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Prayers requested during week of 7/29/01 Mr. K going through a child custody situation Update on RMDupree's cousin--Surgery successful!! Mrs.LoneGOPinCT's mother in surgery on 8/02/01 Latest update on Grassontop's grandson's and father's situation 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 ...

Firefighters die so fish won't! "Firefighters struggling to contain a blaze in central Washington State that ultimately killed four of their own were hampered in their efforts by a federal policy to protect endangered fish, Fox News has learned. "Firefighters were unable to douse the deadly fire in Okanogan National Forest in Winthrop, Wash., in July because of delays in granting permission for fire-fighting helicopters to use water from nearby streams and rivers protected by the Endangered Species Act, according to sources close to the fire. " When people are left to burn to death so the poor widdle fishies ...

What O’Reilly Doesn’t Know by Sheldon Richman, August 2001 Bill O’Reilly, populist star of the Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor may be the hottest television property around, but he doesn’t know beans about how markets work. The other night he charged the oil companies with conspiring to keep gasoline prices high. He quoted a 1995 Chevron memo stating that refining capacity was too high and profits too low. In much of the 1990s, you’ll recall, gasoline prices were historically low, and profits were down. In 1998 I was buying gasoline for 73 cents a gallon in the south. Adjusted for ...

The Sham of Political Compromise by Sheldon Richman, August 2001 Writing on the New York Times op-ed page recently, new Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle called for “a spirit of principled compromise.” The top Democrat presumably means compromise with the Republicans. He’s in luck. Compromise with the Senate Republicans is entirely possible — because they hold the same reactionary principles as the Democrats. Compromise is mutual concession-making in search of agreement. Implied in the concept is that the two parties share common ground. When a buyer and seller of real estate bargain and settle on a price somewhere between the ...

Indian sculptor Vinay Wagh displays his masterpiece, a fiber-glass bust of former President Bill Clinton, at his workshop in Bombay, India, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2001. "Clinton's features are a sculptor's dream", says Wagh, a die-hard Clinton fan. Wagh plans to present the bust to Clinton via the U.S. Consulate in Bombay for his 55th birthday on Aug. 19. (AP Photo/Sherwin Crasto)

Immoral to Ban Human Cloning By Harry Binswanger On Monday, the Bush administration declared itself "unequivocally opposed" to human cloning, whether for stem-cell research or reproduction. "The moral and ethical issues posed by human cloning are profound and cannot be ignored in the quest for scientific discovery." The premise here is apparent: until a scientist can satisfy the religiously minded, the scientist cannot proceed. Science functions by permission of religion. On this premise, we would not have anesthesia, birth control, or, arguably, the wheel. In a free society, the principle is not: ban everything, then allow a few exceptions. Rather, ...

Daytime TV fans know Rosie O'Donnell as the wisecracking "Queen of Nice" — someone who gets giddy over simple things like the toys from a McDonald's Happy Meal or the latest antics of her children. But in the new issue of her magazine, "Rosie," the comic shows her serious side and discusses her bouts of the blues and her use of anti-depressant drugs. Until now, O'Donnell, who has joked about the matter on TV, has never talked seriously about her depression. And while she won't reveal which medication she's taking, she does admit that she's been getting the help ...

Those of us who have long dismissed the National Education Association as a tool of the Democratic Party have been badly mistaken. Apparently it's just the opposite. As documents now sealed under a judge's order indicate, it's the Democratic Party that is the tool of the NEA. That, at least, is the gist of a report from the Federal Election Commission, all the more tantalizing because the object of its investigation was not the NEA but the AFL-CIO. Yet the NEA's name surfaces again and again as one of those organizations that, in return for financial contributions, were given seats ...

THIRD TEMPLE CORNERSTONE CAUSES TERROR AND FEAR On Wednesday, 25 July, the Israeli Supreme Court decided that the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement would be allowed on Sunday to bring the cornerstone for the Third Temple to the area of the southern Hulda Gates of the Temple Mount which was the main entrance for the First and Second Temple. The Court denied the petition by the Temple Mount Faithful to enter the Temple Mount to pray and lay the cornerstone on the Temple Mount. The plan to bring the cornerstone to the area near the Temple ...

Call to Action: DC Chapter protests in support of Klamath area farmers The DC Chapter of FreeRepublic.com will hold protests in front of the White House NorthEast gate in support of the farmers in the Klamath Basin area. Date: August 4, 2001 Location: NE gate outside the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue Times: Aug 4: 10 am to 2 pm. Conduct: DC Chapter Rules for Protesting apply. Needed: Patriots willing to stand in the gap. Distribute Press Releases for this? Coordinate on this thread please. Dave Dilegge has offered to host the images for the AAR (Thx, Dave). Following are ...

Kids found living in hot storage unit Casselberry - For the past two months, an 8-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl were sporadically locked inside a storage unit while their mother went to work, police said Wednesday. The unit had no air conditioning. Temperatures insdie likely exceeded 100 degrees on many days, a storage-yard employee said. There was no toilet or running water, just a bucket for the brother and sister to use. /Their mother was arrested Wednesday after the children were found with the family dog, padlocked inside Unit A37 at Uncle Bob's Self Storage. There was a bowl of ...

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WASHINGTON – Democrats are weighing in on the immigration debate with a push for a broad legalization plan, a right for guest workers to unionize and improvements in border safety. Democrats say the plan they will outline Thursday will be more comprehensive than what the Bush administration is considering. "Unlike what we're seeing on the other side of the aisle, which is a strategy to win Hispanic voters, we are trying to put together a proposal that will cover everybody – not limited to Mexico – that is fair and that recognizes the contributions of immigrants," said Rep. Silvestre Reyes, ...

Dorit Meyer was so excited to see hubby-to-be James Cashin on Tuesday night, she left her wedding dress in the taxi. Now the frantic couple is scrambling to retrieve the $1,500 champagne-colored dress - which Meyer successfully transported all but 50 feet of the nearly 4,000-mile journey from her home in Hamburg, Germany, to Brooklyn. "I'm freaking out. I feel so stupid," said Meyer, 34. "The whole time I was sitting with it, I was saying, 'Don't forget.'u8" The couple immediately reported the missing dress to the Taxi and Limousine Commission, which is working with the Port Authority and ...

Good Morning!! Free the Senate! No Senate, no justice, no peace. All is not well in Rat land: Senator Feinstein (D-KA) said she cannot forgive Rep. Conditit (D-KA) for his behavior and believes his political carreer is finished, saying there is nothing the man can do to rehabilitate himself. There is more bad news in Rat land: There is a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, and it shows President Bush has an approval rating of 59%. And the bad news doesn't stop for folks in Rat land: The House approved drilling in ANWR. But here in the FreeRepublic, looks like ...

The last time Nohemi Herbello Cruz saw her mother, it was on the other side of the Florida Straits nearly two years ago. Then 8, she waved through tears as Milagros Cruz Cano, a blind dissident, left Cuba with their two small, mixed-breed dogs. The Cuban government allowed Cruz to take her pets, but not her daughter. ``She said, `Mama, take Chulito and Pelusa out of the cage and let me go with you, dressed like a puppy,' '' Cruz said. On Tuesday, exactly 651 days later, Nohemi -- along with grandmother Silvia Caridad Cano and her aunt, Marlen Reyes ...

ATLANTA -- Democratic leaders, greeted by protests over their vote six months ago to change Georgia's flag, promised yesterday to be partisan but fair as the General Assembly opened a special session to redraw Georgia's legislative district lines. "The U.S. Supreme Court has now recognized that making political judgment calls is at the heart of the reapportionment process," said Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, presiding officer of the Senate, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 32-24. And in the other chamber, House Majority Leader Larry Walker sought to assure minority Republicans that they will be given an opportunity to change any plan that ...

Headline: "Taiwanese Just Adore the Enemy: Islanders are moving in droves to mainland China--particularly Shanghai--to seek their fortunes, despite the two governments' deep rift." By CHING-CHING NI and TYLER MARSHALL, Times Staff Writers SHANGHAI -- Jimmy Li was an ordinary Taiwanese cop. He never expected to find a new career in mainland China, much less settle down there with his wife, two kids and his mother-in-law. But a nine-room apartment, a live-in maid, a chauffeur, great food, sports and shopping in a culturally familiar setting at a fraction of the cost at home made the decision a no-brainer. Forget about ...

Aug 2, 2001Nigerian Beheaded for Drug Smuggling The Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A Nigerian man was beheaded Thursday for smuggling cocaine, the Saudi Interior Ministry said. Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin Dan Azumi was carrying the drug inside his body, according to the ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. The ministry did not say in which part of his body the drugs were found or the amount. He was executed in the Red Sea port city of Jiddah. The ministry did not say at what port of entry he was arrested, but executions generally ...

Montana Considers Regulating the Use of Snowmobiles on the Water After a Man's Death By Bob Anez Associated Press Writer Published: Aug 2, 2001 HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Gary Hoyt couldn't swim and was afraid of the water. Yet friends apparently persuaded him to climb aboard a snowmobile, open the throttle and drive it across a reservoir on a hot July evening. Hoyt made it safely to the opposite shore, skipping the heavy machine over the water's surface. He turned the sled around on the bank and gunned the engine to begin the 200-yard return trip. Just 50 feet ...