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Senate President Therese Murray yesterday declined to strip of his chairmanship a senator charged in a series of bizarre sexual incidents despite a request from a top Republican lawmaker. Sen. Robert L. Hedlund (R-Weymouth) asked Murray to remove Sen. James Marzilli, indicted on four counts of accosting a person of the opposite sex, from his position as co-chairman of the Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development Committee. “Sen. Marzilli is clearly incapable of fulfilling his duties as chairman,” wrote Hedlund in a letter he sent to Murray (D-Plymouth) yesterday. “I cannot think of a single argument why the taxpayers of Massachusetts...

(CNN) -- The liberal environmentalist Green Party nominated former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney as its presidential candidate Saturday. Cynthia McKinney represented a suburban Atlanta, Georgia, district for six terms as a Democrat. Cynthia McKinney represented a suburban Atlanta, Georgia, district for six terms as a Democrat. McKinney, 53, held off three rivals to win the party's nomination during its convention in Chicago, Illinois. She picked journalist and activist Rosa Clemente as her running mate.

Wisconsin's version of Ward Churchill, ultra left wingnut Kevin Barrett, has accused Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI03) of promulgating "an act of war propaganda whose knowing transmission arguably constitutes a war crime." Barrett sent out the following press release via email: ------------------------------------------------------- Barrett to Kind: Retract "Wiped off the Map" Lie! For Immediate Release - June 27, 2008 Contact: Dr. Kevin Barrett; 608-583-2132, kbarrett@merr.com Rolf Lindgren; 608-279-5889, rolfusaugustusadolphus@yahoo.com Kevin Barrett, the peace candidate for Congress who is challenging pro-war Democratic incumbent Ron Kind in Wisconsin's District 3, has written to Kind demanding that he retract his false and libelous statement...

Last Tuesday, a group of local activists held a friendly demonstration of gratitude outside of Congressman Maurice Hinchey's (D-NY, 22) office at Cayuga and Green Streets, thanking Hinchey for being the seventh representative to sign on to and co-sponsor Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich's impeachment bill. "Our main focus was to thank Hinchey," said resident John Hamilton. It's very clear it was the right thing to do. We're delighted. Politically, it's a big step. Democratic leadership is trying to brush all the crimes of this administration under the table. This is a courageous step for Hinchey to take, and we want...

One reason people are unhappy with the way politics and governments operate is that people who run for office are known to “say one thing and do another.” Thus, we have the call for “change.” Candidates for high office make frequent use of that word. Even our House Republican Conference’s recently released slogan highlights that word. Yet, bringing about change is easier said than done. The American people are aware that government is broken and must be fixed. They will demand more than lip service as our problems become more severe. Change, then, cannot simply be a word. It must...

You too can write like a loony conspiracy theorist! Welcome to the THB Moonbat Writing Tutorial, M1. In this first lesson we will go over the style and content guidelines for writing like a true left-wing Blogger. You only need to learn a few simple rules and you can be up and howling at the moon like all your buddies! Please read each rule carefully and complete the Sample Assignments below. The Moonbat Stylebook: 1. Rage Against the Dying of the Light. Emotion is a perfectly acceptable alternative to reason. In fact, in most cases it’s preferable, because you don’t...

U.S. atrocities are unworthy of our heritage. Put the fireworks in storage. Cancel the parade. Tuck the soaring speeches in a drawer for another time. This year, America doesn't deserve to celebrate its birthday. This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement. For we have sinned. We have failed to pay attention. We've settled for lame excuses. We've spit on the memory of those who did that brave, brave thing in Philadelphia 232 years ago. The America those men founded should never torture a prisoner. The America they founded should never imprison people for years without...

There's one group of District residents absolutely unfazed by today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling shooting down the District's strict handgun ban: the dudes who have been blowing away their fellow citizens with abandon since the law was put on the books 32 years ago. Operating under the notion that it's better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission, our shooters long ago decided not to wait for the high court's thoughts on the matter. They simply arrogated to themselves the right to keep and bear arms and, with that right, license to shoot and kill, with impunity, whatever and whenever...

James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer. Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken...

Abstract: The heat generated inside our planet is predominantly of radionic (nuclear) origin. Hence, Earth in its entirety can be considered considered a slow nuclear reactor with its solid ”inner core” providing a major contribution to the total energy output. Since radionic heat is generated in the entire volume and cooling can only occur at the surface, the highest temperature inside Earth occurs at the center of the inner core. Overheating the center of the inner core reactor due to the so-called greenhouse effect on the surface of Earth may cause a meltdown condition, an enrichment of nuclear fuel and...

Bush may have done a service to us all. The eight years gave us lay offs and unemployment not seen since the great depresion, wars and attrocities commited in the name of advancing american multi corporate agenda and white Christianity, we saw the rich get richer and the poor become even more poor, we heard slogans such as jobless recovery, strategery, modern economy, trickledown effect Ad nauseum. The values of Bush are the values of the capitalist system, another word for fascism. the eight years of Bush proves capitalism is a failed system. We see more debt, unemployment and 100...

Ron Paul is suspending his presidential campaign. WASHINGTON (CNN) – Texas Rep. Ron Paul announced Thursday he is suspending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination to focus his time on building an organization to help recruit and elect “limited government Republicans.” “We want to elect constitutionalists, limited government Republicans across the country at the state and federal level,” said Paul spokesman Jesse Benton. The congressman will speak about his political plans at the Texas Republican State Convention being held in Houston. Late Thursday afternoon, Paul launched a Web site for his new organization where he explained the decision to...

WASHINGTON - Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential contender, said Monday he wants the House to consider a resolution to impeach President Bush. Speaker Nancy Pelosi consistently has said impeachment was "off the table." Kucinich, D-Ohio, read his proposed impeachment language in a floor speech. He contended Bush deceived the nation and violated his oath of office in leading the country into the Iraq war. Kucinich introduced a resolution last year to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. That resolution was killed, but only after Republicans initially voted in favor of taking up the measure to force a debate.

The only truly critical factor affecting the earth is overpopulation. To make things it is an ignored topic because of political correctness. We will rid the earth of all its resources, and thereby eliminate humanity.

Dennis Kucinich is currently on the floor of the House presenting his bill to impeach President George W. Bush. C-SPAN, 8:00 PM 9 Jun 2008.

Immediate Alert for Saturday Morning, Waterbury Connecticut, June 7, 2008 IN an e-mail alert from the Patriot Guard, there is supposed to be a presence of antiwar types at the FUNERAL of a fallen Marine from Waterbury TOMORROW morning early! If you can attend, be there before 9 AM maps to the location of the cemetery below, the presence of the antiwar types is supposed to be north of this location http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&dq=Riverside+cemetery+loc:+Waterbury,+CT&daddr=496+Riverside+St,+Waterbury,+CT+06708&geocode=15632629214542374654,41.548818,-73.046660&ll=41.548818,-73.046660&iwstate1=dir:to&iwloc=A&f=d The original Patriot Guard posting is here: http://www.patriotguard.org/Forums/tabid/61/postid/886371/view/topic/Default.aspx The Obituary for this Marine is located here: http://www.rep-am.com/Obituaries/346098.txt If you will not fight for right when you can easily...

The man known as the French "Spiderman" climbed The New York Times building on Thursday to draw attention to global warming, adding to earlier conquests including the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge. Alain Robert, 45, told reporters ahead of the climb on U.N World Environment Day his aim was "to raise awareness of global warming since this is one of the main problems for our time." He raised both arms and waved to onlookers when he reached the top, where waiting police handcuffed and detained him. Using the lattice work on the facade, he climbed without equipment besides...

I realise now that I didn't have a hope. I had almost reached the stage when two of the biggest gorillas I have ever seen swept me up and carried me out of the tent. It was humiliating, but it could have been worse. The guard on the other side of the stage, half hidden in the curtains, had spent the lecture touching something under his left armpit. Perhaps he had bubos. I had no intention of arresting John Bolton, the former under-secretary of state at the US state department, when I arrived at the Hay festival. But during a...

A woman claiming George W. Bush was threatening to kill her stormed a bank armed with a shotgun and held people hostage, police said. Investigators said Donna Sue Bynum, 40, burst into a Bank of America located on Central Florida Parkway Friday night and threatened to kill everyone. "She said George W. Bush was trying to kill her," hostage Terry Homer said. "I honestly don't think she was in the right state of mind." "She said she wanted to talk to George W. Bush and things like that and if everybody doesn't shut up, I'm going to kill everyone," Hostage...

Brushing aside Mr Monbiot’s attempted citizen’s arrest, he said: “I think in my own individual case it’s kind of comic.” But he added: “I think there’s a larger issue here. You have a democratically elected parliament and its government assessed the war as legal and proper.” When individuals took actions outside the law, in their eyes to bring those responsible for the war to justice, “that is the point you move towards lawlessness and fascism,” he said. And when one’s views do match those of the democratically elected government, “you have to accept that”, he added. Dismissing Mr Monbiot’s attempted...

John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, has escaped an attempted citizen's arrest as he appeared at the Hay Festival. The former ambassador - a key advisor to President George W Bush who argued strongly in favour of invading Iraq - had been giving a talk on international relations to more than 600 people at the literary festival. Mr Monbiot was blocked by two heavily-built security guards at the end of the one-and-a-half hour appearance, before he could serve a "charge sheet" on him. After being released by the guards the columnist - a fierce critic of...

I love watching leftwing moonbats go berserk. The fact that they just can't control their incredible anger at conservatives is highly entertaining from a comedic POV. Check out this MOONBAT attempting to give a rational critique of conservatism. At first he just reads from a script and tries to act scholarly. However, he just can't keep up the act. To skip the tedious part of his recitation, just fast forward to the 6:10 mark and watch as Mr. Moonbat completely loses all self-control. Please be warned that there is very strong language as the Moonbat undergoes a complete mental...

The Truth Commission for Water Rights on May 3 heard the experiences of Detroit and Highland Park, Mich., residents who are being denied their human right to water. The Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO) organized the daylong event of multimedia and firsthand presentations.

For the first time, an American rabbi will be traveling to Iran Tuesday on a mission of interfaith dialogue and understanding. Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, one of the early forces behind the Jewish Renewal movement in America, will co-lead a delegation of 21 peace activists to the Islamic Republic on a mission "to humanize the face of Iran, lest we end up with a disaster of global proportions we cannot imagine," she told The Jerusalem Post by phone on Monday. Gottlieb, a longtime peace activist and recent cofounder of the Shomer Shalom Institute for Jewish Non-Violence, said her participation in the...

It's our responsibility to question leaders Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:03 AM I respond to the April 9 letter "Pelosi has nerve questioning general" from Jack Duffy. Any chance he just woke up from a six-year coma and hasn't heard the news? Saddam Hussein kept al-Qaida out of Iraq. Iraq never attacked us. We are there for oil, and only the control of oil. As far as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi goes, it's her job to question everything; she's the head of the U.S. House. Has Duffy ever heard of checks and balances? It is the job and privilege of...

Former Governor Jesse Ventura Says WTC Collapse a Controlled Demolition Published: Thu, 03 Apr 2008, 15:06:03 GMT Edited by Carly Zander Email this article Print this news article Share Content AUSTIN, Texas, April 3 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- According to an appearance on the Alex Jones Show, former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura blasted the official 9/11 story - citing that evidence disproves the government's claims that jet fuel melted the Twin Towers' steel girders. "How could those buildings fall at the speed of gravity - if you put a stopwatch on them both of those World Trade Center buildings were on...

Authorities said that the vandals had let the air out of the vehicles' tires. On some of the cars' windshields, notes were found that read "Happy Fossil Fool's Day."

March 2008 Cable News Ratings From Drudge CABLE NEWS RACE NIGHT OF MARCH 13, 2008 VIEWERS FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,979,000 FNC HANNITY/COLMES 2,280,000 FNC GRETA 1,896,000 CNN KING 1,640,000 FNC HUME 1,530,000 CNN COOPER 1,417,000 FNC SHEP 1,392,000 CNN DOBBS 1,057,000 MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,001,000 CNNHN GRACE 605,000 MSNBC HARDBALL 507,000

This Trinity United Church of Christ newsletter ... from last June seems to be making the rounds in Jewish circles... Jeremiah Wright prints an “Open Letter to Oprah from Ali Baghdadi on her visit to Palestine.” Baghdadi is described as an “Arab-American activist, writer, columnist,” and the letter, among other things, accuses Israel of once working with South Africa “on an ethnic bomb that kills Blacks and Arabs.” “what the Zionist Jews did to the Palestinians is worse than what the Nazis did to the Jews,” ...

I have to say, I am really loving this Democratic race these past few months. I wonder if either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton understand what they're doing to themselves the longer they drag this out, the more they talk, the more skeletons that inevitably come out. But hey, by all means, keep it up! They're both doing a great job. Here's some more, uh, patriotism from that America-loving couple, Barack and Michelle Obama. Michelle once again takes on the task of being the official idiotic mouthpiece for her husband, with glorious results: Money quote: " Because sometimes it's easier...

(CNSNews.com) - Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine. "(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans." Wright continued, "From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman...

Obama's Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine By Penny Starr CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer March 26, 2008 (CNSNews.com) - Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine. "(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans. "From the circumstances...

Martina Navratilova, the former world number one tennis star, said yesterday that she had regained Czech nationality more than 30 years after fleeing its communist rule to live in the US. The 51-year-old, who won the Wimbledon singles title a record nine times, said that she was maintaining dual nationality and keeping her US passport. But her announcement, at a Tokyo press conference, raised questions over whether she planned to leave America, after a series of controversial attacks on President Bush and the Republican party. Born in Prague, Navratilova defected to the United States in 1975 aged 18, angering the...

Campus police at UC Berkeley removed a hammock, sleeping bag and food Monday from an oak tree where a lone tree-sitter has been residing since Feb. 25. Police said they would not arrest the tree-sitter, a former Berkeley business student who calls himself Fresh, if he climbed down the tree voluntarily. But he remained steadfast, holding a bucket of human waste and shouting to a crowd of about 500 students who had gathered to watch the spectacle around noon near Wheeler Hall. His face obscured by a scarf, Fresh said he's trying to draw attention to the university's research deal...

Linda Hirshman doesn't think very much of people like me. As a white woman with a law degree, I am in that "plurality of elite" women she suggests are traitors to their sex. To Hirshman, my decision not to support the candidacy of a onetime Wal-Mart board member who is the descendent of a wealthy Chicago family, but rather a former community organizer who is the son of a single mother, makes me "fickle," an "Obamabot" swayed by a movement, and quite possibly a spoiled brat who doesn't care about women less fortunate. To say that I resent the implication...

Actress Marion Cotillard sparked a political row yesterday after accusing America of fabricating the 9/11 attacks. The 32-year-old French actress, who received an Oscar last month for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, openly questioned the truth behind the terrorist atrocity in an interview broadcast on a French website. "I think we're lied to about a number of things," Cotillard said, singling out the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as an example of the US making up horror stories for political ends. Referring to the two passenger jets being flown into the Twin...

Ralph Nader's choice of San Francisco lawyer and activist Matt Gonzalez as his running mate isn't likely to propel the consumer advocate to victory in his fifth presidential campaign since 1992. But it offers Gonzalez - a former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who narrowly lost his 2003 bid to be the first Green Party mayor of a major U.S. city - a platform to try to influence the debate in the presidential race. It's a role with some risks. Although the 42-year-old Gonzalez is a hero to the Bay Area left, many local progressives - including...

Jackie Levy rejects Castro’s views, but respects his old-time leftist desire to change world Jackie Levy Published: 02.24.08, 09:30 / Israel Opinion One need not be an avowed fan of the communist doctrine in order to feel something in the face of the curtain falling on Fidel Castro’s regime. In an era where most nations hand over the helm to small-time bureaucrats and sly lawyers that look and sound as if they came off the same production line, Castro may be the last leader who can be recognized only by his silhouette. We are dealing with a mythical, colorful figure...

"Has there ever been a more repugnant example of political pandering than John McCain’s decision to vote against a bill banning waterboarding, putting hoods on prisoners, forcing them to perform sex acts, subjecting them to mock executions, or depriving them of food, water, and medical treatment? That’s right, John McCain, the former POW who has long been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s disturbing embrace of extreme interrogation techniques. But that was before his desperate attempt to win over the lunatic fringe that is running the Grand Old Party. Earlier this week, I showed how outdated the image of...

Late Update: With 51% reporting, the Associated Press has projected Donna Edwards the winner over Al Wynn — and apparently by a landslide. In Gilchrest's district, Harris leads 41%-35% with 74% of precincts in. No projection has yet been made, but it's not looking good for the incumbent here. Late Late Update: Harris has been projected the winner over Gilchrest.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - UN goodwill ambassador and Hollywood megastar Angelina Jolie visited Iraq on a humanitarian mission on Thursday and met top officials to demand help for people displaced by the war. "There are over two million displaced people and there never seems to be a real coherent plan to help them," she said. "There's lots of goodwill and lots of discussion but there seems to be a lot of talk at the moment and a lot of pieces that need to be put together." The US embassy said Jolie travelled to Baghdad with Under Secretary of State for Global...

SCHENECTADY -- To commemorate Tuesday's 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that affirmed a woman's right to an abortion, clergy blessed this city's new Planned Parenthood clinic in a ceremony dubbed "On Sacred Ground." "Today is more than about the building and about bricks and mortar," Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Linda Scharf said. "It's a blessing to demonstrate the support of the clergy."

WASHINGTON—U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison is visiting the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, where the U.S. holds foreign terrorism suspects. Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and the only Muslim member of Congress, is making the trip with the U.S. Army. He plans to talk about his impressions during a speech at the University of Minnesota Law School on Friday. In a statement from his office, Ellison says he's concerned about holding detainees without charging them. He's also concerned about the living conditions at the facility, and hopes to meet with some of the detainees.

For the past year and a half I along with a man named Kelly, his daughter Jordan, and a lady from my church named Mary Bell have been counter protesting a group of peace-nicks called Citizens Action For Peace in the town of Redlands Ca. on Friday evenings. These aging hippies usually behave themselves and stay on their side of the street, but every once in a while one or two of them try to come over to our side and debate us. This was one those times. The first moonbat that came over brought his sign and had his...

Code Pink counter-protesters will be interested in this little story. It all started when a Code Pink member named Salette Latas decided to run for city councilperson of the wealthy community town of Oro Valley, AZ (North of Tucson) on a platform of fighting commercial real estate developers and allowing library porn. I was reading the online newspaper's weekly Saturday political roundup column and I noticed that the Code Pink member was endorsed by my own Republican County Supervisor! The Supervisor is a patriot who attended the Fight For Victory tour of Move America Forward! My immediate thought was that...

Who's Tired of Pink? Posted January 11, 2008 | 11:45 AM (EST) I am so tired of pink men bombing brown children and rationalizing it as fighting terrorism. I am so tired of pink men telling women (of all colors) what to do with their wombs--which connect with their brains--in case you forgot. I am so tired of pink men telling us we should stay in Iraq for generations. I am so tired of pink men buying bombs and cheating schools. I am so tired of pink men having wives who stand behind them and nod sagely on television. I...

Withdraw from Iraq immediately. Eliminate the No Child Left Behind law. Legalize marijuana. Those were just some of the goals stated by candidates at the Green Party presidential debate Sunday in San Francisco.

World renowned Israeli pianist, conductor receives PA passport over weekend, asserts Palestinian citizenship. Rare new status could serve a model for peace between the two peoples, he says Reuters Published: 01.13.08, 16:17 / Israel Culture Daniel Barenboim, the world renowned Israeli pianist and conductor, has taken Palestinian citizenship and said he believed his rare new status could serve a model for peace between the two peoples. "It is a great honor to be offered a passport," he said late on Saturday after a Beethoven piano recital in Ramallah,the West Bank city where he has been active for some years in...

PETA Requests Vegetarian Diet in Jail for Cannibalism SuspectBy KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer Sheriff's officials were astounded Thursday by a letter requesting the man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly participating in cannibalism be placed on a vegetarian diet to keep him from being "involved in any senseless killing" while incarcerated. The letter was faxed to the Smith County Sheriff's Jail from the national headquarters of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Thursday morning. The Tyler Morning Telegraph received a copy of the letter before officials and notified Sheriff J.B. Smith. "You have to be kidding me,...

Starting today, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul is running a television ad - titled "Defender of Freedom" - in South Carolina. "Congressman Paul has an unmatched record of defending the rights of Americans," said Ron Paul 2008 campaign chairman Kent Snyder. "This advertisement is about bringing Dr. Paul's message of freedom, peace and prosperity to potential voters. The more people know about Dr. Paul, the more support he gains." The ad can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AmY-fW3gdc