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MOUNT HOREB, WI -- An active shooter threat led to schools in the Mount Horeb Area School District to implement a full lockdown Wednesday. According to the Mount Horeb Area School District, the threat was neutralized outside the middle school. Authorities said without giving details that the "alleged assailant" was harmed, and a witness said she had heard gunshots and saw dozens of children running. Shannon Hurd, 44, and her former husband, Nathian Hurd, 39, sat in a car waiting to be reunited with their 13-year-old son, Noah, who was still in the locked-down school. Shannon Hurd said she was...

The Iowa based American Future Fund (AFF) has reserved $800,000 for television ads in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District. Democrat Congressman Bruce Braley represents the District. Braley is being challenged by Ben Lange, a Republican from Independence, in this fall’s election. AFF has already been active in the District. Last month the group aired a television ad that was critical of Braley’s support of the mosque at Ground Zero. AFF has already launched radio ads, placed thousands of phone calls, and sent mailers to residents of the District about Braley’s liberal record. AFF told TheIowaRepublican.com that it estimates that it will...

The National Republican Congressional Committee Wednesday added 33 Republican candidates to its “On the Radar” and “Contender” lists. Those are levels one and two of the committee’s “Young Guns” program — a status which signals a high level of attention from the national party. Reaching “Contender” status are 14 candidates including Jon Runyan (N.J.), who’s challenging Rep. John Adler (D), and John Koster (Wash.) who’s challenging Rep. Rick Larson (D). The candidates making the NRCC’s “On the Radar” list include Hunt Downer (La.) and Jeff Landry (La.), both running for the seat left open by Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.), and...

Troubled comic Artie Lange landed in the hospital after stabbing himself nine times in an apparent suicide attempt, sources told The Post.

HELENA - The House Republican majority leader, Michael Lange, unleashed a profanity-laced tirade at Gov. Brian Schweitzer Wednesday, saying the Democratic governor "can go straight to hell." Lange, of Billings, exploded during a meeting of House Republicans Wednesday morning and repeatedly attacked Schweitzer, who was not present. The GOP leader called Schweitzer an "SOB on the second floor that thinks he's going to run this state like a dictator." He later apologized to fellow House members on the floor. Rep. Bill Wilson, D-Great Falls, then rose on a "point of personal privilege" to respond, saying he had never heard anything...

Jessica Lange is determined to carry on her anti-war and anti-President George W. Bush stance - even though it almost cost her her life. The actress has opposed the war since US troops first went into Iraq, and she reveals her views have made her a hate target for pro-war, pro-Bush Americans. The 57-year-old says, "George W. Bush really has whipped up the most poisonous scenario of neighbor against neighbor over the war in Iraq. It's disgusting. There were times when it was really lovely to be out there and against the war. But then I had anti-war stickers on...

NOTE: I was not in a position to take notes, so this is the best report I can make from memory. KPFK, the quasi-communist radio station in Los Angeles, brought to its listeners the anti-war activities in Washington, D.C. A woman named Verna Avery Brown and some ***clown guy, whose name I didn't catch, were interviewing Jessica Lange, airhead actress and political and military commentator. I knew she was foolish, but it was even worse than I have seen before. The ***clown guy kept talking about a blacklist and how it must be difficult to get work in Hollywood. Imagine...

Lange's anti-nuclear stance became a hallmark of New Zealand's identity The former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, who has died aged 63, introduced an aggressively anti-nuclear stance and bold modernising of socialist politics to the world stage. Before he took over the leadership of New Zealand's Labour Party in 1983, the left-leaning party's anti-nuclear stance had made little impact. But it was soon to become one of the cornerstones of the country's foreign policy - and one that would put it on a collision course with the US in some of the darkest days of the Cold War. When...

Kerry, Edwards, Hollywood, and the Politics of Hate By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 13, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms John Kerry and John Edwards both looked at the same intelligence presented to President Bush, and they voted for the Iraq war. Then both Kerry and Edwards voted against an $87 billion funding package for our troops in Iraq. How could they be both for and against the war? Kerry, the great flip-flopper, has even gone so far as stating, I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it. Several weeks before Kerry voted against the $87 billion bill,...

Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism WebBy Michael TremoglieFrontPageMagazine.com | March 19, 2003 In the run-up to this war, Not In Our Name became one of the major “peace” organizers and coalitions in the United States. Not In Our Name has spared no cost purchasing ads in newspapers around the world to publish its anti-American Statement of Conscience.  Its signatories include scores of Hate America bigwigs, like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Gloria Steinem and Barbara Kingsolver.  Hollywood icons (and many more has-beens) like Danny Glover, Jessica Lange, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris have...

In Hollywood, apparently, celebrity equals expertise. Edward Norton: "Almost everyone in Germany and France is in sync with the governments. I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government. . . . It's dismaying to see the unilateralism the government is doing. There aren't enough rational steps." Robert Altman: "The present government in America I just find disgusting, the idea that George Bush could run a baseball team successfully -- he can't even speak! I just find him an embarrassment. I was over here when the election was on and I couldn't believe it -- and I'm...

Oh, how I love to do this to this awful atheistic anti-freedom communist anthem. MIDI - IMAGINE Imagine no Sarandon…and no Martin Sheen Ferrell's aborted…Assner remains unseen Imagine all these a-hoes…just going away (I can dream) There is no Sean Penn preaching…and Jessica Lange croaked We won't have to hear Baldwin…Clooney's a washed-up joke Imagine all these a-hoes…just going away You might tell me….DFU, you're too much of a dreamer But, oh, that world would be great Perhaps at least we could go and gag them all That's a FReep we would love to celebrate Imagine Barbra Streisand…keeping her big...

Thu Jan 23,12:35 AM ET Singer Bob Dylan (news) and actress Jessica Lange (news), cast members of the film 'Masked and Anonymous,' pose during a photo call for the film in Park City, Utah, January 22, 2003 at the Sundance Film Festival (news - web sites). The film also stars Penelope Cruz (news), Val Kilmer (news) and Laura Elena Harring (news). The film is set somewhere, sometime, in an unnamed country, torn by civil war with unclear battle lines or ideology, 'Masked and Anonymous' tells the story of a 'benefit concert.' Dylan portrays iconic cult star Jack Fate in...

To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 52 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers and media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of six to nine quotes in each category. Each received a paper ballot in late November and returned it within two weeks. Now, the winning quotes in 17 award categories: Media Hero Award “For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.” --...

<p>In a final full day of campaigning Monday, DFL gubernatorial candidate Roger Moe tried to reach a wide range of voters, from union members to immigrants to downtown Minneapolis commuters during the evening rush hour.</p> <p>Moe spoke to senior citizens at a Columbia Heights high rise, visited the dozens of ethnic restaurants that dot Nicollet Av. between 26th and 28th streets and took center stage with Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Walter Mondale at a noon rally at Peavey Plaza on the Nicollet Mall. The rally also included the band Soul Asylum and actress Jessica Lange, who lives in Stillwater.</p>

We live in a world where entertainers reach megastar status with the hard earned dollars of Republicans. In turn, they use their fame as a political platform to support our enemies. Folks such as Alec Baldwin, Julia Roberts, Martin Sheen, Jessica Lange, Barbra Streisand, Rosie O'Donnell, Jon Bon Jovi, Cher, Leo DiCaprio, etc. have long shot their mouths off supporting liberal causes and liberal political candidates. It's time we show them that they cannot alienate half of their audience (i.e. Republicans) and continue to be successful. For the most part, we know who these "stars" are, and I imagine most...