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Reading a piece about dating in The New York Times Magazine on Sunday, I felt like a Rip Van Winkle who fell into matrimonial sleep 15 years ago and awoke to find courtship had regressed back to the Victorian era. Dowd said that she knew the coquettish rules for dating long before she had heard of ''The Rules,'' a 1995 bestseller on how to play hard to get in order to land a husband. I... had heard of ''The Rules'' by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, but I assumed it was part of the backlash against feminism and would go...

Democratic Party fat-cat-songbird Barbra Streisand is calling for President Bush to be impeached because he "deceived" the country about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In the latest Streisand "Truth Alert" posted to her web site, the Democrat diva declares: "If there was ever a time in history to impeach a President of the United States, it would be now. In my opinion, it is two years too late. "We were clearly deceived by this administration and now we find ourselves fighting a war under false pretenses . . .

A documentary film is being produced by Magnum Films/Cabin Creek Films about our favorite country music group, the Dixie Chicks. The feature length documentary film will cover a broad base of subjects, including their early years, their unprecedented success, the controversy surrounding their comment about President George W. Bush, and what they are doing today. The film will have a special focus on the last couple years, especially the aftermath and repercussions of the Bush incident. There are elements of the film that will "shock and surprise" fans. Cecilia Peck, daughter of Gregory Peck, and close friend of Adrian Pasdar...

Daschle Calls for Troops Pullout by 2008 Thursday November 3, 2005 12:01 AM By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle says all U.S. troops ought to be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2007. The South Dakota Democrat, defeated for re-election last November, made the comment in a foreign policy speech set for delivery in Chicago on Wednesday, three days before a planned visit to politically pivotal Iowa. Daschle has raised his public profile in recent weeks and has not ruled out a presidential run in 2008. In an advance...

(CBS4) WASHINGTON Massachusetts Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and John Kerry criticized President Bush's latest nominee to the Supreme Court. Kennedy complained the nomination of Samuel Alito would push the court "dangerously to the right". In a statement, Kennedy called it a "nomination based on weakness, not on strength." After the failed nomination of Harriet Miers, Kennedy says Mister Bush is trying to mend fences with Republican conservatives by choosing a nominee with "extreme" views. Senator Kerry questioned the President's motives in a statement, asking "Has the right wing now forced a weakened President to nominate a divisive justice in the...

First, my bona fides. I have long been a Bush supporter and contributor, and I have known several folks in the know, like many of you. I have to be honest folks, I don’t like the way this is starting to smell. From what I have heard and read, 22 Whitehouse officials have testified before the grand jury, including 10 West Wingers, some multiple times. The focus appears to be heavy upon the Vice President’s staff, and it concerns not the underlying violation of the various disclosure and espionage statutes, but rather, the dreaded cover-up. I like Karl Rove. I...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)--Textron Inc. will lay off 1,200 employees in its Cessna Aircraft unit, citing a reduction in the order placed by one of its two major business jet customers and worldwide economic concerns. The company also announced Thursday that it will be reducing its earnings projections for the year, but gave no specific dollar figure. Textron said the layoffs will be concentrated at Cessna's Wichita, Kan., headquarters, where 9,200 are employed. The layoffs also will affect a Cessna facility in Columbus, Ohio, that employs 400 workers; a Cessna facility in...

Am I the only one to have started suspecting that Judith Miller is... ah... nuts? Names she didn't know but were written in her notebooks? A "secret" level security clearance she says she had in Iraq that the US Government never gave her? Spending twelve weeks in jail "to protect her sources," who say they never told her not to talk? An "agreement" with the NY Fishwrap that the paper now says never existed? Money she says she never got that was located in her account? Too bad Rod Serling is dead.

Give me one reason why "judicial extraordinaire" Harriet Miers is qualified to sit on the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court. One.

Questions About Miers that Bush Needs to Answer by Phyllis Schlafly If John G. Roberts' confirmation hearing is any guide, we won't learn anything from Harriet Miers' confirmation hearing. So here are some questions we would like President Bush to answer. You said, "Trust me." But why should we trust you when experience proves we could not trust the judgment of President Reagan (who gave us Justices O'Connor and Kennedy) or President George H.W. Bush (who gave us Justice Souter)? Are you more trustworthy than Reagan or your father? You said, "She's not going to change.... 20 years from now...

A former chief UN weapons inspector has compared British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush to the Nazi war criminals who started World War II. Scott Ritter, a former US marine, said the US and Britain's "aggressive warfare" in Iraq was similar to German actions in Europe 66 years ago. "Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing the same thing," he said. "Tony Blair and George Bush are guilty of the crime of planning and committing aggressive warfare." [snip] He said intelligence...

British and American leaders likened to Nazi war criminals By Andrew Sparrow, Political Correspondent (Filed: 08/10/2005) Tony Blair and George Bush were compared to Nazi war criminals yesterday by Scott Ritter, the former UN chief weapons inspector. "Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing," he said. He said the Prime Minister and the US President were "guilty of the crime of planning and committing aggressive warfare". Speaking in London at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Mr Ritter said the two leaders would have been...

US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair acted much like Nazi war criminals in ordering the invasion of Iraq, the United Nations' former chief weapons inspector to the country says. Scott Ritter said the "aggressive warfare" of the United States and Britain in Iraq was similar to German actions in Europe in World War II. "Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946," Ritter said in an address at the Chatham House think tank in London on Friday. "Tony Blair and George Bush are guilty...

Ex-president Bill Clinton is predicting that the U.S. will lose the war in Iraq, saying "the odds are not great of our prevailing there." In an interview with the Ladies Home Journal due out next month, Clinton calls the Iraq war "a quagmire" and warns "it could go wrong." He reminded: "Since the end of World War II, the only major foreign power that succeeded in putting down an insurgency was the British putting down the Malay insurgency, but the British stayed 15 years." "So you can say for historical reasons, the odds are not great of our prevailing there,"...

CAPITOL HILL Senate Democrats say the president's latest comments on Iraq were sorely lacking. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says the president failed to detail a strategy for the military, political and economic successes needed to bring U-S troops home. Reid also says the president continues to "falsely assert" that there is a link between the war in Iraq and the September eleventh attacks. Richard Durbin of Illinois says the president failed to answer the question most Americans are asking: When will there be enough Iraqi battalions ready to fight so U-S troops can begin coming home?

'COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF' SUTHERLAND: BUSH WILL DESTROY OUR LIVES Choking back tears, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF star Donald Sutherland warned this week: President Bush "will destroy our lives!" The star of the new ABC drama, which follows the first woman President of the United States, lashed out at the real White House during a dramatic sit down interview with the BBC. Sutherland ripped Bush and his administration for the war and Hurricane Katrina fallout. "They were inept. The were inadequate to the task, and they lied," Sutherland charged. "And they were insulting, and they were vindictive. And they were heartless. They did not care. They...

Berlin (dpa) - Actors Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas at the presentation of their latest film on Sunday in Berlin expressed their concerns about the government of U.S. President George W. Bush. Banderas openly criticized the U.S. government, saying it had done its job very poorly. The price for Bush's policies would be enormous not only for the U.S., he said, but for the rest of the world. Zeta-Jones also stated her dissatisfaction with the current U.S. administration.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) addressed the 35th annual legislative conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, a non-profit group that lobbies the 43 black members of Congress and others to enact legislation for social, economic and educational development. "Generation after generation of inner-city blacks have been stuck in a cycle of poverty and crime," said Obama. "For this I blame President Bush." "Sure, the government provides homes for poor blacks, but they're only apartments," complained Obama. "These homes have cable TV, but it's only basic cable. The government gives them food stamps, but we let them waste them on junk...

Actor Warren Beatty leveled a blistering political assault on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday night, accusing him of governing "by show, by spin, by cosmetics and photos ops." Beatty made his remarks at a convention of the California Nurses Association, an organization that has emerged in the last year as one of Schwarzenegger's most vociferous critics. Beatty, a Democrat and longtime political activist who has been mentioned as a possible challenger to Schwarzenegger next year, did not announce his candidacy as many in the boisterous crowd had hoped. But he indicated he hadn't ruled out a run, and said he...

Five years after the controversial 2000 presidential election, ex-President Jimmy Carter now says he's certain Al Gore defeated George W. Bush. "Well I would say that in the year 2000, the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process," Carter told a panel Monday at American University in Washington, D.C. "There's no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president."