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Donors got access to bowling alley, WH movies, Messina It turns out that the White House-complex bowling alley might be the new Lincoln Bedroom. [Getting Dem pushback on the lede -- the argument being that the perks weren't part of a formal fundraising program like the Clintons' Lincoln bedroom arrangement.] Matthew Mosk of the Washington Times sifts the records and finds that President Obama's high-rolling donors got access to a ten-pin alley, the White House movie theater and the Oval. The big shots were also treated to an in-person West Coast briefing on health care reform by Jim Messina, one...

10/3/2005 - U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AFPN) -- They lined Highway 24 in rural Peyton, Colo., about 30 miles east of here, straining to get a better glimpse of this real life “Field of Dreams.” A stretched limousine carrying an eager academy family pulled carefully alongside a huge bus so they could not see the miraculous transformation their home had undergone in just seven days while 5,000 Coloradians cheered them on. The event was part of the ABC network show “Extreme Makeover Home Edition,” which picks deserving families for a complete dwelling makeover. The show, which aired Oct. 2,...

They climbed to the highest position in the government thanks largely to the candidacy of Bush-hating Ross Perot and a morally-compromised press. They stayed in power when others would have been run out of office, remember Richard Nixon, what was his crime? No Washington Post expose' this time, guess forcible rape is not impeachable. Now one is US Senator and together they pull in millions of dollars yearly for speaking and writing books about their years when people were too stupid to care. All this because they were able to fool so many people for so many years and having...

WASHINGTON – One of the highest-ranking women in the FBI, a deputy assistant to director Robert Mueller, killed a press-office review of the bureau's recent performance-bonus payouts on the same day she was cited by this newssite for recently receiving a large lump-sum cash award. Last week, WorldNetDaily requested aggregate figures for performance pay for Senior Executive Service employees of the FBI for fiscal year 1997 through fiscal 2001. Bill Carter, head of the FBI's press office, agreed to research it, and handed off the request to a deputy. But his deputy informed WorldNetDaily late Thursday that the project suddenly...