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John McCain For President: A Hero Leader Editorial Pittsburgh Tribune-Review February 10, 2008 You have to hand it to John McCain. He has an impeccable sense of timing. At the very moment that a dangerously fractured Republican Party could have disintegrated -- Thursday, when Mitt Romney, the darling of the anti-McCain crowd exited the race -- Sen. McCain delivered a stunning speech to the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. Certainly, there was a measured sense of rebuke in the words of the Arizona senator who now has a virtual lock on the GOP presidential...

A choice, not an echo By Colin McNickle TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, January 22, 2006 John Shadegg has written his Republican Party leadership obituary. At least in this Republican Party. The Arizona congressman, a dark-horse candidate to become House majority leader, has invoked the "G"-word in a GOP that, for the most part, treats the principles of Barry Goldwater like a teenage girl treats a fresh pimple on prom night. That would be with disdain and derision. What a shame. Not for Rep. Shadegg, mind you; but for real Republicans, true conservatives and a badly wanting country.

Colin Powell will not return for a second stint as secretary of state in a second Bush administration. If there is a reprise, that is. As if he even would be asked. And you heard it here first. Well, not really. Mr. Powell actually announced it first, two weeks ago at a convention of minority journalists. Perhaps he didn't even know he did. It didn't come in the proverbial "so many words" but in three words. Those words -- "parochial, political debates'' -- cement Powell's reputation as not only the Rockefeller Republican (self-described) that most party regulars know him to...

Trib-Review staffer McNickle's note to colleagues 8/12/2004 3:57:47 PM From: [Colin McNickle] Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:33:37 -0400 To: [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newsroom] Subject: Thank you, from Boston All, I have received words of support and encouragement from folks all over the world after I asked a simple question and Teresa told me to shove it. In the CNN newsroom Monday night, Jeff Greenfield didn't dare say "good job." But I got his wink. The same with Bob Novak, who gave me a hearty thumbs up on CNN's set Monday night. Anderson Cooper, host of CNN's "360," said I surprised...

The journalist whom Teresa Heinz Kerry told to "shove it" after rejecting a question he asked her after a speech says he has received death threats in the aftermath of the incident. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page editor and columnist Colin McNickle says the reports of the confrontation with the wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry were used by liberals to "demonize not only me but the Trib," he wrote in a column yesterday. Teresa Heinz Kerry As WorldNetDaily reported, in a speech July 25 to her home-state delegates to the Democratic National Convention, Heinz Kerry used the term "un-American"...

The journalist whom Teresa Heinz Kerry told to "shove it" after rejecting a question he asked her after a speech says he has received death threats in the aftermath of the incident. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page editor and columnist Colin McNickle says the reports of the confrontation with the wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry were used by liberals to "demonize not only me but the Trib," he wrote in a column yesterday. Teresa Heinz Kerry As WorldNetDaily reported, in a speech July 25 to her home-state delegates to the Democratic National Convention, Heinz Kerry used the term "un-American"...

Teresa Heinz Kerry's "shove it" phrase to a Pittsburgh editor was the most cited Kerry campaign message in the press last week — mentioned 381 times in American publications, according to Factiva, a Dow Jones/Reuters company that tracks daily press mentions.     But the two words also brought death threats, insults and accusations upon Colin McNickle, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial-page editor who vexed Mrs. Kerry by asking her to explain her claim that "un-American traits" were emerging in politics. [snip]In a Boston Globe interview, singer Patti LaBelle advised Mrs. Kerry to "pimp slap" Mr. McNickle; liberal columnist Molly Ivins suggested he...

Kerry's wife told journalist to 'shove it' after he asked about remark in speech -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 2, 2004 5:00 p.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The journalist whom Teresa Heinz Kerry told to "shove it" after rejecting a question he asked her after a speech says he has received death threats in the aftermath of the incident. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page editor and columnist Colin McNickle says the reports of the confrontation with the wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry were used by liberals to "demonize not only me but the Trib," he wrote in a column yesterday....

Killing the questioner By Colin McNickle TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, August 1, 2004 A week ago tonight, I asked Teresa Heinz Kerry a simple question here: "What did you mean?" And a wicked firestorm was sparked. Incredibly, most of it was directed against me. Moments earlier, Mrs. Heinz Kerry had talked of "un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits" that supposedly have crept into our political discourse. Her talk before the Pennsylvania delegation was, in part, a plea for a return to civility. She was not specific. As any journalist would, or should, I sought an example. Instead, I got a finger in the...

A week ago tonight, I asked Teresa Heinz Kerry a simple question here: "What did you mean?" And a wicked firestorm was sparked. Incredibly, most of it was directed against me. Moments earlier, Mrs. Heinz Kerry had talked of "un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits" that supposedly have crept into our political discourse. Her talk before the Pennsylvania delegation was, in part, a plea for a return to civility. She was not specific. As any journalist would, or should, I sought an example. Instead, I got a finger in the face and was told to "shove it." I have been told...

And finally, yours truly is immortalized in caricature on the editorial page of Wednesday's Boston Globe by Dan Wasserman, whose work often appears in the Trib. "Shove it!" Teresa tells me, her husband standing behind her. "As I said, she's multilingual," Sen. Kerry quips.

BOSTON - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) doesn't have a problem with his wife telling an insistent journalist to "shove it" when urged to explain her plea for more civility in politics. Neither does Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites). "I think my wife speaks her mind appropriately," Kerry told reporters Monday when asked about the exchange between his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, and the editorial page editor of the conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Asked about the response on CNN's "American Morning," Clinton said Monday, "A lot of Americans are going to say, 'Good for...

<p>What is a "conservative"? What is "conservatism"?</p> <p>I ask the questions not because I don't know but because supposedly "good conservatives" who have a long history of promoting "sound conservatism" have begun to dangerously rationalize what both are.</p> <p>Let's take, for instance, GOPUSA, a Web-based group whose motto is "Bringing the conservative message to America." Now three years old, it offers a marvelous Web site (www.gopusa.com) filled with useful links and insightful commentary that rightly and regularly locks and loads on the moronism that is liberalism.</p>