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Honor restored?
"Stolen Honor" filmmaker Carlton Sherwood is trying to receive damages for
defamation by the Kerry campaign, according to the
Associated Press:
A filmmaker has sued Sen. John Kerry and a one-time campaign aide, saying
they defamed him as they sought to block the broadcast of an anti-Kerry
documentary during the 2004 presidential election.
The lawsuit, filed this week on behalf of producer Carlton Sherwood and a
Vietnam veterans group, is the latest salvo in the battle over the
documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal."
The film contends that Kerry's anti-war activities when he returned from
Vietnam caused further harm to captured U.S. soldiers.
Bubba’s military expertise
Bill Clinton is calling Iraq a quagmire according to the
N.Y. Daily News:
Former President Bill Clinton says Iraq "looks like a quagmire," and
estimates "the odds are not great of our prevailing there."
But, speaking for an interview that appears in the November issue of Ladies
Home Journal, Clinton qualified his quagmire remark by saying, "It's not
Vietnam."
"The reason this is not Vietnam is that 58% of the eligible voters showed up
and voted in Iraq," Clinton told the magazine. The South Vietnamese
government was "never legitimate" in the eyes of the Vietnamese, he said.
Fonda fond of Hillary
NewsMax reports on Hanoi Jane Fonda’s financial support of Hillary
Clinton:
The woman who sat behind a North Vietnamese gun installation and pretended
to shoot down American pilots donated the maximum - $2,000 - to Hillary's
campaign coffers, the New York Daily News reports in Wednesday editions.
Earlier this year Fonda told Time magazine that she "hopes for a Hillary
Clinton presidency." The politically radioactive actress had also been a
sleepover guest at the Clinton White House.
Mrs. Clinton has been struggling to reshape her image as pro-defense, with
multiple visits to the troops in Iraq and boasts on her web site that she
saved New York military bases from closure.
White House spy
CNS News reports on the first spy in the White House in modern history:
U.S. press reports on Wednesday said the Justice Department was
investigating whether Leandro Aragoncillo, a Philippines-born naturalized
American, had stolen material from White House computers, which was then
sent to opposition politicians in Manila.
The reports, first broken by ABC News, said the 46-year-old
Filipino-American and U.S. Marine worked for three years at the White House,
on the staff of then-Vice President Al Gore in 2000; and later assigned to
Vice President Cheney's staff. ABC reported that he has admitted to stealing
documents.
The report said U.S. intelligence agencies "are calling it the first case of
espionage in the White House in modern history."
Allen’s sexual orientation position
2008 presidential hopeful Sen. George Allen is finding himself in a dispute
with Joe Glover, president of the Virginia-based Family Policy Network. The
controversy comes over his vote for a 2004 amendment that allowed for sexual
orientation to the federal Hate Crimes statutes. Glover contends that Allen
promised not to vote for expansion of gay rights based on sexual
orientation.
"When I ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000, I stated numerous times that I
would support adding 'sexual orientation' to the category of 'hate crimes,'
unless the legislation raised 'sexual orientation' to the level of a civil
right, which I could not support," Allen said.
A letter by Allen to the organization states, "As we discussed, if I am
elected to the Senate, I will take no action that would have the effect of
elevating sexual orientation to civil rights status," Allen wrote,
"including, but not limited to, adding sexual orientation to Federal Hate
Crimes legislation or any other similar legislation."
Glover is currently rally Virginians to call Allen and urge him to oppose
legislation similar to what he previously voted for that has passed the
House.
Rove’s role
The
Washington Times reports that Karl Rove played a big role in selecting
Harriet Miers to be the Supreme Court nominee:
Senior Bush adviser Karl Rove was "very involved" in President Bush's
Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers, who was selected in part because
she has no judicial track record, according to a Republican with close ties
to the administration.
"We know that Rove was very involved in the process, and he's certainly well
tuned in to the Hill and how it works," said GOP strategist Charlie Black.
"I suspect the Senate leadership might have given him the advice to take
into consideration on how hard or how easy someone would be to confirm."
Forbes’ endorsement
The New Hampshire
Union Leader covered Steve Forbes’ visit to New Hampshire. He is
promoting his flat tax and saying that he could get behind the right
candidate:
Flat tax advocate and magazine publisher Steve Forbes won't run for
President in 2008, but he said yesterday he intends to make a new version of
his decade-old proposal to scrap the current tax code a key part of the
debate.
Forbes, a Republican, said yesterday he "will be agitating for the cause"
during the campaign, "and if there's a good candidate, for the candidate."
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