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PITTSBURGH -- Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin was in Pittsburgh Friday evening. Video: Palin Greeted By Protesters In Pittsburgh Palin, the governor of Alaska, was scheduled to speak at a private fundraiser at 5 p.m. at the Westin Convention Center hotel downtown.

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...

I was serving in Congress and on the Judiciary Committee for the ridiculous and politically motivated impeachment hearings of President Clinton. During that witch hunt Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, and Ken Starr wasted a year and a half on investigations and hearings about President Clinton's personal relations. However, this attempted coup d'etat by Republicans against President Clinton was not and should not be the standard of impeachment that was enshrined by the Founders in our Constitution. ... Instead, I believe that we can both live up to our Constitutional obligation by holding hearings and pass a Democratic agenda. If President...

On September 21, 2003 NASA deliberately directed its amazing, still-functioning Galileo spacecraft to make one final, 108,000 mph suicidal plunge into Jupiter’s vast atmosphere. The intent of this unfortunate decision was to protect Europa, one of those Jovian moons. Van der Worp claimed that, plunging into Jupiter’s deep and increasingly dense atmosphere, the on-board Galileo electrical power supply – a set of 144 plutonium-238 fuel pellets... would ultimately “implode”; that the plutonium Galileo carried would ultimately collapse in upon itself under the enormous pressures of Jupiter’s overwhelming atmosphere— As the capsules continue to fall deeper through the primarily hydrogen atmosphere,...

The Mark Foley scandal is over. The Florida Republican congressman who sent "Do I make you horny?" messages to teenage pages has resigned his seat and gone into rehab. He needed help, and now he's getting it. There will be a few more salacious revelations - like Tuesday's report that the congressman was such a multitasker that he balanced the sending of racy instant messages with his duty to show up for floor votes - and perhaps some legal play-out to this sad tale. But Foley's political journey is finished. The Republican congressional leadership scandal is most definitely not over....

Latest email from Kerry, via the DCCC; From: "Senator John Kerry, DCCC" {dccc@dccc.org} Subject: Remember the Swift Boat Attacks? Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:40:44 -0400 Thanks to a special matching fund, your response to Republican "Swiftboat-style" attacks can have triple the impact. MAKE A MATCHING GIFT NOW! Dear Lewis, Like clockwork, here they come again. According to news reports, Bob Perry, the Texas millionaire who bankrolled the so-called "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" is up to his old tricks. He's spending $5 million dollars under the radar screen to launch a new GOP attack group called the "Economic Freedom Fund."...

Just ran across this one on Newsmax Bush Will ‘Cut and Run’ in AfghanistanThursday, Sept. 14, 2006 2:09 p.m. EDTDemocratic Sen. John Kerry, the party's [FAILED] 2004 presidential nominee, accused the Bush administration of pursuing a "cut and run" strategy in Afghanistan that has emboldened terrorists and made the United States less safe."The administration's Afghanistan policy defines cut and run," Kerry said in remarks prepared for delivery at Howard University on Thursday. "Cut and run while the Taliban-led insurgency is running amok across entire regions of the country. Cut and run while Osama bin Laden and his henchmen hide and...

Joe's defeat should send message August 9, 2006 His mo-Joe wasn't working. His Joe-mentum got stalled by an unpopular president and an unlovable war. Pick whichever wordplay you're partial to: Joseph Lieberman, 18-year member of the United States Senate, Democratic vice presidential nominee, staunch supporter of the war in Iraq, prominent hug-buddy to President Bush, a decent and honorable man, was defeated in his own political party by a guy no one had even heard of a year ago. Are you watching, Hillary Clinton, you war-wobbly Democrat? Are you listening, Peter King, you war-supporting Republican in a heavily Democratic state

In the gay world, there are those in the closet, those who are out, those who can't admit to themselves they are gay, and then there are people like Mike Haley - an "ex-gay" who works for the anti-gay organization Focus on the Family. As hundreds of people prayed during a peace vigil Saturday evening for Focus founder James Dobson to stop promoting hate, Focus spokesman Gary Schneeberger stood by a media tent waiting to make introductions to reporters. They had a tent, and it might as well have been a circus. ("Step right up and meet our amazing 'ex-gay'...

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could be criminally liable for the torture of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay in late 2002 and early 2003, Human Rights Watch said today. A December 20, 2005 Army Inspector General's report, obtained by Salon.com this week, contains a sworn statement by Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt that implicates Secretary Rumsfeld in the abuse of detainee Mohammad al-Qahtani. Based on an investigation that he carried out in early 2005, which included two interviews with Rumsfeld, Gen. Schmidt describes the defense secretary as being "personally involved" in al-Qahtani's interrogation. Human Rights Watch urges the United States...

Storm the White House Multi-Day Event, Beginning March 15, come when you can and stay as long as you can - we are taking over the White House until they leave. Torture, Occupation, Genocide - Must End Now. Wednesday, March 15th 2006 12:00 AM Washington, DC USA TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE BY STORM - Stop Genocide, Torture and Occupation For Nat Turner, For Martin and Coretta, For all the Torture and Assassination in Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti and many others - We will not allow the Slave Holders that Still Prevail in this Country to Rule us any longer. Imprisonment and...

Nan Aron, president and founder of the Alliance for Justice, a progressive group that specializes in issues related to social justice and civil rights, discusses the potential impact of President Bush's Supreme Court nominees.In a speech which addressed issues such as the American judiciary and citizen advocacy, president and founder of the Alliance for Justice Nan Aron argued that the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito could threaten the future of the nation's highest court Thursday afternoon. In the wake of Chief Justice John Roberts' confirmation and Judge Alito's nomination, Aron's comments came at a crucial moment within the...

Thu Nov 24, 7:00 AM ET (PRWEB) - OTTAWA, CANADA (PRWEB) November 24, 2005 -- A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics -- relations with “ETs.” ADVERTISEMENT By “ETs,” Mr. Hellyer and these organizations mean ethical, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that may now be visiting Earth. On September 25, 2005, in a startling speech at the University of Toronto that caught the attention of mainstream newspapers and magazines, Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan accused the federal government of "criminal neglect" for its slow response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, during a rally on Saturday marking the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March. Speaking to thousands of African-Americans gathered on the National Mall, he also urged minorities and the poor to work together to improve their lives. In his speech, the highlight of the daylong event, Farrakhan asked why the government did a better job helping the citizens of Florida last year, and why so few lives were lost, when the state was...

Tomorrow at the NASB Airshow... Certain anti-American, anti-Military Moonbats are planning to protest... All Maine Freepers who can attend, please do.. We need you, and our Troops need you! Eagles up!

As President Bush scurries back to the Gulf Coast, it is clear that this is the greatest challenge to politics-as-usual in America since the fall of Richard Nixon in the 1970s. Then as now, good reporting lies at the heart of what is changing. But unlike Watergate, "Katrinagate" was public service journalism ruthlessly exposing the truth on a live and continuous basis. Instead of secretive "Deep Throat" meetings in car-parks, cameras captured the immediate reality of what was happening at the New Orleans Convention Center, making a mockery of the stalling and excuses being put forward by those in power....