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A now 27-year-old bi-racial man who claims he is former President Bill Clinton’s son born out of an affair that Bill had with his mother has now allegedly come forward saying that he’d like to meet his “father” and “sister” Chelsea. -

A 21 year old girl whom I have not heard from for 18 years contacted me on the internet. It is a long story and I will try to make it short. I was in love with her mom and was there when she was born therefore she has or had my last name. When she was three her mom married the real father and I was left heartbroken, although it is nothing compared to what this poor little angel was forced to endure. We have exchanged a few emails and I know very little about her other then she...

That Barack Obama trounced John McCain last Tuesday should have surprised no one. In fact, in this column, weeks ago, I stated emphatically that John McCain could no more beat Barack Obama than Bob Dole could beat Bill Clinton. He didn't. (Hence a vote for John McCain was a "wasted" vote, was it not?) I also predicted that Obama would win with an electoral landslide. He did. The real story, however, is not how Barack Obama defeated John McCain. The real story is how John McCain defeated America's conservatives. For all intents and purposes, conservatism — as a national movement...

MEXICO CITY — Researchers said Thursday they have unearthed what may be one of the earliest calendar entries in Meso-America, a massive stone sculpture that suggests women held important status roles in pre-Hispanic culture. The monolithic design depicts two decapitated women. Markings on top of the figures appear to depict an entry from, or part of, a 13-month lunar calendar, said archaeologist Guillermo Ahuja, who led the excavation of the monument. "This would be the first depiction of a calendar or calendar elements in such an early time period," Ahuja said. • Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Archaeology Center. The...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Archeologists said Monday they found more than 1,000 silver coins in a Viking-age hoard discovered by chance on the Swedish island of Gotland. The treasure, believed to have been buried in the 10th century, also included several silver bracelets and weighed about 7 pounds, local curator Majvor Ostergren told Swedish news agency TT. Edvin Sandborg, 20, and his 17-year-old brother Arvid said they found the hoard last week when they were helping a neighbor with some yard work. Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Archaeology center. "By coincidence, I happened to find an Arabic silver coin that's about...

From jilted to jailed: Man snaps after wife leaves Henderson bank standoff ended peacefully By BRIAN HAYNES REVIEW-JOURNAL Doug Edward McDonald waited 44 years to find what he believed was true love. Her name was Svetlana, a 20-something Ukrainian he met through a mail-order bride service. The Henderson man loved her like no other woman, even when she left him just four months after their wedding, his lawyer said. McDonald believed her sudden disappearance had something to do with prostitution, and after months of calling authorities and waiting for answers, McDonald took matters into his own hands, attorney Philip Singer...

TomPaine.com asked noted economist James K. Galbraith to reflect on the falling dollar, the chiding from Beijing, and the response from Washington. We got what we asked for...and then some. Galbraith explains how we got here, assess the likelihood of different apocalyptic scenarios, and predicts Greenspan, the GOP and the Dems will all fumble. The reason? Salvation lies not in better macroeconomic management, but in generating a new industrial policy for America. With the euro touching US$1.33 and the pound so high I couldn't bear to look at the rate, my thoughts on a flight home from across the pond...

Last July, they dubbed it operation Summer Pulse: a simultaneous mustering of US Naval forces, world wide, that was unprecedented. According to the Navy, it was the first exercise of its new Fleet Response Plan (FRP), the purpose of which was to enable the Navy to respond quickly to an international crisis. The Navy wanted to show its increased force readiness, that is, its capacity to rapidly move combat power to any global hot spot. Never in the history of the US Navy had so many carrier battle groups been involved in a single operation. Even the US fleet massed...

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US concerned about missile monument October 26, 2004 Posted: 14:37 Moscow time (10:37 GMT) The US intelligence services are concerned. The American satellite tracking system located a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile in the Russian city of Kostroma, NTV reported. A 20-meter container weighing about 10 tons and having a diameter of more than 2 meters, arrived in the Kostroma missile division from the Sverdlovsk region, where the missile system was deployed. Yury Oshkin, Deputy Commander of the Kostroma missile unit, said the plastic container contained a missile in active service. US intelligence services expressed concern why the container arrived at...

Mexico Wants a North American EU “I would like to see a border similar to the one that Europe has right now … where they have common, very common objectives,” stated Mexican Foreign Ministry official Arturo Gonzalez Cruz in a recent Tijuana interview. Mexico’s “border Czar” pointed out that members of the European Union “have a common economy. They have policies that transcend their borders....” In a report describing Gonzalez’s remarks, the Washington Times noted: “Travel across national borders in the European Union is unregulated, and citizens of EU member nations traverse borders as freely and easily as Americans cross...

Beijing — At the north end of Beijing's Imperial Palace stands Coal Hill, a man-made summit built with the sweat and blood of countless labourers. Climb it and you can absorb a sight that for 500 years, only emperors and their retainers could see: the inner precincts of the Forbidden City. With its arching, tiled roofs of mustard yellow and its high vermillion walls, this is the secret heart of the most inward-looking empire the world has ever seen. For centuries, China shut itself off from the rest of humanity. Secure in its cultural superiority, disdainful of Western ideas and...

The Associated Press (AP) will be the sole source of raw vote totals for the major news broadcasters on Election Night. However, AP spokesmen Jack Stokes and John Jones refused to explain to this journalist how the AP will receive that information. They refused to confirm or deny that the AP will receive direct feed from voting machines and central vote tabulating computers across the country. But, circumstantial evidence suggests that is exactly what will happen. And what can be downloaded can also be uploaded. Computer experts say that signals can travel both to and from computerized voting machines through...

I can personally attest to many of the facts, and certainly many of the conversations quoted in the book, as I spent a week with Chaplain Lindsey on the North Slope of Alaska during the construction of the Trans-Alaska pipeline. I was privileged to talk with high officials of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. For reasons unknown to me, I was given access to private information that apparently very few outsiders were ever given. I moved among the men at work and in the baracks. My week on the North Slope was a liberal education. The motivation for this book is...

To make matters worse, the Department of Homeland Security is so hopelessly overstretched that it has taken to releasing what it calls OTMs (Other Than Mexicans) because it cannot house them until it arranges for deportation hearings. We have heard from border patrol agents that they're being told to let people who look like they're from East Africa and the Middle East go because they say their name is Juan Pablo Garcia from Guatemala -- except that they don't speak a word of Spanish," she said. This is a very sensitive time. People on both sides have reasons not to...

Department of Public Safety authorities have put school bus drivers from around the state on a heightened state of alert regarding the possibility of terrorist activity, including those in Payson, Pine and Tonto Basin. State authorities have asked all school bus drivers to be alert for any possible terrorist activity in the next six weeks. A Sept. 28 information bulletin from DPS Student Transportation Supervisor Vicki Barnett to PUSD Director of Support Operations Joe Martin, directed bus drivers to "pay particular attention to any unusual activity around school buses; to unusual vehicles; to vehicles repeatedly seen in the vicinity; and,...

The Real Restroom Story. Only a woman will TRULY relate to this ( boyfriends and husbands will better understand... ) ! My mother was a fanatic about public bathrooms. When I was a little girl, she'd take me into the stall, teach me to wad up toilet paper and wipe the seat. Then, she'd carefully lay strips of toilet paper to cover the seat. Finally, she'd instruct, "Never, NEVER sit on a public toilet seat. Then she'd demonstrate "The Stance," which consisted of balancing over the toilet in a sitting position without actually letting any of your flesh make contact...

I am shopping for a new truck. I own a 97 Ford 3/4 ton diesel. Its been a very good truck but I had to replace the transmission at 45,000 miles. I need at least a 3/4 ton. I am debating on going with the diesel again. If I get a regular truck I will probaly go with Chevrolet. If a diesel probaly Ford again. I was hoping for some input from freepers. I never do vanities so I hope everyone will excuse this one.

A scoop of innovation Vegas student wins national contest By Heather Rawlyk LAS VEGAS SUN WEEKEND EDITION May 22 - 23, 2004 When 13-year-old Bobby Roeder's grandfather assigned him the chore of picking rocks out of the backyard garden soil by hand, the sixth grader knew there had to be an easier way to get the job done. So when science teacher Fred Goerisch at Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas gave his class the choice to compete in either a science fair, cyber mission or the 8th Annual Craftsman / NSTA Young Inventors Competition, Roeder didn't have to...

Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Not on my watch Candidate says Yucca a non-starter if he's elected By JOHN KERRY SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL One of the biggest environmental and security challenges facing Nevadans is the threat that Yucca Mountain will be turned into the nation's nuclear waste dump. I voted against the plan to dispose of waste at Yucca Mountain -- and as president I will fight against it. Four years ago in a letter to Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn, then-candidate George W. Bush pledged he would approve a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain only if it was...