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Dear John Ziegler Mailing List Members: Just a quick note to let you know that I will be on KGIL in Los Angeles this Tuesday night from 6-8 pm to talk about the primary results with Leslie Marshall. The station can be heard at 1260 AM in LA and 540 AM in Orange County/San Diego (I understand the 540 signal has recently been improved) as well as online at www.1260.am Thanks so much for your continued support. All the best John Ziegler

February 8, 2008 From the Desk of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: Hillary Lends Her Campaign $5 Million – Where Did the Money Come From?     Last week, in this space I wrote that Bill Clinton’s business dealings around the world could create a conflict of interest with respect to Hillary’s position in the U.S. Senate and her candidacy for President of the United States.  This week, Hillary showed us all why we should be very concerned.   According to the New York Post:  “Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million from her personal bank account late...

Posted on Sun, Feb. 03, 2008 Clinton's '35 years of change' omits most of her career Matt Stearns | McClatchy Newspapers last updated: February 03, 2008 11:09:08 PM WASHINGTON — To hear Hillary Clinton talk, she's spent her entire career putting her Yale Law School degree to work for the common good. She routinely tells voters that she's "been working to bring positive change to people's lives for 35 years." She told a voter in New Hampshire: "I've spent so much of my life in the nonprofit sector." Speaking in South Carolina, Bill Clinton said his wife "could have taken...

"Today" show Matt Lauer asked presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Friday if she has a connection to indicted developer Tony Rezko after flashing an undated photo of the two posing with President bill Clinton. ... Clinton said she did not remember taking the photo and said she doesn't even remember meeting Rezko...

ASK ME IF I SCARE: Clinton is startled by the noise of her megaphone at a campaign appearance in Manchester, NH. NASHUA, NH ......trailing by as much as 13 points, Clinton went on a rampage against Obama -- ripping him as all talk and no action and blasting his votes on everything from Iraq to ethics in a slash-and-burn effort to deny him a victory here. With her game face on, Clinton hit the warpath by saying the country needs a "doer, not a talker"..........

The Obama wave, which has been building for months, reached the proportions of a tidal wave after Iowa. It is now about to submerge, sink, and drown the Clinton campaign, and with it, the Clinton era will come, finally, to a close.

NASHUA, New Hampshire (Reuters) - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, reeling from defeat in Iowa at the hands of Barack Obama, urged Democratic voters on Friday not to build up "false hopes" by choosing an inexperienced presidential candidate. In Iowa, which kicked off the process of choosing the next U.S. president with its caucuses on Thursday, the former first lady finished a disappointing third, nine percentage points behind Obama and narrowly behind former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards............" ........."We can't have false hopes. We've got to have a person who can walk into that Oval office on day one and...

SEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton has lost the air of inevitability that once surrounded her campaign for the Democratic nomination. It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency. Only a month ago, her main rival, Sen. Barack Obama, was dismissed as a "lightweight" by the political establishment. Now he has a slight lead over Senator Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire and is believed to have a good chance of winning South Carolina. Magic Johnson's recent endorsement aside, the advantage Senator Clinton once enjoyed over Senator Obama among African-Americans has disappeared....

RUDY Giuliani is no oil painting, nor is John McCain. Fred Thompson may have cracked it in Hollywood, but he's hardly leading man material. Barack Obama has those ears to contend with, while every time Joe Biden opens his mouth it's like watching an old episode of Mr Ed. Even pretty boy John Edwards is starting to show signs of wear. But according to the US's leading radio shock jock, Rush Limbaugh, it all matters little for the male presidential candidates, because when men age they look "more authoritative, accomplished and distinguished". What does matter, says Limbaugh, is that Hillary...

I was going to post MY OWN "after-action report" from the AMAZING rally for Fred Thompson [with Tom McClintck, John Zeigler -- and JERI !] this morning in Southern California......but since Curt from Flopping Aces did such a GREAT JOB, I'll just post a link to HIS report, and add my comments to THIS thread. :o) Plus, Flopping Aces now has the FULL VIDEO of Fred's speech posted online here:www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/01/a-visit-from-fred-thompson ..so you can watch the whole thing online FOR YOURSELF!It's almost like being there LIVE!

When the hostages had been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis. The image, broadcast just as the network news began, conveyed the message a thousand town hall meetings and campaign commercials strive for — namely, that the Democratic presidential contender can face disorder in a most orderly manner. "I am very grateful that this difficult day has ended so well," she declared as she stood alone at the microphone. Little more than three hours later, just in time for the...

They call it flyover country. These are the parts of the United States that the pundits and prognosticators of American politics see just occasionally - and usually from several thousand feet. It is a land where people shop at Wal-Mart, eat at Dairy Queen, work two jobs to make ends meet and have a Bible at home. They can decide on their vote with the help of talk radio, cable television and the internet - or from a combination of rumour, scraps of hard information and gut feeling. [Snip] It is in flyover country where the 2008 presidential election will...

<p>Until recently, the biggest thing going for Hillary is that she has appeared "inevitable." This is no accident. Mrs. Clinton may not be as naturally gifted as her husband, but she does have access to his playbook. One of Bill's more brilliant strategies when he ran in 1992 was to campaign as if he were already the nominee. It gave an otherwise little-known governor the legitimacy to sideline his opponents.</p>

HILLARY! UNCENSORED: Keith Rasmussen interviews FReeper DougFromUpland on WCTC radio, Central Jersey 1450 AM - today, November 23 at 6 pm (Eastern). LISTEN TO WCTC ONLINE To listen live, click on the WCTC website, then click the 'Listen Live' button near the top left of the screen. HILLARY! UNCENSORED: Banned by the Media Today's guest in the 6:00 pm (Eastern) hour is Douglas Cogan, Co-producer HILLARY! UNCENSORED: Banned by the Media. The 13-minute unedited trailer for HILLARY! UNCENSORED, never intended for public viewing, was leaked on Google videos and YouTube. In just a few weeks, it became a phenomenon and...

I've seen up close the two Clintons America knows. He's a big smile, hand locked on your arm and lots of charms. "Hey, come down and speak at my library. I'd like to talk some politics with you." And her? She tends to be, well, hard and brittle. I inherited her West Wing office. Shortly after the 2001 Inauguration, I made a little talk saying I appreciated having the office because it had the only full-length vanity mirror in the West Wing, which gave me a chance to improve my rumpled appearance. The senator from New York confronted me shortly...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign admitted Friday that it planted a global warming question in Newton, Iowa, Tuesday during a town hall meeting to discuss clean energy. Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elliethee admitted that the campaign had planted the question and said it would not happen again. "On this occasion a member of our staff did discuss a possible question about Senator Clinton's energy plan at a forum,” Elliethee said. “However, Senator Clinton did not know which questioners she was calling on during the event. This is not standard policy and will not be repeated...

So it turns out the Clinton camp didn't tip after all. Kos is running with this: Esterday said "nobody got tipped that day," and NPR should have checked with the Clinton campaign before the story aired to see if any tip was left and how it was done. We regret that this was not done. On Thursday, Esterday was sticking by her story. "Why would I lie about not getting a tip?" she told NPR. She also maintained that her co-workers at the restaurant had not received tips. A Clinton campaign staffer called on Esterday at the restaurant Thursday after...

The Internet is helping so-called "Hillary Haters" prepare for battle should Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton become the Democratic presidential nominee. A vast army of the self-proclaimed "haters" is repackaging old news and rumors for use on the blog-loaded Internet, the Chicago Tribune reported. Among them is Richard Collins, a wealthy Texas philanthropist, businessman and political aficionado who openly aims to destroy the presidential ambitions of the New York senator. Collins, 60, is behind StopHerNow.com, a snide Web site with a cartoon called "The Hillary Show," a satire portraying Clinton as a mean and unforgiving talk show host, the Tribune reported....

New York Post columnist John Podhoretz is warning that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will win the 2008 presidential election unless Republicans start focusing now on a plan to defeat her. "If you Republicans don't get real serious real fast, if you don't wise up and settle down and get focused, it will be Hillary up there on the podium taking the oath of office" in January 2009, he writes in his new book: "Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President Unless ..." Podhoretz says the answer to that question is yes -- and he offers the...

To: President George W. Bush, U.S. Congress, & U.S. Senate We, the lawful citizens of the United States of America, hereby demand that our elected representatives begin working on our behalf to enforce the existing laws on illegal immigration, as well as making our borders impenetrable. Many arguments are being made attempting to show us some positive aspects of ignoring the presence of illegal aliens in our nation. The facts are that illegal aliens are very damaging to our economy and our nation’s stability. Emergency rooms of many hospitals near the Southern border are being forced to turn our own...

Outfitted as she was in her eye-grabbing hot pink (or was it orange?) pantsuit, it was difficult for restaurant patrons of Cafe Milano in Georgetown not to gaze upon Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York as she celebrated her 58th birthday Wednesday night with two of her closest friends. "There's the birthday girl," Terry McAuliffe said when a smiling Mrs. Clinton, born Oct. 26, 1947, arrived by her lonesome self just after 9 p.m., joining the former Democratic National Committee chairman and his wife, Dorothy, at a surprisingly accessible aisle table barely feet from the boisterous bar crowd. Mrs....

Hillary Clinton skips NH in New England fundraising By DAVID SHARP The Associated Press News - October 29, 2005 U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., greets supporters at a fundraising event for Maine Gov. John Baldacci, in Portland, Maine, Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. Baldacci is seeking re-election in 2006. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach) PORTLAND, Maine — New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton came to New England yesterday to raise money for two governors and for herself at events in Maine and Massachusetts while avoiding setting foot in New Hampshire, the state with the first presidential primary. During a fundraising luncheon for Gov....

 Why hillary clinton should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office... or any position of power--THE SERIES REASON 1: MISSUS CLINTON HIRED JAMIE GORELICK by Mia T, 5.13.05 Reverse Gorelick by Mia T, 4.15.04QUINN IN THE MORNING (ESSAY DISCUSSED)(MP3, REAL, WINDOWS MEDIA, WINAMP) (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)thanx to Fixit for the audio Once the clintons' own U.S. attorneys were in place, once the opposition was disemboweled by the knowledge that their raw FBI files had been in the possession of the clintons, once domestic law enforcement was effectively blinded to foreign data by Gorelick's...

Hillary Clinton on Abortion Must safeguard constitutional rights, including choice Q: What kind of justice to the Supreme Court would you support? A: I think the fate of the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. If we take Gov. Bush at his word, his two favorite Justices are Scalia and Thomas, both of whom are committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, ending a woman’s right to choose. I could not go along with that. In the Senate, I will be looking very carefully at the constitutional views [indicating] as to what that nominee believes about basic, fundamental, constitutional rights. Source:...

City's bid leaders praise her decision to join the delegation for Wednesday's vote by the International Olympic Committee. NEW YORK - Other cities are bringing presidents, prime ministers and royalty to Singapore in hopes of landing the 2012 Olympics. New York is bringing Hillary Rodham Clinton. The city's bid leaders praised the decision by the New York senator and former first lady to join the delegation for Wednesday's vote by the International Olympic Committee. "I think there is no question that everyone here will know who she is," said Dan Doctoroff, the bid chief and deputy mayor. "All over the...

Friday, July 1, 2005 10:09 a.m. EDT Billy Graham: I Didn't Endorse Hillary Clinton The Rev. Billy Graham said Friday that he didn't intend to endorse Hillary Clinton for president when he told her husband at a massive New York City revival meeting last weekend that she should "run the country." His son Franklin Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, tells the Charlotte Observer: Story Continues Below "For a long time, my father has refrained from endorsing political candidates and he certainly did not intend for his comments to be an endorsement for Senator Hillary Clinton." "My father,...

Rupert + Hillary = the presidency? Sunday, July 3, 2005 WASHINGTON -- As we begin to unfurl the flags and set off the fireworks to celebrate Independence Day, some turn their thoughts to the glory days of the fight for freedom from the British crown, its aristocrats and their taxes. Momentous to that moment was Paul Revere's night ride in April 1775 from Boston to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that a contingent of British troops was moving to capture them and their ammunition stored at Concord. The shouted warning along his ride of "The Regulars are coming out"...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has received the season's first major political endorsement: from the Devil. While Mrs. Clinton is often likened to the Devil, this is the first time that the so-called 'Master of Hell' has actually endorsed a candidate.

  KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY"CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA an amazon.com review   by Mia T, 7.3.05 Regarding missus clinton's profound dysfunction, her textbook case of paranoia and megalomania are fast becoming impossible to conceal... even from the most casual observer. And this is the case less because of the Klein book than because of hillary clinton's realtime reaction to it. By resorting to her old standbys, absolute media control and terror, i.e., blackmailing and other threats, the clinton 'secret police,' blackballing and censoring, hillary clinton exposes...

David Rivera, also known as Gerber Alfaro Bonilla and Herbert Alfaro, is being sought by ICE agents on charges of re-entering the United States after deportation. The violation carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. ~snip~ Rivera's criminal record includes convictions for lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, possession of a firearm by a felon, illegal possession of ammunition and repeated convictions for possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell. He said Rivera went into hiding after his arrest on charges of raping a 12-year-old girl and witness intimidation in April 2001. Rape charges against...

What is our "Greatest Generation" doing? Why are the people that lived through WWII, who saw the terrible effects of tyranny and despotism and Stalinism and ignorance and apathy, so blithely swallowing so much BS? BS like the years of lies from Democrats, AARP, ACLU and the mainstream media. BS like the Godless perversion, violence and dumbing-down in our public schools, and doping-up millions of supposedly ADHD kids. BS like the 60's. BS like gay marriage, gay clergy and easy-access smut 24/7. BS like Republicans will ruin Social Security, Medicare, etc. BS like Schiavo's tube pulling. BS like the Clintons....

Giuliani beats her 49% to 47%. 51% say they would definitely vote for her. More people don't want Hillary to run for president than do. Giuliani should reconsider running. for more go here http://www.maristpoll.marist.edu/nyspolls/HC050412.htm

Recent attention given to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, in the mainstream media is being orchestrated by Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., as a means to be sure the House is in Democratic hands when she runs for president in 2008, a source in the GOP leadership says. Geopolitical analyst Jack Wheeler, publisher of intelligence website, To the Point, says one of DeLay's colleagues told him: "Hillary's fingerprints are all over it. She has no intention of having to deal with an opposition party controlling the House as her husband did for six years and Ronald Reagan did for eight....

The most powerful Congressmen have, in addition to their regular offices in one of the House Office Buildings (Cannon, Longworth, or Rayburn) on the south side of Capitol Hill, a private office in the Capitol itself. It was in such an office earlier this week that I asked a member of the House leadership about the MSM (mainstream media)/Democrat vendetta against his colleague, Tom DeLay. “Hillary’s fingerprints are all over it,” came his response. “She has no intention of having to deal with an opposition party controlling the House as her husband did for six years and Ronald Reagan did...

Senior Republican activists have launched two high-profile campaigns aimed at sabotaging Senator Hillary Clinton's hopes of an elected return to the White House - even though the next presidential contest is three and a half years away.It was also revealed last week that Mrs Clinton is to be the unwilling subject of a book in the autumn which will reportedly contain explosive revelations from her time as First Lady. The book, The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President, is being written by Ed Klein, a best-selling biographer and...

I'm trying to locate the transcript of Hillary's speech in Minnesota. I'm specifically looking for the section where she asked "where are the republican trumans?" (I obviously don't know exactly what she said). I've seen one video clip on the web but it didn't include this section of the speech.

Sandy Berger, the top Clinton national- security official and erstwhile close adviser to Sen. John Kerry, has finally confessed what he spent nearly a year heatedly denying: that he intentionally smuggled classified documents from the National Archives — and deliberately destroyed them. In pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count Friday — for which he'll get a slap-on-the-wrist $10,000 fine and lose his security clearance for three years (but probably not his law license) — Berger admits to secreting the documents in his suit jacket. Then, once he got them home, he cut them to pieces with a pair of scissors....

The deal's terms make clear that Berger spoke falsely last summer in public claims that in 2003 he twice inadvertently walked off with copies of a classified document during visits to the National Archives, then later lost them. He described the episode last summer as "an honest mistake...." The terms of Berger's agreement required him to acknowledge to the Justice Department the circumstances of the episode. Rather than misplacing or unintentionally throwing away three of the five copies he took from the archives, as the former national security adviser earlier maintained, he shredded them with a pair of scissors late...

WASHINGTON -- Sandy Berger, who was President Bill Clinton's top national security aide, pleaded guilty Friday to taking classified documents from the National Archives and cutting them up with scissors. Rather than the ''honest mistake'' he described last summer, Berger acknowledged to U.S. Magistrate Deborah Robinson that he intentionally took and destroyed three copies of the same document dealing with terror threats during the 2000 millennium celebration. ''Guilty, your honor,'' Berger responded when asked how he pleaded. The charge carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine. However, under his plea agreement, Berger...

For the last few years Hillary Clinton has attempted to transform herself from a far left ideologue that once envisioned government run health care for all Americans to a hawkish, centrist moderate. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this sham is just an attempt to boost her ambitions for her 2008 run at the Presidency. But like the duck that looks serene to the outside world, Hillary Clinton and her far left hatchet men are paddling like hell beneath the surface to further their liberal (or as they call it now "progressive") agenda. Much like the Tony...

It is pointless to be afraid, but good to be concerned. Why? ...because she is not going to get seriously dinged in the 2008 primaries but will likely face challengers who make her look even more moderate and stable; and because in 2008 we will have millions of 18- to 24-year-old voters who have no memory of her as the harridan of the East Wing and the nutty professor of HillaryCare.

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is warning contributors that "the right-wing attack machine" is preparing to "'bloody' me up" with a series of ads reminiscent of last year's Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry. "You won't be surprised to learn that Republicans have named me their "'#1 target' in 2006," she says in a mass e-mail this week. "The right-wing attack machine is already warning that they will use the same smear tactics against me that they have used against other Democrats who stand in their way. "One right-wing strategist boasts that his 'Swift-boat' type ads will 'bloody' me up,"...

Just as the conventional wisdom is falling all over itself depicting Senator Clinton as a sensible centrist, along comes a letter signed by the senator herself to remind us of just what an irresponsible extremist she can be when she thinks no one is looking. "Our opponents will do anything rather than talk about the issues. They don't want to talk about their plans to destroy Social Security, to roll back our civil and constitutional rights, to undermine American security by reducing the number of allies who will work with us around the world," reads a passage from a fundraising...

The Terri Schiavo case has been a perfect media storm and an object lesson. For the media, it served as a metaphor for much of what divides us: pro-life versus pro-choice; religious versus secular; wife versus husband versus parents/in-laws; church versus state. Many religious leaders (and certain members of Congress) at first distinguished themselves by standing on principle and appealing to the state to preserve Terri Schiavo's life. But a few called for defying authority, suggesting Florida officials disobey court orders, "rescue" Terri from her hospice bed and reinsert her feeding tube. The Miami Herald reported Saturday that agents of...

One former first lady is offering predictions about another. Barbara Bush said former first lady, and current senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the Democratic candidate for president in 2008. But Sen. Clinton won't be the nation's first female president, at least not according to Mrs. Bush. Mrs. Bush, 79, said Clinton will lose in the next election. Mrs. Bush also predicted Condoleezza Rice won't run for president in the next election. Mrs. Bush spoke to high school and college students in Modesto, Calif. She told them she never dreamed she'd be the wife of one president and the mother...

What's Next For Hillary Clinton? * Major Fundraiser To Be Held For NY Politician Mar 21, 2005 7:04 pm US/Eastern NEW YORK (CBS) There was a major fundraiser tonight for one of New York’s most famous and ambitious politicians. As donors shell out big bucks for Senator Hillary Clinton, the question abounds what’s in her future? Hillary Clinton expects to raise a half million dollars at two Manhattan events. It is all for her upcoming Senate race next year but Clinton is thinking past that contest to the 2008 Presidential race. Hillary Clinton took a stroll through history on Monday...

The National Arbitration Forum announced Monday that a ruling has been issued in favor of Hillary Rodham Clinton regarding rights to the Internet domain name hillaryclinton.com. Senator Clinton, represented by James Lamb of Ryan, Phillips, Utrecht and MacKinnon, filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum on February 1, 2005 asserting legal rights to the Web address bearing her name. Ruling in Senator Clinton's favor, National Arbitration Forum arbitrator Tyrus R. Atkinson, Jr. found that the other party, Michele Dinoia, registered the hillaryclinton.com domain name on October 22, 2001, and was using the disputed domain name to direct Internet users...