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Thursday August 2 12:39 AM ET Republican Senators Offer Kyoto Treaty Alternative Republican Senators Offer Kyoto Treaty Alternative By Chris BaltimoreWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A trio of conservative Republican senators on Wednesday rolled out a bill they said was the U.S. answer to the Kyoto global warming treaty rejected by the Bush administration.The legislation proposed by Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Frank Murkowski of Alaska and Larry Craig of Idaho would spend $2 billion over 10 years on new technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.The bill, which faces opposition among congressional Democrats, would also earmark $1 billion to sell the technology to ...

Johnny can't read because his teachers aren't teaching him how. That, in a nutshell, was the explanation provided by a California state task force for California's bottom-of-the-barrel performance on the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Concluding that the state's experimentation with "progressive" teaching methods had proved an abysmal failure, the task force urged a complete kindergarten-to-university overhaul of teaching methods, textbooks, and teacher training to ensure that all children are reading independently no later than the end of the third grade. That would certainly be an improvement for the California public school system, many of whose students still manage ...

Wednesday August 01 08:37 PM EDT "Pie 2" Condoms Condemned "Pie 2" Condoms Condemned Stifler's mom: good. Promoting safe sex in a raunchy teen comedy: bad. That, at least, was the original spin from the maker of LifeStyles Condoms, which sent out a scathing press release Monday claiming Universal Pictures backed out of a promotional deal for its teen-sex sequel, American Pie 2, out of fear that the condom-laced ads might be too controversial. It turns out, however, that LifeStyles' angry statement was, um, prematurely released. Ansell Healthcare, the New Jersey-based company that makes LifeStyles, claimed Monday it had an ...

GO HERE FOR THREAD I William La Jeunesse asks; "What really happened at the 30 mile fire? Well, investigators from two federal agencies are trying to find out. One of the questions they're asking is this. Did a policy to protect fish endanger firemen? District Ranger John Newcom says, "We have Chinook Salmon, we have Steelhead, we have Bull trout, um all three of those species are in the Chewuch and they all are a consideration as we fight fire.William La Jeuness: "A consideration but not an obsticle insists Ranger John Newcomb. But two veteran firefighters with intimate knowledge of ...

JACKSONVILLE -- Under a white revival tent, 2,000 people obey the stocky, 37-year-old preacher, who is on the roll of his life. Shake hands with the soul next to you, he says. Hug all those people over there. Go ahead. Join hands. Give each other high fives. Lift up your arms and sing. It's going-to-church time on a vacant lot along Moncrief Road, but the picture is out of whack. It feels like Sunday morning, but the calendar says it's Tuesday. And in an area of Jacksonville that is 98 percent black, about a third of the faces looking back ...

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Thursday, August 2 10:26 PM SGT Milosevic-era TV chief charged over staff deaths in NATO raids BELGRADE, Aug 2 (AFP) - The former head of Serbian television has been charged over his alleged responsibility for the deaths of 16 station employees during 1999 NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia, a local court here said Thursday. Dragoljub Milanovic -- head of the station during the rule of former president Slobodan Milosevic -- was arrested in February on suspicion that he had known that NATO planned to bomb the building but did nothing to alert employees. NATO saw the state television building in ...

Gary Dempsey, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute, is the lead author of the recently published book, "Fool's Errands: America's Recent Encounters with Nation Building." Earlier in July, the Bush administration dispatched special envoy James Pardew to Macedonia to pressure the government there into peace talks with ethnic Albanians. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has since offered up U.S. troops to NATO should the alliance go in as a peacekeeping force. It would be America's third Balkan intervention in 6 years, and a cynical attempt to save face. For Washington's deepening diplomatic and military involvement in Macedonia is ...

2-Aug-2001 -- EWTN News Brief UNITED NATIONS ORDERS GUATEMALA TO LOOSEN ABORTION LAW GENEVA, (CWNews.com/LSN.ca) - The United Nations Human Rights Committee concluded its seventy-second session last Friday and issued its final conclusions and recommendations, including a demand that Guatemala legalize abortion.In its recommendations to Guatemala the committee said the Central American country "must guarantee the right to the life of pregnant women who decide to interrupt their pregnancies." The committee also ordered the country to provide pregnant women with "the information and the means necessary to guarantee these rights." Finally it said that Guatemala must protect the right ...

2-Aug-2001 -- EWTN Pro-Family News LESBIAN GIRL SCOUT LEADER ASSAULTS 12 YEAR OLD GIRL (cultureandfamily.org) -- A former Manchester, New Hampshire, Girl Scout leader has been given a 90-day suspended sentence for French kissing a 12-year-old girl at a troop sleepover. Mindy Lorenz, 19, pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a minor, involving a February 18 incident at a Troop 2757 sleepover at St. John the Baptist Church parish hall, a spokesman for the Swiftwater Council told the Union Ledger. The troop has 15 fourth- through sixth-grade girls as members. The victimized girl told police ...

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Bill Maher a libertarian? Dunno. Check out this transcript with Larry King. King pounces on Maher and Maher pounces on Starr.

Woman Whose Murder Conviction Was Overturned Sues Officials Over 16 Years Spent in Prison By Jim Suhr Associated Press Writer Published: Aug 2, 2001 ST. LOUIS (AP) - A woman who spent 16 years in prison before her murder conviction was set aside sued the state, the prosecutor and the case's investigators for wrongful incarceration. Ellen Reasonover's federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday, alleges that a prosecutor withheld a secretly made jailhouse recording in which Reasonover denied killing a 19-year-old gas station attendant during a botched robbery in 1983. The recording contradicted the testimony of jailhouse informers who testified at Reasonover's ...

California's senior senator indicated Wednesday that she believes Rep. Gary Condit's political career is finished. She accused him of lying to her about his affair with Chandra Levy and said there is nothing "(Condit) can do to regain his credibility." The scorching criticism of Condit by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a fellow Democrat and one of California's most influential public figures, shed light on the political difficulty Condit faces amid questions about his conduct since Levy disappeared three months ago. In her first public statement about the northern California congressman, Feinstein said Condit lied to her when she questioned him several ...

THE FOLLOWING LETTER TO THE EDITOR WAS WRITTEN BY A RECALL MCCAIN VOLUNTEER. Regarding the recent "My Turn" column by Pat Murphy, "McCain's pals pale beside Barry's buddies": Murphy is either very shallow or attempting a sleight-of-hand demonstration on Republic readers. Nobody I know involved in the McCain, R-Media, recall attempt is upset by his friendships with Democrats. They are upset about McCain's unconstitutional bills: the McCain-Feingold Incumbent Protection Act, the McCain-Lieberman Gunshow Attendee Registration Act, and the McCain-Kennedy-Edwards National Insurance Act. Not their official names but apt descriptions. Why isn't the media clamoring about unconstitutionality of these bills? McCain-Feingold ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Wednesday that he is displeased with the automaker Toyota, saying the company has not, in his estimation, made enough progress on improving its image and relationship with minorities to stave off a boycott he has threatened to promote through his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Speaking in Washington, where he was to attend a conference of the National Urban League, Jackson said "The facts have not changed ... Toyota has 1,400 dealerships, and 55 are black- or brown-owned ... Unless some progress is made, we will have to begin some sanctions." Jackson originally called for a boycott after ...

The nation's fourth- and eighth-grade students have made slow, steady progress in math over the past decade, but only one in four is doing math proficiently, a national test found. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as ''the nation's report card,'' shows that 25 percent of public-school fourth-graders performed at or above the ''proficient'' level in 2000. In 1992, 17 percent did. Fourth-graders' average scores in the 500-point test were 226 in 2000. That is four points higher than in 1996 and eight points higher than in 1992. The percentage of public-school eighth-graders doing math proficiently rose to 26 ...

Senate Panel Defeats Bush Nominee By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday voted against President Bush (news - web sites)'s choice to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission (news - web sites), dealing Mary Sheila Gall's nomination a potentially fatal blow. Gall, who had been assailed by Democrats as too pro-business in her votes as a member of the commission, was defeated in a party line vote of 12-11. Sen. John McCain (news - bio - voting record), R-Ariz., a Gall supporter, made a motion that her nomination be sent to ...

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2 Party at Howlin's ALL PREVIOUS THREADS PROJECT DAFFODIL-Updated Summary 7-25-01 In light of the Daffodil Principle where individual efforts over time add up to a mammoth contribution, we use this lesson as we seek to promote conservatism, the Republican Party and the administration of George Bush. Here is the link to the article if you are interested. THE DAFFODIL PRINCIPLE List of suggested projects: Volunteer/Get Involved in Republican Party, in individual campaigns Join GOP groups-Republican Business Women's Assn, become ...