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WASHINGTON — Ralph Nader is seeking the presidency — again. The consumer activist and political gadfly kicked off an exploratory presidential campaign Wednesday with the launch of a new Web site that promises he’ll fight “corporate greed, corporate power, corporate control” and asks people to donate $300 each.

Tim Jacobs passed away durig the night of 9/27/07. He was also known as the freeper Ralph. Sorry for the delayed notice.

Ted Haggard, founder and former senior pastor of New Life Church, plans to leave Colorado Springs and move to Iowa or Missouri to return to college, according to a message he e-mailed Sunday to some church members. Haggard’s family has been “offered two places” in the Midwestern states, Haggard wrote. He and his wife, Gayle, will go back to school together, but Haggard didn’t specify what college or university they would attend. “We are both planning on getting our masters in Psychology so we can work together serving others the rest of our lives,” Haggard wrote. The nationally known minister...

Breaking News >> Authorities capture Ralph 'Buck' Phillips, who was being sought in connection with the death of a New York state trooper and the wounding of two others, sources tell CNN.

Hillary’s Sex Appeal Seriously… By Louis Wittig New York, NY — There was a sharp, mischievous article in this. It just wasn’t materializing. Everything started out great. I arrived early for the press conference at the Museum of Sex where sculptor Daniel Edwards was unveiling his latest piece, The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton. I talked to Bob Kunst, founder of HillaryNow.com, a grassroots pro-Hillary website / organization, who was standing outside the museum entrance holding up a hand drawn “Hillary in ‘08” sign for a dozen reporters and cameramen. I had quotes before I even went inside. And...

Hecht running against Reed By William John Hagan Houston Home Journal 08/27/2005 A potential Democratic nominee in the upcoming Lieutenant Governor’s race, Greg Hecht, visited Warner Robins as part of his campaign to challenge the likely Republican nominee Ralph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition. Hecht, a former State Senator, Representative, and Assistant District Attorney was in Warner Robins to speak with the members of the Houston County Democratic Committee. Prior to his campaign stop at Ted Wright Park in Warner Robins, Hecht granted an exclusive interview to the Houston Home Journal regarding two issues which he...

If Ralph Nader doesn't stop dropping the N-bomb, Al Sharpton is going to wash out his mouth with soap. "Nader is not a racist by any stretch of the imagination," Sharpton told me yesterday. "He has a good track record. But he ought to be sensitive that he does not sanitize that word." Speaking Wednesday night at a Washington fund-raiser to retire the debt from his 2004 presidential campaign, Nader complained that Democratic Party powerbrokers had kept him off the ballot in such Southern states as Georgia and Virginia - which reminded him of the oppressive Jim Crow laws that...

Poor John sKerry. Just when things couldn't get any worse for his campaign, along comes Ralph Nader!! Nader plans to campaign in 10 States during the next 2 weeks, and will concentrate his efforts in 5 battleground States that are crucial to John sKerry. The wheels are starting to fall off the sKerry campaign. The Swift Boat ads, and the airing of STOLEN HONOR are major blows to the sKerry campaign. And NOW comes along Ralph Nader......BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Democrats Sue To Keep Nader Off Florida Ballot Dems Say Candidate Never Nominated By His Party POSTED: 6:37 pm EDT September 2, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida Democratic party is suing the state and Ralph Nader to keep him off the November ballot, saying that the Reform Party's nomination process was a sham. The suit says the Reform Party is not a viable political party and that Nader was never nominated at a convention, which is required by state law to get on the ballot. Democrats and Republicans agree that Ralph Nader’s presence on the 2000 ballot cost Al...

THE 9/11 COMMISSION'S Final Report last week didn't fully blame George W. Bush - or Bill Clinton - for failing to prevent the terrorist attacks. Neither do we. But we do blame the Bush administration for not doing all it could do since that day to prevent future attacks on the United States. And we believe that John Kerry will do more of what is necessary to make us safer from al Qaeda and others who would harm us. He will start by implementing the urgent recommendations of the commission report, something that President Bush has signaled his reluctance to...

"The REAL meeting" John Kerry and Ralph Nader political cartoon.  May 19, 2004... The Nader-Kerry meeting Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader met for an hour today with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. Prior to the meeting, Kerry told the Associated Press: "In the end, I hope I can make people aware that a vote for Ralph Nader is a vote for George Bush," Kerry said. "A vote for John Kerry is a vote for the principles and values they care about." and that he believes he will "reduce any rationale" for Nader's candidacy, but he would never ask...

Ralph Nader Kicks Off Presidential Campaign With Free “Vote Nader” Car Accessories LOS ANGELES, CA—Ralph Nader kicked off his attempt to oust the two-party system again today, this time as an Independent candidate. Though Nader announced his plans to run for President a few weeks ago, he just today began lobbying in Los Angeles. Nader, gave away over 1000 different automotive accessories at a campaign rally in down town Los Angeles, in hopes to round healthy support from LA's “street racing” community. The Rally was sponsored held at “Rick's all Things Imported” car shop and lasted nearly all day, with...

Mike Murphy's run for the District 4 congressional seat has ruffled feathers in the national GOP. He just can't figure out why.   About a year ago, Mike Murphy and his pal J.J. Miller were at his pad in Frisco shooting pool over a few cold beers and lamenting the state of politics. Murphy, who is now 30, and Miller, 33, couldn't find a candidate whose ideas and values meshed with theirs, and the two young Republicans thought their party needed better guidance. "That's when I said he should run for Congress," Miller recalls. "I told him he'd be perfect."...

In U.S. presidential politics, Democrats are furious and Republicans excited by the prospect of another presidential run by consumer advocate Ralph Nader. Many Democrats believe Mr. Nader's 2000 campaign for president cost Democrat Al Gore the White House. But this time around could be a different story. Ralph Nader says he is running for president this year because he believes both major political parties have become dominated by corporate interests who care little about the concerns of average Americans. "We have a moral imperative to take a stand to help rescue our besieged democracy and secure our country and its...

Ralph Nader is a dangerous man. Indeed, he is a threat to the Republican-Democrat hegemony, but the real danger he poses exists because of his willingness to exploit the frustration people have with their ineffective government, all in order to push an even more dangerous regime upon us. While he properly identifies the natural results of an over bloated state apparatus, he assumes a tone of moral superiority while preaching that the answer to these problems is more government – though you will never hear him call his solution by its real name: socialism. Nader is employing the subversive tactics...

Four years ago, when people told Ralph Nader that his Green Party candidacy might split the Democratic vote and elect George W. Bush president, Mr. Nader said Al Gore and Mr. Bush were so much alike that it didn't really matter who won. The worst that could happen, he sometimes added, was that Mr. Bush would turn out to be far more conservative than expected. That would then mobilize Democrats and create a healthy new sense of urgency about progressive issues. Well, four years later the Democrats are nothing if not mobilized. Yet Mr. Nader isn't satisfied. He's running again,...

WASHINGTON - Consumer advocate Ralph Nader (news - web sites) announced Sunday he will run again for the presidency, declaring that Washington has become "corporate occupied territory" and arguing there is too little difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. "This country has more problems and injustices than it deserves," Nader said, bemoaning a "democracy gap." Nader, who turns 70 this week, said he wants to "challenge this two-party duopoly." "There's too much power and wealth in too few hands," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Washington is now corporate occupied territory," Nader said. "There is now a for-sale...

WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader, the candidate many Democrats blame for Al Gore's loss in 2000, will announce on Sunday whether he will make another bid for the White House, with all signs pointing to the consumer advocate joining the race as an independent. If Nader decides to run, his late start, lack of party affiliation - he won't be on the Green Party ticket this time - and the challenge of getting his name on ballots in 50 states weigh against his candidacy. So does the palpable anger among many Democrats after nearly four years of a Republican in the...

WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader (news - web sites), the third-party candidate viewed by many Democrats as the spoiler of the 2000 election for taking votes away from Al Gore (news - web sites), has decided not to run on the Green Party ticket next year, a party spokesman said Tuesday. Nader, who garnered nearly 3 percent of the national vote in the last presidential election, has not ruled out running for president as an independent and plans to make a decision by January. "I think we're all a little bit disappointed," said Scott McLarty, a Green Party spokesman. "I suspect...

<p>CAPE CANAVERAL -- A NASA manager criticized for his role in the Columbia disaster was tapped Friday to direct a new safety and engineering watchdog group that will oversee all space agency programs.</p> <p>Ralph Roe, a former shuttle program manager reassigned in the wake of the Feb. 1 accident, will head up the NASA Engineering and Safety Center at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.</p>

In his now legendary interview last month with Brit Hume of Fox News, George W. Bush explained that he doesn't get his news from the news media — not even Fox. "The best way to get the news is from objective sources," the president said, laying down his utopian curriculum for Journalism 101. "And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world." Those sources? Condoleezza Rice and Andrew Card. Mr. Hume, helpfully dispensing with the "We Report" half of his network's slogan, did not ask the obvious follow-up question:...

<p>America's consumer watchdog has a bone to pick with the US Trade Representative. The USTR is lobbying foreign countries to adopt America's liberal approach to issuing patents and to honor US patents granted for business methods, such as Amazon's 1-Click ordering. Backed by his advocacy group, the Consumer Project on Technology (www.cptech.org), Nader argues that exporting a flawed policy is a mistake. We caught up with him in Washington to find out why he believes US patent evangelism is a problem.</p>

Under the heavily ironic heading "Behind Every Choice is a Story," Planned Parenthood is advertising an artwork and poster contest "celebrating 30 years of choice." Serrin Foster, with Feminists for Life, is concerned about the images in the minds of women who have suffered through an abortion. "And I think what they're going to miss are the untold stories of women who've had abortions and all the millions of young men and young women who aren't with us this year," Foster said. "The thoughts that they're going to have on the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade imagining the children...

After Helen Thomas saw her name in print for the first time in her Detroit high school newspaper, she "was hooked for life," she told a group of budding journalists at Waialua High School yesterday. Many, if not all, students in Gail Kuroda's news-writing class had no idea who Thomas was, but they do now. And they came away impressed with the former White House correspondent with a remarkable resume who confessed she "goofed off" in class and didn't get A's. Thomas, 82, visited the rural North Shore school yesterday to highlight the importance of journalism in the schools and...

Insane at Any Speed What's wrong with Ralph Nader 7/22/2002 Mr. Porter I just stumbled upon your absurd rant against Phil Donahue. But im curious...what's wong with Ralph Nader? And what the f*ck is up with that bsnn web site? I didn't know their were so many people in the world with dull-normal IQs. Obviously you folks have WAY too much time on your hands. Tennis W. Lilly Executive Director Lawrence Grassroots Initiative Dear Tennis: What’s wrong with Ralph Nader? That’s like asking what’s wrong with syphilis. What’s wrong with Ralph Nader? Two of his biggest supporters are Phil Donahue...

<p>HAVANA (AP) --  Ralph Nader attended a dinner with Cuban leader Fidel Castro as the consumer advocate began a three-day visit to the communist nation.</p> <p>Nader, who says he is visiting to learn more about Cuba's disease-fighting efforts, met with Castro on Sunday and was planning to attend another dinner with him. He was invited by National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon.</p>