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Cheney heckled by anti-war protesters Vice president ignores shouts at ceremony for Howard Baker KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney was heckled by peace protesters Tuesday as he spoke at the groundbreaking for a public policy center honoring former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. During Cheney's remarks, about a half-dozen people protesting the war in Iraq yelled, "War, what is it good for?" and held up a large banner saying, "Peace Now." Cheney continued speaking and didn't acknowledge the protesters, who were escorted from the ceremony inside the University of Tennessee's basketball arena. About 50 protesters, most of...

FOR IMMEDIATE USE October 26, 2005 VP Cheney to Attend Baker Center Groundbreaking KNOXVILLE -- Vice President Dick Cheney will be among Senator Howard Baker's special guests at the groundbreaking for the University of Tennessee's Howard Baker Center for Public Policy building, set for 11 a.m. November 15 at Thompson Boling Assembly Center and Arena. Vice President Dick Cheney The occasion also will mark the 80th birthday for Baker, an East Tennessee native and longtime public servant. UT President John Petersen will emcee the event, which will conclude with a ceremonial shoveling to mark the beginning of construction of the...

Alrighty sports fans, today is the 100th meeting between the Longhorns and Sooners, starting @noon CST on ABC! The game ought to be a great one...I'll go out on a limb and predict UT over OU, 45-10.

End of Howell's reign is part of a shuffle designed to focus NASA on space exploration NASA's Johnson Space Center Director Jefferson Howell Jr. announced Monday that he will leave the high-level post for a space agency liaison assignment with the University of Texas at Austin. The retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general will remain as director of the 15,000-person installation in Houston's Clear Lake area until NASA Administrator Michael Griffin names a successor, probably by late November. Howell's departure is one of nearly 20 high-level personnel changes throughout the space agency since Griffin became administrator in mid-April. Griffin was...

Saturday, September 24thBaltimore, MD - Johns Hopkins University5:45-6:45 PM - Rally & News Conference at John Hopkins University at the Glass Pavillion - located right by Levering Hall and Gilman Hall. “Support the Troops” banner-sheets will be on display, for you to sign and include a message of support. The sheets will be sent to the troops upon the completion of the nationwide bus tour and Washington, D.C. rally. Audience members will recite the pledge of allegiance to protest the ruling against the pledge by activist U.S. District Judge, Lawrence Karlton. Campus Map: (PDF) === From Yahoo Maps === I...

Saturday, September 24thShanksville, PA12:30 - 2:00 PM - Rally & News Conference held near the crash site of Flight 93 (at location of Memorial to the Victims, designed by Lei Hennessy Owen. At Upper entrance of Crash site, off of Buckstown Road. Site of Crash of Flight 93 on 9/11/2001 Directions are as follows: Go Down the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Take Somerset Interchange 10/110. Go straight ahead to the 3rd traffic signal. Turn left at that light onto Rte. 281 North. Go 10 miles and then turn onto Rte. 30 East. Go 3 miles till you see Highland Tank Manufacturing. Turn...

Cincinnati, OHFriday, September 23rd5:00-6:00 PM - News Conference & Rally on front steps of City Hall - at 801 Plum Street. “Support the Troops” banner-sheets will be on display, for you to sign and include a message of support. The sheets will be sent to the troops upon the completion of the nationwide bus tour and Washington, D.C. rally. Audience members will recite the pledge of allegiance to protest the ruling against the pledge by activist U.S. District Judge, Lawrence Karlton. --> The address is 801 Plum Street, Cincinnati, OH. CLICK HERE for Map to City Hall in downtown====...

Move America Forward's Support Our Troops bus tour makes a stop in Denver for a rally on Wednesday September 21stThe only FReepers I know of who were there were myself and 'jan in Colorado'. === Marine Corp Mom Deborah Johns speaks to the gathering=== Gold Star Dad Joe Williams at the podium=== 'jan in Colorado' showing FReeper support for our military=== Me, 'ajolympian2004' holding sign promoting the Support Our Troops rallyAfter departing the rally in Cheyenne earlier in the morning I came up with the idea of downloading the .jpg file from the Support Our Troops Weekend website to create...

American flags, patriotic songs and pro- troops rhetoric filled the west steps of the state Capitol on Wednesday as the "Support the Troops and Their Mission" bus tour stopped in Denver to rally support for the war in Iraq. Organized as a response to anti-war military mom Cindy Sheehan, the tour featured military parents Deborah Johns and Joseph Williams, whose son, Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Williams, died in Iraq on the third day of the war. "I joined the tour because I'm just tired of hearing Cindy Sheehan and her rhetoric," said Williams, who lives in Vacaville, Calif., Sheehan's hometown....

Report from the Cheyenne, Wyoming rally this morning during the bus tour stop at the state Capitol. === I started my drive from Boulder to Cheyenne at 5:00am arriving at about 6:30am. === Capitol building at dawn upon arriving in townThe only person who had arrived before me was Don Edmonds, the father of a fallen Army Ranger. === Proud father Don Edmunds holding a picture of his son and American hero, fallen Army Ranger Jonn Edmunds, in action 10/19/01, Afghanistan.While talking to Mr. Edmunds I discovered that he had arrived much earlier than I to raise the flag of...

'Move Forward' bus visits By JOHN SENTS - Staff Writer Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:57 PM PDT ELKO - About a dozen well-wishers greeted the Move America Forward bus last night when it pulled into the Red Lion Inn & Casino on its 20-stop, cross-country tour to show support for America's troops and counter the efforts of anti-war advocate Cindy Sheehan. Sheehan and her supporters are nearing the end of a seperate bus tour sending a message to bring America's troops home. Move America Forward photographer Mary Pearson snaps a shot of Deborah Johns, center, a military mom on the...

uesday, September 20, 2005 Posted By: Melanie Morgan (0) Comments Permalink Support the Troops Tour Bus I thought you all might enjoy some pictures of our tour bus that is making its way from coast to coast to rally support for our troops - and their missions in Iraq & Afghanistan. Here’s the bus: And here are the two logos emblazoned on the sides of the bus: * “We Support Our Troops And Their Mission” Tour: * “You Don’t Speak for Me, Cindy”

Monday's Stop in Reno, Nevada Reno, Nevada - Monday, September 19th Deborah Johns Interviewd by NBC Affiliate in Reno- KRNV TV-4 The “We Support Our Troops And Their Mission” Bus Tour continued on its first day of a weeklong trip across the country with a large rally outside of the Kietzke Wal-Mart in Reno, Nevada. Marine Mom Deborah Johns and Gold-Star Dad Joseph Williams addressed a crowd of about 200 before appearing live on the air with Bill Manders on AM-780 KOH. The Reno stop was the fourth on a tour of more than twenty cities, which culminates with a...

Sacramento Stop of Pro-Troop Bus Tour Monday, September 19- Sacramento, CA Supporters Greeted the Pro-Troop Bus Tour in Sacramento The “We Support Our Troops & Their Mission” Bus Tour made its third stop of its first day across the country in front of the Move America Forward headquarters at 770 L Street in Sacramento, California. Talk show host Mark Williams of NewsTalk 1530 AM - KFBK emceed, Marine Mom Deborah Johns and Gold-Star Dad Joseph Williams addressed the crowd, and singer Kaweah Angel sang the Star-Spangled Banner and led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance. The tour will make...

Live on the air this minute. Deborah Johns is doing a great interview!!!

Trouping for troops Vaca dad honors fallen GIs By David Henson/Staff Writer The Vacaville parent of a fallen soldier embarks on a politically-charged tour across the United States to speak out about the war in Iraq. Sound familiar? Not so fast. This isn't Cindy Sheehan, the so-called "peace mom" who stirred heated debate throughout the nation with her roadside anti-war protest near President George W. Bush's Texas ranch. This is Joseph Williams, whose son died in Nasiriyah in March 2003 and who has become a focal figure in a cross-country anti-Sheehan, pro-military bus tour. "The reason I'm going, I guess,...

ELKO - The Move America Forward organization is stopping in Elko tonight as part of a 20-stop bus tour to show support for America's troops and counter the efforts of anti-war advocate Cindy Sheehan, who is currently nearing the end of a separate bus tour sending a message to bring America's troops home. Move America Forward's bus tour began at 8:30 a.m. this morning in San Francisco and is scheduled to finish in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 25. According to the schedule on their Web site, the tour will include stops in Vacaville, Calif., Sacramento, Calif., and Reno before it...

San Francisco- Monday, September 19 San Francisco: People signing our “Pro-Troop” sheets. The continuation of the “You Don’t Speak for Me, Cindy” tour kicked off Monday morning with the “We Support Our Troops AND Their Mission” national bus tour. We began the day with a rally in front of the studios of KSFO-AM 560 in San Francisco, California. Move America Forward co-founder and KSFO talk show host, Melanie Morgan, and Marine Mom Deborah Johns (founder of Northern California Marine Moms) spoke before a crowd of about sixty. Deborah Johns led last month’s “You Don’t Speak For Me, Cindy” caravan from...

Vacaville- Monday, September 19 Deborah Johns Greets Supporters in Vacaville The “We Support Our Troops And Their Mission” Bus Tour continued Monday in Vacaville, California, with a raucous rally in front of the Vacaville Veterans Hall. About 100 people showed up to see Move America Forward co-founder Melanie Morgan and Marine Mom Deborah Johns speak. Also joining the tour was Gold-Star Dad Joseph Williams, who resides in Vacaville. Joseph’s son, Michael, died in combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Vacaville stop was particularly important, as it is also the home of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, who has been making headlines...

FReepers, in the upcoming days please monitor very closely (at least a few times a day) the Itinerary link for the caravan and the stops on their trek to DC: http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/DailyFile/itinerary_for_national_bus_tour/When the specific times/places are announced for the stop in your state/city call into your local talk radio stations one or two days before the caravan stop. I will be doing this for the Cheyenne and Denver stops. I made an email contact with a radio station in Cheyenne about three days ago and they are going to promote this big time leading upto the visit at the Capitol steps...

From: "Melanie Morgan - Move America Forward" Subject: America to Take Notice - COMING NEXT WEEK! Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:14:48 -0700 Friends, It is so exciting, we are rapidly putting together the final pieces for our "Support The Troops & Their Mission" national bus tour... the continuation of the "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" caravan. We've worked from early in the morning (KSFO listeners know that I have been pushing this trip on-air starting at 5:00 AM Pacific Time each day) all the way til Midnight or later. Needless to say we are starting to feel exhausted,...

Itinerary for National Bus Tour Check back several times each day for more updates!  Last updated Wed. 9/14 at 2:25 PM Pacific Time Monday, September 19th San Francisco, CA8:30 AM - Supporters Invited to gather in front of KSFO Studios.  “Support the Troops” banner-sheets will be on display, for you to sign and include a message of support.  The sheets will be sent to the troops upon the completion of the nationwide bus tour and Washington, D.C. rally. Audience members will recite the pledge of allegiance to protest the ruling against the pledge by activist U.S. District Judge, Lawrence Karlton....

Colton Pitonyak, 22, was arrested in Eagle Pass early Tuesday morning. Pitonyak was arrested at 2 a.m. when he was deported from Mexico on an immigration violation. Pitonyak is charged with intentional murder, a first-degree felony. The Austin Police Department believes murder suspect Colton Pitonyak may have fled the country for Mexico. Pitonyak, 22, is charged with the murder of Jennifer Cave, 21. Pitonyak, of Little Rock, Ark., was a student at the University of Texas. Cave was supposed to start work at a law firm when she went missing. Cave and Pitonyak lived in the same apartment complex in...

The Austin Police Department believes murder suspect Colton Pitonyak may have fled the country for Mexico. Pitonyak, 22, is charged with the murder of Jennifer Cave. Pitonyak was a University of Texas student who is from Little Rock, Arkansas. Cave, 21, was supposed to start work at a law firm when she went missing. They both lived in the same apartment complex in West Campus. Cave was found dead in Pitonyak’s apartment on Thursday, Aug. 18, with obvious signs of trauma. Detectives believe the murder was not random, but they don't know the extent of their relationship. Court documents indicate...

The University of Texas would be prohibited from condemning a nearby restaurant for a campus parking garage under eminent domain legislation approved by the state House on Sunday evening. The prohibition was tacked onto Senate Bill 62 as an amendment by Rep. René Oliveira, D-Brownsville, who said his cousin is a co-owner of the restaurant, Player's . . . UT wants to acquire the restaurant property for a parking garage as part of a hotel and conference center for post-graduate educational programs involving law, business and other fields. The UT System Board of Regents authorized the use of condemnation, if...

I need a University of Texas geek to help me. Does anyone know the official hex code for the University of Texas Longhorns? I think it is either... C66E29 or F67B1B Anyway, I'm making a birthday graphic for my wife and I's friend (who is a UT grad) and I'm trying to do it right. He loves UT and I want it to look as much UT-like as possible.

Should doctors be required to inform a parent or guardian before a minor gets an abortion? Yes No

By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area The head of a team challenging the University of California for command of the birthplace of the bomb is mightily offended by the university's suggestions that corporations such as his employer, Lockheed Martin, lack the ability or integrity to do real science. C. Paul Robinson, physicist and former Sandia National Laboratories director, lashed back Friday, saying his team was appalled at the lack of competent business practices and focused scientific direction at Los Alamos National Laboratory, run by the University of California since 1943. "No wonder science is hurting. You've got scientists...

"If we went down to the Camelback Inn today in Phoenix and arrested everyone who’s working there illegally, the place would probably shut down," McCain was quoted as saying in The Hill, a nonpartisan newspaper covering politics in the nation’s capitol.

Why Does Governor Napolitano Think Arizona Should have the Lowest Security Standards in the Nation? Governor Janet Napolitano made a big show of sending a “bill” to the federal government for the costs of illegal immigration, complete with tough talk and finger-pointing. However, by vetoing meaningful reform in her own backyard, she is turning a blind eye to fraud, identity theft and other crimes committed in Arizona by illegal immigrants. I sponsored Senate Bill 1511 -- “secure and verifiable identification” -- to establish a standard for identification used by state and local government as recommended by FBI testimony. The FBI...

As part of the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill, Congress voted to support legislation for the use of federal troops on the Mexican-American borders. The National Border Control Council and the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed the legislation mandating the stationing of U.S. troops on the Mexican-American border to support the U.S. Border Patrol. [SNIP] On a more personal note, Virginia Sen. George Allen said, "Legal immigration has been and is the lifeblood of our nation. My own mother followed the process and emigrated to the U.S. from Tunisia after World War II. I have the greatest respect for the ingenuity,...

This is a dynamite article, but unfortunately can't give you anything but the link under the FR rules because it's USA Today. http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20050518/ts_usatoday/mexicansgotoarizformedicalhelp/nc:716

Feinstein targets agricultural workers. Senator plans to introduce an industry-specific bill, rather than a sweeping measure on immigration. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday that she ... plans to introduce her own measure to provide a path toward legalization only for longtime undocumented agriculture workers. Feinstein, D-Calif., said any new guest-worker program – even one requiring employees to eventually return to their home country – would be a "magnet for illegal immigration" and something she could not support. SNIP Under Feinstein's idea, which hasn't yet been finalized, longtime undocumented agricultural workers would get a "blue card," allowing them to continue to...

AUSTIN -- The University of Texas at Austin announced Monday the hiring of its first diversity officer. Gregory Vincent has held a similar post at the University of Oregon since 2003. Vincent will be vice provost for inclusion and cross-cultural effectiveness at UT-Austin. He'll start work by Aug. 1. The post was created in response to a 2004 report on race relations at UT following some incidents, including vandalism to a statue of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior. Vincent earlier served in similar capacities at Louisiana State University and the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

HOUSTON, May 13 - Students attending the University of Texas at Austin will find something missing from the undergraduate library this fall...books. By mid-July, the university says, almost all of the library's 90,000 volumes will be dispersed to other university collections to clear space for a 24-hour electronic information commons, a fast-spreading phenomenon that is transforming research and study on campuses around the country. "In this information-seeking America, I can't think of anyone who would elect to build a books-only library," said Fred Heath, vice provost of the University of Texas Libraries in Austin. Their new version is to include...

The United States is about to make it more difficult for people to get a driver's license. The Real I.D. act would standardize license requirements nationwide - forcing all 50 states to verify that each applicant is in the country legally. Some say the bill, passed by Congress this week, is the first step toward establishing a U.S. national ID card. For almost a century, each U.S. state has been responsible for issuing its own driver's licenses. There has been no national standard. Eleven states currently grant licenses to non-citizens. A license can be used to do many things in...

PROVIDENCE -- About 30 opponents of legislation that would link getting a driver's license to a motorist's immigration status, marched into Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee's downtown office yesterday, exercising one example of democracy while learning about another: The game of politics, Washington style. The office visitors, members of the American Friends Service Committee and a group called ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), had hoped to meet with Chafee and persuade him to vote against the legislation. The senator, however, wasn't in the office; he was in Washington, D.C. So his office staff politely connected them via...

Posted: May 11, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Out here in Southern California, a local Spanish-language TV station caused a stink recently by putting up several billboards reaching out to potential viewers in Los Angeles, Mexico. Predictably, as soon as outraged gringos complained, they were accused of being racists. How is it, I keep asking myself, that it's only the biggest racists in America who are given carte blanche to condemn others for being what they are themselves? Who but a racist would conclude that America's sovereignty is merely a minor inconvenience they are free to ignore for...

Minuteman Project organizer Chris Simcox is expected to testify before Congress next week, but he's not good enough to attend a Homeland Security Department press conference in Arizona. On Thursday, Mr. Simcox, who also edits and writes for the Tombstone Tumbleweed, tried to gain entry to the press conference, where Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was speaking, as a member of the press. As Jerry Seper of The Washington Times reported on Monday, Mr. Simcox was turned away for "security reasons," according to a spokesman for the Tucson Sector of the Border Patrol, which was acting as security detail for...

SALEM -- The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the nation's renewed interest in border security have caused the debate over immigration to spill out of Congress and into Oregon's Capitol. Although immigration policy is largely a federal responsibility, the Legislature is considering several bills intended to crack down on people who are in the country illegally. They include making it tougher for immigrants -- some say even legal ones -- to get a driver's license, register to vote or secure a pay raise. Oregon lawmakers are "much more open" to talking about immigration issues than they used to be, says...

PHOENIX, Ariz. Federal authorities say members of a violent Mexican gang are using the Arizona border as a corridor to the country. In the past year, Border Patrol agents have arrested about ten members of Mara Salvatrucha -- a notorious international street gang in Mexico. Yet according to federal and local law enforcement officials, the gang members don't appear to stay in the state. The gang is commonly known as M-S-13 and has been linked to murders from Honduras to Los Angeles to Virginia. Original Mara Salvatrucha members were guerrilla fighters who fled the Salvadoran civil war in the 1980s....

Michael Graham 9 to noon host on WMAL in DC tried to attend an illegal immigrant rally in Montgomery County MD on Saturday and was roughed up by attendees. He was detained by police who demanded ID. His ABC correspondent ID was not good enough! He was wearing a homemade INS shirt (picture on WMAL web site), which he says stood for "I Need border Security!". Story continues to develop. Listen to his show on now at the WMAL web site.

Michael Graham wants to start a war in Washington. And Maryland. And Virginia. Why? It's good for ratings, which is good for business, which is good for Graham - and his corporate patron, ABC Radio. At the moment he's getting assistance from an unlikely ally - the Montgomery County police. Graham is the new right-wing talk radio jock in the D.C. area. You can hear him on WMAL in the midmorning. He's the setup guy for Rush Limbaugh. WMAL is to WTOP what Fox News is to CNN. Rush does national issues. Graham sticks to enraging locals on local topics....

Michael Graham wants to start a war in Washington. And Maryland. And Virginia. Why? It's good for ratings, which is good for business, which is good for Graham - and his corporate patron, ABC Radio. At the moment he's getting assistance from an unlikely ally - the Montgomery County police. Graham is the new right-wing talk radio jock in the D.C. area. You can hear him on WMAL in the midmorning. He's the setup guy for Rush Limbaugh. WMAL is to WTOP what Fox News is to CNN. Rush does national issues. Graham sticks to enraging locals on local topics....

So what is a “totalization” agreement? These are bilateral agreements between the U.S. Social Security Administration and its counterpart in foreign countries to coordinate their Social Security programs. Presently the U.S. has 20 such agreements, mostly with European nations. This overall program has been in place since the Carter Administration. However, this is the first totalization agreement between the United States and a nation responsible for nearly 70 percent of the illegal immigration into the United States.

Stricter immigration laws now on the books in Arizona that require elections officials to check for proof of citizenship have uncovered thousands of new registrants who don't qualify to vote. According to the Arizona Daily Star, state election officials credit the citizenship requirement contained in Proposition 200, the illegal-immigration initiative passed last November, for screening out the illegal voters. In Arizona's Prima County alone, elections officials have rejected 59 percent of all applicants in the last two weeks - or 423 of the 712 new registrants. "We rejected none during the same period last year," when six times as many...

Please spread the word to everyone you know who is concerned about border security that Monday morning at 9am Michael Graham is going to blow the doors off the pro-illegal alien rally this weekend in Montgomery County. You can read some of the story for yourself at www.michaelgraham.com, but here's the key part: Graham attended the event to protest the absence of any immigration enforcement and he ended up being attacked by the pro-illegal organizers and detained by a pro-illegal immigration Montgomery County police officer! You're not going to believe the audio he's got of his confrontation with the illegals....

Rockville (AP) - Hundreds of Latino immigrants - many of them illegal - gathered this afternoon in Rockville to protest proposed federal restrictions that would deny driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. The federal Real I-D Act is part of the bill covering the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has been passed by the U.S. House and endorsed by the White House. Opponents say the bill will likely pass in the Senate - maybe as early as next week. Maryland is one of ten states that don't require applicants to prove they are citizens or legal residents....

DANBURY, Conn. - Mayor Mark Boughton blames the government for his town's inability to cope with 15,000 illegal immigrants, approximately 19 percent of the overall population. "This is one community that has been incredibly stressed by failed federal policy and we need help," said Boughton. Because the illegal residents aren't counted in the U.S. census, Danbury doesn't receive any federal aid for them. "In terms of our social services, this presents a tremendous strain, particularly on quality of life of our neighborhoods, our schools our health care system," Boughton said. Residents complain the influx is killing property values. Homeowner Peter...