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  • New Orleans to be emptied for next storm: officials

    03/28/2006 8:10:05 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 36 replies · 715+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 3/28/06 | Ned Randolph
    BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Everyone in New Orleans must evacuate the low-lying city the next time a hurricane threatens and no shelters will be offered for those who stay, officials said on Tuesday. Hoping to avoid a repeat of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when thousands struggled to survive after ignoring evacuation orders, they said planes, trains and buses would be used to move people out and the Superdome football stadium would not be open for refuge. "Today the population stands around 200,000 to 225,000 people in New Orleans," said Orleans Parish Homeland Security Advisor Terry Ebbert. "Our goal...
  • AP FRIDAY NIGHT CLARIFICATION ON BUSH/KATRINA VIDEO ('OVERTOPPED' NOT 'BREACHED')

    03/03/2006 4:51:36 PM PST · by new yorker 77 · 168 replies · 9,651+ views
    Clarification: Katrina-Video story ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a March 1 story, The Associated Press reported that federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans, citing confidential video footage of an Aug. 28 briefing among U.S. officials. The Army Corps of Engineers considers a breach a hole developing in a levee rather than an overrun. The story should have made clear that Bush was warned about floodwaters overrunning the levees, rather than the levees breaking. The day before the storm hit, Bush was...
  • Security Council to Review Iran Nuke Case

    01/30/2006 6:58:23 PM PST · by ARealMothersSonForever · 21 replies · 564+ views
    AP via Yahooo ^ | January 30, 2006 | ANNE GEARAN
    LONDON - The United States and other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council agreed Tuesday that Iran should be hauled before that powerful body over its disputed nuclear program. China and Russia, longtime allies and trading partners of Iran, signed on to a statement that calls on the U.N. nuclear watchdog to transfer the Iran dossier to the Security Council, which could impose sanctions or take other harsh action. Foreign ministers from those nations, plus the United States, Britain and France, also said the Security Council should wait until March to take up the Iran case, after a formal...
  • Lions Reportedly Fire Mariucci

    DETROIT (AP) -- The disappointing Detroit Lions fired coach Steve Mariucci and some of his assistants on Monday, a team official told The Associated Press.
  • Bush plans anti-illegals campaign

    11/27/2005 10:27:55 PM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 188 replies · 2,950+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | November 28, 2005 | Bill Sammon
    President Bush today will call for a crackdown on illegal immigration, a move aimed at further rallying conservatives who recently cheered Mr. Bush's tough talk on Iraq and the Supreme Court. But the president will also renew his call for a program to allow Mexicans who have already entered the U.S. illegally to remain here for up to six years. That initiative has long angered conservatives who equate it with amnesty.
  • Emergency declared in Louisiana

    09/20/2005 4:12:29 PM PDT · by Aussie Dasher · 84 replies · 3,500+ views
    Herald Sun ^ | 21 September 2005
    GOVERNOR Kathleen Blanco declared a state of emergency in western Louisiana today and urged people to evacuate parts of the state due to the new threat of Hurricane Rita. "I have put the state on alert. We've declared another emergency ... for southwest Louisiana," Ms Blanco said. "We're urging people to evacuate," she said as Rita barrelled near southernmost Florida, gaining strength and heading west on a track that could take it close to the devastated Louisiana city. Emergency services have already begun evacuating residents of New Orleans, which is still a disaster area following Hurricane Katrina's August 29 hit,...
  • POPE APPROVES BARRING GAY SEMINARIANS

    09/19/2005 3:35:59 PM PDT · by NYer · 107 replies · 2,481+ views
    EWTN ^ | September 19, 2005
    Vatican, Sep. 19 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI has given his approval to a new Vatican policy document indicating that men with homosexual tendencies should not be ordained as Catholic priests. The new document-- which was prepared by the Congregation for Catholic Education, in response to a request made by the late Pope John Paul II in 1994-- will be published soon. It will take the form of an "Instruction," signed by the prefect and secretary of the Congregation: Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski and Archbishop Michael Miller. The text, which was approved by Pope Benedict at the end of August, says...
  • Bush hits U.N. corruption

    09/15/2005 7:26:09 PM PDT · by Aussie Dasher · 4 replies · 568+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 16 September 2005 | Bill Sammon
    NEW YORK -- President Bush yesterday implored the United Nations to rid itself of corruption and scolded the global body for squandering the world's respect and making a mockery of human rights. "When this great institution's member states choose notorious abusers of human rights to sit on the U.N. Human Rights Commission, they discredit a noble effort and undermine the credibility of the whole organization," Mr. Bush told the U.N. General Assembly. In past years, Libya and Sudan have served on the commission. "If member countries want the United Nations to be respected and effective, they should begin by making...
  • Ray Nagin: Flooded School Buses Not My Fault

    09/11/2005 2:54:36 AM PDT · by InvisibleChurch · 126 replies · 4,097+ views
    newsmax.com ^ | Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005 12:39 a.m. EDT
    Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005 12:39 a.m. EDT Ray Nagin: Flooded School Buses Not My Fault New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Friday that it wasn't his fault city school buses weren't mobilized to facilitate the Hurricane Katrina evacuation he ordered. Appearing on NBC's "Dateline," Nagin was asked by host Stone Phillips: "What was mobilized? I mean were national guard troops in position. Were helicopters standing by? Were buses ready to take people away?" "No. None of that," the Big Easy mayor replied. "Why is that?" an incredulous Phillips asked. Nagin replied: "I dont know. That is question for somebody else."...
  • FEDS VOW TO GET TOUGH ON ILLEGALS

    08/23/2005 2:59:52 PM PDT · by QQQQQ · 205 replies · 3,676+ views
    Drudge Report ^ | Aug. 23, 2005 | Durdge
    FEDS VOW TO GET TOUGH ON ILLEGALS Tue Aug 23 2005 17:15:30 ET Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, acknowledging public frustration over illegal immigration, said Tuesday that the federal government's detention and deportation system must be fundamentally restructured. "We have decided to stand back and take a look at how we address the problem and solve it once and for all," Chertoff said during a breakfast meeting with reporters. The NEW YORK TIMES is planning a front page placement for the Chertoff comments on Wednesday, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. The unusually blunt assessment by the nation's top immigration...
  • Boston Priest Defrocked by Vatican

    07/30/2005 12:48:51 PM PDT · by NYer · 45 replies · 1,135+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | July 29, 2005
    The Vatican has defrocked the priest who was the first in Massachusetts convicted of sexual abuse more than two decades ago, the Boston Archdiocese said Friday.In 1984, Eugene O'Sullivan was sentenced to probation after he admitted sodomizing a 13-year-old altar boy. A condition of his sentence was that he not be allowed to work with children.But O'Sullivan was later assigned to four New Jersey parishes. He was recalled to Boston in 1992 after church officials learned of another allegation against him dating to his time in Massachusetts.The Vatican's action to defrock O'Sullivan means he may no longer function as a...
  • Officials say OK to border fence

    07/27/2005 12:51:58 PM PDT · by SC33 · 47 replies · 1,006+ views
    The Yuma Sun ^ | July 20, 2005 | JONATHAN ATHENS
    Officials say OK to border fence BY JONATHAN ATHENS, STAFF WRITER Published on: July 20, 2005 Federal authorities on Tuesday said the largest vehicle barrier project in the nation, concrete-reinforced steel beams stretching 123 miles along the Arizona-Mexico border, will move forward. The purpose, they say, is to stop commercial alien smugglers, drug traffickers and illegal immigrants from driving vehicles across the Mexico border into the U.S. east of San Luis, Ariz. to the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument south of Ajo. Yuma sector U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Joe Brigman said: "Not only will it enhance our ability to gain...
  • Muslim Scholars Condemn London Attack, but Not All Suicide Bombings

    07/15/2005 3:08:06 PM PDT · by TheOtherOne · 39 replies · 694+ views
    AP ^ | AP-ES-07-15-05 1725EDT
    Muslim Scholars Condemn London Attack, but Not All Suicide BombingsBy Thomas Wagner Associated Press Writer Published: Jul 15, 2005 LONDON (AP) - Muslim leaders and scholars met at London's largest mosque Friday to condemn the terrorist attacks in the British capital, saying the perpetrators had violated the Quran by killing innocent civilians and that no one should consider them martyrs. But the 22 imams and scholars stopped short of condemning all suicide bombings, saying that those that target occupying forces in countries such as Israel and Iraq are sometimes justified. "There should be a clear distinction between the suicide bombing...
  • Comuzzi resigns over same-sex vote

    06/28/2005 12:52:35 PM PDT · by Clive · 5 replies · 601+ views
    OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin lost a cabinet minister over the controversial same-sex marriage issue Tuesday just hours before a landmark vote. Joe Comuzzi, minister of state for northern Ontario economic development, broke the news in the prime minister's Parliament Hill office just before lunch. Comuzzi, 72, said he will side against the federal government's same-sex marriage bill, which was expected to easily pass its final House of Commons vote. Martin said he regrets the decision. But he said Comuzzi will continue to sit in the Liberal caucus and plans to run in the next federal election. "He will be...
  • Bush Asks for Schiavo Investigation

    06/17/2005 11:08:07 AM PDT · by ClancyJ · 119 replies · 4,050+ views
    TBO.com News; AP ^ | June 17, 2005 | Associated Press
    TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush asked a prosecutor Friday to investigate why Terri Schiavo collapsed 15 years ago, calling into question a gap in time from when her husband found the woman and called 911. In a letter he faxed to Pinellas-Pasco County State Attorney Bernie McCabe, Bush said Michael Schiavo testified in a 1992 medical malpractice trial that he found his wife collapsed at 5 a.m. and he said in a 2003 television interview that he found her at about 4:30 a.m. He called 911 at about 5:40 a.m. "Between 40 and 70 minutes elapsed before the call was...
  • Newsweek apologizes for getting Koran-Guantanamo Bay story wrong. (The Editor's Desk)

    05/15/2005 10:31:22 AM PDT · by Pikamax · 456 replies · 16,431+ views
    Newsweek ^ | 05/15/05 | The Editor's Desk
    May 23 issue - Did a report in NEWSWEEK set off a wave of deadly anti-American riots in Afghanistan? That's what numerous news accounts suggested last week as angry Afghans took to the streets to protest reports, linked to us, that U.S. interrogators had desecrated the Qur'an while interrogating Muslim terror suspects. We were as alarmed as anyone to hear of the violence, which left at least 15 Afghans dead and scores injured. But I think it's important for the public to know exactly what we reported, why, and how subsequent events unfolded.
  • Jackson: More Senators Back Bid to Save Terri

    03/29/2005 2:48:53 PM PST · by West Coast Conservative · 340 replies · 6,459+ views
    NewsMax ^ | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 | NewsMax.com Wires
    Rev. Jesse Jackson said Tuesday afternoon that he has persuaded two Florida state senators to change their votes on a bill to save Terri Schiavo, leaving the measure just one vote shy of the majority necessary for passage. "Two of them have committed to meeting with Gov. Jeb Bush. They say that they're flexible if they can find acceptable emergency language," Jackson told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity. Targeting members of the state senate's black caucus in a bid to save Schiavo, Jackson explained: "While we didn't have the specific language today, if I could just get them to shift...
  • Sean Hannity talking about FR now

    02/17/2005 12:43:49 PM PST · by Barney Gumble · 841 replies · 19,821+ views
    Sean Hannity is talking positively about FR right now....
  • American bishops take aim at abortion--Ads Urge a Rethinking of Abortion

    01/28/2005 9:45:57 PM PST · by Coleus · 18 replies · 590+ views
    Zenit ^ | 01.27.05
    Ads Urge a Rethinking of AbortionWASHINGTON, D.C., JAN. 27, 2005 (Zenit.org).- An advertising campaign aimed at dispelling myths about abortion is under way. The U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities has launched the campaign in the Washington metropolitan area and in national news media outlets. The campaign, called the Second Look Project, presents basic facts about legal abortion that much of the public does not understand. The program encourages people to take a "second look" at their views on abortion. "Three decades after Roe v. Wade, many people still do not understand basic facts about legal abortion -- like the...
  • Text of statements by CBS News President Andrew Heyward and anchor Dan Rather

    09/20/2004 11:00:55 AM PDT · by RedDaring · 70 replies · 2,807+ views
    Posted on Mon, Sep. 20, 2004 Text of statements by CBS News President Andrew Heyward and anchor Dan Rather Associated Press Statement by CBS News President Andrew Heyward and Dan Rather about the authenticity of documents used to support a "60 Minutes" story that questioned President Bush's Vietnam War-era National Guard service: Heyward: "60 Minutes Wednesday" had full confidence in the original report or it would not have aired. However, in the wake of serious and disturbing questions that came up after the broadcast, CBS News has done extensive additional reporting in an effort to confirm the documents' authenticity. That...