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Wichita police were at a house in southeast Wichita into the early morning hours Thursday in a raid that may be connected to the BTK serial killer. Lead detectives on the BTK investigation were among those seen by reporters leaving the house. Police officers were also seen wearing gloves and carrying out plastic bags from the home in the 1400 block of Mt. Vernon. KWCH Eyewitness News in Wichita has learned police were executing a search warrant in connection with the BTK case but police would not comment on activities at the home on Mt. Vernon. Wichita police booked a...

CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden, addressing the American public ahead of presidential elections, said in a video aired Friday that the United States can avoid another Sept. 11 attack if it stops threatening the security of Muslims. Reading a statement, the al-Qaida leader refrained from threats of new attacks and instead appealed to Americans. "Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands," bin Laden said, referring to the president and his Democratic opponent. "Each state that does not mess with our security, has naturally guaranteed its own security."...

MIDI - FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS (second column) Ain't it sweet...for DemocRATS, this is no special treat We plucked him from deep in his spider hole...he's under control It's Saddam in shackles He's in court...this day the lefties tried so hard to thwart We plucked him from deep in his spider hole...he's under control It's Saddam in shackles He must die...should he fry? Use a rope...many hope Would he enjoy meeting a guillotine? Should he be shot? Bullets we've got Oh, that would be a marvelous scene Liberals cry...brave soldiers went out and they got their guy We plucked...

In his article "A Class War" Victor Davis Hanson paints the picture that General William T. Sherman and his army were fighting a war of equality. He seems to think average "agrarian" men of the northern states, were so inspired they would lay down their tools, leave their families and join the Union army to invade the Southern States on a campaign of social equality. Hanson states Sherman's objective was "freeing the unfree and humiliating the arrogant." This is a nicely packaged version of history that reads well, though historically inaccurate.The Draft - Yankees RiotSupport for invading the South was...

<p>Shuneh, , May. 16 (UPI) -- Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for the Middle East William Burns said Sunday Washington recognizes Yasser Arafat as the elected leader of the Palestinians.</p> <p>Speaking to reporters during the World Economic Forum being held in Shuneh, Jordan, Burns said the U.S. administration also recognized the "status" that Arafat enjoyed in the Palestinian territories.</p>

The longstanding leftist orthodoxy of the Los Angeles Times has improved noticably under Editor-in-Chief John Carroll, a respected newsman who moved here from the Baltimore Sun four years ago. Carroll has made a real effort to rein in the paper's liberal bias, at least in straight news stories; earlier this year he wrote a famous (in media circles) in-house memo scolding a reporter for a story about a Texas abortion law; the piece had implied anyone against abortion is obviously nuts. I should note though, that this improvement at the Times was underway even before Carroll's arrival, with the departure...

It was a murder spree that shocked Luzerne County and the nation. On Tuesday the case of George Banks goes before the U.S. Supreme Court. Banks killed 13 people 20 years ago. Now the country's highest court will decide if he will be put to death. In 2001, a federal appeals court overturned the Luzerne County jury's decision that Banks be put to death for his killing spree. It decided Banks should not be put to death. District Attorney David Lupas wasn't even a lawyer when Banks was convicted. Now he is the prosecutor dealing with the case. On Tuesday...

<p>MAO ZEDONG, alone among 20th-century dictators, enjoys a largely benign life after death. Taxi drivers in China hang a Mao photo on the steering wheel to ward off accidents. Department stores use a pink plastic model of Mao to display silk pajamas. Farmers clutch a Mao image as they fend off flood waters.</p>

The graduate student arrested in yesterday’s hostage stand-off at a Cleveland university, after killing one student and injuring two other people, Halder was a very active and outspoken member of the loony left anti-war crowd. Charles Johnson, on his weblog, is on top of this story with the linked posting and more.

Saddam Hussein is going to soon be gone. Of that there is little doubt. What will happen to him? He will either be dead or sneak away in a disguise and a White Ford Bronco like another murderer. We may kill him with a MOAB, in which case nothing may be left, or his own citizens might feed him to dogs or put him through an industrial shredder (two of Saddam's favorite ways to kill his perceived enemies.) Do we have the ability to definitively determine whether he has been killed? Is there DNA that can be compared to a...

London (CNSNews.com) - The British rumor mill is swirling with suggestions that the last U.S. president may become the next chancellor of the one of the world's most prestigious universities. Opinions are mixed, however, on whether Bill Clinton would make a suitable ceremonial leader for Oxford University. Speculation began after Oxford's last chancellor, influential British politician Roy Jenkins, died earlier this month. Clinton's name was mentioned as a possible candidate for the post in a story two days later in The Times newspaper, which quoted one Oxford don as saying the idea would be "tremendously good fun." Although Clinton attended...

SATURDAY JANUARY 11, 2003 MASS MARCH AND RALLY IN DOWNTOWN LA TO STOP THE WAR ON IRAQ! ASSEMBLE - 11AM AT OLYMPIC AND BROADWAY MARCH TO DOWNTOWN FEDERAL BUILDING Speakers include: * Martin Sheen * Ron Kovic * Ed Asner * Jerry Quickley Co-sponsored by Coalition for World Peace(CFWP), Act Now to Stop War and End Racism( ANSWER), Not in Our Name(NION), Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP) mail to: info@CoalitionForWorldPeace.org