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“You ready to start fighting back?” Sam Rockwell asks the title character that question deep into “Richard Jewell.” The Clint Eastwood film recalls how the FBI and media aligned to punish a security guard who saved lives at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Only the film feels like Eastwood is channeling a certain Commander in Chief. Conservatives have spent the last three years fighting against a culture calling them racist, sexist, homophobic and more. They’ve been maligned for wanting to keep the borders secure and jobs from fleeing overseas. Reporters and celebrities alike led the charge against Red State America, forgoing...

(Washington, D.C.): It turns out there is a "giant sucking sound," after all. At the moment, it is not coming as Ross Perot suggested from the economic effects of North American Free Trade Agreement. Rather, the sound you can currently hear in official circles in Washington is the sharp intake of a collective breath as two pillars of what passes for a Clinton foreign policy come crashing down. Unraveling Iraq Policy Scarcely a day goes by without fresh evidence that, contrary to repeated Administration assurances, Saddam Hussein is not being "kept in his box." For example, on Monday he dispatched...

Rocky Mountain News   To print this page, select File then Print from your browser URL: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23972_4727264,00.html Rosen: Hard times for presidentMay 26, 2006It's tough being George W. Bush these days. His poll numbers are low, liberal media sharks taste blood in the water, and some elected Republicans - primarily concerned with their own survival - are separating themselves from their president. Some of this is Bush's own doing; much of it is unfortunate happenstance. Americans tend to give their presidents too much blame or credit for things that simply happen on their watch. Bill Clinton was lucky. His...

Botched CIA operations may have handed Iran vital information on how to make nuclear weapons and betrayed the identities of America's spies in the country, according to a new book on US intelligence. The latest account of American intelligence failures includes details of how the CIA allegedly tried to slip Teheran some Russian designs for an atomic bomb, which contained hidden flaws that would have made any device inoperable. The Iranians, however, were tipped off by the very agent sent to give them the documents. In a separate incident, the book claims a CIA officer mistakenly sent an Iranian agent...

Trial Opens Over Raid on Elian Gonzalez Mon Jan 24, 2:28 PM ET MIAMI - A trial opened Monday in a $3 million-plus lawsuit by 13 people who say they were injured or traumatized when federal agents seized a screaming Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives' home.   The opening witness was neighbor Maria Riera, who testified that she clutched her chest and thought she was dying when an agent doused her with tear gas during the April 22, 2000, raid to reunite the 6-year-old boy with his father in Cuba. The 13 neighbors and protesters are seeking up to...

Hillary's book drops to #4 on Amazon.com Sid Blumenthal's book "The Clinton Years" drops to #67