The former senator has indeed begun making his presidential bid official.

We'll see where it goes from here. There is MUCH speculation about how Fred Thompson's candidacy will affect the other Republican candidates.
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The Korean model is one in which the United States provides a security presence, but you've had the development of a successful democracy in South Korea over a period of years, and, therefore, the United States is there as a force of stability.Ugh. Get some snacks kids - this one is going to take a while.

God has spoken to me. I listen to God, and what I’ve heard is that I’m supposed to devote myself to rebuilding the conservative base of the Republican Party, and I think we shouldn’t be underestimated.Tom DeLay on the Voice that he has heard.




Yikes. I wouldn't want to be in her shoes.I believe the deputy [attorney general Paul McNulty] was not fully candid about his knowledge of White House involvement in the replacement decision, failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of the White House's interest in selecting Tim Griffin as the interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Arkansas, inaccurately described the department's internal assessment of the Parsky commission, and failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in vote- cadging during his work on the president's 2004 campaign.Now, understand that she is basically accusing McNulty of giving false testimony to the Senate Judiciary committee - which could be ruled perjury. This is no small accusation.
The attorney general has never attempted to influence or shape the testimony or public statements of any witness in this matter, including Ms. Goodling. The statements made by the attorney general during this meeting were intended only to comfort her in a very difficult period of her life.Messed up. That right there is a classic case of witness tampering. If you are involved in an investigation, you simply can not speak with other witnesses... about ANYTHING. Duh.
Certainly, the vast majority of Americans would object to any attempt to justify the attacks on this country, its citizen and its soldiers. But that was not what Paul was doing. He was trying to make a case, based on what we know from past experience, for bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq.Indeed.
...again. More pleasing news from the legislative front. I'm not sold on the entire bill, but at least people are talking about this now. $4.00 per gallon gasoline at the pump is unacceptable. Especially when you consider that gas prices have continued to rise despite the relative stability in the price of crude oil.



As of Monday, gas prices are the highest in U.S. history—we just passed the 1981 record, even adjusted for inflation. Prices could reach $4.00 per gallon in parts of the country, just in time to crimp summer vacation plans. As consumers suffer, the oil industry continues to reap the windfall—breaking profit records on an almost quarterly basis. It's outrageous!
Enough is enough. Hearings started yesterday on H.R. 1252, a House bill that would make gas price gouging a federal crime, punishable by 10 years in prison. Speaker Pelosi has said she'll move the bill to a vote this week—if there's the two-thirds majority required to fast track the bill through the process. Oil company lobbyists are frantically trying to stop the bill. Your representative needs to hear from you today. Will you sign our petition asking Congress to pass the price-gouging bill—and then send it to your friends?
Do something. Do it now.
Malkin and Fox News continues the Ron Paul disinformation and guilt by association tactic. In this earlier clip, I missed the fact that John Gibson actually said that Paul suggested in the debate that the United States "actually had a hand" in the 9/11 attacks. Gibson watched th debate so he knows this is a lie, and yet he broadcast it as truth. Why is he not fired? How different is his assertion of a lie in the face of direct evidence to the contrary any different than Dan Rather's lies about George W. Bush's National Guard service? Until recently, my view has been that the Democrats were foolish to boycott FNC. I think you should go on any media channel to make your case, as Hitch did recently to great effect. Now, I'm not so sure. When a news channel has sunk to these depths of deliberate disinformation, they are no longer a news channel.The video evidence:
Look - I'm a H U G E fan of free speech. I am a firm believer in the First Amendment. But, even I will concede that there are some things that I would strongly advise against.
“Your consistent stonewalling and misdirection have prevented this committee from carrying out its constitutional oversight and legislative duties for far too long,” Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and ranking Republican Arlen Specter (Pa.) said in a letter.The good news is that my vote for Specter was not a wasted one. He really appears to be going after the administration on this one. Nice one Arlen.



Well, today, on a conference call with bloggers, Mr. McCain fired back at the former Massachusetts governor, who has (of course) held varying positions on immigration over the years."Maybe I should wait a couple weeks and see if it changes," Mr. McCain said of Mr. Romney's position on immigration this week. "Maybe he can get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his yard." - Ryan Sager
Too funny! Agree with him or not, I think McCain is showing symptoms of his 2000 presidential run. Either that or he just enjoys playing tether ball with Mitt Romney's cojones.
The two assessments, titled "Principal Challenges in Post-Saddam Iraq" and "Regional Consequences of Regime Change in Iraq," were produced by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and will be a major part of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's long-awaited Phase II report on prewar intelligence assessments about Iraq. The assessments were delivered to the White House and to congressional intelligence committees before the war started.Ugh.

The governors also criticized President George W. Bush for an executive order he issued last week giving federal agencies until the end of 2008 -- near the end of Bush's term -- to continue studying what to do about greenhouse gas emissions.
"To us, that again sounds like more of the same inaction and denial, and it is unconscionable," they wrote.
"California, Connecticut and a host of like-minded states are proving that you can protect the environment and the economy simultaneously," Rell and Schwarzenegger wrote. "It's high time the federal government becomes our partner or gets out of the way."
Nice. There's something so liberating to see someone break with their own political party to do good things... regardless of what that political party affiliation may be.
Simply incredible. Even in print, these words are truly inspiring. I can only imagine what the graduates and other attendees of the commencement ceremonies were thinking...I bring this [maturity] up because there’s often an assumption on days like today that growing up is purely a function of age; that becoming an adult is an inevitable progression that can be measured by a series of milestones – college graduation or your first job or the first time you throw a party that actually has food too.
And yet, maturity does not come from any one occasion – it emerges as a quality of character. Because the fact is, I know a whole lot of thirty and forty and fifty year olds who have not yet put away childish things – who continually struggle to rise above the selfish or the petty or the small.
We see this reflected in our country today.
We see it in a politics that’s become more concerned about who’s up and who’s down than who’s working to solve the real challenges facing our generation; a politics where debates over war and peace are reduced to 60-second soundbites and 30-second attack ads.We see it in a media culture that sensationalizes the trivial and trivializes the profound – in a 24-hour news network bonanza that never fails to keep us posted on how many days Paris Hilton will spend in jail but often fails to update us on the continuing genocide in Darfur or the recovery effort in New Orleans or the poverty that plagues too many American streets.
And as we’re fed this steady diet of cynicism, it’s easy to start buying into it and put off hard decisions. We become tempted to turn inward, suspicious that change is really possible, doubtful that one person really can make a difference.
That’s where the true test of growing up occurs. That’s where you come in...

Executive branch rules require sensitive classified information to be discussed in specialized facilities that are designed to guard against the possibility that officials are being targeted for surveillance outside of the workplace,” says Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal, who was National Security Advisor to the Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton. “The hospital room of a cabinet official is exactly the type of target ripe for surveillance by a foreign power,” Katyal says. This particular information could have been highly sensitive. Says one government official familiar with the Terrorist Surveillance Program: “Since it’s that program, it may involve cryptographic information,” some of the most highly protected information in the intelligence community.
The law controlling the unwarranted disclosure of classified information that has been gained through electronic surveillance is particularly strict. In the past, everyone from low-level officers in the armed forces to sitting Senators have been investigated by the Justice department for the> intentional disclosure of such information. The penalty for “knowingly and willfully” disclosing information “concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States” carries a penalty up to 10 years in prison under U.S. law. “It’s the one you worry about, says the government official familiar with the program. -Time Magazine
Gonzales should have known that.

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I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say, 'you helped this happen'.YIKES. You see, what bothers me the most about this guy is that he claimed to be a man of God. Now, I may not be the most religious person around (I can assure you that I'm not), but I was raised in a church and remember that the lessons we were taught in Sunday School were based on values of tolerance, understanding, and most of all - LOVE. What is Christianity (any denomination) without LOVE. All you need is LOVE.
Mr. Christopher Carney,I voted for you in November of last year because I feel that there needs to be some serious change in Washington, D.C. Your predecessor, Don Sherwood represented the status quo to me - therefore you earned my vote.
I urge you to help advance and support the bipartisan "Fuel Economy Reform Act" (H.R.1506).
Congress' new enthusiasm for taking meaningful action on global warming is encouraging, but I am concerned that we are not acting on the solutions immediately available to reduce global warming pollution and enhance our energy security.
I strongly support raising vehicle fuel economy standards as a critical step toward solving global warming and tackling our dependence on oil. Please do everything you can to get this bill to the House floor and vote in favor of it.
Sincerely,
the Pajama Pundit
I would urge you do to the same. Let your representative in government know that REAL change must happen NOW.


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nservative moral principles and accountability are what makes America great. He is fair-minded, however, and knows when Republicans are wrong and will acknowledge those things. He loves political discussions as he believes debate brings about strong foundations of beliefs and is disappointed that more often than not, people don't have a strong belief system.
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