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Newt Gingrich on Sunday shot down an assertion that he’s only toying with the idea of running for president in 2012 to boost his publishing and other endeavors. “Callista and I are seriously looking at – and our family is seriously looking at – what would it take,” the former Republican House speaker from Georgia said when "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace asked him whether he was “playing candidate card to get more attention.” Gingrich said “you can assume that up until February or March. Then if I don’t run, you’ll be able to say ‘see, I told you.’...

The left loves to argue that the idolatry of Obama is a figment of the right's collective imagination. We point out the altar from which he preached in Denver. We point out the reverential tone with which members of the media use when discussing him, whether that tone includes a tingle up the leg or otherwise. We say that he's no Messiah, and they love to counter that they never said he was. Well, you know who disagrees? Mr. Obama himself. Seems that he sees himself as quite the hero, and he's willing to call himself just that on his...

Incoming Vice-President Joe Biden hailed himself as the best ever. “The vice-president’s job is to preside over the senate,” Biden declared. “My 30+ years as a senator is more experience with this august body than any other vice-president has ever had. I think it’s fair to say that I’ll be the most effective presider this nation has ever seen.” “Also, having one of the least experienced to ever hold the presidency as president makes my other main job responsibility—stepping in if he goes down—less daunting than it has been for any of my predecessors,” Biden asserted. “Of course, as Barack...

Temper, temper. Republican John McCain is known for his. He's been dubbed "Senator Hothead" by more than one publication, but he's also had some success extracting his hatchet from several foreheads. Even his Republican Senate colleagues are not spared his sharp tongue. "F--- you," he shouted at Texas Sen. John Cornyn last year. "Only an a------ would put together a budget like this," he told the former Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Pete Domenici, in 1999. "I'm calling you a f------ jerk!" he once retorted to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley. With Cornyn, he smoothed things over quickly. The two argued during...

Television talk-show host Montel Williams threatened to find and "blow up" the homes of three Savannah Morning News reporters Friday while he was in town promoting free prescriptions for poor people. ...snip... "As we were preparing to film, Montel walked up with his bodyguard and got in Courtney Scott's face pointing his finger telling her, 'Don't look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I'm a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up,' " Cosey said. "At this time he was pointing randomly at all of us." "He...

http://boortz.com/nuze/index.htmlFriday, September 21, 2007  NEWT ... A CANDIDATE?  Newt Gingrich said that he might still consider throwing his hat into the ring if he can raise $30 million by November. After our American Solutions workshop on the FairTax next week, he is going to spend the month of October seeing if he can bring that money in. By November 1st, he will decide whether or not to run. Remember what I said on the air the other day? A caller asked me what I looked for in a presidential candidate. I answered that I wanted someone who really...

Byron York has some of Markos' modest little speech the other day, but I've found the rest that he decided not to use: "Yeah, they can take me down, Ma, but I'll still be there. I'm a part of something bigger. I'll be all aroun' in the dark. Stumbling around in the dark. I'll be ever'where. Ever'where you look. Whenever there's a brutally murdered American in Iraq to scorn, I'll be there. Wherever there's a few loons milling around with misspelled protes' signs saying 'Bush Lied! People Died!' and pictures of Che, and paper-mache puppets of Uncle Sam and Bushitlercheney...

Sen. John McCain has once again enraged Republicans by publicly opposing Majority Leader Bill Frist's plan to employ the so-called nuclear option for ending the filibusters against President Bush's judicial nominees. "Look, we won't always be in the majority," Mr. McCain told MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews Thursday night. "I say to my conservative friends, someday there will be a liberal Democrat president and a liberal Democrat Congress. Why?

WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - Lawmakers' pique over the networks' incredible shrinking news hole is prompting legislation that will both shorten the time broadcasters have between license renewals and require full commission review of 5% of all licenses. The legislation was introduced by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Tuesday after the release of a report by the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California found evening TV newscasts contained little coverage of local political campaigns last year. It also would require broadcasters to post on their Internet sites information detailing their commitment to local public-affairs programming, and it calls...

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain wants the Senate Armed Services Committee to hold hearings on allegations that the Defense Department may be bending U.S. laws in order to give Secretary Donald Rumsfeld more authority over clandestine overseas operations. The Washington Post, which reported the story on Sunday based on military and civilian sources, said the Pentagon has created a new unit, called the Strategic Support Branch (search), as a stepsister to an established unit in the CIA. The Strategic Support Branch is meant to address what Rumsfeld called the Pentagon's "near total dependence on the CIA" for human intelligence, something...

McClintock Answers Davis' Bid To Debate Schwarzenegger Conservative Passion, Large Crowds Keep McClintock In Recall Race 3:14 p.m. PDT September 29, 2003 SAN FRANCISCO -- Conservative state Sen. Tom McClintock at a Monday afternoon press conference surprised those who thought he would be announcing that he was dropping out of the recall race when he announced that he wanted to take Arnold Schwarzenegger's place in debating Gov. Gray Davis. Last week, Davis posed a challenge to Schwarzenegger to debate with him, stating that Schwarzenegger apparently had more pressing matters, McClintock said he would be happy to take Schwarzenegger's place. "If...

I’ve known California State Sen. Tom McClintock since I first moved to California in 1981. I have considered him a friend since 1992 and have spoken at fund raisers for him. Tom is a for-real Jeffersonian constitutional conservative. I have sat in his offices many times, had him as a guest on my various radio programs, and socialized with him and his wonderful family. The blessing and curse of Tom McClintock is his rock solid adherence to his principles. Unlike most politicians he does not lie, dissemble, compromise or weasel. However, those very characteristics I admire in him as a...

TIME was when life as a well-paid portrait artist in Iraq was relatively simple, if a little monotonous. In a good year, 20 portraits of Saddam Hussein could earn an artist £1,200 - a small fortune in a country crippled by two decades of war and economic sanctions. But now that the best-paying customer in town is fresh out of commissions, his absence is leading to a plummeting market in presidential iconography; what is a Saddam portraitist to do? Most of the better-known painters of the Iraqi president, who have become virtually synonymous with the regime, vanished along with the...

  the logic of pathologic self-interest by Mia T   There was a third chance to get rid of the clintons. In '98, when there was still time to stop bin Laden... The failure to remove the clintons in '98 was a monumental error and is directly traceable to the logic of pathologic self-interest. Recall in particular: THE LIEBERMAN PARADIGM: (clinton is an unfit president; therefore clinton must remain president)   THE SHAYS SYNDROME: (clinton is a rapist; therefore clinton is a fit president)   THE LIEBERMAN PARADIGM Senator Joseph Lieberman's bifurcated Monicagate speech in 1998 on the floor...

JESUS: NEW-MAKER J. Grant Swank, Jr., POB l984, Windham ME 04062 Pastor, New Hope Church, Windham ME Think back ten years. What pressure was on you then? Think back fifteen years. What were you doing? You cannot recall; it is a blur. Sometimes, as years pass, it is as if another person lived our situations, places, and events. One of God's gifts is to blur the past in preparation for eternity. Paul said, "Forgetting those things which are behind. . .I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:l3-l4). The...