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A number of conservatives are seething over the fact that Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), was the featured speaker at a fund-raising event for a group of homosexual Republicans last weekend. One pro-family leader called Norquist's appearance "an act of utter betrayal." Norquist was the main attraction at the "Grand Ol' Party," the largest fund-raising event of the year for the Dallas, Tex., chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, a homosexual advocacy group within the GOP. Carla Halbrook, a member of the national Log Cabin board and the organization's chapter in Dallas, told Cybercast News...

Tax reformer Norquist to headline Grand Ol’ Party Log Cabin Republicans largest fundraiser of the year expected to be ‘bigger and better’ than ever By David Webb, Staff Writer National tax reform leader Grover Norquist is scheduled to speak at Log Cabin Republicans of Dallas’ Grand Ol’ Party on Oct. 15. Carla Halbrook of Dallas, a national board member of the gay political group, said she is expecting the appearance by Norquist to make the event, the group’s ninth annual dinner and fundraiser, the best in its history. ...Halbrook said she heard Norquist speak once before at a national Log...

Walker discovers 5,000-year-old log path on moorFind to shed new light on Neolithic man Emma Dunlop FOR 5,000 years one of the world's oldest ever footpaths has remained a hidden secret, locked deep beneath the earth in South Yorkshire. That was until walker Mick Oliver quite literally stumbled across it while one day traipsing across Hatfield Moor, near Doncaster, shortly after it was re-opened to walkers in October last year. "I looked down and I could see a straight line. I thought, that's unusual, maybe it's a bog oak – a fossilised tree – so I'll go and have a...

For over two weeks now I have been unable to log into my Hotmail email account on my home computer (logging into the account on other peoples' computers is no problem). 1) a new window opens up 2) according to my Status Bar the Hotmail site is downloading 3) BUT -- the site NEVER downloads! :-( 4) very often I will click on my MSN Instant Messenger (when I log onto my computer) and TWO HOURS LATER my computer's Status Bar will be showing that it is STILL in the process of "downloading" the site! (The Status Bar will only...

Log Cabin Republicans Vote to Withhold Endorsement from President Bush National Board Announces Log Cabin Will Focus on Supporting Inclusive Republican Candidates for U.S. House and Senate (Washington, DC)—Log Cabin Republicans are withholding their endorsement from President Bush for 2004. "Log Cabin's National Board has voted to withhold a Presidential endorsement and shift our financial and political resources to defeating the radical right and supporting inclusive Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives," said Log Cabin Board Chairman William Brownson of Ohio. The Log Cabin Board of Directors voted 22 to 2 not to endorse the President's...

N.C. GOP bans gay party members from opening booth at convention 5-19-04 From Staff Reports Posted 2 p.m. RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina's Republican party has banned gay members from setting up a booth at this weekend's state GOP convention. "I am extremely disappointed that the leadership of the North Carolina Republican Party is attempting to so narrowly define who can be a Republican," Ed Farthing, a retired Hickory lawyer who requested the booth. "It appears to be you must be a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant and married for the Republican Party to pay any attention to you. I think that...

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