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It took 20 years for John Glenn, the former astronaut and Democratic senator, to repay the debts that he ran up in his failed bid for the presidential nomination in 1984. Nobody is predicting that Hillary Clinton, whose campaign debts are estimated at between $20m and $30m – and rising – would take that long to meet her obligations. But the financial strain is getting more difficult with each day. Having raised little more than $1m (€650,000, £510,000) since her defeat in North Carolina and narrow victory in Indiana last Tuesday, compared to $10m in the days following her Pennsylvania...

Things that make you think a little: There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq. When some claim that President Bush shouldn't have started this war, state the following: a. FDR led us into World War II. b. Germany never attacked us ; Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost ... an average of 112,500 per year. c. Truman finished that war and started one in Korea...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Former senator and astronaut John Glenn and his wife, Annie, were discharged Sunday from a hospital where they had been recovering from what he called a “very serious'' car accident. “I do not recommend you go test your air bags the way we did the other night,” Glenn said. Neither Glenn nor his wife was seriously injured, said Dr. Paul Beery. Beery said the former senator suffered a minor fracture in his sternum. Glenn was struck in the chest by his car’s air bag as it deployed during the accident, according to past reports. “As far...

Columbus, Ohio -- Former senator and astronaut John Glenn and his wife were taken to a hospital with minor injures after being involved in a car accident, police said. Glenn, 85, and his wife, Annie, 86, were in fair condition early Saturday morning at Grant Medical Center, a nursing supervisor said. The driver of the other car, Amy Myers of suburban New Albany, said she was driving east late Friday night when Glenn, who was headed west, tried to turn left onto a highway ramp.

WHAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID > > > Things that make you think a little: > > > > There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January. > In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the > month of January.That's just one American city, > about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq. > > > > When some claim that President Bush shouldn't > have started this war, state the following: > > > > a. FDR led us into World War II. > > b. Germany never attacked us; Japan...

Candidate John Glenn rebuked Howard Metzenbaum in 1974 primary. Metz. said Glenn "never met a payroll." Glenn: "I served 23 years in the Marine Corps. I was through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. "I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, it was my life that was on the line. "I ask you to go with me, and look those men with their mangled bodies in the eye and tell them they didn't hold a job. "You go with me to any Gold Star mother, and...

I got this in an e-mail. Never saw it before, but it is a really great read! Sorry if it has already been posted before. Things that make you think a little........ 1. There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq. 2. When some claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war, state the following: FDR...led us into World War II. Germany never attacked...

On February 20, 1962, aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft, Lieutenant Colonel John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the earth. The five-hour orbital flight, however, had nearly ended in disaster. Near the end of Friendship 7's first orbit, the craft's automatic control system malfunctioned and Glenn was forced to switch to manual control to regain control of the spinning craft. Then, near the end of the third and final orbit, a loose heat shield threatened Friendship 7 with incineration during its imminent reentry. It was decided that the craft's retrorockets, usually jettisoned before reentry, would be left on...

FORMER SEN. JOHN GLENN (D-OH) COMPARES REPUBLICANS TO NAZIS: "Former senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) took the defense a step further by comparing the Republicans' misleading statements to those of Nazi Germany. You've just got to separate out fact from fiction. . . . Too often, too often, in this country, if you hear something repeated, it's the old Hitler business -- if you hear something repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated, you start to believe it,' he said." The washington Post pulled the article

I admire the courage of astronaut John Glenn. He has led our great nation into space and slipped the bounds of Earth's atmosphere as he sped off into the aether. Only this time, he neglected to suit up and travel on a rocket. John Glenn had this to say regarding the recent GOP convention. Former senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) took the defense a step further by comparing the Republicans' misleading statements to those of Nazi Germany. "You've just got to separate out fact from fiction. . . . Too often, too often, in this country, if you hear something repeated,...

As part of his pre-convention getting to know him tour, John Kerry is coming to the Kennedy Space Center on Monday July 26th accompanied by ex-astronaut John Glenn to talk about ... healthcare![I'm posting this as a vanity since Florida Today refuses to allow us to post even headlines. Since this is the hometown paper for the Kennedy Space Center, it is the only one carrying this local story with national import. Go figure. You can go there to read the article but why give a Gannett paper the hits?]

Unless you’ve been sleeping in a cave for the past two weeks, you know that Bill Clinton’s memoir My Life appeared on bookstore shelves last Tuesday. Clinton’s 1993 health care plan never passed and so you better have private health insurance, because if you drop this 1000-page tome on your foot you’re going to need a doctor. Despite the length of the book, there are many subjects that Clinton virtually ignores. As critics have noted, the book is filled with trivia and short on substance. The second half of the book, dealing with Clinton’s eight years as president, is rushed...

Subject: GOOD SPEECH The best speech John Glenn ever made: short and to the point. Some people still don't understand why military personnel do what they do for a living. The following exchange between Senator John Glenn (D -OH) and Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D - OH) is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive and impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one man's explanation of why men and women in the Armed Services do what they do for a living. This IS a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served think...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. space pioneer John Glenn said on Thursday that President Bush (news - web sites)'s space exploration plan "pulls the rug out from under our scientists" and might waste too much money to ever put astronauts on Mars. Glenn, a retired Democratic senator from Ohio and the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, said NASA (news - web sites) should not abandon research on the International Space Station (news - web sites) and questioned the advisability of using the moon as a stepping stone to Mars. His stinging rebuke of the Bush plan came...

Officials: New federal tests hurt students BY JUDY HOLLAND Hearst Newspapers WASHINGTON - Teachers, lawmakers and celebrities on Tuesday unveiled a book of letters that criticize the Bush administration's efforts to improve public schools by imposing federal testing. Critics of President Bush's centerpiece education program - known as "No Child Left Behind" - say it forces teachers to abandon more valuable academics in favor of preparing for federal tests. The program requires standardized testing for third through eighth grades in math and reading and identifies schools that don't pass muster as under-performing. The book, "Letters to the Next President: What...

PIONEERS of the space race yesterday paid tribute to the crew of Columbia and called for their work to continue, as US President George W. Bush announced he would attend a NASA memorial service tomorrow in Houston, Texas, for the seven men and women who died. "It's a horrible thing to have happen, and our thoughts go out to the crew's family and friends," said former senator John Glenn, the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth in 1962. "It's important to remember we're not up there to just joyride around, we are up there to do things on Earth."...

‘Punkin Suit’ Pride Feb. 10 issue — We’ve got a NASA channel on our cable TV here at home, and we were going to watch the landing. Suddenly, everything went off the air and they said they had lost all signal. I knew we had deep problems. BACK IN THE old days, it was normal to lose contact for about four minutes during the highest heat of re-entry, but the blackout period now is less. I turned to my wife, Annie, and said, “This is big-time trouble.” We’ve never had a disaster on re-entry before. The launch has always been...

From the Joyce Foundation newsletter, Work In Progress Issue date: January 2003 Right Balance "Gun rights groups have made it seem that the Second Amendment belongs to them. But it belongs to all Americans — we all need to understand what it means." Getting a clearheaded understanding of the Second Amendment is a tall order these days. But scholars at The Ohio State University — with Joyce funding and the backing of an all-American hero — are taking up the challenge. The John Glenn Institute at OSU is creating a research center to help courts, scholars, journalists, and the public...

<p>DENVER — Former U.S. Sen. John Glenn is urging caution in moving against Iraq. “Whether we go to war or not is the single-most serious event any nation can decide,” said the former astronaut and retired Marine colonel.</p> <p>Speaking at the University of Denver on Monday night, Glenn said moving too quickly against Saddam based on speculation that the Iraqi leader may want to develop a nuclear bomb could have repercussions.</p>