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Williams 'gambles' to heal division over gays - By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 13/10/2003) The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will attempt to prevent the acrimonious collapse of the worldwide Anglican Church at a crisis summit on homosexuality this week by gambling on an appeal to the middle ground. To placate the conservatives, who are threatening a mass walkout, he will uphold the Church's traditional ban on gay marriages and the ordination of active homosexuals, despite his more liberal private views on the issue. But Dr Williams will resist pressure to expel the liberal American Episcopal Church over...

To All: The latest version of the Global American Revolution Flash videowas just released. Click o the picture to review the new movie! Best regards to all, Robert Teesdale

Taglinus FreeRepublicus (26th Edition) Recent taglines exhibiting Freeper wit, compassion, curiosity, brilliance, etc. Billboards for the rich, spraycans for the poor, and taglines for the rest. ~ thatdewd ~ Prankin' Al Franken said---My letter to Ashcroft was not a lie...it was a prank. 9/7/03 to H Kurtz.     syriacus, 9/29 The board is set. The pieces are moving. We come to it at last...the Great Battle of our time.     ItsOurTimeNow, 9/29 Give me ambiguity or give me something else.     b4its2late, 9/29 I thought this country was founded on a principle of progressive taxation. ~Wesley Clark to Russert....

Several years ago, a newspaper colleague paid me what for her was a sincere compliment: "For a right-winger, you're actually OK." What do you say to a patronizing comment like that? "Thanks, hon, and for a fat girl, you don't sweat much"? Actually, I took it in the spirit it was offered: as a fellow reporter's admission that she had been wrong to prejudge my character and abilities based on my politics. My writing and my professional conduct had won her over. I tell that story to conservative journalism students as an example of the kind of prejudice they will...

Startling Study Says People May Be Born Gay By Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter October 6, 2003 3:21 PM (HealthDayNews) -- The origins of sexual orientation may be evident in the blink of an eye. In what is the first study to show an apparent link between a non-learned trait and sexual orientation, British researchers have discovered the way peoples' eyes respond to sudden loud noises may signal differences between heterosexual and homosexual men and women that were developed before birth. The authors, whose study appears in the October issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, say about 4 percent of men and...

The function of this propaganda was not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. To have the grossest lies poured into your ears and eyes all the time, day and night, and yet not to protest their untruth, but on the contrary to participate in their propagation, and to behave as if you believed they were true -- that is the ultimate dehumanization of man, for it robs him of meaningful language. Theodore Dalrymple National Post October 10, 2003 Their Words are as Plastic as Their Cutlery

USO Honors Service Heroes During Gala Event By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2003 — To the United Service Organizations, they are heroes -- the men and women of the armed forces who, among many attributes, characterize bravery, courage and selfless service to their country. Hundreds of Defense Department personnel, top state and federal government officials, corporate leaders and celebrities came to pay tribute to these service members during the USO's annual gala in the nation's capital Oct. 10, recognizing each military branch. Army Sgt. Noah Harrison poses for a picture with...

Peace activist shot by Israelis is 'brain dead' By Nicola Woolcock (Filed: 13/10/2003) Tests have revealed that a British peace activist shot in the head by an Israeli soldier is in a persistent vegetative state from which he is unlikely to recover. Six months after Tom Hurndall, 22, was shot while trying to protect Palestinian children on the Gaza strip, his family are still waiting to hear whether an Israeli military police investigation will take place. They are considering taking legal action should an investigation not proceed. The Manchester Metropolitan University student, a photo-journalism student, had been in Rafah for...

<p>LULING, Texas (AP) - A car struck a group of high school cross country runners who had gathered to pray on the side of a highway, killing one and injuring at least three others, police said.</p> <p>The accident happened early Saturday as the 10 Luling High School students were about to embark on their morning two-mile run, the Austin American-Statesman reported in its Sunday editions.</p>

BOSTON (AP) - Pedro Martinez and Manny Ramirez of the Boston Red Sox were fined Sunday along with coach Don Zimmer and Karim Garcia of the New York Yankees for their actions in Game 3 of the AL championship series. Bob Watson, baseball's vice president in charge of discipline, did not announce specifically why the four were being fined, other than to say it was for their behavior in the fourth inning of New York's 4-3 victory Saturday. The amounts of the fines were not disclosed. "I'm very disappointed in the behavior of some of the participants in last night's...

You might not think so from listening to me, but I like to be liked. Not only that, I like my country to be liked around the world and it isn't. I wish President Bush would try to make this country less hated. He could do it if he set his mind to it. To begin with, we should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own - for our own sake. Iraq isn't our problem. It's the world's problem. When the president spoke at the United Nations,...

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LOS ANGELES -- Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger has been elected governor, California newspaper editors are scratching their heads over the daily challenge of squeezing his 14-letter last name into a headline. Copy editors, given large headlines to work with during the recall election, are likely to have smaller spaces for daily stories on state government. "There were copy editors across the state who were dreading the prospect of Schwarzenegger becoming governor, not because of politics but because of the fit," said John Armstrong, editor of the Contra Costa Times. Editors at the newspaper briefly discussed using Schwarzenegger's three initials, like...

All tyrants do their evil work the same way and the opium poppy plant is no exception. It is the source for morphine and heroin and also the precursor for oxycodone and hydrocodone, the type of painkillers Rush Limbaugh became addicted to after his back surgery. These opiates can be tricky to use because they are addictive if taken when not in pain. You can use narcotics to stop continuous pain for months and as long as you stop the drugs when the pain stops, there is no problem. But take them for transient ailments and you risk addiction. I...

By ERICKA SCHENCK SMITH The Missoulian MISSOULA – There are some people who just shouldn’t have guns. It’s the law. And Montana’s federal prosecutors, along with their colleagues nationwide, are doing their darndest to get those people charged, convicted and locked up in federal prison. But to do this, they need the help of local law enforcement officers, who say they are more than willing to do their part. Nationwide, this effort is dubbed “Project Safe Neighborhoods.” It’s U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s second-highest priority – just behind terrorism and just ahead of drug trafficking. In Montana, it’s called “Catch...

10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Re-elect President Bush. Are you ready to get active and re-elect our President? Are you pumped up about taking our great victory in California and turning it into an even bigger national victory in 2004? The time to start making it happen is NOW. We can't wait until the Democrats select a candidate. The Democrats are busy organizing and pulling out all the stops to defeat President Bush and we as Freepers need to be just as strong and just as vocal at the grassroots -- just as we were during...

In July of this year, Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced his Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2003 (full text below), for the purpose of establishing new regulations on foreign-born "guest workers" in the Untied States. Several sections of Cornyn's legislation warrant a bit of scrutiny... SEC. 218A. GUEST WORKER PROGRAMS. (i) ABSOLUTION FOR PAST ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR- An alien who participates in a guest worker program shall be absolved of all liability for illegal behavior, as such behavior pertains to the immigration status of the alien, that occurred before the alien's participation in the guest worker program. SEC. 218B....

<p>In an interview with The Washington Times on Friday, a spokesman for Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich denied that the administration has decided not to ask the General Assembly to approve a state version of a Project Exile — a program, modeled after a highly successful anti-crime initiative begun in Richmond,Va., which would impose stricter sentences on criminals using guns in the commission of a crime. Henry Fawell, a spokesman for Mr. Ehrlich, said the governor may propose a package of "exile-like" legislation when the legislature returns in January.</p>

Cardinal Responds to Questions on Liturgy Wide-ranging questions on the Liturgy were answered by Cardinal Francis Arinze at a conference in July sponsored by the Apostolate for Family Consecration. The question and answer session followed Cardinal Arinze's talk on the meaning of the Eucharist. The cardinal, who has headed the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments since last October, has addressed these summer conferences, held at "Catholic Familyland" in Bloomingdale, Ohio for a number of years. A portion of this summer's session, transcribed by AB from a videotape kindly supplied by the Apostolate for Family Consecration,...

The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com, October 4, 2001 ALL SERIAL KILLERS, almost without exception, are severely sexually abused as children. The kind of people who hijack a plane with innocent people and drive it into a building with thousands of other innocent people are related to this phenomenon. When sociopaths rape and kill, they do not see their victims as human beings, but only as objects. This is because the sociopaths were themselves, at one time, used as objects - as their bodily integrity was repeatedly violated. The rage that results from sexual abuse is...