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  U.S. Senator John McCain delivered the following remarks as prepared for delivery tonight in New Orleans, LA: Good evening from the great city of New Orleans. Tonight, we can say with confidence the primary season is over, and the general election campaign has begun. I commend both Senators Obama and Clinton for the long, hard race they have run. Senator Obama has impressed many Americans with his eloquence and his spirited campaign. Senator Clinton has earned great respect for her tenacity and courage. The media often overlooked how compassionately she spoke to the concerns and dreams of millions...

VATICAN CITY - Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted as saying the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones. "How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?" Funes said. "Just as we consider earthly creatures as 'a brother,' and 'sister,' why should we not talk about an 'extraterrestrial brother'? It would...

I got tired of the old and slimey "To be a Republican, you need to believe...", so I wrote my own rejoinder. Mix and match, add your own, just send them around. We have an election to win. To be a Democrat you need to believe: 1. God is dead, and that Al Ogre is the Messiah 2. Kennedy was a hero for wanting Castro dead, and surprised when Castro dropped him first, or “What, Vietnam was Nixon’s war, wasn’t it?” 3. Communism is basically good, it just wasn’t well executed by the Soviets. 4. The United States should subrogate...

How To Be A Good Democrat (what you have to believe) 1. You have to be against capital punishment on the guilty, but support abortion on demand on the innocent. 2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity. 3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists. 4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding. 5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cows have regional accents, a group of British farmers claims, and phonetics experts say the idea is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Lloyd Green, from southwest England, was one of a group of farmers who first noticed the phenomenon. "I spend a lot of time with my Friesians and they definitely 'moo' with a Somerset drawl," he said, referring to the breed of dairy cow he owns. "I've spoken to the other farmers in the West Country group and they have noticed a similar development in their own herds. "I think it works the same as...

Billboard I saw on the way home advertising for the UMC: If you can wish, you an believe.

Do not believe Teheran, Britain warns Russia By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 18/01/2006) Britain warned Russia yesterday not to be fooled by "vacuous" Iranian offers of 11th-hour negotiations to avoid being reported to the United Nations. As diplomats began a campaign to raise support for reporting Iran to the UN Security Council, Moscow held out the prospect of talks with Teheran on a Russian compromise deal. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, also warned the West of the dangers of imposing UN sanctions on Iran. "We remember the history of sanctions against Iraq and know how it all...

OLYMPIA – Three years after getting drunk, blowing through a stop sign and triggering a wreck that left her passenger critically injured, a former Idaho resident has filed a $1.5 million claim against Washington's Pend Oreille County for not detaining her before she caused the crash. In her claim, Ashlen Lee says that on June 12, 2002, a county sheriff's deputy stopped her truck around 3:30 a.m. and could see that she had been drinking. But after quizzing her, the deputy let the 17-year-old drive away. The officer said he'd give them a warning," said Lee's attorney, W. Russell Van...

'The disruption made teaching virtually impossible. I could not believe what I saw' By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent (Filed: 24/04/2005) As the petite, middle-aged teacher shouts desperately for the 20th time for the out-of-control class to be quiet, a faint, childish boy's voice can be heard, calling out above the deafening din: "Suck ** ***, miss". The appalling scene of classroom disorder and disrespect is just one of many captured on film for a channel Five documentary, to be screened this week, which will reignite the debate on how to tackle bad behaviour in schools. 'Sylvia Thomas', a teacher who...

Polls finds majority believe country is ready for a women president February 22, 2005 2:55 PM The Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. A clear majority of Americans believes the nation is ready for a woman in the Oval Office. A new poll finds more than six in ten believe the country is ready for a female president. The poll by the Siena College Research Institute, which was sponsored by Hearst newspapers, gives new ammunition to people who believe Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton should run for president. Eighty-one percent of those surveyed said they would vote for a woman for president and...

Flying saucers and strange beings who have visited Earth aren't the typical topics reported by Peter Jennings, anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight." Jennings, whose new two-hour special tackles the subject of UFOs, admits he and his production team began the project with doubts and a dose of curiosity. "We have a lot of skeptics -- I am very skeptical -- but we seriously investigated something a lot of people are serious about," he said. "And when we come to the end, this is wonderfully interesting. "More than 80 million Americans believe intelligent beings from somewhere else have come here,"...

Archaeologists believe they have discovered part of throne of Darius Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN (MNA) -- Iranian archaeologists believe they have found a part of one leg of the throne of Darius the Great during their excavations at Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Achaemenid dynasty, the director of the team of archaeologists announced Sunday. “Four archaeologists of the team found a piece of lapis lazuli during their excavations in water canals passing under the treasury in southeastern Persepolis last year,” said Alireza Askari, adding, “The studies on the piece of stone over the past year led the archaeologists...

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!

In the days and weeks before President Bush's visit, the Canadian media were busy performing their appointed ritual on such occasions -- well, all occasions, really -- reminding Canadians of the many and profound ways in which they are different from Americans. In case these should momentarily escape notice. A snap poll commissioned by The Globe and Mail, for example, found that 84% of Canadians feel their children receive a good education, whereas only 59% of Americans believe this. Which proves ... what? That Canadians are more complacent? That Canadians are more gullible? That more Canadians are teachers? The traditional...

For those bad-news-from-Iraq-only information consumers, stop reading here. There have been several recent developments out of Iraq that should give some comfort to those who believe that Arabs and Muslims are capable of embracing democracy. There have been military victories in Iraq, a debt relief agreement for the country has been hammered out, and Iraq’s independent electoral commission has set a firm date for elections. First Najaf was cleaned up, then Sadr City, then Fallujah, then Mosul… Yes, Iraq’s “insurgency” won’t go away overnight, but it is certainly getting harder and harder for the “militants” – they’re either dead or...

If my life does not match up with what God's Word says about my life, the problem is not God's Word. The problem is me. For generations now the church has been systematically molding and shaping scripture to fit the experiences of man. We no longer look to God's Word as our absolute source of truth, but rather we look to our life experiences and put our faith in these, and then make God's Word fit these experiences. Let me give you an example. All through scripture we read of God as a healer of the physically infirmed. He is...

African Americans, Hispanics and Republicans All Believe: IN GOD America was founded on Biblical principles, and God is undeniable in our heritage. We believe in freedom of religion and of religious expression, yet recent votes in Congress have shown a dramatic difference between the two parties on this fundamental American freedom. For example: School Prayer This was a constitutional amendment recognizing the people’s right to pray, even on public property. [H.J. Res. 78] Republicans voting for: 87.6% Democrats voting for: 13.4% Ten Commandments This allows each State to decide whether or not to display the Ten Commandments in public buildings....

SACRAMENTO - A larger proportion of California voters now believe the country is headed in the wrong direction than at any time since President Bush took office, according to a new statewide poll released Wednesday. Driven by worries over terrorism, the war in Iraq and the economy, 58 percent of Californian believe the country is on the wrong track, according to a new Field Poll. That figure has gradually risen since December 2001 when 68 percent said the nation was headed in the right direction. Meanwhile, Bush continues to receive record low approval ratings in California with 54 percent saying...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Jews overwhelmingly want President George W. Bush (news - web sites) to beat his Democrat challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) in the US presidential election on November 2, according to an opinion poll. A total of 49 percent of people questioned said they preferred Bush, with just 18 percent wanting Kerry to win. Seven percent believed the two candidates were equally good for Israel, while two percent said they were equally bad for the Jewish state. The rest offered no opinion. At the same time, 42 percent of those questioned believed Israeli Prime Minister...

"Oh, sweet mother of Gaia!" former Vice President Al Gore exclaimed, upon discovering he had endorsed "maverick" candidate Howard Dean for president. "That wasn't what I meant to do at all," Gore, flanked by his wife, Tipper, told a hastily-called news conference. "I guess I was confused by the ballot," Gore contended. "I had a list of the nine dwar -- er, candidates running and I guess I just slipped up and marked the wrong one, darn it! "This is the kind of thing that could happen to anyone," Gore continued. "Particularly our seniors, now so hard-hit by President Bush's...

"Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)" 2 Corinthians 5:6-7 (KJV) When we're living in our physical bodies, we're absent from the Lord. We can talk to him and have a relationship with him, but we can't see him. We follow his commandments through faith and we keep pressing toward the goal to be with the Lord, through faith. We can't see him, but we know he's there. That's faith, we walk by faith and not by sight....

<p>WASHINGTON-U.S. government officials have all but concluded that Saddam Hussein is in control of his military and issuing orders as he moves in and around Baghdad through a series of underground catacombs that lead from one bunker to the next.</p>

Expect the unexpected - don't believe everything you hearSo far the third Gulf War since 1980 has contained several surprises. By Christopher Bellamy 23 March 2003 The first was that instead of a discrete, even prolonged, initial air campaign, the opening strike was an "opportunity target" – a meeting of five leadership figures including Saddam Hussein himself. The fog of war still clouds what happened. Saddam may have escaped by half an hour, may have been injured or may even have been killed. We still do not know. There were two good reasons for not having a heavy air campaign...

Greetings, Fellow Freepers… With all the ever-increasing assaults on America over the years coming from the Left, I was inspired to write down the things that I, as an American, believe in. I put a web page together listing these things As an American, I believe. I was hoping that members of Free Republic would add to what I have come up with. I will put your statements on the web page along with your screen name, and the date. I will also use your real name if you would prefer that. As an American, I believe… America is the...

Are we saved by Grace? By Darren Morrison If you ask someone how they got saved and they say “I am saved by grace though faith”, then most likely they are not saved. We are saved by grace but that is why we are saved and not how we are saved. Ephesians 2:4. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;). You see it is through GOD’s mercy and his love for us that...