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Leon E. Panetta, President Obama's pick to head the CIA, earned more than $1 million last year in consulting and speaking fees and service on the boards of nearly a dozen institutions and corporations, according to documents released yesterday. (snip) Panetta's largest consulting fee came last year from California State University's Office of the Chancellor, which paid him $150,000 for a variety of activities, an Obama spokesman said. These included helping establish a literacy program called America Reads and creating a new campus at Monterey Bay. He also received a salary of $50,000 from Santa Clara University, where he teaches...

Just when you thought The Today Show couldn't outdo itself for liberal bias and Bush bashing, along comes this morning's show to demonstrate that Today hasn't hit bottom yet. The opening footage of this morning's Today Show was a clip of an angry Al Gore, giving a speech it which he accused the Bush administration of "using the war for partisan political gain and posturing themselves as bold defenders of our country while actually weakening rather than strengthening security." Gore called for the repeal of the Patriot Act Gore must have been unavailable as a guest, but Today made do...

A new Republican poll shows incumbent Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., would win an election against potential Republican challenger, former Congressman John Thune. The poll, conducted July 9 and 10 by Washington-based GOP pollster Robert Moran, shows Daschle would get 46 percent of the vote and Thune would get 40 percent of the vote, if the election were held now. Moran's poll shows 10 percent are undecided, with 1 percent leaning toward Thune and 2 percent leaning towards Daschle. The poll has a 4.9 percent margin of error. Despite Daschle's lead, both sides claim the poll of registered voters is a...

Second Thoughts By: William W. Lawrence 11/13/2002The election did not turn out the way the pollsters and left-wing talking heads predicted. Thank goodness! My guys, for the most part, won. The Republicans took the Senate and increased their edge in the House. I stayed up late to watch the returns. My smile grew wider as the night passed into morning. There had to be frowns on the faces of some others who were watching. There may have even been a few tears shed.I am impatiently waiting for a left-wing roadblock to be cleared and for good things to happen. Such...