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"I have been much concerned that so many people today with Conservative instincts feel compelled to apologize for them. Or if not to apologize directly, to qualify their commitment in a way that amounts to breast beating." It's time to get back to basics, this is where it begins. Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative. You can get it bargain priced from Barnes and Noble right now for $8.99. Make the investment. We need to go back to square one.

...It is mathematically impossible for Mike Huckabee, the last remaining major GOP contender, to capture the nomination. The former Arkansas governor even turned up on Saturday Night Live recently to poke fun at himself for not going away. Let's be clear: Mr. Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, remains our choice for the GOP nomination... Aside from [McCain's] long experience and personal courage, he has a solid record of fiscal responsibility and has been on the right side of campaign finance reform and environmental issues. And he was correct and principled to lead the fight for comprehensive immigration reform last summer....

  Rudy Giuliani laughs off Judith Regan rap BY ADAM NICHOLS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, November 15th 2007, 4:00 AM Judith Regan claimed Rudy Giuliani's cronies tried to silence her; now the presidential hopeful wants to sideline her to the gossip columns. The Republican candidate said Wednesday the publishing queen's bombshell $100 million suit was no more than salacious tittle-tattle. "It sounds to me like a kind of gossip column story more than a real story," he said on a campaign stop in Iowa. "The last thing in the world you want to do when you're running for President...

Judith Regan, former book publisher, says a senior News Corporation executive encouraged her to lie to federal investigators about her past affair with Bernard B. Kerik after he had been nominated to become homeland security secretary in late 2004. The lawsuit asserts that the executive wanted to protect the presidential aspirations of Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor, who had appointed him NYC police commissioner and had recommended him for the federal post. --SNIP-- “Defendants were well aware that Regan had a personal relationship with Kerik,” the complaint says. “.....a senior News Corporation executive told Regan that he believed she...

It’s hard to find good scapegoats these days. After taking the fall for the O.J. Simpson book deal last year, Judith Regan is back with a $100 million defamation suit against News Corp. In her case, Regan claims that HarperCollins told her to lie about her affair with Bernard K. Kerik, the former New York police commissioner. How Regan and Kerik got together remains a mystery, but conservative America is starting to seem like one big high school. According to the suit, Regan told a company executive in 2001 about her relationship with Kerik, whose memoir she published following the...

Judith Regan, the book publisher who was fired by the News Corporation last year, asserts in a lawsuit filed today that a senior executive at the media conglomerate encouraged her to mislead federal investigators about her relationship with Bernard B. Kerik during his bid to become homeland security secretary in late 2004. The lawsuit asserts that the News Corporation executive wanted to protect the presidential aspirations of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor, who had appointed him New York City police commissioner and had recommended him for the federal post.

Judith Regan, the book publisher who was fired by the News Corporation last year, asserts in a lawsuit filed today that a senior executive at the media conglomerate encouraged her to mislead federal investigators about her relationship with Bernard B. Kerik during his bid to become homeland security secretary in late 2004. The lawsuit asserts that the News Corporation executive wanted to protect the presidential aspirations of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor, who had appointed him New York City police commissioner and had recommended him for the federal post. (Snip) The News Corporation controls a vast array...

REPORTS: PUBLISHER JUDITH REGAN TO FILE $100 MILLION SUIT AGANIST MURDOCH EMPIRE IN NY COURT; WILL BE REPPED BY SUPERLAWYER BERT FIELDS... DEVELOPING... Just a header on Drudge right now.. Regan grew up on Long Island, and graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1971.[1] She then attended Vassar College, receiving her A.B. degree in 1975. Then in 1978, while working as a secretary at Harvard, Regan answered a newspaper ad for a reporter for The National Enquirer and got the job. In the early 1980s, Regan relocated to New York City. After the 911 attacks in 2001, Regan published...

Ron Paul was one of only six incumbent Republican Congressmen to support Ronald Reagan over Ford in 1976. In fact, Dr. Paul led the Texas delegation for Reagan to the nominating convention.

In an explosive telephone argument that led to her firing, publisher Judith Regan allegedly complained of a "Jewish cabal" against her in the book industry and stated that "Of all people, Jews should know about ganging up, finding common enemies and telling the big lie." A spokesman for Regan's former employer, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., told The Associated Press on Monday that the remarks were based on notes taken by HarperCollins attorney Mark Jackson, with whom Regan was discussing the future of a controversial new novel about baseball star Mickey Mantle. The spokesman, Andrew Butcher, released the comments in response...

EXCLUSIVE **7:34 PM ET** PUBLISHING GURU JUDITH REGAN LET GO FROM MURDOCH EMPIRE... Judith Regan's employment with Harpercollins has been terminated effective immediately, sources tell DRUDGE REPORT... Regan publishing program and staff will continue as part of the Harpercollins general books group... The OJ fiasco is not the main reason for terminating the world's most successful publisher, sources explain. "Many factors led to this decision," says an insider. The force behind smash bestsellers by Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, Sean Hannity and others could not be reached for comment late Friday...

Once, Judith Regan's taste in men was Bernard Kerik. Now her taste in authors is O.J. Simpson. She was much better off on Kerik's side of the law. To have a reputation decline faster than hers, you have to be on a bobsled run. Soon, Regan publishes a new book from Simpson that is supposed to hint at how he might have stabbed two people to death, one of them his ex-wife. Regan also interviews Simpson next week on the Fox network. Regan says what she gets out of Simpson amounts to a "confession." The truth is, she is the...

The Harriet Miers issue has us all depressed, angry, and down. So a friend of mine sent me this hilarious excerpt from the new Reagan book, THE GREATEST COMMUNICATOR by President Reagan's strategist and pollster, Dick Wirthlin. I had never heard this story before, but it's a riot...

I was listening to a NHSTA radio commercial today and I heard them basically credit Gorbachev with bring down the Berlin Wall, I took exception and fired off an e-mail, but only got a generic response. Freepers feel free to express your displeasure with the NHSTA. I have pasted the text of my e-mail below.

Media titan Judith Regan could be forced to testify about illicit trysts she had with former top cop Bernard Kerik in a secret Battery Park City apartment. The shocking development in a lawsuit against the city came about because the Daily News revealed last month that Kerik once carried on simultaneous extramarital affairs with Regan, who published his memoir, and another woman, Correction Officer Jeannette Pinero. As Kerik's nomination to become homeland security czar imploded last month, The News reported that he had separate liaisons with Regan and Pinero at the apartment in the weeks after Sept. 11, 2001. Just...

<p>An apartment near the World Trade Center site, that former Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik used to engage in an extramarital affair with publisher Judith Regan, was originally donated for the use of weary police and rescue workers who were helping after 9-11. One bedroom faced the pit of ground zero... Developing...</p>

Certainly, Judith Regan is, hands down, the most successful editor in the book business; not only has she sold millions of pallets of books, but she's put a decided spin on the culture, too (she almost single-handedly moved RUSH LIMBAUGH and HOWARD STERN off of the radio and out into the mass market, but she isn't just RUSH and HOWARD; her oeuvre includes O.J. prosecutor Christopher Darden, Gen-Xer Douglas Coupland, Oprah novelist Wally Lamb, and diet-category-killer The Zone). She is said to be responsible for a king's ransom of the HarperCollins bottom line (as much as 25 percent, I have...

CONVENTION ANALYSIS Presidential Parallels: Eleanor Clift Compares 2004 to 1980 July 28, 2004 CBN.com – BOSTON -- Eleanor Clift joined Fox News as a political contributor in 1998. She is also a contributing editor for Newsweek Magazine, and a panelist on The McLaughlin Group. Before being named contributing editor for Newsweek, Clift was the magazine's White House correspondent. Clift joined Lee Webb on the 700 Club to analyze the Democratic National Convention, its effect on Sen. John Kerry's presidential candidacy, and former President Clinton's role in the upcoming election. LEE WEBB: Eleanor, welcome to The 700 Club. ELEANOR CLIFT: Glad...

Respect. That's what we offer when we honor those who've passed before us. And we witnessed this upon the passing of Ronald Reagan. Hundreds of thousands traveled to Washington for the national and state funerals and the Capitol viewing and to Simi Valley. Millions more watched worldwide. But some were unable to put aside their political differences. Now its time spotlight those deserving of public shame for their atrocious behavior. French President Jacques Chirac boycotted the state funeral even though he was already in the U.S. Democratic National Committee staffers ordered interns who lowered the American flag to half-staff to...

The recent passing of President Ronald Reagan has reminded us of his economic successes. It has also made clear just how much politics in America have come full circle. Consider the similarities of two periods in time two decades apart. Reagan inherited an atrocious economy. Interest rates hovered around 20. Inflation fell and people went back to work. George Bush inherited a slumping economy which had burst following the false success of the high tech 90s. The economy was then devastated by the 9/11 attacks. Now that tax cuts have taken effect the economy is experiencing economic growth not seen...