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WHY WE ARE MARCHING ON WASHINGTON OCTOBER 25, 2003 There are times when a progressive demonstration, even a large activity, is little more than a symbolic protest. There are other times when a mass demonstration can function as a catalyst, a trigger unleashing new political energy; or serve as a vivid expression of a new genuine grassroots movement capable of stirring the country and changing the political landscape. When the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition one year ago initiated the October 26, 2002, mass demonstrations in Washington DC and San Francisco there was no way to know that hundreds of thousands would participate...

Less than 24 hours after plans were unveiled to build the Counter Clinton Library in Little Rock, Ark., the project had come under attack by defenders of the ex-president who attempted to disrupt its fundraising operation. Staff at the CCL report the cyber-Clintonistas have emailed at least 13 separate computer viruses to their Web site in a blitzkrieg effort to shut it down. "If you understand the Clintons, you just know they will do virtually anything to stop this Counter Library," CCL co-founder, former Congressman John LeBoutillier told NewsMax, before vowing not to let the cyber-attack disrupt operations. In anticipation...

<p>After Sen. Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, created a stir by attacking Rush Limbaugh and other conservative voices in the media as somehow responsible for death threats to politicians like himself, his total absence of any evidence made him look ridiculous.</p>

What Andrew Jackson can teach Al Gore about beating Bush in 2004. Al Gore wants a rematch. Pundits are already discounting his chances at beating George W. Bush in 2004—not without good reason, given his reported 19 percent favorable rating. But a historical fact bodes well for Gore: On six occasions, a defeated presidential candidate ran four years later against the man who beat him—and four times the challenger won. In 1800, Thomas Jefferson ousted President John Adams in their rematch. Like father, like son: President John Quincy Adams lost to Andrew Jackson in their 1828 reprise. William Henry Harrison...

In the sleazy "Travelgate" scandal the Clinton White House did "nothing much, really" according to today's New York Times. The claim was further proof that the Times has become unglued by the horror of the GOP's smashing victory in the November 5 elections. So frantic has the "newspaper of record" become that the Weekly Standard was moved to parody a Times front page as announcing "GOP Wins Senate; Nation Girds for Bush Judges, End of Civilization," a parody that came as close to the truth as humor can get. Now someone named Adam Cohen, apparently a Times Op-Ed columnist, risked...

Rooney: Journalists Liberal, 'Suprised' Conservatives Won60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney who expressed 'surprise' at 'how conservative America has gotten,' nonetheless showed he was more aware of political idealogy than Phil Donahue.Appearing on MSNBC Tuesday night, to Donahue's dismay, Rooney agreed with best selling author and Former CBS Newsman Bernard Goldbergs contention that most journalists view the world from the left.'I think that most people I know tend towards the liberal direction, yes.'When Donahue disagreed, Rooney was taken aback, 'You don't think that is true, come on Phil!'

     Update. And the answer is: It will be on NBC and it stars the son of Barbra Streisand’s husband, her stepson.     The November 11 CyberAlert noted that NBC has a prime time drama about the White House titled The West Wing, though it’s been dubbed “The Left Wing,” and we may soon be referring to a new prime time drama about a U.S. Senator and his staff as “The Left Hill” or “The Left Chamber.” CNN’s Bill Schneider on Friday gave a glimpse at a new show in which the model for one star is Paul Wellstone and...

NATIONAL BIASED RADIO Two moments stand out for me from a lifetime of listening to taxpayer-funded National Public Radio. The first was a commentary by Daniel Schorr one day before the 1990 elections in Nicaragua. Schorr was certain that the Sandinistas were on the cusp of a historic victory that would crush, once and for all, the arguments of the Reagan and Bush administrations about that tyrannical communist regime. In the event, of course, Violetta Chamorro won a resounding victory. The other NPR moment also stands out. I was driving home from the White House (where I worked for the...

I work in the Park Shops office building downtown. This morning on the elevator coming in I saw that Peter Jennings will be signing his new book In Search of America November 15th at noon at the Waldenbooks in the Park Shops. Boy what a great opportunity to stand in line and get to tell good ol' Pete what you think of him!! "Hi Pete! Why don't you go "in search of Canada" and get back up there, you America-hating liberal!!!" Any good freep ideas?

New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com MSNBC's boss is on thin ice Wednesday, November 6th, 2002 MSNBC boss Erik Sorenson's future at the troubled cable news network is looking shaky. Sorenson's boss, NBC CEO Bob Wright, left doubts about Sorenson's tenure in an interview with the Daily News. When asked whether the MSNBC boss would keep his job, Wright declined to respond, saying only that he "is working his tail off" at turning around the network. "It clearly signifies his tenure is short-lived," said Jack Myers, editor of media newsletter Myers Report. Wright was down on MSNBC, saying the...

NEW YORK -- Actor Christopher Reeve knows how to get to fellow celebrities. As consultant to the upcoming PBS series Freedom, he wanted well-known actors to provide voices for characters from American history. But if he went through managers, publicists or agents, Reeve knew he'd get some brush-offs. So he wrote to the celebrities themselves. He assembled an impressive list: Jennifer Aniston, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams and many others. Reeve, 50, wanted to participate because his half brother, a teacher in rural Vermont, had such trouble...

Breaking on TV: ~200 Hatian illegals tried to rush the shore of Florida from a small boat and have been intercepted. On Fox, a discussion on the difficult necessity of keeping our borders secure... On MSNBC, a discussion of 'the fear on the faces of the immigrants' as they are assaulted by the evil INS/US Coast Guard... What a wonderful example of the knee-jerk, Blame America First, Limousene Liberal mind-set on NBC...

The AP headline reads: "Cheney won't be at Wellstone Service," But as the story itself makes clear (or at least it's clear if you read through their biased evasions) Cheney was TOLD NOT TO COME by the Democrats. THAT'S THE STORY - and THAT should be the headline, not a headline that suggests Cheney is the one doing the snubbing!!! (AP's D.C. phone number: 202-348-5244 White House - AP Cheney Won't Be at Wellstone Service Tue Oct 29,11:29 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - The family of Sen. Paul Wellstone asked Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) to stay...

Ghoulish but true: as Minnesota mourns the death of Senator Paul Wellstone, many of the state's residents have been receiving fliers bearing a picture of a tombstone. The fliers, sent out by a conservative business group, denounce the late senator's support for maintaining the estate tax. Under the tombstone, the text reads in part: "Paul Wellstone not only wants to tax you and your business to death . . . he wants to tax you in the hereafter." To be fair, the people who mailed out those fliers — which are carefully worded so that the cost of the mailing...

NEW YORK -- Did "firing" Ann Coulter lead to the departure of the editor who axed her? "I don't think that had anything to do with it," said Bob Unger, who -- in what he described as a "mutual" decision -- stepped down Monday as executive editor of the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pa. Early last month, Unger dropped Coulter from the newspaper's column lineup, arguing that her syndicated commentary was "mean." This decision infuriated many fans of the conservative Coulter, though Unger said "80 to 85%" of the more than 5,000 e-mails he ultimately received supported his...

<p>Don't accuse Michael Moore of being objective.</p> <p>"I don't believe in objectivity," says the filmmaker. "I don't believe that any newspaper's objective. I believe there's subjectivity in every article, and where every article is placed. We're human beings, we're subjective animals, we're not machines."</p>

Left out Answering those who are skeptical or hostile By Marvin OlaskyChristians know that God's Word trumps but does not obliterate man's reason. Since God created the world, He's the only one who knows how it objectively works, and the most reasonable thing man can do is to follow what He says. Few big-university professors and journalists understand that, and their bigotry makes them think that Christians are always looking merely to quote a Scripture verse and go home. When Bob Jensen, a socialist University of Texas professor so hostile to Christ that he has said Christian professors should not...