disclaimers, Sunstein's report is useful "to prove virtually nothing." Well, it does prove that if a bloated liberal senator gives Cass Sunstein enough money, in a very short time that scholar of unimpeachable credentials will produce a study of sufficient rigor to convince the bloated senator that what the bloated senator...

"And so basically, what it looks like is going to happen is that Libby and Karl Rove are going to be executed" because "outing a CIA agent is treason," left-wing author and radio talk show host Al Franken asserted Friday night, to audience laughter, on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman. Franken qualified his hard-edged stire: "Yeah, and I don't know how I feel about it because I'm basically against the death penalty, but they are going to be executed it looks like." Franken later suggested that President Bush is at risk of receiving the same punishment, since Karl Rove...

hubba12@mindspring.com from: Did you or your children ever serve in the military. Of course not. Go Iraqi insurgents! Defeat Bush and the rest of the Chicken Hawk bas**rds. mac.lilly@verizon.net from: You people are so despicable. You are going out to harass a greiving mother? This woman has a right as an American Citizen to protest and demand answers for the loss of her son. If you support the troops so much, why don't you encourage your listeners to enlist instead of trashing a woman. There are more mothers coming. Are you going to continue to trash and harass those mothers...

Contact: Danny Diaz 202-863-8614 “Once again Howard Dean's pessimistic outlook has provided the American people with no real answers to what his Democrat party stands for.  As Iraqis draft a constitution, Dean’s wild assertion that Iraqi women would be better off living under Saddam Hussein than democracy is not only counterproductive to meaningful debate, it demeans the hard work of American servicemen and women serving in Iraq.”- RNC Deputy Communications Director Danny Diaz DNC Chair Howard Dean On CBS’s “Face The Nation”:DNC Chair Howard Dean: “It Looks Like Today, And This Could Change, As Of Today It Looks Like Women...

Many people have been burning up the phone lines to the show today, and firing off e-mails, about a radio interview Tom Tancredo did yesterday with WFLA host Pat Campbell. One of the main complaints made against Hugh today has been that Tancredo's comments were not made in context. Here's a link to WFLA's site, where the audio from the original interview is posted. Listen for yourself. Here's the text of what Pat Campbell asked him, and what he said: PC: Now here's the other thing, too, with the possibility of an attack. I had Juval Aviv on the program...

       Hillary wasn't done giving us her mad moments in her Aspen Ideas Festival speech (and don't think Mad wouldn't have a field day with the concept of an Ideas Festival, either). Later in her remarks, she delivered this eye-popping economic analysis for the Colorado audience: "Ours will be the last generation to rely so exclusively on fossil fuels." She added that the "ups and downs of the global oil market cost the U.S. economy $7 trillion last year . . . almost enough to pay off our entire national debt." Seven trillion dollars? That would surprise most...

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. "For the traitor appears not a traitor – he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots...

"I would promote wind for power, not damming more rivers," says actor Ed Begley, Jr. It’s low-cost, renewable, inexhaustible, eco-friendly and emits no greenhouse gases. If banks and energy companies financed wind energy projects, they’d help protect wildlife and habitats, "instead of hurting the Earth for oil," intones the Rainforest Action Network. If America devoted a mere 1 percent of its land area to wind turbine farms, it could generate 20 percent of its electricity from wind, asserts the American Wind Energy Association. And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. Sadly, equine mirages don’t make sound energy policy. They...

Speaking to a capacity crowd at a The French Were Right rally, Senator Ted Kennedy (D - MA) pronounced the effort in Iraq "failed," "a quagmire," "bad form," "tacky," "really embarrassing," "stubborn," "coyote ugly," "like waking up after a four-year binge — and believe you me, I know," and "just plain buck-toothed stupid."Each of these comments was punctuated by a standing ovation by the crowd, which had already been enlivened by an arms-dropping exercise led by the opening speaker, Senator John Kerry. "You go, Teddy!" cried one attendant. Many "Kennedy/Boxer '07" signs were held aloft by people wearing "Math Is...

President Owes Nation Explanation In case there was any doubt, it is now official: Saddam Hussein did not possess an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. Because President George W. Bush used Iraq's presumed possession of such weapons to justify the U.S. invasion and occupation, he owes the nation an apology and a full explanation. He also should make a second-term course correction in his foreign policy goals. The American people are not likely to buy another Bush White House argument for preemptive war. The Iraq Survey Group, tasked by Bush to uncover hidden weapons caches, finished its work shortly...

On Tuesday, October 26, over 500 supporters of President Bush gathered outside the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Field House to protest an appearance by Michael Moore. Moore, who was paid for by IUP student activities fees, was visiting IUP as part of his national "Slackers Uprising Tour". Rhonda Goodrich, Courtney Adams, the IUP College Republicans, and the Indiana County Young Conservatives organized the event, and were extremely pleased with the turnout. The counter protest to Michael Moore was so effective that even Moore himself had to mention the crowd outside. "I have never seen anything like this," Moore told the...

...Kerry proves incapable of reading simple declarative sentences. He inserts dependent clauses and prepositional phrases until every sentence is a watery mess. Kerry couldn't read a Dick and Jane book to schoolchildren without transforming its sentences into complex run-ons worthy of David Foster Wallace. Kerry's speechwriters routinely insert the line, "We can bring back that mighty dream," near the conclusion of his speeches, presumably as an echo of Ted Kennedy's Shrum-penned "the dream will never die" speech from the 1980 Democratic convention. Kerry saps the line of its power. Here's his version from Monday's speech in Tampa: "We can bring...

From Mike Wilson, Director: Wow... it's really good. I am absolutely blown away by how well “Michael Moore Hates America” has turned out. We're finishing our third pass right now. It's funny, heartfelt and moving… and better than I expected. Chris, Carr, Maura, Curt, Brian, Greg, Levi, Bob and I have created something that is meaningful, and I'm so excited for you to see it. We're coming down to the end of this journey, and every single person who worked on the film, who donated their hard-earned cash to help us move forward or sent an email telling me not...

ANNES, France (Reuters) - U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore (news) on Sunday said there had been pressure from the beginning to stop him making his controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11." Reuters Photo The film focuses on how Americans and the White House responded to the September 11 attacks and traces links between the Bush family and prominent Saudis, including the family of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites). The documentary, being screened at the Cannes film festival (news - web sites) on Monday, has also sparked a war of words over the decision by the Walt Disney Co. to bar its...

DISNEY FORBIDS DISTRIBUTION OF MICHAEL MOORE FILM THAT CRITICIZES BUSH Headline only on board now; story just breaking -- Details to follow.

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA(a NEW virtual john kerry talks series) Kerry's Imaginary Leaders Foreign & Domestic   Mia T, 4.2.04        (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) http://johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com   

Alan Keyes on the Sean Hannity Show January 13, 2004 SEAN HANNITY: Thanks for tuning in. Glad you're with us. Former ambassador to the United Nations, our good friend Alan Keyes, former presidential candidate, himself, is on our newsmaker line. Ambassador, I'll bet all this, the whole process [of the Democrats' bid for president] brings back wonderful memories of your many trips to Iowa. ALAN KEYES: [laughs] Well, I don't know. I imagine dealing with very different people in Iowa than some of the Democrats are. I find it, quite honestly, Sean, hard to take the Democrats seriously this time...

This is nothing like the usual whine by someone whose post was pulled. JimRob pulled my previous thread for a good reason. "If direct fund-raising were permitted on FR, it would soon be wall-to-wall fund-raising." So, let's start again correctly. This is about civil disobedience to support the First Amendment and challenge the TERRIBLE CFR decision of the Supreme Court to uphold a terrible law passed by Congress and signed by President Bush. All who are interested in an in-your-face challenge to the 30- and 60-day ad ban in the Campaign Finance "Reform" Act, please join in. The pattern is...

LOS ANGELES, Dec 3 (Reuters) - A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday dismissed a $10 million lawsuit filed by Barbra Streisand against a multimillionaire who posted photos of her Malibu estate on a Web site documenting erosion along the California coast. A longtime environmentalist who is also intensely private, Streisand sued Kenneth Adelman in May accusing him of violating California's anti-paparazzi law and her privacy rights. She demanded that Adelman remove her name and the photo of her estate from his Web site, (http://www.californiacoastline.org). But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Allan Goodman on Wednesday ruled that the diva's lawsuit chilled...

The Associated Press 10/31/2003, 3:21 p.m. ET BOSTON (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on Friday accused the Bush administration of packing the federal bench with right-wing ideologues and defended Senate Democrats' blocking of four of President Bush's nominations. The Massachusetts Democrat's comments came a day after Mississippi judge Charles Pickering became the fourth of Bush's judicial nominees to be filibustered by Democrats. Speaking to a gathering of students from five Boston-area law schools, Kennedy called the Senate's ability to block judicial nominations "one of the most important checks and balances in the Constitution." "Many of President Bush's nominees...

Sen. teddy (da lush) m. kennedy, D-the peoples democracy of massachusetts. meets with reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003 after stumbeling through sixteen drinks, three six packs and a gallon of wine and calling it a speech on Iraq on the floor of the US Senate. In his rant teddy da lush said he will vote against the $87 billion bill to fund the war in Iraq saying in part "...because that much money can buy a lot of booze and my shelf is getting empty." (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)Is there a doctor on FR that can give us...

Ariana may drop out and throw her support to Cruz.

Moore alters "Bowling" DVD in response to criticism (9/2) By Brendan Nyhan In the newly-released DVD version of his Academy Award-winning documentary "Bowling for Columbine," filmmaker Michael Moore has altered a caption that he fictitiously inserted into a 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign commercial -- one of a number of misstatements and deceptive arguments we criticized when the film was released last year. Ironically, on the same day the DVD was released, Moore issued a libel threat against his critics on MSNBC's "Buchanan & Press," saying, "Every fact in the film is true. Absolutely every fact in the film is true....

Michael Moore, winner of the 2002 Oscar for Best Documentary for his controversial "Bowling for Columbine," failed to meet submission requirements of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a WorldNetDaily investigation reveals. While critics of the filmmaker and author have called on the academy to investigate whether Moore fabricated scenes in the movie, it also appears he misled the academy about the film's eligibility on purely technical grounds. Candidates for Best Documentary feature have unique procedural requirements for eligibility. According to Rule 12, qualification for the 75th Annual Academy Awards in this category demanded that films be exhibited...