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University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill fabricated historical facts, published the work of others as his own and repeatedly made false claims about two federal Indian laws, a Rocky Mountain News investigation has found. The two-month News investigation, carried out at the same time Churchill and his work are being carefully examined by the university, also unearthed fresh genealogical information that casts new doubts on the professor's long-held assertion that he is of American Indian ancestry. The findings come as Churchill is, essentially, on trial — in the court of public opinion and in the halls of academia. Prickly debates...

There are just too many absurd ‘goings-on’ within the Democrat ranks (and their MSM), for me to give them a pass. In fact, dozens of columns could probably be extensively written about each. But, to save time, I decided to summarize the Dem’s latest kooky, mean-spirited and avoidance-of-the-law behaviors. First we have the erstwhile Senate Minority Leader Little Harry Reid. Harry, as with so many Dem leaders, just can’t seem to stop his rude and thoughtless conduct. Note: When around Harry, one really needs to carry duct tape for his mouth. Last week, little Harry said of President Bush (to...

Potential jurors in the trial of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign finance chief were asked yesterday about their politics and their opinions about New York's junior senator. Clinton is not on trial - or accused of knowing of any misdeeds - but she was all over the 16-page questionnaire given to the jury pool. The potential jurors were asked if they had any strong feelings about her and whether they had heard of any wrongdoing in her 2000 campaign for Senate. The Los Angeles court also wanted to know what the jurors' politics were, if they had ever worked for a...

London 25.03.05 | Twenty days ago, on March 5, I published an article about Eva Golinger's false claims that her Venezuela Solidarity Committee was a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization [1]. Since that day peculiar things have been happening to Golinger's website venezuelafoia.info.

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

Please take a few moments to send the following email to the Federal Communications Commission at: Michael.Powell@fcc.gov; fccinfo@fcc.govOr, CLICK HERE to generate a pre-addressed email. Subject:  Two Alleged FCA ViolationsDear Chairman Powell,The FCC has previously has ruled that broadcasters, as public trustees, may not intentionally distort the news. The FCC has stated that "rigging or slanting the news is a most heinous act against the public interest."  I am writing to alert the FCC to two potential violations of this ruling that have occurred over the past two weeks.  The FCC must carry out it's statutory duty -- i.e. implementing...

Four years ago in this space, a simple political rule-of-thumb was put forth in an attempt to slash through all the confusing polls and hot-air punditry surrounding the Presidential race. It's a simply theory: The cool guy wins (see BW Online, 8/4/00, "Cool Guys Finish First"). (snip) The difference between Bush's tortured data-twisting and Kerry's self-serving hyperbole is that nobody has died because of the Democrat's alleged fabrications and prevarications. The rabid Swift Boat Veterans for Truth can rant all they want about whether Kerry deserved three Purple Hearts, two Purple Hearts, or no Purple Hearts. Who cares? He went...

Is the GOP trying to hold down the turnout among Cincinnati's Democratic voters to help President Bush carry swing state Ohio? Since 1980, local businesses have helped fund get-out-the-vote campaigns for a ballot initiative that pays 15% of the city's education budget. After failing to get the initiative pushed back to spring '05, the Cincinnati Business Committee, which includes Procter & Gamble (PG ) and Kroger (KR ), is withholding its support -- even though a defeat on Nov. 2 would whack $32 million from the schools this year. Local Dems charge that the GOP-friendly CBC is worried that the...

[Though the Catholic Bishops have urged Catholics to vote on the Sanctity of Human Life as the most important issue, the New York Times has distorted this.] The title of the New York Times article (on page 1) is Group of Bishops using influence to Oppose Kerry. However, the Roman Catholic church has every right to educate its followers on their moral obligations in an election -- without telling them how to vote. The New York Times has twisted this to mean that the Roman Catholic Church has come out opposed to Senator John Kerry. It has not. It has...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have revealed in past issues of Life Extension, a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active ingredients made in other countries. In our independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make, we obtained the actual...

Juxtaposing these maps provides a new perspective on the political landscape. (Interactive moment: Color in the blue and red states — then you'll get the full picture.) Republicans seem to have become the new welfare party — their constituents live off tax dollars paid by people who vote Democratic. Of course, not all federal spending is wasteful. But Republicans are having their pork and eating it too. Voters in red states like Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are some of the country's fiercest critics of government, yet they're also among the biggest recipients of federal largess. Meanwhile, Democratic voters in the...

"The California Congress of Republicans Endorses CAIR. Yes, believe it or not, if local chapters are seeking speakers on "Middle Eastern Affairs and understanding Islam," the CCG, which presents itself as "a grass-roots political organization, founded in 1989 and permanently chartered by the California Republican Party," offers first up none other than the director of CAIR's Northern California office, Helal Omeira. And here I thought only left-wing Democrats like Dennis Kucinich would wish to associate with an organization with three of its leadership in jail on terrorism-related charges. What an embarrassment this is to Republicans everywhere. Let's hope wiser heads...

Here is the video of the news story that ran Friday night about the Fresno Chapter's "hate" rally and picnic. Real PlayerDialupBroadband Windows MediaDialupBroadband Please thank Agitator, Radio Free Republic's engineer and technical genius for converting these files so you could view them.

Congratulations, Multnomah county [Oregon] voters…you’ve just voted for lying and ineptitude on the part of your politicians by supporting tax hike measure 26-48. A majority of you believed the school and jail doom forecasted by your elected leaders if you didn’t approve this hastily cobbled together measure that doesn’t even spell out how or who will collect your dollars. Or how they will be spent. I guess a voting majority sees no need to improve operations, create efficient systems, reform administrative spending, perform audits and become accountable to taxpayers. As reader Karen Kellogg wrote to the Portland Tribune, “(the) yes...

Treachery.... April 2, 2003: Want to get a really realistic perspective on why Coalition military forces are in Iraq, as well as the kind of sadistic psychopaths the peace movement are giving aid and comfort to? Then focus your memories back on last week's much-celebrated (by the media) tragedy when a supposed Iraqi ?suicide bomber? vented his rage at the unjust American invasion of his homeland and blew himself and his car up, killing four US marines. Ooops! Seems there's been a minor update to that story that Dan Rather and Peter Jennings have neglected to inform us about. Turns...

Marc Morano of CNSNews has reported that tours of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. aren't what they used to be. I can remember my first visit to D.C. way back when and my parents telling me about the Lincoln Memorial, and walking up the huge steps, and seeing the great man seated and looking majestic. I can even remember seeing his words etched in the stone all around me as I stood at his feet. It was striking, it was awe-inspiring. I thought I had learned a good deal about Lincoln in school and felt like I knew him....

FRANKFURT, Nov. 13 — Six years after his first book on the Holocaust stirred intense debate and introspection in Germany, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is again provoking outrage with a new book that accuses the Roman Catholic Church of being morally delinquent during the Nazi killing of Jews.The caption for this photo in Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's book misidentifies the Catholic leader at a Nazi rally as a German cardinal, rather than as the papal nuncio. The German publisher, Siedler Verlag, has been sued.The archdiocese of Munich has sued the German publisher of Mr. Goldhagen's book, "A Moral Reckoning: The Role of...

Christians, we are often told, are easy to locate. They are the people marooned on the wrong side of history. Again and again, century after dispiriting century, they have dug in their heels against progress. In politics, the critics charge, a Christian's instinctive allegiance has been with despots and oppressors rather than democrats and liberators, with inquisitors and book burners as opposed to probing minds and pamphleteers. Christians have buttressed hierarchy against equality, patriarchy against women's rights, absolutism against individualism, and small-minded tradition against broad-minded tolerance. The most popular version of this indictment sees the whole of Western history since...

<p>In the closing days of his primary election battle against a fellow incumbent, U.S. Rep. Frank Mascara of Charleroi has been forced to change a newspaper ad that drew a sharp rebuke from the National Rifle Association. The NRA said Mascara's ad falsely implied its support.</p>