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No longer constrained by campaign advisers who insisted on such conventions as “message discipline,” Gingrich fulminated against President Obama, the news media, activist judges and assorted other liberal bogeymen for 41 minutes here Thursday night. It was classic Newt – slashing attacks, an array of ideas, and a few plugs for his website. All jumbled together with little cohesion. The former speaker, it seems, is very much enjoying the post-consultant phase of his candidacy. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57183.html#ixzz1PVO4yauY

Scott Brown is living up to his early billing to be an independent senator, voting "yes" with a few other moderate Republicans on cloture on the jobs bill. Here's Brown's statement, issued as he headed in to vote against the great majority of his party. “I came to Washington to be an independent voice, to put politics aside, and to do everything in my power to help create jobs for Massachusetts families. This Senate jobs bill is not perfect. I wish the tax cuts were deeper and broader, but I am voting for it because it contains measures that will...

Predator drones flown from base in Pakistan, U.S. lawmaker says Sen. Feinstein's surprise disclosure likely to complicate joint campaign against Taliban militants Greg Miller | Washington Bureau 7:06 PM CST, February 12, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. - A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIA Predator aircraft operating in Pakistan are flown from an airbase inside that country, a revelation likely to embarrass the Pakistani government and complicate its counterterrorism collaboration with the United States. The disclosure by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, marked the first time a U.S. official had publicly commented on...

....Giving Obama a pass on his tissue-thin record, his long association with dangerous people and questionable activity, such as his dealings with fundraiser Antoin Rezko and the huge foreign money he took, shows the media cannot be trusted. Their earnings will plunge. And if Americans discover that they've been sucker-punched, because Obama's inexperience causes economic and political chaos, they'll be on Obama like a virus and will be astonishingly vicious. Live by the sword ...

Earlier this year, Michael J Psak ran for the US Senate Republican Primary and lost. There are several reasons why he shouldn't ever run or be elected to office. He was once accused of sexual harassment and fired from one of his trucking jobs. He hid from his disclosures several hundred dollars that he owed Phil Collins, a volunteer coordinator who worked for him and didn't reimburse him for gas money. He also hid what he owed another one of his campaign staff on his federal disclosures, a sum of $2,000 to Gary Karlin, a former fundraising chairman and webmaster....

When the Democrats took over the House of Representatives, one of first statements out of the mouth of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (and other Democrats) was that this new Congress would be the “most ethical ever.” Now, it seems that they are changing their tune in their zeal to keep their pet pork projects away from the eyes of the American people. As noted in the Washington Times, Democrat leaders in the House are reversing the work of Republicans regarding what is known as “earmark reform.” The 2006 legislation would: allow lawmakers to vote on individual earmarks, specific funding requests...

While Al Gore is commanding all the attention of those searching for the "un-Hillary," there's another candidate who is quietly doing the work it actually takes to run for president. While Al Gore continues to protest that he isn't running, there's another candidate who is privately making no bones about his future prospects. While Al Gore has yet to acknowledge that he lost, there's another candidate who is belatedly addressing the mistakes that caused his defeat. The "un-Gore," "un-Hillary" is John Kerry. He is doing everything Gore isn't doing to prepare for a presidential run in 2008. He is running...

The old media are in critical condition. In its May 23 edition, Newsweek writers Michael Isikoff and John Barry reported that American military personnel at Guantanamo Bay had flushed the Muslim world's holiest book, the Quran, down the toilet – a report that led to blistering condemnations and a call for a holy war in the Arab world, violent anti-American protests in Afghanistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, et al., and 17 deaths and over 100 injuries so far. Mark Whitaker, the magazine's editor, wrote in a follow-up issue that he regretted "we got any part of our story wrong," but not that...

HILLARY AWARENESS DAY - Friday Jan 14th 2005 - HR is pleased to announce that a formal on line web-conference will be held on the above date. There will be many topics presented, hand out material and formal discussions. Registration for the event is free and those wishing to attend must be pre-registered to post and participate. Information on the link.

17.12.04 | The following question, written by Senator Iñaki Mirena Anasagasti Olabeaga, has been presented to Spain's Senate. I, IÑAKI MIRENA ANASAGASTI OLABEAGA, Senator for Bizkaia and member of the Parliamentary Group of Basque Nationalist Senators, under the rights established in the current Regulation of the Senate, present the following QUESTION for its written answer by the Government. In the Venezuelan press the following information has aired these days with respect to the ambassador of Spain to Venezuela, D. Raul Morodo: "Just arrived in Caracas as Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain, Raul Morodo Leoncio, gathered the personnel of the...

Don't hate me for it, but I occasionally visit the enemy blogs and I came across a posting that mentioned that Zogby was on the Daily Show and when asked who would win, he claim Kerry. He claimed that Kerry's numbers were up. This surprised me only because just yesterday we all read Novak article in which he (Novak) claimed that Zobgy told him that Busg would win. What gives? Do we care? I'm inclined to believe not...

Putin: Ally or Terrorist? by William F. Jasper Counting Vladimir Putin as an ally against terrorism ignores his career in the murderous KGB/FSB and his ongoing support for terrorist regimes and organizations. ‘‘Lena Goncharuk, aged 38, said that she was the only one to survive out of a group of six who were ordered out of the cellar where they had been hiding and shot at point blank range. Resting in her hospital bed, her voice barely rising above a whisper, she said she had survived only by pretending to be dead." So reported Paul Wood from the Chechen border...

Every election has pros and cons to vote. Here is the con. Just the top ten con against Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). Kerry is wrong for our Country. Bush is not all right, but right enough, and most of all, more trustworthy, to earn your vote. We are a Nation at war, abroad and at home, fighting our fourth World War (WWIV) and engaged in our second American Civil War (ACW II). We must win both struggles. WW IV defines American Civilization’s Imperial era with a victory or defeat in a long, long, long global war against Islamist Terrorism. ACW...

Howard Dean: I think electability's a real issue for him. He appears to change his mind so often. '[Y]ou saw it with No Child Left Behind, you saw it with the war, you see it with special interests, which I think is terribly damaging. It appears that his word is no good.' (Adam Nagourney, For Kerry And Edwards, Sharp Exchanges Reflect A Crucial Day Of Voting,) The New York Times, 2/3/04

A succession of well-publicized missteps by the news media in recent years -- from misrepresentation of facts and questionable reporting methods to outright fabrication and plagiarism -- has understandably shaken public trust in the media. The Washington Post, like several other large news organizations, has responded by reviewing our policies on accuracy, fairness and our relationships with news sources and readers. We have spent several months on this effort and recently produced a restatement of our policies covering, among other things, reporting techniques, use of direct quotations, attribution of information, use of confidential sources and corrections of our mistakes. We...

The British government is now thinking the unthinkable, according to news reports: It is considering proposals to break up the BBC and revoke its hallowed independent status. This possible assault on one of the world’s leading news organizations is arising in the wake of an independent judicial inquiry’s condemnation of the Beeb’s shoddy news practices. Needless to say, such an independent analysis and investigation of a news organization is highly unusual; they, of course, are the ones who like to do the investigating. The startling conclusions of the judge, Lord Hutton, a retired lord of appeal (equivalent to a U.S....

From three and a half years ago.....modified and updated MIDI - SOUNDS OF SILENCE Hello patriots, my friends…I have some bad news once again You won't believe what they've been doing...our great nation they've been screwing There’s a lesson…we cannot trust Democrats…sewer rats We hear the sounds of treason They all would sell their country out…of that, you should have no doubt They would abdicate our freedom…it’s in their writing, you should read ‘em There’s a lesson that we cannot trust the Democrats…they're sewer rats We hear the sounds of treason Hatred of the USA…they've been showing everyday They disdain...

Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Wednesday that he was forced to limit the activities of the Senate Intelligence Committee because he no longer believes Democrat members who sanctioned the partisan misuse of committee resources can be trusted with foreign intelligence secrets. Noting that committee Democrats have yet to identify the author of a controversial memo urging that intelligence data be used as a political weapon against President Bush, Frist told radio host Sean Hannity, "If those people are still in the room handling intelligence given to us by other nations so that they can undermine our Commander-in-Chief, that...

Home Schooling Spokesman: CBS Pre-Planned Negative Slant There is more fallout from a controversial two-part report on home schooling, produced by the CBS Evening News. During Monday's "Eye on America" segment, CBS reporter Vince Gonzales cited a murder-suicide involving three teenagers in rural North Carolina as proof of what the network refers to as a "dark side" to home schooling. In that tragic case, the children's parents had been under investigation for abuse and neglect and were not abiding by the state's home school law. But Hal Young, president of North Carolinians for Home Education (nche.com), says CBS News overlooked...

ASHINGTON, Sept. 20 — An Islamic chaplain in the United States Army who ministered to detainees at the camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the military holds captured militants and suspected terrorists is now himself under arrest while the Army investigates his activities, military and law enforcement officials said today. The chaplain, Capt. James J. Yee, also known as Youssef Yee, has not been charged either by the military or by civilian authorities, the officials said. His case is being investigated by the Army and if he is charged, it would most likely be under the military justice code, they...