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Top House Republicans chastised Rep. Steve King, R-IA, for saying some children brought to the country illegally by their parents become drug-runners. Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday King's comments were "wrong" and could overwhelm House Republican efforts to overhaul immigration laws, Politico reported. "There can be honest disagreements about policy without using hateful language," Boehner said in a statement Tuesday. "Everyone needs to remember that." House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, said he "strongly" disagreed with King's "characterization of the children of immigrants and finds the comments inexcusable." Cantor is working on a bill that would...

A longtime professor and one-time dean of the University of Chicago Law School told The Daily Caller that Barack Obama was never offered tenure, despite the assertions of a New York Times reporter who covers the president and the first family. “Other faculty members dreamed of tenured positions; [Obama] turned them down,” wrote Times White House Correspondent Jodi Kantor, author of “The Obamas,” in a July 30, 2008 profile of the president’s twelve years as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. And yet, according to longtime University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein, Obama was never actually...

Gibbs Shares ‘Regret’ for Explosive Michelle Obama Spat Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he regrets losing his cool during an explosive 2010 White House staff meeting, in which he reportedly shouted profanities about the first lady. Gibbs downplayed the blowup, reported in a new book by New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor, saying in a written statement today, “in any high-pressure work environment there are occasional arguments and disagreements and that is certainly true of the White House. I regret speaking in anger and regret that this disagreement became so public.” The incident followed reports that Michelle...

In this episode of the Conscience of Kansas radio program I interview Dr. Elizabeth Kantor, author of the book "The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature." Next we talk about the military turn down in Iraq. We listen to the parody "Obama at the Plate," and then I speak to Dr. Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance about their new book and DVD series "Resisting the Greem Dragon." We invite you to listen and comment.

County: Gun art violates rulesArtist says county has agreed to let sculpture remain in place until spring By JASON KAUFFMAN Express Staff Writer  Blaine County officials have asked local artist Bob Kantor to pull his sculpture titled "Line of Hope 2" farther away from state Highway 75. They claim the sculpture is violating county rules that require a 100-foot setback from the highway.  Blaine County has a gun problem. No doubt nearly every Blaine County motorist has seen Wood River Valley sculptor Bob Kantor's highly visible art piece off of state Highway 75 south of Ketchum. Titled "Line of...

Cindy McCain was new to Washington and not yet 30 when she arrived at a luncheon for Congressional spouses to discover a problem with her name tag. It read “Carol McCain.” That was the well-liked wife John McCain had left to marry Cindy, to the disapproval of many in Washington.

By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent Russian tycoon Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor, an associate of President Vladimir Putin, is the leading candidate for president of the European Jewish Congress in next week's elections in Brussels. Kantor is supported by a number of European Jewish community leaders, but a few have warned against electing a close ally of the Russian government. Some Israeli officials fear that as president of the umbrella organization, Kantor could undermine Israel's efforts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Kantor, 54, says that his close links to the Kremlin are good for the Jews and might prove helpful...

Elitism: Days before Indiana's primary, Internet footage seemed to show a Hillary adviser and ex-Bill Clinton Cabinet secretary expressing contempt for the state. No surprise. Top Democrats don't have much use for "flyover country."When, in a PBS interview during the 1996 presidential campaign, Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor was asked to explain President Clinton's popularity, he remarked, "We all like to be loved." But few inside the former first lady's campaign have much love for the longtime friend of the Clintons after seeing the YouTube posting of an excerpt from the much-heralded documentary of the 1992 Clinton campaign, "The War...

Update IV: This is almost certainly a dirty trick aimed at Mickey Kantor and the Clinton campaign. Read all the way through the updates.

A youtube video surfaced today[video no longer availablelive leak video below fold] supposedly showing a vid made in 1992 of James Carville, George Stephanopolous, and Mickey Kantor conferring over polling results for Indiana.

Forgoing for a moment the dirty trick of the doctored clip from “The War Room,” which falsely had Mickey Kantor using a racial slur, the filmmaker behind the documentary has posted the clip on his Web site to clarify that other point of confusion -- what Kantor was referring to when he cursed. (An apparent source of confusion since the movie came out and some newspaper writers thought he was cursing Indianans. See previous post for that.) Filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker write: "We would like to respond to some erroneous statements made today about our film, THE...

DFU NOTE: Mickey Kantor's explosive comments from the past will likely cause his removal as advisor to Hillary. He was instrumental in dealing with one of Clinton's assault victims, Elizabeth Ward Gracen. GRACEN TOLD FRIENDS IT WAS NOT CONSENSUAL. ================================================================== It is this relentless obstruction of justice that I began to detail last week. Also on the list of Clinton's throwaway women who should have been placed in the federal Witness Protection Program is Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Arkansas's former Miss America, who had a brief bout of intimacy with Clinton in 1983. During the 1992 presidential campaign she received calls...

I just spoke to D.A. Pennebaker, the director of "The War Room," who said his film had been doctored to produce a widely-viewed YouTube clip. In a clip from his film on the 1992 Clinton campaign, posted to YouTube today, Clinton advisor Mickey Kantor is -- according to subtitles -- seen referring to Indianans with an expletive and to his colleague George Stephanopolous with a racial slur. "He does not say that. He does not say that," said Pennebaker, after viewing the clip. He said the initial expletive referred to the anticipated reaction in the Bush White House to the...

This one is EXPLOSIVE, folks! MUST SEE VIDEO! (Before it gets deleted from Youtube, anyway!) A KOS'r has posted a video on Youtube in which Stephanapolis, Carville, and Mickey Kantor are discussing Polling numbers from Indiana, when Kantor walks up and says: "Those people don't matter." (then whispers loud enough for the camera to hear) "How would you like to be... A worthless White Nigger?" OMG!!! The ARROGANCE of these people!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/2/93316/53926/838/507664

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