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WASHINGTON : Presidential hopeful and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry today announced he has offered Johnny Depp first refusal of the coveted VP spot in his Democratic bid for the White House. I first saw Johnny in that scissors movie, Kerry told reporters, and I’ve wanted to run with him ever since. A source close to the Kerry campaign stated that Kerry believes Depp’s charm, charisma and intense global popularity is just the thing needed to sway voter support of post-teen females, twenty-something housewives, every woman in middle-aged America and that ‘certain section of guys’ towards the Democratic ticket in November....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush will give interviews to Arab media starting on Wednesday as part of a White House effort to mitigate Arab discontent over U.S. policy in the Middle East, administration officials said. Bush's first interview will be with the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram at the White House, and officials said he would speak to other outlets including Arab TV on later dates. "The president will speak directly to the Arab world," Bush's national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said in her own interview with pan-Arabic television channel Al-Arabiya on Tuesday. "It's just extremely important that we continue to talk...

LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2004—Jody Eldred Productions today announced it has just completed filming and is in the final stages of production on an inspirational documentary called, “Changed Lives: Miracles of The Passion,” which will air nationwide Easter weekend. With rave reviews from Diane Sawyer on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country,” this one-hour T.V. special was shot in High Definition and documents the true stories of people whose lives have been forever changed by Mel Gibson’s incredible motion picture “The Passion of The Christ.” “I knew instantly that people’s lives were going to be...

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) -- Performance Racing Network heard enough last week.  During its airing of the Sam's Town 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, driver Johnny Sauter used profanity during a live interview. Because of that, PRN will carry Sunday's Golden Corral 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on a seven-second delay to prevent any further problems.  Sauter was fined $10,000 and placed on probation for the rest of the season for his actions.  ``It's going to be our policy for the time being,'' vice president and general manager Doug Rice said Friday. ``After Johnny Sauter said something inappropriate at Las...

Guantanamo interviews to be revised in spy scare By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 06/10/2003) A line-by-line review has been ordered of every interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp involving an air force interpreter suspected of espionage and treason. Intelligence officers face the nightmare prospect that Ahmad al-Halabi, a Syrian-born linguist who served at the camp in Cuba for eight months, may have edited or deliberately distorted information given by al-Qa'eda and Taliban suspects during interrogation sessions.Tapes of those interrogations - some lasting hours - are being freshly translated. "If the subject answered 'five' and [Halabi] told interrogators he...

Guantanamo interviews to be revised in spy scare By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 06/10/2003) A line-by-line review has been ordered of every interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp involving an air force interpreter suspected of espionage and treason. Intelligence officers face the nightmare prospect that Ahmad al-Halabi, a Syrian-born linguist who served at the camp in Cuba for eight months, may have edited or deliberately distorted information given by al-Qa'eda and Taliban suspects during interrogation sessions. Tapes of those interrogations - some lasting hours - are being freshly translated. "If the subject answered 'five' and [Halabi] told interrogators...

The latest interview in the Conservative Views Interview Series is now up at Patriot Paradox. The interview was with ChewedGum, and here are some highlights: Should we use the creation of a Palestinian state as a negotiating tool to ease tensions in Israel and if not what should we negotiate with? Are the Palestinians in your opinion ready to govern themselves? I don't believe in negotiation with terrorists. You fight terror with deadly force. Once the terror is done, then we can discuss a state for the Palestinians. The Palestinian leadership (including the terror organizations) is short-circuiting the future of...

Noted with Amusement:Among the things we need to cheer for during these tense times is a newspaper with a sense of humor.The New York Post, who gave us the wonderful headline 'The Axis of Weasels' has dispatched veteran columnist Steve Dunleavy to file stories on the perfidious frogs.Steven who is famous for his inabilitly to resist the press of the grape, is visitng French bars and cafes with a weasel under his arm.They probably wont get the joke but who really cares?

Radio Free Republic is seeking volunteers to transcribe the excellent interviews done at CPAC by The Shrew and The Glaswegian. These interviews provide insights into the current thinking of the leaders of the conservative movement, and we'd like to make them available in written form after they're broadcast. There are 46 interviews, ranging in length from 5 to 42 minutes (1.7MB to 14.7MB files). I was able to transcribe The Shrew's 23-minute talk with David Horowitz in about 4 hours, to give you an idea of the effort involved. If you haven't done this before, the procedure is straightforward --...

An excellent special is on right now on TLC - The President on 9/11. It has interviews with Bush, Rice, and Cheney, and is showing 9/11 minute by minute - things I have never seen before. To be rebroadcast at 12, and I am setting the VCR this time - I can barely tear myself away to type this.

<p>Journalism is never more amoral than when dictators are the mandatory "get" for a news puff piece. For the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the network anchors were all scrambling to get an interview with Fidel Castro, the dictator-celebrity. Which network superstar would get the first opportunity to reward the communists for their exclusive by lauding the achievements of the glorious revolution?</p>

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 8 (AFP) - Iraq agreed in talks last week to allow UN weapons inspectors to decide where and how to interview its citizens, chief inspector Hans Blix said in a letter Tuesday. The letter did not explicitly say the interviews could be conducted outside Iraq, as demanded by US President George W. Bush in a televised speech Monday. But it did indicate a concession by the Iraqi authorities, who in the past insisted on monitoring conversations and sometimes intimidated interviewees. The 20-paragraph letter dated Tuesday was addressed to Amir El-Sadi, an aide to President Saddam Hussein...

When I turned 50 five years ago, I took a buyout from my employer. It didn’t seem too bad a deal: $25,000 (minus taxes, of course) and a slightly reduced pension effective immediately. After decades of driving to the Loop each workday, I was ready for a break. So I took a three-year hiatus. Caught up on a great deal of reading. Spent lots of time cruising down the information highway. Hung out with other guys who’d taken a powder from the rat race. Watched lots of cable news shows. This was about the time Billy Liar, who’d turned the...

Martz vows to limit press access The Associated Press HELENA (AP) - Gov. Judy Martz told a trade group in Kalispell that she is no longer granting interviews to some of the reporters who cover her, citing what she called "misleading" stories. Martz told the Montana Logging Association Friday that instead of granting interviews, she was taking only written questions from some reporters, and providing written responses. "I'm just realizing the ones I should not talk to," the governor said. Martz did not identify the reporters or say how many were not being granted interviews. She did say it involved...