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Before Keith Olbermann accused Rep. Michelle Bachmann of fomenting a rebellion, MSNBC's David Shuster had already hiked the old hyperbole trail. Sitting in for Ed Schultz on The Ed Show, Shuster insisted the rally opposing President Obama's socialized medicine bill "had all the trappings of a proverbial orgy of bigotry, racism, anti-Semitism, and hate!" In fact, one sign alleged contained "a reference to right-wing claims that the president is secretly a Muslim terrorist!" (Emphasis Shuster's.) As usual, he could not produce these references to racism, anti-Semitism, or Obama-secretly-got-Islamic-terrorist-training-ism. Even the Huffington Post with its "12 Most Offensive Signs from...

There could be some discord during the Tournament of Roses Parade as demonstrators promise to raise issues during the holiday spectacle that has been going on for more than a century. Human rights advocates plan to protest a float honoring the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and anti-war activists, including "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan, intend to rally for peace. The theme of this year's New Year's Day parade is "Passport to the World's Celebrations." It will feature 46 floats, 21 marching bands and 18 equestrian units. Volunteers have busy in Pasadena and nearby areas this past week decorating the floats with...

One of the Hard Left's most prominent subversive groups is the target of a corruption investigation by the Pennsylvania State Attorney General. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that a whistleblower alleged the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), commonly referred to as the Quakers, diverted funds bequethed to it for medical scholarships to other activities, most likely pro-illegal alien assistance and war resistance. The AFSC is at the center of the Hard Left's network of groups many consider anti-American, including United for Peace and Justice and MoveOn.org. Over the years, the Quakers have been the darling of the Hollywood Left and intellectual...

<p>The game has not changed, we face the same enemy, same challenges. The Beast never dies!</p> <p>President Reagan faced down the Soviets and ended the cold war, but the Beast is still with us. It simply changes form. Whether it appears in the form of Bolshevism, Nazism, fascism, communism, Islamofascism, etc, it is the same enemy: Totalitarianism. The all powerful state.</p>

What if the US had saved all the money it has spent over the past 65 years instead of spending it on Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom and others? What if the US had let Saddam Hussein keep his foothold in Kuwait? What if the US had allowed NORIEGA to remain in power in Panama? What if the US didn’t defend its vital interests’ in Europe and allowed socialist Hitler, imperialist Japan or communist Stalin to reign supreme? For “liberal” readers, over 100 million people perished at the hands of those two kindred socialist political spirits. And American “socialists”...

Marine's Mom Eva Savage's Message "Son Did Not Die In Vain."/ "Moore Does Not Speak For Them"

A generation ago, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, young people in America turned out by the thousands, and sometimes hundreds of thousands, to protest the U.S. war in Vietnam. Today the Iraq war is just as hotly debated in the United States, but there are few street protests, and those few are not well attended. Last week, U.S. President George W. Bush traveled to the southern state of Louisiana to deliver the commencement address for Louisiana State University, and urged the new graduates to use their educations wisely. "Our country depends on business people who are honest in...

Protest Bush in Pittsburgh, PA - Tuesday, December 2, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Westin Convention Center Hotel, Downtown. Whatever your reason - the economy, the war, his lies, his heading of organized crime and terror networks - come to the protest rally and voice your opposition. He says he loves "free speech" (when in zones and battered by police in Florida), so here's our chance. Bring signs, dress up like a pretzel or as the peasants he hopes to reduce us to, or whatever your heart tells you.

<p>Outside a Sunnyvale courthouse Thursday, dozens of protesters charged with crimes related to an April anti-war demonstration against Lockheed Martin were in protest mode again, this time over the possibility they might have to pay restitution to the company they'd forcefully denounced.</p>

<p>The Democratic Leadership Council, founded in the mid-1980s to drive the looney left from the party, is worried that the liberal activists may be taking over again.</p> <p>Former Vermont governor Howard Dean, running on an ultra-liberal, anti-war platform that has re-energized the party's left wing, is running neck-and-neck in New Hampshire with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who has a voting record that is nearly identical to that of Sen. Edward Kennedy's.</p>

<p>Oakland -- At the Port of Oakland, some 300 to 400 protesters are picketing in front of two shipping companies that they say are linked to the war on Iraq and are blocking five company entrances.</p> <p>So far, there has been no confrontation between Oakland police and the demonstrators, in contrast to a April 7 rally that turned violent.</p>

EDMONTON - It's hard to imagine feeling let down when Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon is playing your character in a movie. But that's how Ice Bound reacts to her portrayal in the new tele movie, Ice Bound."I'm disappointed," says the 51-year-old doctor famous for the diagnosis and treatment of her own breast cancer while at the South Pole in 1999. "I wish they would have met me. I think it would have been nice to have had a chance to have them know me before they wrote about me or tried to play me."Based on the book Nielsen wrote about...

Hollywood Learns Political Hardball ...A little chin music for Tim Robbins Tom Adkins 4/17/03 Little Timmy Robbins is crying foul. The forever-whining co-star of "Bull Durham" was un-invited to the movie reunion by Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey, who noted, "this institution should never be used as a platform for public pro-war sentiments - nor public anti-war sentiments." Wary of the minor-league antics of Robbins, nag Susan Sarandon, and the rest of "Team Left", Petroskey did what every good coach does: he stole the signs. Robbins and Sarandon will turn breakfast into a noxious political tirade if there's...

“Stop The War NOW!” —Sign at “Direct Action To Stop The War” rally, April 6, 2003. “U.S. forces today mounted their most far-reaching move into Baghdad today, going into the heart of the Iraqi capital … Reporters say hundreds of jubilant Iraqis greeted the British tanks as they poured into the center of Basra.” —AP media reports, the same day. * * * DATELINE, BAGHDAD — Iraqi citizens looked on in horror today when, at the orders of President George W. Bush, American soldiers and marines began retreating from Baghdad to return to the United States. “We’re sorry,” one local...

When President George Bush spoke of the “Axis of Evil,” many of television’s talking heads ridiculed him. The pundits pointed out that Iran and Iraq hated each other and questioned what either of them had to do with the Asian Communist despot in North Korea. Evidence has been piling up that the President was right on the money. North Korea has been saber-rattling for months to take the heat off Saddam Hussein. The Iranian rulers have opposed President Bush and sent an Iraqi military unit, controlled by Iran, into Iraq, not to topple Saddam but to help him. In Afghanistan...

The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father's; but he has never collected unemployment either. He's a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old...

On the next Unspun with AnnaZ... THURSDAY, March 13, 20039:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. EST / 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. PST... Newspeak and "Anti-War" Freaks GO, FIGHT, VIN!! Anna and Merc welcomenationally syndicated columnist and authorVIN SUPRYNOWICZ(of Privacy Alert)who will join them in attemptingto unravel the spinand identify the bone-heads,the charlatans,the good, the bad, and the really, really uglyin America, 2003. ALSO...Newspeak of the WeekBone-Headed Lie-Beral Quotes All this, plus your calls(and possibly more)on the nextUnspun with AnnaZ CLICK HERE TO LISTEN LIVE!! Tune in. Call in.1-866-RADIOFRor1-888-802-9293Because if the apathy don't get ya,the complacency will. ©         Brought to you by The FREE...

AARONSBURG - Facing an angry crowd that overflowed their meeting room, the elected leaders of a small Penns Valley municipality Thursday repealed an anti-war resolution that a week ago claimed international attention. The Haines Township supervisors -- who four months ago voted 2-0 to adopt the resolution opposing a pre-emptive U.S. military strike against Iraq -- voted 3-0 Thursday night to rescind it. The township residents said they were angry not so much because the resolution opposed Bush administration policy, but because the measure was adopted without asking township residents to discuss it yet stood as though it broadly represented...

The antiwar movement was in my neighborhood earlier this month. So I decided to talk to them; I dusted off my mini-cassette recorder and did a dozen or so protester-in-the-street interviews to get a sense of who goes to these things, and why they do. Here are a few observations: 1) Activists are not deep thinkers. They speak in handy slogans and reason by way of the nearest platitude. (This is perhaps true by definition, no less on the right than on the left; if you can trace the logic on both sides of a divisive issue, you usually can't...

As a pseudo-Libertarian who opposed the draft and considers war the ultimate in coercive government action, I’m about as anti-war as you can get. So when millions of self-described “anti-war protestors” packed city streets from London to Los Angeles, I decided this was one right-winger’s chance to join the peace movement. By happy coincidence, I happened to be doing a talk show on WLW, a 100,000-watt AM station in Cincinnati, Ohio, this weekend. The station’s signal reaches more than 30 states. I began the show by acknowledging the vast, right-wing media conspiracy that was keeping the peace movement’s message off...