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Audio: Cindy Sheehan says she “planted” her uterus in Crawford; Update: Illegal? A colorful metaphor, perhaps? I’m afraid not. Update: The person who recorded it says it comes from a book signing in Palo Alto. He’s working on finding out the exact date. Also, it’s been slightly edited. Over the summer I had a hysterectomy, and um, I got my “parts” back. I thought I could just [inaudible] on eBay, you know, “[inaudible] Cindy Sheehan’s uterus.” And so I planted it in the garden where the bush, it’s a pretty bush… It’s so funny ’cause me and my children, we’ll...

For those of you who feel like all we ever hear about is bad news, I thought you might like something a bit more positive for a change. From Move America Forward's most recent email: Move America Forward is very proud of the things we've accomplished for the pro-troop movement thanks to your support.All MAF really is, when you boil it down, is a collection of Americans of like mind, who feel that there is a vacuum when it comes to people stepping forward and actively providing support for the men and women of the United States military AND THEIR...

A train derailed and spilled a hazardous liquid Tuesday night, prompting about half the population of Crawford to temporarily evacuate, officials said. President Bush's ranch is about 20 miles away from the town and is not near the area evacuated. Bush was not at the ranch at the time of the spill. More than 300 people were told to stay away from their homes for about four hours before they were allowed to return at 10 p.m., said Crawford Police Chief Donnie Tidmore. No injuries were reported after the train spilled vinyl acetate, said Joe Faust, spokesman for BNSF Railway....

CRAWFORD Cindy Sheehan says she’s taking a hiatus from her activist role to heal and re-energize herself after a trying and torrid summer. Most of the 100 or so anti-war demonstrators who joined her this year had left her peace camp in Crawford by the close of the Labor Day weekend. This year’s protest gathered little steam in Crawford. Bush, who usually spends the entire month of August at his nearby ranch, cut his vacation to 10 days. Sheehan looked tired and moved slowly when she granted a brief interview to the Tribune-Herald. Her son, Andy, 22, sat with her....

Sheehan's Texas protests die down Nation: Anti-war demonstrations smaller; critics say movement lost fire. By Angela K. Brown, Associated Press Long Beach Press Telegram CRAWFORD, Texas - This one-stoplight town, especially the road leading to President Bush's ranch, turned out to be much quieter than it was last summer. The 700-resident town's streets were clogged last year as more than 10,000 people began streaming in over the 26-day vigil, which started when Cindy Sheehan demanded to talk to Bush about the war that claimed her oldest son's life in 2004. It was a different picture last month when war protesters...

"Three weeks ago, this plot of land in Crawford was covered in trees and brush. Today, it looks like the circus grounds..."

CRAWFORD -- As night fell, about 50 peace activists sat in a circle under a blanket of stars and chanted a Hindu mantra. "Ommmmmm," they began, as one, in a droning monotone. Again. Then again, drawing out the syllable until they were out of breath. In the darkness, from a nearby pasture, a sound broke the meditative bliss. MoooooOOHhh. The bovine reply reminded the gathering of where they are, and gave them a reason to laugh, just the kind of bonding moment those who are doggedly committed to bringing American troops home from Iraq needed at the end of another...

Peace mom Cindy Sheehan spent the night in a hospital for a gynecological procedure and treatment of dehydration but said Saturday that wouldn't stop her protest against the Iraq war on land she bought near President Bush's Crawford ranch. Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco, about 20 miles east of Crawford. She said she could be released later in the day but probably would miss an afternoon barbecue at Camp Casey, the protesters' campsite named for her soldier son who was killed in Iraq in 2004. "Everything will still go on," Sheehan, 49, told...

CRAWFORD, Texas - Anti-war demonstrators said Sunday they hope the end of President Bush's ranch vacation doesn't hurt attendance at their protest during the rest of the summer. They urged opponents of the war in Iraq to come to the five-acre campsite purchased last month by Cindy Sheehan, who resumed her protest a week ago. Sheehan's first trek to Crawford one year ago during Bush's monthlong vacation turned into a 26-day vigil that drew more than 10,000 people and spurred counter-protests by Bush supporters. A few hundred war opponents returned at Thanksgiving, when Bush was at his ranch, and again...

Sheehan land deal spurs debate in real estate circles Sunday, August 13, 2006 By Mike Copeland Peace mom Cindy Sheehan plunked down $52,500 for five acres in Crawford, causing some real estate agents and appraisers to gasp at her spendthrift ways. But those who suggest Sheehan overspent just to be near her nemesis, President Bush, may want to check the tax rolls over at the McLennan County Appraisal District. She did pay more for her land than the appraised value, but she didn’t make a mockery of it. Tom Walker at the appraisal district said her tract of slightly more...

CRAWFORD, Texas - War protesters extended the olive branch to their new neighbors in President Bush's adopted hometown by hosting a barbecue Saturday - and a few even showed up. "You can have a dialogue, but you'll never agree," said Bush supporter Valerie Duty. "Both sides do agree about bringing the troops home safely. The difference is the way we go about that." Locals have been angry since a man bought five acres last month on behalf of peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who said no one in the area would have sold her any property. Demonstrator Jim Goodnow said he...

War protesters extended the olive branch to their new neighbors in President Bush's adopted hometown by hosting a barbecue Saturday - and a few even showed up. "You can have a dialogue, but you'll never agree," said Valerie Duty, a staunch Bush supporter who wore a "This is Bush country, by George!" T-shirt. "Both sides do agree about bringing the troops home safely. The difference is the way we go about that." Locals have been angry since a man bought five acres last month on behalf of peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who said no one in the area would have...

(August 11, 2006)—Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was being treated Friday evening in the emergency room of Providence Health Center in Waco. Sheehan, who has been on a liquids-only diet for 37 days as part of a fast in protest of the war, was described as being gaunt and pale as she arrived at the hospital. An assistant said Sheehan, who flew to Central Texas after a trip with other activists to Jordan to meet with members of Iraq’s new parliament, was being treated for exhaustion. Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son Casey died in Iraq in 2004 while serving with Fort Hood’s...

From our intrepid correspondent on site down in Texas, Crawford Activist, we have this photo of Cindy Sheehan registering to vote in the local post office last Tuesday: Crawford Activist reports that Mother Sheehan then left Crawford late Tuesday afternoon to attend a conference in Seattle she is headlining. Ms. Sheehan is supposed to return to Crawford Friday morning in time to protest the RNC fundraiser near the President's ranch. Then Cindy is off again to give a speech in Washington, DC on Saturday. It seems she just can't resist those speaking fees.But hasn't our hero mother broken Texas law...

Since anti-war protestors outside President Bush's Crawford Ranch have been unsuccessful in their attempts to talk directly with the president, today they wrote letters to him, placed the notes inside helium-filled balloons and released them. They hope the balloons will end up on the president's property, and he will read the notes.

Roadside camping and parking bans are constitutional, a federal judge ruled, blocking protesters from pitching tents or placing portable toilets in ditches near President Bush's ranch. Protesters sought to make a smaller makeshift campsite than what Cindy Sheehan set up a year ago off the winding, two-lane road leading to Bush's ranch, said attorney David Broiles, who sued on behalf of Sheehan, of Berkeley, Calif., and four other anti-war demonstrators. But less than a week after asking the protesters and McLennan County officials to try to reach a compromise, U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith ruled unexpectedly late Monday that...

There are no new pictures of the President or First Lady today, since they are spending some time together at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas, but we know full well that there are no 'vacations' for this President, and that he is hard at work protecting America from danger.So.......since there are no new photos, I'm posting several of my favorite ranch pictures just for fun, and will give my report on my husband's and my personal encounter with the President last week, and will post the photos taken from our very own camera.Enjoy your trip to Sanity Island on...

Crawford- One local resident is fearful for her family's safety, after alleged threats from a supposed anti-war demonstrator. After news of protestor Cindy Sheehan's purchase of property near President Bush's ranch, Tracy Thiele gave an interview to News Channel 25. The interview was later broadcast on a segment ABC's Good Morning America. That's when the trouble all began. "About seven times in a row, I have gotten threatening phone calls against me and my family," said Thiele. "The caller knew where Crawford was, she knew where I lived. She said be on my doorstep the next morning to take care...

A federal judge in Waco ruled Monday that McLennan County ordinances restricting parking and camping along roads to President Bush’s ranch are constitutional and do not infringe on Cindy Sheehan’s right to protest the war. Chief U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith’s ruling was issued late Monday, despite his orders last week for both sides to try to break their impasse over enforcement of county ordinances. Fort Worth attorney David Broiles, who represents Sheehan’s group, said he and Mike Dixon, who represents the county, had worked out a proposal that Dixon planned to bring to the McLennan County commissioners court...

CRAWFORD — Cindy Sheehan is back in town. After flying in from Jordan on Saturday night, Sheehan led a day of anti-war protests that culminated in an afternoon march in heat exceeding 100 degrees from the site of Camp Casey I to a checkpoint outside President Bush’s ranch. The president visited Sunday with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. About 40 protesters joined Sheehan, many toting signs that read “The War is A Lie” and “Bush Betrayed Our Troops,” while Sheehan carried a sign asking “For What Noble Cause?” The march followed a short protest at the Crawford Peace House, where...

A report on the first day of Camp Casey III action for peace in Crawford. Cindy, back to the same spot near the President's ranch that last year made history. The August vigil at Camp Casey 3 is starting a bit earlier than originally planned. Cindy Sheehan decided to arrive on the anniversary of her first attempt to meet with George Bush and get an explanation from him about why her son Casey died in Iraq. Camp Casey has moved to a new location. It is a 5-acre piece of wooded property less than a mile from the Crawford Peace...

A year after her first war protest in President Bush's adopted hometown attracted thousands and reinvigorated the nation's peace movement, Cindy Sheehan resumed her vigil Sunday. Under the blazing Texas sun, Sheehan and more than 50 demonstrators again marched a mile and a half toward Bush's ranch, stopping at a roadblock. As Secret Service agents stood silently, Sheehan held up her California driver's license and said she wanted to meet with the president. "It doesn't say my new address, but I do live here now," said Sheehan, who lives in Berkeley, Calif., and recently bought land in Crawford for war...

US President George W. Bush will make a statement from his Texas ranch tomorrow on efforts to end the Middle East crisis, the White House announced today. Mr Bush will speak from his Prairie Chapel property, accompanied by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has been at the ranch since yesterday for talks on ending fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The US president was expected to urge the UN Security Council to adopt a French-American resolution, unveiled yesterday, aimed at ending the conflict and paving the way to a lasting peace. However, Lebanon's parliament speaker Nabih Berri has already...

Up in time for Secretary Rice's visit to Crawford, Texas, is the first Condi 2008 billboard of many to come. The billboard is located on Highway 84 in McGregor, TX on the way to the "ranch" in Crawford. The Billboard, paid for by volunteers working with the 527 Political Organization, "Americans for Dr. Rice", went up Thursday about five hours before the President, and his entourage, landed in Waco for the trip to Crawford for his 10 day vacation. And, one day after CNN reported a 62% national approval rating for the Secretary of State and only a 27% disapproval...

A grassroots pro-military group is organizing a counter to the efforts of Cindy Sheehan, the polarizing icon of the anti-war movement whose son, Casey, was killed in Iraq. The group, "American Pride," is led by Leonard Wahl, who also lost a son in the war. American Pride is petitioning people to come to Crawford, Texas between August 14 and 22 -- part of a period when Sheehan and her followers are expected to launch "Camp Casey III." Crawford, the home of President Bush's ranch, was the site of a stalemate of sorts last August when Sheehan declared she wasn't leaving...

While Cindy Sheehan’s purchase of five acres in Crawford might make her anti-war protests go more smoothly next month, it won’t affect a lawsuit that she and others have filed to contest McLennan County’s new parking and camping ordinances. Attorneys for Sheehan and McLennan County will square off Thursday in Waco’s federal court, with both sides seeking temporary injunctions from U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. Sheehan and her followers want to block the county from enforcing its ordinances against parking, camping and erecting portable toilets along roads leading to President Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch. County commissioners are seeking...

A report from Texas popped in my email today: Cindy Sheehan (surprise, surprise) lied to buy her land in Crawford, TX. She bought it, naturally, as an outpost from which to stalk President Bush when he stays at his ranch.

CRAWFORD — When peace activist Cindy Sheehan returns here next month to protest the war in Iraq, she won’t be a guest. She’ll be one of Crawford’s newest residents. Sheehan’s peace group, Gold Star Families for Peace, said on its Web site Thursday that Sheehan had purchased five acres on State Highway 317, about a half-mile north of the sole traffic light here. County records indicate she is acquiring the property through a third party who himself recently purchased it. On her Web site, Sheehan says she’s already planning to mount next month’s war protest on the property, again timed...

From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Sheehan buys plot in Crawford with son's insurance moneyBy JACK DOUGLAS JR.Thu, Jul. 27, 2006 CRAWFORD -- As President Bush prepares to spend some vacation time at his ranch here, not all is peaceful within the peace movement that has doggedly criticized his war policies for the past year.The Gold Star Families for Peace says on its Web site that its members will again flock to Crawford in August to protest Bush's wartime decisions. Leader Cindy Sheehan is again demanding to meet with the president -- a replay of a year ago -- garnering worldwide...

Cindy Sheehan Buys Property in Crawford Jul 27 1:33 PM US/Eastern CRAWFORD, Texas War protester Cindy Sheehan has purchased a 5-acre plot in Crawford with some of the insurance money she received after her son was killed in Iraq. The group she helps lead, Gold Star Families for Peace, says on its Web site that it will return next month to protest the war in Iraq in the small town near Waco where President Bush has a ranch. Like last year, Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004, will again demand to meet with the president. "We...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President Bush is at his Crawford Ranch today. Originally scheduled to be there through Sunday, the President will leave early tomorrow, arriving in Washington at about 2:40 p.m. Upon returning to the White House, the President will join Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Saudi officials to discuss the situation in Lebanon and the broader Middle East. They will meet with Saudi Foreign Minister and the Secretary General of the Saudi National Security Council, Saud al-Faisal and Prince Bandar. Here are excerpts and links to two representative news articles about their diplomatic efforts. Pressuring Hizbollah,...

Hoping to "wake up" Americans to the crisis of illegal immigration, opponents of President Bush's reform plan will gather in Crawford, Texas, Saturday in an event dubbed "Rumble at the Ranch." Bush's ranch, the location of many anti-war protests, is located outside Crawford. The event is being sponsored by the Texas Minutemen and Latino Americans for Immigration Reform, according to the website A Reckoning. Lou Ann Anderson, executive producer of the Lynn Woolley radio show, is helping to organize the rally and hopes other talk-radio hosts will join in. "We want hosts all over the country, from local radio stations...

I have always seen George W. Bush in a different light than almost all of his opponents, and even many of his supporters. He is a trained strategist, an MBA graduate of Harvard Business School, where he learned that the point of having a strategy is to win when it counts, not just to feel good about yourself at every moment of the process. When it counts, right at election time, Bush tends to come out much better than his enemies assumed he would. The positions they embraced when they thought he was down and out turned out to be...

Accounts of this weekend's activities in Crawford that were (or not) reported in the MSM force me to provide a SITREP of what happened. Some events I witnessed and some were reported to me by very reliable sources. First, that champion of the downtrodden, Cindy Sheehan, arrived to a rock-star reception in Waco. She then was whisked to the Crawford "Peace" House via limosine. Who is paying for her travel? In a story, entitled "Sheehan's daughter visits Crawford war protest camp," by Angela K. Brown, (Associated Press}, it was reported that some of (President) Bush's supporters, this Saturday in Crawford,...

Crawford, Texas -- California peace activist Cindy Sheehan returned to Texas on Wednesday for another war protest near President Bush's ranch, although he was to spend the weekend at Camp David. The anti-war demonstrators accused Bush, who has spent every Easter at his Crawford ranch since he was elected, of running from them and their message to bring the U.S. troops home from Iraq immediately. "We chased him away from his ranch," said Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004. "We protest all over the country without him being in attendance, so I don't think it takes...

...The therapy in question is Tysabri, and for many MS patients it appears to halt progression of the degenerative neurological disorder. But a year ago... corporate partners Biogen and Elan "voluntarily" withdrew their drug because of FDA pressure and litigation fear after two patients developed a rare brain infection. That infection might have been linked to Tysabri, since the drug works by suppressing parts of the immune system. But these patients also had other immuno-suppressive therapies, and in any case the MS patients were almost all willing to run the risk.... But shortly before the deadline, the FDA announced it...

President Bush calls the 1,600-acre ranch he owns outside Crawford with his wife, Laura, “our little slice of heaven,” but some experts question whether anti-war demonstrators are making the Western White House a less attractive getaway. “That used to be his sanctuary, out in the middle of rural Texas where he could get his mind off his troubles,” said Bruce Buchanan, a professor of political science at the University of Texas who specializes in presidents. “And now his troubles are right down the street.” Although Bush is in Crawford this weekend with hardly any protesters around, the size and significance...

Protest Bush for not stopping the illegal alien invasion Saturday May 6 , 2006 The good citizens of the United States of America with the help of the patriotic media will be in Crawford Texas to lawfully and peacefully demonstrate against George W. Bush's lack of enforcement of immigration law. For calling the Minutemen and other border watchers "vigilantes", for not directing ICE to round up illegal aliens in our cities, for willfully failing to put our miltary on the border, For being a Mexican president and the best friend an illegal alien can have, for putting American citizens last....

President Bush spent the weekend in the warm winter sunshine at his Texas ranch, where he rode his bike, entertained friends and cleared his head. It had been a long week: the State of the Union address on Tuesday, then trips to pitch his "American competitiveness initiative" in Tennessee, Minnesota, New Mexico and Texas from Wednesday to Friday. Most of what Mr. Bush said was the CliffsNotes version of the State of the Union speech for local television markets. But he also wandered into an aside about why math and science students should not think of themselves as the "nerd...

CRAWFORD, Tex., Dec. 30 -- On most of the 365 days he has enjoyed at his secluded ranch here, President Bush's idea of paradise is to hop in his white Ford pickup truck in jeans and work boots, drive to a stand of cedars, and whack the trees to the ground.SNIPThis might strike many Washingtonians as a curious pastime. It does burn a lot of calories. But brush clearing is dusty, it is exhausting (the president goes at it in 100 degree-plus heat), and it is earsplitting, requiring earplugs to dull the chain saw's buzz.SNIPRonald Reagan chopped wood and rode...

George W. Bush is having a hard time enjoying his vacation this year. The war in Iraq, in the shape of mourning mother Cindy Sheehan, is camped at the end of his driveway. But despite the discomfort, hundreds of protestors have endured here in the sweltering heat, within view of the presidential ranch Why the effort? It's all because of Cindy Sheehan -- a mother whose son Casey died in the war in Iraq -- and her disgruntlement with the ongoing violence there. For weeks, she has been besieging the ranch near Crawford where George Bush has been spending his...

CRAWFORD, Texas - War protesters camping out near President Bush's ranch prepared Monday for a three-week bus tour to spread their anti-war message to people and lawmakers in 25 states. Three buses were to depart Wednesday from the makeshift camp started by Cindy Sheehan along the main road leading to Bush's ranch, protesters said. Sheehan arrived Aug. 6, soon after his Texas vacation began, and vowed to stay until month's end unless he talked to her about the war that claimed her 24-year-old son Casey's life. Since then, several thousand people have visited "Camp Casey" for a few hours, days...

The President made a statement offering sympathy on the first anniversary of the earthquake off the island of Sumatra that caused the violent tsunami in Asia last year. The President and Mrs Bush have now departed from Camp David to spend the rest of the holiday in Crawford, Texas. Taking the dogs and cat with them. Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland wondered whether to be outraged or amused on Monday over leaked remarks by Britain's ambassador to Warsaw, ridiculing the Polish government's stance on the European Union budget. A tongue-in-cheek e-mail sent by Ambassador Charles Crawford to senior British officials was published by the Sunday Times, just days before Prime Minister Tony Blair faces a tough task of selling his budget compromise at an EU summit. In the e-mail, Crawford uses blunt language to mock EU critics of Blair's budget proposals, at one point calling his host country "rude and ungrateful" and making a passionate argument for...

12:52 P.M. EST MR. McCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everyone. I have one announcement to begin with. The administration, today, is releasing an updated economic forecast that shows the strong economic expansion in the United States is expected to continue, with healthy job creation and contained inflation. The new economic forecast, which will be used for the President's fiscal year 2007 budget, is similar to the consensus of professional, independent economic forecasters and our previous forecasts that we have released. Early indicators of activity suggest that the growth of real gross domestic product, or GDP, during the four quarters of 2005 will...

Protesters Shutter Crawford Campsite By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago Dozens of war protesters packed up their tents and left their campsite near President Bush's ranch after a weeklong demonstration, but they promised to return at Easter if U.S. troops are still in Iraq. About 200 people participated in the protest, which coincided with Bush's Thanksgiving holiday visit to his ranch and wound up Sunday. It was a continuation of the August demonstration led by activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq last year. Protesters credit the summer vigil, which they say attracted...

Cindy Sheehan's book signing...  (click here to see it reeeeeeeally large)  

Dozens of war protesters packed up their tents and left their campsite in a field near President Bush's ranch Sunday, vowing to return during Easter for a third vigil if U.S. troops are still in Iraq. The weeklong protest, which coincided with Bush's Thanksgiving holiday visit to his ranch, drew about 200 people. It was a continuation of the August demonstration led by California mother Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey died in Iraq last year during combat. Protesters credit the summer vigil, which they say attracted some 12,000 people over the 26 days, with shifting American sentiment about the war....