P res. Barack Obama needs to ask the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) why its end-of-life planning tool, “Your Life, Your Choices,” deserves circulation throughout its vast health-care system. Despite the controversy that has angered many veterans and enveloped the VA since the “your life is not worth living” message in the document was exposed last month, the VA continues...
DOWNLOADS: (73) PLAYS: (324) [H/t Heather .] Via Media Matters . This is even more shocking than the usual misleading Fox News coverage. This is an outright lie, manufactured by someone treated as credible by the rest of the media. But don't worry, I'm positive it will be covered in depth on all the other networks! (Not.) On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace repeatedly cropped quotes from a Veterans...
CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! (Free subscription) | 01/25/2009
In a disgraceful show of pandering to Hispanics and stabbing Conservative principles in the back, former RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson suggests that the GOP start “reviewing their position on immigration”: Former Republican National Committee Chair and Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson spoke out on the GOP’s electoral challenges Friday, urging Republicans to reach out to Hispanic...
Jim Nicholson, the former secretary of veterans affairs who once headed the Republican National Committee, said Friday that he expects President-elect Obama will come to have deep respect for the U.S. military, just as President Bush’s respect for the military grew during his two terms in office.
Mark Devenport reports Jim Nicholson’s criticism of an MLA for raising an issue that was dealt with in Europe three years previously. As Mark notes the MLA was Jim's UUP colleague, Tom Elliot. What Mark didn't note is Tom is Nicholson's election agent and just last week was making an impassioned appeal for UUP members to support and canvass for Jim – oh, to be a fly on the wall at the next...
"Jim Nicholson is speaking, but the buzz is elsewhere as the room suddenly fills. The conservatives have arrived." Ignited yesterday, live, as Cameron entered to a standing ovation from the 800 or so UUP delegates and it certainly appeared that the speech delivered pushed all the right buttons as far as the vast majority present were concerned. As it is one of the most significant speeches...
At the UUP conference, Jim Nicholson, the electoral “crash test dummy” of the new arrangement between the Conservatives and the Ulster Unionists, was interviewed by BBC NI’s Jim Fitzpatrick and Mark Devenport - full interview below the fold. In this extracted clip Jim Nicholson tries to duck a question from Jim Fitzpatrick on any “voting transfer alliance” with Jim Allister’s...
The agenda item of celebrating successful women has just finished. David Campbell is now introducing the tribute to HM Armed Forces, which will be followed at 11:30 by speeches by Jim Nicholson and his election agent Tom Elliott. Then at 11:50 David Cameron, who is now upstairs doing interviews, will deliver his speech.
It's taken a long time and a lot of negotiations, but the Tories have finally pulled off what looks like a realignment with the Ulster Unionist party. It marks the end of a 34 year hiatus, and in effect will bring one new MP and one new MEP onto the Tory benches. The latter, Jim Nicholson was always going to be a happy camper within the Tory party, but the Ulster Unionist's single Westminster MP has...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Without wishing to pre-empt the findings of the UUP – Conservative Working Group, it is my understanding that some detail will soon emerge as to how the parties’ relationship might develop. This will entail, at a minimum, the Tories endorsing Jim Nicholson and contributing to his campaign in the European election and an embargo on candidates from the two parties running against each other...
By Bill Cleary Jim Nicholson, a Gloucester City resident, was asked by Marilyn Johnson, author of *THE DEAD BEAT, to describe himself. Nicholson replied, “I don’t do much self-analysis. I’m not a complicated guy. There...
When the boys and the grandkids come for grilled steak and lobster tails at Jim Nicholson's Wantagh backyard Sunday, his youngest child won't be there.
Maybe it was just one. Surely he wasn't trying to swallow more than one ... Former senator Paul Laxalt's all male, annual lamb fry dinner at the Georgetown Club tends not to be an especially raucous affair. The 28th dinner the other night, prepared as always in Basque style in honor of Laxalt's heritage, featured the usual delicacy of the night, lamb's testicles, which are said to have unusual medicinal...
The following is an excerpt from my new book, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Myths of Republican Politics . The book is available for online ordering now and will be in bookstores on April 15. It examines the deceitful, personality-based election tactics the Right uses to build absurd cults of personality around their leaders while demonizing liberal and Democratic candidates. Accompanying...
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