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Most travelers who are told they must pay an airline fee for some extra service just sigh, pay up and shrug their shoulders. They might complain to a friend, then forget about it. Not Donald Pevsner. Pevsner, a consumer advocate, retired attorney and former Concorde tour operator, has for decades filed petitions with the federal government challenging rules, fees and anything else that strikes him as unjust. “I like tilting windmills at the people that deserve being tilted at,” he said. “And the airline industry deserves it in spades.” Now in his sights: Delta Air Lines. Most recently, the Atlanta-based...

Ann Coulter, the columnist who just defended RomneyCare, told Bret Baier that the Tea Party would prove they are hypocrites if they vote for the candidate who “influence peddled” at Freddie Mac: CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO It’d be one thing if she were saying this as a supporter of Santorum, but Romney? C’mon.

Andy Ferguson, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and arguably the most dazzling writer on the right, has been a one-man killing machine. In a series of pieces on Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Jon Huntsman, he has systematically done in (or helped to do in) more Republican candidates than Think Progress, the New York Times and George Soros ever could..... But none is so devastating as his literary journey through Newt Gingrich’s books. All of them. Twenty-one of them. In doing so he exposes what too few recognize: the vacuity...

Moore also differs sharply from the five major candidates in his stance on illegal immigration. He thinks the city should take an active role in pursuing and deporting illegal immigrants. "Am I just mean?" he asked. "Am I racist? No. Illegal immigration is bankrupting us." In a video spot on his website, he bluntly states: "I don't speak Spanish, and I don't intend to learn." When Moore began talking about immigration on a radio debate last week, he accomplished something unusual: He forced Hahn and some of his challengers to admit that they agree with one another.

Pledge Dad sues to ban ministers at oath Published 1/14/2005 2:07 PM WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Atheist Michael Newdow wants a U.S. district judge to ban prayers by clergy at the president's inauguration ceremony, the Washington Post said Friday. Newdow, a California doctor and lawyer who sued to have the words "under God" stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance in 2003, told the court that prayers offered by two Protestant ministers during the Jan. 20 ceremony when the president takes his oath of office would violate his constitutional rights. "This is like the Super Bowl, the Olympics. It's a...

The California lawyer who tried to have the phrase "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance now wants to legally prevent President Bush from placing his hand on a Bible while being sworn in at his inauguration. Michael Newdow, an atheist doctor and lawyer from Sacramento, has filed a complaint and a motion for preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking to remove prayer and all "Christian religious acts" from the Jan. 20 inauguration. Mr. Newdow, 50, asserts that the presence of Christian ministers who pray publicly at the inauguration, Christian songs and the...

BERLIN (AP) -- Libya agreed Tuesday to pay $35 million in compensation for victims of a 1986 bombing in Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen and a Turkish woman and injured 229 others, the Libyan ambassador to Germany said. The deal applies to Germans who were wounded in the April 5, 1986 attack on the LaBelle disco and the family of the slain Turkish woman, but not the families of two Americans, Ambassador Said Abdulaati told The Associated Press. It is the latest step in an effort by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to end his country's pariah status, following...

U.S. Senate Candidate Larry Klayman Available for Comment on Sandy Berger7/20/2004 4:14:00 PM To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: Gary McCullough, 904-687-9690 or 202-546-0054 David Johnson, 786-497-2926 both for Larry Klayman for U.S. Senate WASHINGTON, July 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Larry Klayman, former Judicial Watch Chairman, US Senate Candidate from Florida investigated Sandy Berger, former President Clinton's national security adviser. This investigation by Klayman triggered the exposure of the $300,000 illegal contribution." As founder, Chairman and General Counsel, of Judicial Watch, Larry Klayman led the fight against the abuses of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Klayman played a key role in...

The former Judicial Watch chairman was sued this week by his former pollster for $60,000 in unpaid bills. The Arlington, Va., polling company of Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates, Inc., claimed in a lawsuit filed in Florida Circuit Court that it conducted a poll of 800 GOP primary voters in September and had never been paid. Klayman told the AP that his Senate campaign was overcharged for the poll. "Among other issues Klayman for Senate disputes the amount. This is in part a commercial dispute," Klayman told the wire service, adding it "in no way affects our Senate race." But the...

Jana/1 The Leader of the Revolution/ statement Tripoli/ 5 Assaif/ Jana The Leader of the Revolution made a statement tonight to Jana news agency in which he said: "I express my profound regrets over Reagan's death before he appears before justice to held to account for his ugly crime in 1986 against Libyan children. / Jamahiriya News Agency/

Judiciary panel OKs appeals court choice Partisan `hackles' lacking at hearing WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee, serious and humorous by turns, approved Michael Chertoff's nomination to an appeals court Thursday after a late allegation and debate that ranged all the way to a disgraced New York Times reporter and McCarthyism. On the good-natured side, a smiling Sen. Charles Schumer D-N.Y., said across the committee table at one point to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, "Lucky for you there aren't two of me." Hatch, the committee chairman who is as conservative as Schumer is liberal, smiled back as he , "It's...

WASHINGTON - Republicans cheered and opened their wallets when conservative ethics watchdogs probed the many scandals of Bill Clinton's administration, filing dozens of lawsuits. Now that their party is in power, the same organizations are taking aim at them. Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, is being sued, as are senior Republicans in Congress. The Justice Department and the anti-terrorism policies of the administration have been hammered by Judicial Watch and the Rutherford Institute, which have found common cause with once-reviled liberal outfits like the American Civil Liberties Union and the environmentalist Sierra Club. "They seem to be genuinely against big government,...