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Kerry Denounced U.S. as 'The Real Criminal' in Vietnam During his war protest days in the early 1970s, Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry once denounced the United States of America as "the real criminal" in the Vietnam War. In comments first reported by the New York Times 33 years ago, Kerry condemned the entire country as "criminal" during a 1971 demonstration on Wall Street, a few weeks after the trial of Lt. William Calley. "Guilty as Lieutenant Calley may have been of the actual act of murder, the verdict does not single out the real criminal ... the United States...

How to Survive A Heart Attack When Alone: Following is something that was sent to me by email and thought it was important enough to pass on.   Subject: How To Survive A Heart Attack:From F. Daniel Rochman MD If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life.  Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job.  You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your...

Prince of Peace Tomorrow we celebrate the birth of Jesus. Among the many names given to him by the prophets who foretold his birth and the angels who announced it was "Prince of Peace." Yet, 2,000 years later, there is anything but peace. The division between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors is sharper than ever. Protecting itself from terrorist suicide bombers, Israel is constructing a "security fence" to prevent their entrance into Israeli territory from the West Bank—the area of "Judea/Samaria" in which Jesus conducted most of his ministry. Many Palestinians have been allowed to work in Israel, but now...

A Political Look at Hollywood By James HirsenA NewsMax Report1. Rob Reiner Picks a New Dean for Hollywood It looks as if celebrity politics on the national front are getting bigger by the minute. In the 2002 election, guess who provided the fifth-largest source of dollars for federal candidates? It was none other than little old Hollywood. And as you might expect, 83 percent of Tinseltown's cash went to Democrats. So says Center for Responsive Politics. Maybe this explains why there was such a big buzz when Rob Reiner announced he was placing his fund-raising talents behind East Coast presidential...

Defend Paul Harvey Against Attacks ISSUE: According to a report from CNSNews.com, "General Electric, in response to Muslim complaints, has decided to pull its lighting advertisements from Paul Harvey's syndicated radio show, at least for the time being." On Dec. 4, the 84-year-old Harvey was describing cockfighting in Iraq when he made the following comment on-air: "Add to the thirst for blood a religion which encourages killing, and it is entirely understandable if Americans came to this bloody party unprepared." The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim "civil rights group", objected to the phrase "a religion which encourages killing,"...

The Media, God And Government By Cliff Kincaid A week before Christmas, it was reported that a panel of judges from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that wall displays that include framed copies of the Ten Commandments are unconstitutional and cannot hang in public buildings. Stories about the decision failed to note that religious references and items, including depictions of the Ten Commandments, adorn federal buildings in Washington, D.C. The stories were reminiscent of the media's general failure during the controversy over the display of the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Supreme Court building to note that...

<p>CAIRO, Egypt - Arabs begrudgingly welcomed the capture of Saddam Hussein on Sunday, their satisfaction that the dictator was behind bars tinged with annoyance that George W. Bush would get the credit.</p> <p>But they also said the fight against U.S. occupation in Iraq was not yet over for Bush, who many Arabs believe has waged a campaign against them and other Muslims after the September 11 attacks.</p>

Christmas Under Attack Nationwide Library officials in Meriden, Connecticut, have banned five paintings of Jesus by local artist Mary Morley. The library is allowing paintings of Moses, David and Goliath, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Mother Theresa and Pope John Paul II, and other religious figures but not Jesus. According to Morley, library officials told her that paintings of Jesus "would cause too much upset and outcry. Isn't Jesus a historical figure?" The library says it can ban displays that are "inappropriate" or "offensive" to "any segment of the community." Morley has contacted The Rutherford Institute to consider...

Stop the UN from taking over the Internet In a recent CNSNews.com commentary, Tom DeWeese called the Internet "the only unregulated source of liberty" in a world "already suffocating under the weight of rules and regulations designed to control, tax and consume every outlet of human expression". Well, leave it to the United Nations to hatch a plot to take over the Internet. According to an article in the Washington Times by John Zarocostas, "Governments spearheaded by China, Brazil, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia are trying to place the Internet under the control of the United Nations or its member...

It's Time to Force the FCC to do its Job! In January, 18,000 PTC members filed official indecency complaints with the Federal Communications Commission about the use of the "f-word" during a live national broadcast of the Golden Globes awards on NBC. But the FCC denied every single one of those complaints.  It's now okay to say "f--k" on television! The FCC is mandated by Congress to keep the publicly owned broadcast airwaves clean.  Instead of protecting our interests, the FCC has just given a green light to every radio shock jock and TV producer to fill the airways with...

"T*was The Night Of Christmas" The presents are opened, the stockings askew. Two pounds of turkey are inside of you. Your eyelids are drooping. The sun*s going down. Christmas is over. But wait... what*s that sound?The neighbors. They*re shouting, "Look to the west!" Outside you dash, along with the rest.The sky is as pink as Santa Claus* nose. And right in the middle--two UFOs!Could it be an invasion? Some creatures from space? Now you*re awake. Your heart starts to race.Run back to the house. Pick up the phone. You dial 9-1-1! "They*re coming," you moan.The voice on the line...

US RE-ISSUES TERRORIST STAMP By Tom Barrett ConservativeTruth.org We are at the beginning of what some would call the Christian "holy month" - the month leading up to the day we celebrate as the day of Jesus* birth. We will celebrate by giving to the poor, making extra efforts to be kind to others, and remembering the great sacrifice Jesus made for the world. Muslims have just completed the celebration of their "holy month" of Ramadan. They celebrated by increasing the violence and terrorist attacks against Jews and Christians to ever higher levels. I personally disagree with the concept of...

Saddam*s Terror Links Ignored by Media Excerpt of Notra Trulock's article For weeks, the liberal media (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, HNN, MSNBC, CNBC) have relied on leaks, purportedly from the U.S. intelligence community, to debunk the Bush administration*s case for war on Iraq. The Washington Post and others have repeatedly misrepresented the preliminary findings of chief weapons inspector David Kay to claim that the administration*s worries about Iraq*s WMD programs were exaggerated. Similarly, the media repeatedly claim that the Bush administration overstated the relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda. The Washington Post*s Walter Pincus is one such reporter who has...

<p>Summary: Reuters reports on December 3, that Armin Meiwes has admitted in a German court that he killed and ate a man he met through the Internet. The Reuters story neglected to mention that Meiwes was a homosexual.</p> <p>WARNING:You will be reading very disturbing material.</p>

Letter Of Grievance To VA State Bar Against Elaine Jones, Pres. NAACP (Washington DC) - The Coalition for a Fair Judiciary, along with several grassroots organizations filed a grievance today with the State Bar of Virginia against Elaine Jones, President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The complaint details the attempt by Jones to influence the outcome of the affirmative action case in the Sixth Circuit through her request to delay the nomination hearing of Julia Gibbons. According to a memorandum written by the Senate staffer who spoke with Ms. Jones, the purpose and intent of Ms. Jones* request was...

NewsMax Poll Mel Gibson Needs Your VoteVote in this urgent poll NewsMax.com, one of America's leading online news services, is conducting an urgent national online poll. NewsMax will provide the results of this poll to major media, Congress, the President, and key members of the administration. Additionally, NewsMax's results will be shared with every major radio talk show host in America. Don't miss this opportunity to let your voice be heard! Many media outlets and national leaders are interested in your opinion. Hundreds of media outlets have reported on NewsMax's online polls. Your vote does count! Mel Gibson's upcoming movie...

Mass Immigration Soaring Since 2000 By Federation for American Immigration Reform The current rate of immigration has jumped significantly over the historically high 1990s level, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Immigrants are estimated to be pouring into the country at a rate that increases the population by about 1.4 million each year. 1) During the 1990s, the U.S. immigrant population experienced its largest increase ever - about 11.3 million people. As a result, the foreign-born share of the population jumped from 7.9 percent in 1990 to 11.1 percent in 2000. Yet Census Bureau estimates at the beginning of the...

The Real Story Behind the Reagan Movie By Cliff Kincaid November 25, 2003 Some opponents of the entertainment industry believe they scored a victory with the announcement by CBS President Leslie Moonves that the network was transferring a movie smearing former President Reagan from CBS to the Showtime cable channel. One of several controversial aspects is a depiction of Reagan as someone who believed that people with AIDS get what they deserve because "they that live in sin shall die in sin." The rest of the article is below.

Urge Passage Of "Holly*s Law" To Suspend RU-486 ISSUE: U.S. Representatives Jim DeMint (R-SC), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) and Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) recently introduced the "RU-486 Suspension and Review Act of 2003," also known as "Holly*s Law." The legislation (H.R. 3453) now has 69 cosponsors in the House, including Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX). Senator Brownback is introducing a companion bill in the Senate. Monty and Helen Patterson, the parents of 18-year-old Holly Patterson who recently died after taking RU-486, have written a letter of support for the bill, stating "We will actively support *Holly*s Law* in Congress by Reps....

Google Applies Double Standard to Political Vendors By William R Alford As a commercial entity, the popular search engine Google has joined the esteemed ranks of media and academic organizations that have a responsibility to be objective but instead choose to manage information based upon an apparent ingrained partisan and socio-ideological bias. Some background: Early this past summer, Accuracy In Media*s Conservative Mall offered Jason Fodeman*s book, How to Destroy a Village: What the Clintons Taught a Seventeen Year Old. Soon after our marketing staff placed it into Google*s *sponsored links* [pay-per-click Internet advertising], their staff informed us that they...