Fred Thompson Considering Run For President!

'Law & Order' president? Fred Thompson may runTV star is pro-life, opposes gun control, supports troop surge, pardon for Libby

Posted: March 11, 20073:05 p.m. Eastern

By Joe Kovacs© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Fred Thompson

Photo courtesy, Carl Cox Photography

Is America ready for a "Law & Order" president?

Actor Fred Thompson star of the NBC crime drama, thinks so, and is seriously considering a run for the White House.

"I'm giving some thought to it. Going to leave the door open," Thompson, a former U.S. senator from Tennessee, said on "Fox News Sunday" A lot of people think it's late already. I don't really think it is, although the rules of the game have changed somewhat. ... I think people are somewhat disillusioned. I think a lot of people are cynical out there. I think they're looking for something different."

The 64-year-old Republican who has starred in movies such as "The Hunt for Red October," "Cape Fear," and "In the Line of Fire," said he was thinking about a bid after former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and other Republicans touted his possible GOP candidacy, trumpeting his conservative positions.

On the issues, Thompson says he:

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  Opposes gun control. "You check my record. You'll find I'm pretty consistent on that issue."


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  Opposes same-sex marriage, but would let states decide on civil unions. "Marriage is between a man and a woman, and judges shouldn't be allowed to change that."
  


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  Opposes abortion. "I think Roe vs. Wade was bad law and bad medical science. And the way to address that is through good judges. I don't think the court ought to wake up one day and make new social policy for the country. It's contrary to what it's been the past 200 years."
  


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  Supports President Bush's troop surge in Iraq. "Wars are full of mistakes. You rectify things. I think we're doing that now."
  


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  Supports an immediate pardon for former White House Aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby. "This is a trial that never would have been brought in any other part of the world. This is a miscarriage of justice. One man and his wife and 14-year-old and 10-year-old children are bearing the brunt of a political maelstrom here that produced something that never should have come about."

Regarding illegal immigration, Thompson said:

We woke up one day after years of neglect and apparently discovered that we have somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal aliens in this country. So it became an impossible situation to deal with. I mean, there's really no good solution. So what do you do? You have to start over. Well, I'm concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million. So that's why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary.

I think most people feel disillusioned after 1986 when we had this deal offered to them before, and now we're insisting that, you know, we solve the security problem first, and then we'll talk about what to do with regard to other things – certainly no amnesty or nothing blanket like that.
But figure out some way to make some differentiation between the kind of people that we have here. You know, if you have the right kind of policies, and you're not encouraging people to come here and encouraging them to stay once they're here, they'll go back, many of them, of their own volition, instead of having to, you know, load up moving vans and rounding people up. That's not going to happen.

Thompson was elected to the senate in 1994 to fill the unexpired term of Vice President Al Gore. He was chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and left Capitol Hill in 2003 to return to acting.

-I have hoped that Mr. Thompson would someday run for president. I've kept tabs on Mr. Thompson since the mid nineties. He's a tough guy that commands respect. My thoughts are that he would be similar to Ronald Reagan in political philosophy and acton. A Thompson candidacy would undoubtedly shift the Republican party back to the right and the party would be re-energized. In a debate against Shrillary Clinton or Obama Bin Laden, Mr. Thompson would shred the both of them into confetti. I am very excited about the prospect of a Thompson run for the White House. -Randy

New Gas Plan & What To Do With Illegal Aliens

New Gas Plan.... Bush wants us to cut the amount of gas we use. The best way to stop using so much gas is to deport 11million illegal immigrants! That would be 11 million less people using our gas. The price of gas would have to come down as a result.

New Immigration Plan... Bring our troops home from Iraq, to guard the border. When they catch an illegal immigrant crossing the border, hand him a canteen, rifle and some ammo and ship him to Iraq Tell him if he wants to come to America, then he must serve a tour in the military. Give him a soldier's pay while he's there and tax him on it. After his tour, he will be allowed to become a citizen since he defended this country. He will also be registered to be taxed and be a legal patriot.

This option will probably deter illegal immigration and provide a solution for the troops in Iraq, and the aliens trying to make a better life for themselves. If they refuse to serve, ship them to Iraq anyway, without the canteen, rifle or ammo. Problem solved.

-Anonymous

Jesus tomb claim denounced

By Alan CoopermanThe Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Leading archaeologists in Israel and the United States are denouncing the purported discovery of the tomb of Jesus as a publicity stunt.

Scorn for the Discovery Channel's claim to have found the burial place of Jesus, Mary Magdalene and — most explosively — their possible son came not just from Christian scholars but also from Jewish and secular experts who said their judgments were unaffected by any desire to uphold Christian orthodoxy.

"I'm not a Christian. I'm not a believer. I don't have a dog in this fight," said William Dever, who has been excavating ancient sites in Israel for 50 years and is widely considered the dean of biblical archaeology among U.S. scholars. "I just think it's a shame the way this story is being hyped and manipulated."

The Discovery Channel held a news conference in New York on Monday to unveil a TV documentary, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," and a companion book about a tomb that was unearthed during construction of an apartment building in the Talpiyot neighborhood of Jerusalem in 1980.

James Cameron, the filmmaker who explored the wreck of the Titanic and directed an Oscar-winning feature film based on its sinking, is executive producer of the documentary. Its claims are based on six ossuaries, or stone boxes for holding human bones, found in the tomb.

The filmmakers contend that the inscriptions on the boxes say Yeshua bar Yosef (Jesus son of Joseph), Maria (Mary), Yose (Joseph), Matia (Matthew), Mariamene e Mara (Maria the Master) and Yehuda bar Yeshua (Judah son of Jesus). They maintain that "Mariamene e Mara" is Mary Magdalene and that Yehuda bar Yeshua may be her son by Jesus.

HUGE ODDS CLAIMED
Simcha Jacobovici, the film's Israeli-born director, said in a telephone interview that he commissioned four statistical studies that concluded that the odds of those particular names appearing in a single family tomb from the 1st century are "somewhere between 600 and 2.4 million to 1."

Jacobovici also said tests on the patina, or surface residue, of the "James Ossuary," which surfaced in 2002, indicate that it also came from the Talpiyot tomb. Israeli authorities have pronounced the James Ossuary, which purportedly held the bones of a brother of Jesus, a forgery and are prosecuting its owner. Jacobovici, who made a 2003 Discovery Channel film about it, maintains it is real.

Dever, a retired professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona, said that some of the inscriptions on the Talpiyot ossuaries are unclear, but that all of the names are common.
"I've know about these ossuaries for many years and so have many other archaeologists, and none of us thought it was much of a story because these are rather common Jewish names from that period," he said. "It's a publicity stunt, and it will make these guys very rich, and it will upset millions of innocent people because they don't know enough to separate fact from fiction."
'NONSENSE'

Similar assessments came Tuesday from two Israeli scholars, Amos Kloner, who originally excavated the tomb, and Joe Zias, former curator of archaeology at the Israeli Antiquities Authority. Kloner told the Jerusalem Post that the documentary is "nonsense." Zias described it in an e-mail to The Washington Post as a "hyped-up film which is intellectually and scientifically dishonest."

Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, expressed irritation that the claims were made at a news conference rather than in a peer-reviewed scientific article. By going directly to the media, she said, the filmmakers "have set it up as if it's a legitimate academic debate, when the vast majority of scholars who specialize in archaeology of this period have flatly rejected this," she said.

Magness noted that at the time of Jesus, wealthy families buried their dead in tombs cut by hand from solid rock, putting the bones in niches in the walls and then, later, transferring them to ossuaries.

She said Jesus came from a poor family that, like most Jews of the time, probably buried their dead in ordinary graves. "If Jesus' family had been wealthy enough to afford a rock-cut tomb, it would have been in Nazareth, not Jerusalem," she said.

Magness also said the names on the Talpiyot ossuaries indicate that the tomb belonged to a family from Judea, the area around Jerusalem, where people were known by their first name and father's name. As Galileans, Jesus and his family members would have used their first name and hometown, she said.

"This whole case (for the tomb of Jesus) is flawed from beginning to end," she said.

At least James Cameron remains consistent. Just like his fictionalized account of the sinking of the Titanic, his Discovery Channel film of the purported discovery of the tomb of Jesus is fiction too. Once again, we see another load of spewed vomit from the usual pack of idiots who are known to infest our entertainment industry, “The Hollywood Elite”.

James Cameron has managed to sink to the same level that is occupied by many others in Hollywood. That of ‘Bottom Feeder’. A Bottom Feeder is a narcissistic person who believes himself to be an important artist. Often he may be deluded. Bottom feeders can be an accomplished liar and manipulator who sold out his craft so that he can chase the almighty buck while simultaneously stroking his own ego. Mr. Cameron has joined the ranks of many notable bottom feeders such as, Michael Moore, Janine Garofalo, Al Franken, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Oliver Stone, Al Gore, and many others. I can always hope that the Hollywood Elites would simply shut up and do their Job. These knuckleheads need to stay out of areas like politics and science. Things that demand intelligence and objectivity. They should limit themselves to entertainment only. I do not care one iota of what the Hollywood Elites have to say unless it is something non-controversial that is quoted from a script while they stand on their mark in front of a camera. They should emulate their predecessors from the WWII era, who when they were not being viewed on the silver screen they could be found supporting their country and the war effort, pitching war bonds or participating in public service announcements and promotions. Of course, very few of the current so called “talent” that infests Hollywood could ever measure up to the fine patriotic celebrities of yesteryear. -Randy