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Early in the 2004 presidential campaign, a group of over 250 Combat Tested and Highly Decorated Viet Nam Veterans banded together with one goal in mind, stop one of their own from ever attaining the highest office in the land. Initially ignored as a mere nuisance, the group persevered and their words of betrayal by Senator John F. Kerry upon his return from a short 4 month tour in Viet Nam, versus the more regular 12 month or longer, began to spread. Other Veterans of Viet Nam and other conflicts began to hear of the groups words and migrated to...

Think you're getting unbiased, balanced coverage of politics? Or is there a double standard in the way the media treat Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives? My recent visit to the center of a media storm suggests there is. Consider this: A $500,000 ad buy made by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth brings searing media scrutiny and "proof" of illegal coordination based on a lawyer (me) representing both the Bush-Cheney campaign and the Swift Boat Veterans; on an accountant working for Tom DeLay's political action committee; and on a $200,000 contributor to the group who is not a major donor...

The Kerry Campaign came to Florida’s Space Coast on Monday, July 26,2004 to make a campaign speech at the Kennedy Space Center’s visitors complex. Bush supporters and Vietnam Veterans were out in force to greet Kerry’s motorcade as it left the hotel and to show to the motorists on the heavily traveled highway A-1-A that Brevard County is Bush Country as a prominent banner proclaimed. The turnout was great with the crowd estimates ranging from 60 to 125 (as reported in Florida Today).  There were two lone Kerry supporters later joined by three others wearing identical SEIU (Service Employees International...