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<p>For two years, Federal District Court Judge Charles Pickering, a Mississippi Republican, has suffered continuous character assassination by Senate Democrats who have filibustered his nomination by President Bush to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. He is on that bench now only because of a temporary recess appointment.</p>

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 18, 2003 – Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers has not forgotten what it was like to be a junior officer assigned to a remote post. That's why he understands the importance of the USO Holiday Tour he has taken to the U.S. Central Command area. "I saw USO shows when I was assigned in Taiwan, Okinawa and Korea early in my career," the chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff said during an interview. "It's a taste of America, and it's important to have that taste." The tour features Academy Award-winning actor Robin Williams, Olympic gold...

After a busy race season, Mike Wallace isn't settling down just yet. This week, the driver embarked on a United Service Organizations (USO)-sponsored sojourn in support of United States service people abroad. Wallace left Sunday on a six-day, five-country tour. He joins comedian Robin Williams, New York Yankees baseball player Jason Giambi, professional wrestler Kurt Angle and model Leeann Tweeden on the trip. "It's a pretty way cool trip, considering the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General (Richard) Myers is hosting it," Wallace said. "It's a pretty big honor to be asked to go and it's a real...

All The News That Fits...Their Agenda By William A. Mayer In what reads like a stupid April Fools joke, Bernard Weinraub and Thom Shanker are continuing Howell Raines’ and his New York Times’ war on the Bush administration and in particular on Operation Iraqi Freedom [the entire Time’ lead page is veritably reeking with negativity and sophomoric second guessing] with an article entitled Rumsfield’s Plan For War Criticized On Battlefield. The piece creates a mood of despair, an impression that battlefield leaders are in near rebellion against the Pentagon and that the Joint Chiefs are fractured along intricate lines...

  Part I - Rambo and the Bogus War Heroes By B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley To order Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heros and its History by B.G. Burkett & Glenna Whitley please Click Here Scruffy John Rambo, carrying a bedroll and wearing a field jacket emblazoned with an American flag, stares down at a quaint country house by the side of a sparkling lake, with snow-capped mountains in the distance. A black woman hangs freshly laundered clothes on a line. The first scene in the 1982 movie First Blood appears idyllic. But...

Mike Wallace says that "60 Minutes" no longer appeals to the 18- to 34-year-old audience and that because the long running hit show has dropped out of the top 10 ratings for the first time, he is now hearing talk about its profitability and cost for the first time since the show began in the 1960s. Speaking as a member of a four-person panel on the future of journalism at the Michigan Journalism Fellows Reunion on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Wallace disclosed that among 18-to-34 age group executives consider important because advertisers target that market, the...

<p>KING: Mike Wallace will be with us for the hour, remains with us. Joining us now in Washington, Senator Bob Graham, Democrat of Florida, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama, vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. CBS broke this story, everyone's run it all day. Mike can chime in with questions as well. We'll start with Senator Graham with the now familiar what did they know and when did they know it?</p>