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Teen Drug Abuse Declines Across Wide Front; Eleven Percent Reduction Exceeds President's Two-Year Goal 12/19/03 11:36:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk and Health Reporter Contact: Tom Riley of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 202-395-6618; Blair Gately of National Institute on Drug Abuse, 301-443-6245 WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson and John P. Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, today released results of the 2003 Monitoring the Future survey, showing an 11 percent decline in drug use by 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students over the past...

<p>Jessica Lynch may have been the victim of an extremely bad car crash in Iraq, but she has had to endure a demolition derby of type-casting ever since. Patriotic heroine, propaganda tool, overnight millionairess, sexual-assault victim, media darling, anti-warrior, photographer's vamp -- it's all been projected on her. Some of it might even be deserved, but it doesn't matter. Whether she likes it or not, Jessica Lynch comprises enough cultural personae to keep Camille Paglia occupied for the next decade. And all because someone missed a turn on the road to Baghdad.</p>

Radio talk show host Laura Ingraham received a hostile reaction last week from crew on ABC’s daytime show, The View, to the premise of her new book, Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America. Other than Rachel Campos, one of three finalists auditioning to join the show permanently, the co-hosts were all appalled by Ingraham’s contention that elites on the coasts are out of touch with “the heartland.” When Ingraham argued “that the Democratic Party is not connecting with the people who are its logical constituents, from the South and from the...

PREFACE Last Wednesday night, I attended a lecture by Judge Don Walters, a federal judge from Shreveport, LA., who was asked to serve as part of a 12 man team in Iraq to evaluate their justice system. It was most interesting, and afterwards, I asked if he had a book or a recording of any of his lectures. Since he did not, he was generous enough to give me his notes from the evening. For those of you interested, I will give you a slightly abridged version of his lecture which I found difficult to cut down due to its...

Drug War Casualties Thursday, May 23, 2002 By Radley Balko Samantha Monroe was 12 years old in 1981 when her parents enrolled her in the Sarasota, Fla., branch of Straight Inc., an aggressive drub rehab center for teens. Barely a teen, Samantha also had no history of drug abuse. But she spent the next two years of her life surviving Straight. She was beaten, starved and denied toilet privileges for days on end. She describes her "humble pants," a punishment that forced her to wear the same pants for six weeks at a time. Because she was allowed just one...

<p>PORTLAND -- Drug czar John Walters said Thursday that medical marijuana is being used as a political ploy to support efforts to legalize marijuana in a state where it already poses the most serious drug abuse problem for teenagers.</p> <p>Walters said about 25 percent of teens in the metro area who report drug abuse problems say they are dependent on marijuana, compared with 15 percent who report alcohol abuse.</p>

"Hellary Lies Again? Ho-Hum..." Posted by Doc Farmer Saturday, June 14, 2003 For the past week or so, we've all been inundated by the MAJOR NEWS EVENT that is Hellary Clinton's new book ''Living History.'' Yes, the tentacles of this monster news story have stretched to the farthest reaches of the globe. From New York City to Pango-Pango to Doha to a primitive mud-hut in Newark, New Jersey, you just can't get away from her. No matter how hard you try. And you can't get away from the many opinions about her new book. Including here. So sit back, relax,...

The announcer at the top of ABC's Sunday night special, "Hillary Clinton's Journey: Public, Private, Personal," set the fawning tone: "An precedented journey from her childhood days where her values and dreams were shaped, to the campus years when she was swept away by politics and [over photo of her with Bill] passion." The announcer presumed "everyone" is as excited about a Hillary presidential run as is, apparently, the ABC News staff: "And the question everyone is asking today: Could there be another Clinton White House?" For Walters, bad things just seemed to happen to an innocent Hillary Clinton whom...

In her exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton, journalist Barbara Walters once again proved she is a brutal, no-holds barred interviewer who is not afraid to ask the tough questions. She proves it time and time again. Knowing how tough she is, it might be interesting to ponder what she would have asked Adolph Hitler had she had the chance to do the interview. Here are the five tough questions I think Barbara would have asked: 1 - Why the funny moustache? 2 - Do you really think Germans will go for the Volkswagen? 3 - I hear you are a...

Don't count on seeing Barbara Walters raising with Senator Hillary Clinton any subject which the former First Lady would like to avoid. Though an ABC promo spot for ABC's June 8 special dedicated to publicizing Clinton's new book promises that "nothing's off limits" and on Thursday's The View Walters reported that when she sits down with Mrs. Clinton next week she'll "ask the really tough questions," the instant The View's Joy Behar mentioned Monica Lewinsky, an annoyed Walter raised her hands and made a pained facial expression as she demanded: "Oh, let's drop, let's move on!" As quoted in the...

We have a loser. Ms. Barbara Walters has been named to interview Sen. Hillary Clinton on the eve of the former co-president's memoir release. The news comes as another career setback for Ms. Wawa, as she is popularly known, who ostensibly for national security reasons last March had to delay release of her hot pre-Oscars interview with Ms. Julianne Moore and cancel two others in their entirety. The Moore segment eventually ran for one reason only. Under the category, Don't Ask, Do Tell, Ms. Moore and Mr. Wawa exchanged some sort of prolonged kiss during their encounter. "How do I...

President Bush is battling with other world leaders over how much control of post-war Iraq the U.S. will relinquish to an international coalition. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair debated that, among other issues, during their summit Monday in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Blair, unlike Bush, would like to have a strong presence of United Nations peacekeepers in Iraq after the conflict is over. But one big question is already settled. The post-war governor of Iraq will be an American named Jay Garner. He's the most important corporate executive you never heard of before the war. And while the...

To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 52 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers and media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of six to nine quotes in each category. Each received a paper ballot in late November and returned it within two weeks. Now, the winning quotes in 17 award categories: Media Hero Award “For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.” --...

It's high time that ranting American drug czar John Walters canned his insulting attacks on Canada and British Columbia. The White House's man on a mission to expand America's hopelessly failed war on drugs is trashing his northern neighbour in a most paranoid way. Paranoia, of course, is a staple of the "reefer-madness" culture that believes marijuana causes evil on a satanic scale. Walters is losing it as he high-dudgeons his way from microphone to microphone, hammering Justice Minister Martin Cauchon's plan to decriminalize pot in the new year. "You know Vancouver's referred to as Vansterdam. Go up, go get...

VANCOUVER -- Riding high after U.S. states rejected measures to relax drug laws, drug czar John Walters came to Canada this week to talk tough about a new front in the drug war. Marijuana poses a greater danger to the United States than heroin, cocaine or amphetamines, said Mr. Walters, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, in an interview yesterday in Vancouver. About 60 per cent of six million people who need treatment services for drug abuse in the United States are dependent on marijuana, he said. Earlier this month, Mr. Walters campaigned against...

Scary Republicans: ABC’s excellent news blog, The Note yesterday had an interesting out-take from the Gore family’s interview with Barbara Walters that was broadcast on Friday. WALTERS: I'm not sure that people realize that while you were in the residence of the Vice President [during the Florida recount] there were crowds of people outside screaming at you. What was that all about? AL GORE: Well, this was the Republican response to what was happening during that 36-day period, and they organized busloads of people that came and stood outside the house all day and all night screaming at the top...

This is actually meant to be serious. How do you wear all this stuff. I''ll have an I voted sticker on tommorow, an Inhofe Sticker, a Largent Sticker, and a Flag Pin. Which should go on each side, and its going to be quite crowded, don't you think, LOL!

In 1977, when Barbara Walters (Baba Wawa in the late Gilda Radner's sketches on "Saturday Night Live") was in Cuba interviewing Castro, there were rumors in Cuba that transpired abroad that Miss Wawa - oops, Walters - had an affair with the despicable tyrant of that unfortunate island. We may never know the truth about this alleged affair, since the members of the U.S. media are so protective of each other. Remember the case of the millionaire reporter Sam Donaldson receiving U.S. government subsidies for his wool farm? Probably not, because everything disappeared from the headlines very soon, including the...

Tommorow at 11 a.m. central time at the Kwanis Club in Downtown Tulsa! Inhofe vs Walters! Inhofe's gonna wipe the floor with Walters! Walters the crazed ex-con on drugs! 11 a.m.

<p>Journalism is never more amoral than when dictators are the mandatory "get" for a news puff piece. For the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the network anchors were all scrambling to get an interview with Fidel Castro, the dictator-celebrity. Which network superstar would get the first opportunity to reward the communists for their exclusive by lauding the achievements of the glorious revolution?</p>