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Video here. Classic line when she refers to the flag pin, an "accessory" Obama dislikes. Anyone who has pictures of Sarah Palin, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Laura Ingraham, and other both principled and attractive conservative women, please post them all here. Who can post the most? Let the contest begin.

Some months ago, while she was on tour, promoting her book, Saving Graces, I met and interviewed Elizabeth Edwards at a signing in New York City (see the interview below). At the time, John Edwards had not yet announced his 2008 presidential candidacy but the intention was in the air. As his wife spoke, her husband of 30 years watched her with pride and affection. They exchanged knowing looks and smiles. They conversed in the way of long time friends and lovers. Yesterday, with her husband by her side, looking at her with pride and palpable affection, Elizabeth Edwards...

Austria cellar probe 'oppressive' Mr Fritzl refuses to explain his actions Forensic work in the dungeon where an Austrian man allegedly held his daughter for 24 years is "oppressive", police chief Franz Polzer has said. Officers wearing special masks can only work one hour at a time because of the lack of oxygen in the windowless cellar, he told AP news agency. Police say Josef Fritzl, 73, imprisoned and raped his daughter Elisabeth in the cellar in Amstetten in Lower Austria. They say she bore his seven children - three of whom never saw daylight. Mr Fritzl, who is in...

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) Directed by Shekhar Kapur. Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Abbie Cornish, Samantha Morton, Jordi Mollà.From a National Catholic Register review By Steven D. Greydanus A lurid sort of Christopher Hitchens vision of history pervades Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Shekhar Kapur’s sequel to his 1998 art-house hit Elizabeth. The earlier film, which made a star of Cate Blanchett as the eponymous Virgin Queen, celebrated the triumph of bright, happy Elizabethan Protestantism over the dark, unwholesome Catholic world of Bloody Mary. Even so, that film’s church-bashing was tame compared that of this sequel, in which...

LONDON: The British monarch is trying her best to ban the controversial BBC film produced by a trailer which wrongly showed her storming out of a photoshoot, a leading daily reported here on Sunday. Buckingham Palace and the BBC are at loggerheads over the Corporation's refusal to scrap the documentary film, the Daily Mail reported, quoting well-placed sources without revealing their names. Though BBC has assured the queen that it would ensure the final edit of the programme, A Year With The Queen, so that viewers were not misled, the Palace's still not convinced and sticking to its demand to...

July 17, 2007 | Elizabeth Edwards is not wasting time. She cut through the fog of sympathy and second-guessing about her decision to continue campaigning for her husband, John Edwards, despite learning in March she had incurable breast cancer, simply by hitting the campaign trail hard. By most accounts she has always been the campaign's leading strategist and still is. But lately she has emerged as its leading risk taker, too. At the end of June she won the nation's attention -- and the gratitude of many -- for confronting right-wing provocateur Ann Coulter live on MSNBC's "Hardball," after Coulter...

For those of you attacking Ann Coulter for bringing up John Edwards' son's death, some perspective: From Front Page News Edwards' public success spotlights son's death************ Used it again at the end of 2003 in his own piece, Four TrialsScroll down to the bottom. *********** Running for his son: Teen's death changed Edwards' life Here is the Edwards press machine making it an issue in 2004, acting as if they are finally opening up about it...but they were on record as talking about it in 2001.... ********** Here again, in 2005, Edwards pretends he's finally opening up about his son's...

Elizabeth Edwards has linked the outpouring of sympathy for her battle against cancer with the campaign for the presidency being waged by her husband, John. Yesterday she proudly compared efforts to galvanise grassroots activists to the support that she had received from thousands of ordinary Americans since announcing last week that her cancer had come back. In what was billed as a nonpolitical speech to the Cleveland City Club in Ohio, Mrs Edwards ... said that it would be “entirely legitimate” for Americans to judge that he is putting ambition ahead of family by running for president even though his...

A defiant John Edwards vowed to stay in the 2008 race Thursday despite his wife's cancer relapse, saying he would continue his push in critical primary states like Iowa and Nevada... The announcement that Elizabeth Edwards' breast cancer has spread to bone in her right side stunned admirers ... It also sent shock waves through the 2008 Democratic race, as campaigns pondered the possible exit of Edwards, who now ranks third ... in many national opinion polls. Standing by his wife's side in Chapel Hill, N.C., John Edwards dismissed reports that he was planning to suspend his candidacy. "The campaign...

NEW YORK, Dec 05, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- The discovery of a skeleton in a remote corner of Laos may mark the beginning of the end of a fabled chapter of the Cold War, when an American soldier of fortune known as "Earthquake McGoon" became a household name for his daring exploits in China and Southeast Asia. The recent finding by a U.S. task force has raised hopes for identifying James B. McGovern, or possibly his co-pilot, Wallace A. Buford, who were shot down in 1954 in the last days of the French Indochina war. "That's incredible...

According to the Antiochene Syriac Maronite Catholic Church SYNAXARIONThe third Sunday of the Season of Announcement commemorates another important event in the unfolding of the promises of God. Mary went to visit her cousin, Elizabeth. After receiving such tremendous good news, Mary could have secluded herself in a life of prayer and contemplation. However, after the angel of the Lord had communicated the news of Elizabeth’s conception to her, Mary perceived it as the Lord’s will that she go to be with Elizabeth, and thus chose to share the divine life within her with another. Mary shared Jesus with others...

The Charity of St. Elizabeth of Hungary by Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922)(taken from St. Elizabeth of Hungary) An account on the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary by Conrad of Marburg (her spiritual director) (from Patron Saints Index) Elizabeth was a lifelong friend of the poor and gave herself entirely to relieving the hungry. She ordered that one of her castle should be converted into a hospital in which she gathered many of the weak and feeble. She generously gave alms to all who were in need, not only in that place but in all the territories of her...

For today was a prime queen-spotting occasion - her 80th birthday. Crowds had gathered from early morning for a glimpse of her, many with bouquets and birthday cards. They were being watched not only by camera crews and photographers but also police marksmen stationed high on the castle's turrets, binoculars trained on the expectant people. Many of the well-wishers had found elevated perches - window ledges, bus stops, bollards - from which to see the monarch. As the crowd grew, a Beefeater band marched down the High Street and school children excitedly waved their union jacks. For Lucy Gyngell, aged...

Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina is emerging as one of the upper chamber's most conservative members. The latest evidence: His three recent votes -- all to the right of fellow Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole -- on issues such as Iraq and spending. In each case, Burr of Winston-Salem joined a small band of the Senate's more conservative members, while Dole of Salisbury voted with the majority -- including the chamber's GOP leaders. Consider: • Last Tuesday, the Senate voted 79-19 to require that President Bush identify a strategy for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. Burr voted no. Dole voted...

An American high school teacher who screened the Oscar-winning film Elizabeth for his students lost his job following complaints from parents. Ed Youngblood, 62, had taught at South Gwinnett High School in Atlanta, Georgia, for 37 years before screening the film to his advanced British literature class earlier this month. He says that he was given the choice of quitting or being fired after being informed that an official investigation was under way.

The screening of an Oscar-nominated movie about the life of Queen Elizabeth I to students in an advanced class on British literature has resulted in the forced resignation of an admired teacher in the Atlanta suburb of South Gwinnett. On Tuesday, students in Ed Youngblood's class mounted a protest. "If 'First comes learning' is true, why do you get rid of the guy who holds that motto the best?" one senior in the class told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A spokeswoman for the Gwinnett County Public Schools told reporters that Youngblood chose to resign after he was told that an investigation...

Al-Qaida has named Queen Elizabeth II "one of the severest enemies of Islam," the Sunday Times newspaper reported, citing a video message allegedly obtained by Britain's security service. Government officials were not immediately available Saturday night to confirm the report. A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman refused comment, saying it was a matter for the police.

AL-QAEDA has threatened the Queen by naming her as “one of the severest enemies of Islam” in a video message to justify the July bombings in London. The warning has been passed by MI5 to the Queen’s protection team after it obtained the unexpurgated version of a video issued by Al-Qaeda after the 7/7 attacks. Parts of it were broadcast on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic satellite channel. In the video, Ayman al- Zawahiri, second-in-command to Osama Bin Laden, targets the Queen as ultimately responsible for Britain’s “crusader laws” and denounces her as an enemy of Muslims. A senior Whitehall official said:...

FALLUJAH, Iraq (Sept. 21, 2005) -- Seven months ago, the city’s crumbling buildings and nearly empty streets greeted the Marines of 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. Major combat operations had ceased in Fallujah, but the ruins and desolation all around spoke of a conflict not long past. It was up to Marines like Elizabeth City, N.C. native, Cpl. Mychal McVicker, and his team to help restore order and stability to the war-torn city’s people. A task they eagerly set out to tackle. McVicker, who had served a combat tour in Afghanistan in 2004, was once again overseas to fight terrorism....

<p>WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities arrested 582 alleged gang members, including 22 in South Jersey, over a two-week period, targeting an estimated 80 violent groups they say have spawned street crimes across the country, officials said yesterday.</p> <p>Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff called the gangs "a threat to our homeland security and ... a very urgent law enforcement priority."</p>