Monthly Archives: April 2005 - Page 2

They Don’t Take Sunday Off

Posted by on 4/24/2005 2 comments

E-Mail Exchanges Reveal More Bolton Battles Recently declassified e-mail messages provide new details of the bruising battle that John R. Bolton, then an under secretary of state, waged with analysts at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency in …

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More Howie

Posted by on 4/23/2005 13 comments

‘Positive’ Dean calls GOP ‘brain dead’ Howard Dean, who promised to change the way Democrats speak about the issues, has accused Republicans of being “evil,” “corrupt” and “brain dead,” attacks that are reminiscent of the angry language he used against …

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Standing By Her Money Man

Posted by on 4/23/2005 5 comments

Hillary’s $$ Man Will Be Cleared Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday stood behind her indicted former fund-raiser after prosecutors said Ted Kennedy’s brother-in-law taped him making “incriminating” statements about her Senate campaign’s Hollywood gala. “The Senate campaign committee fully cooperated …

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An IRS Cover-Up?

Posted by on 4/22/2005 1 comment

Today’s must read Perhaps you remember Henry Cisneros. He’s the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who pleaded guilty in 1999 to lying to FBI investigators during his pre-appointment background check about hush payments to a former mistress, on …

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Tony Snow

Posted by on 4/22/2005 Comments Off

Tony Snow will soon be returning to talk radio. On Monday April 25th he will return to his daily talk show and said he is feeling great. He was on hiatus for cancer treatments, but said all is well and …

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It’s A Kennedy

Posted by on 4/22/2005 3 comments

A Kennedy Relative Acted as Informant in Democrat Circles A New Orleans political consultant who is Senator Kennedy’s brother-in-law, Raymond Reggie, has been operating in Democratic circles for the last three years as an undercover informant for the FBI, sources …

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“The Great New Wonderful”

Posted by on 4/21/2005 17 comments

How to Make a Movie About 9/11? Carefully Appropriately enough, the first in an expected wave of movies and television projects explicitly about the trauma of 9/11 will make its debut in New York on Friday at the TriBeCa Film …

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Oil-For-Food Investigators Resign

Posted by on 4/21/2005 1 comment

Two Senior Investigators Resign Two senior investigators with the committee probing corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program have resigned in protest, saying they believe a report that cleared Kofi Annan of meddling in the $64 billion operation was too soft …

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Clinton Case Mystery

Posted by on 4/21/2005 60 comments

Just Another Clinton Mystery A Democratic fund-raiser involved in Senator Clinton’s 2000 campaign has offered a guilty plea to bank fraud charges and is likely to become a government witness at the upcoming federal trial of a top finance aide …

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Howie – “I’m Not Dignified”

Posted by on 4/21/2005 1 comment

Howard Dean On Rush Howard Dean came to Minnesota Wednesday evening without the scream that ended his 2004 presidential campaign, or the anti-Iraq war rhetoric that started it. “Now that we’re there, we’re there and we can’t get out,” he …

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Sgt. Patrick Haab

Posted by on 4/20/2005 8 comments

Yesterday I heard Sgt. Patrick Haab interviewed by Sean Hannity and I wanted to share his story: Army reservist accused of detaining 7 immigrants A lone Army reservist accused of holding seven Mexican nationals at gunpoint this week at a …

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Maine Troop Greeters

Posted by on 4/20/2005 7 comments

Welcome Stop For Warriors Tired and bleary-eyed, Marines of the 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment, based at Twentynine Palms, Calif., were finally back on U.S. soil after seven months on the front lines in Iraq. But they were still many miles …

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Stale Kofi

Posted by on 4/20/2005 2 comments

Annan wants to “reform” the U.N. again. He must be in trouble. Yet more scandal at the United Nations? Secret deals, millions in bribes, leading to billions in global kickbacks? What to do? Have no fear, reform is here. The …

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“We Have A Pope”

Posted by on 4/20/2005 107 comments

A Pope For The Grown-Ups ‘WE have a pope,” habemus papam, the cry went up at 6 p.m. in Rome yesterday. And out onto the papal balcony walked the 78-year-old German cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger, who will reign under the name …

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Panel Will Vote Today

Posted by on 4/19/2005 62 comments

Panel Sets Vote Today on Bolton Nomination to U.N. Senate Republicans rejected Democrats’ request yesterday for more time to review allegations against John R. Bolton and they scheduled a Foreign Relations Committee vote today on the nomination. Although two committee …

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