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WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 - Settling a score, Louis J. Freeh, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under President Bill Clinton and in the first six months of the Bush presidency, asserts in a new book that Richard A. Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, was "basically a second-tier player" who had little access to power and was in no position to issue credible warnings in advance of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. "If he was rushing around the executive branch trying to make a case that we were in imminent danger of a...

How Will I Know? " Jesus answered and said, ’I thank You, Father . . . that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes’ " —Matthew 11:25 We do not grow into a spiritual relationship step by step— we either have a relationship or we do not. God does not continue to cleanse us more and more from sin— "But if we walk in the light," we are cleansed "from all sin" ( 1 John 1:7 ). It is a matter of obedience, and once we obey, the relationship is...

As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, STEVEN LEE MYERS, ANDREW C. REVKIN and SIMON ROMERO This article is by Clifford Krauss, Steven Lee Myers, Andrew C. Revkin and Simon Romero. CHURCHILL, Manitoba - It seems harsh to say that bad news for polar bears is good for Pat Broe. Mr. Broe, a Denver entrepreneur, is no more to blame than anyone else for a meltdown at the top of the world that threatens Arctic mammals and ancient traditions and lends credibility to dark visions of global warming. Still, the newest study of the...

Just a thought as I was watching the divisonal playoffs,where is that great life long Yankee fan Ms.Clinton?By the way good series so far,this one is the best series out of the 4 . My first post tweek me don't slam me I'm not a pro poster,but we got some great folks here who have remarkable skills at posting.Sam,Snippy that was a shoutout to you lol.

TEHRAN (AFX) - Washington is not in a position to go to war against Tehran and its pressure over the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear programme is nothing more than 'intimidation', Iran's top nuclear negotiator said. 'There will not be a war ahead of us. The situation in America does not allow them to create new fronts,' Ali Larijani was quoted as saying by the student news agency ISNA. 'War with Iran is hard for them, so they want to intimidate us into committing suicide,' he added, referring to Western efforts to make Tehran abandon work on the sensitive nuclear fuel...

For GOP, Election Anxiety Mounts Candidates Need Convincing for '06 By Charles Babington and Chris Cillizza Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, October 10, 2005; A01 Republican politicians in multiple states have recently decided not to run for Senate next year, stirring anxiety among Washington operatives about the effectiveness of the party's recruiting efforts and whether this signals a broader decline in GOP congressional prospects. Prominent Republicans have passed up races in North Dakota and West Virginia, both GOP-leaning states with potentially vulnerable Democratic incumbents. Earlier, Republican recruiters on Capitol Hill and at the White House failed to lure their first...

On Feb. 20, 1999, while Harriet Miers was managing the law firm of Locke Liddell from the firm's Dallas office, she contributed $415 to the law firm's political action committee. Federal Election Commission reports show that on May 19, 2000, Locke Liddell's PAC contributed $1,000 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate Campaign Committee. For an unexplained reason, Harriet Miers listed herself as a "self-employed attorney," according to the FEC Report on her 1999 contribution to the Locke Liddell PAC. FEC records also show a $500 contribution on Feb. 15, 2000 by the Locke Liddell PAC to Democrat Nicholas Lampson, who ran...

A Harvard School of Public Health study of 1,906 films found there has been significantly more sex in PG and PG-13 movies in recent years, with researchers noting that "today's PG-13 movies are approaching what R movies looked like in 1992."

Witnesses say historic theater is haunted Author: Carly Farrell Publication Date: 2005-10-07 AMERICUS — According to encyclopedia.com, the definition of a ghost is, “...a spiritualistic manifestation of a person or object in which a form not actually present is seen with such intensity that belief in its reality is created.” The Rylander Theatre in Americus has such a spirit according to at least two residents of Americus and Kathleen Walls’ book, “Georgia’s Ghostly Getaways.” “We don’t know who the ghost is,” said vice-chairman of the Rylander Authority, Kent Sole. “My theory is that (he) was a former manager. (It) doesn’t...

GRNC Alert: 10-9-05 Grass Roots North Carolina Forum for Firearms Education P.O. Box 10684, Raleigh, NC 27605 (919) 664-8565, http://www.grnc.org GRNC Alert Hotline: (919) 562-4137 hotline@grnc.org Charlotte Ordinance for Police Convenience We informed you Friday of a sneak attack on your right to self-protection planned by the Charlotte City Council in collaboration with the administration of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Briefly recapping; on Monday, October 10, 2005, the City Council of Charlotte, NC will entertain an ordinance to ban the open display of firearms in public. The proposal, being pushed by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Chief of Police, will be discussed at...

Oklahoma City, 10/7/05 – Rocketplane Limited, Inc. announces a new alliance with SpaceShot, Inc. to award Rocketplane spaceflights as prizes in upcoming SpaceShot online skill game tournaments. “Space travel should not just be for the wealthy and government astronauts,” announced Sam Dinkin, CEO of SpaceShot, Inc. “For less than $5 and some skill, anyone could be the first on their block to win a trip to space!”

TIRANA, Albania - (AP) The Albanian army began its sixth troop rotation in Iraq Sunday with a 120-troop army contingent that is to replace soldiers who have served there since April, the Defense Ministry said. The army unit is to serve a six-month mission in Iraq under U.S.-led command serve in a non-combat role, mainly patrolling the airport in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu, army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Pellumb Qazimi and U.S. Ambassador Marcie Ries were present at the ceremony at an army base before the troops departed for Iraq. Albania, a predominantly Muslim...

"THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR".... Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan "Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan "I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them...

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico - – Despite its grand finale ending with an unexpected bang, the Personal Spaceflight Expo held here today as part of the Countdown to the X Prize Cup was a success, attracting thousands of onlookers who explored space capsules, rubbed elbows with astronauts and watched high-performance rocketry shoot through the sky. They even watched a few mishaps in what is billed as the emergence of rocketry for the masses and public space travel. The whole event, which ran from October 6 - 9, was organized by the X Prize Foundation and hosted by the State of...

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. - Inspired by Alan Shepard, the first American to journey into space, a 14-year-old from suburban Chicago wrote a letter to NASA in 1961 asking what she needed to do to become an astronaut. She got a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space program. "It had never crossed my mind up until that point that there might be doors closed to me simply because I was a girl," recalled the letter writer, better known today as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as she was enshrined Saturday in the National Women's Hall of Fame,...

My mom has been in the hospital with a respiratory infection for almost a week, and we learned today that doctors have found cancer. We don't know what type at this point (I don't believe it's at all related to the infection), or how serious it is, but the news was devastating. In addition, she has to battle this respiratory illness, which has been bad. I'm praying constantly, as are the rest of my family. Cancer has killed two of my aunts and my grandfather, and this news hits everyone in my family hard. Relatives are coming to visit from...

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol predicted on Sunday that there will be at least one and perhaps several indictments of "senior [Bush] administration officials" by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who is investigating the outing of CIA employee Valerie Plame. "Criminal defense lawyers I've spoken to who are friendly to the administration are very worried that there will be one or more indictments in the next three weeks of senior administration officials," the influential editor told "Fox News Sunday." "Just looking at what Fitzgerald is doing and taking him at his word as a serious prosecutor here," Kristol said, "and I...

Militants' training camps wiped out By Rahul Bedi in New Delhi (Filed: 10/10/2005) Training camps used by jihadists battling with the Indian army for control of Kashmir were buried by landslides or left in ruins by the earthquake, bringing hope of a new opportunity for peace-making after a 16-year Islamic insurgency. India and Pakistan, nuclear rivals who both lay claim to Kashmir in its entirety, have fought two of their three wars over the territory. Security analysts said yesterday that the earthquake in Pakistan's highly-militarised Kashmir region had "significantly depreciated'' the insurgents' capacity to carry on their fight for independence...

An oversupply in housing that has been troubling other southeast Michigan communities has hit Washtenaw County in full force. The result has been stagnant home values for the past two years. There's also evidence that values may be depreciating slightly as competition forces down prices. Experts say the poor Michigan economy, coupled with a flood of new houses, has created the strong buyer's market. "The inventory is greater than Ann Arbor really has ever seen,'' said Elizabeth Brien, a leading agent with the Charles Reinhart Co., a real estate firm dealing with properties throughout Washtenaw County. "And I think it's...

Waterskiing on a six-foot stepladder is no different than riding a bike: Even after 10 years, Wicklund said, he still has the knack ...and the balance. He hadn’t put the ladder in the water for years because the ladder he used to use was no longer fit for duty, and because he didn’t have a boat driver he trusted enough to drive for him. But this summer Wicklund decided to try the ladder trick once again, this time with his son behind the wheel of the boat and with a new oak ladder he’d crafted himself beneath his feet. “I...