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Ukraine's Pursuit of Genocide Designation Upsets Russians Who Say Others Died, Too MOSCOW -- Relations between Russia and Ukraine, bedeviled by disputes over natural gas supplies and NATO expansion, have lately been roiled by one of the great tragedies of Soviet history: the famine of 1932-33, which left millions dead from starvation and related diseases. Ukraine is seeking international recognition of the famine, which Ukrainians call Holodomor -- or death by hunger -- as an act of genocide. When Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin forced peasants off their homesteads and into collective farms, special military units requisitioned grain and other food...

GOP lands top-tier recruit against Lautenberg Biotech executive John Crowley is expected to enter the New Jersey Senate race against Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg, according to a source familiar with his thinking. It would give Republicans a candidate with a compelling personal narrative who also has deep pockets to self-finance a campaign. His pending announcement, which could come as soon as this weekend, will set up a high-profile election year in the Garden State, where Lautenberg is already facing a primary challenge from Democratic Rep. Robert Andrews. But Crowley has the potential to capture as much of the media spotlight...

Guess What Client Number I Am? by Monica Crowley The following telephone conversation between Bill and Hillary Clinton is purely fictional (I think):(Ring!) HER: What? HIM: How’s my meal ticket back to the White House? HER: I could ask you the same question. HIM: I know it, baby. It’s good to be out there, campaigning again. House arrest was getting more boring than testifying before a grand jury. HER: I’ve let you out of the barn, but with the proviso that you don’t do anything to (expletive) this up. We’re on the cusp here. I can feel it. The Reverend...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record)'s visit to Iraq is a clear sign the newly empowered Democratic Congress is not going to abide by the notion that foreign policy is the sole province of the White House. While President Bush met with military leaders in the Oval Office Friday, she and anti-war Rep. Jack Murtha turned up in Baghdad. The timing of the trip, from the Bush administration's point of view, couldn't have been worse. It came just days after the president asked Congress in his State of the Union address to give his revised Iraq...

John Symonds, who died on October 21 aged 92, was the prolific author of imaginative, quirky fantasies, though he was better known as the literary executor and biographer of the voluptuary, occultist and megalomaniac Aleister Crowley (1875-1947).Symonds met Crowley a year before his death, at a Hastings boarding house where the self-styled “Beast 666” was eking out his squalid final months as a spent mage on a diet of gin and heroin. Crowley’s will, which he apparently concocted himself, vested the copyright of his works in Symonds and made him his literary executor.Symonds was initially fascinated by Crowley, but as...

Yesterday (09/05/2006) CNN's "Candy Crowley" of the "Situation Room" reported the following: "CROWLEY: Ah, yes. Begin with this. The latest numbers from CNN and Opinion Research Corporation. An unpopular president, an unpopular war and $3 a gallon gas is a trifecta." And again today (09/06/2006; transcript unavailabe as of yet) - the same Candy Crowley reported the following live on the "Situation Room" (paraphrased) "...the Rebublican voters are currently frightened by the skyrocketing gasoline prices...". Um,....HELLO????????

WASHINGTON – Crusty and unapologetic, Donald H. Rumsfeld is the public face of an unpopular war and a target of unrelenting criticism. A growing number of commanders who served under him say he has botched the Iraq operation, ignored the advice of his generals and should be replaced. The White House insists the defense secretary retains President Bush's confidence. Few close to the administration expect him to be shown the door. “The president believes Secretary Rumsfeld is doing a very fine job during a challenging period in our nation's history,” Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said Thursday as the administration circled...

WESTWOOD ONE LAUNCHES THE MONICA CROWLEY SHOW --New Program to Air Saturdays, Noon - 3 p.m. ET-- Beginning Saturday, April 1, 2006 New York, NY Monday, Mar 20, 2006 - Westwood One (NYSE: WON) is proud to announce the national launch of The Monica Crowley Show, the three-hour talk program hosted by author and news personality Monica Crowley. The show begins Saturday, April 1, 2006, and will air from noon to 3 p.m. ET. The Monica Crowley Show will debut on major market stations across the country including: WABC-AM New York, WTKK-FM Boston and WTNT-AM Washington DC. The show will...

Monica comments on Imus appearance in Boston yesterday and Romney will be on live. A giant announcement will be made. Hillary bash on now. Feingold for President? Dems gone wild.

MSNBC Disconnects "Connected" MSNBC's "Connected: Coast to Coast" died a quiet death on Friday. Monica Crowley and Ron Reagan co-hosted their last show at noon. "Thanks to all of you who have written to say kind things," senior producer Tony Maciulis blogged on MSNBC.com. "We've spent the last year bringing you quality programming -- the kind of political debate show that you don't really see anymore." Or, some would say, the kind of political debate show that we don't want to see anymore. Cliff Kincaid: "...The hosts permitted guests enough time to complete their sentences. It provided a serious forum...

emember John Kerry? It's been a busy week for the 2004 Democratic nominee. On Monday, Kerry delivered a long speech at Brown University blasting the Bush administration's inept response to the Katrina disaster and just about every other thing it's laid a finger on. Two days later, Kerry gave a floor speech in the Senate declaring his unsurprising opposition to the John Roberts nomination.Make no mistake: Kerry designed these to be attention-grabbers. His staff hyped both of them relentlessly. Four e-mails from Kerryland popped into my inbox before and after his Brown speech, which Kerry aides billed as a "major...

Scientology, The Clearwater Bar Association, and Judge Greer Judge George W. Greer presides over Florida's Sixth Judicial Circuit Court. He is known internationally for the Terri Schindler Schiavo guardianship case. Pat Anderson, former attorney for the Schindlers, characterized Judge Greer's unprecedented rulings as "The Rule of Terri's Case." The Clearwater Bar Association is delighted with Judge Greer's performance in this particular case. They presented the John U. Bird award to the Pinellas-Pasco Circuit judge on May 15, 2004. This prestigious award, which is the Clearwater bar's highest honor for a judge, was granted to Judge Greer for the way he...

MSNBC's (like anyone watches anyway) new show featuring Monica Crowley begins this Monday at the 12-1 hour and 5-6 hour. On the one hand, she is hot. On the other hand, Ron Reagan (not a junior) is her co-host. Why, why, oh why must they torture us? Haven't they seen his work? Still, I'm waiting for my dream FNC lineup to come into play. 7-8: Zell: Dueling the News 8-9: The Limbaugh Factor 9-10: Coulter & Demwit(Daily liberal Specimen of choice)

Monday Sept 20, 2004 WAR AND THE PRESIDENCY | GUEST COLUMN Kerry smeared a hero: my dad   By CAROL CROWLEY Published on: 09/20/04 Many of you believe dirty politics is the motivation of Vietnam veterans speaking out in opposition to John Kerry. Let me tell you the real motivation. In the movie "We Were Soldiers," the story about the battle of the la Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965, a young sergeant, Jack Gell, cried as he died, "Tell my wife I love her . . ." and my family relived the death of my dad. He told...

How else to describe his comments on Fox News Live only moments ago? This is not an exact quote but here is the gist of what he said from memory: "Why are we having all these terror alerts? I think people are getting tired of them. I wish we could go back to the way it was before when we were thwarting terrorists and nobody ever knew anything. I would rather our intelligence community just thwart the terrorists, if they can, without telling us anything about it." Huh? One is left wondering how in the world Mr. Crowley ever came...

<p>Candidates Chris John, David Vitter present differences.</p> <p>John Hill Posted on December 22, 2003 BATON ROUGE - So far, the U.S. Senate race of 2004 could be shaping up to reflect this past fall's gubernatorial runoff campaign.</p> <p>The two candidates who are definitely in the battle are a conservative Democrat and an ultra-conservative Republican.</p>

<p>President Nixon didn't think much of fellow Californian and Republican icon Ronald Reagan, calling him "strange" and not "pleasant to be around," newly released White House tapes show.</p> <p>Talking politics with White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman at Camp David in August 1972, Nixon switched the conversation to two Republican governors, Reagan of California and Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Both men unsuccessfully sought the 1968 Republican presidential nomination that Nixon received.</p>

"Sexually Inclusive Christians" Celebrate Victories, Push for More Mark Tooley August 22, 2003 When arguing for church acceptance of homosexuality, most advocates talk about monogamy. But others are bolder. “I am a strong ally of those in healthy, polyamorous relationships,” declared Debra Kolodny. She argued that having multiple sexual partners can be “holy.” Kolodyn was leading a workshop at the WOW (Witness Our Welcome) 2003 convention, an ecumenical gathering for “sexually and gender inclusive Christians.” Hundreds of homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual people gathered under the “queer” banner in Philadelphia August 14-17 to urge religious acceptance of non-traditional sexual behaviors. According...

LOL, Richard Bey gets the axe. Michael Savage gets moved up to 7-9pm. Monica Crowley gets new 6-7 daily show. Malzberg gets 1Am to 5am slot.

March 6, 2003 Agent Who Saw 9/11 Lapses Still Faults F.B.I. on Terror By PHILIP SHENON WASHINGTON, March 5 — The veteran F.B.I. agent who exposed the bureau's failure to heed evidence of terrorist plots before the Sept. 11 attacks is now warning her superiors that the bureau is not prepared to deal with new terrorist strikes that she and many colleagues fear would result from an American war with Iraq. The agent, Coleen Rowley of the bureau's Minneapolis field office, is not a counterterrorism specialist and does not have access to detailed intelligence about Al Qaeda and its planning....

<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An FBI whistle-blower alleges that FBI headquarters rewrote Minneapolis agents' pre-Sept. 11 request for surveillance and search warrants for terrorism defendant Zacarias Moussaoui and removed important information before rejecting them, government officials said Friday.</p> <p>Agent Coleen Rowley wrote that the Minneapolis agents became so frustrated that they began to joke that FBI headquarters was becoming an "unwitting accomplice" to Osama bin Laden's efforts to attack the United States, the officials said.</p>

<p>To those who know her, Coleen Rowley is a dedicated and diligent foot soldier for the FBI. She knows the rules, follows them, and even enforces them as the chief legal counsel and agent in charge of ethical practices for the Minneapolis office.</p>