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Jenna Ellis – the Donald Trump lawyer who like the former president faces criminal charges regarding attempted election subversion in his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020 – says she will not vote for him in the future because he is a “malignant narcissist” who cannot admit mistakes. “I simply can’t support him for elected office again,” Ellis said. “Why I have chosen to distance is because of that frankly malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong.”*** Described by the New York Times *** as “a lawyer whom Trump sought out after seeing her television...

Sunday on Fox News Channel, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) weighed in on the January 6 committee, which has targeted him over his role in the day’s events. McCarthy told “Sunday Morning Futures” that members of the party were “going after their political foes.” He also argued the committee was acting “beyond its legislative scope.

The Sheriff Arapio Haters came up short of recall signatures. This an AP story so by FR rules I can't say more than HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-

PEOSTA, Iowa — A day after clashing with a tea party activist, President Obama Tuesday told crowds here that it was "a faction in Congress" that was to blame for blocking economic progress. At a rural jobs forum, Mr. Obama ticked off a list of pending bills that he said would create jobs. "The only thing that's preventing us from passing the bills I just mentioned is the refusal of a faction in Congress to put country ahead of party," the president said in a thinly veiled reference to House Republicans backed by the tea party. "That has to stop."

Foes of immigration law in rush to gather signatures Moira Carney, treasurer of Compassion for All, explains Monday how her all-volunteer group hopes to gather more than 155,000 valid signatures by July 1 to put a measure on the November ballot, effectively repealing the state’s new immigration law. (Howard Fischer • Capitol Media Service) PHOENIX — Admitting it’s never been done before, foes of the state’s new immigration law hope to gather close to 155,000 signatures to put the issue to voters.And they need to do it in less than four weeks — and with only volunteers and virtually no cash...

Barack Obama’s decision to postpone his trip to Indonesia and Australia — to a democracy with the world’s largest Muslim population and to the only nation that has fought alongside us in all the wars of the last century — is of a piece with his foreign policy generally: attack America’s friends and kowtow to our enemies. Examples run from Britain to Israel. Early in his administration, Obama returned a bust of Churchill that the British government had loaned the White House after 9/11. Then Obama gave Prime Minister Gordon Brown a set of DVDs that don’t work on British...

DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lashed out at his opponents and the news media Tuesday night, accusing them of showing a "lynch mob mentality" amid a scandal over his exchange of sexually explicit text messages with a former top aide. The criticism came as he finished reading the written text released before his State of the City address, which only briefly alluded to the text-message controversy. The case has led to a criminal probe of whether Kilpatrick lied under oath when he denied an affair with former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty that was revealed in the text messages. Kilpatrick,...

NEW YORK - It's a time-honored playbook for presidential front-runners: ignore your opponents' slings and arrows while promoting your own positive vision for the country. Hillary Rodham Clinton has stuck to that text so far, even as her Democratic rivals have begun openly challenging her character and electability. With just seven weeks to go until the leadoff caucuses in Iowa, where polls indicate a tight contest, the question is how long the New York senator will try to ride above the rough-and-tumble. There already are signs of a shift. The issue will be put to a test Thursday, when the...

Republicans, cops and event planners aren't the only ones getting ready for the 2008 Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities. The GOP's critics also are gearing up to greet the party, in style and otherwise. They're talking about mass marches, rock concerts and activities as simple as going to the St. Paul downtown library to get a book amid the hubbub.

Tombs of Roman foes discoveredTerracotta, daggers and jewelry in Abruzzo necropolis (ANSA) - L'Aquila, June 7 - Fresh tombs of one of Rome's most implacable foes have been discovered in Italy's mountainous Abruzzo region . Some of the tombs have been dated to the Second Century BC, when Rome was still trying to subdue the warlike peoples that lived in the region . Others date as far back as the 8th century BC, before Rome was founded . A particularly interesting find was a 2nd-Century BC chamber tomb containing terracotta ware, jewelry and a dagger . "It's fascinating to see...

An Iranian group has killed American civilians, allied itself with Saddam Hussein, and holds a spot on the State Department’s terrorist watch list. So why might it become America’s newest friend in the Middle East? Hint: Tehran. In August 2002, intelligence reports revealed secret nuclear facilities in the Iranian cities of Natanz and Arak. The revelation left officials in Tehran speechless, in large part because the evidence was not gathered by the United States or any of its allies. Rather, the courier of such sensitive intelligence was the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK), a decades-old Iranian dissident group. In most cases, dissident...

A group opposed to illegal immigration will mark Mexican Independence Day today by posting volunteers along the California-Mexico border to report illegal crossers. Meanwhile, migrant-rights advocates plan to respond with street demonstrations in Calexico. The action is on the border -- from the ocean east to Calexico -- but leaders on both sides of this increasingly angry issue are from the Inland area. Friends of the Border Patrol, organized by Andy Ramirez, 37, of Chino, begins its monitoring today with an estimated 130 volunteers, he said. They expect to continue the political momentum started by the original Minuteman Project in...

ROME (Reuters) - The "Great Satan," part of the "axis of evil" and an "outpost of tyranny" will gather for the funeral of Pope John Paul, who toiled for peace but whose mourners find it hard to forgive each other. At what is expected to be one of the biggest funerals ever, there will be heads of governments whose hostile exchanges have long dominated the headlines -- the United States and Iran, Israel and Syria, Zimbabwe and Britain among others. "The conviction he had about humankind, about life and about peace -- it just shone through," said former U.S. president...

After wavering over whether to debate, congressional candidate Doris Matsui agreed Monday to appear at two forums with her opponents in the special election to replace her husband, the late Rep. Robert Matsui. Both debates will occur Feb. 26, 10 days before the March 8 special election in the 5th Congressional District. Matsui, the Democratic front-runner, faced criticism when her campaign said earlier this month that a 12-way debate would be "impractical." Last week, Matsui reversed course and said she was open to a debate as long as it focused on the issues rather than "name calling." "I'm glad she...

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) and Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) have been sparring with mock-debate partners since midsummer, getting ready for Democrats John Kerry (news - web sites) and John Edwards (news - web sites). In late July, Bush began practicing with Sen. Judd Gregg (news, bio, voting record), R-N.H., inside the White House residence, officials said Monday. Gregg also played Al Gore (news - web sites) in debate preparation in 2000. Cheney started debate rehearsal in early August, jousting with Rep. Rob Portman (news, bio, voting record), an Ohio Republican and longtime...

Seattleites aren't going to pot — or jail — since voters passed I-75, the initiative that made marijuana the city's lowest law-enforcement priority. The number of people prosecuted for pot possession has plummeted, and despite predictions of naysayers, there is no evidence of widespread public pot consumption as a result of the measure, which voters approved last year. To Dominic Holden, spokesman for the I-75 campaign, that means Hempfest this weekend will likely be more fragrant than last year, as attendees at the annual pro-pot event will have yet another reason to whoop it up — and light up. Approved...

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's left-wing President Hugo Chavez on Monday declared victory in a historic recall referendum on his rule, but his opponents vowed to challenge vote results they rejected as a "gigantic fraud." With 94 percent of electoral rolls counted, 58 percent of voters cast ballots against removing Chavez from office, said National Electoral Council President Francisco Carrasquero. Chavez, a populist ex-army officer who survived a coup two years ago, appeared on the balcony of his Miraflores presidential palace and led hundreds of supporters in singing the national anthem before dawn. "The Venezuelan people have spoken and the...

A veteran Democratic-Farmer-Labor legislator apologized on Thursday for taking Republican literature while campaigning this week in New Hope, an action that resulted in a complaint to local police.

ONTARIO - This time he called them "girlie men up there in Sacramento." Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, using fiery campaign-style rhetoric and some of the Hollywood lines that made him famous, came to the Inland Empire on Saturday afternoon to bash and threaten Democrats he said were "obstructionists" blocking the state budget and catering to special interests. "If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers, and I want them to make the millions of dollars...

 HandwRing in the New YearJanuary 1, 2004  It’s been an interesting ride from September 11, 2001 to January 1, 2004.  And it’s not over yet.  For the first time since World War II, America is clearly focusing on who are friends are...and who they aren’t.  And like the Cold War, the threats to our borders are not solely from without.  International terrorists and domestic jerks alike wish to destroy the American way of life. Our American neighbors in the Lackawanna Six wanted to blow you to hell.  The Ninth Circuit Court demands that filthy enemies be granted the privileges of taxpaying...