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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The mother of a boy who scored the winning run in a baseball game was knocked unconscious by angry parents from the losing team, police said. After her 15-year-old son's run in the youth league game, two woman allegedly poked Cindy Morrison with an umbrella, hit her with a baby stroller and punched her in the face. Morrison was unconscious when police arrived, and was treated at a hospital for scratches, bruises and puffiness around both eyes. "It was everything I could do to defend myself," she said. One woman was arrested for investigation of ...

Welcome to BaseCamp In the world of mountaineering, BaseCamp is where a climb begins. It's where the big tents get set up; where the food and fuel are stored. It's the fallback point in case of bad weather - the place everyone agrees to gather. So it is at FreeRepublic. Thanks to JR, we immigrants from TOS have been blessed with this space to launch our individual summit bids on the Mt. Everest of the world's political websites. If you run into a storm on the Forum, fall back to BaseCamp ! Stock up on nourishment, advice, or asbestos ...

AMERICA'S NEW ALLY: INDIA. Missile Defense's Children by Lawrence F. Kaplan Post date 07.26.01 | Issue date 08.06.01     Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage--a walking anvil who bench-presses more than 400 pounds, served three tours in Vietnam, and clomps around Washington like a bureaucratic pit bull--has been called many things. A marshmallow isn't one of them. But that didn't dissuade the prestigious Times of India, in a May article that could just as easily have been written for Teen Beat, from extolling Armitage as "a gentle giant who turns into marshmallow around children." The piece also gushes that ...

WANTED: POLICEMENHoward Safir was police commissioner of New York City up until a year ago, serving under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (news - web sites), an old friend and confederate. His reputation was that of an enormously resourceful manager. It hadn't mattered in the least, when Giuliani offered him the job, that he had never served in any police department (his career had been in the fire department and in drug enforcement). Things like that don't bother professionals; if you are omnicompetent, you can handle anything. And Safir did, presiding over a crime reduction at a higher rate than anywhere else ...

July 31, 2001, 10:15AM (PRN) More Cars, More Trips, More Miles Spark North American Starter and Alternator Aftermarket, Says Frost & Sullivan SAN JOSE, Calif., July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- As the automotive industry continues to experience high sales, car owners are using their vehicles for shorter and more frequent trips, causing engine components to wear out quickly and increasing aftermarket demand for starters and alternators. According to new analysis by Frost & Sullivan (www.transportation.frost.com ), North American Starter and Alternator Aftermarket, the total market reached an estimated $1.48 billion in 2000 and is expected to increase to $1.66 billion in ...

House Committee Holds Hearing On The Use Of Red Light Cameras Supporters Say The System Makes Intersections Safer Opponents Say Big Brother-Type Cameras Have Potential For Abuse WASHINGTON, July 31, 2001 AP / CBS (CBS) A House committee debated the merits of cameras designed to nab red light runners Tuesday, with arguments on the fatalities caused by offenders competing with charges that the cameras intrude on privacy. Republicans sharply criticized the use of cameras to catch motorists who run stop lights at the hearing while some Democrats said Congress should keep out of local police issues. At least 50 ...

July 31, 2001, 3:20PM (BW) Southwest Oncology Group Seeking Patients for Clinical Trial; Crucial Prostate Cancer Program in Jeopardy for Lack of Patients; Cost of Cancer to Society -- $47 TRILLION (c) 2001 Business Wire.     Health/Medical Writers     LOS ANGELES--(BW HealthWire)--July 31, 2001--A crucial cancer research trial is about to fail.     It will not fail because of lack of funding. The National Institute of Health is funding it. It will not fail because of the researchers; they are ready and waiting. It will not fail because the therapies fail. We won't know the results until the trial is complete.     It will ...

Murder in Malibu DISTRICT ATTORNEY REPORT OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY COUNTY OF VENTURA STATE OF CALIFORNIA REPORT ON THE DEATH OF DONALD SCOTT MICHAEL D. BRADBURY, District Attorney INTRODUCTION Donald P. Scott, age 61, owned and lived on a 200-acre property known as the Trails End Ranch, 35247 Mulholland Highway, in the Ventura County portion of Malibu, California. On October 2, 1992, while serving a search warrant at the Ranch, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies Gary R. Spencer and John W. Cater, Jr. shot at Scott, resulting in his death. The shooting and the events leading up to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Internet traffic appeared normal as global clocks ticked past a deadline for the "Code Red" worm to begin propagating itself through he world's computer systems, industry analysts said. The experts, ranging from computer security specialists to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the quiet start was a good sign but that more time was needed to assess the impact of the worm infection, which had been expected to start at 1 a.m. British time. "It will take a while for pertinent analysis to be conducted. We're not going to get a definitive sense of what ...

"The current national security budgeting and spending apparatus in Congress and the Department of Defense is broken." "Two profound environmental changes occurred in the waning years of the twentieth century," comment military analysts Franklin Spinney, John Sayen, and Donald Vandergriff. "First, the Cold War ended suddenly. Second, the dominant features of contemporary conflict began to mutate as a variety of irregular forces around the world learned how to attack the political will of their adversaries while bypassing the traditional strengths of conventional military forces." In the introduction to a new book called Spirit, Blood, and Treasure, Spinney, Sayen, and Vandergriff ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - About 100 U.S. troops and civilians have been moved from Skopje, Macedonia, to a U.S. military base in Kosovo as a security precaution, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. About another 100 will be moved by the end of this week, said Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, a Pentagon spokesman. ``This is a temporary measure. It's done for force protection reasons,'' said Quigley, citing recent violence there. Those being moved to Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo have been in Macedonia to provide ``nonemergency, noncritical support services'' at Camp Able Sentry, which is a staging base for U.S. peacekeeping operations in ...

July 31, 2001, 12:27PM Farmers to stop selling water coverage for Texas homes Associated Press DALLAS - Farmers Insurance Group, the state's second largest insurer, says rising losses from mold and other claims will cause it to stop selling new homeowners policies in Texas that cover water damage. "Farmers will stop writing new policies with water coverage on August 15," Bill Miller, a spokesman for Farmers Insurance Group, said Tuesday. The moratorium will not affect existing customers or policy renewals, he said. Farmers, which covers 800,000 homeowners in the state, will continue to market a minimal homeowners policy that is ...

JEFF HEAD and fellow Freeper ASNEDITOR of AllSouthwest News Service (David Palmquist) will be on the Texas Journal Radio show tonight to plug the Klamath Falls Peitition. You can tune in live at 11PM CDT by going to http://www.kixl.com Click on "listen to KIXL Online" on the right hand side of the site. You will need windows media player to listen.

Just Plain Wrong—VPC Exposes Ashcroft Second Amendment Letter to NRA to Be Error-Ridden Fraud Violence Policy Center Releases New Study Shot Full of Holes: Deconstructing John Ashcroft's Second Amendment WASHINGTON, DC —The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released Shot Full of Holes: Deconstructing John Ashcroft's Second Amendment at a Capitol Hill news conference. Scheduled to join the VPC were Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), House Judiciary Committee member and former law professor. The new 38-page VPC study exposes Attorney General John Ashcroft's recent letter ...

Students Learn Important History LessonThe Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery, but one thing you often can't learn from the history books is the impact of the black soldiers on the fighting. An estimated 180,000 fought for the Union, including those from the 5th and 27th regiments from Ohio. Some Ohio students are learning it's one thing to read about history and another to learn, record and preserve history up close and personal. The students are traveling to cemeteries throughout the state in an effort to document gravesites of black Civil War veterans whose bodies are buried ...

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A Dutch doctor, working in relief efforts in Kosovo, was arrested by U.N. police after she was found with a baby that was not hers, a police spokesman said Tuesday. Police suspected her of trying to take the baby out of the country, the spokesman said. He would not release either the woman's name or the name of the non-governmental agency for which she works. She was arrested Monday in Djakovica, about 40 miles west of Pristina after she was caught with the three-week-old baby. She claimed she was the baby's natural mother, but police ...

Israel: Threat To Invade Palestinian Territories Is Real 1530 GMT, 010731 Summary Amid the violence of the Palestinian intifida, the Israeli government has said it will restrain itself. But in reality, it is poised for a major military strike that would seize portions of the territories and destroy the Palestinian leadership. Israel is exhausting its last options before going to war. Analysis In recent weeks, efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process have resumed. The Bush administration has begun to back the notion of deploying international monitors to the West Bank and Gaza. And Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ...

On this last day of July, the President addressed Election Campaign reforms presented to him by former President Jimmy Carter. Although he endorsed the need for election reform, he did not speak about specifics, including the proposed national holiday of Election Day. And with that, enjoy your daily dose of Dubya!

I thought I would share my FAVORITE Alan Keyes quote. He sums up quit well what abortion really is. Alan Keyes, as some may not know, is an African American Catholic who ALWAYS speaks out against abortion. He ran for president under the Republican flag. Well heres the quote, "You see, people wonder why it is Alan, everywhere he goes, he always brings up this issue of abortion and I never go anywhere without mentioning it. Why? Because abortion is to our time what slavery was to the 19th Century, and if anyone of conscience went anywhere in the 19th ...

A Letter to the President of the Peoples Republic of China: Mr. Jiang Zemin, President of the Peoples Republic of China, c/o Ministry of Public Security, 14 Dongchangan Jie, Beijing, China. My Dear Mr. President: It's summer. I haven't had as much vacation time as I'd like, but I did get to the Eastern Townships for 10 days of camping, then down through the White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire onto the coast of Maine. It was lovely. Kindly remind me to write another time and detail the pleasures of country travel for you when we're both at our ...