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NBC’s “Law and Order” is in its 20th season. The economy is weak, so they have devolved to converting White House talking points into weekly shows. Last week, “Doped” was a farcical equivalent of “Damien Thorn meets Karen Silkwood.” Pharmaceutical companies and Doctors are worse than drug cartels. The killers in the previous week’s episode on such cartels were more sympathetic than the health professionals.

...But last week’s episode marked a dramatic departure from the familiar, biased trope. After detective Bernard makes a few forceful pro-life points in an impromptu squad car debate with his partner, ADA Cutter jumps into the fray. He professes his pro-life views and refutes a condescending response from his pro-choice colleague (Rubirosa) by citing the “turning tide” of public opinion and mentioning that most Americans now consider themselves pro-life. Apparently Mr. Cutter’s been checking the latest Gallup stats. Rubirosa replies by pointedly referring to those who share Cutter’s views as “anti-choice,” at which point the reliably liberal District Attorney, Jack...

For the most part, Hollywood, since the mid-1960s, has gone the extra mile to show support for the Liberal Democrat Agenda. Since 2002 they have churned out films that slam the Bush Administration for the Iraq War and yet none of these were money makers. But that does not stop them from having more in the pipeline. Most television programs, comedies, drama, reality and talk shows, have added their barbs against the wicked George W. Bush, dastardly Dick Cheney and other evildoing members of the civil rights transgressing administration and their immoral policies. All the broadcast television news departments and...

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I forced myself to watch the President's press conference last night. I normally try to avoid it for two reasons. First, because I don't believe a word he says and, second, because I just get angry when I hear his lies.

From Congressman Burgess's site: http://burgess.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=103976 News "Martial Law" In House of Representatives Washington, Sep 28, 2008 - Under the martial law procedure, long-standing House rules that require at least one day between the unveiling of significant legislation and the House floor vote on that legislation — so that Members can learn what they are being asked to vote on — are swept away. Instead, under “martial law,” the Leadership can file legislation with tens or hundreds of pages of fine print and move immediately to debate and votes on it, before Members of Congress, the media, or the public have...

Tucson open-borders official gloats about effigy-beating By Michelle Malkin • July 16, 2008 12:45 PM [See Picture at link--Oyarsa] Tucscon residents remain up in arms over the unhinged open-borders mob, led by reconquistadora Pima County (AZ) public defender Isabel Garcia, who beat and tore apart an effigy of tough, anti-illegal immigration Sheriff Joe Arpaio at his recent book tour event. See the videos here in case you missed it yesterday. Garcia is now gloating about the incident–calling it “funny.” She has posted a bigotry card-playing response at her militant website, Derechos Humanos. Laugh line: “We stand for the principles of...

Unhinged in Arizona: Open-borders mob, led by public official, ravages Joe Arpaio effigy By Michelle Malkin • July 15, 2008 03:34 PM Scroll down for updates…Jon Justice has more… Reader Tim C. in Tucscon sent me an e-mail about some completely unhinged open-borders activists who mobbed a book event for Sheriff Joe Arpaio. A group of young pro-illegal alien protesters repeatedly beats an effigy of Arpaio as Isabel Garcia–local reconquistadora and an official from the Pima County legal defender’s office–eggs them on. She then parades around with the effigy’s head as onlookers cheer and hoist up the rest of the...

Did anyone else watch the LAW & ORDER episode on Wednesday night? I managed to catch last 30 minutes of it. Jason is accused of stoning his mother to death because she was having an affair. He is a student of a pastor who runs a Christian camp for children. DA people play a videotape of the pastor's sermon...The pastor tells the children that we are in a "war" with Islamic fanatics. He speaks out against "hypocrites". Prosecutors shake their heads...The deputy prosecutor states that one doesn't have to go to Middle East to find a school for extremists. Jason...

LAW AND ORDER no longer has Fred Thompson as the DA...McCoy (Sam Waterston) became the DA. This Wednesday's episode was...annoying. I guess the producers wanted to push the anti-capital punishment message... The topic was the lethal injection gone wrong... A NY doctor participates in a South Carolina execution...The lethal injection didn't work too well. The murderer ended up in a vegetative state. Then the father of the man, who was killed by that murderer, goes to NY City. He attempts to speak to the doctor, who messed up the execution of his son's murderer. That guy visits the doctor in...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KCBS) -- Protesters have returned to the Berkeley Marines recruiting center just a day after a showdown between anti-war and pro-military demonstrators before the Berkeley City Council. This time, several dozen members of the peace group CodePink urged people to make love, not war. The Berkeley demonstration is one of 20 “Kiss Don’t Enlist” protests across the country. ”Polls show that the majority of Americans are opposed to the war, and this has given people a chance to really come out and show that. And it’s kind of fun to make out, instead of making war, right?” said...

Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty recently endorsed fellow Law & Order star Fred Thompson for President of the United States. During a telephone conversation with this writer, Moriarty said: "Whoever does occupy the White House will not overturn Roe v. Wade, nor will he or she put the dictatorial Supreme Court in its place. "However, I will personally vote for Mr. Fred Thompson and help his campaign as best I can, but I don't believe his entrance into this campaign ever carried enough pro-life commitment to do the job that has to be done. In addition, since...

. . . there’s the AP dog-and-pony show, wherein they ask the candidates stupid yearbook questions, instead of dealing with substance. Thompson’s responses, while certainly not pleasing to the AP (that is, they wouldn’t have been had the AP gotten the joke) were sure-fire crowd-pleasers to those of us who understood where Thompson was coming from: What’s your favorite joke? Presidential debates. What’s your favorite keepsake? Trophy wife. What’s your favorite nickname? Mr. President. What do you like to do on a ‘lazy day’? Campaigning.

I have been fully behind Fred Thompson for president, because he seemed the most viable and pretty much stood for everything I believed in. Then I started hearing more spin from the Huckabee side and considered him. Huckabee really started taking off last month, man I thought Huckabee might be a better choice than Thompson. But the more your in the limelight the more scruntity descends on you and that is what is happening to Huckabee. Huckabee’s tenure as Governor of Arkansas is not very impressive. It really bothered me about him pushing for the children of Illegal Immigrants to...

New Iowa Leader Criticized by for Indecision on Federal Student Aid. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who backed in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants, hedged Sunday on whether illegal immigrants who have gone to school in the United States should become eligible for federal student aid such as Pell grants and subsidized federal student loans. "I'm not sure that I would support that," Huckabee told ABC News, "it was a different program in Arkansas." Huckabee's failure to take a clear position on federal student aid while appearing on ABC News' "This Week with George...

Many of you will know me as DieHard the Hunter. I am a Guardian Angel. And this is a Vanity, with apologies to all of you and to the Moderator: I hope I've done this right! If not, please flame me gently... Three years ago, I was a private individual, a father of two kids, a husband to a wonderful woman married for thirteen years. I was and am a salesman and about as ordinary as they get. I drive a ten-year-old Chrysler and I pay my taxes regularly and otherwise lived an ordinary life. My life changed permanently one...

WHY WON'T FOLKSY "Law & Order" actor Fred Thompson just admit he's running for president of these here United States? It all boils down to that pesky NBC show, and using that exposure to your best advantage. Thompson, a Republican, has dabbled in acting, lobbying and lawyering over the years, serving as Tennessee's representative in the United States Senate from 1994 to 2003. In his twilight days of serving the country, he joined the cast of "Law & Order" in 2002 as good'ol backwoods boy and New York City District Attorney Arthur Branch. Strong character, basically a good guy who...

Fred Thompson is the 800-pound gorilla in the room not only for the Republican party, but for TV as well. If and when Thompson, former minority counsel to the Senate Watergate committee turned actor turned senator turned actor again, formally announces he's running for president, what happens to all the "Law & Order" repeats he appears in? In other words, if he's getting hours of exposure on TV playing District Attorney Arthur Branch -- even if it's as a character in a fictional TV series -- wouldn't his opponents be eligible for equal time under election law? NBC, home to...

Fred D. Thompson rose to national prominence in the mid-1970s. As chief counsel to the Republicans on the Senate Watergate Committee, he famously asked the question that revealed the existence of the White House taping system that ultimately led to President Richard M. Nixon's resignation. But Mr. Thompson was also an active participant in the White House's efforts to deflect blame from the president and discredit his accusers, plotting strategy with Mr. Nixon's lawyers and leaking information to them. (Continued for 9 more pages)

Former Senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee segued neatly from Congress back to an acting career in 2002, when he joined the cast of NBC’s long-running crime series “Law & Order.” Now that Mr. Thompson seems poised to re-enter politics as a Republican presidential candidate, his career will take another twist. In May, he asked NBC to release him from further “Law & Order” commitments; more recently, NBC said it was ready to stop showing reruns of the episodes he appears in because of federal equal time regulations for presidential candidates. “If Fred Thompson formally announces his intention to run...

Neighborhood alarmed to learn ice-cream truck vendor is registered sex offender 01:13 AM PDT on Saturday, July 14, 2007 By SARAH BURGE The Press-Enterprise A group of Perris homeowners has launched a campaign to run their local ice cream man out of the neighborhood. Anthony G. Toles, his neighbors discovered recently, is a registered sex offender who has been living and driving his ice cream truck in the Villages of Avalon, a newer housing development near Lake Perris. On the Fourth of July, about 10 neighbors distributed 500 custom-printed door hangers alerting residents to "a potential threat to our children"...

Those of us in the conservative movement have always been friendly to the business community. We believe in low taxes, a light touch on regulation, and we're stalwart champions of the free market. When liberals start talking about limiting CEO pay, harassing Wal-Mart, beating up on oil companies, or generally trying to place new burdens on the businesses, it's always movement conservatives who rise to their defense, even though it's sometimes not in our best political interests. Yes, we probably do fight a little harder because we view businessmen as political allies, but we genuinely, in our hearts and souls,...

ACTING -- and not necessarily skilled acting -- seems to have become the training ground for Republican politicians with high ambition. The standard cursus honorum for a would-be president typically began with a local office, then in a state legislature, then maybe Congress. The GOP, however, increasingly draws candidates from Hollywood (not the most hospitable environment for conservatives). While Washington Beltway insiders once showed disdain for America's first actor/President Ronald Reagan, and Our Betters in Europe may sniff at actor/Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, many Republicans like the idea of "Law and Order" star and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson running for...

New York (AP) -- NBC's top entertainment executive said Monday that he doesn't expect actor and potential Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson back on "Law & Order" next season. NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly claimed no insider knowledge of Thompson's political plans, but his statement indicated the seriousness of Thompson's presidential musings. The former Tennessee senator has been making speaking appearances and blogging on issues in recent weeks as he considers a candidacy. "It's pretty clear that Fred is going to be leaving the cast of the show no matter what,"

Near the end of his successful first term, Ronald Reagan was asked whether he thought his training as an actor had prepared him for the job of the Presidency. Reagan replied, "I don't see how any fellow that wasn't an actor could do this job." That is because Reagan understood that the single most important quality a successful President must bring to the job is a sense of confidence, balance, resolve and optimism. After the hand-wringing of Jimmy Carter, that is precisely what Reagan restored to the White House. It is also the jaunty confidence of Franklin Roosevelt in the...

Uncommitted Republicans have been putting Fred Thompson on such a high pedestal as a potential presidential candidate that he is going to need a very long ladder to get down to the ground so he can run. A big question the former Tennessee senator has to ask himself: "Do so many people really love me or am I just the checked box next to 'None of the Above'? " To hear many excited Republicans tell it, Thompson is the most charismatic, straight-talking conservative leader since Ronald Reagan. But even Reagan did not live up to the legend of Ronald Reagan....

It looks as if Fred Thompson is getting ready to run for president. Friends of the former Tennessee senator turned actor (anonymous to protect their relationship) say he's increasingly tempted to enter the 2008 Republican primaries, fueled in part by new polls that show he's got a serious shot at the White House. A Gallup poll released last week found Thompson ranked No. 3 behind front runners Rudy Giuliani and John McCain with 12 percent support among Republicans—all before he's even formally launched a campaign. Last week Thompson was spotted in Washington lunching with former Senate majority leader Bill Frist,...

Friday night's LAW & ORDER episode dealt with religion. Has anyone else managed to sit through it? A church is burned...Body of a biology teacher is found at that church. He teaches at a Christian high school. That teacher has a problem with a group of parents who want "intelligent design" taught. He doesn't want to teach that to his students. The suspect is the parent who founded that group. The murdered teacher gave an F to his daughter because she wrote about "intelligent design"... The suspect tells his lawyer to present an interesting defense. He thought that the bio...

Officer sues to be beauty contestant Off-duty rights are at issue, union says By Mark Arner STAFF WRITER March 30, 2007 CHULA VISTA – A Chula Vista police officer is suing the Police Department and the city, alleging her supervisors pressured her to stop competing in beauty pageants. Officer Deanna Mory, hired in 2005, says police administrators began pressuring her a year ago to stop competing in pageants. The Chula Vista Police Officers' Association, the police union, has filed two lawsuits on her behalf against the city and the department. Mory, 23, said the dispute began when she told her...

Just how many more children have to die before Liberals realise that the death penalty is the only answer to this problem? This week we learn of the kidnap, murder and probable sexual assault of little Christopher Barrios by a convicted sex offender. Another animal out on the streets free to rape and kill again and again thanks to Liberal policies. Almost every time we hear of a child or young man or woman going missing it turns out to be a convicted sex offender that is responsible. How much longer should we tolerate people of this kind within our...

UNION -- A Monroe County elementary art teacher was suspended without pay for putting masking tape under the noses of about 25 third-graders in a joking attempt to quiet them, Superintendent Lyn Guy said. The Monroe County Board of Education voted Monday night to uphold the 10-day suspension of Donna Spangler, an art teacher at Peterstown Elementary School. Spangler's suspension ended Monday and she has since returned to work. "I didn't think it was very funny,'' Guy said Tuesday. "It wasn't right and she (Spangler) made a huge mistake in judgment and she has paid for it.'' Guy said the...

A popular US television series is coming under fire after a recent episode portrayed Israel in a harsh light and appeared to promote anti-Semitic stereotypes of Jews as disloyal citizens. The plot line of the February 27 installment of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, a fictional police drama broadcast across America on NBC, centers on a journalist who is poisoned after his girlfriend uncovers a foul-up by Israeli intelligence. The show depicts Israeli bulldozers destroying Palestinian schools, with at least one character referring to "Israeli brutality." It also includes a Jewish police captain who agrees to cover up for Israel...

A Week After Ann Coulter Episode, 'Law & Order' to Air Haggard-Inspired Plot Posted by Brent Baker on February 9, 2007 - 16:27. A week after NBC's Law & Order aired an episode revolving around an Ann Coulter-like character (NewsBusters item with video) whose anti-embryonic stem cell research position so angered a student suffering from Parkinson's disease that he tried to kill her (but his gunshot kills an innocent student), tonight's (Friday) episode is inspired by the Ted Haggard case -- though with the added twist of murder. From TV Guide.com: “A popular reverend is suspected of a gay actor's...

Someone should ask Ann Coulter if she watched NBC's LAW & ORDER episode dealing with a conservative female who is obviously patterned after her... Did anyone else watch this episode? This conservative female was speaking on a college campus against stem cell research. Then some left-wing student gets shot by a research student. The research student wanted to shoot her but he missed. The shooter suffers from Parkinson's disease...He blames her for putting pressure to stop the stem cell research...He wants the cure for his disease. Ron Silver plays his lawyer...He manages to get the admission out of an witness,...

The Times December 26, 2006 Four hanged on Christmas Day TOKYO Four prisoners, including two men in their seventies, were hanged on Christmas Day as the Japanese Government ended a 15-month moratorium on the death penalty. The hangings were the first since September 2005, when a convicted murderer was executed. The death penalty is supported widely in Japan and analysts said that the Government wanted to carry out executions in 2006, which would have been the first year without hangings since 1992. The timing of the executions has been condemned by Christians, who makes up 1 per cent of the...

Nearly 900 police stations have closed in England and Wales in the past 14 years, according to government figures obtained by The Daily Telegraph, while the vast majority of those still operating are only open to the public for limited hours. A survey of opening times on the websites of a dozen forces, with more than 400 stations, shows that only 24 — fewer than six per cent — are advertised as open 24 hours a day. Most close during the night. The police service's retreat from open-door access at the times when criminals, particularly drunken thugs, are most active...

Christians jailed in Pak for burning Koran Indo-Asian News Service Islamabad, November 27, 2006|15:55 IST A court in Pakistan handed down a 15-year jail sentence to two Christians for burning pages of the Koran, the Daily Times said. The defendants, both male members of the same family, were also fined $411 by the Anti-Terrorist Court, Faisalabad at the weekend for the act committed on September 6. Desecration of the Koran falls under Pakistan's Blasphemy Law, which prescribes a maximum penalty of death. But in recognition of the possible use of false witness testimonies by rivals to settle scores, courts generally...

Don't Speak About Religion And Politics?Over the past couple of years there has been much debate over the civil display of religious inscriptions, like the Ten Commandments (also called the Decalogue). I was shocked to read this past week Bob Unruh's exclusives on WND about how the U.S. Supreme Court is even now silencing the truths about the Commandments in its own building. People often say to stay clear of discussing religion and politics. True patriots don't do that. That is why I will address both in this article. Revolutionary Thought about the DecalogueI've learned some things recently about the...

Drunken celebrity accuses detective of being a "Jew Cop." That sounds familiar alright - only on Law & Order. Ripped from the headlines!

YAPPY "View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is up in arms over an episode of "Law & Order: SVU" where a character named Elizabeth Hassenback is raped and murdered. She says she believes the char acter was meant to be her. On yesterday's edition of "The View," she described a phone call she placed to the crime show's executive pro ducer, Neal Baer, and claimed he hung up on her after she complained to him. "I said, 'Look, I think it's socially irresponsible to do this. . . I know what you did, that's essentially my name." Baer told her to "chalk...

LAW AND ORDER, on Friday night, deals with Islamic terrorism. An Arab-American lawyer is murdered...His murder is on videotape. Some "white power" group is shown on the video. The murdered lawyer was trying to contact NYPD about his friend who planned to blow up a "dirty bomb". His friend killed him...That friend tried to make some "white power" group responsible for the murder. I was wondering if I could sit through this episode...I was expecting a plenty of political correctness. There were some political correctness. Muslim characters complain about being discriminated...I had to laugh when the wife of murdered lawyer...

An alert neighbor helped thwart a home invasion near Lake Mary this morning and led authorities to the capture of two suspects. The neighbor was watching about 11:30 a.m. as a car pulled up in front of a home on Silverton Loop. Two men got out carrying backpacks and flowers and at least one of them pulled a ski mask out of his backpack before entering the front door of the house, the neighbor told authorities when he called 911.

Native protest imperils 'rule of law' hearing: Lawyer calls for use of force in Ontario land dispute Adrian Humphreys National Post Friday, June 02, 2006 CAYUGA, Ont. - A judge, fearing that native blockades were destroying the "rule of law" in his community, forced nearly a dozen lawyers into his rural Ontario courthouse yesterday for a highly unusual court hearing. As more than a dozen Ontario Provincial Police officers ringed the historic courthouse in Cayuga, about an hour's drive southwest of Hamilton, almost as many lawyers gathered inside before Justice T. David Marshall, the senior Ontario Superior Court judge...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will make an announcement on his government's tough law-and-order agenda at RCMP headquarters in Vancouver today. The Harper government, which hopes to win back seats in B.C. by appealing to voters upset about crime, has already made it clear that it plans on getting tough in several criminal justice areas that have been particularly controversial in B.C., such as street racing. Today's event marks the second time this week that Harper has moved to identify his government, and its promised crime crackdown, with the powerful historic symbolism of the Mounties. On Tuesday, Harper laid a wreath...

On Wednesday night, LAW AND ORDER episode dealt with a leak to a reporter. An undercover cop gets killed after her picture is shown in a newspaper column...The shooter saw her picture in the newspaper. I think that the Valerie Plame fiasco influenced this episode. In this particular episode, however, there is no dispute that the cop was undercover. Bad guys in this episode are...Democrats. A consultant, for a Dem congressman, is accused of revealing the cop's identity to the columnist. The consultant has a dispute with the cop's father...His boss, the congressman, is not portrayed too nicely. The conservative...

Burglars will be allowed to escape without punishment under new instructions sent to all police forces. Police have been told they can let them off the threat of a court appearance and instead allow them to go with a caution. The same leniency will be shown to criminals responsible for more than 60 other different offences, ranging from arson through vandalism to sex with underage girls. New rules sent to police chiefs by the Home Office set out how seriously various crimes should be regarded, and when offenders who admit to them should be sent home with a caution. Some...

See for example this thread first. Cynthia McKinney won't stop This time, she assaulted a cop Of course, she'll go free If it were you or me we'd need more than some "I'm sorry" sop! Alternative last line: "Like Hillary, she thinks she's the top!" (reference to that story about Hillary's SUV clipping some guard at an airport in 2001)

RALEIGH (AP) — Vandals damaged three military recruiting centers in the Triangle this week in what appeared to be a war protest. Authorities said someone spray-painted windows at two Durham centers and hurled a rock through the window at a center in Raleigh on Tuesday night. The vandals also defaced doors and sidewalks at the locations. The incidents were discovered on Wednesday morning when employees arrived for work, officials said. An e-mail message sent to media outlets Wednesday called the actions a protest against U.S. involvement in Iraq. "The poverty and exploitation of the economy at home fuels the brutality...

According to actor and comedian Richard Belzer, American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are too uneducated to be expressing support for the U.S. military mission since they're just "19 and 20-year-old kids who couldn't get a job" and "they don't read twenty newspapers a day." Belzer, who's best known as Detective John Munch on NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit," is a frequent guest on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher." On one previous appearance, he threatened to walk off the set when told columnist Ann Coulter was also appearing, calling her a...

Transsexuals can choose jails05/03/2006 18:29  - (SA)   Related Articles Transvestites change Thai army Queen does it for transsexuals Transsexuals get Olympic nod    Madrid - Transsexual inmates in Spain soon will be able to serve their sentences in facilities for men or women according to their "psycho-social identity", and not according to their original gender, reported the El Pais newspaper on Sunday. According to the centre-left daily, a directive is about to be published concerning the incarceration of individuals who have undergone a sex change. Transsexuals would be able to ask to serve their sentences in prisons corresponding to their new...