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Flirtatious females are Bill Clinton's greatest security threat! New York, Jan 25 (ANI): Former President Bill Clinton is understandably on his guard whenever there's a flirty female in his vicinity, and recently had to get his security detail to keep one especially arduous fan away from him. The former US President was at the Terry McAuliffe book party on Monday, Jan 22, when he was cornered by a flirtatious blonde. According to the New York Post, Clinton was overheard telling one of his security detail, to keep the woman away from him. "You've got to get me away from her,"...

HILLARY CLINTON is to be presented as America’s Margaret Thatcher as she tries to become the first woman to win the White House. As she entered the 2008 presidential race yesterday, a senior adviser said that her campaign would emphasise security, defence and personal strengths reminiscent of the Iron Lady. “Their policies are totally different but they are both perceived as very tough,” said Terry McAuliffe, Clinton’s campaign chairman. “She is strong on foreign policy. People have got to know you are going to keep them safe.” Clinton, 59, used her website to announce that she was taking the first...

Extremism: Radical preachers offer a magical world for battered believers.The engine that drives the radical Christian right in the United States - the most dangerous mass movement in American history - is not religiosity, but despair. It is a movement built on the growing personal and economic despair of tens of millions of Americans, who watched helplessly as their communities were plunged into poverty by the flight of manufacturing jobs, their families and neighborhoods torn apart by neglect and indifference, and who eventually lost hope that America was a place where they had a future. This despair crosses economic boundaries,...

Shortly after Thanksgiving I had dinner in California with Ronald Reagan's best biographer, Lou Cannon. Like many historians these days, we discussed whether George W. Bush is, conceivably, the worst U.S. president ever. Cannon bristled at the idea. Bush has two more years to leave his mark, he argued. What if there is a news flash that U.S. Special Forces have killed Osama bin Laden or that North Korea has renounced its nuclear program? What if a decade from now Iraq is a democracy and a statue of Bush is erected on Firdaus Square where that famously toppled one of...

The Bush administration can not allow the Democrats to take control of either house of Congress. And they are in a position to prevent it, regardless of the will of the American voters. These are the two controlling facts that make all other conditions of the coming election trivial in comparison, or even irrelevant. The failure of the media and even the Democratic Party to acknowledge and deal with these facts in no way diminishes their significance. Quite the contrary. And why can’t the Busheviks allow the loss of even one house of Congress to the Democrats? Such a loss...

by Mark Finkelstein September 29, 2006 - 06:54 Rejection is painful. Spurned suitors often-if-contradictorily condemn the very object of their affection, while reserving a good measure of bile for their successful rivals. Democrats have suffered a lot unrequited political desire in recent years, and the strain is really starting to show. We all know about Bush Derangement Syndrome. Yesterday I described a new strain, Gas Price Derangement Syndrome, and mentioned an even more insidious disease afflicting many on the left - Controlled Demolition Dementia. Today comes more evidence of the left's painful struggle to deal with its diminished standing and...

Senior Syrian government official have accused the US of being behind Tuesday's assault on its own embassy in downtown Damascus. A Baath party official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told WorldNetDaily, "We in the government are 100 percent sure America was behind this attack, which is not the same as other attacks by Islamic groups." He explained, "Only the Americans can succeed in carrying out an attack just 200 meters from President [Bashar] Assad's residence in the most heavily guarded section of Syria." The official charged that Washington had orchestrated the attack to "prove Syria is filled with terrorists...

Speaker of Iraq's National Assembly Mahmoud al-Mashadani in a meeting with the representative of the Jurisprudence in Khorasan, Ayatollah Abbas Vaez Tabassi, here Thursday said that the major goal of the arrogance in occupying Iraq is to create a 'great Israel' in the region. In a meeting, held at the meeting hall of Imam Reza's (AS) holy shrine, he said that this is while some politicians mistakenly led to believe that the US and other despotic powers attacked Iraq and occupied it to topple Saddam Hussein and lay their hands on its oil reserves. "Saddam was appointed in Iraq by...

The always modest, always charming Howell Raines, executive editor of the New York Times, has a new autobiography out, “The One that Got Away,” a sequel to his 1993 memoir “Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis.” Dipping into his latest book on his love of fly fishing, we find Raines still rising to the conservative-bashing bait. On page 189, he lets fly with thoughts about liberal bugbear Fox News: “Fox, by its mere existence, undercuts the argument that the public is starved for ‘fair’ news, and not just because Fox shills for the Republican Party and panders to the latest...

"Writing," observed the French playwright Moliere, "is like prostitution. First you do it for love, then for a few close friends, and then for money." This aphorism is brought forcefully to mind by the cover of Ann Coulter's latest book, leering at customers from the windows of America's biggest bookstores. As always, the cover features a portrait of the artist as a young tart, blond locks flowing, her size zero little black dress catering to a combination of ideological and erotic perversion that's disturbing to contemplate. In The New York Times, David Carr doesn't hesitate to label Coulter a literary...

Monday, May 8, 2006 PMW: PA: Christian Zionists adopted Satan as God Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin - May 8, 2006 Palestinian Media Watch: p:+972 2 625 4140 e: pmw@pmw.org.il f: +972 2 624 2803 w: www.pmw.org.il PA: Christian Zionists adopted Satan as God By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook Official PA government Religious Judicial Council web site: Christian Zionists "adopted Satan as God" Christian Zionism is a dangerous distortion, a deviation from the true Christian faith The Christian Zionists and Zionist Jews "comprise the greatest danger to world truth, justice, and peace". The International Christian Embassy "carries out criminal activities"...

IN PSYCHOLOGY, ''projection" occurs when someone attributes to others his own unpleasant beliefs or motivations. It is projection, for instance, when a liar assumes that everyone he deals with is dishonest, or when a man tempted by adultery accuses his spouse of planning to deceive him. Projection occurs in the public arena as well, as when supporters of racial preferences label ''racist" those who believe the law should be strictly colorblind.

Many conservatives are absolutely perplexed by the question of what motivates liberals to take the patently wrong political positions they do. It’s difficult to explain it without believing such obviously wrong ideas like “liberals are just stupid”, or “they want to destroy our country”, but sometimes we resort to those explanations out of pure frustration. But what is the explanation? Why do seemingly good, intelligent people take positions that cause so much harm in the face of all the facts? I’ve finally stumbled upon the answer, and it’s so stunningly simple, yet profound in its implications, that it’s absolutely mind-boggling....

from "Hannity & Colmes," ... SEAN HANNITY...from San Francisco tonight, the board of supervisors here overwhelmingly voted to reject a plan last year that would bring the historic World War II Iowa battleship right here to San Francisco harbor, as a museum and tourist center. We're now joined by one of the supervisors that voted against that plan, Gerardo Sandoval is with us. You don't want a symbol of war in the harbor. Is what you said to me. GERARDO SANDOVAL: That's right... it's a warship and it's got guns on it. It fires things. You know, you can't deny...

by Mark Finkelstein January 11, 2006 - 07:52 As we detailed here, on yesterday's Today show Matt Lauer yesterday blurted out in the midst of an interview "let's face it, [Alito] is an ultra-conservative." If that weren't slur enough in the liberal mindset, Dem strategist James Carville continued the assault on this morning's Today, accusing Alito of being: "completely enamored and impressed with power." Carville and consulting sidekick Paul Begala were in to chew the fat with Katie Couric over the Alito hearings and the pair's new book, "Take it Back," their prescription for reforming the Democrat party and the...

By Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 10, 2005; Page A01 The 48-year-old man turned down a job because he feared that a co-worker would be gay. He was upset that gay culture was becoming mainstream and blamed most of his personal, professional and emotional problems on the gay and lesbian movement. (you can see where this is headed)

Janeane Garofalo, left-wing actress-turned-Air America radio host, is a miserable woman. Last week before the holidays, she turned up on cable TV. No, not to count her blessings -- but to rant against conservative journalist Bob Novak, author Ann Coulter, and the Fox News Channel. She didn't have anything better to do for Thanksgiving? Accessorized by a permanent scowl (hard to believe she was once considered a comedienne), Ms. Garofalo accused conservatives of having "an anger management problem." Without a trace of irony, the frowning Garofalo griped about "right-wing partisan hacks" who "are always on the verge of punching somebody...

Congressman Charles Rangel is stepping up his attacks on Vice President Dick Cheney, saying he should take a psychological test if he wants to stay in office. The congressman was reacting to the indictment and resignation of Cheney's chief-of-state, Lewis Scooter Libby, in connection to a federal probe of who released the identity of a CIA officer's name to the media. In the last two months, Rangel has questioned whether Cheney is healthy enough to stay in office...while Cheney has said Rangel is quote, losing it. "Suppose I was to challenge the Vice President on your show and say if...

Researchers applaud “grassroots” climate change studyWhite House tries to bury the National Assessment, but experts say that the project was successful and innovative. Begun in 1998 and completed in 2001, the U.S. National Assessment is the only study to broadly examine how global warming might affect communities in the U.S. Because of the subject matter, however, the assessment has been mired in political controversy since its release, and officials in the Bush Administration have sought to remove any reference to the report from publications coming out of their Climate Change Science Program (CCSP). However, in a paper posted to ES&T’s...

Clooney Says Keep Quiet Movie star George Clooney (search) is warning other Hollywood liberals to keep their mouths shut when it comes to politics, saying they're likely to hurt the candidates they're trying to help. Clooney says he declined to campaign for John Kerry last year because critics would use his involvement to paint Kerry as beholden to liberal Hollywood. But while he thinks it's dangerous for actors to go public with their politics, Clooney still defends his left-leaning views, saying, “It's pretty hard to find a time when liberals were on the wrong side of an issue."

RUSH: Mike, grab audio sound bite #8. We've got this Pelosi montage here. She actually violated an age-old tradition. She went and had a private conversation with a president and repeated it. That usually doesn't happen. But these people have reached the bottom of the barrel here. But based on what she said and all the other Democrats said, I got a great idea. If the recovery effort is so inept and so horrible, let's stop it. If it's that bad, let's suspend the recovery effort right now and immediately start on the investigations to find out what is wrong....

Before news events overtook them, Democrats were on a roll about Karl Rove, the Bush adviser they've targeted for job termination -- even before a federal grand jury concludes its investigation into who leaked the name of a covert CIA agent to the press. On Tuesday, various Democrats returned to the subject. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced it has compiled a timeline of events involving the leak -- "to set the record straight in a way that no amount of Republican spin can overcome." And Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday sent a letter to White House Chief of...

  HEAR MAD hillary talks #3:"What, me worry?"THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE MAD hillary talks seriesWHY MISSUS CLINTON IS DANGEROUSFOR THE CHILDREN, FOR AMERICA, FOR THE WORLD (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) MAD hillary talks series #1ALFRED E."What, me worry?" CLINTON + CRAZY HIL MAD COVER STORY THE THREAT OF TERRORISM AS CLOSE ASA CLINTON TO OVAL OFFICE MAD hillary talks series #2HILLARY'SMIDDLE-FINGER MINDSET Do you really want THAT fingeron the button? by Mia T, 7.25.05COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005 "The Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with...

No matter how you spin it, Karl Rove is a snake. He opened his mouth when he should have kept it shut. A lot of people do that. Rove, however, did it for revenge. Bush supporters can split more hairs than Bill Clinton. One essential fact remains indisputable. Rove's forked tongue lashed out at a political critic. And he did it secretly. He also dodged responsibility for it as long as he could. What a snake! A full and thorough investigation will determine if he's a common garter snake or a deadly cottonmouth, but his own confessions have him slithering...

Alfred E. Neuman + the threat of terrorism, according to hillary (FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!) by Mia T, 7.11.05 ``I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington,'' Clinton said referring to the freckle-faced Mad magazine character. She drew a laugh from crowd when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Neuman's catchphrase: ``What, me worry?'' Clinton, who was speaking during the inaugural Aspen Ideas Festival, organized by the Aspen Institute nonpartisan think tank, didn't mention the presidential election in 2008. She said the United States should...

The Far East: Some may cry "sellout," but President Bush and the leader of Vietnam had good reasons to celebrate 10 years of normal relations in the aftermath of a bitter war. And one of those reasons is China. The U.S. and Vietnam are drawing closer for the same reasons that Victor Davis Hanson, in a column that ran on this page Thursday, cited for warmer ties between the U.S. and Japan. China's Wal-Mart earnings may be a generally good thing in helping build its private sector, but they're also strengthening that regime beyond its borders. Year after year of...

New York Senator Hillary Clinton blasted the press on Monday for going too easy on President Bush, complaining that reporters are letting his administration get away with the worst abuse of power in American history. "There has never been an administration, I don't believe in our history, more intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their own agenda," said Mrs. Clinton, whose own administration collected FBI files on opponents and had accusers audited by the IRS. Addressing a gathering of "Women for Hillary," she urged journalists to go after the Bush White House. "Where are the investigative reporters today?"...

Bill Clinton may be an honorary member of the Bush family, but that hasn't tempered criticism from his senator-wife one bit. In her latest email to prospective donors, Hillary blasts Bush as a power-mad politician whose policies are "wrong for America." "What I see happening in Washington is a concerted effort by the Administration and the leadership in Congress to really create absolute power," she complained. Hillary warns that Republicans are trying to "remake America in their image." "[They're] reversing the progress we have made as a country, not just undoing the achievements of the Clinton Administration, but taking us...

Pelosi: American People Are Paying the Price for Erosion of Ethical Standards 5/17/2005 5:37:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616, both of the Office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi WASHINGTON, May 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. George Miller of California, chair of the Democratic Policy Committee, held a news conference in the Capitol today to discuss the need for ethics reform in the House of Representatives, including an outright ban on gifts from lobbyists to Members of Congress. Below are Pelosi's remarks: "We're here to talk about setting...

Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Party, said yesterday that the US House majority leader, Tom DeLay, ''ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence," referring to allegations of unethical conduct against the Republican leader. Mr. Dean should know that DeLay faces accusations that he may have violated House rules by taking foreign trips paid for by lobbyists.  DeLay is not facing allegations he committed a crime.  Therefore, Mr. Dean's comments are slanderous. But, Mr. Dean, what about Nancy Pelosi? Mr. Dean should know that on March 26, 2004, the Federal Election Commission...

Kerry: Trickery Kept Voters From Polls 8 minutes ago Politics - U. S. Congress By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer BOSTON - Many voters in last year's presidential election were denied access to the polls through trickery and intimidation, former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told a voters' group Sunday. AP Photo "Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated," the Massachusetts senator said at an event sponsored by the state League of Women Voters. "There is no magic wand. No one person is going to stand up and...

George W. Bush is ill. He has a psycho-spiritual disease of the soul, a sickness that is endemic to our culture and symptomatic of the times we live in. It's an illness that has been with us since time immemorial. Because it's an illness that's in the soul of all of humanity, it pervades the field and is in all of us in potential at any moment, which makes it especially hard to diagnose. Bush's malady is quite different from schizophrenia, for example, in which all the different parts of the personality are fragmented and not connected to each other,...

Preliminary data indicate 2004 likely will register as the fourth-warmest year in the world’s surface temperature record. Yet despite all the gloom-and-doom scenarios, we haven’t experienced an all-time record-setter since the big El Niño back in 1998. Our planet may be warming, but not at a torrid clip. If global climate really were to respond the way climate models project it should, the ‘warmest year on record’ would be announced every other year or so after natural variation in annual average temperatures was factored in. But the ‘warmest year’ designation only is proclaimed every five years or so. At that...

Rapid evolution for flat panel TVs 10:30 21 November 04 NewScientist.com news service Anyone planning to ditch their conventional cathode-ray tube TV in favour of a much wider flat panel TV will be spoilt for choice. With the rewards so great for companies who can dominate this market, competition between manufacturers is intense. The result is that flat panel TVs are being enhanced so rapidly that any performance comparisons quickly go out of date. Take a simple measure like screen size. At Japan’s leading consumer electronics show, CEATEC, held in Makuhari on Tokyo bay in September, hundreds of would-be...

ABC, CBS, and CNN have all called Nevada for George W. Bush. But NBC, the one network besides Fox News that has called Ohio for the President, is holding back. Why? I'll go ahead and advance an answer. They do not want the President to give a victory speech tonight after a major network has declared him victorious. Just how much of the MSM can we take? I understand Fox News holding back, they've been vilified for being too close to the Republicans, but NBC just wants to stick it to Bush tonight.

THE NEWS MEDIA IS TRYING TO GET PRO-KERRY POLLING DATA TO MAKE AN EARLY CALL FOR HIM IN ORDER TO DISCOURAGE GOP AFTER-HOURS VOTE... or so says Michael Medved, citing information the GOP has recently received. He then goes on to rip apart the Zogby electoral projection. He notes that Zogby admits calling some states he doesn't even have new polling data for. It's all smoke and mirrors. George Friedman, Medved's guest, says this is actually good for the GOP. He thinks that the greatest danger is that the GOP might become complacent. I don't know if I agree with...

Two 'highlights' from Elizabeth Edwards' just-completed interview on the Larry King show: 1. in describing the need to bring the country back together after the election, she expressed the fear W would be incapable of doing it, because he engaged in "character assassination" during the campaign; and 2. asked what her priorities would be if her husband and Kerry are elected, she mentioned her desire to be an advocate for military families, saying they haven't been fairly treated, and that military families hesitate to criticize W for fear of "recriminations by the Commander-in-Chief."

Just announced on fox. Big victory for us!!!

This cause originated upon the filing of a complaint for a writ of mandamus. Upon consideration of relators’ motion for an emergency peremptory writ of mandamus, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that relators’ motion be, and hereby is, granted, and that a writ of mandamus be, and hereby is, granted to compel respondent Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell to reissue and enforce his October 26, 2004 Directive 2004-45 to all eighty-eight counties insofar as it permits, in accordance with R.C. 3505.21 and 3506.13, one duly designated challenger per precinct and, after the polls close, one duly designated witness per precinct,...

PITTSBURGH - Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe urged voters to ignore alleged voting scams and turn out to the polls, promising victory for John Kerry a day before Election Day. Following President Bush from Ohio to Pennsylvania as the president made a six-state, 19-hour day of final campaigning, McAuliffe spoke at a Democratic district headquarters in a traditionally black neighborhood as phones rang in the background and volunteers solidified Election Day plans. McAuliffe trumpeted recent polls showing Kerry leading against Bush in the battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania and assured voters of a Democratic victory. Despite claims...

Look Inside Kerry's Mind and You Find a "False Personality" Written by Joan Swirsky Wednesday, October 20, 2004 There's a term to explain why the clearly haughty and self-important John Kerry repeatedly calls George Bush "arrogant." In psychology, it’s called projection: attributing to others what, in fact, perfectly describes the person hurling the insult. Similarly, there’s a term to explain why Kerry, a lifelong pacifist after his four-month foray in Vietnam, is now trying to convince the public that he would fight the war against terrorism more effectively than President Bush. It’s called self-delusion. Another term explains why Kerry has...

Thieves shattered a side window overnight at Lucas County Democratic headquarters in Toledo, stealing computers with sensitive campaign information and triggering concern of the local party's ability to deliver crucial votes on Nov. 2. (See URL for complete article) http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041013/NEWS03/410130378&SearchID=73187255382209

A group of prominent Muslim community leaders in metro Atlanta voiced concerns Friday over U.S.-led raids on several mosques in Iraq. They said the raids violated the sanctity of the religious sites. "There was no concern given to places of worship," said Amjad Taufique, a board member of Masjid Al-Hedaya in Marietta. "It's hurtful. . . . It's causing a lot of friction in the Muslim community." Snip... Imam Plemon El-Amin of the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam compared the outrage many Muslims feel about the raids to what African-Americans felt after the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four young...

Discouraging Outlook for Muslims As Ramadan Begins, Many Say Sentiment Against Them Is Hardening By Caryle Murphy Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 15, 2004; Page B01 One recent Saturday night, about 50 Muslim scholars filed into a classroom at George Mason University's Arlington campus to hear the keynote address of their three-day conference on Islam and modernity. They had to watch it on a DVD. The speaker, Geneva-based Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan, could not attend in person because his U.S. visa had been revoked. Yet to those in the audience, his moderate words sounded like the kind of message...

As the days dwindle down to a precious few leading up to November second, the big three branches of the Liberal election machine have kicked into high gear. Charges have been leveled by the political, entertainment and news divisions. Tales of galloping woe fill the crisp autumn air as accusations of repression, suppression and downright aggression emanate daily from the Left. Out on the hustings, at the obligatory Democratic pander-stop at a black church in Cleveland, John Kerry said, "We're seeing efforts by the Republicans, unfortunately, in various parts of the country to suppress votes and intimidate people, to do...

The latest electoral vote projection from Slate, a known bunch of liberal, whiners, has Bush routing Kerry 348-190. Check the map.

(CNSNews.com) - The Kerry-Edwards Campaign is releasing a new 30-second TV ad saying that President Bush lost the first presidential debate - and is now "desperate." The ad begins with the narrator saying, "George Bush lost the debate. Now he's lying about it." It features Sen. John F. Kerry saying, "The president always has the right for pre- emptive strike" and that Kerry would "hunt and kill the terrorists, wherever they are." The Kerry campaign says its new ad is a response to the "latest desperate and false Bush ad," called "Global Ties." In that ad, the Bush campaign...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the presidential campaign's closing weeks, Democrats are bracing for an "October Surprise," an event so dramatic it could influence the election's outcome. The capture of Osama bin Laden, for instance. It's part of American political lore: the party out of power worries about a last-minute surprise engineered by the party in power. Now that October has arrived and the election is just a month away, speculation is rife among Democrats that President Bush and political mastermind Karl Rove have some tricks up their sleeves. "I assume that it will be something," said House Democratic leader Nancy...

I'd love to talk to people who like to work the numbers as much as I do. Were do you think this election is going?

I'd like some feedback, were is this election leaning?About My Projection