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The sucker fish that is supposedly behind the sudden, drought-inducing action by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is just an excuse for abrogating property rights. The sucker fish is certainly not the first endangered excuse. Like the K-Mart store sign-nesting Spotted Owl stopped logging, the sucker fish in the Klamath Falls lake enables the federal government to renege on its promise to provide water to the valley’s farmers, thus taking control of property. The farmers paid for and built the system of canals that provide irrigation water for agriculture in the area. But the endangered species act trumps any promises ...

Our daily post of "word for the day" in order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the "word of the day" in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review thread link will be posted for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... obstreperous; \ub-STREP-ur-us; ob-\, adjective:obstreperously; adverbobstreperousness; noun 1. Noisily and stubbornly defiant; unruly.2. Noisy, clamorous, or boisterous [From Latin obstreperus, noisy, from obstrepere, to make a noise against : ob-, against; see ob- + ...

     There was a time, let's call them the good old days, when parents could send their little children off to school with full confidence they would be in good hands.      Sadly, the good old days are gone.      It is appropriate that most of the criticism of government schools deals with academic failure. But that is only half the wretched story. Contrary to what many parents think, most of those responsible for the education of our children are not socially and politically neutral. They are ideologues with an agenda.      While a good case could be made to say we are ...

Milosevic Did Not Ask to Be Isolated -Lawyer BELGRADE (Reuters) - A lawyer for Slobodan Milosevic denied on Tuesday that the ousted Yugoslav leader had asked to be isolated from other war crimes suspects at the detention center of the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. "He asked nothing of the sort, I have to say this information is a lie," Dragoslav Ognjanovic, one of the lawyers representing Milosevic in domestic courts where he is facing abuse of power charges, told a news conference in Belgrade. Ognjanovic said Milosevic's isolation, in its 33rd day, was without precedent in the behavior against ...

Sarah Brady of the Handgun Control Brady Campaign to Make You Easier to Kill has just made a major announcement today. Due to the fact that the ban on sawed off shotguns isn't keeping young punks from attacking decent citizens, her Board of Criminal Empowerment got together and devised a new, extra-strength gun control measure, called a Double Ban. Though details of the plan are still sketchy, the Gun Prohibition Queen said she's sure that "the additional law double-banning violent actions is sure to make bad people go away." Said Mrs. Brady, "if this Double Ban doesn't stop these poor ...

CIA Role May Grow in Preventing Terror Attacks domestic arena to protect the United States from terrorist attack, a senior intelligence official said. U.S. intelligence agencies operate overseas and are generally prohibited from having a hand in domestic affairs to ensure a taboo against spying on Americans is not broken. It is not clear yet what new role they might take on. ``We know that we're going to increasingly be a target in this country and we also know that intelligence is going to have a role to play in trying to protect the homeland, protect the continental U.S.'' a ...

If you pay attention to the most prevalent themes in movies for the past few years, you will have noticed that "Rebellion", of one form or another, seems to be popular. From the Revolutionary War (The Patriot) to insectoid life in your present-day back yard (A Bug's Life and Antz) to a grim future which finds mankind enslaved to machines (Terminator, Terminator 2, The Matrix), it seems that rebellion-against-tyranny is the only competition that the "Number One" theme of movies (sex) has to contend with! Now, an optimist might begin to wonder if perhaps someone in Hollywood has caught on ...

China remains committed to seeing stability along all its borders, to ensure the success of its long-term plans for economic development. It has been instrumental in creating the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which includes six member states comprising Uzbekistan and the five original members of the Shanghai Five partnership that was formed in 1996. The SCO member states cover three-fifths of the Eurasian continent and comprise a quarter of the world’s population. While reiterating their commitment to battling terrorism, separatism, and extremism, the SCO member states have expanded their agenda to include economic cooperation, trade and foreign affairs. In ...

Yugoslav Leader Strengthens Karadzic Party Links BELGRADE (Reuters) - Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's party has strengthened its ties with the Bosnian Serb party founded by Radovan Karadzic, now an indicted war criminal in hiding, Belgrade media reported on Tuesday. Kostunica, who describes himself as a moderate nationalist, and party leader Dragan Kalinic of Bosnia's hardline Serb Democratic Party (SDS) signed a cooperation deal in Belgrade on Monday, the daily Politika said. The move was unlikely to go down well in Western capitals, which back Kostunica and his pro-democracy allies in their efforts to reform Yugoslavia following the ouster of ...

Time to Arrest Fidel Castro By Jamie Glazov It’s high time to arrest Fidel Castro. The next time the Cuban dictator travels abroad, foreign security officials should handcuff him and charge him with assassination, human rights abuses and torture. continue…

The Gun Grabbers and their Many Myths By Gregory Kane A Baltimore Sun columnist praises The Seven Myths of Gun Control by FrontPage editor Richard Poe, stating, "It's high time we conservatives took the offensive in the battle for the Second Amendment."  continue…

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. TROY, N.Y. (AP) -- Garden Way, manufacturer of Troy-Bilt and Bolens lawn equipment, announced Monday that it will close operations here and lay off 550 employees starting in 60 days. The company said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, along with parent GWI Holding Inc., and plans to sell assets to MTD Consumer Group of Ohio, subject to bankruptcy court approval. In a statement, the company said it had been trying since 1995 to return to financial health, with significant improvements through early 2000, but blamed a shift in consumer ...

Inept PD The fall of the D.C. cops. By John J. Miller, NR national political reporter August 20, 2001, issue of National Review aywalking may be a petty crime, but on the night of March 30, 1967, it had disastrous consequences. At the corner of 13th and U Streets, in the Upper Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C., a young black man tried to cross against the light. Two cars nearly hit him, right in front of a stopped police vehicle. A white officer rolled down his window and asked, "Can't you tell the color of a streetlight?" The reply came ...

Institutional Racism at the Washington Post By David Horowitz Courtland Milloy's column in Monday's paper titled "Colin Powell: Bush Man or Black Man” is a good example of the institutional racism at the Washington Post. This is the second racist column in a month written by a black staffer. continue...

Mike Wendland: Worm could endanger Net tonight July 31, 2001 This is going to be a long night for computer security experts. And for everyday users of the Internet, it remains to be seen how inconvenienced we'll be as we try to surf Web sites and send and receive e-mail. Blame it all on a computer attack called the Code Red worm, set to awaken from a programmed hibernation at 8 tonight and silently start scanning the Internet looking for vulnerable machines to infect -- machines which then, like zombies, will be enlisted to do the same thing. Don't think ...

In the tradition of the ever-popular Bang_list and the Condidit interest group, I have started a new PRO-LIFE interest group for your searching ease. I know there are many bump lists that reference pro-life issues, but the very unfortunate fact is that most of these are Catholic interest threads. I KNOW that Catholics aren't the only ones who care about the unborn (I'm Protestant), so I am taking the initiative to make it easier for the rest of us (and Catholics without a bumop list) to keep informed on pro-life events and issues. Starting today, you can enter "to: Pro_life" ...

The rigged missile defense test The target destroyed in the "successful" defense shield test contained a global positioning satellite beacon that made it easier to detect. Why has the media mostly ignored the story? - - - - - - - - - - - - By Joe Conason July 31, 2001 | The Pentagon and the Bush administration are determined to sell the American people a national missile defense system that will probably increase tensions with allies and adversaries and will surely cost more than $100 billion. Their latest marketing exercise took place on the evening of July 14, ...

HOME Who You Gonna' Call? Unwed Celebrity Moms, That's Who! In This Issue, our Mom Squaders take on the subject of raising an "artistic" son. Question: I want my eight-year-old son to be more artsy and less macho. How can I inspire him to develop a flair for the arts?Answer by Camryn Manheim: The most important thing in raising an artistic son is to make sure that there is no father in his life. I cannot stress enough how important this is. Father's are always trying to make their sons act like men, and that just won't do when ...

"Watermelon" is a term used nowadays to described the radical environmentalist - green on the outside, and 'communist red' on the inside. For the most part, Black Americans have been on the sidelines in the environmental battles taking place across American due to the vast majority living in urban settings. But, as I suspected, evidence has emerged that the land-grabbing left, now realizing that they have formidable opposition, will soon begin a campaign to recruit a different breed (skin color) of foot soldiers - from the urban jungles of America. To best fight this next phase of the battle, I ...