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Klamath Falls Policeman suspended for political speech Should police Lieutenant Jack Redfield be placed on administrative leave for comments he made at a farmers rally in Klamath Falls? No. (75) 61% Yes. (47) 38% Total Votes: 122 CLICK HERE FOR POLL

The D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com arrived on station and ready for business at 1230. Our duty station was on the lawn in front of the East Wing of the Capitol - between the Capitol and the House of Representatives building. The honor roll included Kristinn, Angelwood, Commiesout, GunsareOK and Dave Dilegge - plus the many local and out-of-town tourists who offered their kind words of support and encouragement. Special kudos to TGSLTakoma for burning the midnight oil constructing the most excellent signs! First the pics and then an observation or two: Kristinn Kristinn and GunsareOK - Capitol in Background ...

This summer marks the 10th anniversary of what most call "the summer of mercy." It can better be described as the great awakening. In the hottest months of 1991, Wichita took America's center stage as pro-life forces confronted the atrocity of abortion. The clinic run by Dr. George Tiller, who probably performs more late trimester abortions then any other doctor in the United States, became a target. In the span of 46 days, there were more than 2,500 arrests of protesters. But as is the case with beckoning mercy, there was a mighty response. As awareness grew, apathy subsided and ...

CNN is asking whether we support drilling or not

Newsday.com - AP - Bush to Replace US Attorney in N.Y. Top News Lotteries International National Washington Business Wall Street Entertainment Health/Science Regional Sports Baseball Football Basketball Hockey Soccer College Tennis/Golf Other Sports Newsday.com News Sports Business Leisure Opinion Great Local Stuff Site Index AP National Bush to Replace US Attorney in N.Y. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration will nominate its own candidate for U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, replacing a Democrat overseeing two politically sensitive cases, a Justice Department official said Thursday. The White House began announcing its U.S. attorney nominees this week, ...

PRESS RELEASE July 31, 2001 WEA is found guilty...again By Lynn Harsh, Evergreen Freedom Foundation Olympia - Thurston County Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor today issued a “guilty” verdict against the Washington Education Association (WEA) for what he characterized as intentional violations in the union’s use of mandatory teacher dues and fees for politics. The combined penalties, sanctions and reimbursements ordered by the court make this the largest fine ever levied against the WEA - likely more than $500,000. Tabor assessed a $200,000 civil penalty against the union, which he doubled to $400,000 as a punitive sanction saying he found, ...

Senate Confirms Robert Mueller as FBI DirectorWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly confirmed President Bush's nomination of Robert Mueller as director of the FBI. The vote was 98-0. Mueller, 56, now the U.S. attorney for the northern district of California, will succeed Louis Freeh, who stepped down in June. Bush picked Mueller to head as well as repair the nation's top crime-fighting agency, which has been hit by a series of blunders in recent years, from misplaced files to lost or stolen weapons to a Russian spy in its own ranks. During two days of testimony ...

Killings suspect claims he tried to surrender to FBI By Denise Lavoie, Associated Press, 8/2/2001 18:46 BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) A man who admitted he killed three strangers in a weeklong crime spree returned to his hometown of Abington intending to kill a police officer and plan bank robberies, prosecutors said Thursday. Gary Sampson, 41, whose most recent address was Tamworth, N.H., was ordered held without bail in separate arraignments for two murders Thursday. He pleaded innocent in Brockton District Court to stabbing to death Jonathan Rizzo, 19, a college student from Kingston, and pleaded innocent in Plymouth County Court to ...

Fla. day-care director charged after allegedly waving handgun at childrenCRESCENT CITY, Fla. (AP) A day-care center director has been charged with a felony after allegedly waving a handgun in front of 35 children after a child opened the door to a bathroom while she was inside. Debra Lynn Albecker, 45, told police the children had asked about guns after playing a video game that included guns, Officer Michael Whetstone said. She said the 9mm Glock semiautomatic was unloaded and none of the children touched it, Whetstone said. Albecker had worked at the Kiddie Korner Day Care Center for 20 years. ...

As the controversy rages on as to whether or not films create violence in our society, i.e., cause people to be violent, Tom Laughlin, a man uniquely qualified to give an unprecedented insight into the depths of this problem, because he is the only expert on this subject who is both a highly successful actor and filmmaker, and at the same time a renowned teacher of psychology, specializing in the psychology of violence at schools of psychology, medical schools, and departments of psychiatry at Universities from Yale to Stanford and many more, has written a book that is certain to ...

Even for a white Southerner, the spectacle of the scalawag disgracer-in-chief's installing himself in the big house of his latest political plantation, smack in the midst of black Harlem, is nauseatingly reminiscent of bad times not forgotten in the land of cotton. From Clinton's spectacular top-floor veranda overlooking Central Park, where he may conveniently overlook blacks and others being routinely rousted, the Arkansas mas'r may gaze down on his less-affluent and -exalted subjects trying to get a life in the environs of West 125th Street. It is a scene all too familiar to descendants, white and black, of denizens of ...

On April 3, 1996, 35 people died in a mysterious plane crash in Croatia. One of the victims was a cabinet member, Ron Brown, Secretay of Commerce. Four forensics specialists, three of them respected officers, blew the whistle on the botched investigation of the bodies. They were persecuted by the military, and next to nothing has resulted from their sacrifice. They even produced photographic eividence, which makes one wonder why the head of AFIP made a special visit to the White House: "One that still haunts her [Kathleen Janoski] has to do with a White House meeting attended by the ...

Murder-suicide was apparently the cause of death of the three teens found in the squalid mobile home in North Carolina. An investigator says the three former Mesa teens found dead in their family's squalid mobile home in North Carolina apparently died in a murder-suicide. Captain Dale Wheeler says the weapon was a 22-caliber semiautomatic rifle. He says a total of 16 shots had been fired. Wheeler says 19-year-old Marnie Warren and 13-year-old Bradley Warren were shot numerous times. The gun was found beside the body of 14-year-old Brandon Warren, who had a single gunshot wound in his mouth. The investigator ...

IT LOOKS like the National Organization for Women (NOW) has let their whole staff out on summer vacation. That, or they're hypocrites. Those are the only two possible explanations for their deafening silence in the case of Rep. Gary Condit (D-CA). Condit, a married congressman, slept with a young intern and misled police after she disappeared without a trace. You'd expect the feminist groups to be the first to take up arms. But then you'd be overlooking the fact that Condit is a Democratic congressman. A search for "Condit" on the NOW web site (www.now.org) came up with nothing about ...

Rice aims for new strategic framework with Russia that could include sharing missile technology, joint military exercises By Barry Schweid, Associated Press, 8/2/2001 18:06 WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration will try to work out a new strategic framework with Russia that could include joint military exercises and sharing of missile technology provided Russia stops assisting Iran and North Korea, White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. With Russian military experts due in Washington for talks next Tuesday and Wednesday, Rice said Moscow has not yet accepted the concept. But she said in an interview with The Associated Press: ...

The Confederate flag is caught in the cross hairs of political correctness. As far as symbols go, the flag represents a place that no longer exists, except in the hearts and minds of those who seek to celebrate their heritage. This apparently is too much bear amid the squishy sensibilities of 2001, 136 years after the fact. These, after all, are the enlightened forces of the political left and the mushy-headed thinkers who, after stroking their chins, discovered that Columbus was a very bad man and not really much of a discoverer at all. Not surprisingly, the boat back ...

Expanding on a $1.5 million effort to keep kids in school, the Milwaukee School Board will consider a proposal Thursday to temporarily relax rules that bench student-athletes and silence young musicians if they get bad grades. Milwaukee Public Schools administrators view participation in extracurricular activities as crucial to getting students hooked on school. The board last spring approved pumping more money into sports, music and academic teams such as forensics. Now, MPS wants to make sure it doesn't bar participation by the struggling students who would benefit most. "If this will get them actively engaged - increase their confidence, increase ...

RACIST MESSAGES IN BOXES OF FOOD PROMPT LEGISLATION By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter WASHINGTON - A stream of messages-often racist ones-tucked inside food boxes, have prompted lawmakers to push for legislation that would make placing messages in food packaging a federal crime. Food companies said they are receiving a rising number of consumer complaints about leaflets and other materials with offensive messages that were slipped into packages of cereals, pizzas and other foods while on store shelves. Since the materials don't actually touch the food-they are generally placed between the cardboard box and the inside packaging-the activity isn't ...

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Bush to name replacement for Democratic prosecutor in New York By Associated Press, 8/2/2001 18:18 WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration will nominate its own candidate for U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, replacing a Democrat overseeing two politically sensitive cases, a Justice Department official said Thursday. The White House began announcing its U.S. attorney nominees this week, but the official could not give a time frame for when a candidate would be named to replace Mary Jo White, a holdover from the Clinton administration. The administration did not move earlier to replace White because of her work ...