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A black cloud was lifted off Canadian-American relations yesterday: Frank McKenna, anti-American Canadian ambassador to the United States announced his resignation. McKenna, in the diplomatic post for less than a year, was a harsh critic of the U.S. ever since his arrival in Washington. One month into the job, he fired off a letter to Newt Gingrich for his reference on Hannity & Colmes regarding terrorists crossing over the border from Canada into the U.S. Only last October, McKenna stunned a Toronto audience when he called the U.S. government "dysfunctional".

WASHINGTON (CP) - The U.S. administration has told Canadian Ambassador Frank McKenna it strongly disagrees with Prime Minister Paul Martin's recent negative remarks regarding American policy on climate change, U.S. officials said Friday. The disapproval was voiced at a meeting Thursday between McKenna and Jim Connaughton, the White House's environmental guru, the officials said. But both Connaughton's office and the Canadian Embassy denied reports that McKenna was summoned to the White House for a tongue-lashing over the Martin comments. Absolutely not, said Michele St. Martin, spokeswoman for the Council on Environmental Quality headed by Connaughton, calling it a routine get-together...

Oh Canada!September 12, 2005 Fox News JOHN GIBSON, GUEST HOST: In the second "Factor Follow-up" segment tonight, generous offers of hurricane aid have been pouring in from around the world, but the donation of one close neighbor piqued Bill's interest. (VIDEO CLIP) GIBSON: OK, well, we're going to find out what the situation is. Frank McKenna is the Canadian ambassador to the U.S. He joins us now from Washington. So Mr. McKenna, welcome. FRANK MCKENNA, CANADIAN AMBASSADOR TO U.S.: Thank you. GIBSON: Bill was looking for lots of cash. I suppose the very first thing you'd want to tell me...

Toronto-- Long harboured Canadian resentment of Canada being annexed by the United States took a 90-degree angle on July 1 with Frank McKenna, Canada’s Ambassador to the United States, turning the tables. McKenna says he will organize the more than 1 million Canadians in the United States to lecture Americans. McKenna, who’s already sent messages to 6,000 expatriates, intends to get in touch with 100,000 of them by week’s end. The rookie ambassador is pressing the "Canadian diaspora" to arm themselves with facts, to debate Americans and to get out and lobby when Washington makes decisions that can hurt Canadians,...

Ambassador Frank McKenna lived up to his reputation as the outspoken politician, eager to debunk Canadian myths, while strengthening Canada’s relations with the U.S. on Tuesday. At a luncheon, in New York City, part of a joint effort between the Canadian Consulate General and the Canadian Association of New York, an upbeat, McKenna, praised Canada and the U.S.’s "unusual friendship where we've had a virtually undefended border." "These are two countries that have never exchanged a shot in anger and have stood side by side in so many places around the world in the cause of peace," said Canada's 20th...

A state Senate committee yesterday wrongly backed Chairman Jim Kastama's attempt to slam shut a critical door to the public's business. Kastama's disastrous amendment makes a bad bill worse, creating all kinds of new opportunity for government agencies to keep their actions from the public eye. The amendment essentially codifies last year's misguided state Supreme Court ruling that permits school boards, city councils and public commissions to invoke attorney-client privilege almost willy-nilly. If a House committee doesn't pass a more public-friendly bill by today's deadline, the only hope is to drastically amend the Senate bill on the floor — or...

The following is a statement by Illinois Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna on Howard Dean’s visit to Chicago this Saturday, February 26, 2005. "When it’s all said and done, Howard Dean will be best remembered for being loud rather than being a leader.” CHICAGO, IL - “Howard Dean’s selection as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee is another perfect example of the Democratic Party moving away from mainstream America. Mr. Dean’s views on taxation, health care and national security represent the far-left wing of his Party - positions rejected by voters in the 2004 presidential election. When it’s all said...

Despite the role evangelicals played in swaying the 2004 presidential election, evangelicals in the Chicago area are not a political force to be reckoned with -- yet. That will soon change if Andy McKenna, newly elected chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, has anything to do with it.

The party of Lincoln isn't what it used to be. Long before the Alan Keyes election debacle, long before George Ryan's troubles, the seeds for the party's downfall were planted. What would Abe say?State Rep. Angelo "Skip" Saviano was mad. His face red and his nerves frayed, Saviano glared incredulously at the political creme de la creme of the Illinois Republican Party arrayed around the horseshoe-shaped table in the Union League Club, Chicago's posh and historic rendezvous for the rich and powerful. The Illinois Republican State Central Committee once seemed as well suited to the Union League as the painting...

What Did Hate-Crime Hoaxer Dunn Cost the Colleges?  That's the big question the judge asked at her sentencing, which was postponed to December 15, following a psychiatric evaluation of the hate-crimes hoaxer. Calling Claremont McKenna College professor Dunn a "bald-faced liar," Judge Horan stated: '"Ms. Dunn doesn't have to stand up and say she did it," Judge Charles Horan said during Friday's hearing. "But it sure would help the court in deciding whether prison time is appropriate."' According to a reliable source, an alumnus of the Colleges who attended the hearing: 'The judge was disappointed--his word--that there was no one...

POMONA - A former visiting Claremont McKenna psychology professor was sentenced to a year in state prison on Wednesday for falsely reporting that her car was damaged in a campus hate crime. A father's plea for mercy and a river of tears didn't win any leniency for Kerri Francis Dunn, who launched the community into tumult in March when she claimed her Honda was sprayed with racial and anti-Semitic slurs while she spoke at an anti-hate forum. Police later concluded she vandalized the car herself. "What she did was at least temporarily terrorize the minority students on campus and make...

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Juicy new details about that intolerant California professor who got a year in prison for faking a "hate crime" against herself: The judge denounced her for "terrorizing" minority students. Pomona Superior Court Judge Charles Horan further slapped down psychology professor Kerri Dunn because she "turned the rest of the students into suspects, adding that her actions could have sparked major racial violence," NBC Channel 4 reported in Los Angeles. "He likened her actions to calling in a fake bomb threat, saying it had the effect of terrorizing people." Deputy District Attorney Martin Bean agreed. "From what I saw in the...

A former Claremont McKenna College psychology professor convicted of falsely reporting her car was vandalized and spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs was sentenced Wednesday to a year in state prison. Kerri Dunn, 40, of Redlands, was convicted Aug. 18 of one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud stemming from the March 9 incident. She had faced anywhere from probation to three years in prison. She had claimed her car was targeted in what at first appeared to be a hate crime while she was speaking at a campus forum...

Remember that left-wing egghead at Claremont McKenna College who vandalized her own car and then cried "hate crime"? Today she got sentenced to a year in the slammer. Kerri Dunn, who is, naturally, a professor of psychology, falsely claimed that her Honda was spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs. She had faced up to three years in a California prison for filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud. Get this: Miss Dunn staged the criminal hoax and launched a headline-grabbing spree of "hate crime" hysteria (as opposed to all those "love crimes" being committed...

Dunn jailed for psych review By ROD LEVEQUE, STAFF WRITER POMONA - A judge sent a former Claremont McKenna professor to state prison on Friday for 90 days psychological testing after the judge called her a "bald-faced liar" for continuing to deny she vandalized her own car and reported it as a hate crime. Kerri Francis Dunn was not sentenced as scheduled in Pomona Superior Court. Rather, Judge Charles Horan temporarily remanded her into custody and said he would use reports from prison examiners to help him decide whether to sentence the Redlands woman to probation or additional time behind...

POMONA, Calif. (AP) - A college professor convicted of staging a hate crime by spray-painting her own car with racist slurs was ordered to undergo 90 days of psychological testing at a state prison.

A Claremont McKenna College psychology professor was convicted Wednesday of falsely reporting her car was vandalized and spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs while she was speaking at a campus forum on racial tolerance. Kerri Dunn, 39, of Redlands was convicted of one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud. She faces up to 31/2 years in prison when she is sentenced Sept. 17. Her attorney, Gary S. Lincenberg, issued a statement saying Dunn would appeal the attempted insurance fraud convictions.

Professor's past in play at fraud trialBy ROD LEVEQUESTAFF WRITERPOMONA - Kerri Dunn's past could come back to haunt her if she chooses to take the witness stand in a trial set to begin today. Dunn, the college professor accused of vandalizing her own car and falsely reporting it as a hate crime, may be confronted during her trial with a 4-year-old allegation that she once faked injuries to herself and then blamed them on police during a shoplifting arrest in Nebraska, a judge ruled Thursday. Prosecutors may also try to impeach her testimony by questioning her about a shoplifting...

Trial opens for professor accused of fraud By MIRA KATZ, Staff Writer POMONA - A man with a tool box and not Kerri Dunn may have been the culprit who vandalized the former Claremont McKenna College psychology professor's car. Dunn's attorney said in opening statements Friday that Dunn of Redlands did not spray-paint hateful slurs on her Honda Civic and slash its tires, and during her trial he plans to call the college's electrician as a witness. The electrician will tell the jury a man with a tool box was crouched by her car the night of the incident that...