CENTERTON, Ark. -- The mayor of an Arkansas town resigned on Wednesday, claiming he was abducted and brainwashed by Satan worshippers nearly three decades ago.
Centerton Mayor Ken Williams said he has been living under an assumed name for nearly 30 years. He had been mayor since 2001.
Williams told authorities he was born Don LaRose and that in the mid-1970s, he was a preacher in Indiana. He said he was abducted and brainwashed into forgetting all about his life as Don LaRose.It was a double life he had never acknowledged.
Williams said, because he didn't even realize it existed until he had recently taken a truth-serum injection.
A new donation drive has been scheduled for Ron Paul's presidential campaign for a week today, Friday 30th of November, in response to a plea from the campaign's Headquarters for funds they can spend before the early primaries.
The mass donation day entitled Rudy's Reading Listhas once again been initiated and loosely directed by Ron Paul supporter Trevor Lyman, the man behind the idea for the record breaking November 5th "money bomb" which raised over $4 million, sending Ron Paul's donations to over $9 million for the quarter so far.
A federal judge expressed frustration Tuesday that the government provided incorrect information about evidence in the prosecution of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and raised the possibility of ordering a new trial in another high-profile terrorism case.
At a post-trial hearing Tuesday for Ali al-Timimi, a Muslim cleric from Virginia sentenced to life in prison in 2004 for soliciting treason, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said she can no longer trust the CIA and other government agencies on how they represent classified evidence in terror cases.
Last night on The Charlie Rose Show, former Bush political adviser Karl Rove claimed that he was “opposed” to holding the pre-war Iraq vote just ahead of the 2002 elections. “The administration was opposed to voting on it in the fall of 2002,” Rove said. He stated that his upcoming book will argue that the administration did not want to schedule an Iraq war vote prior to the 2002 elections:
ROSE: But you were opposed to the vote.
ROVE: It happened. We don’t determine when the Congress vote on things. The Congress does.
ROSE: You wish it hadn’t happened at that time. You would have preferred it did not happen at that time.
Wisconin police officer Tom Rolling tells a Ron Paul supporter who is highway blogging that free speech is the right to have a conversation with him and that holding up signs on public property is "disorderly conduct." Rolling claims that holding up signs on a highway is dangerous to drivers (because you don't normally see signs on a highway do you?)
Federal agents raided the headquarters of a group that produces illegal currency and puts it in circulation, seizing gold, silver and two tons of copper coins featuring Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
Agents also took records, computers and froze the bank accounts at the "Liberty Dollar" headquarters during the Thursday raid, Bernard von NotHaus, founder of the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act & Internal Revenue Code, said in an interview.
The organization, which is critical of the Federal Reserve, has repeatedly clashed with the federal government, which contends that the gold, silver and copper coins it produces are illegal. NORFED claims its Liberty Dollars are inflation free and can restore stability to financial markets by allowing commerce based on a currency that does not fluctuate in value like the U.S. dollar.
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani focuses on the economic improvements he made in New York and the drop in the city's crime rate in a new television ad that began airing in New Hampshire Wednesday.
"The world's 17th largest economy. Swimming in red ink. Record crime. Runaway taxes. A million on welfare. That was New York," an announcer says. "Until Rudy."
Giuliani faced a more than $2 billion budget deficit despite a tax rate of almost 9 percent. Giuliani said the tax rate scared away business; hotel taxes were $24 a night, compared with $8 in other major cities at the time. And in 1994, almost one in seven New Yorkers were on welfare.
In the ad, which starts in New Hampshire and Boston television markets, an announcer highlights Giuliani's response: "He cut taxes 9 billion. Welfare 60 percent. Crime in half. The most successful conservative turnaround in 50 years."
"In America's most liberal city, Rudy delivered. And he can do it again, in a place called Washington, D.C."
In his standard campaign speech, Giuliani says he cut taxes 23 times. His rivals say Giuliani opposed some reductions, and he takes credit for some at the state level rather than city level. His campaign says he saved New Yorkers more than $9 billion and cut welfare rolls by 640,000 to the lowest number since 1966.
It took a while for us to find him at GQ's Web package on the honorees. If you open up the "rundown of this year's big winners" or click on the "slideshow" line, his photo comes up as No. 57 of 59.
Paul spokesman Jesse Benton says in a statement that the candidate "is humbled and honored."
The hecklers outnumbered supporters of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales during his speech at the University of Florida last night.
Two protesters, dressed in bright orange garb with black hoods over their heads to resemble detainees at Guantanamo Bay, were arrested after they jumped on stage next to Gonzales, who quietly ignored them while police took them away.
Gonzales was then forced to wait several minutes for the crowd to quiet down before resuming his $40,000 speech. He tried to parlay the antagonism the best he could. "Our young men and women fight overseas to preserve these kinds of freedom of speech," he continued.
The orange-clad protesters were reportedly only the worst of it. Gonzales was harassed throughout his presentation before some 1,500 people in a campus auditorium and at times struggled to finish his sentences, according to The Gainesville Sun.
Zogby Spins Poll Results To Marginalize Ron Paul Ignored Texas Congressman's domination of nearly every category to focus on single Giuliani success
In their press release about the results of a new telephone poll, Zogby chose to marginalize Ron Paul by highlighting a demographic that was won by Rudy Giuliani, while largely ignoring the fact that the Texas Congressman completely dominated almost every other aspect of the poll.
Under the headline Giuliani Leads Among Republicans in Latest Blind Bio Survey, the Zogby press release reads, "Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, long the favorite in nationwide samples of likely Republican voters in the 2008 race for the party's presidential nomination, has the strongest resume of four top contenders, a new Zogby International survey shows."
"The telephone survey, known as a “blind bio” poll because likely voters are given details of the candidates’ resumes without their names attached, shows Giuliani wins 34% support, compared to 22% each for Thompson and Romney. Ron Paul, who has surged recently in polls and has a significant online following, came in last with 13% support, while 9% said they were undecided on the question." (READ MORE)
David Obey and John Murtha had strong words for the GOP over their stonewalling the funds for the troops in Iraq. No withdraw date, no cash–plain & simple.
Obey: The Bush Administration is promoting a lot of stories over the past week about nasty actions in the Pentagon that will have to be taken if Congress doesn’t provide a bridge fund for the Iraqi war. Like so many other things in this town, those stories have things backwards. The House has already passed a $50 billion bridge fund which will provide all of the funding necessary for Iraq through at least February and beyond. But the President’s allies in the Senate are preventing it from even reaching his desk because they don’t like the conditions under which the money is provided. Let me repeat: the money has already been provided by the House of representatives, if the President wants that $50 billion released, all he has to do is call the Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell, and ask him to stop blocking it. That phone number is (202) 224-2541 in case anyone is interested.
Huff Po:“As reported by the Huffington Post, the Democrat war supplement proposal is the party’s most aggressive funding measure since taking over Congress. In addition to insisting on a full withdrawal plan the bill would also require that troops be fully trained and equipped before being sent into the field and that the government abide by the Army Field Manual with respect to prohibiting torture.”
As Pelosi says: “Democrats and the American people support our troops in the field and will always insist they receive all the resources they require. If there is any delay in funding for our men and women in uniform, the responsibility will squarely lie with the President and Senate Republicans who are blocking the bill.”
CENTERTON, Ark. -- The mayor of an Arkansas town resigned on Wednesday, claiming he was abducted and brainwashed by Satan worshippers nearly three decades ago.
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