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The following is the mission statement of the Philadelphia Prison System: "To provide a secure correctional environment that adequately detains persons accused or convicted of illegal acts; to provide programs, services and supervision in a safe, lawful, clean and humane environment, and to prepare incarcerated persons for re-entry into society." Advertisement Unfathomably, the last part of that policy makes no distinction between American citizens and illegal aliens. Both are released back into our society, courtesy of the incompetent United States government. It's good to be an illegal immigrant in America! Try following this "logic": an illegal alien gets convicted of...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Gov. Don Carcieri called on religious leaders Friday to appeal for calm following protests and controversy over an executive order he signed last week cracking down on illegal immigration. more stories like this The latest reaction to his order was a rowdy protest Thursday, when dozens of protesters filled his policy office chanting slogans such as "No human is illegal." Capitol Police removed them from the Statehouse with no arrests. The Republican governor told WPRO-AM Friday that a woman on his staff was bruised when a door flung open on her during the protest. He said staff members are...

At least 304,000 immigrant criminals eligible for deportation are behind bars nationwide, a top federal immigration official said Thursday. That is the first official estimate of the total number of such convicts in federal, state and local prisons and jails. The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Julie L. Myers, said the annual number of deportable immigrant inmates was expected to vary from 300,000 to 455,000, or 10 percent of the overall inmate population, for the next few years. Ms. Myers estimated that it would cost at least $2 billion a year to find all those immigrants and deport them.

Japan's Fisheries Agency has welcomed Greenpeace's decision to stop obstructing its whale hunt in the Southern Ocean. The green group's departure follows a month of anti-whaling protests and clashes with a Japanese whaling fleet. With dwindling food and fuel supplies, Greenpeace ships Arctic Sunrise and Esperanza are heading for Cape Town. Japanese Fisheries Agency spokesman Hideki Moronuki is pleased the whaling mission will no longer be obstructed. "Although Greenpeace say that they're activities are peaceful, their activities are really dangerous and illegal," he said. Greenpeace expedition leader Shane Rattenbury has defended the risks taken by activists during the protests. "We...

What do Islamist terrorists want? The answer should be obvious, but it is not.A generation ago, terrorists did make clear their wishes. Upon hijacking three airliners in September 1970, for example, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine demanded, with success, the release of Arab terrorists imprisoned in Britain, Switzerland, and West Germany. Upon attacking the B'nai B'rith headquarters and two other Washington, D.C. buildings in 1977, a Hanafi Muslim group demanded the canceling of a feature movie, Mohammad, Messenger of God," $750 (as reimbursement for a fine), the turning over of the five men who had massacred the...

The phony controversy, which featured reporters asking 30 questions about this matter at the Monday White House press briefing, demonstrates how Republicans and conservatives come under fire for doing nothing wrong. No matter how many questions they ask, there is still no evidence that Rove broke the law. The White House position-that Rove did not disclose classified information-remains intact. The only new development is that the White House will not say anything further on the case, which is somehow being interpreted by the liberal press as a contradiction of what the White House previously said. But there is no contradiction....

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mayor James Hahn began airing his first TV ad of the runoff mayoral campaign Tuesday - a blistering attack on the character and trustworthiness of front-runner Antonio Villaraigosa. The 30-second spot, running on broadcast and cable stations, faults the city councilman for raising thousands of dollars from Florida contributors. Using photographs of newspaper headlines, the ad points out that the county district attorney is reviewing some of those donations. A shot of Villaraigosa appears briefly in the ad, in which he says, "As Mayor, I will lead by example." A narrator responds sarcastically, "The Villaraigosa example...

There are three great articles at the URL. I think the last one is fittingly put first for this forum. Stop Chewing Lanna Perry 4th April 2005 Sydney Australia Chosenwarriorprincess@yahoo.com.au My precious children, My precious possessions, My precious branches, heed the word I am to speak for My heart is grieved. My heart is grieved My children, because as each of you are connected to me the One and Only true Vine, yet many of you are doing things that I am not pleased with. My precious branches, you know what I see? I see some of you chewing at...

And in Hospital Lobby, McDonald's Fights Back CLEVELAND -- The Pizza Hut is shuttered, its neon sign collecting dust on the floor. But knocking down the Golden Arches has proved far more difficult for Toby Cosgrove, the new head of the Cleveland Clinic. A heart surgeon who has cleaned out a career's worth of clogged arteries, Cosgrove didn't think Big Macs, supersize fries and inch-thick, six-cheese pizzas belonged in the lobby of a hospital renowned for its cardiac care. So he decreed the fast-food joints had to go. Pizza Hut went quietly. But McDonald's, halfway through a 20-year lease, has...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - A senior Congolese official said Tuesday his nation had been invaded by neighboring Rwanda, and U.N. officials said they were investigating claims of Rwandan forces clashing with militias in the east. "We are on a war footing," Cabinet minister Mbusa Nyamwisi said in the eastern city of Beni, which he said was near the fighting. "We are being attacked by the Rwandan troops." Nyamwisi claimed two brigades of Rwandan troops were fighting alongside Congolese rebel allies, but he gave no evidence. A U.N. official said Rwandan forces reportedly were fighting ethnic militias loyal to Congo's government....

On Monday, December 8, 2003, President Bush signed into law a Medicare prescription drug benefits package designed to help American seniors pay for their medications. This month, the Kerry campaign released a TV ad attacking President Bush’s Medicare record stating, “The very next day George Bush imposes the biggest Medicare premium increase in history while prescription drug costs still skyrocket.” There are several problems with this ad, namely that fact that 1) Kerry skipped the December 8 vote and 2) Kerry voted to support the increase in Medicare premiums that he now criticizes. The Kerry campaign offers no specifics on...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Insisting that Tehran's nuclear program is peaceful, Iran's foreign minister reiterated Tuesday that Iran would retaliate to any Israeli strike against its nuclear facilities. "If they would do that, we would react," Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said during a visit to New Zealand. "We have our defense capability and that certainly keeps others from exercising such a threat. They know what is our capability and how ... we react." Kharrazi's comments echo similar statements made last week by Iran, which warned Israel it would attack the Dimona nuclear facility if its own facilities were...

School Distributes Communist Propaganda Attacking Conservative Students BRITTON ALEXANDER, GACR State Chairman April 20, 2004 ATLANTA, Georgia – In the latest front on the war against academic bias in our Colleges and Universities, the Georgia Association of College Republicans is dismayed to report that the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology is formally engaged in propaganda distribution opposing the Academic Bill of Rights from a self-admitted communist organization, the Revolutionary Worker (www.rwor.org). The flyer in question specifically attacks conservatives and Christians, and originates from an organization that advocates “laying the basis to wage and win [for...

Woman accused of attacking US sky marshal A woman has been accused of trying to strangle a US air marshal after she became disruptive on a flight from Pittsburgh to Minneapolis. Officials say the armed marshal approached the woman, who was allegedly drunk, vocal and obnoxious on board Northwest Airlines Flight 1057 on Tuesday. Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Marty said the woman continued to be disruptive and tried to choke the marshal in a later exchange. She also kicked the marshal in the groin and bit a law enforcement officer after she was escorted off the plane, Marty said....

Democrat hopefuls sense victory lies in attacking war By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 06 September 2003 The Democratic White House contenders mounted a withering onslaught on President George Bush in their first official debate of the 2004 campaign, but came up with nothing to threaten Howard Dean's status as the front-runner. The 90-minute debate, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, had been expected to produce the first concentrated attacks on Mr Dean from his rivals, especially the Massachusetts senator John Kerry, regarded as perhaps the most dangerous challenger to Mr Bush in the general election, but whose campaign has been eclipsed...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Aug. 19 — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, on a one-day visit to Colombia, said today that the United States would support Colombia in resuming a policy that allows Colombian fighter pilots to shoot down planes suspected of ferrying drugs or force them to land. Such a policy, which has been criticized by human rights groups, was suspended in Colombia and Peru after a Peruvian jet fighter mistakenly shot down a private plane carrying American missionaries, killing two people, one an infant, in 2001. A White House statement said President Bush had determined that Colombia had since "put...

<p>TEHRAN, Iran — Iran (search), building its first nuclear reactor and planning a second, warned Israel (search) Monday against attacking the nuclear installations as it did an Iraqi facility in 1981.</p> <p>Hamid Reza Asefi (search), the Foreign Ministry spokesman, told reporters Monday that he hoped Israel, which has warned against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, would not resort to such an "adventure."</p>

<p>The vast majority of members of Congress from North Florida and South Georgia are in support of President Bush's plan to take military action against Iraq if necessary, but a Jacksonville congresswoman is an outspoken exception.</p> <p>Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., addressed the House yesterday and scolded the president for pushing an attack on Iraq without support from American citizens, the United Nations and the rest of the world.</p>