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Insider Report: Americans Want Fred Thompson in '08 Special From NewsMax's Most Informed Sources
Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories): 1. NewsMax Poll: Americans Want Fred Thompson in '08 An Internet poll sponsored by NewsMax.com reveals that Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of Fred Thompson running for president in 2008. Our "Should Fred Thompson Run for President" poll of nearly 100,000 people also disclosed that the former senator from Tennessee and "Law & Order" star would trounce all leading Republican candidates in a primary. The results are surprising considering that Thompson has not even announced that he would run for the White House next year. But he has begun assembling the core of a campaign team in preparation for a possible run. NewsMax will provide the results of this poll to major media and share them with radio talk-show hosts across the country.
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Here are the poll questions and results: 1) What is your overall opinion of Fred Thompson?
2) Is Fred Thompson your candidate for president in 2008?
3) In the following field, who is your 2008 candidate?
4) In a Republican primary of the following, who would you vote for?
5) If the 2008 President race was between Fred Thompson & Hillary Clinton, who would you vote for?
Editor's note: 2. Nearly Half of Voters Concerned About Clinton Corruption A new poll conducted by Judicial Watch found that more than six years after the end of the Clinton administration, many likely voters are still concerned about Hillary and Bill Clinton's ethics. Among the findings of the survey of 1,039 respondents conducted March 22–26 in partnership with Zogby International:
"Given the public concern demonstrated by these results, the media and other public policy leaders have a responsibility to ask tough questions of Hillary Clinton about her role in the various Clinton scandals," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch Inc., a conservative, non-partisan foundation promoting accountability in government. "These issues can't be off limits just because Hillary Clinton says they're off limits. And frankly, the same goes for John McCain, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani and any other candidate with ethical skeletons in their closet. "Judicial Watch does not oppose or endorse candidates for public office, but we do have the right to look at their past behavior and to demand they be held accountable for it." Editor's Note: 3. Expert: Iran Still a Couple of Years Away From Bomb A top expert on Iran's nuclear program says the Islamic Republic needs a few more years before it can produce the materials needed for nuclear weapons. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently announced that his country is now capable of "industrial-scale" uranium enrichment. Following that announcement, physicist David Albright — a former United Nations nuclear inspector — shared his views about Iran's real capabilities. In an interview with Newsweek, Albright pointed out that the Iranians have installed about 1,000 centrifuges underground to enrich uranium, compared to the 3,000-centrifuge goal they announced last year, so Ahmadinejad "has changed the benchmark somewhat." Albright continued: "They're still a couple of years away, in a worst-case scenario, from being able to produce enough highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. "But this has exceeded the expectations put forward in the [U.S.] National Intelligence Estimate that Iran couldn't have a nuclear weapon until 2010 to 2015." Iran could eventually be able to produce enough highly enriched uranium to make one or perhaps two bombs a year, said Albright, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Science and International Security. He added: "The only thing that can stop Iran is Iran itself." Editor's Note: 4. Universal Health Care Won't Cure Ills Politicians who argue that universal health care will lead to a healthier America are flat-out wrong, two experts insist. "What these politicians and many other Americans fail to understand is that there's a big difference between universal coverage and actual access to medical care," say the two Cato Institute experts — Michael Tanner, director of health and welfare studies, and Michael Cannon, director of health-policy studies. "Simply saying that people have health insurance is meaningless. Many countries provide universal insurance but deny critical procedures to patients who need them." Writing in the Los Angeles Times, the authors point to a 2006 report that at any given time, nearly 900,000 Britons are waiting for admission to National Health Service hospitals, and shortages of care lead to the cancellation of more than 50,000 operations a year. In Sweden, another country with universal coverage, the wait for heart surgery can be as long as 25 weeks; as a result, some patients likely die awaiting treatment. The authors also assert that while the uninsured may do without preventive care, studies have shown no strong relationship between insurance coverage and better health. Helen Levy of the University of Michigan's Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured, and David Meltzer of the University of Chicago, wrote that there is "no evidence" that widening insurance coverage is a cost-effective way to promote health. And a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine last year disclosed that "health insurance status was largely unrelated to the quality of care." As for the argument that the cost of treating the uninsured is passed along to everyone else, the authors cite findings that uncompensated care for the uninsured amounts to less than 3% of all health-care spending. Tanner and Cannon conclude: "The real danger is that our national obsession with universal coverage will lead us to neglect reforms — such as enacting a standard health-insurance deduction, expanding health-savings accounts and deregulating insurance markets — that could truly expand coverage, improve quality and make care more affordable." Editor's Note:
5. Intel Official: Russians Knew About Monica Lewinsky The Russian government had inside knowledge about President Bill Clinton's ongoing sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a former senior U.S. intelligence official told NewsMax. Clinton had his final encounter with Lewinsky in the White House on March 29, 1997, after he invited her there because he had "something important to tell her," according to the official. "He told her that he suspected his phone was bugged by a foreign embassy." Four months before that meeting, Russian intelligence reported to then President Boris Yeltsin about Monica, the official disclosed. "Sometime between March 5 and March 29, this was communicated back to Clinton. "Then in August 1998, Clinton under oath denied the fact of this meeting. This was a grave and consequential perjury, not about sex, but about a huge national security vulnerability. "Two special prosecutors and the impeachment process let him off the hook about this, despite knowing of the perjury." Editor's Note: 6. Rep. Tom Lantos ‘Serious' About Iran Trip Rep. Tom Lantos, who recently returned with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from a controversial trip to Syria, has now said he wants to go to Iran to open a dialogue with the Islamic Republic. That doesn't surprise a former colleague of the California Democrat. "Lantos considers himself a ‘serious statesman,'" the ex-colleague told NewsMax. "It still rankles him that he was passed up by Bill Clinton for secretary of state in 1993. At the time, he felt he was the ‘only adult' in the Democratic Congress with experience that qualified him for the job. "Although Lantos has traded heavily on his past — he was profiled in a popular TV documentary as the ‘only Holocaust Survivor in Congress' — he now says he is ready to go to Iran to ‘negotiate' with president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has pledged to conduct a new Holocaust against Israel." Sources close to Lantos tell NewsMax it isn't just a publicity stunt: he is serious. Lantos sees himself as a kind of elder statesman, who can do things that other American politicians can't do. Talking to terrorist dictators is one of them, one source said. Iranian sources tell NewsMax that Lantos was handed an official invitation to visit Iran by an emissary from Majles (Assembly) Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel during his recent trip to Syria. If so, Lantos will surely make every effort to go. After all, he told reporters in Damascus, he has been trying to get a visa to visit Iran for the past 10 years. Editor's Note: 7. We Heard . . . THAT the chairman of the American Family Association is calling on the Democratic National Committee to apologize to Christians for remarks concerning Easter. On March 30, DNC Chairman Howard Dean issued a press statement titled "DNC Offers Passover Greetings." It read: "On Monday night, Jews around the world will begin celebrating Passover, a week-long holiday that commemorates the Israelites' freedom from persecution and slavery." A week later, Dean and the DNC issued another statement concerning Easter: "Easter Sunday is a joyful celebration. The holiday represents peace, redemption and renewal, a theme which brings hope to people of all faiths." The statement did not mention Jesus or the resurrection. "Dean and the DNC have insulted every Christian by taking one of the two unique Christian holy days and turning it into a politically correct ‘religious' day," said Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of the AFA — a pro-family advocacy group that claims more than 3 million online supporters. THAT former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif claimed then-President Bill Clinton offered him $5 billion if he would refrain from conducting nuclear tests in 1998. "President Clinton telephoned me five times and offered $5 billion for not testing the nuclear weapons," the India-based Daily News & Analysis quoted Sharif as saying in a TV interview. "I refused the offer for the integrity and security of Pakistan." Pakistan conducted its first nuclear test in May 1998. Sharif was deposed in a military coup in October 1999 and sent into exile in Saudi Arabia.
THAT the Terrorism Awareness Project, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, has organized "Islamo Fascism Awareness Day" teach-ins at more than 80 universities across the country. The April 19 events will feature showings of "Obsession," a documentary about the terrorist threat from Islamic militants. The film uses interviews with authorities on the Middle East, former jihadists, and experts on terrorism to "take the viewer inside the worldview and plan for world domination of radical Islam," according to a release from the Freedom Center. The screenings will be followed by discussions about the terrorist threat. "Islamo Fascism Awareness Day is necessary because of the denial and ignorance about terrorism on the part of many students," said Stephen Miller, a senior at Duke University and national coordinator of the Terrorism Awareness Project. "We're in a fight for survival and many students are on the sidelines." The campuses participating in the event include Notre Dame, Columbia, Dartmouth, George Tech, Ohio State, and the University of Texas. Editor's Note: Editor's Notes:
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