Celebs Sport Eye Patches in Solidarity with Pirates

More than 200 of the nation's most-famous people -- including actors, entertainers, musicians and politicians -- were spotted wearing eye patches last night at a $25,000-a-plate Hollywood fund-raising gala to...

Haditha and the Murtha Betrayal of the Marines

" The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. This offence...

Murtha: "I think we'll pick up 40, 50 seats."

Thank you John Murtha for saying what you think. No, not about the war in Iraq or anything else, but about how much you guys actually think you will actually pick up in the next election. There have been...

VIVA BUSH

"New York Post VIVA BUSH By RALPH PETERS March 11, 2007 -- AS our president arrived in Brazil last week, the U.S. media made it sound as if Latin America had erupted in flames. TV news featured flying tear-gas canisters; a typical newspaper headline read, "Angry Crowds Rally...

Will Pelosi Replace Harmon with Impeached Judge?

"Nancy Pelosi should know how the right wing slime machine works- in fact, she should know that as well as she knows her own name. There was an enormous hue and cry over her plan to elevate the unindicted Murtha over less fishy rivals. Now, it appears from several news...

Pelosi's Next Big Call

"The incoming House Speaker already made a questionable move backing the losing candidate in the race for Majority Leader. Will she stumble again by choosing a member with a checkered past to lead the House Intelligence Committee? Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi, who stumbled...

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Dems Tell Pelosi She Needs to Follow, Not Just Lead

"The new House Speaker tried to assert her authority in backing John Murtha for Majority Leader. But Murtha's loss and Steny Hoyer's victory have taught her a hard lesson. Nancy Pelosi showed us something important about herself this week. If Tip O'Neill thought that all...

US House Democrats Choose Leadership, Stress Unity - Voice of America

" Robinson report - Download 418k Listen to Robinson report Democrats in the U.S. Congress have completed the process of choosing leaders to guide them when they return as the majority in the new congress in January. A senior Democrat who emerged over the last year as a key...

Pelosi faces no-win outcome over Murtha

"WASHINGTON - Democrats moved toward picking a top lieutenant to speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi and hoped to put to rest a politically costly family feud that intensified just days after they reclaimed the House from GOP control"

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Inside Pelosi's Power Play

"Working the phones and unleashing her top aides, Pelosi is trying to turn the Murtha-Hoyer battle into a powerful statement of her authority — and what the Democrats stand for. For a moment there it looked as if incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was making the mistake...

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