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McClellan doesn't address G8 gift but notes latest suicide bombing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WND AT THE WHITE HOUSE Billions for Abbas justified? McClellan doesn't address G8 gift but notes latest suicide bombing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 12, 2005 5:00 p.m. Eastern Editor's note: Each week, WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asks the tough questions almost no one else will ask. And each week, WorldNetDaily brings you the transcripts of those dialogues with the president and his spokesman. By Les Kinsolving © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about the G8's plans to...

On June 8, the Associated Press reported from St. Augustine, Fla.: For the next six days, 49 rainbow flags will flutter on the Bridge of Lions after a three-year battle by gay-rights organizations. U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams Jr. ruled Tuesday against the city in a suit filed by the Rev. Ruth Jensen and Vicki Waldon of the St. Augustine Pride Committee, Equality Florida and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. The city rejected a request last month to fly the flags for a week of gay-pride events. Adams said the organization would suffer "irreparable harm and loss if...

At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about Sen. Dick Durbin's leadership post in the Senate in light of his controversial comments about the treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Yesterday, Durbin apologized for his remarks, which included comparing U.S. treatment of prisoners to "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime – Pol Pot or others – that had no concern for human beings." WND: Scott, the president has been asked to remove Ken Tomlinson as head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by 16 Democrat senators, including Senator...

Shortly after I moved from California in 1973 to begin covering the last year of Richard Nixon in the White House, I was invited to the home of a very affable FBI leader named Mark Felt. He explained that he could not answer a number of my questions – including one dealing with the identity of the Washington Post-designated "Deep Throat." I still believe that some of the information fed to Woodward and Bernstein was from additional sources – but attributed to this exciting nickname, the title of a porn movie. And that compels a question: Why did the Post...

all parents in the United States who have anything to do with the National Parent-Teacher Association should request in no uncertain terms an explanation as to why the PTA has refused an ex-gay group's request to exhibit at its annual convention, while at the same time welcoming a gay-activist organization and inviting it to present a workshop.

In late 1996, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, engaged in a conference call with other Republican congressmen, including then-Speaker Newt Gingrich. Their conversation was illegally wiretapped by two Florida Democrats, Alice and John Martin, who, when caught, were tried and fined $500 apiece. Before they were caught and fined, these two wiretappers actually took their purloined tape recording to Washington, D.C., where they gave it to a then-member of the House Ethics Committee, Washington state's Democrat, James McDermott of Seattle. McDermott leaked this private conversation to the New York Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution – neither of which newspapers were ever...

New York's Gov. Al Smith not only opposed Prohibition, but in 1928 he became the first Roman Catholic ever nominated by a major party to be president. This resulted in some of America's worst anti-Catholic expressions of bigotry – including a rumor that Gov. Smith was planning to invite the pope to make an extended visit in order to supervise the conversion of this nation to a Roman Catholic country. When Gov. Smith lost to Herbert Hoover by 444 to 87 electoral votes, he had the good sense of humor and sportsmanship to announce that he had just sent a...

Editor's note: Each week, WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asks the tough questions almost no one else will ask. And each week, WorldNetDaily brings you the transcripts of those dialogues with the president and his spokesman. If you'd like to suggest a question for the White House, submit it to WorldNetDaily's exclusive interactive forum MR. PRESIDENT! By Les Kinsolving At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about the president's view that those involved in the Minuteman Project on the U.S.-Mexican border are vigilantes and confronted the spokesman with Border Patrol comments about agents'...

What the Boston Globe did not mention in its three days of coverage last November of pro-Nazi Harvard during the 1930s is that while Harvard has World War I and II memorials listing as "enemy" three German alumni, Harvard has no memorial to its more than 60 alumni killed while serving in the Confederate army. These included six Confederate generals plus a number of graduates of Harvard's Medical School, who died while treating the wounded from both sides. That Harvard honors her German enemy alumni – but none of her American Confederates – is an outrage, particularly since archrival Yale...

If Dan Rather had had the loyalty to his ousted CBS colleagues – to resign or to retire right after he was caught using forged documents to try to embarrass or even defeat President Bush – he might have avoided a very grim sendoff from CBS. It is true that his two long-time competitors, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings, invited Dan Rather to a special dinner in his honor. But that's understandable, given how badly CBS Evening News was beaten in the ratings by Brokaw of NBC and Jennings of ABC. Then there was a cascade of Rather denunciations from...

Following receipt of a letter from Tim Stoen, a former aide to Jim Jones, in which he apologizes for his behavior years ago when Jones' cult was based in Ukiah, Les Kinsolving, the San Francisco Chronicle reporter who was targeted by the group, offers forgiveness. For Stoen, who publicly disassociated himself from the cult a year before Jonestown, the Kinsolving letter is his most public admission yet of wrongdoing on behalf of the Peoples Temple. "I have asked God to forgive me for my wrongdoing in being a part of Peoples Temple. He has mercifully given me a second chance,"...

Hollywood picks Che over Christ Posted: January 1, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Les Kinsolving © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is nationally headquartered in Manhattan, but has an influence nationwide. This is due primarily to this organization's president, a marvelously articulate attorney named William Donohue. I often describe him as "the man who is absolutely incapable of writing a dull press release." As the latest example of this notable art, Bill Donohue notes: "Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ' was one of 49 films deemed eligible for a foreign-language Golden Globe. But it...

Saturday, December 25, 2004 Why 85 Episcopal churches closed their doorsPosted: December 25, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Les Kinsolving © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com New Hampshire's Episcopal bishop, the Right Rev. Vicky Gene Robinson, continues to attract extensive coverage in our nation's left-wing dominated Old Media – because he is the only known Anglican (or Episcopal) prelate who left his wife and daughter and who now lives unmarried with his sodomist lover. The decision to consecrate him a bishop has caused a worldwide rift in the 77 million-member Anglican communion. There are further consequences at home in the United States. Already reported has been...

The Christian Underground http://www.christian-underground.com READ IT - LEARN FROM IT - PRAY OVER IT - SHARE IT --- Why 85 Episcopal churches closed their doors December 25, 2004 By Les Kinsolving New Hampshire's Episcopal bishop, the Right Rev. Vicky Gene Robinson, continues to attract extensive coverage in our nation's left-wing dominated Old Media – because he is the only known Anglican (or Episcopal) prelate who left his wife and daughter and who now lives unmarried with his sodomist lover. The decision to consecrate him a bishop has caused a worldwide rift in the 77 million-member Anglican communion. There are further...

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about the Humvee armor controversy and the future of the Palestinian territory. WND: Since both The Washington Times and The Maryville, Tennessee, Daily Times report that when Chattanooga Times Free Press reporter Edward Pitts rehearsed Army Specialist Thomas Wilson on what to ask Secretary Rumsfeld, the Pentagon had already up-armored 97 percent of the vehicles in Wilson's regimental combat team, and the last 20 of their 830 vehicles were in the up-armored pipeline, said General Speaks, in a Pentagon briefing last week – McCLELLAN: And your...

At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about the Bush administration's record on illegal-immigration control. WND: Page 1 of this morning's Washington Times quotes the leader of the draft Hillary for president organization as saying, "Bush has done everything he can to leave the doors wide open for illegal immigration. Hillary is the only one taking a position on immigration." And in Hillary's own words, "I do not think we have protected our borders." And my first question: What is the president's response to this rather serious charge? McCLELLAN: Well, let me just talk...

Tuesday, December 7, 2004 Vanderbilt male candidate for homecoming queen Posted: December 7, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Les Kinsolving © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The re-election of President Bush, along with 11 states voting overwhelmingly against same-sex marriage, has apparently had little effect on the militants of the Sodomy Lobby. That lobby's ally, the New York Times, on Nov. 27, devoted half a page to a story headlined "GAY STUDENTS FORCE NEW LOOK AT HOMECOMING TRADITIONS." Also included was a full-length photograph captioned: "EVERETT MORAN, A GAY STUDENT AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, WHO RAN FOR HOMECOMING QUEEN, DRESSED IN DRAG FOR THE OCCASION." This repulsive...

Guilty as charged. Yes, your honor, I unflinchingly plead guilty. Columnist Les Kinsolving called me out by name recently and said that I, as president of American Life League, was a practitioner of fetal fanaticism - and deadly extremism - all because I insist that every abortion is evil. And I offer no apologies.

Saturday, November 27, 2004 Fallujah Marine a hero, not a coward Posted: November 27, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Les Kinsolving © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com From Baghdad, the Associated Press reported the following on Nov. 16: "The U.S. military said Tuesday it is investigating the videotaped fatal shooting of a wounded man by a U.S. Marine in a mosque in Fallujah. Iraqis condemned the act as 'cowardice' and 'something forbidden in Islam.'" "Forbidden in Islam"? Were those masked terrorist kidnappers who, that day, murdered aid worker Margaret Hassan, non-Muslim? And what about those who have been beheading other kidnapped hostages? Were they, too, all...

Tuesday, September 7, 2004 Baltimore Sun has fun with Russia's school massacre Posted: September 7, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Les Kinsolving © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Page one of the Sept. 4 Baltimore Sun had many of the details of what it headlined: "BLOODY END TO RUSSIAN SCHOOL SIEGE." There was the Associated Press photograph of the young girl crouching and weeping at the side of her wounded mother. There was the Agence France Press picture of the young father, racing out of the school carrying his son – whose face showed the effects of the three days of imprisoned agony. But inside, on...