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Take a look at the cover of The New York Daily News today, huge publicity. Ann Coulter's publisher is dancing down the street. The controversy is all about Ann writing that four 9/11 widows are liberal pawns and are craven. Says Coulter, "these broads are millionaires lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities... I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much." Now many conservatives have joined liberals in condemning Coulter's words, but not all. On "The Radio Factor," some callers supported Ann. Talking Points believes most Americans reject that kind of...

Link to Huffington Post _______________________________________________________________________ Will They Go to Court? (191 comments ) READ MORE: Dick Cheney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scooter Libby, Valerie Plame So, I suppose the question is...what kind of civil trial will we see, or not see, between Cheney and Whittington? Whittington is certainly no stranger to a court room and to civil litigation. Will Cheney pay him off, preemptively? Will they go to court? I would imagine if a guy with a few beers in him shoots you in the face on a hunting trip, how could you turn down that opportunity? What would Cheney do about...

Al Gore sure was full of righteous indignation the other day in his speech denouncing the Bush administration for selectively eavesdropping on phone calls to Americans by suspected foreign terrorists....[snip] He suggested this was one of the worst abuses by federal officials in the history of our country. But while Gore denounced the selective and limited use of wiretaps by law enforcement officials on calls generated by suspected foreign terrorists, he had no problem – just a decade ago – calling for wholesale, mandatory surveillance on the phone calls and secure computer communications of every single American. In fact, beginning...

Dear Friend, On Monday, we learned that the President nominated White House Counsel Harriet Miers--a long-time adviser and Bush loyalist--to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Miers's record is little known so far, because she's largely served behind the scenes. What leaps out is her loyalty to President Bush beginning with his years as Governor of Texas. We know nothing about her loyalty to the rule of law and the Constitution, or her ability to do the job of Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. It's clear that Mr. Bush is fond of her work:...

DENVER (AP) - The University of Colorado has dropped its investigation into the American Indian heritage of the professor who came under fire for likening Sept. 11 victims to an infamous Nazi, the professor himself says. A letter from the university dated Friday said a faculty panel decided to drop the matter, Ward Churchill said Monday. "There's no basis to proceed," Churchill quoted the letter as saying, later adding: "It should have never been an issue". "It can be taken as that 'we're not functioning as boards of racial purity with a board of white guys that sit around and...

hubba12@mindspring.com from: Did you or your children ever serve in the military. Of course not. Go Iraqi insurgents! Defeat Bush and the rest of the Chicken Hawk bas**rds. mac.lilly@verizon.net from: You people are so despicable. You are going out to harass a greiving mother? This woman has a right as an American Citizen to protest and demand answers for the loss of her son. If you support the troops so much, why don't you encourage your listeners to enlist instead of trashing a woman. There are more mothers coming. Are you going to continue to trash and harass those mothers...

Bill O'Reilly suggested today on his radio show that President Bush should apologize at the Presidential debate Friday for no Iraq WMD. If the President Bush did this in the way that O'Reilly wants him to, the President would be making a major gaffe. I could see the sound bites. President Bush has NOTHING TO APOLOGIZE FOR. Also, O'Reilly says that Bush has to clearly win Friday or it’s over. He keeps on saying that the race is tied. IMHO, O'Reilly is spinning on several fronts: At the very least he is trying to get Kerry on his show, so...

Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) today told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that the tactics of the Bush-Cheney campaign are “McCarthyism of the first order.” advertisement Following are excerpts from Monday's interview, which telecast in its entirety on “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” 7-8 p.m. (ET). Click to read the full transcript to Monday's show. CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Let’s talk about the public mood right now. You are a reader of public opinion. Right now, according to the latest NBC polling, 58 percent of the American people say that if President Bush is reelected, they want to see major changes in this policy. Another 31...

Did anyone see Ted Kennedy tonight on Hardball? It seemed like Chris was cheering him on in between slaps in the face to wake him up! I believe Kennedy here about as much as he was giving MaryJo swimming lessons.

The Bush administration's failure to shut down al-Qaida and its bungled efforts to rebuild Iraq have fueled the insurgency and made America more vulnerable to a nuclear attack by terrorists, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said in his latest screed against the president's war policies.

Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly has not ruled out voting for John Kerry, he says in a "60 Minutes" interview airing Sunday. He also says he supports gun control, civil unions and gay adoption. That's according to an interview with Mike Wallace for the Sept. 26 edition, at least according to a release from 60 Minutes. The release reads: "Long a favorite of conservatives, O'Reilly's stances on big issues came as a surprise to Wallace, as did his answer to whether he would vote for George W. Bush. When asked if he would vote for President Bush, O'Reilly left open...

Saturday, May 15, 2004 Edward Kennedy ought to resign from the U.S. Senate. Likewise, Sen. Kennedy's protegé John Kerry ought to publicly disassociate himself from, and denounce in no uncertain terms, his mentor's latest inflammatory remarks. Sen. Kennedy has made a career of verbal attacks so vicious that few other politicians could get away with them. But the frequency and outrageousness of his cheap shots have increased in recent years -- and this past Monday he outdid himself. His remarks on the Senate floor were so obnoxious, so inexcusable, that no apology can make amends for them. In them, Sen....

<p>ALEC Baldwin isn't suffering from any lack of self-esteem. In A&E's "Biography: Alec Baldwin," premiering tonight, the bombastic actor compares himself to Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, who wrote "Soul on Ice." Baldwin recalls that when he was younger, "My dad said to me, 'If you were black . . . with your personality,' he said, 'Do you think you would be Martin Luther King, or would you be Eldridge Cleaver? Would you be patient and wise, and kind, and peaceful?' He said, 'Or do you think you'd really, really get out there and . . . exert yourself a little more in order to leverage change in our society?' And I knew the answer . . . I knew the answer was the latter."</p>

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Rep. Dick Gephardt's vision of U.S. foreign policy involves using U.S. leadership to "build a strong global economy," he said in a speech in New York. Gephardt, D-Mo., is contesting the lead in Monday's Iowa caucuses with former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. He told the Council on Foreign Relations if elected president, he would "build a strong global economy through American leadership" and "expand economic growth and development through a progressive trade policy that advances an international minimum wage to raise the standard of living around the world and make trade work for both developed...

<p>This is a partial transcript from The O'Reilly Factor, July 22, 2003. Click here to order the complete transcript.</p> <p>Watch The O'Reilly Factor weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the Radio Factor!</p> <p>BILL O'REILLY, HOST: With us now is one of the most successful right-wing pundits, Ann Coulter, the author of the bestselling book, Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.</p>

Alec Baldwin's guestbook is up and running.

P*E*T*A*B has been established by those who love to laugh at morons, for those who love to laugh at morons. P*E*T*A*B also engages in an effot to convince people to stop telling Alec Baldwin to shut up, and instead to thank Alec for doing more to forward the conservative political agenda than any "right-winger" possibly could. In his honor, I wrote two columns, most recently this one at WorldNetDaily. Part I was written back in March and is at Toogood Reports.

<p>ALEC "Bloviator" Baldwin could lose his few remaining fans if he doesn’t stop spouting off about politics, according to the Hollwood Reporter. The trade paper conducted a poll seeking the nation’s opinion of Hollywood celebs’ political stances and discovered that Baldwin ranks high on the list of most-disliked stars based on their politics. Respondents also rated Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand in the category of Baldwin-esque blowhards, while Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oprah Winfrey and Bono won kudos. Curiously, Charlton Heston and Rosie O’Donnell made both the most-admired and most-hated lists.</p>