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So Tony Snow takes over as White House Press Secretary and they decide that they don't like the AP headline which is White House Hires Fox Pundit as Press Secretary , instead they felt that this was more appropriate; He's Called Bush "An Embarrassment" Go to www.aol.com to see it...

From National Review Online; So Newsweek is reporting that Mary McCarthy denies being the leaker. This despite stories in the press saying that she failed a polygraph and admitted to it. McCarthy's not the the one who told Newsweek. Do you know who did? Her "close friend" Rand Beers. Who's Rand Beers? The National Security Council staffer who quit in 2003 and went to work as John Kerry's senior national security campaign adviser. You know who else is Rand Beers's old friend from the National Security Council staff? Joseph C. Wilson IV. Just saying.

Huge news! J.J. Abrams, writer/director/creator of the hit show Lost has been named to direct the next Star Trek movie which will feature a young versions of James T. Kirk and Spock at Starfleet Academy. J.J. Abrams is becoming the next Gene Roddenberry. Paramount is breathing life into its "Star Trek" franchise by setting "Mission: Impossible III" helmer J.J. Abrams to produce and direct the 11th "Trek" feature, aiming for a 2008 release. Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk, Abrams' producing team from "Lost," also will produce the yet-to-be-titled feature. Project, to be penned by Abrams and "MI3" scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, will center on the early days of seminal "Trek" characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer space mission. I like it! Now the big question, who will they get to fill these very big shoes of Kirk and Spock. Should be damn interest...

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has handed in his resignation, its about time! I have always felt that he was one of the most ineffectual press secretaries EVER. The White House needs a stronge personality that will be able to battle with the unhinged media each and everyday. Someone that is not afraid to get back in the face of the likes of David Gregory, John Roberts and Helen Thomas. WASHINGTON Apr 19, 2006 (AP)— White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday he is resigning, continuing a shakeup in President Bush's administration that has already yielded a new chief of staff and could lead to a change in the Cabinet. Appearing with Bush on the White House South Lawn just before the president boarded a helicopter at the start a trip to Alabama, McClellan, who has parried especially fiercefully with reporters on Iraq and on intelligence issues, told Bush: "I have given it my all sir and I have given you my all sir, and I will continue to do so as we t...

In what could be another major blow to the Durham prosecuter the alibi presented by one of the two Duke players indicted yesterday has checked out, according to ABC News; Seligmann's argument is simple: He is innocent and he has an alibi. He attended the party that night, but documents, photos and witness testimony show that he wasn't there long enough or at the right time to attack the alleged victim. Around midnight the night of March 13, Seligmann was already at the party when two women hired from a local escort agency arrived to dance for the boys — $400 each for a two-hour performance. A series of time-stamped photographs viewed by ABC News show the girls dancing at midnight and at 12:02 a.m. By 12:24 a.m., a receipt reviewed by ABC indicates that Seligmann's ATM card was used at a nearby Wachovia bank. In a written statement to the defense also reviewed by ABC, a cabdriver confirms picking up Seligmann and a friend a block and a half from the party, and driving them t...

Some sanity prevails ... If you're planning to vote in the May 2 primary, you'll have to show a state or federally issued photo ID. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker upheld Indiana's stringent voter-identification law. Barker said plaintiffs, including the Indiana Democratic Party, failed to back up their contention that the ID law is unduly burdensome and would keep many people from casting ballots. Barker wrote in her 126-page opinion that the opponents' arguments would require "the invalidation" not only of the photo ID statute, "but of significant portions of Indiana's election code which have previously passed Constitutional muster." A number of states require photo identification for voters, but Indiana's law is considered among the most stringent because it offers few exceptions to the requirement. The Democratic Party and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, a co-plaintiff, had argued that the law -- passed b...

RUMSFELD ASKED TO DENY FUNDS TO CALIFORNIA COLLEGE April 12, 2006 - For Immediate Release Contact: William Perry Pendley DENVER, CO. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should withhold federal funds from a California college given the failure of the college to ensure the safe presence of military recruiters on campus, the Secretary was advised by a public interest law firm in a letter released today. According to news reports, military recruiters were forced to flee yesterday from a University of California Santa Cruz job fair because of a raucous mob. Mountain States Legal Foundation advised Rumsfeld that the college’s actions violate the Solomon Amendment, which requires that colleges permit military recruiters on campus or lose all federal funds. UC Santa Cruz received $80 million in federal funds during 2005. A unanimous Supreme Court ruled the Solomon Amendment constitutional early last month. “It is outrageous that members of the Armed Forces, who are asked to serve in harm’s wa...

Oops... From the NY Sun The prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, claimed in a court filing last week that a former White House aide facing criminal charges for obstructing the probe, I. Lewis Libby, said he was told by Mr. Cheney to inform a New York Times reporter that one of the key judgments of a 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq was that the country was "vigorously trying to procure" uranium. While the intelligence report indeed alleged that Iraq was aggressively seeking nuclear materials, that finding was not among the key judgments contained in the document's early pages. The allegation that Mr. Cheney told Mr. Libby to misstate that fact to the Times journalist, Judith Miller, was noted prominently in some news accounts and contributed to an uproar that threw the White House into a tailspin last week. However, in a letter yesterday, Mr. Fitzgerald advised the judge overseeing the case, Reggie Walton, that the government's April 5 filing was inaccurate . ...

As usual the biased media refuses to tell both sides of the story . It seems that Latino's who do NOT support the Senate plan to give 11 million illegal immigrants amnesty; Contrary to scenes of hundreds of thousands of united Latinos marching across the country in support of immigration reform, a sizable number of the ethnic group opposes the marches and strongly objects to illegal immigration. But their voices have largely been muffled by the massive protests, which will continue Monday as tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected to take to the streets of Tucson, Phoenix and other cities nationwide. They are voicing their support of a Senate bill that would give an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the country a chance for U.S. citizenship. "That's the objective of the marches -- to give the impression that all Latinos are for allowing the illegals to become citizens," said Phoenix resident Lionel De La Rosa. "Well, I'm not." Th...

And they actually believe this crap! Cruise and Holmes, together dubbed "Tomkat" by the popular press, are preparing to welcome their first baby into the world any day now using the church's "quiet birth" method, which has been the object of media derision. But as Cruise and Holmes completed their last-minute baby shopping, a constellation of celebrity Scientologists has came out in support of the birth method in which the mother, father and medical staff in the delivery room are strongly discouraged from speaking. The church's founding father, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, believed that babies, like other people, can subliminally soak up words shouted around them at birth that could come back to negatively influence him later in life. Oh. My. God.

Why am I only reading this in an MTV News article about Brian Doyle? According to a DHS spokesperson, Doyle — who previously worked as an administrative assistant at Time magazine — is a civil employee and not a government appointee and he underwent the department's required background check.

Love the opening paragraph of this story... A federal judge has dismissed a gay rights group's challenge to the military's "don't ask, don't tell'' policy because the group wouldn't tell the judge the names of the people it was representing.

This is a security camera in the CBS News room during a meeting, presumably to inform the staff of Katie Couric coming on board. Check out the web page on the monitor, it's Drudge! You can view a video of this meeting here .

...but no one wants to eat it! Call to Censure Bush Is Answered by a Mostly Empty Echo WASHINGTON, MARCH 31 — The Senate Judiciary Committee opened a bitter if lopsided debate on Friday over whether Congress should censure President Bush for his domestic eavesdropping program . Although few Senate Democrats have embraced the censure proposal and almost no one expects the Senate to adopt it , the notion that Democrats may seek to punish Mr. Bush has become a rallying cause to partisans on both sides of the political divide. Republicans called the hearing to give the proposal a full airing as their party sought to use the threat of Democratic punishment of the president to rally their conservative base. Five Republicans at the hearing took turns attacking the idea as a reckless stunt that could embolden terrorists. Just two Democrats showed up to defend it, arguing that Congress needed to rein in the White House's expansive view of presidential power. The Democrats' star witness...

Another mind-numbing decision by the "educators" of this country, Principal Tom Stumpf of Skyline High School in Longmont, Colorado has decided to ban the displaying of the US flag and all other flags in school. Here is his very reasoned decision; Skyline High School Principal Tom Stumpf said American flags were brazenly waved in the faces of Hispanic students and in one case a Mexican flag was thrown into the face of another student. "When it involves the American flag and its abuse in vilifying other people, we simply will not tolerate it," Stumpf said. "They were using the symbol derisively as misguided patriotism." Good thing its not June 14th , what would they do then?