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Evan Thomas was just on "Imus in the Morning" on MSNBC. He's starting to spill his guts on the stuff the MSM hid from the public about John Kerry and his campaign. First, Thomas admits that Kerry's staff took his cell-phone away from him twice, in order to prevent him from calling hundreds of people to decide what he should think about a particular issue. Imus adds that Kerry called him, Imus, on more than one occasion asking for advice. This information was apparently not deemed newsworthy before John Kerry might have been elected President of the United States. Next,...

LITTLE ROCK - Many credit President Clinton's visit to Pine Bluff four years ago on behalf of Mike Ross as turning the tide for Ross in the 4th District congressional race. Ron Oliver, state chairman of the Democratic Party, said Friday he hopes Clinton's visit Sunday will have the same effect for John Kerry and give the Democratic presidential nominee the bounce needed to win the state on Tuesday. "Yes, he could easily have the same effect this time," Oliver said about Clinton's appearance Sunday at a rally at the Aerospace Education Center near the Little Rock National Airport. The...

By Chuck Canterbury National President - Fraternal Order of Police I am often asked by those in the media or outside the membership of our organization why the Fraternal Order of Police chose to endorse the reelection of President George W. Bush over Senator Kerry--the first ever unanimous endorsement of a presidential candidate in the F.O.P.’s nearly ninety year history. Quite simply, it is because under this President promises made are promises kept. It is one thing to claim that you support law enforcement. It’s quite another to actually go out there, roll up your sleeves and work on their...

Shepard Smith just said Kerry Campaign due on FOX BUT they "missed" their spot.Bush campaign showed up! Kerry campaign afraid of AMMOGATE questions?LOL

(CNSNews.com) - The Kerry-Edwards campaign Wednesday released another last-minute TV ad - this one thanking America's soldiers and families for their sacrifice -- and stressing "John Kerry's commitment to always support our troops." The 30-second ad, called "Heroes," follows Kerry's comments about the U.S. military's failure to secure Iraq's al-Qaqaa weapons dump. Kerry, of course, considers it a failure of the commander-in-chief: "Our troops are doing a heroic job; the president, the commander in chief, is not doing his job," Kerry said on Wednesday. But by extension, the Bush campaign suggested, Kerry also is blaming U.S. troops, who stopped...

An academic researcher has found 11 passages in Senator Kerry's published writings that appear to have been taken from other works without attribution, though experts disagree about whether the copying should be considered plagiarism. Six of the passages come from Mr. Kerry's 1997 book, "The New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's National Security." All bear some similarity to news accounts that preceded publication of the book.

John Kerry has canceled ads in Colorado through Election Day. With one weekend poll showing the Democratic nominee narrowly ahead in Colorado, but others showing him trailing, his campaign pulled dozens of spots starting today. Kerry's national campaign staff wouldn't comment. Steve Haro, Kerry's Colorado spokesman, said that Democrats are focusing on mobilizing voters rather than persuading them with TV ads. "Television commercials do not a campaign make," he said. "Right now, you have to question the return on the investment, and we did." Kerry's campaign has decided to buy time for commercials in other states that are "not as...

KERRY APOLOGIZES FOR QUAYLE JOKE Published on November 17, 1988 Author(s): Associated Press LYNN -- Sen. John Kerry apologized yesterday for a telling a joke about Vice President-elect Dan Quayle. At a businessmen's breakfast Tuesday, Kerry responded to a question about Quayle's qualifications by saying, "The Secret Service is under orders that if Bush is shot, to shoot Quayle." The Massachusetts Democrat said in a statement yesterday: "I shouldn't have repeated the story. It was inappropriate, and I apologize for doing so." Through spokesman

Excommunicated or Not, Kerry is not Permitted to Receive Communion WASHINGTON, October 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The controversy over the Catholic lawsuit against Presidential candidate John Kerry, and the denial by Vatican personalities of having been involved in it in any way has generated confusion about Kerry's status within the church. Apart from the question of whether or not Kerry is "automatically excommunicated", recent authoritative Vatican statements have made clear that he is, by virtue of his support for abortion, not permitted to receive communion. The Catholic penalty of excommunication is to be distinguished from inadmissibility to receive communion which...

Lipscomb's latest piece examining Kerry's Navy service appeared in the New York Sun and the Jewish World Review. John O'Neil of SBVT issued a press release after the Nightline show this past week, the last paragraph of which contiained this teaser: "Further, one has to wonder why ABC News will not address the serious questions as to why John Kerry only received an honorable discharge through the act of then President Carter, seven years after his discharge, and had to have all of his military citations reissued, on the same day, when he became a United States Senator in 1985....

<p>Oct. 17, 2004 -- While the race for the presidency is close, George W. Bush has expectations working for him: Most likely voters think that in the end he'll win a second term.</p> <p>Even though the race has been a dead heat for much of the past week, 56 percent in the latest ABC News tracking poll think Bush will win, compared with 33 percent who think Kerry will. That's a bit closer than in early September, before the debates revived Kerry's campaign, but expectations remain on Bush's side.</p>

Review of the Documentary, "Stolen Honor" I just finished watching the DVD of the Documentary, "Stolen Honor, Wounds that do not heal", by Carlton Sherwood, a Pulizter Prize winning journalist and himself a Marine combat verteran from the Vietnam War. Simply stated, every American should see this film so they can hear the other side of the John Kerry story from honorable men who served with distinction and at great harm, pain, agony and sarifice to themselves. When war hero, and Medal of Honor winner, "Bud" Day states in the documentary, unequivocally that "That man", meaning John Kerry, "committed an...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today Chuck Canterbury, the President of the nation's largest police labor organization, called on John Kerry to stop making misleading statements regarding his support from the law enforcement community. Both on the campaign trail and in Wednesday night's debate in Tempe, AZ, Senator Kerry has alluded that he has the support of the majority of these brave men and women. "As the elected leader of the largest organization representing America's Federal, State and local law enforcement officers, I believe it's important to point out yet again that we do not support his candidacy for...

Kerry Demands Sinclair Stop Film or Give Equal Time An angry and worried John Kerry claims Sinclair Broadcasting will violate federal broadcasting rules if it shows the documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal." In a letter released Friday the Kerry campaign made clear it wants to stop the film from being broadcast on television. If it does air the documentary, Kerry is demanding the station group give his campaign equal time. The Kerry letter comes on the heels of the FCC's announcement Thursday they would not accede to the request of Democratic senators who demanded the commission stop the...

Shameless! John Kerry lied about his own mother. In the third debate, John Kerry spoke of his mother's final moments and her words to him: "Can I say, if I could just say a word about a woman that you didn't ask about, but my mom passed away a couple years ago, just before I was deciding to run. And she was in the hospital, and I went in to talk to her and tell her what I was thinking of doing. And she looked at me from her hospital bed and she just looked at me and she said,...

...Both the veep and his wife, Lynne, reacted angrily to John Kerry's having pointedly noted in Wednesday's debate that their daughter Mary — who works for the campaign but keeps a low profile — is gay. The suspicion is that Kerry meant to damage the Republican ticket in the eyes of any voters who have a problem with Mary Cheney's sexuality — that is, in the eyes of people that Kerry considers to be bigots. Recall that Kerry's running-mate, John Edwards, also gratuitously brought up the subject.... Yesterday, Mrs. Cheney reacted furiously to Kerry's tactic, calling it "a cheap and...

GOP leaders take issue with Senate candidate's contract By James S. Tyree Transcript Staff Writer October 7, 2004Senate Republican leaders and other GOP members are crying foul over a contract between a state agency and State Senate Democratic candidate Lisa Pryor. The matter stems from a services contract between the Norman candidate and the Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation Department. Republicans take issue over the contract's timing, the money involved and Pryor's use of her campaign address and telephone number as contact information for the Lake Thunderbird project. "Serious ethical - if not legal - questions surround this contract that...

What the Florida States Attorney's Office (Prosecutor) Said Happened MEMO TO THE FILE January 22, 2004 From Ken Selvig RE: Release of letters from attorney for Rush Limbaugh in response to a public records request We have a received a public records request from Peter Franceschina of the Sun Sentinel for, among other things any correspondence to or from Roy Black and his law firm.  Mr. Black currently represents Mr. Limbaugh in connection with an ongoing investigation. Yesterday by telephone I spoke with Pat Gleason, the AG's most knowledgeable person on the Public Records Law.  I did not tell...

Bill Clinton yesterday united his two loves, Ireland and golf, by buying a two-bedroom apartment that overlooks a Ryder Cup venue. The property comes with full membership for two to the prestigious Kildare Hotel and Country Club - better known as the K Club - 30 miles south-west of Dublin where an 18-hole round costs £190 and first year membership is £60,000. The former American president, who has called Ireland his second home, struck a deal with an estate agent friend for an £850,000 flat while playing golf in Northern Ireland last weekend. It is thought to be the first...

<p>Doubts have surfaced about a handful of stories Blair wrote for the Globe during a brief stint as a freelance reporter from late 1998 to early 1999, just before he was hired by the Times, and during summer internships in 1996 and 1997. The Globe's editor, Martin Baron, said the paper will continue its investigation to determine whether there are problems in other stories.</p>

Sunday, May. 11, 2003Reading Between the Lies A young reporter who stole and made up stories forces the New York Times to take stockBy NANCY GIBBS DOUG MILLS/APA police car at the scene of a sniper shooting in Falls Church, Va. October 2002 Given the chance, Macarena Hernandez might have done great things at the New York Times. With a gift for detail and musical prose, she was offered a job after working as a summer intern in 1998 and planned to take it — right up until the day that August when her father, a construction worker, was killed...

A Journalist’s Hard Fall The New York Times confronts an embarrassing trail of deceit—and difficult questions about its own culture[...]But there's plenty that the Times report, which ran under the rubric CORRECTING THE RECORD, didn't fully explore, namely how a troubled young reporter whose short career was rife with problems was able to advance so quickly. Internally, reporters had wondered for years whether Blair was given so many chances - and whether he was hired in the first place - because he was a promising, if unpolished, black reporter on a staff that continues to be, like most newsrooms in...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"/> May 11, 2003 Witnesses and Documents Unveil Deceptions in a Reporter's WorkBy THE NEW YORK TIMES ollowing is an accounting of the articles in which falsification, plagiarism and similar problems were discovered in a review of articles written by Jayson Blair, a reporter for The New York Times who resigned May 1. The review, conducted by a team of Times reporters and researchers, concentrated on the 73 articles Mr. Blair wrote since late October, when he was given roving national assignments and began covering major news events including the Washington-area sniper attacks and...

New York Society for Ethical Culture presents the ETHICAL HUMANIST AWARD to U.S. Senator James M. Jeffords for his courage in becoming an independent, thus changing the balance of power in Congress Sunday, March 9, 2003, 11:30 a.m. Free Admission New York Society for Ethical Culture 2 West 64th Street New York, NY 10023 Call 212-874-5210 for information

REGARDING THE VISIT BY GOV. VENTURA TO CUBA -English Translation by RCB- EXPLANATORY NOTE FROM PABLO RODRIGUEZ CARVAJAL: October 2, 2002 This letter from Cuba was received by Martha Tamargo. Betty Smith translated it, mailed it, and telephoned the office of Governor Jesse Ventura in Minnesota to provide Mr. Ventura with the telephone number in Cuba to contact Mr. Alfredo Vivanco Gonzalez, U.S.T.I.C. Coordinator. My name is Pablo Rodriguez Carvajal, and I am a witness to the fact that all these was done with ample time. I am the one who decided to make this letter public to give the...

[SNIP] O'Malley, who ran for Montgomery County State's Attorney in 1998, put a copy of his manuscript, titled ``Deep Throat: Fact or Fiction,'' on the Internet last week. The book can be downloaded for $12. Dean is expected to publish his own e-book on the online magazine site Salon.com on June 17, the 30th anniversary of the bungled Watergate break-in, with his theories of who Deep Throat was. O'Malley said he doesn't need to put forth any theories, he has a confession from the source himself - Joe Lowther, a former aide to Watergate Judge John J. Sirica and one-time...

Maryland's highest court yesterday revealed that a fourth Democratic senator contacted a judge about legislative redistricting, broadening a controversy over the political map that will define State House elections for the next decade. [SNIP] Yesterday, Chief Judge Robert M. Bell said he had "overlooked" yet another contact: a March 8 meeting with Senate Majority Leader Clarence W. Blount ([D] Baltimore).

"[Maryland] Senator Miller [D] has a history of attempting to bully the judiciary," said Del. Robert L. Flanagan (R-Howard). [SNIP] According to one lawsuit, filed by Prince George's County Executive Wayne K. Curry (D), the most egregious example of boundary-crossing occurs in District 27, newly drawn to accommodate Miller's move out of his family's Prince George's home and into a waterfront mansion in Calvert County. [SNIP] [Sen.] Ruben [D - Montgomery], asked whether Miller told her to call Raker, said: "I'm not going to respond to that."

ANNAPOLIS (AP) - A lobbyist whose fraud conviction prompted lawmakers to make a tougher ethics law has been released from federal custody, and he has taken steps to work again at the Maryland State House. Gerard E. Evans, 46, filed papers Friday with the state ethics commission to represent a handful of high-profile clients. They include Baltimore Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos and the Baltimore and Prince George's County chapters of the state's largest police union. [SNIP] Evans built his $1 million lobbying franchise largely on the strength of his ties to Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., D-Prince...

Cole said Miller made a veiled threat to Funk, reminding him the state of Maryland does business with the law firm. Miller was one of five people on the Governor's Redistricting Advisory Committee, whose map mostly was followed by Gov. Parris Glendening for the 2002, 2006 and 2010 elections.

MARYLAND STATE Sen. Mike Miller's attempts to contact judges about a redistricting plan pending before the state Court of Appeals were grossly improper, as were similar contacts made by three other Democratic lawmakers. All should have -- must have -- known better. Senate President Miller is a lawyer; he and the other three -- Sens. Ida Ruben of Montgomery and Ulysses Currie of Prince George's and Del. Ruth M. Kirk of Baltimore -- have been around awhile.