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Fort A.P. Hill, Va. (CNSNews.com) - The Boy Scouts' values "are the values of America," President Bush told 32,000 boys attending the National Boy Scout Jamboree at a Virginia military base.In videotaped remarks played for the crowd on Monday, President Bush told the Scouts gathered at Fort A.P. Hill, "Every society depends on trust and loyalty, on courtesy and kindness, on bravery and reverence." He thanked the Scout for their service to their communities, and he commended them for upholding "values that build strong families, strong communities, and strong character.""Times and challenges change, yet the values of Scouting will ...

I see by the papers in the Yankee Capital that Johnny Cochran, and of course Jesse and Al, are wheezing and blowing like a county-fair calliope with a leaky boiler. They always are. This time it was about the need to pay reparations for the ravages trala of slavery. It got me to thinking. I hate it when that happens. Now, I know I’m hard-hearted, and mean-spirited, and no damn good. It’s probably my only virtue. But on consideration, I realized that they might be right. The ravages of slavery do run deep, and cause motingator trouble, with no end ...

By Mark Sherman Associated Press Writer Tuesday, July 31, 2001; 11:31 a.m. EDT WASHINGTON –– FBI agents went to a hardware store Tuesday to talk to an employee who says he believes Chandra Levy ordered keys from him at least a day after police have said she was last seen. Three agents interviewed John Woodfolk, a 16-year employee of W.J. Candey Hardware, located across the street from Levy's health club. Police have said the last confirmed sighting of Levy was April 30, when she canceled her membership at the club. Woodfolk says he believes Levy was in the store sometime ...

Aide denies stock deal was improper Maviglio says the June 20 purchase, submitted online, was in the hands of others. July 31, 2001 By JOHN HOWARDThe Orange County Register SACRAMENTO The governor's chief spokesman denies he committed any impropriety by buying Calpine Corp. stock June 20, saying the purchase was actually in the hands of others. Steven Maviglio said he submitted on May 31 a purchase order through his online brokerage to buy 300 shares of Calpine, a San Jose-based power generator that has a long-term energy contract with the state. "It could have happened an hour after later ...

"A bit of empathy, please, for a leader who is so painfully and publicly struggling with an extremely steep learning curve.Click "source" for the rest of this communistic genius'latest missive.

New York (dpa) - A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday apologized for wrongly accusing Israel for the death of six Palestinians who were probably killed for making a bomb in a refugee camp in Nablus. The six Palestinians were killed on Monday in an explosion during a day of violence in Israeli-occupied territories. Annan issued a statement through one of his spokesmen, saying the deaths were caused ``by Israeli forces.'' Annan's principal spokesman, Fred Eckhard, said Tuesday that Israel has rejected the accusation and ``the U.N. is not in the position to make a judgement.'' ``So ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- There is no truth to a minister's claim that his daughter had an affair with Rep. Gary Condit when she was 18, the FBI has concluded. Otis ''O.C.'' Thomas, a Pentecostal minister in Condit's hometown of Ceres, Calif., told the story to the FBI in May, then recanted it two weeks ago. ''We've concluded that the allegations made by O.C. Thomas are unfounded,'' FBI spokesman Chris Murray said Tuesday. Thomas acknowledged in an interview Sunday with The Washington Post that he had made up the story. The fabrication began in April, when Susan Levy told him that ...

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 31 31. WOMEN A man in China is usually subjected to the domination of three systems of authority [political authority, clan authority and religious authority].... As for women, in addition to being dominated by these three systems of authority, they are also dominated by the men (the authority of the husband). These four authorities - political, clan, religious and masculine - are the embodiment of the whole feudal-patriarchal ideology and system, and are the four thick ropes binding the Chinese people, particularly the peasants. How the peasants have overthrown the political authority of the landlords ...

WASHINGTON (July 31, 2001 1:22 a.m. EDT) - The Teamsters will begin airing radio ads this week in favor of drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The campaign aligns the union with the White House and sets it apart from much of organized labor. The 60-second spots will air on radio stations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia this week as the House prepares to vote on the issue and other energy proposals. The ads will cost at least $20,000, said Teamsters spokesman Rob Black. Pennsylvania and West Virginia were selected because of the impact energy exploration could have on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- FBI agents went to a hardware store Tuesday to talk to an employee who says he believes Chandra Levy ordered keys from him at least a day after police have said she was last seen. Three agents interviewed John Woodfolk, a 16-year employee of W.J. Candey Hardware, located across the street from Levy's health club. Police have said the last confirmed sighting of Levy was April 30, when she canceled her membership at the club. Woodfolk says he believes Levy was in the store sometime during the first week of May. He said she ordered what he ...

Ethics issue in stock buy? A top Davis aide bought shares in a power company dealing with the state. July 31, 2001 By JOHN HOWARDThe Orange County Register SACRAMENTO A top aide to Gov. Gray Davis bought stock in a power company that received a long-term contract with the state, the latest in a series of energy investments that have cast an ethical cloud over the state's electricity purchases. Steven Maviglio, Davis' press secretary and acting communications director, ordered through his broker 300 shares of San Jose-based Calpine Corp. stock May 31, to take effect when it dropped to ...

President Bush, who still faces stinging criticism over the way he won last year's election, gave a lukewarm embrace Tuesday to voting reforms recommended by former Presidents Carter and Ford, calling their proposals only guidelines.Bush, casting himself as an election reformer, accorded Carter a Rose Garden ceremony to unveil the report by the National Commission on Federal Election, which he led with Ford. But Bush avoided taking a stand on specific proposals, including making election day a national holiday, restoring voting rights to felons and allowing voters challenged by poll workers to cast provisional ballots anyway.``Today I accept their report ...

JUL 31, 2001 Liberalizing Trade, to the Benefit of All o the Editor: Alan S. Blinder (Op-Ed, July 29) writes that imports allow us to "enjoy cheaper prices while foreigners work for us." This is an old sophistry. Alfonso Núñez de Castro bragged about Spain's trade deficit in 1675, asserting that "all the world serves her and she serves nobody." But when its gold and silver mines ran out, Spain found that its industrial development had withered. It had only debts to show for its orgy of imports. The Spanish Empire collapsed. Those who had expanded their economic capabilities ...

Gov't Dept. Erases Indian E-Mail Associated Press 6:15 p.m. July 30, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- The Interior Department destroyed e-mails that may have dealt with mismanaged Indian land royalties, despite repeated court orders that the files be preserved, according to a court-appointed investigator. The data was supposed to be retained at the request of attorneys representing hundreds of American Indians in a lawsuit alleging that the government mismanaged at least $10 billion in royalties collected since 1887 from the use of Indian lands. But from June 1998, when the court first ordered the data tapes preserved, until November 2000, tapes ...

Why the Big Bang is Wrong         John Kierein The Big Bang theory of the universe is wrong because the cosmological red shift is due to the Compton effect rather than the Doppler effect.  See  The Endless, Boundless, Stable Universe by Grote Reber and Hubble's Constant in Terms of the Compton Effect by John Kierein. Reber showed that the Compton effect was the cause of the red shift in order to explain the observations of bright very long wavelength extragalactic radio waves.  Kierein used the Compton effect explanation to explain quasars and the red shift on the sun.  Quasars may ...

Even if the great mouthy socialist left in America wins its war against the Constitution and all the conservatives they so greatly despise, what is there to gain by such a win? There's no victory when, after you've won, you lose the national strength and framework that allowed you to win. Then what? There is no option other than to turn on, bite and devour one another. What an imbecilic mockery of victory. It takes the IQ of a night light to figure out that when there's nothing left of America's freedoms that no one will be free. The intrigues ...

Was Ebola Behind the Black Death? By Jen Sterling Were rats really to blame for Europe's "Black Death"? Controversial new research suggests that contrary to the history books, the "Black Death" that devastated medieval Europe was not the bubonic plague, but rather an Ebola-like virus.History books have long taught the Black Death, which wiped out a quarter of Europe's population in the Middle Ages, was caused by bubonic plague, spread by infected fleas that lived on black rats. But new research in England suggests the killer was actually an Ebola-like virus transmitted directly from person to person.The Black Death killed ...

Moscow is not prepared to make any concessions on the Anti-Ballistic Missile accord which bars Washington from building a missile defense shield, Russian Defense minister Sergey Ivanov said Tuesday. Reports in the Russian press last week that Russia was ready to strike a deal with the United States to amend the cornerstone 1972 ABM agreement which both countries signed in 1972 "are not in the least justified," Ivanov told the Interfax news agency. "There exists no agreement between Russia and the United States on anti-missile defense or strategic offensive weapons, since there haven't been any negotiations to speak of so ...

Clinton draws up strategy for his return to the political fray By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 30 July 2001 Six months after he left the White House, Bill Clinton will today formally open an office in New York ­ signalling the relaunch of his post-presidential political career. He has invited aides and his former cabinet members to a festival in Harlem to mark what many believe ­ and what Mr Clinton certainly intends ­ will be a return to a higher political profile. It also represents a renewed buoyancy about the 54-year-old, who friends feared had slumped into a depression. ...

Jake Paine made the first hole-in-one of his life Monday afternoon. It came at the Lake Forest Golf and Practice Course. It was on No. 6, that deceptive 66-yard, par-3, uphill climbing hole. The hole with the narrow fairway, the nasty right-side sand trap and the downward-sloping green. Sound like child's play? Well, it was. Jake Paine's only 3 years old! "Daddy, I got a hole-in-one!" the blond-haired, blue-eyed boy said to his father, Bill, after the ball disappeared into the cup about 12:45 p.m. That was the moment that Bill Paine, Jake's brother, Jordan, 7, and golfer Joe Zamberlan ...