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My name is Mary Katherine, and I reside in the state of Ohio. I am a registered Republican. I grew up in a small town with very strict parents, attend church every Sunday, and have generally tried to live a good and decent life. I have been married for 15 years, have 3 children, and I am a stay at home mother. I am personally opposed to abortion, I believe in small government, and I cheered when welfare was overhauled. I am personally opposed to gay marriage, and I deeply believe this country needs to do more about the divorce...

Several readers have written to let us know that the email address for Tom Hays, the reporter who wrote the false AP story about a Republican crowd booing the announcement of Bill Clinton's hospitalization in West Allis, Wisconsin, and President Bush doing "nothing to stop them." It is thays@ap.org. I have written Mr. Hays to ask whether he has anything to say in his own defense. I also asked him whether he was actually at the rally. I promised Mr. Hays that if he has anything to say for himself, we will gladly print it, and millions will see his...

John Kerry has undergone so many contortions to avoid admitting he lied when he told the Senate in 1986 that President Nixon had illegally ordered him to enter Cambodia. (The Dem slogan seems to be: If in doubt, blame Nixon). For John Kerry to have successfully maintained his Cambodian fiction his lie would have had to be difficult or impossible to refute. The Cambodian lie revealed that Kerry really is not that bright. To state that Nixon ordered him into Cambodia when in fact the then-president was L. B. Johnson was an incredibly stupid thing to do. If nothing else...

"Unfit for Command" really blew me away. It is far more devastating to John Kerry than I imagined it would. It exposes John Kerry's lies, one after another, in a fashion that shows his true motivations for going to Vietnam -- as a badge he could wear to promote himself in his future political ambitions. I have read section one (about half of the book) so far. Even if you discount all of the "my word against his" type of claims, the exposing of John Kerry's own words provides the noose that will hang him. I found some of these...

CLINTON'S PRESIDENCY: WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN Sat Jun 26, 8:00 PM ET By Cynthia Tucker Bill Clinton hopes to be acquitted by history. Fortunately for him, though, no subject of history is ever around to hear its verdict. Scholars will probably wonder what drove legions of conservatives to hate Clinton with such fury that they wasted years and spent a king's ransom trying to drive him from office. They will no doubt note that Clinton accomplished much despite the "vast right-wing conspiracy": He righted the nation's finances after decades of dangerous deficits. He drove the initiative that stopped a pogrom...

Some critics of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry have questioned the circumstances surrounding the first of three Purple Hearts Kerry won in Vietnam. Those critics, among them some of Kerry's fellow veterans, have suggested that a wound suffered by Kerry in December 1968 may have made him technically eligible for a Purple Heart but was not severe enough to warrant serious consideration, even for a decoration that was handed out by the thousands. Whatever the case, Kerry was awarded the Purple Heart, and, along with two others he won later, it allowed him to request to leave Vietnam before his...

MTV tries it's hand at damage control, but fails miserablyMTV has rather deftly changed it's text on it's Super Bowl page from the text originally up there (and touted by news programs and websites everywhere:Janet Jackson Got Nasty at the MTV-Produced Super Bowl Halftime Show Jaws across the country hit the carpet at exactly the same time. You know what we're talking about...Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake and a kinky finale that rocked the Super Bowl to its core. P. Diddy, Kid Rock, & Nelly rounded out the halftime show in the midst of the greatest game on earth. MTV was...

President Bush's proposal to give temporary legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants is running into stiff resistance from both left and right on Capitol Hill and stands little chance of enactment this year, according to supporters and opponents. While this assessment is based on early responses, with the lobbying effort barely begun, some lawmakers say the measure's only chance of passage this year would require an all-out push by the president, and even that might not be enough.

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush said Saturday his program to allow illegal immigrants to work in the United States legally for up to three years was designed to put "willing foreign workers" in jobs that Americans are "not willing" to do.</p>

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton launched a triple-network attack on President Bush yesterday while at the same time insisting she doesn't want his job. For now. "No, no. I've said no. I've said no, no, no, no," the New York Democrat told NBC's "Meet the Press," when asked if she would accept her party's nomination in 2004. But no matter how many times she said no, the questions kept landing as Clinton made the rounds to ABC and CBS. Clinton and her aides have publicly denied for months that she will make a bid for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in 2004...

Left-wing "comedian" Al Franken got tripped up by some big fat lies this week. He's sorry he got caught, but smugly silent about making fun of countless American kids who have taken abstinence vows.Thanks to Court TV's Smoking Gun Web site (www.thesmokinggun.com), we now know that the Saturday Night Live leftover abused his position as an "academic fellow" (now that's funny) at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy in a puerile attempt to trick Attorney General John Ashcroft into publicly sharing his personal experience with abstinence.Franken urged Ashcroft to share...

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH -- (House of Representatives - July 16, 2003) ---    The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Gingrey). The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon) is recognized for 40 minutes.    Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, enough is enough. I sat in my office last night and listened to Member after Member on the other side rail about President Bush and whether or not we could trust him in the Iraqi situation. I have listened to my colleagues tonight. Enough is enough. Mr. Speaker, this is just outrageous.    So what I have done is I have got a whole file here,...

If it's allowed to stand, an FCC ruling will feed media merger mania BY BILL CLINTON "It's your money," says President Bush when he promotes tax cuts. I disagree with his tax policy but admire his spin. The same argument applies with greater force to whether big media conglomerates should be allowed to control more television and radio stations: "It's your airwaves." The American people own the bandwidth that broadcast media companies use to deliver programs to our TV and radio sets. Because the space on that bandwidth is limited, the Federal Communications Commission regulates who has access to our...

Mrs. Clinton Is Forgiven, but for a PriceBy JOYCE PURNICK URING her big book party at the Four Seasons on Monday, Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked if she found it painful to relive her rough marital days. "It was difficult," she said. "It, you know, they were very difficult times; they should have remained personal and private matters. But they were pulled into the public so I felt I had to, you know, write about what was part of the public history." She got that right. She did have to. Those are the rules, unwritten but unyielding. New York's junior...

This took a while to compose and put up on FR, but it’s been a busy week or so. PART 1 – MANHATTAN MELODRAMA The intent to FReep of the Manhattan opening of Rodham Hussein’s book tour was circulated amongst the members of the Tri-State Chapter so as to preserve the element of surprise. Apologies to anyone in the area that was not notified and would have attended. Please FReep mail firebrand if you want in on future Tri-State events. We received tactical air support from Curtis Sliwa of WABC radio (770 AM) in NYC and Dom Giordano of WPHT...

Customers and employees who strolled through a Borders bookstore in Tacoma, Wash., apparently thought nothing of finding the nation's most talked-about non-fiction release displayed under this sign: "We Recommend, New Science Fiction and Fantasy Titles." Display at Tacoma, Wash., Borders store Friday (WorldNetDaily photo) For at least two hours last Friday afternoon, Hillary Clinton's "Living History" was situated alongside "Jaws of Darkness," "The Battle of Evernight" and "The War of the Flowers." The display remained unchanged until inventory manager Leslie DuBois discovered it and removed Clinton's book just before leaving for home at 4 p.m. "I think it was a...

Publisher Lied About Hillary Book Sales June 16, 2003 Here are some facts to smash the myths on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's new book: There were not a million printed. There were not 200,000 sold on the first day. There was not a "leak" to the Associated Press of the book's content. Hillary's publisher, Simon & Schuster, sent the data on Bill and Monica to AP. The American Prowler reports all of this. More: Ann Coulter wrote a great column about this guy named Packer who made a big show of rushing to buy the book at midnight when it...

For those who have paid attention, it is obvious that Juanita Broaddrick is a compelling witness. She lived a nightmare that she always wanted to be private but that became public. Juanita never wanted to testify. That is why she made the initial mistake of signing an affidavit that came from Bruce Lindsey, who was quite a behind the scenes fixer and apparently also an affidavit mill. Talk about a lowlife with no conscience. When she had to testify under oath, Juanita told the truth as she lived it. She came forward reluctantly. She had government contracts that could be...

Hillary Clinton said Sunday night that the next time her husband has sex with another woman she will keep it a secret; a decision that gives Bill Clinton virtual carte blanche to carry on extra marital affairs. During her interview with Barbara Walters, the ABC News star asked, "What if he does something in the future that is similar [to the Lewinsky episode]?" Mrs. Clinton replied, "You know, that will be between us. And that will be that zone of privacy that I believe in." "Right now I'm very hopeful and very committed to our marriage and to our...

CLINTON SEX ROMP CAUGHT ON VIDEO! CLINTON Bill Clinton has been caught on videotape cheating on Hillary -- and the steamy sex romp could torpedo her political career! Now foes of Hillary are in an all-out race to obtain the tape and publicize it, an exclusive ENQUIRER investigation has discovered. The issue that goes on sale Friday reveals how Clinton was taped having sex in a pickup truck with a department store clerk, how Hillary's opponents plan to use the video to sabotage her political plans … and more. Published on: May 30, 2003