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In a sick and twisted Twitter headline the New York Times actually called Osama bin Laden — the evil terrorist mastermind of 9/11 — “a devoted family man.” The former Navy Seal who killed bin Laden, Robert J. O’Neil, called out the Times before somebody on their social media team quickly changed the headline. The original August 3 tweet headline read: “Osama bin Laden, the Fanatical Terrorist and the Devoted Family Man.” O’Neil responded: “Family man. He used his wife as a human shield. Lucky for me he was taller than her.”

Here's a video of Michael Davis performing at the Ford Theater. Former President Ronald Reagan, Mrs. Reagan and Tip O'Neil and Mrs. O'Neil laughed unreservedly. Watching the video, so did I. It's a refreshingly old-fashioned type of humor. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6mbW-jMtrY&w=640&h=390] Video link

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) -- Minnie Minoso and Buck O'Neil were among 39 candidates selected by a screening committee to appear on special Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues ballots for election to the Hall of Fame. The Hall said Monday that a 12-man selection committee will meet Feb. 27 in Tampa, Fla. Thirty people will be on the Negro leagues ballot and nine on the pre-Negro leagues ballot, and to gain election a candidate must receive at least 75 percent of the ballots cast. The screening committee considered 94 candidates recommended by Hall of Famers, historians and fans. Former commissioner Fay...

Once again, O'Donnell showed us how much of an Ahole he is. O'Donnell kept shouting down O'Neil and calling him a liar and the book "Unfit For Command" a pack of lies. As a political analyst O'Donnell has his head where the sun does not shine. O'Neil showed himself to be the better man under O'Donnell's continued shouting of "Liar'Liar" So Much for Liberals!! They can't take the truth. They all have an nack to shout. Reminded me of Kenndy, Dean, Clinton, etc. Big Mouth over the truth. They have no class. Buchnan had his hands full trying to calm...

The following statement from John O'Neil, member of Swift Boat Veterans and POW's for Truth, concerns a news segment that aired on October 14th on ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel. "While I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry's version of the events that took place on February 28th, 1969. "I would only ask the American people: 'Who do you...

Listen live --- LISTEN ON KABC I was at the Beverly Hills luncheon today with this guys. This should be a great hour of talk radio.

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Leaders of the Swift boat veterans group criticizing presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam War record said Thursday they were motivated to attack in part by a book published earlier this year in which Kerry revealed the high opinion he held of himself - and the low opinion he held of some of them. Kerry's former commanding officer and two other officers who were above Kerry in the chain of command said the book "Tour of Duty" made it seem as if Kerry, as a junior lieutenant in the Navy, had been the only hero in a...

Swift boat author tells Nixon he was in Cambodia, later clarifies statement ELIZABETH WOLFE, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, August 25, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (08-25) 15:57 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chief critic of John Kerry's military record told President Nixon in 1971 that he had been in Cambodia in a swift boat during the Vietnam War -- a claim at odds with his recent statements that he was not. "I was in Cambodia, sir. I worked along the border," said John E. O'Neill in a conversation that was taped by the former president's secret recording system. The tape is stored at...

Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004 12:35 p.m. EST McCain: Hanoi Hilton Guards Taunted POWs With Kerry's Testimony These days, former Vietnam War POW Sen. John McCain has nothing but praise for his fellow Vietnam veteran Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' current presidential front-runner. But after he was released from the Hanoi Hilton in 1973, McCain publicly complained that testimony by Kerry and others before J. William Fulbright's Senate Foreign Relations Committee was "the most effective propaganda [my North Vietnamese captors] had to use against us." "They used Senator Fulbright a great deal," McCain wrote in the May 14, 1973, issue of...

... On Monday ... Mr. Kerry ... acknowledged he would still have voted for the October 2002 Iraq war resolution even if he had known we wouldn't find WMD -- but only as a way to give the President more clout to negotiate. [H]e would have wanted the authority to go to war but without any intention of actually fighting it. How this admission will make the Kim Jong Ils and Ayatollahs of the world more pliable is hard to fathom. ... Mr. Kerry is now talking openly about bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq: ... "we're going to get...

Matt Drudge sez he's breakin' the embargo on the new Kerry-Lied book "Unfit for Command" by John O'Neil... Looks like this is a job for Sandy Berger!!

Confessions of a White House Insider A book about Treasury's Paul O'Neill paints a presidency where ideology and politics rule the day By JOHN F. DICKERSON If anyone would listen to him, Paul O'Neill thought, Dick Cheney would. The two had served together during the Ford Administration, and now as the Treasury Secretary fought a losing battle against another round of tax cuts, he figured that his longtime colleague would give him a hearing. O'Neill had been preaching that a fiscal crisis was looming and more tax cuts would exacerbate it. But others in the White House saw a chance...

WATCH YOUR POCKETBOOKS! BONO WANTS TO PLAY ROBIN HOOD!!Rock star Bono made a grab for America's purse strings as a four-nation aid and debt factfinding tour with US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill reached South Africa. "He is the man in charge of America's wallet," Bono said of Mr O'Neill. "And it's true, I want to open that wallet." The comment came as the dynamic do-good duo arrived in Pretoria for talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki. "All three of us have a passion for seeing the world's living standard increase quickly for people who have been poor too long,"...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - It's the Rocker and the Republican, on Africa Cliche-Breaking Tour 2002. Singer Bono and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill embarked Tuesday on a four-nation odyssey: the activist pop star, Bono, bent on convincing the skeptical politico, O'Neill, that Africa puts Western development aid to good use. "I come here to learn," promised O'Neill, who was talked into the trip by the Irish singer. "Normally, when we hear a secretary of state is visiting, it's usually an all suit-and-tie affair," President John Kufuor joked, smiling at meeting the shaggy-haired singer in trademark blue wraparound shades. Bono and O'Neill,...