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Daughters teen site. She's trying to teach liberal kids to think, but there's a lot of them. They're all using the left's talking points. She's attempting to fight them off on her own. Could use a friendly "FReeping" to come to her aid. She's asking FReepers to say "Help is on the way." LOL. She's 15.The topics are abortion and the death penality.

WASHINGTON -- Polls may show the presidential race in a dead heat, but for a small band of academics who use scientific formulas to predict elections President Bush is on his way to a sizable win. That's the conclusion of a handful of political scientists who, with mixed results, have honed the art of election forecasting by devising elaborate mathematical formulas based on key measures of the nation's economic health and the public's political views.

Four days after presiding over a slew of same sex marriages in his quaint Hudson Valley village, the mayor of New Paltz today was charged with 19 violations of New York's domestic relations law, injecting the debate over gay marriages in the state with increasing drama and urgency.

Bin Laden 'surrounded' February 22, 2004 -- A BRITISH Sunday newspaper is claiming Osama bin Laden has been found and is surrounded by US special forces in an area of land bordering north-west Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Sunday Express, known for its sometimes colourful scoops, claims the al-Qaeda leader has been "sighted" for the first time since 2001 and is being monitored by satellite. The paper claims he is in a mountainous area to the north of the Pakistani city of Quetta. The region is said to be peopled with bin Laden supporters and the terrorist leader is estimated to...

<p>DENVER - Colorado will soon become the first state with public school vouchers since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling declared such programs constitutional.</p> <p>Republican Gov. Bill Owens is expected to sign a bill into law this month that will allow public schools to pay private or religious schools to educate low-income children. Other states, including Texas and Louisiana, are considering similar plans.</p>

Chemical arms use 'authorised' IRAQI commanders have been authorised to use chemical weapons against Shiite Muslims in the south of the country and blame the attacks on US forces, a senior American official has claimed. The State Department official said reports led Washington to believe Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had given such authority to one of his top generals, Ali Hassan al-Majid, who is also known as Chemical Ali. He was blamed for the poison gas attack 15 years ago in the Kurdish town of Halabja. "We have reports that would indicate the Iraqis intend to or could use chemical...

Warlord's son, fighters killed by US forces Islamabad _ Rebel Afghan warlord Pacha Khan Zadran lost a son and nine fighters in a clash with United States forces in eastern Afghanistan, a news report said yesterday. American forces used heavy artillery and helicopter gunships in the four-hour fight on Sunday in Sata Kandow area south of Gardez city on the highway to Khost, the Afghan Islamic Press agency reported. Spokesman Ghami Khan said 10 Zadran fighters, including his son Jilani Khan, were killed and 10 others were wounded. Mr Zadran revolted against the US-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai last year....

Iraqi arsenal of banned weapons discovered British troops outside Basra have discovered cruise missiles and warheads hidden inside fortified bunkers as part of a massive arsenal abandoned by Saddam Hussein's disintegrating southern army. Cases of rockets, giant anti-shipping mines and other ammunition are piled from floor to ceiling in dozens of bunkers at what is marked on maps as the Az Zubaya Heliport. The most disturbing find was two Russian-made Al-Harith anti-shipping cruise missiles, each 6m long and 1m in diameter, and nine warheads, hidden in two enormous reinforced concrete bunkers. Another missile, as yet unidentified, was found still crated...

. UN - Secretary-General Clinton? Once again the future of Bill Clinton has become a hot topic that rivals — or perhaps supplements — "Plan Hillary," which now is being massaged by New York's junior senator. Keeping his plans as secret as the flight plan of a stealth bomber, Bill has been scheming to prepare his next leap into the spotlight. Quite often when a bad situation is allowed to continue in the hope that it will go away, it just gets worse; and what he now is planning is beyond worse — it is outrageous. With war in Iraq,...

Oil Depot Hit by Rocket in SW Iran-Sources TEHRAN (Reuters) - An oil refinery depot in southwestern Iran close to the border with Iraq (news - web sites) was hit by a rocket on Friday, and two people were injured, Iranian government sources told Reuters. They said it was not clear where the rocket, which hit the depot in the city of Abadan at around 7:45 p.m., had come from. Abadan is about 30 miles east of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, and on the opposite side of the Shatt al-Arab estuary from Iraq's Faw peninsula. The Faw peninsular...

U.S. Could Come Under Scrutiny of the U.N. Rights Commission ENEVA, March 17 — The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, with Libya's ambassador as its chairman, is about to begin an unusual annual session that is likely to focus on the United States record and recent actions. Commission participants said they might hold a "special sitting" to discuss accusations that the United States is violating rights in its handling of people accused of terrorism and in its counterterrorism measures. They also said that during the six-week session the commission could look at any action the United States took in...

France hints at softening Iraq stance In an apparent softening of France's position on Iraq, the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, said tonight that Paris wanted to achieve a consensus in the UN security council. "Everything should be done to preserve the unity of the council, and that is what we are working toward. France confirms its openness to seize all opportunities," Mr De Villepin told reporters in Paris. It was the first slight hint that France may be prepared to come to an agreement on a new resolution, which is being pushed for by Britain, the US and...

UN could be sidelined: PMPRIME Minister John Howard has warned United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan that his organisation could be sidelined if its Security Council did not force Iraq to disarm. Mr Howard held separate talks with Mr Annan and chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix during an 18-hour stopover in New York before heading to the UK to meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Mr Howard flies to London as tanks and hundred of troops were placed on standby at Heathrow airport for a terrorist threat believed to be a possible al-Qaeda rocket attack on a plane. The...

"This petition is based on a pending Rutherford Institute legal case in the state of New Jersey. It's a dark day in the life of our nation when an American can't ask God's blessing on this country. It's even more tragic when a war veteran who has put his life on the line to protect our American freedoms and way of life is punished simply for asking God's blessing on the United States of America."

Has anti-war movement been hijacked? Terror alliances, radical politics revealed at forefront While publicly promoting non-violent protest and humanitarian causes, some key leaders and prominent groups that organized and participated in the recent anti-war demonstrations at the U.S. Capitol and San Francisco are staunch supporters of terrorist groups and dictatorial regimes worldwide. In fact, critics now charge that the "new" anti-war movement is being "hijacked" by this dominant network whose organizational power is increasing and whose political agenda is anathema to most Americans. The Saturday, Oct. 26 rally, which focused on opposition to a U.S.-led war against Iraq and drew...

Saddam Hails Worldwide Anti-War Demonstrations BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Saddam Hussein hailed worldwide anti-war demonstrations on Saturday and said the protests showed that Iraq had international support for standing up to the United States. Saddam ordered his top officers to look after their soldiers to gain their confidence and make sure they were well-fed and kept warm as they prepared to sacrifice their blood to defend Iraq. Tens of thousands of people took part in protests across the globe on Saturday to demand that Washington abandon likely plans to invade Iraq over alleged weapons of mass destruction. "They are supporting...

Bin Laden Sends Greetings to D.C. Protesters? A representative from a Muslim advocacy group offered greetings to tens of thousands of anti-war protesters gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday in the name of the "Mujahadeen," a term that has come to be closely associated with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network. Dr. Ghazi Khaksan, of the Council on American Islamic Relations, took to the podium near the end of the rally to read a poem packed with criticism of the Bush administration. "Tell Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Tony Blair to stop colonizing Middle East oil through blood and warfare,"...

Ramsey Clark to Protesters: 'Let's Impeach Bush' Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark told a crowd of cheering anti-American demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest the impending war in Iraq on Saturday that he was launching a campaign to impeach President Bush. "(The Constitution) provides a means of preventing what President George Bush wants to do - it's called impeachment," Clark proclaimed, before outlining his bill of particulars against the White House. The Democrat attorney general under President Johnson charged that Bush had engaged in "usurping the power of the Constitution and the people, being above the law, treating...

Murray pushed for aid to Taliban before 9-11 Senator urged Bush administration to send $30 million to bin Laden hosts WASHINGTON – Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, who told schoolchildren Osama bin Laden was beloved by his people because of his compassionate social spending programs, was one of 13 U.S. senators to urge the Bush administration to send $30 million in taxpayer aid to his Taliban hosts in Afghanistan just five months before Sept. 11. On May 2, 2001, 13 senators released to the press a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell calling on the administration to provide $30...

Sen. Byrd, Confederate General It's a good thing Trent Lott didn't take this role: America's most famous former Klansman, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd, eagerly awaits his big-screen debut as a Confederate leader. "My role is small, admittedly, and probably won't earn me an Academy Award," West Virginia's "Senator Pork" told the Charleston Daily Mail. "But it was exciting to participate in a project that is helping to promote our nation's history." Plantation Owner: Is This Typecasting? In the Civil War movie "Gods and Generals," Byrd has a cameo as Confederate Gen. Paul J. Semmes, a Georgia plantation owner and banker....