Real journalism: fair and balanced. That’s why we’re No. 1 – FOX News Channel. Watch After Hours with Cal Thomas Saturdays at 11 p.m. ET The Department of Homeland Security (search) conducted a mock terrorist attack this week in New Jersey and Connecticut. It wanted to see how quickly law …
Read More »Rudy Giuliani: Maire de Montreal?
NEW YORK – “America’s Mayor” Rudy Giuliani’s life is being made into a movie, but in the film the former district attorney is less likely to be seenwalking the streets of his childhood neighborhood in Brooklyn than the Vieux Montréal. In other words, the television movie about New York City’s …
Read More »How Much Does a Senator's Haircut Cost?
And now the most telling two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: Miss the Grapevine? Watch it! Costly Cut?Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry’s office is vigorously denying a report that he pays $150 a visit to have his hair cut at the Washington beauty salon run by the …
Read More »Morella: Strong Despite 'Most Vulnerable' Status
WASHINGTON – After raising nine children and running eight election campaigns, Rep. Constance Morella, R-Md., says she’s tougher than ever. She’d better be, say political observers, because she has her most arduous political challenge ahead of her. “We don’t have another Republican who is viewed as more vulnerable than Connie …
Read More »With Friends Like These
I just finished reading an interesting series of articles in The Economist, pretty much trashing America. Oh, they were well written, even erudite and all that, but they made clear, in the eyes of much of Europe, that we are cowboys. And what’s more, when it comes to Iraq, we …
Read More »Bush Civil Rights Panel Appointee Talks Business
WASHINGTON – Peter Kirsanow does not view the modern civil rights movement through the same lens as the majority members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The Bush appointee who has been caught up in a dispute over his seat at the commission table said Thursday that the civil rights …
Read More »Lest We Forget
It’s human nature to bury tragedies, to gloss over them, move on from them and maybe, in time, forget them. So horrified are we of the images of 9/11, that we’ve managed to sanitize 9/11. For the sake of those who died, we make only the vaguest references to “how” …
Read More »House to Vote on INS Reforms
WASHINGTON – The Bush administration has thrown its support behind a House bill to be voted on Thursday that will completely overhaul the troubled Immigration and Naturalization Service. Attorney General John Ashcroft appeared on Capitol Hill Thursday to endorse the Barbara Jordan Immigration Reform and Accountability Act, which will restructure …
Read More »School District Hopes Bible Class Passes Constitutional Muster
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – For years, public schools have been reluctant to teach about the Bible, fearing it would violate the constitutional separation of church and state. But one religious scholar hopes to change that. Matthew Hicks, 32, who holds a master’s degree in religious studies from the University of Georgia …
Read More »A New Kind of Threat Fast Food
And now the most compelling two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: Albright Diagnoses the AdministrationFormer Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says the Bush administration’s foreign policy suffers from what she calls “untreated bipolar disorder.” In a graduation speech at Tufts University in Massachusetts, Albright said, “They …
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