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A well-backed Democrat candidate who ran for a position on the board of a top beltway-area school system has been found guilty of assault for ramming a pro-lifer with her car during this year’s national March for Life on January 24, LifeSiteNews has learned. Charisse Espy Glassman, the niece of former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, withdrew her candidacy for the Fairfax County Public School board after the charges were revealed by the Washington Post this summer. Glassman was convicted of one charge of simple assault, and found not guilty of a second charge of possession of a prohibited weapon....

Incumbent Sen. John McCain leads former Tucson city councilman Rodney Glassman in a new survey by conservative pollster Rasmussen Reports. McCain gets the nod from 53 percent of those surveyed, while Glassman is the choice of 34 percent in a for-now hypothetical general election. Glassman, who narrowly leads the race for the Democratic nomination, tops the strongest opponent McCain faces in his primary, former congressman J.D. Hayworth. Hayworth is the choice of 38 percent, and Glassman 43 percent, in that matchup. Independent voters prefer McCain over Glassman by a two-to-one margin, but they break nearly even if Hayworth is the...

Democrats may be salivating over the possibility of running against former Rep. J.D. Hayworth in the Arizona Senate race this fall, but Tucson City Councilman Rodney Glassman says he'd rather end up campaigning against Sen. John McCain, the incumbent battling back a primary challenge from Hayworth. Glassman, the leading Democrat in the Senate race, said he thinks McCain would be an easier target because voters are tired of incumbency – and McCain's already been in the Senate for four terms. "The's election is a job application, it's a job interview for a six-year irrevocable employment contract," Glassman told POLITICO. "And...

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Before he was sworn in as President, Barack Obama began to lay out his plans for reviving an American economy that, it would later be discovered, had declined 3.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, its worst performance in 26 years. About the first part of his project, “stimulating” businesses to invest and consumers to consume through government spending and tax remittances, he was forthcoming and enthusiastic. About the second, stabilizing the financial system, he wished to reserve judgment. He anointed the stimulus proposal with a convenient and vivid metaphor. “We’re going to have to jump start this economy...

Coburn Delays State Nominee Over Pro-Iran Radio April 07, 2008 The Washington Times Nicholas Kralev President Bush's nomination of a successor to his longtime friend Karen P. Hughes as the nation's top public diplomacy official is being held up in the Senate over concerns about anti-American bias in the Voice of America's broadcasts for Iran. Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, has put a hold on the confirmation of James Glassman, whom Mr. Bush nominated in December and who went before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in late January, administration and congressional officials said. Mr. Coburn has sought for years...

President Bush intends to name a well-known conservative commentator and journalist to lead the State Department's struggling efforts to improve the U.S.'s image abroad, replacing long-time confidante Karen Hughes, who is leaving government by the end of the year, The Associated Press has learned. Bush plans to tap James K. Glassman, now chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees the Voice of America, to be the new undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, administration officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not yet been made. The officials said the...

Extra! Extra! The big news of the past decade in America has been largely overlooked, and you'll find it shocking. Young people have become aggressively normal. Violence, drug use and teen sex have declined. Kids are becoming more conservative politically and socially. They want to get married and have large families. And, get this, they adore their parents. The Mood of American Youth Survey found that more than 80 percent of teenagers report no family problems -- up from about 40 percent a quarter-century ago. In another poll, two-thirds of daughters said they would "give Mom an 'A.' "In the...

IBM announced last week that it would freeze the old-style pension plans it provides to more than 100,000 employees and instead offer an improved version of its 401(k) plan. This is no run-of-the-mill accounting change or cut-costing measure. It is a major philosophical and economic shift for a bellwether corporation. It means, in short, that International Business Machines is moving away from paternalism and giving workers more control over their own retirements. The U.S. government should do the same in reforming Social Security. The IBM decision is good news as well for taxpayers, who ultimately could be left holding the...

Good Riddance to Traditional Pensions Print Mail By James K. Glassman IBM announced last week that it would freeze the old-style pension plans it provides to more than 100,000 employees and instead offer an improved version of its 401(k) plan. This is no run-of-the-mill accounting change or cut-costing measure. It is a major philosophical and economic shift for a bellwether corporation. IIt means, in short, that International Business Machines is moving away from paternalism and giving workers more control over their own retirements. The U.S. government should do the same in reforming Social Security. The IBM decision is good news...

1,576 Days Thursday, January 05, 2006 By John Gibson How do you measure terror that did not happen? A Web site called Tech Central Station ran a column Thursday by a guy named James Glassman. He opens with this: "As I write, 1,576 days have passed since the attacks of September 11, 2001, and still there has been no subsequent terrorist assault on American soil." He then goes into a long rumination about how you assess the fact that nothing has happened in the intervening years and why nothing has happened. The answer, of course, is that a lot has...

As I write, 1,576 days have passed since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and still there has been no subsequent terrorist assault on American soil. Every day, 130 domestic and 118 foreign airlines serve the United States. Air traffic controllers handle 20 million flights a year -- without a terrorist incident. In fact, the past three years have been the safest in aviation history. The United States remains the most open nation in the world. Since 9/11, scores of millions of sealed trailer-size containers have entered U.S. ports, and 6 million legal international immigrants have joined the American population....

MILAN - I have just finished a two-week trip to Europe -- my honeymoon, if you must know -- and, as usual with a European trip, I have come away with two completely different impressions. Europe, or at least the parts I go to, is a wonderful place to live and to visit. It's beautiful; the food is great; the people are generally warm and relaxed. If there is a greater pleasure than eating a plate of Insalata Caprese (tomatoes, mozzarella, basil and cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil) on a sunny terrace on the Amalfi Coast with the islands where the...

If anything good comes from the sad story of Terri Schiavo's life and death, it is that a brighter line has been drawn between the personal and the political. The Schiavo case is straightforward: A young woman's heart stopped beating in 1990, cutting off oxygen to her brain and destroying her cerebral cortex. Before this happened, according to her husband, who is her legal guardian, she said that, under such circumstances she would not want to be kept alive artificially. But she left no living will. Court-appointed doctors confirmed that she was in a "persistent vegetative state," kept alive by...

IN the wake of their election defeat, Democrats have promised to mend their ways by emphasizing moral values. So, in their first major legislative initiative of the year, what are the party's two top senators offering? A bill to guarantee that millions of convicted murderers, rapists and armed robbers can vote. This week, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Kerry will officially introduce the Count Every Vote Act, which she claims is "critical to restoring America's faith in our voting system." Among the provisions: A measure to insure that voting rights are restored to "felons who have repaid their debt...

Iraq won't win the election for John Kerry. He has to convince voters that George W. Bush has botched the economy. That's a tall order right now, with the unemployment rate down from 6.3 percent to 5.4 percent in a year. It's back where it was when Bill Clinton was re-elected in 1996. Kerry has another problem. His debate with Bush on Friday comes the same day as a report that will almost certainly show powerful employment gains, including upward revisions from earlier this year. Still, Kerry is trying hard, and two main themes will be on display during the...

What's gotten into Lou Dobbs? Once a sensible, if self-important and sycophantic, CNN anchor, he has suddenly become a table-thumping protectionist. Dobbs has been running a series -- praised by the AFL-CIO's Rich Trumka as a "nightly crusade" -- called "Exporting America." Slanted and inflammatory, it decries "outsourcing" or "offshoring" -- that is, U.S. businesses using suppliers in other countries, like workers in Ghana processing New York parking tickets or programmers in India writing IBM software. Another word for outsourcing is "trade" -- an endeavor, as economists learned early on, that benefits both parties to the exchange. Nothing has changed...

As Martha Stewart's trial moves into a third week, an important question remains unasked: Why are the feds prosecuting someone for receiving inside information, anyway? Isn't the criminal the corporate official who acts on knowledge that the public doesn't have? The government charges that on Dec. 27, 2001, Stewart learned from her broker that Samuel Waksal, the chief executive of ImClone Systems Inc., was trying to sell his stock because he knew that the Food and Drug Administration would announce an adverse decision the next day about his company's cancer drug, Erbitux. Stewart then sold her own 3,928 shares...

The lead singer for the Dixie Chicks has apologized for saying she is "ashamed" of President Bush. Now, as America heads into war, it's time to hear other anti-war protesters say they're sorry, too. They have been participating in demonstrations led by avid supporters of the North Korean regime and marching next to banners carrying pictures of George Bush dressed up like Adolf Hitler and placards that call the president an "international terrorist," proclaim that "The Difference Between Bush and Saddam Is That Saddam Was Elected," and urge that "Workers, Soldiers and Students Fight for Communism." To protest this war...

A report released Monday reveals just why the regional Bell monopolies are so frantic about getting FCC Chairman Michael Powell to change the rules and cut off competition for local telephone service. The report shows that at the end of 2002, the Bells' competitors had won customers for an estimated 10 million residential and small business lines - thanks to UNE-P, an acronym that stands for "unbundled network element platform." UNE-P, a critical ingredient in the plan for deregulation laid out by Congress and the White House in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, is bringing Americans lower prices and...