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UPDATE: It’s starting. We guess David Brock over at Media Matters for America received a “Brown Book.” He attempts a character hit on Jerome Corsi, one of the authors of Unfit for Command. The Democrat National Committee has prepared a full-scale assault against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to draw their character and veracity into question, according to one anonymous source inside the DNC. The campaign of character assassination is scheduled to coincide with the release of the book Unfit for Command which reveals inconvenient facts for the Kerry campaign. “We have prepared what we call ‘Brown Books’ that...

<p>BAGHDAD, IRAQ – James Mattwig hoped there would be a happy ending to the story of the injured Iraqi girl he'd tried to help, and Saturday he found the answer.</p> <p>Two weeks ago, the U.S. Army staff sergeant met Aya, a 3-year-old Iraqi girl with a patch over her left eye. Mattwig was told that an artillery round had landed outside her family's home, shattering windows and sending a shard of glass into her eye.</p>

<p>A careful look at Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Kennedy Townsend — her campaign's flirtation with hiring consultant Julius Henson to scare black voters into voting against Republican nominee Robert Ehrlich, her strident defense of affirmative action and her efforts to insinuate that Jewish Marylanders have no business voting for Republicans — suggests that sowing racial and ethnic discord are key components of her campaign.</p>

Since his run for governor of Texas, the liberal, unimaginative, whining media ("they") have consistently been wrong in their description of Dubya. Here are some examples you may remember....

There's an interesting article in Tuesday's Washington Times on "Father Facts," a new report issued by the National Fatherhood initiative. The report was authored by Wade F. Horn, assistant secretary of HHS for Children and Families, and by Tom Sylvester, of the National Fatherhood Initiative (Horn was president of NFI before joining the Bush administration). The Washington Times story highlights the role of people like Horn and organizations like the National Fatherhood Initiative in helping to halt the rise of fatherlessness. It all seems fairly tame and straightforward, but in fact, the NFI report and the press's interest in it...

A relaxed and conversational President George W. Bush on Wednesday described his first 100 days in the White House as "pretty darn good," saying he has forged a rapport with members of Congress who might not be so inclined to support his agenda.For rest of article use URL.

A Love Letter America is the conscience of the world. Mr. Derbyshire is also an NR contributing editor April 18 , 2001 9:00 a.m. get a lot of e-mail. It comes in all varieties: praise, blame, adoration, abuse, "Right on, dude!" and 2,000-word treatises on Hegelian epistemology. I deal with it all as best I can and move on. Once in a long while, though, there is one that lodges itself in my mind and won't go away until I've talked — or, in this case, written — about it. This particular e-mail arrived in response to a piece ...

A bill to allow voting booths on U.S. military bases has died in Congress after Republican backers were told that Democratic senators would object to a quick floor vote in the waning days of the 106th Congress. Aides for Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, wanted to negotiate the bill's passage on Thursday and Friday as the chamber finished up work on the 2001 budget and then quit for the year. But aides were told that while Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, would support the bill, there were some unnamed Democrats who would protest what is ...

Poll about keeping the Electoral College

"Do not think for a minute we do not have the three electoral college votes we need to defeat you squirrely bastards! you will never get into the whitehouse now or for the foreseeable twenty years after we take it from you by an electoral college poach! PS: How do i send this to every twisted sucker on this website?" billk222

Dems Still Trying for More Electoral Votes NEVADA - Is this the next ploy by Al Gore's political machine, to challenge the rules governing electors in each state so that 271 of them can vote for him later this month? It may be so, starting with a 17-page lawsuit filed Tuesday by Reno lawyer Carter King in U.S. District Court seeks a restraining order to prevent Nevada's four electoral voters from casting all their ballots for George W. Bush when they meet Monday in Carson City. Under state law, all Nevada's electoral votes go to the presidential candidate who wins ...

Liberal Press Continues Sex Investigations of Bush Boys, Harris The election nightmare may soon be over. But the liberal press outlets may be seeking retribution. One victim of their vengeance has been Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. She has been accused of everything to tar her reputation. The New York press mentioned weeks ago that investigations were under way involving an alleged romance between her and Gov. Jeb Bush. The irreverent, liberal CounterPunch newsletter, edited by Jeff St. Claire and Alex Cockburn, report that the media have no plans to let Harris and the Bush boys go once the ...

Tuesday, December 12 4:05 AM SGT Predictions of unrest, victory abound after court hearing WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (AFP) - The United States will face a "civil rights explosion" if the US Supreme Court refuses to allow a recount of disputed ballots in Florida as part of a solution to the US presidential election impasse, a prominent civil rights leader warned Monday. "Even if this court rules against counting our vote, it will simply create a civil rights explosion," said the Reverend Jesse Jackson as he emerged from the historic hearing, in which nine justices heard oral arguments from lawyers for ...