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The presidential election was a sharp setback both for the GOP and for the major national pollsters who saw their gloom-and-doom predictions of a double-digit drubbing blow up in their faces. The pollsters will have some explaining to do in the election aftermath, after several predicted the McCain-Palin ticket would lose by almost twice the actual margin.

WASHINGTON – Richard Mellon Scaife, formerly No. 1 on Bill Clinton's enemies list as the so-called "marionette" of the "vast right-wing conspiracy," has chosen to endorse Pennsylvania Democrat Congressman John Murtha, who infamously declared U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq, were cold-blooded killers and just in recent days called his constituents "racist." Scaife, who personally funded many of the investigations of the Clinton administration that led to the president's impeachment, used his Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper to express support for Murtha. "Mr. Murtha, seeking his 18th House term, has become a lot of people's favorite whipping boy. Just this month, he was...

maybe I'm being too much of an alarmist, but I'm worried for the first time about a fundmental change in our system of government

A few months ago, after John McCain locked up the GOP presidential nomination, Chris Ruddy says he received a series of insistent phone calls from an unexpected source: Sarah Palin. "We got calls from her people up in Alaska asking if we wanted to interview her," says Ruddy, editor in chief and owner of the conservative Web site Newsmax.com, based in West Palm Beach. "Back then she wasn't on the radar for the vice presidency, and I just blew her off." But the calls continued. Palin's people wouldn't go away. "Finally we sent a writer, not even one of our...

The very latest poll numbers from John Zogby put John McCain squarely ahead of Barack Obama at 46 percent to 44 percent, respectively. McCain moved from three percentage points behind Obama to two points ahead of the democratic candidate in less than a week. One possible reason for the boost -- McCain's decision to forego politics as usual to focus on the current financial meltdown. The polling was conducted after Mccain's announcement that he would suspend his campaign. Independent voters played a key role in the latest figures: McCain now leads with independents by nine points, 43 percent to 34...

Just received a notice from NewsMax.com. They want us to post brief excerpts and links only from their site from now on. Thanks Jim

An (almost) airtight alibi, refuting the charge that he was present in church and nodding along last summer when Wright indicted the “United States of White America.” So much for Newsmax’s credibility. People were ripping on me in the comments to the Juan Williams post for having called the Messiah a shrewd politician but just look at the game he’s got us playing here — trying to place him physically at the scene of any single sermon at a church he patronized for 20 years, as if absent that evidence we might have to believe his feigned ignorance. Newsmax’s info...

PLAINFIELD, IND -- Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday decried "the forces of division" over race that he said are intruding into the Democratic presidential nomination contest. ... The Illinois senator's comments came a day after he denounced statements appearing on television and on the internet by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor of the Chicago church Obama joined nearly 20 years ago.

With Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision to stay in the Democratic race to the bitter end, she has signaled a delegate fight all the way to the party's convention in Denver this August. Both candidates appear in something of a stalemate. Political strategists have concluded that Clinton cannot overcome Sen. Barack Obama's pledged delegate lead by winning additional primaries. And despite his lead in electoral and delegate wins, Obama cannot seal his nomination without the support of the party's superdelegates. Clinton's decision, after winning in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island this week that she would not capitulate has opened up...

Nathaniel R. Helms, Contributing Editor at Defend Our Marines, will cover the upcoming Haditha Marine trials for NewsMax. “Nat Helms is without a doubt one of the most talented, thorough and hard working journalists working today,” Phil Brennan says. “We've been sharing information and working together for some time now, and I never cease to be astounded by the extent to which he'll go to pin down every detail of the story. He doesn't merely report, he educates. We've been something of an unofficial team for some time and now and as he heads out west to cover the Haditha...

In the last 34 years of his life, in London, Dr. Karl Marx kept scribbling his huge three-volume “Das Kapital” (he had a doctor’s degree in the humanities), and only Friedrich Engels, a businessman working in his father’s textile firm, kept saving Dr. Marx and his family from starvation. “Das Kapital” is huge, but its three volumes can be summed up in two paragraphs: (1) The poor (like Dr. Marx) are poor because the rich (like Engels and his father) rob them of part of their earnings. In the case of Engels and Marx, this was not so, but Dr....

Vote in This Urgent Poll Scroll down to vote. Republican Internet Primary Poll NewsMax.com, one of America's leading online news services, is conducting an urgent national online poll about the GOP presidential primary. NewsMax will provide the results of this poll to major media. Additionally, NewsMax's results will be shared with every major radio talk-show host in America. NewsMax reports have been cited by national major media, including Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. Don't miss this opportunity to let your voice be heard! Many media outlets and national leaders are interested in your opinion. Hundreds of media outlets have reported...

China has introduced a number of new weapons lately and that has more than a few people upset. For example, the most recent estimate of Chinese missiles now opposite Taiwan is 1,000. This cold fact has drawn the attention of the Pentagon, Tokyo, and Taipei. Those 1,000 missiles are just about the right number to start and win a war over Taiwan. China has also introduced a brand new air-to-air missile that should be operational by 2010. The PL-10 heat seeking missile looks and acts almost identical to the European ASRAAM air-to-air missile. This deadly new weapon will equip the...

Newsmax’s Internet primary poll of the Republican race for president is released today – with more than 400,000 respondents to our non-scientific survey. With 23% of the vote, Congressman Ron Paul wins our online survey. Paul has the most aggressive internet presence of any Republican candidate and has already won several online polls, not to mention raising $20 million last quarter, mostly online. Pulling solid numbers behind Paul were Fred Thompson with 19% of the vote, and Mike Huckabee, a late rising star, with 16%.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Citing an "urgent operational need," the Pentagon is seeking funds to modify B-2 stealth bombers to deliver an experimental 30,000 pound (13.6 tonne), satellite-guided bunker busting bomb, officials said Wednesday. The likely purpose of the new weapon is to strike Iran's underground nuclear facilities, experts said. "It raises a red flag," said Representative Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia who called for hearings on the request. "My immediate assumption is that it is a target in Iran, rather than Iraq or Afghanistan." The air force has asked Congress for nearly 88 million dollars to complete development of...

In the late 90s, when the damage of having a reckless buffoon, communist sympathizer and for-sale “leader of the free world” in the White House came to fruition, the only thing that allowed me to sleep at night was the sure knowledge that Christopher Ruddy was in the world. He’s the guy who started Newsmax, an outfit which, as one of my editors then scoffed, “is founded on Clinton-bashing”—to which I replied that I couldn’t think of a higher calling. At night, I would drift off to sleep thanks only to the quiet assurance that someone in the world was...

By: Philip V. Brennan As much of the U.S. is being blasted by vicious ice storms, a blockbuster report published in a prestigious scientific journal insists that the evidence shows that climate warming is both natural and unstoppable and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant. To read the whole article:http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/global_warming/2007/12/10/55974.html

FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- Last week former President Bill Clinton, John Kerry and various members of the media once again used "Swift boating" as a shorthand reference for misrepresenting a candidate's record. In "To Set the Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry," authors Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler counter that assertion in a heavily researched 400 page work that provides the first historical assessment of the 2004 presidential campaign. "To Set the Record Straight" is the definitive account of the ad hoc political movement that dominated the 2004 presidential campaign. Based on...

"I can't take it anymore. If one more person sends me that e-mail about Hillary and the Black Panthers, I'll have to be dragged away screaming in a straitjacket." --------------------------------- "The story is no hoax, though. Its basic elements can be found in respected Hillary biographies and exposes such as Barbara Olson's "Hell to Pay," David Brock's "The Seduction of Hillary Rodham," Joyce Milton's "The First Partner" and Carl Limbacher's "Hillary's Scheme."" ---------------------------------- "At Yale, Hillary helped edit the Yale Review of Law and Social Action – a left-wing journal which promoted cop-killing and featured cartoons of pig-faced police."

In seven months of secret debriefings, Saddam Hussein admitted that he faked having weapons of mass destruction but planned on developing a weapons of mass destruction program with nuclear capability within a year. Saddam made the admissions in videotaped interviews with George L. Piro, an FBI agent who was assigned by the FBI with the CIA’s approval to try to develop his cooperation. For my book "The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to the Next Attack" — being published this week — Piro described the debriefings, which have never been previously revealed. [To get Ronald Kessler's new book, go...

An item buried in President Bush’s latest request for $190 billion in emergency war funding offers telling evidence that the U.S. could be preparing an attack on Iran. The Defense Department has asked for $88 million to retrofit B-2 Stealth bombers so they can carry a 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bomb called the massive ordnance penetrator (MOP), which has the capacity to destroy deep underground targets. The Administration says the request is in response to an “urgent operational need from theater commanders.” Some observers might conclude that the Pentagon is seeking weaponry to strike Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida in their...

The U.S. is retrofitting its B-2 Stealth bombers with massive bunker-buster bombs -- a move that could be a prelude to an attack on Iran and its nuclear facilities. Iran has refused to comply with international demands that it stop its nuclear weapons programs. Experts have noted that a U.S. or Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear program could be difficult due to the large number of installations -- some of which are buried deep underground in hardened bunkers. In a recent NewsMax Magazine, Kenneth R. Timmerman's report "The Coming War with Iran: 6 Days of Hell" predicted the U.S. would...

An obviously angry Ann Coulter this morning ripped into critics who deliberately distorted her comments about former senator and presidential hopeful John Edwards. After a relentless 24-hour firestorm during which much of the mainstream media used selective quotes to mangle the meaning of several of Ann’s comments about Edwards, Coulter set the record straight while talking with Joe Scarborough host of MSNBC’s "Morning Joe” program. Coulter told Scarborough: "I’ve never seen people avoid ideas so much in such an obvious way and try to alert Americans not to read anything, not to listen to something someone said — not because...

When he picked up Ann Davies for their first date, Mitt Romney left nothing to chance. He arrived in a red Marlin, a new fastback model made by his father's American Motors Co. Mitt had cleaned and polished the car until it gleamed. He brought along a bottle of sparkling Catawba grape juice and two chilled glasses. ---snip--- Mitt's Most Trusted Adviser "Ann is Mitt's life partner and is probably his closest and most trusted adviser," Myers says. "They talk about everything all the time, and her counsel is the counsel that he values most." Whether the issue is running...

Suddenly, the mainstream media are taking Mitt Romney seriously. "60 Minutes" just featured Romney as its lead story Sunday night. Time magazine has Romney on the cover this week. The Romney campaign is besieged with interview requests. The surge in interest follows Romney's widely perceived "win" in the Republican debate on May 3. A recent New Hampshire poll has Romney leading the GOP pack in the key primary state. "The last couple of weeks have been important for Mitt Romney in terms of enlarging his presence on the national stage," Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's traveling press secretary, tells me. From the...

The Clinton scandals will be topic #1 if Hillary gets the Democratic nomination. I researched some important stories relating to Christopher Ruddy and his reporting on the Clinton White House Related Links for Ann On-Line for Christopher Ruddy Read interviews, investigations, and articles related to Christopher Ruddy's book The Strange Death of Vincent Foster: An Investigation on Ann On-line. Read Ruddy Related links Christopher Ruddy Christopher Ruddy books on LibraryThing BETA Christopher Ruddy's books can be found on LibraryThing.com. Then connect with people who have read the same works. Christopher Ruddy Simon & Schuster Inc.: Christopher Ruddy Christopher Ruddy appearances,...

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It's the end of the world!! Head for the hills!!! No, wait. Don't head for the hills—they're full of Islamist terrorist camps. Let me put it in a slightly bigger nutshell: much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive the twenty-first century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most European countries. There'll probably still be a geographical area on the map marked as Italy or the Netherlands—probably—just as in Istanbul there's still a building known as Hagia Sophia, or St. Sophia's Cathedral. But it's not a cathedral; it's...

Only 25 percent of the American people — according to the latest Newsweek poll — are now "optimistic" about the direction of the war in Iraq; 65 percent are "pessimistic." Why have so many Americans, only now, come to realize that this war has gone bad...?

Bernalillo police have released a description of the suspect in Wednesday's brutal attack on a veteran political worker. Paige McKenzie, 41, of Rio Rancho, suffered head trauma in the attack, which occurred about 7:20 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of the First Community Bank on U.S. 550 in Bernalillo, police said. McKenzie, the campaign spokeswoman for Republican gubernatorial candidate John Dendahl, remained at University of New Mexico Hospital on Friday. Bernalillo police chief Fred Radosevich said she was in serious condition. A Bernalillo police news release describes McKenzie's attacker as a Hispanic male, 5 feet, 10 inches tall, 175...

Paige McKenzie. BERNALILLO, N.M. -- The media aide to gubernatorial candidate John Dendahl is reported in critical condition from a brutal beating suffered in Bernalillo Monday night. Paige McKenzie was attacked in the First Community Bank parking lot after pulling in to change a flat tire while on her way home. Now there are reports she may have recognized her attacker. Her injuries are so severe she is now reported to be on a respirator to assist her breathing at UNM Hospital. Dendahl, the Republican candidate challenging Gov. Bill Richardson, said McKenzie apparently suffered trauma to her head including a...

Emergency Medical Technicians were across the street from the Bernalillo bank parking where Paige McKenzie was attacked. An ambulance took her quickly to the University of New Mexico Hospital. And McKenzie counts among her friends a New Mexico sheriff and a GOP gubernatorial candidate. But there are no clues as to who may have attacked McKenzie or why. She remained at the University of New Mexico Hospital today. McKenzie, a spokeswoman for Republican John Dendahl, was assaulted Wednesday night as she drove home. She apparently stopped to fix a flat tire around 7:20 p.m. when she was attacked, said Bernalillo...

1. New Report Refutes Haditha ‘Massacre’ Claim A report has surfaced casting doubt on published claims that U.S. Marines massacred 24 Iraqi civilians in the city of Haditha last November. But that report merely echoes what was reported by NewsMax back in June. The new report came from Reuters, which disclosed on Sept. 22 that it had obtained a transcript of an interview with Maj. Sam Carrasco, who was overseeing troop movements in the area when the massacre allegedly took place. He said he believed at the time the civilians died in crossfire between Marines and insurgents. And he told...

Was just watching BB, and they were saying that the general impression that the Internet is awash in :Liberal websites and posters, but in fact, while ther may be more Dim/Lib websites..the statististics show that the top 5 Repub/consevative websites/blogs, get more than twice as many "hits" as the top 5 Dim/Liberal sites...whod'a thunk??? Yes, FR was one of them! :-) Sorry no link availiable..i checked BBs page, but nothing.

This is Part I of a three-part series. No one in their right mind would consider Jerome Corsi a liberal or a leftist. Corsi received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and articles, including co-authoring with John O'Neill the No. 1 New York Times best seller "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry." The 2004 book was a defining character study of presidential candidate John Kerry. "Unfit for Command" may have been the single biggest reason John Kerry is not president today and George W. Bush is....

Charge: Bush Stole Mexican Election Is it Florida redux? It's not clear whether the Mexican election, now certifying Felipe Calderon of the ruling conservative National Action Party (PAN), will turn into a crisis like America witnessed in Florida after the 2000 election. Already the two elections have one thing in common: left-wingers are claiming George Bush stole the election. And yes, that includes the Mexican election.

Parents and teachers are complaining that the latest issue of a popular magazine for preteens amounts to little more than an early recruitment pitch for the Army. Cobblestone magazine, which is put out by Carus Publishing in Peterborough, is aimed at children ages 9-14 and is distributed nationwide to schools and libraries. Its latest issue features a cover photo of a soldier in Iraq clutching a machine gun and articles on what it's like to go through boot camp, a rundown of the Army's "awesome arsenal" and a detailed description of Army career opportunities. Most controversial has been a set...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has dropped her demand that Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., resign from the powerful House Way & Means Committee - in exchange for a promise from the Congressional Black Caucus that they won't campaign against her in advance of this fall's critical mid-term elections. According to a Roll Call report this week, Pelosi struck a deal with the Black Caucus in a closed door meeting last Friday to "hold off taking any pre-indictment action against Jefferson" as long as the group refrains from attacking her.

While the media continues to blame the big oil companies for gouging U.S. motorists as they collect record breaking profits, the windfall profits raked in by the government in the form of energy tax revenue actually dwarf the oil companies' jackpot. The press sounded the alarm last year when the largest U.S. oil company, ExxonMobil Corp, announced profits of $36 billion. But according to the Tax Foundation, the biggest price gouging profiteer was the U.S. government, cashing in to the tune of $54 billion in oil and gas taxes. "Tax collections on the production and import of gasoline by state...

80% of U.S. Ports Already Foreign-Owned Most of the terminals at America's major ports are already foreign-owned, according to a senior official with the largest U.S.-owned ports operator, SSA Marine. In an interview with National Public Radio on Sunday, SSA Vice President Bob Waters explained that there are 15 major ports in the U.S., comprising about 100 terminals. We operate seven of those terminals," he said, adding that the next biggest American ports operator, Maher Terminals, manages one terminal. A dozen additional terminals nationwide are managed by city or state governments. "Other than that," said Waters, "the rest of the...

Tommy Franks Defends Dubai Ports Deal Former CENTCOM commanding general Tommy Franks said Wednesday that the Bush administration was right to approve a deal for a United Arab Emirates-based company to run six major U.S. ports. "We have more U.S. Navy ships using the port in Dubai, Jebel Ali, than any other port outside the United States," Franks told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." The former Iraq war commander explained U.S. reliance on the Dubai port facility by saying, "We know he difference between an enemy and a friend." "The Emirates is a friend," Franks aid. "That is the...

As the political firestorm was building over the Bush administration's decision to hand over control of six major U.S. ports to a company based in the United Arab Emirates, Sen. Joseph Lieberman was urging caution. "Dubai and the United Arab Emirates are allies of ours in the war on terrorism," the Connecticut Democrat said, in little noticed comments three days ago on ABC's "This Week." "So I don't think we want to just because it's a Dubai company, even owned by the government, we want to exclude them from doing business here," he added. Lieberman reminded: "The more you look...

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Conservative icon Richard Viguerie has come out with all guns blazing against Washington Republicans, saying they've abandoned their conservative principles and risk defeat in the 2006 elections. In an open letter addressed to "Conservative Leaders," Viguerie writes: "It has become increasingly clear that Republicans in Washington care little or nothing about grassroots conservatives and the values they hold dear. "After we spent decades defeating the Rockefeller wing of the Party, it seems we have a new enemy - the Washington wing of the GOP. They're not just wasting money; they're actually massively growing government in direct contravention of everything Republicans...

Semi-regular USA Today columnist Julianne Malveaux said Monday that President Bush is "a terrorist" and that America is "a terrorist nation." In an interview that began with Malveaux accusing U.S. troops of "beating" terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, the controversial author and economist told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity: "Terrorism in the United States is as old as we are. You want me to give you a litany of terrorism? You want me to start with what's happened to the Indian population? You want to go on to what happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921?" "C'mon now, Sean," Malveaux told...

I haven't bee able to open www.NewsMax.com's website for several weeks. Does anyone know why?

The London-based Arabic newspaper Al Quds is reporting in its Tuesday edition that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld secretly met former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein during a surprise visit to Iraq two weeks ago. The purpose of the meeting, says the newspaper, was to seek Saddam's "assistance" in calling off the stepped up attacks by Iraqi insurgent forces. More than 75 Iraqi military and civilians have been killed since a new government was formed in the war-torn nation. In return for Saddam's "cooperation," the U.S. was willing to "resurrect" an offer made by President George W. Bush in March 2003....

Nice homepage for newsmax today. But will the unamerican aclu come after newsmax now?

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For those of us who voted for George Bush in the past November election, we did so for a variety of reasons. One of the most compelling was Senator John Kerry. The American people could not connect with Kerry. The stiff Boston Brahmin’s positions were found to be anathema to most Americans: higher taxes, a more legalistic way of dealing with terror, and a liberal social agenda. Of all of the Monday morning quarterbacking, one perspective is indisputable: On Election Day Americans voted against John Kerry. And America also voted for George W. Bush – as the better candidate of...