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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US anti-war group vowed to surround the White House in a sea of demonstrators during coordinated protests scheduled to take place in Washington, as well as Los Angeles and San Francisco on September 24. The ANSWER Coalition expects more than 100,000 people, from families of US soldiers to trade unions and diverse religious groups, to take part in the demonstrations against the war in Iraq.

Accuracy in Media (AIM) has learned that John Bolton's new accuser, Lynne D. Finney, who claims that he yelled at her more than 20 years ago, is a controversial speaker on the subject of "recovered memories" and charges $90 an hour for "conversations" on how to find "inner peace." "One wonders if Ms. Finney 'recovered' her memories of Bolton through hypnosis or New Age spiritual techniques," declared Cliff Kincaid, editor of AIM. Described in anti-Bolton press accounts as just a "motivational speaker," Finney is an activist who proclaims on her website that "We are becoming One" and that, "Like popcorn,...

Dear Friend: A day of decision is upon us. Whether it was the legalization of abortion, the banning of school prayer, the expulsion of the 10 Commandments from public spaces, or the starvation of Terri Schiavo, decisions by the courts have not only changed our nation's course, but even led to the taking of human lives. As the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left has been repudiated in almost every recent election, the courts have become the last great bastion for liberalism. For years activist courts, aided by liberal interest groups like the ACLU, have been quietly working under the...

Panel to Review U.S. Tax Code By Warren Vieth, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — A presidential commission today launched what it promised would be a top-to-bottom review of the U.S. tax code, but acknowledged that it might make more sense to modify the income tax than to try to replace it. Members of the president's advisory panel on federal tax reform said all options were on the table, including proposals to replace personal and corporate income taxes with variations on a national sales tax. "The president is committed to major tax reform, to real tax reform, to something more than...

WASHINGTON — President Bush's tax reform panel listened Wednesday to the pros and cons of taxing money earned or money spent, leading one member to say that a hybrid should be considered. "It has merit," said John Breaux, a former senator from Louisiana and the panel's Democratic vice chairman.

In the hands of a world-class rhetorician — Lincoln, FDR, Reagan — George Bush's soaring Second Inaugural would be vividly understood as the world-class dissertation that it was. Subsequent readings (for the speech reads far better than his delivery of it) verify that rarely has a President — has anyone — expatiated with profounder eloquence on the ennobling cause of liberty. The President termed liberty "the honorable achievement of our Fathers" and now "the calling of our time." He postulated that "no one is fit to be a master, and no one deserves to be a slave." And so: It...

Newspaper investigation digs up evidence of schools cheating on standardized tests Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A newspaper investigation has found evidence that a Houston elementary school celebrated for its high test scores obtained at least some of its success from cheating. "You're expected to cheat there," said Donna Garner, a former teacher at Wesley Elementary who said her fellow teachers instructed her on how to give students answers while administering tests. "There's no way those scores are real." The Dallas Morning News investigation also found evidence of cheating at two other schools affiliated with Wesley. Wesley, which has been...

TIME MAGAZINE MAN OF THE YEAR GEORGE W. BUSH NEW YORK - After winning re-election and "reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style," President George Bush (news - web sites) for the second time was chosen as Time magazine's Person of the Year. The magazine's editors tapped Bush "for sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality to match his design, for gambling his fortunes — and ours — on his faith in the power of leadership." Time's 2004 Person of the Year package, on newsstands Monday, includes an Oval Office interview with...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of a divided federal civil-rights watchdog agency accused President Bush of deepening racial divisions, in a parting shot after years of sparring with his administration.Mary Frances Berry, chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Vice Chairperson Cruz Reynoso delivered a 166-page report to the White House harshly criticizing the administration for setting back race relations and failing to promote civil rights in any meaningful way. But the report is not an official document, because four of the eight commissioners, all of them Republican appointees, voted against adopting it and rejected the charges as politically...

34 minutes ago Op/Ed - Ann Coulter On Fox News' "Special Report," Brit Hume raised the nut conspiracy theories circulating on the Web about Republicans stealing the presidential election. The liberals on the panel responded by quickly pointing out that no national Democrats -- not even Terry McAuliffe! -- had suggested that there had been any systematic vote theft. Hume admitted the rumors of vote fraud were limited to nutcases on the Web. Like most Americans, apparently no one at Fox is watching MSNBC! In a major report on "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" last Monday, Olbermann revealed that Bush's win...

Hoaxes Propped Up CBS's Fraudulent Memos (Part III) Dan Rather's CBS' 60 Minutes Hit Piece on President Bush's ANG Record based on Left-Wing Media Hoaxes. By Col. John H. Wambough, Jr. USAF (Ret.) October 31, 2004 380 Tons of RDX and HMX Missing Hoax Sugarcoated Officer Efficiency Report Hoax Left-Wing Media (LWM) treachery, deception and distortion laid a solid foundation for Dan Rather's CBS' 60 Minute fabricated story and fraudulent memos. Thousands of communications misled the American people about George W. Bush's (GWB's) service in the Air National Guard (ANG). LWM fraudulently orchestrated so many hoaxes on President Bush's Air...

Less than two weeks before Election Day, Kerry held a statistically insignificant 1 percentage-point lead in three of the key battleground states carried by Democrat Al Gore in 2000, was tied in a fourth, and trailed President Bush in three others. All were within the poll's margin of error

Tennessee Democrats Compare Republicans To Special Olympics ChildrenBad picture political garbageOctober 12, 2004 – Democrats in a race for a state House seat in District 82, are circulating a flyer that shows a child with disabilities with President Bush’s face running in a track race. The headline says: “Voting for Bush Is Like Running In The Special Olympics: Even If You Win, You’re Still Retarded.”The flyer is being distributed by Democrat Craig Fitzhugh. His opponent, Dave Dahl has issued a call to Fitzhugh to stop distributing the flyer. According to Dahl, “Hard-ball politics is one thing and everyone expects tough...

http://jb-williams.com/10-5-04.htm How to support Kerry for President Written by JB Williams ©2004-10-05 In order to cast a vote for John Kerry, you first have to believe he is fit to be Commander-in-Chief. Now some don’t believe he is, namely 95% of all the decorated vets who served beside him in Vietnam, more than 70% of all living retired military personnel, and more than 80% of those serving in combat today. But what do they know? Besides, as the Democratic Party points out at every opportunity, what Right do these people (who spill their blood for our freedom) have to speak...

October 3, 2004FRANK RICHNow on DVD: The Passion of the Bush ou can run but you can't hide: Oct. 5 will bring the perfect storm in this year's culture wars. It's on that strategically chosen date, four Tuesdays before the election, that the DVD of "Fahrenheit 9/11" will be released along with not one but two new Michael Moore books. It's also the release date of the equally self-effacing Ann Coulter's latest rant, of a new DVD documentary, "Horns and Halos," that revisits the Bush mystery year of 1972, and of an R.E.M. album, "Around the Sun," that gets...

O'Reilly airing 1st of 3 part Bush interview

http://www.crushkerry.com/article-282--0-0.html Debate Tips from Crushkerry.com In the past week, both John Kerry and his octogenarian ideological grandpappy Jimmy Carter have hyped the coming presidential debates. This will be John Kerry’s time to shine, the thinking goes. Put this statuesque intellectualoid on stage with that babbling cowboy and we’re right back in this thing! Um, yes … we’ve heard that story before. Nonetheless it is true George W. Bush is not the best public speaker to hold the high office of President off the United States. (Though he is far more articulate than he is generally given credit for being.) And...

Targeted, Truthful Ads Gutting Kerry Campaign Written by Chris Long Monday, September 27, 2004 George W. Bush spent the first months of the political campaigning season like a boxer in a huddle, covering up and weathering a barrage of blows from the upstart. The Kerry/DNC ads were a scattershot affair, alleging anything and everything, flitting from accusation to spectacular accusation, not unlike the flip-flopping candidate. Indeed, the Bush campaign seemed to obeying the military axiom of ‘concentration of forces’: gather your troops for decisive blows in the face of a scattered, approaching enemy. The hundreds of millions of dollars expended...

How Biased is CBS and the Mainstream Press? Written by JB Williams ©2004-09-23 CBS has committed five years of effort and resources by senior producer (Mary Mapes) and her staff, to digging through 30 year old service records of George W. Bush in search of any evidence that would help them remove him from the oval office. When CBS failed to unearth any damning evidence concerning Bush’s Guard service after five years of in depth research, they became party to disseminating forged evidence needed to pursue their agenda. CBS claims that it was a BIG story worthy of pursuit, having...

FDR had it and so did Clinton. JFK’s caused us to land on the moon and Reagan’s led to a crushing victory in the 1984 election. George H.W. Bush once had it, though nowhere near the level of Reagan, and Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, and Bob Dole never really had it. “It” is the ability to inspire. George W. Bush has it. John Kerry does not and that is why George W. Bush will win reelection, possibly handily, 46 days from now on November 2nd. Democrats are yearning for the days of eight years...

Bush Air National Guard Documents Could Be Intentional Hit On Kerry Despite Dan Rather’s insistence on conducting what amounts to his last stand (he’ll be “urged” by CBS to pack it in after yet another scandal), the alleged Air national Guard documents are beginning to look like sucker bait that Rather took hook, line and sinker. And that sucker bait came from the left, it appears. The problem with the documents is that many aspects of the “facts” are too easy to disprove and may have intentionally been planted to implode Kerry’s credibility and campaign. Consider the fact that the...

Better Safe Than Sorry! Hurricane Frances just might be a down-graded hurricane when it reaches Florida. A few days ago, then a category 4 storm with potential to devastate a state barely recovering from Hurricane Charley, Frances prompted Governor Jeb Bush to order the evacuation of millions of people from the southeastern coastal areas of his great state. There will no doubt be naysayers who second-guess Governor Bush's evacuation order if Frances continues to degrade and becomes a weak category 2 or a weaker Category 1 hurricane. (Although both are dangerous.) Those who understand risk assessment, however, will understand that...

Nichols takes critical look at Cheney in biography Associated Press Secret Service agents gave Dick Cheney a code name, "Backseat." In a four-decade career in politics, he has mostly kept a low profile, especially for someone who served as White House chief of staff, member of Congress, corporate CEO and now vice president. For long stretches, he has gone largely unseen, as during his small-town swings in the 2000 presidential campaign and his disappearance to a "secure, undisclosed location" after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Cheney's ability — and inclination — to fly below the news media radar has...

NEW YORK (AP) The union representing the city's 8,600 firefighters will endorse President Bush Wednesday night at a social club in Queens, bolstering the Bush campaign's efforts to focus the nation's attention on the president's leadership following the Sept. 11 attacks.Uniformed Firefighters Association president Steve Cassidy said he will announce the union's endorsement as he stands beside Bush at the Italian Charities of America hall in Elmhurst. Cassidy and Bush will share a meal of pizza and sodas with about 100 firefighters and watch Vice President Dick Cheney's address to the Republican National Convention, Cassidy said.``The reason we're supporting President...

NEW YORK - Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the fortified streets of Manhattan on Sunday to protest President Bush foreign and domestic policies as Republican delegates gathered to nominate the president for a second term. A day ahead of the start of the Republican National Convention, protesters gathered 20 blocks south of the convention site. "The majority of this country wants the Bush administration out of office," filmmaker and Bush critic Michael Moore told the crowd. Meanwhile, Bush suggested in an interview with Time magazine that he still would have gone into Iraq (news - web sites) but...

Warming to the state GOP's apparent U.S. Senate candidate, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Friday he would work to get Alan Keyes elected, even lobbying President Bush to make Illinois a campaign destination. "When I am here, I am going to do what I can," Hastert told the Daily Herald editorial board in St. Charles. "I think it is part of my responsibility to help Keyes. … I think it's an important thing to do in Illinois." The Plano Republican stopped short of saying he would personally launch a statewide blitz for Keyes, who is expected to accept the Senate...

Today President Bush spoke to the National Urban League Conference in Detroit Michigan. He detailed his administrations progress since becoming the President and asked for their vote. President Bush ask the group if the Democrats took the African American vote for granted and ask them to compare his record since becoming president to what the Democrats have done for them. The speech was well recieved and IMHO it was a homerun ENJOY YOUR VISIT TO SANITY ISLAND

No nationalists on Jack's 'shining hill' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 19, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc. "A struggle is underway for the soul of the Republican Party, between a minority of protectionist xenophobes and those who are pro-trade and pro-immigration." Thus does Jack Kemp begin a column in which he jettisons the black conservative running for Congress in North Carolina whom he earlier endorsed. Kemp accuses Vernon Robinson of "running a very negative and aggressive anti-immigration campaign ... contrary to the core values of the party of Lincoln." Jack is right about that struggle for the soul...

Waukesha - President Bush told more than 5,000 cheering supporters Wednesday in the heavily Republican suburbs of Milwaukee that his conservative values in building up the nation's defenses and instituting tax cuts are solutions to America's problems and that Democrat John Kerry should not be allowed to derail them. Bush said his approaches to national security and the economy are working so well that Kerry is trying to embrace conservatism. "He said he was the candidate of conservative values," Bush said of Kerry's comments on a recent trip to the Midwest. Defending his decision to invade Iraq, Bush said, "Although...

Bush has risen 4 points to 53% approval according to Gallup. Gallup is the only one with historical data on all recent Presidents. 53% approval is on par with Reagan and Clinton when they were re-elected at this same point in time before the election. This is good news indeed. I was eagerly waiting to see this latest Gallup number. Very good news. Hail to the King Baby.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac has crossed swords with Washington at a NATO summit that ended today, demonstrating that Franco-U.S. relations are at best still lukewarm after last year's bust-up over Iraq. The French leader denied any personal animosity against U.S. President George W. Bush, who he said had recently shown "much, much more openness...than at anytime in the past". But he missed no opportunity to needle the United States during the alliance's summit in Istanbul, souring a mood of rediscovered amity more than a year after bitter divisions over the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. Gustav...

Editor -- It's well that Bay Area progressives have a safe outlet for their impotent rage ("Moore film a hot ticket,'' June 26). Otherwise they may have to resort once more to stopping traffic and breaking things. I hope for their sakes that "Fahrenheit 9/11'' is released on video and DVD in a few months. After President Bush coasts to re-election in November, Moore fans will need to view the film frequently to keep their self-esteem at healthy levels.

President George W. Bush listens to French President Jacques Chirac during the opening working session of the NATO Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, June 28, 2004. Speaking to reporters later, Chirac criticized Bush for his strong support of Turkey's bid to enter the European Union (news - web sites). (Larry Downing/Reuters)

So Help Us God John LeBoutillier Tuesday, June 15, 2004 On Dec. 8, 1941 – the day after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor – President Franklin D. Roosevelt made his "Day of Infamy" speech to the Congress to declare war on Japan and Germany. The penultimate sentence of this historic speech was: "With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph – so help us God." Two weeks ago this nation celebrated the long-overdue opening in Washington of the World War II Memorial. Over 200,000 WWII vets journeyed...

Think back. In 1963 JFK was killed and L B Johnson was sworn as Prez to fill out the term. Then LBJ was elected for his first term, but refused to run for a second term. I f he had, and by some miracle been elected this would have given him nine years in office. Fast forward to today. The Dems say Bush stole the election, and was not elected The Dems say Bush is not an elected president. The Dems say Bush was apointed president by the Supreme Court. The Dems say Bush is just an intrem president filling...

SAVANNAH, Georgia During the Cuban missile crisis, a European diplomat at the Group of 8 summit meeting here recalled, an emissary of John F. Kennedy paid an urgent visit to Charles de Gaulle in Paris. He came planning an elaborate presentation of photos of Soviet missile emplacements aimed at the United States. The general, the diplomat said, told Kennedy's man to forget the slide show. He said it was unnecessary because France trusted America. Characterizing the summit meeting on Sea Island, which ended on Thursday, the diplomat said international trust in 2004 had different, less grand, less elegant parameters. But...

SPRINGFIELD -- The name "George W. Bush" or "Dick Cheney" may not appear at the top of Illinois' November 2 General Election ballot. As the Illinois General Assembly went home on Tuesday warned they could receive a 24 hour notice to return if a budget agreement was made, there was no agreement to modify the state's election law to allow President Bush and Vice-President Cheney on the fall ballot. “The Republicans will have to go to a federal judge and get a declaratory judgment to get Bush on the ballot,” Kris Kray, legislative liaison for the state's election board, said....

What is Madge good for? The only thing Madonna provokes with her latest tour is sadness at how lame she's become Aaron Wherry National Post Monday, May 31, 2004 Madonna and her cast of muscled dancers do Kabbalah-inspired moves at the Re-invention tour launch in Los Angeles. CREDIT: Nam Y. Huh, The Associated Press Those readers under the age of 18 may have to ask their parents about this, but, believe it or not, Madonna used to be quite shocking. Edgy even. Testing with each new album, video or tour the Western world's sexual, religious and political boundaries. Hers was...

Hu,Bush hold phone talks (Xinhua) Updated: 2004-05-30 08:39Chinese President Hu Jintao and US President George W. Bush had a telephone conversation Saturday evening on Iraq and Taiwan issues, said the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Bush briefed Hu on the draft resolution on the Iraq issue the United States submitted to the United Nations Security Council recently, and hoped the US side would continue cooperation with China on this issue. Bush said he understood China's concern over the Taiwan issue, and strongly reiterated that the United States would adhere to the one-China policy, abide by the three Sino-US joint communiques and oppose...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush heard appeals from Russia and Denmark on Friday to allow full sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government and the White House said Bush was open to changes in the draft of a U.N. resolution on Iraq. European governments want strict guidelines on the status of U.S. forces in Iraq in the text of a U.N. resolution that is to endorse the new Iraqi government due to take power from the U.S.-led coalition on June 30. The concern of many is that U.S. forces would be operating outside the control of the Iraqi interim government. Washington...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The head of Iraq's Governing Council said Wednesday that President Bush 's idea of demolishing the notorious Abu Ghraib prison was a waste of resources. "We must not be sentimental," Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer told reporters. "Torture has taken place in every vault in Iraq. As the Governing Council, we do not agree with demolishing it and the matter will be left for the transitional government" which takes office Jan. 30. He called the idea of destroying the prison "a waste of resources." Bush told an audience Monday night at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.,...

Revive the Conservative Revolution by Stephen Moore Posted May 21, 2004 This summer, the famous Contract With America that swept Republicans into power in Congress in January 1995 turns ten years old. The contract was a bold and sweeping agenda to change the way government works in Washington. It included 10 major provisions, including welfare reform, rules to force Congress to live under the same laws as the rest of us, term limits, tax cuts, and, most importantly, budget reduction. In the memorable words of Newt Gingrich, the Republican revolutionary who inspired and led the Contract With America Revolution, Republicans...

Republicans line up to finance top Democrat By Deborah McGregor Published: May 21 2004 5:00 | Last Updated: May 21 2004 5:00 In a campaign seasonwhen President George W. Bush has shattered records for campaign fundraising, John Thune has the dubious distinction of being the rarest of political creatures: a Republican Senate candidate strapped for cash. Hand-picked by the Bush White House, Mr Thune, a lanky former congressman, is running for the Senate in South Dakota, challenging Democrat Tom Daschle in one of the fiercest contests in this year's elections. The South Dakota race is much more than just another...

Former UN diplomat and Republican presidential contender Alan Keyes of Maryland is warning that "pressure from Democrats and RINOs is building on President Bush to nominate Sandra Day O'Connor as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and hand liberal special interests everything they want -- on a platter! In a letter to "Defenders of Justice," Keyes writes: "You've seen Ted Kennedy's filibusters against conservatives federal judges set the stage for a national disaster. "Because every contact I have tells me that President Bush's political "advisors" are pressing him to make "safe" Supreme Court appointments. That is, appointments the liberals will...

Rumsfeld wanted Iraqis in on the action — right from the beginning. The latest post-hoc conventional wisdom on Iraq is that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld won the war but lost the occupation. There are two problems with this analysis (which comes, most forcefully, from The Weekly Standard). First, it's not Rumsfeld's occupation; it's Colin Powell's and George Tenet's. Second, although it's painfully obvious that much is wrong with this occupation, it's simple-minded to assume that more troops will fix it. More troops may be needed now, but more of the same will not do the job. Something different is needed —...

Torrington man stages another run for House By Jessica Lowell rep5@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Al Hamburg, notorious in Wyoming for his bids to seek federal elected office, has filed papers with the Federal Election Commission signifying his intent to run for Wyoming's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. This year the Torrington man is running as a Democrat; he changed his party registration last week. He also has run as a Republican, an independent and as a member of the New Alliance Party, under whose banner he won his greatest success. "I made it...

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) reported $822,126 in adjusted gross income for last year, on which he paid $227,490 in federal income taxes — or about 28 percent, according to the president's federal returns released Tuesday by the White House. Bush and his wife, Laura, listed as income his presidential salary, interest and the investment income from trusts that hold their assets. The Bushes' income and tax bill was slightly lower than the previous year, when the First Couple reported $856,056 in adjusted gross income and paid $268,719 in federal income taxes. For 2002, the Bushes paid...

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Many Christians are rethinking their support of George Bush and, frankly, with good reason. I'm not talking about George Bush the Christian, but George Bush the politician. There is a lot of discussion about George Bush and whether or not he is a "real" Christian, as if that in some way had a bearing on whether or not they will vote for him. If one is going to base his vote on the best Christian for the job, who then gets it? Kerry? Nader? Just not vote at all? Throw it away on a fringe candidate? Nobody...

Kerry: Federal government should recognize state-sanctioned same-sex 'marriage' Mar 4, 2004 By Staff BOSTON (BP)--Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has told homosexual activists that the federal government should recognize same-sex “marriages” and civil unions that are legalized on the state level, The Washington Post reported March 4. His position means that the federal government would grant the same 1,000-plus benefits enjoyed by married couples nationwide to same-sex couples -- provided that those couples lives in a state that allows for same-sex “marriage” or civil unions. Kerry made the pledge at a homosexual fundraiser in San Francisco Feb. 27, the newspaper...

The Gonzaga College Republicans need your help - we need to organize a massive protest tomorrow morning (Tuesday, February 17,2003) for two major events. Please forward this message to ALL SUPPORTERS as soon as possible. We need to know if people will be able to attend, so please RSVP to paul@paulschafer.com or call 747-7737 for more information. Several Bush Cabinet officials will be meeting at SIRTI between 9:15 AM and 10:15 AM. We have received word that the Spokane Democrats are going to protest this event. We've also received word that Terry McAuliffe, the Chair of the DNC, will speak...