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Justice Department investigating Harkin Why isn’t the Des Moines Register reporting it? Editorial by: Roger Wm. Hughes On Dec. 2, the Associated Press reported that Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) was under investigation for corruption connected to the Jack Abramoff scandal. However, The Des Moines Register has not printed a word about it. The Register failed to report for more than two weeks about the fact that Harkin finally admitted to breaking ethics laws by not reimbursing Jack Abramoff for the use of his skybox at the Washington D.C. MCI Center. As it turned out, a client of Abramoff's --...

Some surprisingly high-profile Democrats have signed a petition to pressure California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to serial killing-Crips-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams, who is set to die in San Quentin's death house next Tuesday. According to FrontPageMagazine.com, Tookie's supporters include former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin and "Baghdad" Jim McDermott. The Weekly Standard reports that Hollywood is also turning out for Tookie - in droves. The man who brutally gunned down four people in 1979 has now garnered the support of Ed Asner, Russell Crowe, Ted Danson, Richard Dreyfuss, Mike Farrell, Laurence Fishbourne, Danny Glover,...

WASHINGTON - As Sen. Tom Harkin (news, bio, voting record) drafted letters to the Bush administration on behalf of an Iowa tribe, he had no shortage of ideas for wording: A tribal lobbyist who donated to the Democrat's campaign suggested language for him to use. Harkin wrote at least three letters in 2003 pressing the government to release federal money to help the Sac & Fox tribe in his state cope with the temporary closing of its casino due to a tribal dispute, according to Interior Department documents obtained by The Associated Press and records provided by Harkin's office. In...

Rush 24/7 Adopt-A-Soldier November 10, 2005 Download Windows Media PlayerListen to Rush Conduct Broadcast Excellence (highly recommended by poster while reading along) BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: It was Monday and Tuesday that they were debating the Harkin Amendment on the floor of the US Senate, and the purpose of the Harkin Amendment was to set up an ombudsman for Armed Forces Radio that would oversee fairness and balance and so forth, and Harkin's concern was that there was way too much of me and not enough liberalism on Armed Forces Radio, discounting that NPR was all liberal, and so in...

The general media view of Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor who has indicted “Scooter” Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice, and false statements in the Plame leak investigation is that he is an incorruptible “prosecutor’s prosecutor.” A closer look at an earlier communications interception case involving Senator Tom Harkin (D, Iowa) and the Libby case, a curious recommendation for him made by Representative Gerald Nadler (D, NY), and his own background all suggest something far different and more sinister. I. THE TWO CASES According to an October 22, 2005 NewsMax article, http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/22/142646.shtml Fitzgerald. was the U.S. Attorney assigned to investigate...

A little more than a year before he was tapped to head the special counsel probe into allegations that the Bush administration "outed" CIA employee Valerie Plame, then-U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald abruptly dropped a wiretapping probe into Sen. Tom Harkin's campaign, saying no laws had been broken. On Sept. 3, 2002, Harkin operatives arranged to secretly tape a strategy meeting by his then-Republican opponent, Rep. Greg Ganske. Brian Conley, a former aide to the Iowa Democrat, made a digital recording while attending the meeting at the request of Harkin staff member Rafael Ruthchild, according to the Des Moines Register. Conley...

Sen. Tom Harkin failed to account properly for two fundraisers he held in lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s skybox at Washington’s MCI Center in 2002 and 2003, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and a spokeswoman for the Iowa Democrat. Abramoff, the subject of multiple federal criminal probes for his dealings with Indian tribes and a Florida casino chain, routinely hosted political fundraisers in skyboxes at four sporting venues in the Washington area. Several members of Congress admitted earlier this year to having failed to disclose properly or pay for the use of the skyboxes. FEC rules require that...

This should have really been news and had the words been uttered by a Republican, it surely would be.

As the Senate moves closer to a vote on the Constitutional Option – a vote to end the filibusters against President Bush’s judicial nominees – Senate Democrats have ramped up their rhetoric in an effort to defeat the measure. But it was these very same filibustering Senators who once argued that judicial nominees deserved up-or-down votes on the Senate floor. Don’t take our word for it. Here they are, in their own words… Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) "What I am saying to my friend is that in addition to what I have just said, we now have 30 nominations...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa is going to be the left-of-center Democrat you have known for three decades — he is not going gently into that conservative Republican Congress. And Harkin said he is actually a conservative. It is the Republicans, he says, who are the political bombthrowers of this town. ‘‘I think my role is going to be about being a little more cautious in how we may make these changes,’’ he said. ‘‘I am afraid this administration is trying to push too far in radical changes, like Social Security.’’ The Republicans padded their majorities in the...

John Kerry's Fellow TravellersA 5-part series exposing John Kerry's Communist connections.Part 4: Subversion in the Senate: Kerry's Communist ConstituencyBy Fedora *NOTE: The term "fellow traveller" as used in this article series refers to someone who is not a member of the Communist Party (CP) but regularly engages in actions which advance the Party's program. Some apparent fellow travellers may actually be "concealed party members": members of the CP who conceal their membership. Which of these classifications is applicable to the Kerrys is a question this series leaves unresolved. This series does not argue for any direct evidence of Richard or...

Russian Terrorists Used PCP Drugs for Strength During School Attack Russian officials said last week that the Chechen terrorists who attacked a school in Beslan, Russia used the illegal drug PCP, to strenghten themselves, ITAR-TASS newswire reported.A police expert told the news agency that phencyclidine commonly known on the street as 'angel dust' or PCP--a drug banned in Russia and elsewere--was found in the remains of the terrorists.'This banned substance notcieably increases the human body's stamina and psychological activity and also works as a pain killer.''One who has taken a dose of phencyclidine is capable of offering resistance to three...

President Bush may or may not have a secret plan to reinstate the draft. But this is beside the point. The deteriorating facts on the ground in Iraq, plus the Bush doctrine of acting pre-emptively and unilaterally against hostile regimes, will soon leave him no choice. If he is re-elected, he will have to restart the draft. We do not have enough people in uniform to meet current needs in Iraq and Afghanistan, much less to deal with a confrontation with Iran or North Korea. Morale is suffering. Enlistments and re-enlistments are down. The Army National Guard fell 10 percent...

There’s an old joke that goes: "Daddy, is it true that all fairy tales begin with the words 'Once upon a time'?" "No, Virginia. Most begin with 'I promise when elected that...'" It appears that Edwards has taken his cue directly from that joke, so it must be close to an election because the insanity is running rampant. On October 11, Edwards (the low-flow John) said: "When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." It is utterly amazing that Edwards could say such a thing, but...

Gerard JacksonBrookesNews.ComMonday 28 June 2004 Rush Limbaugh was certainly taken aback when he learnt that Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) had proudly announced on 16 June that he had sneaked in an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Authorization bill: an amendment designed to drive the Rush Limbaugh Show off the American Forces Radio and Television Service. Although Rush Limbaugh's show is only one of the 1200 programs that the Armed Forces Radio Network provides the troops, this one program, 0.08 per cent of the total number of programs broadcast, was just too much for leftwing Sen Tom Harkin. To...

Elizabeth Edwards touted a Democratic commitment to bolster rural health care Sunday, arguing that both nominee John Kerry and running mate John Edwards have long ties to rural America that give them credibility. Mrs. Edwards said her husband and Kerry virtually moved to Iowa when they campaigned for Iowa's leadoff caucuses, and have nurtured close ties to the state. "They didn't come to just the big cities like Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, they came to small towns all across this state," said Mrs. Edwards. "They didn't just talk to you _ they listened." She used prominent rural icons to...

Candidate Harkin Stretches the Truth Vietnam isn't the only instance. BY JAMES M. PERRY Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT (Editor's note: This news article appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 26, 1991.) WASHINGTON--If running for president is a game of truth or consequences, then a lot of Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin's critics would like to see him face the consequences. Already in the presidential campaign, the Iowa lawmaker has found himself accused of misleading reporters about the troubles of his deaf brother. In addition, the budgetary mathematics he weaves into his basic stump speech have been challenged...

WASHINGTON, DC – Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), today issued the following statement on Tom Harkin's vicious attacks on President Bush: "Sen. Tom Harkin's vicious attacks today crossed the line of acceptable political discourse and are another example of John Kerry and his surrogates taking the low road and making accusations they know are false. Harkin's flailing attack this afternoon was made on behalf of a desperate candidate who realizes voters are not trusting his constantly changing positions on the War on Terror. While John Kerry and his fellow Democrats are unable to move beyond what happened 35 years ago and...

In his first major foreign-policy action as a U.S. senator nearly 20 years ago, John Kerry accused the United States of "funding terrorism." Fresh from a trip to the Far East, Kerry made his sensational allegation in Washington before flying to Nicaragua, then in the grip of a Marxist-Leninist junta, to coauthor a propagandistic peace proposal designed to disarm the U.S.-backed forces fighting to oust the Soviet-backed Sandinista regime. Barely three months after being sworn as a senator, Kerry made his mark, and he made it big, as one of the leading opponents of President Ronald Reagan's effort to defeat...

Republicans are suggesting that Sen. Tom Harkin has been pulled from a campaign swing for Sen. John Kerry for calling Vice President Dick Cheney a ''coward.'' Kerry's campaign in Wisconsin had been publicizing a ''Tour of Honor'' featuring Harkin and former Sen. Max Cleland. The Iowa senator was to speak in Eau Claire Thursday but withdrew for ''logistical reasons,'' said Lesley Sillaman of Kerry's Wisconsin campaign. She denied that Harkin was ''pulled from the lineup.'' Harkin ripped Cheney after the vice president criticized Kerry about pursuing a ''more sensitive war on terror.'' ''When I hear this coming from Dick Cheney,...