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Talk about bad timing. Echo Lake Entertainment is set to release its independent film, Truth, the story of former CBS anchor Dan Rather’s self-destruction. It’s based on the 2006 book Truth and Duty: The Press, The President, and the Privilege of Power by Mary Mapes, the discredited CBS producer. Mapes documents and defends Rather’s 2004 attempts to use the forged “Killian documents” to portray former President George W. Bush as someone who shirked duty in Vietnam.

The October Suprise

Obama will speak about today's terror threats. Besides speaking about Christine O'Donnell closing the gap with Chris Coons, Obama is also expected to talk about the packages from Yemen via UPS planes scare (and probably the plane getting a fighter escort to NYC now.)

Powell, who served as President Bush's secretary of state, is to appear on NBC's "Meet the Press," prompting some to suggest that he might use that platform to make the announcement.

After two major attacks in Pakistan and Yemen-along w/ a new U.S. push at unsurgent strongholds along the Afghan border, U.S. Intelligence is worried about a massive " october surprise " attack geared to sway the US elections

OK, we've all seen how cooperative the rats have been in handing conservatives issues with which to pound them senselessly just prior to the election. Still, we haven't seen them toss any real electoral "bombs" just yet. Perhaps we were able to defuse them as with the "Foley no-sex and tossed out on his sorry tail" scandal. OTOH, it's good to see John "Treason" Kerry working overtime to ensure the GOP GOTV effort is working at peak efficiency.I don't believe for a second that we've seen the sleeziest weapons in their arsenal revealed just yet. What are they planning? Are...

Marilyn Monroe was talking on the telephone to Louise DiMaggio when she was murdered and was able to utter the name of her attacker before her death, according to a new book by DiMaggio's niece and Monroe confidante June DiMaggio. In "Marilyn, Joe & Me," 44 years after the Hollywood superstar's mysterious death, which was ruled a suicide, June DiMaggio, friend of Marilyn and niece of New York Yankee Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio, she discloses that her mother was speaking long distance with Marilyn Monroe when the actress was killed. DiMaggio says her mother overheard Monroe blurt out the...

A last-minute "October surprise" -- a dramatic news event that shakes up the U.S. election -- could be a wild card in the final three weeks of the fight for control of Congress. With Democrats threatening to sweep Republicans out of power in Congress in the Nov. 7 elections, a late-breaking foreign crisis, terrorist attack or another Washington scandal could change the debate and shape the ultimate outcome. The possibilities are numerous, as President George W. Bush juggles multiple foreign threats like North Korea's nuclear tests, Iran's nuclear ambitions and civil war in Iraq, along with mushrooming Republican scandals at...

Senior intelligence officials confirm video is authetic ...Fox News will have more from Al Jazeera in about 20 minutes. "Bin Laden speaks directly to the American people ....this is a recent tape, according to US officials."

John Kerry and the VVAW: Hanoi's American Puppets? Newly discovered documents link Vietnam Veterans Against the War to Vietnamese communists Two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman. The Circular: International Coordination of Antiwar Propaganda The first document is a 1971 "Circular" distributed by the Vietnamese communists within Vietnam. It discusses strategies to coordinate their national propaganda effort with their orchestration of the activities...

The first documentary evidence that Vietnamese communists were directly steering John Kerry's antiwar group Vietnam Veterans Against the War has been discovered in a U.S. archive, according to a researcher who spoke with WorldNetDaily. One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971, indicates the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended. Kerry insists he attended the talks only because he happened to be in France on his honeymoon and maintains he...

HOUSTON - President Bush often has cited his work in 1973 with a now-defunct inner-city program for troubled teens as the source for his belief in "compassionate conservatism." snip Much like Bush's disputed 1972 service in the Alabama National Guard, his tenure at P.U.L.L. has been the subject of speculation over the years. Knight Ridder began asking questions more than two months ago about Bush's service at P.U.L.L. as part of an effort to fill in the facts about his early adulthood.

CLAREMONT - The Pentagon knows exactly where Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, it just can't get to him, a member of the 9-11 Commission said Thursday. Commissioner John Lehman's remarks echoed those made Tuesday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who asserted the al-Qaida terror kingpin was alive and operating in the western part of that country. Bin Laden is living in South Waziristan in the Baluchistan Mountains of the Baluchistan Region, Lehman said, after delivering a keynote speech on terrorism at Pitzer College in Claremont to kick off the university's three-day writer's festival. In the exclusive interview,...

I heard about 2-3 weeks ago that the Swift Boat Vets had gotten some Pentagon documents on Kerry's discharge and they were apart of their october suprise. Anyone hear anything else on this? When is this suppose to be done? Any websites to read more into this?

Just heard on CNBC that Friday's jobs number could be big. The gubmint will revise upward the whole years numbers and the est. is around 288k. The excuse is the economy is growing so they didn't know to ask about the new business's hiring and are just now finding out about it. Friday night, Bush could have some ammo in an economic debate. The revised numbers plus the Sept numbers could cut the job deficit in half.

Kabul - Osama bin Laden's days may well be numbered, as increasingly confident statements by the United States military in Kabul are matched by heightened activity along the Afghan-Pakistan frontier. But experts on bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and the ousted Afghan Taliban warn that catching the world's most wanted man will not be easy, especially if they want him alive. "A focus of political will and resources will clearly increase the chances of high quality targets being hit," said Jason Burke, a leading expert and author on al Qaeda. 'The sands in this guy's hour glass are running out' "The...