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Columbus man charged with threatening Blue Jackets Friday, March 27, 2009 9:01 AM By Aaron Portzline THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Peter Stenzel, 52, has been arrested and charged with inducing panic after placing at least three threatening phone calls to the Blue Jackets -- specifically goaltender -- Steve Mason during last night's win over Calgary. According to the Columbus police report, Stenzel was wearing a Calgary Flames T-shirt when he was arrested at his residence in Columbus. He is charged with menacing and inducing panic, a misdemeanor. "They got his number from caller ID, and it was given to special duty...

CHICAGO -- The Chicago-based company that makes suits preferred by President Barack Obama has filed for bankruptcy.

A black man from Mississippi has been arrested and accused of sending racist death threats over the Internet to three black students at Louisiana's Nicholls State University. The FBI in New Orleans said Dyron Hart, 19, was arrested Wednesday. He is accused of sending the messages by way of the students' Facebook accounts. The messages contained racial epithets and death threats and were sent to two black women and a black man at Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La. The author of those messages cast himself as a white man who intended to kill blacks because Barack Obama was elected president....

Please join Governor Sarah Palin for a Road to Victory Rally in Beaver, PA (near Pittsburgh) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2008 4:15 PM to 7:15 PM Address: Beaver Area High School: Football Stadium Gypsy Glen Road Beaver, PA 15009

THE acute phase of the crisis provoked by the Georgian forces’ assault on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, is now behind us. But how can one erase from memory the horrifying scenes of the nighttime rocket attack on a peaceful town, the razing of entire city blocks, the deaths of people taking cover in basements, the destruction of ancient monuments and ancestral graves? Russia did not want this crisis. The Russian leadership is in a strong enough position domestically; it did not need a little victorious war. Russia was dragged into the fray by the recklessness of the Georgian...

I have always liked Gary Hart, and, when I have met him, came away impressed that he was a thoughtful person. That said, he has a long diatribe against John McCain, in which he falls into the now tired condescending trope of the sinister neocons who, as quasi-neo-Nazis, took over a clueless George Bush: Historians of early 21st century American politics will remark the degree to which radical forces, usually called neoconservatives, perverted language as recommended by the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany... Open up entire electronic networks, such as Fox, and chains of radio stations, such as Clear...

Quick shout out to any Stamford, CT Freepers re: latest school redistricting plans locally. In particular, the elementary school plans. As decreed by the lords of the "Bored" of Eductation demi gods, a slice of the Stillmeadow and Newfield elementary school district has been carved out and are now 'forced' to attend Hart Magnet school to balance the 'socio-economic' ratios required locally. School choice anyone? Fuggedaboutit..... Our 4 yr old has been slated to attend Stillmeadow for Kindergarten. We went to the orientation and were pleased last week ( as pleased can be for a gov't screwel as El Rusbho...

National Review Online: Could Dr. Paul really surprise us all? By Dave Kopel - National Review Online | Ron Paul This weekend, I attended and spoke at the Second Amendment Foundation’s annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, which was held at a convention center in northern Kentucky, a few miles away from Cincinnati. What I saw and heard there changed my mind about the viability of Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy; Paul is going to far outperform the expectations laid out for him. First, for some background: twenty years ago, the Second Amendment Foundation (the second-largest pro-Second Amendment group in the U.S.)...

Former Congresswoman Melissa Hart says she is planning a comeback bid to regain the seat she lost a year ago to Democrat Jason Altmire. "Obviously, I still have a commitment to public service, despite the elections of last year," Ms. Hart said last night. "I've watched the Congress in action over the last six months and they haven't gotten a thing done and the issues that need to be addressed haven't been addressed." Ms. Hart has not yet officially announced but has informed the National Republican Congressional Committee as well as the lone announced rival for the GOP nomination, Ron...

Cartoonist Johnny Hart, who won awards and acclaim for creating the BC comic strip, has died at the age of 76. BC, which depicts a world populated by cavemen and dinosaurs, first appeared in 1958 and eventually reached more than 100 million people. Mr Hart also co-created The Wizard of Id, the story of a run-down kingdom ruled by a tyrannical monarch. Mr Hart's wife, Bobby, said he died of a stroke on Saturday while working at his New York home. "He died at his storyboard," she told the Associated Press. Richard Newcombe, the founder and president of Creators...

(Posted Vanity due to copyright restrictions) We have just learned from our local Gannett Newspaper site in Broome County NY that Johnny Hart, creator of "BC" and "Wizard of Id" died in his Ninevah NY home yesterday.

Peace organizations staged a nonviolent “occupation” of the Hart Senate office building Thursday, calling on Democrats to end the Iraq war. Fellow protesters and Senate staffers looked on, leaning over railings above Hart’s ground-floor atrium, as demonstrators read personal information about U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. The demonstrators spoke from a circle of cardboard headstones, each displaying the photo of a U.S. soldier who had been killed. “The point we’re trying to make is that since January 4th the Democrats have had the chance to end the war,” said Kevin Zeese, director of Democracy Rising, a participating group. “Instead of...

c By MICHELLE FAUL The Associated Press Tuesday, May 31, 2005; 9:20 PM SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- They fed them well. The Pakistani tribesmen slaughtered a sheep in honor of their guests, Arabs and Chinese Muslims famished from fleeing U.S. bombing in the Afghan mountains. But their hosts had ulterior motives: to sell them to the Americans, said the men who are now prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Bounties ranged from $3,000 to $25,000, the detainees testified during military tribunals, according to transcripts the U.S. government gave The Associated Press to comply with a Freedom of Information lawsuit. A former...

Melissa Hart gone per foxnews. This has been an awful day! I will never forget the speeches she made at the Right to Life March.

Read the message from a doctor about Jason Altmire running for Congress in PA.

Lobbyist Jason Altmire and His Attack Ads I'm sure many of you have seen Jason Altmire's ads distorting Congresswoman Melissa Hart's record on various hot button issues and claiming that Melissa votes with President Bush and Senator Santorum 98% of the time. As you know, the truth is that Melissa Hart votes 100% of the time with her district. KDKA's Jon Delano debunked Altmire's ads yesterday in an interview with Jon yesterday, and he pointed out one of the many lies in Altmire's attack ads. Here's my response to Altmire's deceptive attack ads: Lobbyist Jason Altmire continued his negative campaign...

/5/2006 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- A common trait exists among the injured Airmen recuperating at hospitals in the capital region, said the Air Force chief of staff. “Every Airman I’ve met wants to return to active duty and (his or her) unit,” said Gen. T. Michael Moseley in recent testimony on Capitol Hill. “I am proud of them and their courage as they travel the hard road to recovery.” The determination of injured Airmen inspired the creation of a program dedicated to helping them -- Palace HART, or Helping Airmen Recover Together. This program is offered to separated or retired...

The author, Jeffrey Hart,is a professor of English (emeritus) at Dartmouth College, a former speechwriter for presidents Reagan and Nixon and, most recently, the author of "The Making of the American Conservative. ==== William F. Buckley Jr. has defined conservatism as "the politics of reality." Ideology is the enemy of conservatism because it edits, omits or ignores reality. George W. Bush is an ideologue. Iraq is commonly said to be the centerpiece of Bush's presidency. The United States invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein supposedly possessed weapons of mass destruction. But nearly three years after the invasion, no such weapons have...

Former 4th Congressional District Rep. Ron Klink ended weeks of speculation on Wednesday by saying that he would not try to win back the seat currently held by U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart. "I'm not running," Klink said. "It was not in the cards." Earlier this month, Klink confirmed that he had been contacted by people who wanted him to enter next year's Democratic primary. Many Democrats think that Hart, R-4, Bradford Woods, will be vulnerable because of her close ties to President Bush, especially since Democrats have a 15,000-voter advantage in the district. Vulnerability, however, is not something Hart has...

No wonder this president's support is crumbling, says Jeffrey Hart. He has betrayed the conservative movement by governing contrary to reality Sunday, November 20, 2005 George W. Bush is not a conservative, but a right-wing ideologue who steers by abstractions in both foreign and domestic policy. Inevitably a perilous gap opens between his abstractions and concrete realities. As a conservative, I am seething with outrage at his performance...

Melissa Hart jumped into her first campaign with plenty of heart.Hart, a three-term congresswoman from Bradford Woods in Allegheny County, has always enjoyed her strongest advantage by being herself, according to those who know her best. With a frank, friendly demeanor and low-key personal charm, she conveys a down-to-earth quality that's politically captivating, they say. Starting out, she wasn't going after the moon.

PLAINS TWP. (PA) – Eugene Mulreaney wiped his eyes Monday as the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs awarded him the Bronze Star his late brother earned in 1944 in Italy for saving Mulreaney’s life. Secretary James Nicholson saluted Mulreaney, 81, after he pinned Robert Mulreaney’s medal for valor on his brother’s navy blazer. The soldier was killed when he threw his body onto his wounded brother during an air attack. “He saved Eugene, but he lost his own life,” Nicholson told a crowd at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He and U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum visited the medical...

PITTSBURGH - Chris Heinz, the stepson of U.S. Sen. John Kerry who was widely rumored to be considering a run for Congress, said Monday that he won't seek office in 2006. The son of the late Sen. John Heinz III had stumped for Kerry during his unsuccessful presidential bid last year, sparking rumors that Heinz would follow that with his own campaign against U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart. Heinz, 32, is the youngest of John and Teresa Heinz Kerry's three children. "I'm definitely not doing it in 2006. I've thought about it in my life, but it's just not right at...

Current 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1990s 1980s     April 2004 The Archbishop of Melbourne takes umbrage at his treatment in our February editorial.Shifting the Blame23rd February 2004Mr Rod Pead PO Box 14754LONDON SE19 2ZJ Dear Mr Pead I believe your words about me in the Christian Order of February 2004 on page 7 are intemperate, untrue and unjust. You have presumed to know my mind without consulting me.Let me state the following facts:1. During 2003, without my knowledge or approval, the Knights of the Southern Cross and the Freemasons sought together to collect Tools and forward them...

Only on a panel sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future.Boston"ARE YOU ALL READY TO TAKE BACK AMERICA?" Robert Borosage, the co-director of Campaign for America's Future, asked on Wednesday, standing in front of an enthusiastic crowd at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. And the crowd sure was ready. They hooted and hollared. They roared and screamed. They nodded their heads vigorously. The day before, Michael Moore had stopped by. On Wednesday, Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Barbara Lee, former senator Gary Hart, and Ambassador Joe Wilson took the stage.The occasion was a debate on the Iraq war, which may...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lindsay Taylor/Mark Pfeifle202-863-8614/212-356-2300 Washington, DC - Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie today announced the addition of Anne Phelps and Ginny Wolfe to the 2004 Republican Platform Committee staff. Phelps will serve as Executive Director and Wolfe as Communications Director for the 2004 Republican Platform to be chaired by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D. (TN), Congresswoman Melissa Hart (PA) and Colorado Governor Bill Owens. "We are fortunate to have such talented people join us as the 2004 Platform Committee works to craft a proposal that reflects the president's goals and the beliefs of our party,"...

You Gotta Have Hartby Daniel Sargis16 April 2004Gary Hart, who was appointed to co-chair the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century in 1998 by then-president Clinton, has decided to skipper himself into the shenanigans of the 9-11 Commission.   You might think that ex-senator Gary Hart would want to sit out the latest D.C. Monkey Business.  But, just like his bloated ego previously exposed him (“'follow me around . . . it will be boring”)...he’s at it again.  Some people don’t have the sense to know when to keep their zippers up and their mouths shut.  Too bad Hart...

Democratic presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark went "much too far" last week when he promised that if he becomes president he'll guarantee that terrorists won't attack the U.S., former presidential candidate Gary Hart said Sunday. "I disagree strongly with Gen. Clark," Sen. Hart told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. Before the 9/11 attacks, Hart, along with former Sen. Warren Rudman, chaired a panel that warned that a terrorist attack against the U.S. was inevitable. The Colorado Democrat told Malzberg, "I was a bit startled by [Clark's] statement if for no other reason [that] I think we have been saying we that...

<p>A Republican Congress has just passed a prescription-drug benefit for seniors -- the largest expansion of an entitlement since the Great Society. The federal budget grew by more than $150 billion this year -- more than twice as much as any year under Bill Clinton -- and the deficit eclipsed $300 billion, a 10-year high. Two books by former GOP House members help explain how their party's 1994 small-government revolutionaries have helped turn the Contract With America into something that at times resembles a Contract for Re-Election.</p>

Five days before Sept. 11, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was warned that a terrorist attack inside the United States was imminent, a former U.S. Senator who headed up a blue ribbon commission on terrorism revealed late Tuesday. "I've known the national security advisor, Professor Rice, for about 20 some years," former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart told WABC Radio's John Batchelor and Paul Alexander. "She was a supporter of mine in my first presidential campaign as a graduate student in Denver." After giving a speech on the terrorist threat in Montreal on Sept. 5, Hart said he requested an urgent...

The research and activism arm of BlackBox Voting.com   CONTENTSIntroductionPart 1 - Can the votes be changed?Part 2 - Can the password be bypassed?Part 3 ? Can the audit log be altered? ************* Introduction According to election industry officials, electronic voting systems are absolutely secure, because they are protected by passwords and tamperproof audit logs. But the passwords can easily be bypassed, and in fact the audit logs can be altered. Worse, the votes can be changed without anyone knowing, even the County Election Supervisor who runs the election system. The computer programs that tell electronic voting machines how...

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-hart-senate,0,6342399.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines Hart Considers Senate Race in Colorado By CATHERINE TSAI Associated Press Writer August 24, 2003, 9:12 AM EDT DENVER -- Gary Hart, who decided against joining the Democratic presidential race this year, is being asked by national and Colorado Democratic leaders to make a 2004 Senate run against GOP incumbent Ben Nighthorse Campbell. "I've had several conversations with him about it," said Chris Gates, chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party. "A lot of us in Colorado and Washington would love to see Gary take this race on. He's listening."

<p>THIRTY-NINE pages of song lyrics by Lorenz Hart- almost all in the celebrated lyricist's own hand - have been discovered in a vault at the J.P. Morgan Chase Bank.</p> <p>Most of the lyrics are of songs from shows Hart wrote with Richard Rodgers in the '20s. However, it also includes lyrics for songs for which the music was either lost or never written.</p>

They healed together after World War II. They served together on the floor of the United States Senate. And while the late U.S. Sen. Phil Hart of Michigan, former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas and current U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, came from different backgrounds and formed different political leanings, their names together will now be synonymous with Battle Creek's most famous landmark

Released: April 29, 2003 Gephardt Widens Iowa Caucus Lead, Kerry Second, Lieberman Slips to Third; 61% of Dems Say Bush Re-election Likely, According to New Zogby International Poll Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt has widened his lead in a poll of likely voters in the January 2004 Iowa Democratic presidential caucus. The poll of 387 likely caucus voters was conducted by Zogby International on April 25 - 27, 2003. The margin of error is +/- 5.1%, and margins are higher in sub-groups.Gephardt received the support of one-in four (25%), compared to 13% who said they would support Massachusetts Senator John Kerry....

<p>After former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's forceful critique of the State Department's ineffectiveness last week, The Washington Post reported that department officials were jumping into "foxholes" — expecting further incoming fire. But, after senior State Department officials issued a few rude comments about Mr. Gingrich (and extracted from the White House a pro forma endorsement statement of the State Department's sterling qualities), Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told his minions it was safe to come out and play in the sunlight. "Ah, to be so fortunate as to pick your enemies," he self-satisfyingly observed.</p>

Gingrich has been critical of the State Department recently, which was picked up by the media. Gingrich was on H&C yesterday, and said that he commissioned the Hart-Rudman commission in the 90s, and that commission also came up with the conclusion that there are problems in the State Department, so this is not new with Powell. The media seems to have ignored this part, and even the White House was said to be unhappy about it. Here are some excerpts from that report: The Department of State is a crippled institution that is starved for resources by Congress because of...

A former Colorado senator said he may want to make a run at the White House in 2004. But it's not the first time he's had presidential aspirations. Hart launched a new Web site over the weekend -- GaryHart2004.org. The Web site does not blatantly say he's throwing his hat in the ring but it certainly leaves little doubt. It's a scenario few would predict following his failed 1988 presidential bid when a disgraced Hart pulled out of the race amid a sex scandal. But a new millenium has wrought a new reality for the Democrats, which is why Hart's...

WASHINGTON -- Gary Hart still has the look, as if his face has been freshly chiseled from a block of granite. The boots are gone; standard black shoes have taken their place. His style in ties has not changed - his latest is a red, white and blue horizontal stripe. And he still commands the attention. A sizable number of reporters turned out as Hart returned to the Capitol, where he served as a senator from 1975 to 1987, to talk to House Democrats about national and homeland security, subjects he's been studying for years.

FEW American presidential campaigns have been hatched in the King’s Arms, a venerable Oxford student pub. As fate would have it that is where Gary Hart, once a promising Democrat contender, met two impressionable Rhodes scholars to discuss politics over a pint a couple of years ago. After monkey business on a boat of that name with Donna Rice in 1988, Hart assumed his presidential ambitions were at an end. He was merely footling around Oxford doing some historical research. Yet the two youngsters, now back at Harvard in America, have become the most ardent champions of Hart for President...

<p>DENVER (AP) --  Former Democratic Sen. Gary Hart, whose 1988 presidential campaign collapsed amid questions about his relationship with a young model, said he is considering a bid for the White House in 2004.</p> <p>"If you love the country and are motivated by public service as I am, it's very hard to sit on the sidelines," Hart, 65, told The Denver Post in Tuesday's editions.</p>

WASHINGTON -- The United States remains "dangerously unprepared" to deal with another major terrorist attack, said a report by former top government officials, academics and business leaders. "In all likelihood, the next attack will result in even greater casualties and widespread disruption to American lives and the economy" than the Sept. 11 attacks, said the task force chaired by former Sens. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H. The report was released late Thursday. Because a year has passed without a major terrorist attack against the United States, the report says, "there are already signs that Americans are lapsing back...

A 20-year-old Australian man's arraignment on charges of using a fake passport in Harris County recently has been rescheduled for Aug. 1. Adam John Hart, also known as Farouk Kigozi, was to be in the 351st State District Court this morning on a charge of forgery of a government document. Hart's attorney, William Stradley, said this morning that Hart was a "good kid on holiday" who falsified his identification to get into bars. "It was absolutely the worst fake ID you could find, but it doesn't go any further than that," Stradley said. Hart was arrested Thursday night near the...

An Australian army reservist who went missing just weeks before the September 11 attacks has been arrested in Houston, Texas, for having links to the al-Qaeda terrorist organisation. Adam Mark Hart, 21, who served briefly in the Australian Army's 7th Field Regiment, was "ineffectively discharged" last November after he suddenly disappeared in late August. Hart is the fifth Australian to be linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda or the ousted Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The Howard Government remained tight-lipped about Hart's arrest last night. The Defence Department was forbidden to talk about the matter and referred all calls to the...