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Judicial Watch Changes History On Benghazi New State Documents Show Quick White House Effort to Link Benghazi to Internet Video JW Uncovers Draft Hillary Clinton IndictmentJudicial Watch Changes History On Benghazi Yesterday, I had the honor of attending part of Benghazi Select Committee hearing featuring Hillary Clinton. Joining me was Judicial Watch attorney Ramona Cotca, one of the key JW attorneys litigating the federal open records lawsuits that forced both the creation of the Select Committee and the disclosure of Hillary Clinton’s illicit email system. As the Washington Post pointed out in a not-too-friendly piece, this hearing would not have...

CHRISTIANSBURG — After an eight-hour sentencing hearing Monday, Jessica Michelle Ewing, a former Virginia Tech student and Corps of Cadets member was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the 2014 killing of fellow student Samanata Shrestha. Judge Robert Turk sentenced to Ewing to 80 years for first-degree murder and five years for transporting and concealing a body. After Ewing serves 45 years, the rest will be suspended, Turk ruled. She will be on probation for 20 years after her release. Ewing was facing a minimum of 20 years and up to life in prison on the first-degree murder charge....

It’s official: TNT is bringing back Dallas, and with original series stars Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray. The 1980s hit will get a modern makeover on the cable network, which just gave its new version of Dallas a 10-episode series order (full official description below). But you don’t have to wait until next summer, when the series debuts, to get a look at the show: TNT will give viewers a preview of the pilot on Monday night during the season premieres of The Closer and Rizzoli & Isles. “TNT has explored the possibility of an updated version of...

<p>NEW ORLEANS - It's one of those clear, crisp beautiful fall late afternoons in New Orleans, the kind that is a reward to locals who survived August and to thousands of tourists already roaming the streets of the famed French Quarter.</p>

<p>BATON ROUGE - When asked how they will approach black voters, a key to who wins the Nov. 15 runoff for Louisiana governor, Republican Bobby Jindal and Democrat Kathleen Blanco said they have very specific strategies.</p> <p>Jindal said his message of a stronger public education system and better access to affordable health care will appeal to black voters, 29 percent of Louisiana's 2.7 million registered voters.</p>

<p>Saturday's voting in the governor's race leaves us Monday's choices. Thankfully, they are good ones.</p> <p>Although The News-Star's endorsed candidate for governor, former state Sen. Randy Ewing, did not make the Nov. 15 runoff, his supporters and the supporters of other candidates who fell by the wayside Saturday can take great solace from the choices that remain.</p>

Democrats target black voters on radio Blacks, women hold key to who gets into the gubernatorial runoff, analysts say John Hill Posted on October 3, 2003 BATON ROUGE - Democratic candidates for governor of Louisiana are slugging it out on black radio, targeting the 29 percent of the state's electorate who likely will decide who comes out a winner in Saturday's primary. "Anybody who can get a sizable portion of the black vote and put it together with white (votes that) he or she can get is on the way to the runoff," Southern University political scientist Frank Ransburg said.

<p>BATON ROUGE - Republican Bobby Jindal, R-Baton Rouge, increases his lead, and there's a statistical tie for second place between Democrats Kathleen Blanco of Lafayette and Richard Ieyoub of Lake Charles in the Louisiana gubernatorial race, according to The Times/Louisiana Gannett poll.</p>

<p>Gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal visited Monroe this week to outline his plan for changing Louisiana's image.</p> <p>Jindal, R-Baton Rouge, released the plan during his "Good Government Tour" across the state. The plan includes three main themes - making state and local government more open and accountable to the public, aggressively addressing potential conflicts of interest and responsibly managing spending of hard-earned taxpayer dollars.</p>

<p>BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's gubernatorial candidates are stepping up their messages, positive and negative, trying to sway voters their way during this single most important week of the campaign.</p> <p>Recent polls, consistently led by Republican Bobby Jindal and Democrat Kathleen Blanco, still show a fair number of undecided voters with mere days before Saturday's election.</p>

<p>Jefferson endorses Leach Congressman's support is a blow to Ewing campaign. John Hill Posted on September 23, 2003 BATON ROUGE - U. S. Rep. Bill Jefferson of New Orleans on Monday endorsed Democrat Claude "Buddy" Leach in the gubernatorial race, a blow to former state Sen. Randy Ewing, who had sought the endorsement.</p>

<p>BATON ROUGE -- Voters do not appear to be very excited about any candidate as Louisiana's gubernatorial campaigns head into the final two weeks, a pollster says.</p> <p>One possible reason: When Verne Kennedy of Pensacola, Fla., asked 600 voters in a poll Sept. 3-6 about their feelings about Louisiana, 45 percent said the state is on the wrong track and things are getting worse. And fewer -- 38 percent -- believe Louisiana is moving in the right direction and things are getting better.</p>

<p>BATON ROUGE - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is backing former state Senate President Randy Ewing for governor, raising the Jackson Parish resident's political profile in the Crescent City.</p> <p>"It is symbolically significant for a man from North Louisiana to get the endorsement of the mayor of the largest city in South Louisiana," retired Southern University political scientist Frank Ransburg of Zachary said of the endorsement announced Tuesday.</p>

<p>Only five of seven major candidates for Louisiana governor are eligible so far to participate in a statewide televised debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters later this month.</p> <p>Among other qualifications, the league is requiring candidates show support from at least 8 percent of the voters in public opinion polls.</p>

Democrats Attack Blossman Blossman Sticks to his Guns "Cleo's Bus… Waste of Money" "I am not a racist, but Cleo Fields is," responded Jay Blossman, the conservative candidate for Governor. Blossman expanded by saying, "Cleo is the one demanding special treatment andfunding through the Urban Slush funds, only because of the color of his skin. Because of Cleo, reverse discrimination is alive and well in our Louisiana government." "I believe that race should have no part in our government today," continued Blossman."That is why I have proposed a Racial Privacy Initiative. It would end affirmative action, eliminate minority quotas and...

<p>Do you favor allowing the Louisiana Legislature to control the Minimum Foundation Program for funding public education rather than leaving control with the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education?</p> <p>Kathleen Blanco: I prefer the Minimum Foundation Program. It's what has protected education through the years. The BESE board has the whole picture.</p>

<p>BATON ROUGE - Randy Ewing is crisscrossing the state trying to persuade voters that his business and people skills, highlighted through a smooth North Louisiana drawl, can bring the state out of an economic slump.</p> <p>The 59-year-old gubernatorial candidate has put his plan in writing, using his state government experience that recognizes both the good and not-so-good policies and practices of prior governors and injects his ideas. Ewing served 12 years as a senator, including four as president of the Senate. He voluntarily gave up his Senate seat to fulfill a campaign promise that he would serve no more than three terms.</p>

<p>Gubernatorial candidates talk education, economic development Hopefuls also discussed how to keep youth from leaving state.</p> <p>BATON ROUGE - In a gubernatorial forum that was billed as a debate but seemed more like a well-mannered conversation, all the candidates agreed state spending on schools was good, prisons for youth are bad and preschool education was superlative.</p>

<p>Gubernatorial campaigning begins in earnest John Hill Posted on August 24, 2003 BATON ROUGE - Official qualifying last week unofficially kicked off the campaigns for governor as candidates hit the airwaves to build support in the few weeks before the Oct. 4 primary.</p>

Blossman Blasts Democrats on Affirmative Action "I will choose the best people--regardless of race" Public Service Commission Chairman Jay Blossman (R-Mandeville),the conservative candidate for Governor, said today that his Democrat opponents in the gubernatorial election are wrong in pledging to use affirmative action in making cabinet and board appointments. "All four Democrat candidates have publicly committed to discriminate based on race when appointing people to cabinet or board positions," Blossman said. Lt. Governor Kathleen Blanco, Attorney General Richard Ieyoub, Buddy Leach and Randy Ewing on Thursday and Friday endorsed the use of affirmative action in making key state government appointments....