Monthly Archives: October 2003

Review on Reagan continues

Posted by on 10/31/2003 Comments Off

RNC asks to review ‘The Reagans’ The Republican National Committee Friday asked CBS to allow a team of historians and friends of former President Ronald Reagan and his wife to review a miniseries about the couple before it airs. Republicans …

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Tying The Hands Of Our Troops

Posted by on 10/31/2003 1 comment

Colonel in Iraq refuses to resign The attorney for Lt. Col. Allen B. West said yesterday his client will not quit the Army, rejecting a prosecutor’s offer to resign rather than face charges he threatened an Iraqi detainee to gain …

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Economy Booms

Posted by on 10/31/2003 Comments Off

America’s economy blasts off The American economy had a rocking third quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday in a report that the White House hailed as evidence that its tax cuts are working. You can hear ‘em screaming from here, …

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So, what’s going on???

Posted by on 10/30/2003 3 comments

Notice a few changes, did ya? Oh yea – – we’ve been busy little bees over here. Not completely and totally finished with this yet, however – we’re 95% there and should be finished by the end of the weekend. …

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K Street is a Dead End

Posted by on 10/27/2003 2 comments

The K Street Shuffle To all you out there who’ve tried to watch HBO’s K Street but couldn’t get through it without popping Advil Liqui-Gels, there may be hope. Associates of co-producer George Clooney claim he’s predicting it won’t last …

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Brad and Jennifer Try Mid-East Diplomacy

Posted by on 10/26/2003 Comments Off

Bill Clinton failed, Tony Blair drew a blank and Kofi Annan made little progress. But now a team of Hollywood film stars is about to visit the Middle East on a private peace mission, in the belief that their charms …

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John Mellencamp Attacks President Bush

Posted by on 10/24/2003 Comments Off

John Mellencamp has lashed out at President George W. Bush and America’s foreign policy. In an open letter he co-wrote with his wife Elaine, Mellencamp blasts the powers that be for demonizing as “anti-American and unpatriotic” anyone who questions the …

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Operation Rollback

Posted by on 10/24/2003 Comments Off

Hundreds of workers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. locations across the country were arrested on immigration charges in an investigation into contractor cleaning crews, and some company executives knew about the alleged illegal hirings, U.S. officials said on Thursday. They said …

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Smearing Reagan’s Legacy

Posted by on 10/24/2003 Comments Off

Ronald Reagan’s legacy is under attack. For years, liberal academics have tried to explain how the Soviet Union collapsed without giving credit to the U.S. president who challenged communism head on and won. Now Hollywood is opening up another front. …

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Pam & Peta

Posted by on 10/18/2003 5 comments

Actress Pamela Anderson has joined an animal rights campaign against fast-food chain KFC, urging a consumer boycott of the franchise until it ensures better treatment of its chickens. “If people knew how KFC treats chickens, they’d never eat another drumstick,” …

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Bushwhacker

Posted by on 10/17/2003 Comments Off

Rickie Lee Jones, “The Evening of My Best Day,” sounds at first like her classic sounds. But beneath the breezy, swinging sound lies political rage that bubbles up in the song “Ugly Man.” The tune is about President Bush, who, …

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They both got sued, again

Posted by on 10/17/2003 Comments Off

Clintons Sued in L.A. Over Campaign Donations Hollywood producer Peter Paul has sued former President Bill Clinton, and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, contending the former first couple got him in trouble with federal authorities by failing to report his $2 …

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No! Is A Complete Sentence

Posted by on 10/16/2003 Comments Off

When “K Street” co-creator George Clooney invited Matt Drudge on his HBO show the other day, Drudge declined. On that much, the two men agree. Clooney says he phoned Drudge after the Drudgereport.com site published a photo of “K Street” …

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Ben Affleck Attacks Dubya

Posted by on 10/16/2003 Comments Off

Ben Affleck gives as good as he gets. The scorn that critics heaped on his movie “Gigli” is nothing compared to the actor’s withering review of President Bush’s performance. “The Bush administration has continued to push a dangerous right-wing agenda …

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Archbishop of Canterbury

Posted by on 10/15/2003 1 comment

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, yesterday urged America to recognise that terrorists can “have serious moral goals”. He said that while terrorism must always be condemned, it was wrong to assume its perpetrators were devoid of political rationality. …

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