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Contact: Beverly Rykerd, 719-481-0537, Beverly@rykerd.comCAROL STREAM, Ill., Aug. 15 /Christian Newswire/ -- John McCain's campaign ad "The One" has generated a lot of buzz regarding the "Left Behind Series." Political commentators are comparing McCain's portrayal of competitor Barack Obama with the blockbuster apocalyptic series' depiction of the antichrist. But even the series authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins don't think Obama is the antichrist. What may have been created as a farce has generated a firestorm of controversy on the internet. LaHaye and Jenkins take a literal interpretation of prophecies found in the Book of Revelation. They believe the antichrist...

The two top Republican candidates from the spring election for the 6th U.S. Congressional District seat are considering another go at it this fall. Meanwhile, another potential GOP contender withdrew his name from consideration Tuesday. Former state Rep. Woody Jenkins and health industry consultant Laurinda Calongne, the two Republicans who made it to the second closed primary election for the 6th District seat in April, indicated Tuesday that they are strongly considering another run. Jenkins won the April runoff against Calongne. But Jenkins lost to Don Cazayoux, a Democratic state representative from New Roads, in the general election on May...

U. S. Representative, 6th Congressional District 508 of 512 precincts reporting Click here for Results by Parish 49,312 49.24% "Don" Cazayoux, D - 46,282 46.22% Louis "Woody" Jenkins, R - 443 .44% Peter J. Aranyosi, N - 3,705 3.70% Ashley Casey, N - 397 .40% Randall T. Hayes, O -

Polls have closed in Louisiana. The big interest is in the sixth congressional district, where Democrats think they can snatch an open seat.

Poll: Democrat Ahead In Louisiana Special Election A new SurveyUSA poll in Louisiana shows Democrats on track to win this Saturday's special election to fill the vacancy of former Rep. Richard Baker (R), who resigned in February to become a lobbyist. The poll shows conservative Democrat Don Cazayoux with 50% support, with 41% for GOP candidate Woody Jenkins, a longtime controversial fixture in Louisiana politics. This seat has not been held by a Democrat since the 1970s, and the district voted 59% for President Bush in 2004, so a Dem win here would be big news indeed.

Congressional race very close in 6th District Voting is Saturday in Baton Rouge area Tuesday, April 29, 2008By Jan Moller BATON ROUGE -- The February retirement of Republican Congressman Richard Baker has set off a spirited election to fill his Baton Rouge-area seat, with Democrat Donald Cazayoux and Republican Woody Jenkins squaring off in a race that has attracted loads of national attention and money. Heading into Saturday's general election, the 6th District race remains too close to call, and both parties are flooding area airwaves and mailboxes with advertising in an attempt to get their voters to the polls.

A conservative firebrand with a connection to a former Ku Klux Klan leader will run for a Louisiana seat in the House of Representatives, raising Democrats' hopes they can pick up what has been a reliably conservative district for more than three decades. After a weekend primary run-off, Democrats are hoping for victory in the Baton Rouge-based district of former Republican Rep. Richard Baker, who retired in February after holding the seat for 21 years. Conservative Woody Jenkins won Saturday's Republican run-off, 62% to 38%, against lobbyist Laurinda Calongne, while state Rep. Don Cazayoux won the Democratic run-off, 57% to...

--Advertisement-- --Advertisement-- Evolving wisdom and original reporting from the staff of the Hotline « WH 08: "Run, Tom, Run" | Main | The Big Number: 30 » September 08, 2006 House Race Hotline Update: Huff Over Huffman An unusual GOP primary is taking place 9/12 in AZ 08, where the NRCC is attacking front-runner Randy Graf while the DCCC is rooting for him. Graf has a loyal base of support because of his hard-line stance on immigration. But many GOPers fear he's unelectable in the general. Instead, they're spending over $100K to back state Rep. Steve Huffman, who fits...

National GOP has no business in local race Our view: Its support of Huffman in the primary is a mistake that has backfired Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.09.2006 The National Republican Congressional Committee should have stayed out of the GOP primary race in the 8th Congressional District. Its support of candidate Steve Huffman sends the wrong message that national party leaders know better than locals who would be the best candidate for Congress. The NRCC's move also has harmed local party unity and opened up Huffman to attacks within the Republican Party and from Democrats. If Huffman wins the...

WASHINGTON - An Arizona congressional race has sparked a rift between Rep. Tom Tancredo and the Colorado Republican Party. Tancredo, a Littleton Republican, is backing a fellow, hard-line opponent of illegal immigration, Randy Graf, in Tuesday's GOP primary in an open-seat race. Much of the national Republican establishment has lined up behind another candidate, Steve Huffman. This week, the Colorado Republican Committee sent Huffman a $5,000 contribution, Federal Election Commission records show. The Colorado contribution angers Tancredo, who has used his profile on immigration to boost state Republicans recently. "He's definitely not happy about it," spokesman Carlos Espinosa said Friday....

Poll: Giffords, Graf lead District 8 contenders By Daniel Scarpinato arizona daily star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.07.2006 A week out from the primary election, Democrat Gabrielle Giffords and Republican Randy Graf have comfortable leads over their 8th Congressional District rivals, according an Arizona Daily Star-sponsored poll of likely voters. The poll, conducted by Zimmerman & Associates and Marketing Intelligence, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points and polled 800 likely voters Sept. 1-4. Election Day is Tuesday. It also found Republicans are more likely to cross party lines than Democrats in the general...

Ads grow vitriolic in pivotal race Roughly a week after the National Republican Congressional Committee announced that it would be running more than $122,000 worth of ads supporting moderate Republican candidate Steve Huffman, who's locked in a competitive primary race in Arizona District 8, the Democratic Congressional Committee has also leapt into the advertising fray with an ad lambasting Huffman's eight-year record in the State Legislature. p>"When it came time to secure our borders, Steve Huffman was missing," says the Democratic ad, citing Huffman's absence during votes to fund border security technology and fix the immigration system. "If we can't...

A special one-hour edition of Arizona Illustrated's Friday Roundtable featuring 5 Republican candidates for Congress in District 8: * Frank Antenori * Randy Graf * Mike Hellon * Steve Huffman * Mike Jenkins. The candidates are questioned by Ann Brown of the Arizona Daily Star, Jim Nintzel of the Tucson Weekly and host Bill Buckmaster. High Speed Windows Media: mms://kuat.org/ai/pol/pol180806a.wmv Quicktime http://www.kuat.org/arizonaillustrated/segments/pol/pol100806a.mp4

Two GOP Congressmen announce today they are not seeking re-election. Google the news for details.

In his first U.S. television interview, the former U.S. Army sergeant who deserted to North Korea speaks for the first time about the abuse and control inflicted on him by the communist dictatorship over his nearly 40 years there. Charles Robert Jenkins tells Scott Pelley he Êhad a "U.S. Army" tattoo sliced off without anesthetic and was even told how often to have sex by his communist "leaders" in a 60 MINUTES interview to be broadcast Sunday, Oct. 23 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. In 1965, Jenkins was posted along the hostile border between North and South...

This is just too good. Years ago, the compassionate lib Bill Moyers was given an assignment to out a homosexual on the Goldwater staff after Walter Jenkins was outed. Hey, Bill, sing along with us. Bill and Walter. MIDI - NEVER FIND ANOTHER YOU From the White House they called...with words from LBJ They said, "Billy Moyers, get over here today There's a Walter Jenkins problem, so your assignment's clear In the Goldwater campaign, go find a queer" You can check out rest stops or fly off to San Fran 'Cause in their bath houses, you'll find them man on...

Only a few weeks before the 1964 election, a powerful presidential assistant, Walter Jenkins, was arrested in a men's room in Washington. Evidently, the president was concerned that Barry Goldwater would use that against him in the election. Another assistant, Bill Moyers, was tasked to direct Hoover to do an investigation of Goldwater's staff to find similar evidence of homosexual activity. Mr. Moyers' memo to the FBI was in one of the files. When the press reported this, I received a call in my office from Mr. Moyers. Several of my assistants were with me. He was outraged; he claimed...

Camp Zama, Japan 11 Sep 2004, 12:07 UTC An alleged U.S. Army deserter, who spent almost 40 years in communist North Korea, voluntarily surrendered on Saturday at an American base in Japan. With a long snappy salute, alleged deserter Sgt. Charles Jenkins entered this U.S. Army camp, telling an officer, Lt. Col. Paul Nigara that he was reporting for duty. Sgt. Jenkins, accompanied by his family, arrived at Camp Zama military base two hours after he was discharged from a Tokyo hospital, where he had been a patient since July. The 64-year-old quickly traded his suit and tie for an...

Rich Square, N.C. -- Despite its pacifist Quaker beginnings, this soybean farming community is not shy about celebrating its military history. Bracketing the two-stoplight town are iron plaques honoring the Army colonel who guided the first automated aircraft landing and the general who led Marines in the first Gulf War. There was a time when some could have imagined a similar honor for Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins, who as a freckle-faced, jug-eared boy stitched soldier patches from Kellogg's Cornflakes boxes onto his clothes, prowled the woods with his BB gun for "commies" and lied about his age to join the...

Scouted L.I. for camp - feds The son of a former Malcolm X aide was nabbed yesterday, along with a Florida doctor, in a plot to start an Al Qaeda training camp in the U.S. - even scouting out a Long Island warehouse for a terror school, officials said last night. Tarik Shah, 38, a self-proclaimed martial arts expert from the Bronx, and Dr. Rafiq Sabir, 50, presented themselves as a "package deal" to help Muslim "brothers" wage jihad here and in the Middle East, said Manhattan U.S. Attorney David Kelley. Kelley said Shah - son of Lieutenant X, one...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan - Free for the first time in nearly four decades, U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins sobbed with joy as he was released from a military jail on Saturday after serving 25 days for abandoning his squadron and crossing the border into North Korea (news - web sites) in 1965. The frail 64-year-old, still in uniform and carrying a heavy duffel bag, broke down in tears after arriving at this U.S. Army base, where he was flown by Blackhawk helicopter after completing his sentence at a nearby naval prison. When asked how he felt, he told The Associated...

Interview with Troy Jenkins I recently had the pleasure to discuss the newly found Vietnam document with Chief Petty Officer troy Jenkins.....

Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins is about to get his day in court. Jenkins, accused of abandoning his South Korea post in 1965 and defecting to communist North Korea, will face a general court-martial at Camp Zama, Japan, beginning Nov. 3, said Maj. John Amberg, a U.S. Army Japan spokesman. Jenkins, 64, has been charged with desertion, aiding the enemy, soliciting other servicemembers to desert and encouraging disloyalty. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the maximum penalty if convicted of desertion during wartime is death. Sentences in times of peace range from life in prison at hard labor to a...

ZAMA, Sept. 11, Kyodo - (EDS: RECASTING 3RD, 4TH GRAFS) Accused U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins turned himself over Saturday to the U.S. military at a U.S. base near Tokyo to face charges filed in 1965, a big step toward resolving the U.S.-Japan diplomatic issue of what to do with the husband of a Japanese abductee repatriated from North Korea in 2002. Jenkins, 64, is expected to soon begin legal procedures to avoid imprisonment by seeking a plea bargain for a dishonorable discharge. He is likely to provide the U.S. military with information such as the whereabouts of U.S....

Wednesday, September 1, 2004 at 19:51 JST TOKYO — In his first interview since taking flight from the North Korean regime in July, accused U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins, the husband of former Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga, told the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER.com) in its Sept 9 issue that he endured repeated beatings at the hands of another alleged American defector and was pressured by North Korean authorities to reject a personal invitation by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to leave the country with him. Jenkins also said in a statement released Wednesday that he will "very shortly" voluntarily report...

TOKYO — Alleged U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins, now in Tokyo, has told Japanese officials that two of a number of former U.S. soldiers in North Korea have already died, Japanese government sources said Wednesday.

(Sgt. Charles Robert) Jenkins Ready for Court-Martial Yomiuri Shimbun Charles Jenkins, the husband of former abductee Hitomi Soga, has confided to his nephew that he is prepared to be court-martialed, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Jenkins, who is accused of deserting the U.S. Army while stationed in South Korea in 1965, made the comment in a handwritten note delivered to James Hyman before he returned to his North Carolina home last Sunday. Hyman claimed in a press conference Friday in Tokyo that the Japanese government had prevented him from seeing his uncle. In the letter, Jenkins, whose full name...

TOKYO -- Tokyo hopes to reach a solution with Washington soon in the case of former U.S. soldier Charles Jenkins, Japan's foreign minister said Sunday, amid reports a plea-bargain was in the works. Jenkins, who is undergoing tests at a Tokyo hospital, is wanted by the Army for allegedly abandoning his South Korean post in 1965 and defecting to North Korea. Legally the United States can take custody of Jenkins in Japan, but Washington has refrained from doing so, citing concerns about his health. "Between the United States and Japan, there is no problem which cannot be resolved through dialogue,"...

July 22, 2004 Many Servicemembers Feel Alleged Deserter Jenkins Should Be Charged By Joseph Giordono, Stars and Stripes SEOUL — Though the subject of a media frenzy in Japan and South Korea, the plight of a former U.S. Army soldier labeled a deserter after spending the past 40 years in North Korea stirs little passion or sympathy among servicemembers in the Pacific. Charles Jenkins, 64, disappeared during a patrol near the Demilitarized Zone in 1965; the U.S. military says he deserted his post. Family members in the United States say he was kidnapped and brainwashed to stay in North Korea...

Notes Left by (U.S.) Soldier at Heart of Korea Desertion Case The U.S. says ex-Sgt. Charles Jenkins left incriminating notes when he disappeared into North Korea in 1965. BY ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Army's desertion case against Charles Jenkins seems to hinge on four notes he left behind that cold morning on Jan. 5, 1965, when he disappeared while on patrol in a wooded no man's land. ''I am going to North Korea,'' he wrote in one of the notes, this one to his mother. The Army says Jenkins deserted inside the Demilitarized Zone separating North...

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan announced Friday it will bring an alleged U.S. Army deserter to Japan for medical treatment this weekend even though he could face extradition on desertion charges. Charles Jenkins, accused of defecting to North Korea in 1965, will be hospitalized in Tokyo on Sunday after he arrives with his Japanese wife and their two daughters, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said at a news conference. Bringing Jenkins to Japan is a top political priority for Tokyo. His wife, Hitomi Soga, was kidnapped and taken to the North by communist agents in 1978. She wasn't allowed to...

The United States has notified Japan that a US Army sergeant who allegedly defected to North Korea nearly 40 years ago was still wanted on charges of desertion, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. Charles Robert Jenkins, 64, who left North Korea last week for a reunion with his Japanese wife in Indonesia has expressed a desire to move to Japan, a Japanese foreign ministry official said. "We have notified the government of Japan that Sergeant Jenkins has been charged with desertion," said Lieutenant Commander Flex Plexico. "We consider the charges serious, and the best course of action is to...

[North Korean agent apparantly riled up, over the weekend, at the attention he has generated from Japanese reporters in Jakarta] Charles Robert Jenkins, a US Army sergeant, defected to North Korea in 1965, near his post along the DMZ. He is considered a deserter by the US government.After nearly 40 years in North Korea however, he and his two children were allowed by risk-taker and dictator Kim Jong-il to go to non-extradition treaty Indonesia on Friday, to meet his separated Japanese wife, who was kidnapped by North Korean agents years ago, and was able to get out of North...

Friday, July 9, 2004 at 21:20 JST JAKARTA — Repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga was reunited with her American husband Charles Jenkins and their two North Korean-born daughters Friday evening for the first time in 21 months, after Jenkins and the daughters arrived in Jakarta from Pyongyang on a Japanese government-chartered plane. Their long-awaited reunion took place amid lingering concerns over whether the family can live permanently together in Japan, as wished for by Soga, because Jenkins, listed as a U.S. Army deserter, has refused to go to Japan reportedly due to fear of being extradited to the United States....

TOKYO, July 9, Kyodo - Charles Jenkins, the American husband of repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga, and their two daughters left Pyongyang for Jakarta on a Japanese government-chartered plane Friday morning for a family reunion in the Indonesian capital later in the day. Soga, who flew to Jakarta on Thursday, will await the arrival in the evening of her husband and daughters. It will be the first time the family has been together since Soga, 45, returned to Japan in October 2002, leaving Jenkins, 64, and their two daughters, Mika, 21, and Belinda, 18, behind in North Korea.

North Korea's mystery guest By Sarah Buckley BBC News Online The last person you might expect to find in North Korea is an American soldier, especially one who has chosen to stay there voluntarily. But Charles Robert Jenkins has been in the isolated North since 1965. When offered a ticket to Tokyo by visiting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi last month, he refused. No-one knows for sure how Mr Jenkins arrived in North Korea He desperately wants to be reunited with his Japanese wife, who returned to her homeland in 2002 after Pyongyang admitted kidnapping her and several others in...

N.Korea to Let Japan Abductee Relatives Leave By George Nishiyama PYONGYANG (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has agreed to let all eight relatives of Japanese abducted by Pyongyang decades ago leave for Japan, media said, and a Japanese official said five would be reunited with their parents in Tokyo Saturday. The agreement on the emotional issue of the divided families came after a 90-minute summit between Kim and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that was also expected to touch on North Korea (news - web sites)'s nuclear arms program. "You can take them today or later," Kyodo news...

'There's a huge war raging," Mel Gibson says, "and it's over us!" The movie star and director has gone apoplectic about the criticism he's received for his forthcoming film The Passion, a provocative retelling of the crucifixion of Jesus.More incendiary than the film is Gibson with his mouth open.He decried his critics before anyone actually saw the multilingual cinematic portrayal of Jesus' final hours. He has threatened the life of a well-known critic, complained about "vehement anti-Christian sentiment out there," and claimed that certain Jews would kill him if he didn't cut out some incendiary footage.Gibson is rich enough to...

Apocalypse Now Armageddon is hot in America. With a majority of US citizens believing we are witnessing the end of the world, publishers have been quick to fill bookstores with novels alerting us to the imminent apocalypse. In the latest exclusive online essay from the London Review of Books, John Sutherland explores the phenomenon of endtimes fiction and the work of two of the undisputed champions of this booming Christian genre

A 25-year-old paratrooper hailed as a hero died Wednesday of injuries he suffered in an explosion Saturday while working crowd control in Baghdad. nie Gibson, the mother of Sgt. Troy Jenkins, said Thursday she walked onto her porch to feed her cats just before 8 a.m. and an officer from Fort Rucker pulled into her yard to tell her that her son had died. "I wouldn't wish this on anyone," Gibson said, a button bearing her son's photograph and yellow ribbons still clipped to her blouse. "He said Troy passed away en route to Germany yesterday. I'm throwing all my...

OK Freepers! Lend me a hand here. The first letter below is my submission published in The Japan Times on Dec. 1, 2002 regarding the possibility of a pardon for a suspected U.S. Army defector who married one of the Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea. I personally think this guy should hang, but I doubt that will happen. What I was trying to do with my letter is to quash the mindset in Japan that a pardon for the defector is likely or even possible. With this in mind, I wrote my letter in a neutral sort of way,...

Photo of Sgt. Robert Jenkins, U.S. Army, of North Carolina, who defected to the D.P.R.K.(some think actually 'kidnapped' as others have been) and who surfaced in Pyongyang, North Korea today where he has lived and worked for years as an English translator, teacher, (some say spy trainer) and actor for the North Korean. (Note the Kim il Sung Worker's Party badges on the lapels).Jenkins and his two daughters, also in the photo, performed a staged crying act set up by the N. Korean foreign ministry and covered by Japanese journalists, where they demanded Jenkin's wife (Japanese) and the mother...

(Japanese Abducted Years Ago by N. Korea) Ms. Soga Seeks Japan Reunion with Kin Yomiuri Shimbun Returned Japanese abductee (from North Korea) Ms. Hitomi Soga told Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama on Wednesday that she wanted to stay in Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, sources said. Abe and Nakayama went to Niigata on the Joetsu Shinkansen and flew on to Sado Island by light aircraft, arriving at Soga's father's home on a bus shortly after 10 a.m. The government officials were greeted at the entrance to the house by Soga, 43, her father...