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The sun is rising over a house in the Berkeley Hills, and in its modest studio apartment, America's most compelling anti-war activist is making her bed, apologizing for the clutter and running late. Cindy Sheehan was up much of the previous night while emergency room doctors treated her daughter for a painful cyst, but sleeping in is out of the question. Soon a car will whisk her off to a Canadian TV interview, to be followed by a local TV interview, and finally, fixing spaghetti for her three adult children in Vacaville -- her home before the death of her...

In the rearview mirror, objects often look smaller than they did when we passed them. Lots of people were thrown--or threw themselves--into the spotlight this year, many of whom we will never see again, unless they have shrewd publicists or the reality shows get desperate. But they can always think with fondness or remorse of 2005, when, for a while, theirs were the names on everyone's lips. JENNIFER WILBANKS Runaway bride must repay the city--but did she keep the Crock-Pot?DAISY WRIGHT The nanny broke up Jude Law and Sienna Miller, at least for now. Her real impact? More jobs for...

U.S. actress Susan Sarandon arrives at the Cinema Palace in Venice September 6, 2005 for the premiere of U.S. director John Turturro's latest movie 'Romance and cigarettes', which is screening at the Venice film festival.

In Surrounded by Idiots, Mike Gallagher, one of the top radio talk show hosts in America, takes us to the front lines of the unprecedented cultural and political war confronting all decent Americans. The 2004 election was a watershed moment in our nation's history, and while it was shocking to the left to see so many red states on the electoral map, to conservatives it was just an affirmation of what they'd known all along – conservatives are the mainstream and liberals are the fringe. It is not the time to rest or take things for granted, Mike Gallagher argues....

"War of the Worlds" Spielberg-esque Message: Don't Fight Terror By Debbie Schlussel I'm violating Steven Spielberg's review policy for "War of the Worlds" and telling you what I think ahead of tomorrow's scheduled release date. I saw the movie at a press screening, last night, and was disturbed by the message: Don't fight terror, and everything will work out. (Security was literally tighter than that for going to the White House to meet the President. No purses allowed. Three wandings by security.) It's bad enough that Steven Spielberg is adding "balance" and factual inaccuracy to the story of the Israeli...

Its time for the Oscars kiddies! can you feel the excitement building?? I haven't been to the movies since the second Austin Powers movie and I refuse to watch these bloody award shows. they are all just an example of collective masturbation.Some day eveyone in Hollyweird will have their own award show. I can just see it now: Welcome to the Susan Sarandon Awards for 2006 Up for best Susan Sarandon in a movie starring Susan Sarandon is(drum roll) Susan Sarandon.... the winner is(Another annoying drum roll as the audience holds their breath in anticipation) Susan Sarandon!(Insert crescendo of horns...

You know the Left is in big trouble when they look upon Hollywood actress, Susan Sarandon, as some sort of political guru as you can see in this DUmmie THREAD titled, “Susan Sarandon on CSpan nailed it, the Dems need to understand the difference in beliefs between rurals and urbans.” What next for the DUmmies? Will they look to Bianca Jagger for campaign advice? Maybe Madonna will be seen as a source for religious inspiration. OH WAIT! She already is looked upon as an expert in metaphysics with her watered down celeb Kabbala routine. While we are at it,...

Here is something that should not surprise you. In a two-year study of more than 100,000 high school student and educators, a majority of students believed that flag burning was illegal, and that the government could censor the internet. Another shocker was that most high school students think that the first amendment goes too far in protecting our rights to free speech, press and religion. Our public school system has absolutely failed this country. The foundation of our way of life is spelled out in the constitution, and nothing should be more sacred to our citizens than the first ammendment....

In this time of traditional thanksgiving for the families, friendships, freedoms and bounties we enjoy, it's only appropriate that we Republicans - in the spirit of appreciation, graciousness, charity and comity - give thanks to those whose contributions were instrumental in securing control of both houses of Congress, a majority of governorships, a plurality of state legislatures, a clear majority of the popular vote (for the first time in 16 years) and, of course, the re-election of President George W. Bush. Thank you, Terry McAullife. You will no doubt be remembered as the worst-ever chairman of the Democratic National Committee....

From Maureen Dowd's brother Kevin, a salesman who lives in Montgomery County, Md., here is a recent e-mail message, trimmed for space, he sent to friends: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Now, just as four years ago, I breathe a huge sigh of relief and rejoice in the common sense of the American voting public. Congratulations to President Bush for winning re-election in a poker game played with a stacked deck. No candidate, including Richard Nixon, ever had to endure the biased and unfair tactics of our major media in their attempt to influence the outcome of an election. He never complained,...

"Stupidity is not limited to any one group of people. Sometimes the people we look up to most make the biggest fools of themselves. When they do, we are here to point it out." http://www.famousfools.com/

"Team America" Rocks October 14 , 2004 Printer Friendly No wonder Sean Penn is miffed at Matt Stone and Trey Parker. He and other liberal airhead celebs--like Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and Alec Baldwin--finally get their comeuppance. They’re dismembered, incinerated, and otherwise tortuously eliminated by the “South Park” creators. Unfortunately, it’s just the puppet version. And it’s only on celluloid. The real-life versions of these self-righteous glitterati pains in the rear are still with us. But it’s always nice to fantasize -- as Stone and Parker do in Team America: World Police, a cinematic political satire, which debuts Friday. Just...

LIVINGSTON - With a brisk walk, actress Susan Sarandon made an unannounced trip Wednesday to Texas to visit her pen pal — a convicted murderer on death row. She had corresponded with the inmate, James Vernon Allridge III, for several years after buying some of the detailed drawings of flowers and animals he creates with colored pencils. Prison officials said she had only recently been put on his visitation list, and she would not tip her hand as to why she had come to see Allridge, who is scheduled for execution Aug. 26. "I'm trying to be as low-profile as...

Actress Sarandon visits Texas condemned killer04:35 PM CDT on Wednesday, July 14, 2004Associated Press LIVINGSTON -- Actress Susan Sarandon spoke with a convicted killer for about two hours Wednesday in a Texas death row visit. Sarandon declined to talk with reporters after she met with James Allridge, III at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston. Sarandon is a death penalty opponent who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of an anti-capital punishment nun in the film "Dead Man Walking." Allridge, who declined to speak with reporters Wednesday, faces execution August 26. He was condemned for the 1985 shooting death of...

• At least one Northern Virginia moviegoer walked out in a huff after watching just a half-hour of "Fahrenheit," and she wants our readers to know about it. Loyal Republican Lenora Tomalin, 81, called us to report that she left her relatives in their seats at the Regal theater in Sterling and headed for the lobby during the scene when Moore, in a voiceover, suggests thoughts President Bush might have had in a Florida classroom the morning of Sept. 11. "I was enraged . . . I thought it was very sophomoric," she says. "There was laughter and I would...

"Laughing is the best medicine" ...at least that's what Dr. Howard Dean says. And if that's so, these hilarious political voodoo dolls should go a long way towards curing whatever ails you. The list is almost endless... All of these caracters come as voodoo dolls: Presidential Candidate John Kerry, Senator Ted Kennedy,former President Bill Clinton, former First Lady and current Senator Hillary Clinton, Former Vice President Al Gore, Al Sharpton, Tom Daschle, Janet Reno, Dick Gephardt, Air America host Al Franken, Michael Moore, Jim Carville, Susan Sarandon, Jesse Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Robert Reich, Howard Dean, Sean Penn, Dixie Chicks

<p>Fiesty, beautiful redheads obviously do it for Tim Robbins. And there he was engaged in what one could only assume was an erudite political conversation with one last Thursday. But it was 2 a.m. and her name definitely wasn't Susan Sarandon.</p>

Once again it is awards season in Hollywood, where hardware is handed out and acceptance speeches filled with the ramblings of elites who forget to pay homage to those who truly are responsible for their immense wealth and success, the regular Joe’s and Jane’s who pay to see them on the big and little screens. Oft times these award events are used as pulpits for the political rants and diatribes against our current administration, policies, and Americans who are supportive of them. In honor of this award giving season I will now announce my first annual “Foot in Mouth” awards,...

I was listening to Rush Limbaugh's radio show at 11am and heard a CBS news report of Susan Sarandon's take on Howard Stern being dropped/suspended from several Clear Channel radio stations. She said that it was a "chill wind" and censorship. She also said that while she did not agree with Howard's radio program, that people could just turn it off. It's a good thing I was not at a microphone at that moment, I sufferred a 20-second bout with Tourette's Syndrome calling Ms. Sarandon every name in the book. For those who don't recall, she was pivotal in the...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights organization today called on nationally-syndicated radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger to apologize for what the group called an "anti-Muslim tirade" on her Nov. 17 program. ("Dr. Laura's" radio program is heard by 12 million listeners on some 270 stations nationwide.) The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it received a number of complaints from Muslims who said Schlessinger's remarks crossed the line from legitimate commentary on terrorism to Islamophobic bigotry. The offensive comments came in response to a mother who asked whether her 16-year-old daughter...