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Prayers requested during week of 7/29/01 Update on Militiaman7's grandson Isaiah Update on RMDupree's cousin Christian Prayer request for Militiaman7's grandson, Isaiah LeeMcCoy with some decisions on work and school PoisedWoman's friend Jim Goyen with Alzheimers Freedom'sWorthIt's friend Earlene with cancer rushed to the hospital Prayers requested during week of 7/22/01 Prayer request for Grassontop, his son, and grandson Latest update on RMDupree's cousin Christian in critical condition Prayers for luis gonzalez's son Update on Antony Praise report on missions update Prayer request for Sheryl and her two daughters prayer request for Patrick Knowlton ongoing prayer request about the ...

Penalties uneven for data misuse Some cops are sanctioned severely, some not at all August 1, 2001 Second of two parts. BY M. L. ELRICK FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Michigan's system for disciplining officers who abuse the confidential Law Enforcement Information Network is flawed, meting out unequal justice for violators and victims alike. Overseeing the system is a committee virtually powerless to punish those who have used the system's database of addresses, criminal records, license plate numbers and driving records to seek romance, revenge or an upper hand in personal, legal or political conflicts. Instead, it must rely on individual ...

Mass. scout unit allows gay leaders Says policy will not violate national rule By Catherine Holahan, Globe Correspondent, 8/1/2001 One of the state's largest Boy Scout councils has decided to adopt a ''don't ask, don't tell'' policy that would allow gay scoutmasters to be affiliated without technically violating the national ban against them. The board of the Massachusetts Minuteman Council - an umbrella organization of 330 Scout troops and 18,000 boys in Greater Boston - quietly and unanimously approved the bylaw on July 19. The policy bars exclusion of anyone on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation , ...

Senate war chests point to hot race BY BILL SALISBURY U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone and his likely Republican opponent, St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman, have already raised more than $2 million for what is shaping up as one of the hottest U.S. Senate races in the nation next year. The Minnesota Democrat raised $1,696,903 as of June 30, according to a Federal Election Commission report filed Tuesday. Coleman, the only announced Republican Senate candidate, raised $629,010 during that same period. Both candidates spent relatively little during the first half of the year, giving them relatively fat campaign war chests. The ...

Foreign Government May Be Selling Captured Satellite Pictures of Chandra Getting Into Vehicle Outside Her Apartment May 1..Gephardt may strip Condit of Committee Seat 7.30.01 UPDATE: The very hottest rumor since Monica Lewinsky left town is now buzzing within Washington's power circles. The person or persons who might have abducted Chandra Levy may have caught a break in that the security camera had erased over itself in a weeks time and the getaway could not be shown after Chandra was buzzed down from her apartment. However, what they didn't expect is that a certain foreign government with satellites in orbit ...

UN DRUG AGENCY FIASCO EXPOSED New Evidence Questions Competence Of Vienna Hq's Italian Director Evidence of gross mismanagement and possible corruption at the Vienna headquarters of the United Nations agency fighting drug crime has been obtained by The Observer . It casts further doubt on the competence of the agency's executive director, Pino Arlacchi, a former Italian senator who made his name fighting the Mafia. His contract will not be renewed when it expires in February. Arlacchi has already been bitterly criticised for his leadership of the agency, where staff morale is at rock bottom. But with the change ...

Study: One in five teen girls in Mass. assaulted by datesby Michael Lasalandra and Susan O'Neill Wednesday, August 1, 2001 One in five high school girls in Massachusetts has been physically or sexually assaulted by a date, says a Harvard study that suggests such abusive relationships may be linked to higher rates of teen pregnancy, substance abuse and suicide among such girls. The study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association looked at the answers of about 4,000 adolescent girls in grades nine through 12 who were questioned as part of the Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey in 1997 ...

In 1947-48, Palestinians became victims Charley Reese July 26, 2001 Let's play let's pretend. Pretend you live in Miami-Dade County, Fla., and you evacuate the area because a bad storm is bearing down on it. After the storm passes, you drive back but are met by military roadblocks. "You can't come back," you're told. "What do you mean I can't come back? I have a home and business there," you say. "Not anymore," the soldier says. "All of your property and possessions have been declared abandoned property and now will be used by us. So turn around. You've got 49 ...

On Good Morning America, a fawning Diane Sawyer got Smith to admit that he has been running focus groups, but he is "too busy with his civic work" in Richard Daley's Chicago to run in 2002.Smith, the all but convicted rapist and heir to the Kennedy habits of "get drunk, abuse women, get a high priced lawyer to get you off with the sluts and nuts defense" legacy so popularized by his uncles, left no doubt that he will run in 2004.This makes good sense for him, as he can say lower on the radar screen in a Presidential year.Will ...

Riot ideology and de-policing A Seattle policeman explained de-policing as: "Parking under a shady tree to work on a crossword puzzle is a great alternative to being labeled a racist and being dragged through an inquest, a review board, an FBI and U.S. attorney investigation, and a lawsuit." According to columnist John Leo, that's precisely what's happening in Cincinnati in the wake of the city's recent riots. There's less patrolling to prevent low-level crimes. Policemen await 911 calls. As a result, crime soars. Since Cincinnati's April riots, sparked by a policeman's shooting of an unarmed black man, arrests are down ...

BY LYNN SWEET AND ABDON PALLASCH STAFF REPORTERS William Kennedy Smith told the Chicago Sun-Times on Tuesday night that he's not going to run for Congress in 2002, but he is keeping the door open for a bid for public office in the future. The Sun-Times broke the news Sunday that Smith, 40, was exploring a bid for a House seat. ''I think anybody in their right mind would consider it an honor to be in public service,'' Smith said. ''I hope sometime in my life to have that honor and that experience.'' The decision not to run for a ...

"All an income tax does is raise the tax burden on Tennesseans and create a way to finance the easy and endless expansion of government. Tennessee does not need a state income tax." Governor Don Sundquist, February 8, 1999 Retorts and Reports -- Wednesday, August 1, 2001 -- TaxFreeTennessee.org Tennessee & North Carolina A Comparative Analysis by Devereaux Cannon North Carolina is often used by Tennessee income tax proponents as an example of what Tennessee could be. The article above indicates that the example may not necessarily be a good one. North Carolina has an income tax; Tennessee does ...

Two notes on the Condit affair. Neither have anything to do with the actual players in the case, California Congressman Gary Condit and former intern Chandra Levy, who has been missing since April 30. I know nothing about them except what I read in the papers. I'm not commenting here on Mr. Condit or Ms. Levy at all, only on how pundits have been looking at the story in the media. One, the press has routinely depicted female interns who have affairs with politicians as victims of predatory males. Commentators have been using this word on both sides of the ...

This is an open letter to those who say they are on the 'Left Socially' while claiming to be 'Conservative in matters of economics', who refuse the historical precepts of the Constitution of the United States and the Rights as enumerated in the Bill of Rights. I am fed-up and offended by the systematic destruction of our civil liberties. Even more, I am fed-up with the way the English language is being used to cover up spurious political activities of liars and traitors (and I use the terms "liars and traitors" in the strictest historical and/or traditional definitions) active today. ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Thousands of jobless people and state employees blocked highways across recession-stricken Argentina on Tuesday, protesting an unpopular government austerity plan and demanding work. The largely peaceful protests were the latest outburst of anger in Argentina, which is sliding into a fourth straight year of recession with unemployment above 16% and a quarter of the population living beneath the poverty line. The roadblocks were scattered across more than 40 cities, blocking key highways and snarling rush-hour traffic. They came a day after the government won congressional approval to implement deep spending cuts in state salaries and ...

By Mark Goldblatt It was just another taping of MTV's Dude, This Sucks in January. The Shower Rangers were winding down their musical comedy segment when, without warning, a member of the act turned his backside to the audience and defecated, splattering teenage spectators. The episode never aired, but today, as MTV celebrates its 20th anniversary, the Shower Rangers' performance stands as a fitting metaphor for what the channel has meant to American culture.Music Television was a cute enough idea when it debuted Aug. 1, 1981: a cable service built around promotional videos for rock 'n' roll songs rather ...

Israel Rejects Condemnations of Strike on Terrorist Headquarters  The IDF Spokesman stated last night that the Hamas terrorists killed in yesterday's missile attack in Shechem were involved in the Dolphinarium attack - which claimed the lives of twenty-one Israeli youths - as well as a series of Netanya bombing attacks and other terrorist activity. According to Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, the cell was responsible for the deaths of 37 persons and the injuring of 379. Ben-Eliezer says that the liquidation of the cell saved countless innocent lives. Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer further clarified that only a few are aware of ...

Ballot Fixing Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter's recipe for more Floridas. In an effort to spare Americans another grueling encounter with dimpled chads and butterfly ballots, a 19-member commission co-chaired by former Presidents Ford and Carter has weighed in with ideas to improve our nation's decentralized election systems. Avoiding the confusion of another Florida is a worthy idea, but we hope Congress thinks carefully before adopting some of the commission's ideas, because some of them could wind up making elections more uncertain and likely to end up in disputes. That said, several of the commission's proposals, which were presented ...