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A personal report. Last night (Wednesday, 11/4/2009) I attended a discussion with former senator Tom Daschle, now advisor on health care to President Obama. The event was held at the Reagan Library in California. What was unique about this event was that the audience was largely comprised of insurance agents who market and service health insurance in California. Also represented at the event were the major insurance companies selling health insurance to Californians, Anthem Blue Cross, Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Humana, Health Net and others. I am sure that a transcript of the event will be made public, but in general...

The dwindling number of readers of The New York Times were treated Wednesday to a column by Thomas Friedman extolling China's "one-party autocracy," which, he told us, "is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people." China's leaders, he reported, are "boosting gasoline prices" and "overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power." All, of course, in the cause of reducing carbon emissions, which so many luminaries assure us are bound to produce global warming and environmental catastrophe.

Tom Brokaw officially joins the Obama White House...

Andrea Mitchell feels badly for tax-dodgin’ Tom Daschle. She really does. “I just got off the phone with Tom Daschle,” she said sympathetically on MSNBC. “And it was an emotional conversation…it sounded as though he were tearful, overwrought.” When Republican Senator Jim DeMint contended that Democrat support for Daschle’s nomination had wavered, Mitchell was clearly upset. “You can say that the Democrats were uncomfortable as well,” Mitchell lectured, “but they were all supporting him publicly.” “So this does read to the public as though the Republicans went after this man,” she wondered aloud, “someone that the President very much wanted,...

Charlie Brown (Dem) 162,556 49.8% Tom McClintock (Rep) 163,839 50.2%

Tom is one of a few rational voices in California politics. If you are a Ron Paul fan due to Ron's fiscal policy, you will really like Tom. He is NO RINO. And it looks like he just won his first congressional seat by a hair (451 votes). Let's hope he part of the new crop of Republicans in Distric of Corruption that stokes a new Republican Revolution. here's a link to those that endorsed him http://www.tommcclintock.com/press-releases/115/mcclintock-endorsements/

( WASHINGTON, DC ) – U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) introduced legislation today that would effectively move the United Nations headquarters out of the United States. The legislation is being introduced amid incessant anti-American and anti-Jewish political grandstanding from the podium of the General Assembly. “The U.N. has coddled brutal dictators, anti-Semites, state sponsors of terrorism, and nuclear proliferators – while excluding democratic countries from membership and turning a blind eye to humanitarian tragedies and gross violations of human rights around the globe,” Tancredo said. “The U.N.’s continued presence in the United States is an embarrassment to our nation, and...

Albuquerque - Today, People for Pearce Campaign Manager John Billingsley pointed out that Tom Udall has now spent more than $1.3 million on misleading television ads only to see his 28-point lead evaporate in just over a month. "The verdict is in: Tom Udall and his friends on the extreme left are spending millions to mislead New Mexican voters about Steve Pearce and it hasn't worked," said Billingsley. "To the contrary, New Mexicans are rejecting Udall's anti-drilling, anti-nuclear, pro-tax increase policies in favor of Steve Pearce's honesty, integrity and straight forward New Mexico values." This week, a Rasmussen poll showed...

I caught up with Delmarie Cobb this morning to ask her about her claims that Senate President Emil Jones Jr., a Chicago Democrat and Obama supporter, called her an “Uncle Tom” because she's a loyal Hillary Clinton delegate. Both Cobb and Jones are African American. Jones denies he used the racially charged comment. Cobb is sticking by her story. Here's her version of how things happened. -- John PattersonQ: My understanding is President Jones said today the term was “doubting Thomas” I wanted to ask you what occurred and what do you think of the president’s explanation?Cobb: What occurred...

A 44 year old Hong Kong man accidentally fell off a 10th floor balcony while trying to video tape his next door neighbor showering. peeping-ton-fall Peeping Tom Accidentally Falls Off 10th Floor picture The 29 story building was designed so that two units have their bathroom windows right next to each other. This made it easy for the man to climb over and peep on his neighbor. The victim, a 28 year-old sales lady, was taking a shower when she noticed a strange hand holding a cell phone outside the bathroom window. She screamed for help and saw the person...

Democratic state Senator Tom Butler will announce that he is changing parties and run for the state’s 5th Congressional District seat as a Republican, according to two sources close to the situation. Sen. Butler of Madison is one of the “dissident Democrats” who caucuses with Senate Republicans in a minority coalition. Many believed that Butler’s differences with Senate Democrats were more personal than political. State Sen. E. B. McClain (D - Midfield) once described Butler’s relationship with the party as wounded. (Another Senate insider described it to the Parlor in much the same way. See also here.) Democrats had hoped...

Rumours of ‘Top Gun’ star, Tom Cruise’s alleged gay status have finally been smashed by a private detective who has been trying to find out if the movie star is secretly homosexual for six years. Former porn star Paul Barresi could not land his hand on any evidence suggesting the Hollywood superstar’s secret gay life ever since he has been digging around in Cruise’s private life since 2001. "Everything I've found, and everything I know, points to Tom being heterosexual, Contactmusic quoted Barresi, as saying. Barresi has now handed over his research to British author Andrew Morton, who has been...

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay finally won one Wednesday in his effort to beat back a campaign-related indictment in Texas. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decided not to reinstate one charge of conspiracy to violate a state election law that had already been thrown out by a lower court judge.

After Imus, DeLay Calls for Rosie to Be Fired Wants Conservatives to Lead Anti-O'Donnell Push AOL (April 13) -- Fanning the flames of discontent sparked by the Imus controversy, former congressman Tom DeLay is making a plea for his fellow conservatives to get Rosie O'Donnell fired for recent remarks she made. Is Rosie the Next Imus? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rosie vs. O'Reilly: The Feud Behind the Firing Calls? Rosie's Rant O'Reilly's Response -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sound Off at the Cooler: Did Rosie Cross the Line? "I'm calling for conservatives to take on Rosie O'Donnell," DeLay said during an interview with CNN. "She criticized...

Here's the latest news on my campaign to represent you Sometimes the Truth Makes Waves Dear Friend of This Campaign, My presidential bid continues to stir dust in every direction! That's good, I think. On Thursday, I made a statement sure to offend many of the most powerful people in Washington. I called for the disbanding of the Black, the Asian Pacific-American, and the Hispanic Congressional Caucuses. This was a risky decision for me, but I had to tell the truth--even if I lost some friends. I think it's high time we fought harder for Ronald Reagan's vision of a...

Why I Wish I Were French It's Labor Day weekend, and that got me to thinking: I wish I were French. The French are a wonderful people. Their food is excellent. Their cities are filled with remarkable architecture and an abundance of culture. And, boy, do they have the free time to enjoy it all. Back in 2000, French politicians, trying to bring the high unemployment rate down, decided to try something bold. Did they cut taxes to spur the economy the way Americans would? Nope. Did they reduce regulations that make it virtually impossible for employers to fire bad...

DeLay suggests he might not retireFri Jul 7, 9:10 PM ET Former House Majority leader Tom Delay walks out of the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill, June 9, 2006. Delay's name must stay on a Texas ballot in upcoming congressional elections, despite his decision to withdraw from the race, a U.S. court judge in Austin, Texas, ruled on Thursday. (Evan Sisley/Reuters) SUGAR LAND, Texas - Former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay suggested Friday that he may not be ready for retirement just yet, a day after a federal judge ruled that his name must remain on the November ballot...

Picured here is a fresh placenta just taken out a woman's womb. It could have been big meal for Cruise.(file photo)    BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhuanet)-- Tom Cruise boasted about eating fiancèe Katie Holmes's placenta when baby Cruise is born, Cruise said in an interview.     The Mission: Impossible III actor, 43, said: "I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I am gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there"     But when it was pointed out it would be a very big meal, he retorted: "OK. Maybe I won't."    Though some claim that eating afterbirth may help prevent post-partum depression, it won't help the mom...

TOM CRUISE is attacking those who prescribe psychiatric drugs again in the May (06) issue of men's style magazine GQ. The actor, who embarked on an anti-drug tirade in TV interviews last summer (05) on behalf of his Scientology beliefs, has launched a fresh attack on psychiatry, calling for prescription pill poppers to think carefully about the harms they're doing to their bodies. He tells the magazine, "I've always found the 'if it makes me feel better, it's OK' rationale a little suspect. "I think it's appalling that people have to live a life of drug addiction when I have...

Tom Cruise and fiancée Katie Holmes have declared their love for each other in a bizarre “wedding” ceremony — on a ship. The couple exchanged rings emblazoned with triangular Scientology symbols as fellow cult members John Travolta and Kirstie Alley looked on. An insider said: “Katie wore a flowing white dress and Tom was in a black suit as they exchanged rings during the brief 30 minute ceremony. “The couple then walked across a tiny bridge — a Scientology symbol for the journey to total freedom.”

There has been plenty of speculation on the way the fabulous Katie Holmes is to give birth to her baby. The little one could come at any moment and it appears that Tom Cruise and Katie are already battling over the baby. No - they are not battling over how the baby will be born, but what happens if the pair split after the little one emerges. The rub reportedly is the baby's religion - Catholicism or Scientology? Life & Style Magazine details in this week's report that Katie is miserable and if there is a split - as that...

Massachusetts' attorney general is demanding that contractors refund $108 million for poor work on Boston's "Big Dig," which is the biggest public works project in U.S. history and has been plagued by leaks and delays. Attorney General Tom Reilly's office plans to sue Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff and other companies if the two sides do not reach an agreement over some 200 complaints of shoddy work in putting a major highway running through downtown Boston underground... Costs for building the 7.8 mile underground roadway through Boston ballooned from under $3 billion to the current $14.6 billion.

OLYMPIA – Republican state Rep. Rodney Tom switched parties Tuesday and will challenge state Senate Republican Floor Leader Luke Esser this fall. An irritated state Republican Chairwoman Diane Tebelius demanded that Tom resign his House seat, but Tom said he intended to serve the balance of his term as a Democrat. Democrats, including Gov. Chris Gregoire, welcomed the convert. Gregoire called him to chat. The Democratic Party said Tom's switch reflects a growing disenchantment of suburban moderates with hardline Republicans.

An American member of the Christian Peacemaker Team, Tom Fox, was found murdered in Iraq today. He was kidnapped by the Islamist-oriented group known as the Swords of Righteousness Brigades on November 26. Iraqi police reported that Fox had "gunshots to his head and chest and signs of torture on his body." This incident begs the question: Do the Islamist terrorists respect all the appeasement offered them by leftist peace activists like Tom Fox? The answer is a categorical "no," "non," "nein," "nyet," "nr." After all that has happened, the Left still ignores the threat of Islamism, appeasing militant Muslims...

Ive been a member of this website for almost a year now and I am appaled by the biases that are against our president! SO WHAT IF BUSH WANTS ILLEGALS IN AMERICA! I DONT CARE! AS LONG AS THEY ARENT MUSLIMS! WE NEED THEM TO CUT OUR GREASSE and MOW THE LAWN! This new port deal I believe is also a good idea as is going to iraq! I also support Bush giving tax cuts to buisnesses that send their labor overseas so that they can also learn to be good capitalists. IF YOU DONT FULLY SUPPOT BUSH AND WHAT...

Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan, who is helping to bankroll the birth of a Florida town and university, backtracked Friday from comments that he'd like the community to be governed by strict Roman Catholic principles. His ideas about barring pornography and birth control, he said, apply only to the Catholic university. "There are a lot of misconceptions," Monaghan said Friday. Both the town of Ave Maria and its Ave Maria University, the first Catholic university to be built in the United States in four decades, are set to open next year about 25 miles east of Naples in southwest...

DeLay told he's not a target of probe BY MICHELLE MITTELSTADT The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - In recent months, Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, has insisted he's not a target of the Justice Department public corruption investigation involving a one-time ally, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He now has gone a step further, telling conservative columnist George Will in a column published Thursday that the Justice Department has informed his lawyers that he is not a target of the probe. A federal official said the investigation is "wide open." "It's looking at a number of subjects. And actual targets of a...

Publishing advertising revenues down 2.4% Television revenues down 8.6% Tribune Company today reported its summary of revenues and newspaper advertising volume for period 11, ended Nov. 20, 2005. Consolidated revenues for the period were $437 million, down 3.9 percent from last year’s $455 million. Publishing revenues in November were $330 million compared to last year’s $339 million; Hurricane Wilma in South Florida accounted for about $4 million of the decline. Advertising revenues decreased 2.4 percent to $263 million, compared with $269 million in November 2004. * Retail advertising revenues decreased 3.3 percent as weakness in the furniture/home furnishings, department store...

Shift From TV Is Response To Change in Viewership; Restaurant Push Is on Tap By SARAH ELLISON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 30, 2005; Page B3 Anheuser-Busch, the brewing giant long associated with glitzy network-TV ads, plans to shift some ad dollars away from network prime time toward cable TV and the Internet to "recognize changes in viewership." The brewer of Budweiser and Bud Light is the latest big marketer to shift away from network TV, and is somewhat of a laggard in making the move. Over the past few years, many advertisers -- including big marketers...

Regarding Congressman Jim Kolbe's decision not to run for reelection, in a word, "Hallelujah." When someone retires or passes away, we try to say something nice about that person, we downplay his negatives and point out his positives. I would like to do the same for Congressman Jim Kolbe, but I really don't have the time to do that much research, other then to say, I wholeheartedly approve of his decision to leave Congress. I'm sure Kolbe will be missed by Mexican President Vincente Fox, he is one of the best members of Congress Mexico has ever had in the...

Rupert Murdoch has forecast a gloomy future for newspapers with the growth of the internet, saying he doesn't know "anybody under the age of 30 who has ever looked at a classified ad". The owner of the Sun, Times, Sunday Times and the News of the World, who once described newspaper classified advertising revenue as providing "rivers of gold", now says: "Sometimes rivers dry up". "This is a generational thing; we've been talking about a 15- or 20-year slide on this," the News Corp chairman and chief executive tells trade paper Press Gazette in a rare interview. "Certainly I don't...

Prime Spots Are Sold Out Months Ahead as Marketers Shift Dollars From TV, Print Page A1 As marketers shift dollars from TV and print media to the Internet, more Web sites are hanging "sold out" signs on their most coveted pages and dramatically raising ad rates. The front pages of Yahoo Inc., Time Warner Inc.'s AOL and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN are sold out on big display ads for months in advance, ad buyers say. Web sites offering car-buying tips are booked so far in advance -- up to 18 months in some cases -- that they are selling ads for...

US movie star Tom Cruise, 43, and his fiancee, actress Katie Holmes, 27, are expecting a baby together, a spokeswoman for the actor says. News that Holmes is pregnant with Cruise's child was first reported by People magazine on its website. "I can confirm that," spokeswoman Marlan Willard said, but added she had no information about a due date or any other details. A statement from Cruise's chief publicist said "Tom and Katie are very excited and the entire family is every excited". No wedding date for the couple has been set. Cruise and Holmes began dating in mid-April and...

Yesterday I commented about how Tommy D's legal woes could spell problems for the GOP in '08. I am no legal scholar, but DeLay and his buddies did skirt the letter of Texas law in order to funnel corporate donations to their candidates. The case against DeLay, as flimsy as it may be, could very well result in a prosecution if the jurors are anything like those in the OJ or Michael Jackson trials. Now, there is a new spin. Prosecutor Ronnie Earle has given a film crew full and complete access to videotape his work on DeLay's court proceedings...

DeLay maintains his optimism Leader in limbo copes with new role after 'temporary' resignation 09:16 PM CDT on Thursday, September 29, 2005 By TODD J. GILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON – Stripped of power, facing a huge pay cut, mounting legal bills, enemies calling for his scalp and backbenchers itching for his permanent departure, Tom DeLay vowed Thursday to stick it out. But in what role? Under indictment and forced from high office, would the Sugar Land Republican still have the ear of the House speaker and others whose loyalty he cultivated, coerced and enforced so effectively on...

The New Sheriff in TownThursday, July 21, 2005 By: Josh Johnson Wastewatcher, July 2005     Picture Washington D.C. as the setting for an old western film.  A familiar hero that has been out of town for a time rides back in on his horse with the intention of running out all the, no-good varmints; that have taken over.  This man is well known by all the no-goods in the town, so they set out to take him down before he can interfere.  As our hero walks into the local saloon, we flash forward to the present day and find a junior...

Coburn slams 'improper' grants Sen. Tom Coburn (R) Muskogee, said he was the lone vote against the Homeland Security Department spending bill this week because it funded questionable grants in some lawmakers home states and didn't include enough money to fight illegal immigration. "Congress undermines our Homeland security when we fail to prioritize spending based on actual risks, and when we fail to secure our borders." "Homeland security dollars should be prioritized based on the greatest terrorism risk facing our country. Unforunately too many members of Congress are putting their political security ahead of Homeland Security" Coburn said improper uses...

Dr. Coburn Criticizes Supreme Court Decision on Ten Commandments (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement today in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning some Ten Commandments displays. Excerpted. Click here for full story. Dr. Coburn’s Statement on Supreme Court Vacancy (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement regarding the resignation of Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. “I would hope that President Bush’s nominee will swing the court back toward the Constitution and away from an...

Cuando era un pequeño muchacho, Viví en Ciudad de México. ¿Entienda? Oh, sorry; forgot to switch to English. Er, ah… When I was young, I lived in Mexico City for a year. I also spent a lot of time traveling in Latin America. One thing I learned very quickly there: The darker your skin, the worse you were treated. That type of thinking still pervades official Mexican institutions.Vicente Fox, el presidente de México, una persona blanca – a white man of the ruling Spanish clan – has stuck his foot in his mouth again. Today, he is defending two official...

Radio ads ask Republicans to get rid of majority leader Drive targets six vulnerable House members and one on the ethics panel By BENNETT ROTH June 2, 2005, 1:05AM Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - MoveOn.org, a liberal political action group, has targeted seven vulnerable GOP House members by running radio ads in their districts urging them to remove Tom DeLay as majority leader because of alleged ethics violations. The spots, which begin airing today and will run for a week, are an effort by the well-funded Democratic group to make DeLay and his ethical problems a defining...

Rep. Tom Delay (R-Texas) has been a vocal critic of the American judicial system and became extremely outspoken when the U.S. and Florida courts were refusing to intervene to save the life of Terry Schiavo. The storyline in last week’s episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent dealt with the murder of a federal judge, a not unheard of occurrence in the United States. One of the police officers in the show said, "Maybe we should put out an APB for somebody in a Tom Delay T-shirt". Delay was understandably upset and wrote a letter criticizing the show to NBC....

Tom Cruise has criticized Hollywood pal Brooke Shields' "misguided" use of the anti-depressant Paxil, while declaring the actress' career as over. In an interview with Billy Bush on TV show Access Hollywood, to be screened on Thursday, Cruise speaks of his disappointment to learn Shields used Paxil to fight post-natal depression following the birth of her daughter Rowan. Shields is currently weaning herself off her medication so she and husband Chris Henchy can have another child. Cruise, who claims to have helped people fight drug addictions through his controversial Scientology religion, says the Suddenly Susan actress should have used vitamins...

Last night's American Conservative Union event honoring Tom DeLay was an excellent example of the kind of thing conservative groups should have been doing all along whenever the Media and the Left (again, pardon my redundancy) irrationally and unfoundedly assaulted a pol who has the audacity of being right of center for the sole reason reason of his or her being right of center. Once ensconced in Washington, D.C., conservatives are engulfed in a liberal cacophony that often leads them to believe that everyone on the planet thinks like everyone inside the Beltway. All too often this leads to one...

Hillary gets a pass, DeLay is assailed Posted: May 14, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern WorldNetDaily.com It's really a good thing that Sen. Hillary Clinton is a Democrat. If she were a Republican, she would have been the topic of dire front-page headlines in the New York Times and at the forefront of "CBS Evening News" broadcasts over the past several days with her name being connected with a shadowy political fund-raising imbroglio. What's that? You say you weren't aware that Mrs. Clinton was at the center of a significant controversy? No surprise there. Like I said, she's a Democrat. So...

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is in hot water with the Senate ethics committee. A physician, his outrageous impropriety is providing medical care to pregnant ladies and other patients and delivering babies. It isn’t as though Dr. Coburn is making obscene profits. In fact, he makes no profit. He charges only enough to run his office and pay for malpractice insurance. That makes no difference. The ethics committee has ordered him to shut down his practice in Muskogee by the end of September. For years, Senate rules have prohibited members from working in a number of professions. Thus, the argument is...

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....

Last week I posted some of Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid's ethics problems. Today it looks like House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi has joined the fray. According to the National Legal and Policy Center: The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has fined two leadership PACs associated with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in response to a Complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) on October 25, 2002. The FEC also has fined three campaigns that failed to return excessive contributions from Pelosi’s PACs within 60 days, as required by law. Under conciliation agreements reached with the FEC,...

DeLay Urges GOP to Blame Dems Over Ethics 20 minutes ago By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, hoping to hold support among fellow Republicans, urged GOP senators Tuesday to blame Democrats if asked about his ethics controversy and accused the news media of twisting supportive comments so they sounded like criticism. Officials said DeLay recommended that senators respond to questions by saying Democrats have no agenda other than partisanship, and are attacking him to prevent Republicans from accomplishing their legislative program. One Republican said the Texan referred to a "mammoth operation" funded by...

[Dodd Vs. DeLay] Like Rush Limbaugh says, if there's a pile of excrement anywhere near them, the left will step in it. Recently, it was Dodd's turn. If someone said this somewhere already, the South Boston Phoenix apologises in advance and will credit the initial thinker. But this should not be passed over. Congressman Tom DeLay has been under heavy attack by the left, ever since he spoke out about holding judges politically accountable for the brutal killing of an innocent woman, Terri Schindler / Schiavo by the judiciary. The South Boston Phoenix has decided to swoop down on one...