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Memorial Day is a double whammy for me. You see, my son Casey was born on Memorial Day 29 years ago. When he was growing up, we would gather dozens of our friends and relatives to celebrate his birthday. Now a few of us gather at his grave in Vacaville to mourn his death and cry for the life that was stolen from him. . . .

Crush the Cell by: Ben Giles, May 23, 2008 Michael Sheehan served tours of duty in Panama and El Salvador. He worked in the U.S. government and the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Throughout his career, he fought on the frontlines of the war on terror. Just don’t tell him that’s what it is. “I don’t consider it a war,” said Sheehan. “It’s counter-terrorism.” Sheehan, former NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Counter-Terrorism, argues that a war isn’t going to suppress terrorist cells linked to al Qaeda. The strategic intelligence and counter-terrorism efforts can accomplish U.S. goals. Sheehan is the author...

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan wants to snatch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat from her in November, but first she's going to need the help - and signatures - of 10,198 friends and supporters. Sheehan was at San Francisco City Hall on Friday to take out papers for her independent run for Congress, but without those signatures from voters in the district, her name won't show up on the ballot. "It's an uphill battle," said Sheehan, who vowed to run against Pelosi in July after the speaker refused to start impeachment proceedings against President George Bush.

Saturday, April 26, 2008 Posted By:Catherine MoyPermalinkMother of all Anti-War Agitators Challenges House Speaker Cindy Sheehan is ready to rumble with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Talk about clash of the lefties. Not much sunshine between the two, as far as policy. They are both cut-and-runners; they both support abortion; they both despise our military. BUT, Sheehan thinks she could force the rest of Congress to sign on to a premature pullout from Iraq just as American troops have broken downt the terrorists there. And she’s steamed that Mrs. Pelosi hasn’t stopped the war. Before Sheehan spends another minute campaigning, she...

Now more proof of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's ties to international terrorism have emerged. According to a news story, a laptop computer belonging to Raul Reyes, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) leader killed days ago by the Colombian military, contains documents indicating that "Chavez, seeking to raise the FARC's stature and relieve it of its international pariah status, shares their goal of isolating and discrediting Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe." The laptop also discloses a $300 million gift from Chavez to Colombian rebel groups. Previously, Chavez angered Colombians by urging its government to stop calling the communist FARC and...

Casey Sheehan Died for This?   By Ben JohnsonFrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, February 18, 2008 Of the many outrages Cindy Sheehan has perpetrated since using her heroic son’s coffin as a pole-vault into national stardom, none has gotten less laudatory press than her recent intervention on behalf of 40 imprisoned members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. A typical headline adorning the Associated Press story declared, “Cindy Sheehan in Egypt for Islamists.” Yet none of this coverage – which has changed toned markedly since she decided to run against the Democratic Speaker of the House – has exposed the Brotherhood’s extremist ideology,...

Criticism Support of Venezuelan Dictator is Inconsistent With Proclaimed Values The consistency of Code Pink's antiwar credentials and its values as an antiwar group is criticized because while it publicly opposes President Bush and his policies in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Code Pink's leaders have embraced Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Most notably, Code Pink's three highest profile members, Medea Benjamin, Jodi Evans and Cindy Sheehan, visited Hugo Chavez in January 2006. After returning to the United States, Cindy Sheehan stated in an MSNBC interview that she would rather live under Hugo Chavez than President Bush...

IS CINDY SHEEHAN A PROPAGANDIST OR A TRAITOR? Cindy Sheehan has been going around the country spewing her venom against President Bush, the United States and the war in Iraq. Is she the modern equivalent to Axis Sally, Tokyo Rose, Lord Haw Haw or Jane Fonda? Is she a propagandist or traitor. In order to fully understand the answers to these contemporary questions, let us examine some of her statements and compare them to those of historic figures widely regarded as propagandists and traitors. In beginning our analysis, let us examine Sheehan's statements against some classic pieces of propaganda. Striking...

Cindy Sheehan Booed At The Rose Bowl Parade Now that Cindy has turned on the Democrats, she’s not exactly a favorite of the liberals. And the liberals in Pasadena certainly made that much evident with the reception they gave Cindy’s entry in the Rose Bowl Parade Twenty-three people were arrested by Tuesday afternoon, including one protester, Pasadena Police Department Lt. Keith Jones said. Jones said the protester was “arrested for holding up a sign that blocked other patrons view of the parade.” Dozens of anti-war protesters led by “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan staked out spots across from television cameras, hoisting...

Cindy Sheehan: Down with BushCo–and screw the evil corporate Rose Bowl parade, too! By Michelle Malkin  •  January 1, 2008 01:44 PM   As promised, St. Cindy stinks up the Rose Bowl parade and delivers an unhinged salvo posted at After Downing Street–complete with BushCo/Hitler epithets, anti-American insults, and Absolute Moral Authority sanctimony: Since the conquest of Poland three hundred thousand Jews have been murdered in this country in the most bestial way … The German people slumber on in their dull, stupid sleep and encourage these fascist criminals … Each man wants to be exonerated of a guilt of this kind,...

The impeachment mob plans to stink up the Rose Bowl parade. It’s all part of the New Year’s wave of BDS activities I’ve been telling you about. Prepare for the ultimate moonbat convergence: There could be some discord during the Tournament of Roses Parade as demonstrators promise to raise issues during the holiday spectacle that has been going on for more than a century. Human rights advocates plan to protest a float honoring the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and anti-war activists, including “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan, intend to rally for peace… …Sheehan, the outspoken San Francisco Bay area activist whose...

There could be some discord during the Tournament of Roses Parade as demonstrators promise to raise issues during the holiday spectacle that has been going on for more than a century. Human rights advocates plan to protest a float honoring the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and anti-war activists, including "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan, intend to rally for peace. The theme of this year's New Year's Day parade is "Passport to the World's Celebrations." It will feature 46 floats, 21 marching bands and 18 equestrian units...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2007 – Violence is down about 60 percent in Iraq since the June troop surge, and the top military commander in Iraq said today that he wants the trend to continue in 2008. “Every trend we watch is down roughly about 60 percent: civilian deaths, numbers of attacks, and thankfully our casualties are down as well,” Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “As we go into the new year, we clearly want to build on the momentum that has been achieved by our forces working closely together with...

NEWARK — The fourth annual American Muslim Voice peace convention brought many speakers of various backgrounds to provide a blueprint for protecting civil rights in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, era. Visitors at the Chandni Restaurant in Newark on Sunday evening cheered and listened to guest speakers, such as anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, Muslim convert Brandon Mayfield and Ron Takaki, an ethnic studies professor at University of California,Berkeley. The conventions theme was building a beloved community, which included topics such as Fighting for the American Constitution and America, One Nation under God? These topics were discussed by a group of panelists...

Hi, Folks. I'm putting together some media bias, sloppiness pictures for a writing course I teach. I'm trying to find some good shots to illustrate the situation and have some from Lebanon last year, Tourist Guy, etc. I'd like to find that Cindy Sheehan pic from Crawford that shows it's just her and, when you pull back, about a thousand (give or take several hundred) media types there. Any other good examples would be appreciated as well. Yes, I did a search. Thanks in advance.

WASHINGTON — A bench warrant was issued Thursday for antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, who did not appear for arraigment Thursday in a Washington, D.C., courtroom to face charges related to her Sept. 10 disorderly conduct arrest at the Capitol. Distict of Columbia Superior Court Judge Michael McCarthy issued the order to Sheehan around noon, a court spokeswoman said. The warrant means she is to be taken into custody and brought before the court. She also faces one count of unlawful assembly.

Bin Laden may have just escaped U.S. forces August mission in Tora Bora almost snared 'high value target' A little more than a month ago, with the anniversary of Sept. 11 approaching and fears of a new al Qaeda attack rising, some U.S. intelligence and military analysts thought they had found one of the world’s two most wanted men just where they last saw them six years ago. For three days and nights — between Aug. 14 and 16 — U.S. and Afghanistan forces pounded the mountain caves in Tora Bora, the same caves where Osama Bin Laden had hidden...

Hope Rides Alone USA Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, USA (Iraq) February 1, 2007 Editor's Note: This piece by Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, "Hope Rides Alone", was mentioned in a segment on Fox News Channel's O'Reilly Factor. Click here to listen to or download the segment. I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down the streets of their neighborhoods. My nerves hardly rest; my hands are steady on a device...

FULL TRANSCRIPT “DENISE THE MILITARY MOM” ON “THE ADAM TAXIN SHOW.” SEPTEMBER 11, 2007, 1-2 PM. WNWR 1540 AM PHILADELPHIA WNWR.com - - - - - - - - - If anyone wants to hear the audio version of the interview, they should tune into “The Adam Taxin Show” at approximately 1:30 PM today, Tuesday, September 11 on 1540 WNWR in the Philadelphia area, or broadcast on the internet at wnwr.com. If people want to hear the whole show, it’s from 1-2. And if anyone wants a fairly large MP3 of the segment or the entire transcript, just e-mail me...

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday in or near the hearing room where General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker are testifying on the situation in Iraq, according to the U.S. Capitol Police. Four anti-war protesters were arrested for disorderly conduct. One of them, who was not named, is being taken to George Washington Hospital “due to complaint of injury” is also charged with assault on a police officer. According to the information from the Capitol Police, Sheehan and the other three were shouting in a hallway.

The country's best-known anti-war activist, Cindy Sheehan, made her first trip to the Madison area Saturday, headlining the sixth annual Fighting Bob Festival in Baraboo, and calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush. The "Peace Mom," whose soldier son Casey, 24, was killed just five days after arriving in Iraq in 2004, resigned May 29 as an anti-war activist. Her retirement lasted just five weeks. On July 2, she un-retired after hearing that President Bush had commuted the prison sentence of Scooter Libby. She announced later that month that she will run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in...

Cynthia McKinney, who served six terms as an often-dissenting Democratic congresswoman from Georgia, is as disenchanted with the cautious course of her old party as the millions of Americans who -- through their low approval rating for the current Congress -- are registering frustration at the failure of Democratic leaders in the House and Senate to aggressively oppose the war in Iraq and to confront the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush-Cheney administration. McKinney confirmed the depth of her disenchantment at a rally Saturday in Kennebunkport, Maine, where thousands of activists gathered to protest at one of the president's...

What could the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) possibly have in common? CAIR founders had close ties to Hamas, Palestinian Sunni Islamic extremists. NIAC and its main spokesman, Trita Parsi, have become apologists for the regime in Tehran, which exports a rival Shiite brand of Islamic extremism. Sunnis and Shias. We all know the story. They hate each other worse than Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants. Right? Well, no. As I pointed out in Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran, Sunnis and Shias get along just fine when it...

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine -- Even though President George W. Bush wasn't in town, more than 1,000 anti-war protesters marched by his family compound Saturday in Kennebunkport.Activists from all over the country arrived by bus, bicycle and foot at a local school to begin a two-mile march to the Bush summer home at Walker's Point.Along the way they pounded drums, chanted and carried signs and banners with slogans such as "Don't Pay for this War" and "Care for Vets." Some protesters called for Bush's impeachment, but others had more moderate messages of support for the troops but opposition to the war. Democratic...

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine --Even though President Bush wasn't in town, hundreds of anti-war protesters including Cindy Sheehan marched by the Bush family compound on a scorching, muggy Saturday. "This is really energizing to be with people who want this war to end," Sheehan, who lost a son in Iraq, told the cheering crowd. "We can't put our signs away and sit on our couches. We have to press Congress to end this war." Activists from a number of states came to a local school to begin a two-mile march to the Bush summer home at Walker's Point. Along the way some...

<p>Several hundred people arrived by bus, bicycle and foot Saturday morning for a peace rally at Consolidated School in Kennebunkport, which will be followed by a two-mile march to Walker's Point, the Bush family compound.</p> <p>The peace rally started at 10 a.m. with a performance by the Raging Grannies, a crowd-pleasing group of older women in colorful clothes and wild hats who entertained the crowd with anti-war songs and chants.</p>

Peace activists are hoping this weekend's anti-war protest in Kennebunkport will be a catalyst for broadening the anti-war movement to encompass environmental, labor, health care and social justice issues. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer Bob Walter, husband of protest organizer Jamilla el Sharfei, makes signs Thursday for the weekend event. "We need to talk about the systemic change that is needed in our country to keep us from going into future wars," said Jamilla el Sharfei, the event organizer. El Sharfei has been planning the three-day protest for almost a year, and has worked to supplement the anti-war theme by including representatives...

Anti-war campaigner Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a US soldier who was killed in Iraq, is launching an international solidarity coalition with Iraqis. Ms Sheehan became known as 'Peace Mom' in the US after setting up a camp outside US President George W Bush's ranch in Texas. She has been campaigning since her son Casey was killed just five days after arriving in Iraq in 2004. Today she met with Iraqis dealing with the refugee crisis in Jordan. The solitary coalition's first action will be co-ordinated mass marches in the US and Iraq on 15 September, timed to the release...

Kennebunkport Rally - Saturday, August 25th Update We have the permit and the enthusiasm is mounting for a great showing in Kennebunkport on August 25th. I've heard from people from all over the Northeast that are bringing car loads, van loads, caravans of vehicles and even talks of busses. We will start to assemble around 9:00 AM and continue to assemble right through 11:00AM. Cindy Sheehan and her anti-war idiots plan to march starting around 1:00PM (but we all know how reliable they are) and will have to march right past our position. Cindy is claiming to have 10,000 activists...

Blabbermouth’s up to her third announcement. For God’s sake, start running already! She may have figured out its going to be harder to get national press on this than she thought, and absent a debate, which isn’t likely to happen, she’ll have to start dreaming up stunts. Set up a squatter’s camp in the Panhandle. Alamo Square, maybe, it has a better backdrop with those four Victorians. Swim from Alcatraz. Occupy Alcatraz. It worked for those Indians. Use a laser to flash “Pelosi Lied” messages and anti-war heiroglyphs on the side of the TransAmerica Pyramid. Skateboard down Lombard Street. Chain...

After gaining national attention for belaboring President Bush over the war in Iraq, activist Cindy Sheehan — the mother of a U.S. serviceman who lost his life in that conflict — has been back in the news for refocusing her anger at a different and somewhat unexpected target: Sheehan officially announced Thursday that she is staging an independent campaign to unseat Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi next year in the San Francisco-based 8th Congressional District of California. Yet some political analysts speculate that Sheehan’s candidacy actually could benefit Pelosi and her Democratic Party. While Sheehan is widely deemed as unlikely...

Rough Start for Sheehan in Battle to Unseat Pelosi August 11, 2007 (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan faces a difficult task if she runs against current House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi next year, according to a poll by SurveyUSA released by KPIX. 66 per cent of respondents in California’s 8th Congressional District say they will vote for Pelosi, no matter who the Republican candidate is. Unconditional support for Sheehan stands at nine per cent, while 21 per cent of respondents would need to know who the GOP contender would be, before deciding their vote. On...

Dems hit Sheehan candidacy A local Democratic Club has criticized the decision by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "If you continue with this threat to embarrass the speaker, it is very possible that the voters will turn against the Democratic leadership in Congress and return the Republicans to the majority," stated a letter written by J. Paton Marshall, corresponding secretary for the Robert F. Kennedy Democratic Club. "If that happens, all investigations will cease and justice for Bush and Cheney will be impossible," the letter stated. The club endorsed and then published the letter...

Citing her son as inspiration, a tearful Cindy Sheehan announced her candidacy Thursday for the U.S. House of Representatives. The anti-war activist is running as an independent against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco in Congress since 1987. "The country is ripe for a change," said Sheehan, who spoke at a podium with her son's photograph attached to it. "It's going to start right here and right now." Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004. Since then, she has gained international notoriety by setting up camp outside President Bush's Texas ranch and demanding to...

<p>An unfazed Cindy Sheehan didn't seem to mind the harsh language flying about. The anti-war activist, who's selling the ranch she owns next to President Bush's spread in Texas, bopped her head and sang along as Cypress Hill performed "F— the Pigs" while multitasking with her BlackBerry and a beer by the stage. Front man B-Real then helped a bandmate take a hit from a 4-foot bong onstage, drawing deafening cheers from the crowd.</p>

Fresh from being arrested on Capitol Hill, along with 45 other activists demanding that Congress get about the business of impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan has determined that she can no longer count on others to stop the war in Iraq or hold a lawless administration to account. So she has announced that she will, indeed, challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bid for re-election next year. It is a bold gesture, rooted in the deep frustration of the nation's most prominent anti-war activist with Pelosi's hyper-cautious approach to her duties as both the leader of the congressional...

Nationally known peace activist Cindy Sheehan will be among a dozen speakers who will take part in the sixth annual "Fighting Bob Fest," the annual political chautauqua scheduled this year for Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Sauk County Fairgrounds in Baraboo. Sheehan, who gained notoriety for her push to get the U.S. out of Iraq and then tried to slow down her level of activity, has agreed to address Bob Fest, which last year drew more than 7,000 people to the daylong fair of political speeches, music and food. Sponsored by The Capital Times and the Web site FightingBob.com, Bob...

Catfight: Sheehan vs. Pelosi Just when you thought the Democrats couldn't sink any lower than presidential candidate Mike Gravel staring into a camera and throwing a rock into a lake, Cindy Sheehan has returned to the political scene to bring new meaning to the phrase "hitting rock-bottom." The political catfight between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and retired-but-now-born-again anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan has great potential to cause chaos among the ranks of the loony left in this country. Here we have Sheehan figuratively ripping at the blouse of Pelosi, who is maddeningly clawing at the camouflaged uniforms of our military men...

Thursday evening's peace march through downtown Lynchburg evoked echoes of the early 1970s at both ends. It began with the marchers coalescing around anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan at the base of Monument Terrace, a lone guitarist strumming the chords to John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" as a group of counter-protesters sang a boisterous version of "America." It could have been a March on Washington in miniature. At its conclusion at Riverfront Park, however, the marchers (and their opponents) were hit with an unholy summer storm right out of Woodstock. The worst of it arrived just as Sheehan got up...

Excerpt of the TN article, followed by a few comments from myself...Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan leads a march from Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, July 23, 2007, to Capitol Hill where her group was to ask the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., to begin impeachment proceedings against the Bush administration. Sheehan and about 200 other war protesters began walking from Arlington National Cemetery to the Capitol Hill office of Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where any impeachment proceedings would begin. Sheehan said she would ask Conyers to initiate impeachment proceedings against...

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan holds a picture of her son Casey, who was killed while serving in Iraq in 2004, at the office of US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers, D-MI, prior to a meeting on Capitol Hill 23 July 2007 in Washington, DC. Sheehan marched with about 200 protesters from Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, to the Hill in Washington. Sheehan is expected to announce that she is running against House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi's, D-CA, because Pelosi refused to impeach President George W. Bush.(AFP/Getty Images/Alex Wong) Peace activist Cindy Sheehan holds the deed to her land,...

Peace activist Sheehan taken into custody in Conyers' office 7/24/2007, 8:05 a.m. EDT By NATASHA T. METZLER The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested at the Capitol for disorderly conduct, shortly after saying she would run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the California Democrat's refusal to try to impeach President Bush. Sheehan on Monday was taken into custody inside Rep. John Conyers' office, where she had spent an hour imploring him to launch impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Conyers, D-Mich., chairs the House Judiciary Committee, where any impeachment effort would...

Sheehan: I will beat Pelosi By Jeremy Jacobs July 23, 2007 If Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) refuses to bring articles of impeachment against President Bush to the floor of the House, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan said Monday, Sheehan not only will challenge the Speaker in the next election but also will defeat her. Discussing President Bush and Vice President Cheney, Sheehan said, “We put them there. We can fire them. If Nancy Pelosi doesn't do her constitutionally mandated job by midnight tonight, tomorrow I will announce that I'm going to run against her. “And not only am I going to...

Cindy Sheehan’s Journey for Humanity Monday, July 23rd 2007 9:30 am Arlington, VA Join Cindy Sheehan and the “Journey for Humanity” at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, July 23, for a walk to the Capitol in Washington DC, where we will demand an end to the occupation of Iraq, no war on Iran, and the impeachment of Cheney/Bush. 9:30am Gather at the Arlington Metro Stop 10am walk from Arlington Cemetary to the Capitol We will continue on to Allentown, PA on Tuesday [7/24], and Philadelphia, PA on Wednesday [7/25]. Location: Gather at the Arlington Metro Stop Arlington VA Contact: Zool...

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan leads a march from Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, July 23, 2007, to Capitol Hill where her group was to ask the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., to begin impeachment proceedings against the Bush administration. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) ARLINGTON, Va. - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Monday moved another step - actually several thousand of them - toward carrying out her promise to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because the California Democrat won't consider impeachment proceedings against President Bush. Sheehan and about 200 other war protesters began walking from...

Cindy Sheehan, the so-called "Peace Mom" who once called terrorists killing Americans in Iraq "freedom fighters," is now attacking the Democratic Party as she continues her quest to win the congressional seat of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "Don't tell me the Democrats are our 'saviors' because I am not buying it – especially after they bought more caskets and more devastating pain when they financed and co-facilitated more of President Bush's abysmal occupation [of Iraq]," writes Sheehan in an op-ed piece published in today's San Francisco Chronicle. "The Democrats also are allowing a meltdown of our republic by allowing...

(snip) After her Washington stop, Sheehan and her tour will head to the United Nations in New York. Then, she said, she will go to the Middle East, including Jordan, Syria and Iraq, where she will meet with Iraqi war refugees.