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this is a sad beautiful video, which brings all the pain back from that evil day

Leader of the Band As John Warner goes, so may go the nuclear option. By Mark Leon Goldberg Web Exclusive: 05.19.05 Print Friendly | Email Article Back in January, not long after Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist committed his caucus to the nuclear option, Senator John Warner came as close as he has yet in taking a side on the filibuster debate now at a rolling boil in the Senate. Not surprisingly, for the seasoned legislator, it came the way of a typically non-declarative comment: “I tend to be a traditionalist, and the right of unlimited debate has been a...

Pryor Impressions Alabamans want to know why Bill Pryor is being filibustered in the Senate. BY QUIN HILLYER Thursday, March 3, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST MOBILE, Ala.--If judicial nominations represent the spear-point of all of the partisan battles in Washington, former Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor is the poison on the spear. Judge Pryor, whose renomination to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals could get a Senate hearing as early as March 9, has become a folk hero to conservatives nationwide while drawing fierce denunciations from liberal editorial pages. Come to Alabama, though, and the cognoscenti from all shades of...

This is an activism thread to help President Bush get his SS Reform through Congress. This is an incredibly important issue as private accounts will help curb the Congress' insatiable demand for our money and it will help with the long term solvency of the program. In the short term it will hurt, but it's better than paying later. I hope people will take the time to call the White House 202 456-1111 Congress, specifically, Sens. Bill Nelson (Fla.) Phone: 202-224-5274 Fax: 202-228-2183 Mary Landrieu (La.) Phone: (202) 224-5824 Fax: (202) 224-9735 Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) Phone: (202) 224-4843 Fax: (202)...

We are having a pro-America Patriot rally on 9/11 at high noon. This will be a big event, shooting for 500-1000 people. It is in downtown Birmingham at Linn Park, across from City Hall. Bring pro-American, pro-freedom signs. This is a non partisan event. Speakers include 2 people who have helped out at Ground Zero, and others. Linn Park 2001 Park Place North Birmingham, AL 35203 (I'm sorry about an early post on this topic, I had the WRONG Lynn Park!) Freepmail with questions

We are having a 9/11 Patriot rally in Birmingham, AL. It's being sponsored by the Birmingham Young Republicans. It will be a nonpartisan event designed to honor firemen/policemen/and soldiers who all are defending our freedom. Other speakers include a 9/11 Fireman from ground zero, military people, and probably Congressman Bauchus. We we also have patriotic singing. There will probably be 500-1000 people at this event. There will be a good local media presence at the event as well. I really hope you can make it. If not, pass the word for this event far and wide! September 11, 2004 high...

Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004 12:35 p.m. EST McCain: Hanoi Hilton Guards Taunted POWs With Kerry's Testimony These days, former Vietnam War POW Sen. John McCain has nothing but praise for his fellow Vietnam veteran Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' current presidential front-runner. But after he was released from the Hanoi Hilton in 1973, McCain publicly complained that testimony by Kerry and others before J. William Fulbright's Senate Foreign Relations Committee was "the most effective propaganda [my North Vietnamese captors] had to use against us." "They used Senator Fulbright a great deal," McCain wrote in the May 14, 1973, issue of...

I purchased John Kerry's book, written in 1997 from Amazon.com. It's on sale for $4 so I bought it for some opposition research. The book is about Senator's view of the dangerous threats, as he views them, facing America. This book does a good job of present Kerry's shall we say, "nuanced" worldview and I highly reccomend you read it. In Kerry's "New War" he talks about the new globalization of crime. This book is filled with allusions to how the new world a place where sovereignty is becoming a relic of the past whilte multilateralism is the one ideal...

Bob Swerski: Hello, my friends, and welcome to another edition of "Bill Swerski's SuperFreeperfans". I'm Bob Swerski, and I want to thank everyone for sending those cards to my brother Bill, who recently had another heart attack. We are coming to you live from Ditka's, here on election night, after doing our part for democracy, and also to praise that team having kicked the 49er's out of office last weekend by a score of 91-9, a team that is known as Da Bears! SuperFreeperfans: [ beer mugs raised ] Da Bears! Bob Swerski: With me as always are the SuperFreeperfans....

A woman whose pregnancy was wrongly terminated in a French hospital has lost her fight at the European Court to enshrine a foetus' right to life. Mrs Thi-Nho Vo went to the court after French courts said the doctor could not be prosecuted for homicide as the foetus did not have the right to life. She said it had that right under the European Convention on Human Rights. But the Court of Human Rights ruled against her, and involuntary abortion did not constitute manslaughter. It's a disgraceful situation Nuala Scarisbrick, Life The ruling sets a precedent on the legal status...

President's Remarks at National Day of Prayer and Remembrance The National Cathedral Washington, D.C. View the President's Remarks Listen to the President's Remarks President Proclaims National Day of Prayer and Remembrance 1:00 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: We are here in the middle hour of our grief. So many have suffered so great a loss, and today we express our nation's sorrow. We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who love them. On Tuesday, our country was attacked with deliberate and massive cruelty. We have seen the images of fire and ashes, and...

President Bush has just agreed to a deal where 25 so-called "non-controversial" judges will get up/down votes while Bush has agreed to not recess appoint judges until his second term. This deal has outraged/confused/frustrated many Freepers but I think everyone is missing the big picture. First what did Bush give up? He agreed not to recess. Until term #2. But recess appts only serve until the next Congress. So Bush is giving up what, 7 months of a judge term? Recall that Bush offered recess noms to more than Pickering from MS and Pryor from AL. Others refused. Estrada, a...

Dick Cheney is going to speak at FSU's graduation in Tallahassee, FL on May 1, tomorrow. My brother says there is a protest rally planned. I found the above on the internet. Any freepers planning on going? Also heard that Laura Bush is going to be at a Miami-Dade gradution...

Specter’s Dishonest, Negative Attack Ads Specter’s Dishonest Claim (Les Sheaffer) – “When I went to Pat Toomey’s office and I asked for help and I followed up with 3 phone calls after that meeting and I never even got a phone call back.” Truth – Congressman Toomey and his offices have had a long and productive working relationship with Les Sheaffer dating back to the Congressman's first term. The Congressman and his staff have been helpful to Les on a number of occasions. The office is not aware of an instance when a request of Les's went unfulfilled. Les has...

Human Events: Arlen Specter & the Homosexaul Lobby By Joseph A. D'Agostino Article Thursday, By Joseph A. D'Agostino Perhaps due to a stiff primary challenge from conservative Rep. Pat Toomey (R.-Pa.), Sen. Arlen Specter (R.-Pa.) last week would not rule out voting for the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) forbidding same-sex "marriage"-- nor would he rule it in. President Bush endorsed the amendment February 24. Despite Specter's current waffling on FMA under election pressure, he has a strongly pro-homosexual record. He is a co-sponsor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) pushed by Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.). ENDA would create (1) special...

Steve Forbes, Publisher, Former Presidential Candidate “I happily endorse Pat Toomey. He is a tireless and effective advocate of the principles – and the policies that flow them – that make our country great. He believes firmly in the three unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness enumerated in our Declaration of Independence… Should he be elected, Pat Toomey will be an effective member of the United States Senate who will do his constituents and the entire nation proud.” Judge Robert Bork, Reagan Nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge on U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S....

AP: Toomey May Knock Out Specter By Lara Jordan, AP Writer Press Release Thursday, April 22, 2004 WYOMISSING, Pa. - Fourteen months ago, a conservative congressman set out on a seemingly quixotic quest to retire four-term Sen. Arlen Specter. The challenger had little money, scant name recognition and no support from party leaders. Now, with less than a week to go before the state's April 27 Senate primary, Rep. Pat Toomey has come within striking distance of defeating Specter in what has become one of the nation's most closely watched GOP contests this year. "I really believe we're going to...

Sen. George Allen, R-Va., blasted his colleague Sen. Ted Kennedy on Wednesday for calling the Iraq war "George Bush's Vietnam," saying that the outburst was worse than Jane Fonda's trip to Hanoi in 1972. "I think it's even worse than Hanoi Jane," Allen told radio host Laura Ingraham, who had compared Kennedy's comments to visits to North Vietnam by Fonda and Ramsey Clark during the height of the war. Allen explained that while Fonda was just an actress, Kennedy is an elected U.S. official whose name is known worldwide. "It's harmful to our troops, it's harmful to our efforts and...

Toomey Gains on Specter In Pennsylvania Primary by David Freddoso Posted Apr 2, 2004 Conservative Rep. Pat Toomey (R.-Pa.) is closing the gap against liberal incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter (R.-Pa.) in his bid to unseat Specter in Pennsylvania's April 27 Republican U.S. Senate primary. Toomey remains the underdog. But a series of polls have placed him at least within striking distance as the campaign enters its final three weeks. Among likely primary voters, Toomey had climbed from oblivion to 33% in the March 31 Keystone poll, against Specter's 46%. Other recent surveys have placed him nine and ten points behind,...

On thread after thread I see people talk about abandoning Bush over immigration or spending or gun control or some other issue. I feel many conservatives are missing the big picture. Look at the ages of these justices: William H. Rehnquist, 80 John Paul Stevens, 84 Sandra Day O'Connor, Ariz., 74 Antonin Scalia, 68 DC Anthony M. Kennedy, 68 David H. Souter, 65 Clarence Thomas, 56 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 71 Stephen G. Breyer, Mass. 66 Rehnquist wants to retire. O'Connor did LAST time (but I think she felt bad about telegraphing it). Stevens is 84. Eighty-four. At 71 Ginsburg is...