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Republicans and Conservatives at Upstate New York could not have elected a better candidate than George Phillips, to challenge Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D) in New York’s 22nd Congressional District. Hinchey is serving his 8th term and is 70 years old. By contrast, George Phillips is young, smart and ready for change. He is a high school teacher, husband, father, and college professor. George Phillips graduated Magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in History and minors in Political Science and Theology and Magna cum laude with a Master’s Degree in Education. (Now that’s impressive!)

Today was the funeral for Army Cpl. Matthew Phillips. Phillips, 27, was just weeks from completing his 15-month tour when he and eight other soldiers were killed in a July 13 attack. They died during a three-hour battle with Taliban militants at a remote base in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. People started lining the road to his funeral at about noon. By the time his procession was passing, escorted by police and Patriot riders, there was a large crowd on both side of the road as far as I could see. I remember seeing an older lady in a car right...

In his address Lord Phillips praised the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who famously said last February that it was “inevitable” that Sharia would come to Britain. “An approach to law which simply said – there’s one law for everybody – I think that’s a bit of a danger,” said the Archbishop. He had apparently forgotten, if he ever knew, that the idea of “one law for everybody” was one of the great achievements of Judeo-Christian civilization, and was rooted in the idea of the dignity of all human beings as created in the image of God.

The link to audio of the speech is reproduced in post #2. It's 22 minutes long.

Houston-based ConocoPhillips plans to build a new Global Technology Center and Corporate Learning Center on the 432-acre campus, which it recently purchased from Sun Microsystems. The technology center will serve as a hub for the company's research and development of renewable energy and high-tech carbon-fuels recovery.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German factory worker stole over a million screws from his employer and skewed the market with his cheap stolen goods, police said Friday. "In the end, it became obvious that screws were being sold for much less than they usually cost," said a spokesman for police in the southern city of Wuerzburg. Over two years, the 33-year-old assembly plant worker smuggled between 2,000 and 7,000 screws out of work each night, and auctioned them on an Internet site, police said. The scheme cost his firm around 110,000 euros ($156,000). The man confessed after officers raided his...

IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Wade Phillips appeared set to become the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, according to several reports. Despite a Cowboys spokesman saying Thursday the job hadn't been filled, there were several reports that Phillips was to succeed Bill Parcells, who retired Jan. 22. "The job hasn't been offered to anyone," said Rich Dalrymple, the team's public relations director. Dalrymple also said there were no plans yet for any announcement concerning the coaching vacancy. When Phillips' agent, Gary O'Hagan, was reached on his cell phone Thursday morning, he told The Associated Press, "I'm tied up right now; I...

http://conservativepresident2008.blogspot.com/2006/12/constitution-party-to-select-candidate.html The Constitution Party, a conservative third party founded in 1992 to serve as a possible ticket for Pat Buchanan to run on, plans to have nominated its candidate for President by July 2007, World Net Daily reports. The party held a national committee meeting last weekend where Howard Phillips, who is the party's founder and three time Presidential candidate (1992, 1996 and 2000), told World Net Daily "The time has never been better for a third party dark horse candidate to grab the White House." Phillips said that the party will nominate candidate next year and among the possibilities...

PALESTINIANS RELEASE U.S. STUDENT HELD HOSTAGE IN W.BANK - SECURITY SOURCE Haaretz.com - Militants demand Israel release Palestinians for U.S. hostage

Time for a True Crime post and the most intriguing and confusing this week would be the patent attorney who stabbed his neighbor to death. A neighbor that the attorney THOUGHT was molesting his two-year-old daughter. This could be the big court room story of this decade. Americans don't take kindly to neighbors abusing their children. Who amongst wouldn't be prone to violence should we discover such a thing? Except, did the neighbor molest the daughter? Why was the attorney's wife out of town when she told her husband of the alleged crime? Could a two year old accurately recount...

CARROLL, N.Y. (AP) - A fugitive who once threatened to "splatter pig meat all over Chautauqua County" in upstate New York surrendered without firing a shot, ending a five-month manhunt for a career criminal suspected of shooting three state troopers, one fatally. With helicopters circling above a field just over the Pennsylvania state line and SWAT teams and U.S. Marshals closing in, a gaunt and exhausted Ralph "Bucky" Phillips threw up his hands. Police ordered him to the ground, handcuffed him and sped him to New York state to face charges of attempted murder. "The bottom line is the pressure...

Breaking News >> Authorities capture Ralph 'Buck' Phillips, who was being sought in connection with the death of a New York state trooper and the wounding of two others, sources tell CNN.

Writing the history of our time in song. http://monya1.tripod.com/midis2.html MIDI - TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR (click on Margie Harrell, then the song) Tinkle, tinkle, little star...viewers wonder where you are Maybe in stall number one...this is really getting fun Tinkle, tinkle, little star...viewers wonder where you are Kyra was there to hear our leader speak Her sister-in-law we learn's a real controlling freak Then there was a television moment quite profound I hope everybody got to hear the zipper sound Come on, put it on your website, CNN We are waiting anxiously to hear the clip again Tinkle, tinkle, little...

Oops! Kyra Phillips' Girl Talk Airs Live Over Bush on CNN Posted by Megan McCormack on August 29, 2006 - 14:38. Looking for a "passionate, compassionate, great, great" man? Well, according to CNN’s Kyra Phillips, they do indeed exist. During CNN’s live coverage of President Bush’s remarks from New Orleans, Phillips was unaware that her microphone was on and picked up portions of a conversation she was having with another woman. At 12:49pm EDT, those listening carefully could hear Phillips praise her husband: Phillips: "Yeah, I’m very lucky in that regard with my husband. My husband is handsome and he...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - August 12, 2006 - Actor Lou Diamond Phillips was released from jail on his own recognizance Friday following his arrest for allegedly physically abusing his live-in girlfriend. "Our office reviewed the case today and referred it to the city attorney's hearing program. The parties will come in and sit with one of our attorneys, who will try to mediate the situation," said Jonathan Diamond, a city attorney's spokesman. "Charges could be filed down the road, but we're trying to resolve this through the hearing program," Diamond added. Phillips, best known for his roles in "La Bamba"...

Secret diner in Washington Holbrooke and Thaqui planned terror Less than a week before the clashes in Kosovo and Metohija occurred, a group of Albanian lobbyists from USA held a meeting at which they decided to help Kosovo Albanians to force international community to give independence to Kosovo. 'Blic' got this information from well-informed sources in the US. As 'Blic' further finds out this informal meeting was held at the initiative of David Philips, deputy director of the Center for preventive action within Council for international relations in New York. The meeting was held at his home with light diner....

Excerpt - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is planning a new assault on Big Oil, potentially taking a major step toward nationalization of Venezuela's oil industry that could hurt oil-company profits, reduce production and put further pressure on global oil prices. Venezuela's Congress, made up entirely of Mr. Chávez's allies, is considering sharply raising taxes and royalties on foreign companies' operations in the Orinoco River basin, the country's richest oil deposit. Major oil companies like Exxon Mobil Corp. and ConocoPhillips of the U.S. and Total SA of France have invested billions of dollars there to turn the basin's characteristically tar-like oil...

Tookie Goes Hollywood - Commentary by Joseph C. Phillips November 26, 05 [ Previous entry ] {{morenextlink}} Standing outside the walls of San Quentin prison, the rapper Snoop Dogg urged California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to convicted murderer Stan “Tookie” Williams. Williams, the co founder of the notorious street gang the Crips, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1979 slayings of Albert Owens, Yen-I Yang, his wife, Tsai-Shai Chen Yang, and their daughter, Yu-Chin Yang Lin. Barring intervention by the governor, he will die by lethal injection on December 13. Speaking before a thousand young people...

Monday August 22, 2005 By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) Former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips, who was wanted by police for domestic violence, was arrested Sunday after allegedly running his car into three teenagers who argued with him during a pickup football game, police said. Phillips, 30, was booked on suspicion of attempted murder and domestic abuse and held without bail, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Web site. It wasn't immediately clear if Phillips had an attorney to represent him. Police had been seeking Phillips since earlier this month for allegedly attacking his girlfriend...

NRA Launches National Boycott Against ConocoPhillips Monday, August 01, 2005 LaPierre says NRA will “spare no effort or expense” to defend firearm freedom of employees of anti-gun corporations -- NRA billboard campaign unveiled: “ConocoPhillips is No Friend of the Second Amendment” (IDABEL, OK) – Vowing to “spare no effort or expense,” NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre launched an aggressive billboard advertising and national boycott campaign against energy giant ConocoPhillips, in response to the corporation’s anti-gun policy and actions. “Across the country, we’re going to make ConocoPhillips the example of what happens when a corporation takes away your Second Amendment...

Howard Phillips, Chairman of The Conservative Caucus, will be joined by Stephen Peroutka (“Face the Truth”), Dr. Alan Keyes (The Declaration Foundation), Michael Peroutka (Founder, Institute on the Constitution), and Jim Clymer (Chairman, Constitution Party National Committee), and others at an 11:30 A.M., Wednesday, July 13 news conference in the President’s Room at the University Club (1135 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036), promoting the nomination of “Ten Commandments Judge” Roy Moore to be a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Phillips has been active in previous Supreme Court battles: (a) in opposition to the appointment of...

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- ConocoPhillips will receive 1.5 million barrels of sweet crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to offset supply disruptions caused by Hurricane Ivan, the Energy Department said in a statement on its Web site. This brings the total amount of oil taken from the reserve in the past week and a half to 3.2 million barrels, earmarked to help refineries in hurricane-hit areas. The Energy Department said it will send three shipments of 500,000 barrels to ConocoPhillips' (COP: news, chart, profile) Freeport tanks over the next three weeks for further distribution to a Louisiana facility. A ConocoPhillips...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 - The Bush administration said Monday that it disagreed with a major recommendation of the Sept. 11 commission and that the president did not want officials of the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the Pentagon to serve in the inner circle of a new national intelligence director. The position was disclosed in Congressional testimony by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. He said President Bush thought "that we need clear lines of authority" and that it would be a mistake to have officials who "report to two different masters." Mr. Powell's testimony was the first time the administration...

O'Neill's Backlash Against Bush Was Predictable by Howard Phillips Posted Feb 4, 2004 It isn't always nice to say "I told you so," but sometimes it is necessary. Paul O'Neill's blast at the Bush Administration, subsequent to his firing by Dick Cheney, was entirely predictable. He had previously opposed a President who promoted him -- Richard Nixon. As I wrote in December, 2000, Paul O'Neill was an LBJ "Great Society" Democrat, who, in 1973, as Deputy Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), strongly resisted the desire of President Richard Nixon to close down LBJ's "Great Society."...

AMERICAN DYNASTY Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush. By Kevin Phillips. 397 pp. New York: Viking. $25.95. In "American Dynasty," his furious jeremiad against the Bush family, Kevin Phillips does not explicate the many differences between President George W. Bush and his father, or their very different brands of foreign policy. Instead he delivers a high-decibel, high-dudgeon rant against what he sees as their dynastic ambitions and their shared biases and motives. "Dynasties," he declares at the start of this book, "tend to show continuities of policy and interest-group bias — in the case...

Dear Mr Sajak, I respectfully disagree with your decision to have Mr Roker on your show. I hope you will change your mind about this. Al is a shill for left wing politics everywhere. If you don't believe me, just look at a tape from the last time he was on The View. He advocates Affirmative Action and Hate Crime legislation and dares to call himself an objective journalist. Its not only this incedent that bothers me, but a laundry list of things that are happening on Foxnews during the weekend. First of all Pat Sajak has turned his show...

I've e-mailed them once, and it doesn't seem to be getting their attention. Julian Phillips on the weekend Fox and Friends is blatantly shoving his liberal crap down the throats of the viewers. Not only that, but he keeps calling our President just "Bush" Here is an example of what he has been saying... "Bush needs to be held accountable if we don't find these weapons of mass destruction. I understand that they are hard to find, but thats the only reason Bush went in there in the first place." He said over and over virtually the same thing yesterday,...

Homosexuals Angry at ConocoPhillipsA major oil company has removed "sexual orientation" from its nondiscrimination policy. Homosexual activists are up in arms because another major oil company, ConocoPhillips, has pulled back from a policy that homosexuals covet. Conoco included the words "sexual orientation" until it merged with Phillips Petroleum last year. The new company erased the language, according to Kelly Shackelford, head of the Plano, Texas-based Freedom Foundation. Conoco-Phillips is based in Houston."Just as a lot of conservatives and pro-family people complain when people go the wrong direction, ConocoPhillips needs to be congratulated and, in fact, more business done with...

Melanie Phillips on how Pim Fortuyn and others hijacked liberal values and provoked a Muslim backlash against liberalism itself At first blush, the murdered Dutch maverick Pim Fortuyn and I would not appear to have been natural bedfellows. He was, after all, a flamboyant, post-Marxist, gay libertarian who advocated sexual permissiveness, casual drug use and euthanasia. I campaign for traditional family values, deeply oppose drug use and euthanasia, and do not employ a butler, wear a spaniel under my arm or smoke Cuban cigars. However, one thing he stood for did ring a bell with me. He was, above all,...

<p>HOUSTON — Shareholders of Conoco Inc. (COC) and Phillips Petroleum Co. (P) overwhelmingly approved the companies' proposed $15.6 billion merger in shareholders' meetings Tuesday.</p> <p>Shareholders for Houston-based Conoco and Bartlesville, Okla.-based Phillips met in those two cities and approved the merger by more than a 96 percent margin. The vote came a week after the European Union signed off on the marriage. Canada also has approved it.</p>