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Politics Today! TONIGHT! September 24, 2003 8:00PM EDST, 5:00PM PDST The Shrew Interviews Paul Sperry - Washington Bureau Chief of World Net Daily and Author of "Crude Politics".   Click the ON AIR sign or here at broadcast time to start listening live!Click here for the broadband feed (when and where available)Click here for the Radio Freerepublic Chat RoomRadio FreeRepublic shows archives are available here! To be notified of upcoming shows and announcements, join the Radio FreeRepublic mailing list!To Subscribe to this list send a blank email to: RadioFreeRepublic-Subscribe@radioactive.kicks-ass.net To Unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to:...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In an important test of the reach of tribal sovereignty, California's political watchdog agency is suing one of the state's wealthiest and most influential Indian tribes, accusing it of violating campaign finance reporting laws. The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, which operates two casinos in and around Palm Springs, argues those laws do not apply to it because it is a sovereign entity. The Fair Political Practices Commission says California has the right to ensure the integrity of its election system. The case will apparently be the nation's first test of whether Indian tribes are...

I guess I'm not too surprised. Ohio's law prohibits carrying a concealed handgun, but allows you to raise an affirmative defense at trial that you needed to do so for self-protection. In practice, it was only a few years ago that this affirmative defense was finally successfully used at trial. Even law enforcement officials who testified during the initial trial in Hamilton County couldn't agree on what was a lawful reason to carry concealed. Part of the opinion makes sense. They acknowledge that the right to bear arms under the Ohio Constitution is fundamental. But they also argue that fundamental...

Judge Robert Bork's new book examines how judicial tyranny came to be such a threat not only to the American way of life -- but to all of Western civilization.There is more to judicial tyranny than a federal judge ordering a Ten Commandments monument out of the rotunda of the Alabama courts building. There is a worldwide systematic power-grab going on — and you probably aren't even aware of it. Liberals, who are unable to win a vast worldwide culture war in a democratic form, are increasingly turning to the courts to wage their battle. Unfortunately, judges steeped in a...

The Ohio Supreme Court’s split-decision to overturn rulings from two lower courts, which unanimously agreed that Ohio’s ban on carrying a concealed firearm is unconstitutional, highlights the necessity for legislative action. OFCC, Ohio’s largest grassroots organization focused solely on restoring Ohioans’ right to bear arms for self-defense joined the lawsuit on behalf of its statewide membership. The law in question subjects law-abiding citizens carrying a firearm for self-defense to arrest, prosecution and the burden of proving their innocence in court, rather than the burden being placed on the State. As Justice O'Connor pointed out in her dissent, current law "is...

The Human Rights Problem at Guantanamo Bay For once I agree with Amnesty International and the rest of that sorry lot: there is a human rights problem at the prison camp established for terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The problem is as such: the terrorists there have human rights: they shouldn’t. By many accounts the Gitmo prison camp has become something of a Club Med for terrorists, who are given good food, prayer mats, and other luxury items. According to some recently-released prisoners the guards are even buying the prisoners things with their own money and several of them...

UCSON, Sept. 24 — Ninety immigrants and supporters left their buses and marched outside the Roman Catholic cathedral here today, carrying foot-high crosses to commemorate people from south of the border who died in the desert as they sought a better life in the United States.At St. Augustine Cathedral, the immigrants were greeted by more than 400 parishioners, students and others who marched alongside them and joined in singing, "We Shall Overcome." Outside the cathedral a woman carried a large sign that said "How Many Must Die: Arizona Deaths This Year 146. Change Our Border Policy." The ceremony was part...

<p>SAN`A, Yemen — Police have arrested one of 10 suspected Al Qaeda (search) militants who escaped from imprisonment in Yemen for the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole (search), an officer said Thursday.</p> <p>The officer said the fugitive was taken into custody Tuesday in Aden (search), the port city where he had been detained in connection with the 2000 suicide bombing of the warship, which killed 17 U.S. sailors.</p>

Press Release Source: Citizens for a Safer Minnesota Education Fund Comment on Cold Spring School Shooting Thursday September 25, 3:03 pm ET ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a comment by Rebecca Thoman, M.D., Executive Director of Citizens for a Safer Minnesota Education Fund: Our condolences go to the families involved in yesterday's terrible tragedy at Rocori High School. The entire Cold Spring community will, no doubt, feel the devastating affects for some time. Details about the incident and its causes are still surfacing, so little can be said about the specifics of the case. But...

Environmental activists and conservation groups are confronting a variety of state-level attempts to criminalize dissent aimed at corporate and commercial targets. In Pennsylvania, Republican state senator Joe Scarnati has introduced SB589, which defines a new crime: 'environmental harassment' or 'communicating' a threat to commit or cause a violent crime dangerous to human life, property, or business practice. If passed, the bill would create a new misdemeanor and fines for actions leading to 'loss of business.' Protest signs or slogans could be included under this rubric of threatening communication. Activists convicted under the law might also have to pay restitution for...

How much have Sen. John Edwards' presidential ambitions affected his current job? Here's one yardstick: This month, he has made more trips to early nominating states than to the Senate floor. Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat, has missed 38 of the 42 roll-call votes since the U.S. Senate returned from its August recess, Winston-Salem Journal reported Thursday. His record is hardly unusual for a presidential candidate. In fact, it is better than the three other Senate Democrats in the race. But Republican critics have seized upon his absences to argue that Edwards -- who announced this month that he won't...

Who tattled on New York Times reporter John F. Burns to the Iraqi ministry of information? If the interview New York Times reporter John F. Burns gave to the editors of Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq is completely on the level—and I have no reason to think it isn't—the Times is sitting on a daisy-cutter of a scoop about perfidy and malfeasance by a member of the Baghdad press corps. And it's not just the Times holding back. Few in the mainstream press seem interested in identifying the reporter Burns says ratted him out to the Iraqi ministry...

<p>WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service is exploring ways to share names, addresses, birth dates, employee records, and other taxpayer information with law-enforcement agencies, particularly the Immigration and Naturalization Service, according to legislative aides and senior tax attorneys.</p> <p>Aides said any such move, though taken in the name of national security, could violate the spirit if not the letter of US nondisclosure laws. These privacy rules were first established in the mid-1970s as part of an overhaul of the tax code after the Nixon White House used IRS records to intimidate its enemies.</p>

FROM: Alan Sears, President Over the past several months, the Alliance Defense Fund has been dealing with increasing threats to religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and traditional values here in our home state of Arizona. These cases have dramatically increased our profile here in the Grand Canyon state. I would like to take this opportunity to brief you on our involvement in each of these cases: • ADF has assisted with a lawsuit filed by six Arizona state representatives against Governor Janet Napolitano for violating the Arizona Constitution when she added, via executive order, sexual orientation to the...

<p>This precious baby is living proof that Peter Paul - former partner to Spider-Man creator Stan Lee - has.</p> <p>Paul spent the past two years in custody in Brazil fighting extradition on charges connected to a $25 million stock-manipulation scheme - but that didn't stop his wife from conceiving his fourth child during a conjugal visit, sources close to the case told The Post.</p>

The nomination of pro-life judge Charles Pickering to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is back on the agenda of the Senate Judiciary Committee.Although the panel is slated to take up the nomination tomorrow, the vote will likley be postponed for at least a week. Democrats on the committee object to Chairman Orrin Hatch's (R-UT) scheduling of only one hearing and their objections will result a week's delay.A federal district judge in Mississippi, Pickering was the first of President Bush's judicial nominations to be thwarted by pro-abortion Senate Democrats because of his pro-life stance.In March 2002, Democrats controlled the...

<p>PINE VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Motorists have become afraid to drive at night along a stretch of freeway outside San Diego, scared that a vehicle going the wrong way will come hurtling out of the darkness.</p> <p>The wrong-way drivers are immigrant smugglers trying to skirt a Border Patrol checkpoint in the pine-covered mountains east of the city.</p>

The accused allegedly mailed documents to his home base. Inside the box, agents with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations found 60 pages of documents, including some classified as "Secret," as well as another document typed in Arabic, according to search warrant information obtained by The Bee after the Pentagon revealed al-Halabi had been charged with espionage. ... In addition, he is accused of illegally possessing secret documents on military movements in and out of Guantánamo and classified information on cellblocks housing alleged terrorists. Al-Halabi also is charged with lying to U.S. officials about his citizenship, allegedly claiming he...

David Limbaugh's new book, "Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity," will make you cry for your country. (But don't pray for your country if you're anywhere near a public school!) Released this week, Limbaugh's copiously researched book documents how the courts, the universities, the media, Hollywood and government institutions react to any mention of Christianity like Superman recoiling from kryptonite, Dracula from sunlight, or Madonna from soap and water. His straight, factual narrative of what is happening in our public schools makes you wonder how much longer America can survive liberalism. In a public school in St. Louis,...

Oral argument in my Vincent Foster Freedom of Information Act lawsuit is set to be orally argued before the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 10:00 a.m. Details about the case are in the Foster section of my web site. Regards, Allan J. Favishhttp://www.allanfavish.com