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Well, well, well! While the United States is engaged in combat against terrorists in Iraq, our ubiquitous Hanoi Jane can't seem to get a handle on attaining maximum attention from her most recent book tour promoting herself. Please don't question that statement; what else could she have possibly wanted to do when she entitled her book: "My Life So Far"? Gee, I certainly wanted an update, didn't you? And then today we hear . . . "I've decided I'm coming out," says Miss Fonda. She went on to say, "I can't go into detail except to say that it's going...

LEGACY Oh say do you recall his shining city on the hill Though strained and scarred by wickedness, that city stands here still A proud and grateful people watched his strength illuminate her That beautiful, bright city of the Great Communicator

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20050715/tc_cmp/165702500 UN Panel: No Single Nation Should Control Internet Addresses Aoife White Thu Jul 14, 9:38 PM ET BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)--A U.N. panel created to recommend how the Internet should be run in the future has failed to reach consensus but did agree that no single country should dominate. The United States stated two weeks ago that it intended to maintain control over the computers that serve as the Internet's principal traffic cops. In a report released Thursday, the U.N. panel outlined four possible options for the future of Internet governance for world leaders to consider at a November "Information...

Here is the list so far for sponcers to this hate America fest: ANSWER Code Pink UFPJ NION Al Awda World Workers Party Ruckas Revolutionary Communist party Moveon.org ACORN Campus Antiwar Network International Socialist Org Greens Party Muslim Student Association CPUSA

BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE by Mia T, 7.15.05 BIN LADEN CREDITSCLINTON COWARDICE, DISLOYALITY + BLACK HAWK DOWN DEBACLE,FOR TERROR SUCCESSSEE FOOTAGE OF BIN LADEN INTERVIEW, BLACK HAWK DOWN DEBACLEhillary talks: ON MILITARY TACTICS (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) hillary talks:ON TERROR (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)   INTERVIEW Osama bin Laden (may 1998)   In the first part of this interview which occurred in May 1998, a little over two months before the U.S. embassy...

In her 2003 book, "The Majesty of the Law," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said she believes the addition of women and minorities to the Supreme Court was "desirable from the standpoint of public perceptions of fairness." That would be valid if "fairness" were the court's constitutional goal. Justice O'Connor, who announced her retirement Friday, was viewed as a powerful force on the court. The first woman justice, she was the swing voter who might uphold the conservative principles of her patron, Ronald Reagan, one day and side with the court's liberal wing the next. She did not instigate the high...

As it happens, during the course of the "The Truth" — which is more "In Touch" weekly than "New York Times" — Klein talks a bit about sex (which has been the topic of only walk-away headlines from the book). It helps perpetuate the long-standing myth that the Bill Clinton impeachment trial was all about sex. It wasn't. The sex and the lies and the depositions were all of Bill Clinton's making. As my colleague Rich Lowry wrote in his book on the Clinton presidency, "Legacy" (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2003) accusing Ken Starr of being obsessed with sex "was a...

Is anyone watching this testimony? It is daming!

Chief Justice William Rehnquist may or may not retire in the next few weeks, but a U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down Monday suggests that the curtain has already fallen on his jurisprudential legacy. Academics and commentators, like American Enterprise Institute Scholar Michael Greve, credit the Chief Justice with “resurrect[ing] federalism as a judicially enforceable constitutional principle.” But, during the past several terms, the Chief’s five-justice coalition — aptly referred to as the “federalist five,” comprising Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas — has been unable to complete the constitutional paradigm...

"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives." --Samuel Johnson RONALD WILSON REAGAN, 1911 - 2004 "And whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears, to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way. My fondest hope for each one of you -- and especially for young people -- is that you will love your country, not for her...

There's nothing quite as unnerving as becoming the target of fraud. For us at Wendy's, that nightmare became reality when a customer falsely accused the Wendy's on Monterey Road in San Jose, Calif., of putting a human fingertip in a bowl of chili. Within an hour the story was on TV news, and soon after, Wendy's was fodder for Jay Leno. It was painful for us to watch unfold. In the early hours of this crisis, we were faced with demanding questions. How we chose to respond was critical. The exposure of this hoax by authorities has completely vindicated Wendy's....

What is our "Greatest Generation" doing? Why are the people that lived through WWII, who saw the terrible effects of tyranny and despotism and Stalinism and ignorance and apathy, so blithely swallowing so much BS? BS like the years of lies from Democrats, AARP, ACLU and the mainstream media. BS like the Godless perversion, violence and dumbing-down in our public schools, and doping-up millions of supposedly ADHD kids. BS like the 60's. BS like gay marriage, gay clergy and easy-access smut 24/7. BS like Republicans will ruin Social Security, Medicare, etc. BS like Schiavo's tube pulling. BS like the Clintons....

A Sermon by a Pseudo-ReverendIn the beginning, there was FDR. In his “infinite” wisdom, FDR created a program called Social Security. And liberals saw that it was good. And behold, FDR set up Social Security as a "temporary" government program, in which a 2% Social Security tax (divided equally between the taxpayer and their employer) would be paid to the government. And it came to pass that FDR promised Americans that the 2% tax would never increase, and the maximum wage to be taxed would remain $3,000 until the end of time. In looking to the future, FDR prophesied that...

Washington -- Who killed Social Security overhaul? A: Harry Reid. B: George W. Bush. C: AARP. D: Monica Lewinsky. Answer: D. Seven years ago, the first Baby Boomer president traveled the country to warn that his generation's impending retirement -- 76 million people, equal to the populations of California, Texas and Florida combined -- would bankrupt the generations to follow. "It would be unconscionable if we failed to act," President Bill Clinton said at a forum in 1998, when he made fixing the nation's retirement program a top priority of his second term. Clinton's efforts then, in light of President...

Pope John Paul II and President Bush during their first meeting at the Pontiff's summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, in July 2001. (AP Photo / Arturo Mari) No one would mistake John Paul II for an evangelical Protestant. But he contributed to a dramatic warming of relations between evangelicals and Catholics that may mark a turning point not only in American politics but in the history of Christianity. DURING THE 1960 presidential campaign, leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals - including Harold John Ockenga of Boston's historic Park Street Church - joined other Protestants in warning the nation...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -- President Bush yesterday expressed awe at the funeral of Pope John Paul II, calling the ceremony a high point of his presidency that helped strengthen his faith in God. "I would define Pope John Paul II as a clear thinker who was like a rock," he said ......"And tides of moral relativism kind of washed around him, but he stood strong as a rock." "I knew the ceremony today would be majestic, but I didn't realize how moved I would be by the service itself, by the beautiful music," he marveled. Mr. Bush was asked...

Everyone has spoken this past week of John Paul II's role in the defeat of Soviet communism and the liberation of Eastern Europe. We don't know everything, or even a lot, about the quiet diplomatic moves--what happened in private, what kind of communications the pope had with the other great lions of the 1980s, Reagan and Thatcher. And others, including Bill Casey, the tough old fox of the CIA, and Lech Walesa of Solidarity. But I think I know the moment Soviet communism began its fall. It happened in public. Anyone could see it. It was one of the great...

April 4, 2005, 6:50 AM EDT CHICAGO -- About one in five ninth-graders report having had oral sex and almost one-third say they intend to try it during the next six months, a small study of teens at two California schools reports. The teenagers, whose average age was 14 1/2, also say oral sex is less risky, more common and more acceptable for their age group than intercourse. The researchers surveyed 580 ethnically diverse ninth-graders in two California public high schools. Girls and boys reported similar experiences and opinions about oral sex, which surprised the study's lead author, Bonnie Halpern-Felsher,...

April 3, 2005 -- FROM the Cuban Missile Crisis to President Reagan's resounding "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" there were plenty of supposed turning points in the Cold War. Personally, I believe the tide turned on Oct, 16, 1978, when a Polish cardinal, Karol Jozef Wojtyla, became Pope John Paul II. It was a pivotal moment for humankind, but a dark day for the Kremlin — the geriatric Politburo must have clutched the remains of their shriveled hearts. It was a glorious day for the Catholic Church, as the Vatican took an unmistakable stand against the godless religion of...

Today, Christians around the world celebrated their Savior's rising from the dead almost 20 centuries ago. In 1996, the leader of the Free World went to an Easter Service at his church in Washington, D.C. dutifly carrying his Bible. What he did later, however, proved that this disgusting piece of human garbage used our White House for his own whore house. He even did it on Easter Sunday. We are all failed human beings to be sure, but we actually endured a perverted sociopath for eight long years. We suffered 9-11 because this man did not pay attention to foreign...