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Biden uses his Senate Web site to inflict emotional distress on private citizen Pamela Hamill Inside Edition reports that Senator Joseph Biden, the individual--we won't call him a man--who wants to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency has, on at least two occasions, used his office to inflict emotional distress on a private citizen by calling her deceased father a drunk driver with blood on his hands. Noting that a false accusation of a crime like killing somebody while driving drunk is automatically libel or slander, Mr. Biden is lucky that Curtis Dunn is no longer alive to defend...

Official announcement directly from Matt Hamill to Kokonut Pundits about his new and exciting website. -See Matt challenges Mike Bisping on his website!-

Rare Post Fight Pictures of Matt Hamill and Tito Ortiz

Matt Hamill sent me pictures of himself with Tito Ortiz and his buddies. You won't find these pictures anywhere else on the internet except on ...

The site itself was cleared of its millions of tons of rubble in an astonishing eight months. This was a triumph of planning, muscle and will. But even before it was cleared, the site was the focus of various forces: real estate and political interests, the wishes of the families of the almost 3,000 dead, the desires of New Yorkers in the immediate neighborhood and beyond. They were not all cynical. Many were idealistic. For some it was sacred ground, never to be touched. Others resisted turning the site into a necropolis, a place inhabited by ghosts. They wanted it...

Former Hostage Has Advice for Memphis Man's Iraqi Captors 02/02/05 Southaven, MS - Thomas Hamill spent 24 days as a hostage in Iraq before he got a lucky break and escaped his captors. Today he told his story here in Southaven where he reminded us American soldiers are still fighting to keep all of us from sharing a similar fate. And Thomas Hamill wants everyone to know it. Why? because everything these people are working for, is at stake, our very way of life. That's why he says we must keep fighing terrorism, even though people like him sometimes pay...

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Weeks after his escape from enemy hands in Iraq, Thomas Hamill's memory of God's faithfulness remains vivid: God sustained him and removed the pain and fear that otherwise had the potential to overcome him. "I've been a Christian all my life, but it's hard to say exactly if you can put everything in God's hands unless it just comes down to that fact," Hamill told Baptist Press June 7. "That's what happened to me on the deal with being captured. I didn't have anybody else to put it in, and I laid it in God's hands." Hamill was taken hostage...

Former hostage talks about capture, escape Tuesday, 10PM ET Hamill talks about the day he was captured by terrorists in Iraq and how he was able to survive three weeks of captivity.

My company is fuel transportation. We are the Army Reserve 724th Transportation Company. But in Iraq we have civilian contractors Kellogg Brown and Root. They do all the fuel hauling. So we basically become force protection for convoys. Friday, April 9th, about 7 a.m., my platoon started getting ready for a fuel convoy from LSA Anaconda in Balad to Baghdad International Airport (BIOP). We were running security for 21 civilian fuel trucks. We had 26 in the whole serial. I was in the 21st truck with a civilian, riding shotgun (passenger). I had never ridden with a civilian on a...

Americans awoke over the weekend to the good news that Thomas Hamill had escaped his Iraqi captors. Hamill had been captured by Iraqi gunmen on April 9 and held hostage until his escape three weeks later. His captors demanded the U.S. withdraw from Fallujah or he would be killed. Hamill was captured in Baghdad, but was being held in Tikrit, about a hundred miles away. Hamill reportedly heard a US convoy passing by and made a successful break for freedom. Hamill immediately returned to his makeshift prison – with U.S. troops in tow – and took part in the capture...

Hamill Says Iraq Mission Must Continue By KATHY HANRAHAN, Associated Press Writer MACON, Miss. - Former hostage Thomas Hamill, back home Saturday after his three-week ordeal in Iraq credited God and worldwide support for his survival and said the rebuilding mission that nearly cost him his life must continue. "I knew I was going to make it. I knew I was coming home," Hamill told reporters before a prayer vigil held in his honor at the Noxubee County Court House. "I told the Lord to pick the time and place." Speaking publicly for the first time since his early-morning return...

Escape from Chelmby Daniel Sargis05 May 2004Appointing a former member of the Republican Guard to a command position in Fallujah is like smothering a fire with more logs.    The good news is that Thomas Hamill, the American civilian held hostage in Iraq since April 9, has escaped.  In spite of the best efforts of terrorists and liberals alike, Hamill did something very American...with faith in God, he took responsibility for himself.  Hamill saw his opportunity; kicked open a door; and ran into the open arms of an American patrol.  The bad news?  The town of Chelm still flourishes...

BERLIN -- Halliburton truck driver Thomas Hamill arrived in Germany Monday from Iraq, where he escaped from Iraqi captors. A senior U.S. official said the former hostage will be examined at a military hospital in Landstuhl, where he'll be reunited with his wife. It's not known how long he'll stay there. Hamill was reported in good health, but a gunshot wound to his left arm

Sunday morning at around 11:15 a wounded man came panting up to a New York National Guard unit near the Iraqi town of Belad, about 30 miles south of Tikrit. The man said he was an American: Thomas Hamill, a contractor kidnapped last month after insurgents ambushed a convoy in which he'd been driving. He said he'd heard the US patrol pass the building in which he was being held, so he'd pried a door open and chased them half a mile up the road. Other than an old gunshot wound to the arm, Mr. Hamill seemed fine, so the...

FOX just said Jesse Jackson would be trying his hand at negotiating the release of Thomas Hamill as well as other U.S. hostages. ......

Security concerns halt deliveries, idle work force and slow rebuilding effort As President Bush prepared to tell the nation on April 13 that the U.S. and its coalition partners will stay the course in Iraq, conditions there are more unstable than at any time since Baghdad fell nearly a year ago. This month’s escalation of violence has resulted in the kidnapping of scores of civilians from a dozen countries and the deaths of 70 coalition forces and at least 700 Iraqi civilians. Reconstruction has slowed to a crawl. Supply convoy operations were suspended, pending security upgrades, and contractors were avoiding...

<p>Mr. Tom Hamill was captured when his convoy was attacked by Muslim guerrillas. He showed great courage and patriotism when interviewed immediately after being captured he said, " Our convoy was attacked, thats all I'm saying."</p> <p>Militants threatened to kill American hostage Thomas Hamill, 43, of Macon, Miss., who was the latest in a series of kidnappings in Iraq.</p>

None Dare Call It Treason By Jason Maoz Senior Editor The Jewish Press Controversial pundit Ann Coulter's best-selling book "Treason" has raised the ire of liberals, and not a few conservatives, who feel she wields too broad a brush in painting Americans on the left side of the political divide as unpatriotic - even, as the title implies, treasonous. Coulter's critics have a point, of course; her over-the-top generalizing makes it difficult if not impossible to take the book seriously (a far more judicious - and better-written - treatment of the subject is Mona Charen's "Useful Idiots"). But whatever degree...