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It is this reporter's opinion that each generation in turn takes a new look at the marijuana question. Now it's this generation's turn. In a 6-to-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal anti-marijuana statutes overrule the laws in ten states that allow the use of marijuana plants to ease pain or nausea. Fifty years ago, as a much younger television reporter, I did a series of interviews with Dr. Hardin B. Jones, Professor of Medical Physics and Physiology at the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Jones, in his thorough study, raised disturbing questions about marijuana's effects on the...

I often use Google's image search to find photos for various reasons. Lately, I have also taken to using AllTheWeb's image search function. I have noticed something rather unusual. It used to be quite easy to find unflattering images of Hillary Clinton on Google's image search, but lately, they seem to have all disappeared! Funny, there are still plenty of them on www.alltheweb.com. This is rather curious, especially since it is widely known that the people who run Google tend to lean left. Now, on the other hand, if you want to find a nasty photo of Ann Coulter, you...

Mama Rangel and the Mailman March 3, 2005 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Charlie Rangel is back. Here he's accusing the president of pitting young against old, and black against white. RANGEL: The president has attempted to polarize sometimes the young against the old [sic] by saying they're getting a bad deal, or the black males against the white males saying that we have a disparity. RUSH: All right, stop the tape. Look, the fact of the matter is, folks, that the simple answer to this is, it is the Democrats who specifically divide groups against each other. It's in their playbook....

TEHRAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran, in a renewed challenge to U.S. and European efforts to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear bomb, vowed on Wednesday it would never give up its nuclear program. President Mohammad Khatami (news - web sites) also warned of "massive" consequences if it was treated unfairly over its nuclear program which Iran says is for peaceful purposes only and Washington believes is a cover for producing a bomb. "We give our guarantee that we will not produce nuclear weapons because we're against them and do not believe they are a source of power," Khatami told foreign ambassadors...

Newt Gingrich is back. Is failure never permanent? The former House speaker resigned from Congress in 1998 after the GOP lost five House seats in midterm elections, a crushing rarity for any party that is not in control of the presidency. As it turned out, he was also having a long, secret extramarital affair with a much younger aide even as he voted to impeach President Clinton. And some fishy political funding of his lecture series had cost him a $300,000 ethics violation fine in 1997.

HILLARY AWARENESS DAY - Friday Jan 14th 2005 - HR is pleased to announce that a formal on line web-conference will be held on the above date. There will be many topics presented, hand out material and formal discussions. Registration for the event is free and those wishing to attend must be pre-registered to post and participate. Information on the link.

Sen. Hillary Clinton hinted on Sunday that she's prepared to relocate out of New York state if necessary, while dismissing suggestions that she may be planning a move to Washington as "speculation." "New York is my home right now," Clinton told celebrity interviewer Daphne Barak (emphasis added). "I love the weekends in my New York house: just spending time at home, strolling in the neighborhood, talking to the people around, relaxing." On a possible White House run, Clinton said: "For now I am concentrating on being a good senator. I am also focusing on getting re-elected. Anything else is speculation."...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Click on the link above. Answer the questions. Get your number. (One HUGE surprise to me - stopping Sosha Security payments to the 'rich'.) http://www.presidentmatch.com/Main.jsp2?cp=main

I just e-mailed Hannity to point out, someone should should tell the young people that if Kerry wins, the draft will be reinstated for sure. The majority in the military today will not re-enlist and who would want to volunteer when your Kerry is the Kommander in Chief. JMHO

Ancient Promise v. Current Conditions Almighty God promised the Jewish people the State of Israel. There are no ifs, ands, or buts, nor any other exceptions. God promised Israel to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses, and to all future generations of Jews. The State of Israel belongs to the Jews... NOT to the Arabs... NOT to the so called Palestinians (Rome gave that area its name)... and NOT to anyone else. God said so again and again and again in Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus. Now here's the Question: When did God take that promise back? Answer: Never !!! If we...

Fallen Embers* * Originally written by Joshua Sharp, age 17, on September 9, 2004 * * * * Feedback welcomed at: placidrage.at.myfastmail.com * * * * Please do not distribute this speech without attaching this message. * * Three years after we watched the tallest New York City skyscrapers tumble, it seems that the images have been lost in our head. Most of us cannot even imagine a 1300-foot tall skyscraper, let alone imagine dozens of office workers jumping out of their windows for an agonizing five, six, seven seconds of falling to their death. We forget the pictures of...

Democrats Sue To Keep Nader Off Florida Ballot Dems Say Candidate Never Nominated By His Party POSTED: 6:37 pm EDT September 2, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida Democratic party is suing the state and Ralph Nader to keep him off the November ballot, saying that the Reform Party's nomination process was a sham. The suit says the Reform Party is not a viable political party and that Nader was never nominated at a convention, which is required by state law to get on the ballot. Democrats and Republicans agree that Ralph Nader’s presence on the 2000 ballot cost Al...

<p>I don't know how many of you read this story in "The Post", or heard about on the local news, but The Straphangers Campaign has just released its annual "State of the Subways" report.</p> <p>According to this article, the report "ranks each line based on what a $2 ride is really worth...based on Transit Authority data from the last six months of 2003."</p>

<p>In a letter published recently in the Register, Keith Peters joins the chorus of Bush-bashers by accusing President George W. Bush of using scare tactics and of exploiting the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ("9/11 tragedy exploited for political profit," March 7). That's but two of the Democrats' 9,000-plus Bush bashing points (BBPs). Let's examine a few.</p>

IowaPresidentialWatch.com, Mar. 15, 2004: The attack on 3-11 in Madrid, Spain, joins it to America’s 9-11... and America mourns with Spain.

Explorer Madog 'never existed' Feb 27 2004 Darren Devine, The Western Mail A CONTROVERSIAL new book has rubbished claims that a Welsh explorer Prince Madog discovered America hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus. The story of the prince fleeing to America in about 1170 after his father King Owain's death unleashed a battle for the succession has held sway over popular imagination in Wales for centuries. But Did Prince Madog discover America? claims the explorer did not even exist and attempts to credit him with finding America were simply made to deny Spain's claim to the country. Author Michael Senior,...

A million adults 'never eat veg' By Celia Hall, Medical Editor (Filed: 15/01/2004) Nearly a million adults never eat any fruit or green vegetables and more than 3.5 million eat them only once or twice a month, according to a survey published today. Despite government campaigns to encourage people to eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, a small percentage of the adult population resolutely refuses to do so. The poll among 1,000 adults for the charity, Cholesterol UK, found that while 90 per cent said they always or generally ate a healthy diet, 2.5 million...

I was never afraid says Lawal The Nigerian mother who was spared death by stoning says she has renewed faith in Islam. Amina Lawal, 32, won clemency from an Islamic appeals court from her death sentence for bearing a child conceived out of wedlock. She said: "The trial did not affect my faith in Islam, because I know that Shariah makes room for fair trial. It is a fair procedure, and so I was never afraid throughout my trial." Lawal, a devout Muslim, would have been the first person stoned to death since more than a dozen heavily Islamic states...