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At noon today the MP's had a section of Wilson Road blocked off. It was later announced that 60+ Starlings had all died near the old Anderson Golf Course. The birds were all in a very small area. The post MEDCOM did not find any evidence of toxins, but . . . . . . . .

Neal Knox, former vice president of the National Rifle Association and long-time leader of the gun rights movement, died at his home on January 17, 2005 following a year-long battle with colon cancer. He was sixty-nine. He is survived by his wife, Jay Janen Knox (Shirley) and his four children; Christopher, Shan, Jeffrey, Stacey, and seven grandchildren. Born Clifford Neal Knox on June 20, 1936 in Rush Springs, Oklahoma, Neal spent most of his early life in Texas, graduating from Vernon, Texas High School and attending Abilene Christian College. His early working years included eight years in the Texas National...

<p>An unknown suspect fired several shots into the Bearden office of the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign Tuesday morning.</p> <p>The headquarters are located at 4618 Kingston Pike, next to Noveau Classics and in the same shopping plaza as Long's Drugstore.</p> <p>According to Knoxville Police Department officers on the scene Tuesday, it is believed that the two separate shots were fired from a car sometime between 6:30 am and 7:15 am. One shot shattered the glass in the front door and the other cracked the glass in another of the front doors.</p>

If George Orwell could have teamed up with Lewis Carroll, maybe, just maybe, they could have concocted something as down-the-rabbit-hole outlandish as the current CBS wisdom on those four almost universally discredited memos trashing George W. Bush's Air National Guard service. After a week in the media pillory, beginning in the blogosphere and spreading even to the mainstream media bastions of The Washington Post and ABC News, Dan Rather and CBS have suggested, barely, that their documents may be fake. They insist, though, that the content is accurate. "Those who have criticized aspects of our story have never criticized the...

In the Eye of the Storm: Riding it Out with Dan Rather by Karen Pittman 17 September 2004 No matter what those celluloid talking heads say, I rather doubt Dan Rather and CBS got “snookered,” as Bill O'Reilly, the biggest blubbering head of all, bloviatingly opined. I rather doubt they got “had,” as those babbling TV brains like to claim. Rather, I am persuaded they were at least in some measure in on the whole wretched hoax. I say it’s rather more likely than not that Dan Rather and CBS were complicit in airing those forged documents whose sole purpose...

Those Dan Rather memos—purportedly from Lt. Col. Jerry Killian's personal file, yes, them—they're not forgeries. They are copies of forgeries. Their provenance is unknown, so far. There is speculation in the Kerry camp that Karl Rove, tutored, no doubt, by Mossad and the neocons, planted these forgeries, but we will leave this implicit admission for another Conning Tower. It no longer matters whether Mr. Rather expressly concedes the memos are forgeries. That the memos were phony was proved last week when, Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs produced an identical copy of the 18 August 1973 item, identical pixel for...

Barnes is the former Texas lieutenant governor and heavyweight Capitol lobbyist whose political career evaporated when he became entangled in the Sharpstown scandal 25 years ago. Gtech hired Barnes and his partner Ricky Knox to help it win one of the largest contracts the state of Texas ever signed with a private company. In return, their contracts entitled them to 4 percent of the company's Texas revenues, minus some expenses, as long as Gtech holds the contract. Both Barnes' daughter Amy and his former executive secretary were enlisted in the new Gtech brigade. With the help of Barnes (who did...

I understand that Knox the secretary who now says she typed up memo's like the fake CBS documents, previously said she didn't know anything or remember anything about Bush's time in the guard. Is that true? I haven't been able to find it.

CBS has a problem on their hands. They have this square peg they been trying to beat into a round hole and it just won't fit no matter how many times they beat it with a hammer. Instead of using a round peg they appear to have decided to replace their square peg with yet another square peg in hopes they can somehow force it to fit. CBS has a name for their new square peg: Marion Carr Knox. It is obviously clear that Ms. Knox is a perfect fit for the square thinking of CBS -- she considers Bush...

1) Rather mentions Ben Barnes in the opening and fails to disclose Barnes' ties to the Kerry campaign, misleading people who did not see the original piece 2) Rather made no mention of Amy Barnes' (Ben's daughter) statements that her father's statements on the 60 Minutes piece are politically motivated 3) In Rather's introduction, he says: "The woman who describes herself as Colonel Killian's right hand during much of the 1970s, Marianne Carr Knox, Colonel Killian's secretary, flew to NY this afternoon to tell us she believes the documents we obtained are not authentic. But, there is yet another confusing...

UPDATE: I have now heard from more than one source that CBS is going to talk to 86-year-old Marian Carr Knox, former secretary to Lt. Col. Jerry Killian. Hey, I think it's great to hear CBS might quote someone who says the memo is fake (other than Marcel Matley, their first expert, who said he could not authenticate it).

Mrs. Knox said signs of forgery abound in the four memos. She said the typeface on the documents did not match either of the two typewriters that she used during her time with the Guard. She identified those machines as a mechanical Olympia typewriter and the IBM Selectric that replaced it in the early 1970s. She spoke fondly of the Olympia, which she said had a key with the "th" superscript character that has been the focus of much debate in the CBS memos. Beyond that issue, experts have said that the Selectric and mechanical typewriters such as the Olympia...

Isn't Knox's story just what CBS needed? Here comes forward someone who is 87 years old who does not support Bush as president, deeming him "unfit for office" and "selected, not elected." This is right out of a left wing playbook. Why Knox is good for CBS is because she diverts attention away from CBS's proven forged documents and places the emphasis on the contents -- just what CBS been desperately been trying and failing to do. "The information in here [memos] was correct, but it was picked up from the real ones," she said. "I probably typed the information...

Jan. 31 Neal Knox Update -- Tuesday the Wisconsin Assembly will vote on whether to override Gov. Jim Doyle’s (D) veto of a license to carry law. The Senate has already passed the measure and the state’s press and leftist organizations are practically foaming at the mouth to stop it. The override could succeed – or fail – by a single vote. The vote had been scheduled this past Tuesday but was cancelled because one pro-gun member was absent due to illness – a claim disputed by the press, which said the delay indicated the majority Republicans didn’t have the...

AUGUSTA — The state's highest court is proposing new voting districts that would move Knox County into the 2nd Congressional District and force Portland's two Democratic state senators to run against each other next year. The proposal pleased Republicans and upset Democrats. Activists in both parties are closely watching the redistricting process, which sometimes can knock out incumbents and give one party an upper hand for the next decade. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will make a final decision on a plan after it holds a public hearing Monday at the Cumberland County Courthouse.

Ronald Knox (1888-1957) was the son of the Anglican Bishop of Manchester and it appeared that he, being both spiritually perceptive and intellectually gifted, would also have a successful life as an Anglican prelate. But while in school in the early 1900s Knox began a long struggle between his love for the Church of England and his growing attraction to the Catholic Church. He was particularly drawn to ritual and ceremony, writing years later that “long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.” For many years he harbored the hope that somehow, by God’s providential...