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http://www.fight4choice.com/action/joinCAN/joinForm2.asp I was looking at a free real time quote page and saw an ad for NARAL. It has a picture of Bush on it and says that he sugar coated his views on "choice" and says click here. Thought some Freepers would like to visit this site...Order some info....

American student Tobin released early from Russian prison By JIM HEINTZ The Associated Press 8/3/01 10:24 AM ROSSOSH, Russia (AP) -- American Fulbright scholar John Tobin was released from a Russian prison Friday after serving half of a one-year drug sentence and winning parole, ending a high-profile case that had strained U.S.-Russia relations. Tobin, carrying his belongings in a shopping bag, was escorted by two U.S. Embassy representatives as he left the prison in the southern Russian town of Rossosh. He was freed shortly after a 15-judge panel approved a parole board's recommendation for his release. Tobin did not speak ...

Here's a few snippets from a letter I received from the USAF Reserves just the other day: "As an honorably retired USAF Member, you proudly served the United States for many years"..."What if you could relive those feelings again? You may be able to, because your country still needs you. The Air Fore Reserve is offering potentially eligible retirees the opportunity to return to service part time. We have much to offer you and your family and would welcome your expertise and patriotism" "Since "retiring" your uniform you may have missed serving with your Air Force Family...Accordingly, I'm personally calling ...

Suit filed over wolf killings in Sawtooth Environmentalists say wildlife takes precedence over livestock Dan Gallagher - Associated Press BOISE -- Two environmental groups sued the U.S. Forest Service Thursday, accusing it of putting livestock ahead of gray wolves in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The Idaho Conservation League and Western Watersheds Project said the June 29 killings of two radio-collared wolves from the White Hawk pack by government agents brings the number of slain wolves in central Idaho to 37 since their reintroduction to the state in 1995 and 1996. That total includes wolves legally dispatched and those illegally ...

PEOPLE     FIRST  !!! The Endangered Species Act has recently resulted in the financial ruin of 1,400 families in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and the death of four firefighters in Okanogan National Forest in Winthrop, Washington. THESE   PEOPLE   WERE   SACRIFICED   TO   PROTECT   FISH  !!! IT’S   TIME   TO   STOP   THE   INSANITY   !!! Sign   the   Petition  to   Stop  Taxpayer   Funding   of   the  OUT-OF-CONTROL   Endangered   Species  Act. PEOPLE   FIRST !!

Okinawa governor says anger over U.S. troops `on verge of eruption' By SCOTT STODDARD The Associated Press 8/3/01 10:24 AM TOKYO (AP) -- Anger at crimes committed by U.S. military personnel is "on the verge of eruption," Okinawa's governor said Friday, reiterating his call for a reduction of U.S. military bases on the southern Japanese island. Opposition to the heavy American military presence on Okinawa flared in late June after a U.S. Air Force sergeant allegedly raped a Japanese woman in a parking lot outside a row of bars. The alleged rape came on the heels of a series of ...

Janklow May Kill Adopt-A-Highway Gov. Bill Janklow may terminate the state's Adopt-a-Highway program rather than fight a possible lawsuit by a gay and lesbian group that wants to participate. Under the program, hundreds of groups in the state agree to pick up trash along a chosen stretch of highway in exchange for a sign along the road. The Sioux Empire Gay and Lesbian Coalition applied for a busy stretch of Highway 38 west of Sioux Falls. The Department of Transportation refused the request because SEGLC is an advocacy group. The Sioux Falls group and the American Civil Liberties Union ...

Welcome to Free Republic! .......... Our heroes seem to like white hats.... but .... Don't mess with U.S.! If you are already feeling warm and comfortable - that's a good sign you've found a home in cyberspace. Welcome!!! The posters here are scratching their heads and digging in their bookmarks trying to find just exactly the right links, pictures and information that might be useful to you as you unpack and settle in. So please be patient with us while we try to get this thread better organized for you. Here are some things the posters (called "Freepers") believe ...

Government Sets Life of Young Marines at $200,000; Courts put $105,000,000 Value on Life of 17 year old Even if you didn't have the opportunity to watch the House of Representatives in session it's not hard to figure out what happened simply by watching the expression on the face of Democrat leaders. You can even keep the sound off the TV and figure it out. This week they got royally whomped by President Bush, the guy they have been telling us is an incompetent bumbling idiot on several issues, the most painful of which was the Norwood Patient's Bill of ...

© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com There are a number of angles on the real story behind Arafat's refusal at Camp David, when Barak made all those offers for a peace settlement and the Palestinian president answered "no" to the whole world's surprise. Two dealing with the Temple Mount I think have a special meaning. The first: President Bill Clinton had a long, particular anxiety-ridden discussion over the division of that area, so sacred to both religions. He spoke patiently, carefully, trying out a number of solutions (above and below, the Haram and the Wailing Wall, secular sovereignty and religious sovereignty) for ...

"Only you can prevent forest fires." That’s what Smokey the Bear always says. Obviously, he’s never been a victim of the Endangered Species Act. How can you possibly prevent forest fires if you’re not even allowed to get the water to put it out? Obsolete and a failure, the Endangered Species Act only endangers the livelihoods of farmers and ranchers. Now, in an over-zealous effort to implement ESA provisions protecting fish in the Chewuch waters of Washington State, administrators erred badly, and firefighters died. When the Klamath basin farming community can’t get water to irrigate their crops, that’s bad. When ...

Yes: Dogma blinds the opponents of gender-integrated training to the actual facts. By Lory Manning Many Americans take it as an article of faith that, if some of our military services train some of their recruits in gender-integrated boot camps, it follows that career-obsessed military leaders have sold out to feminists by lowering standards and feminizing training. This is dogma in some circles. The great thing about dogma is that those who believe it don’t have to bother with facts because they are custodians of truth. For the rest of us, fact matters and most Americans think our national-security policy ...

defense plans with the United States and buy American missile technology if a new strategic framework is worked out in talks that open in Washington next week, President Bush's national security adviser says. Even membership in NATO is not ruled out, Condoleezza Rice said in an Associated Press interview as she outlined the Bush administration's concept for converting a relationship rooted in Cold War hostility to one based on friendly cooperation. "I am hopeful there can be a new day with Russia," Rice said. "We are talking about a bigger issue than what we do about missile defenses and strategic ...

Clarity apparently made his last post to Free Republic on the thread sourced above. 1. Does anyone know why? 2. What is the current status of the 9th Circuit appeal that Clarity was handling, and what (if any) effect will his departure have on this matter?

RALEIGH, NC -- Will the Democrats' tried-and-true campaign tactic of justifying every spending program and tax increase with the tag line "For The Children" prove to be effective in Governor "Tax Hike Mike" Easley's efforts to raise taxes in North Carolina? Not if a little girl who attended the Tar Heel Tea Party in Raleigh this past Tuesday, July 31 has her way. For the duration of the rally, the young girl held a sign which read, "Tax my parents more and I can't get a puppy." A photograph of the girl and her sign can be seen on NCRepublicans.com ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dell Computer Corp. (NasdaqNM:DELL - news), the world's No. 1 PC maker, said on Thursday it no longer offers the option of installing Linux (news - web sites) on its personal computers, citing a lack of demand for the alternative operating system. Linux, a rival to Microsoft Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) Windows operating system, has grown increasingly popular for use in powerful computer servers but has struggled to gain acceptance in the desktop market. ``We started offering it about a year ago in anticipation of spill-over demand from servers,'' said Dell spokeswoman Sarah Lavender. ``But we've ...

Published Friday, Aug.  3, 2001, in the San Jose Mercury News Man charged in puppy beating The 3-month-old dog was euthanized after a neighbor beat it with a golf club to stop it from barking at his children, according to Santa Cruz County prosecutors. BY DAVID L.  BECK Mercury News A Santa Cruz man has been charged with using a golf club to beat a barking 3-month-old puppy so badly it had to be euthanized. Steven David Jackson, 36, is charged with malicious mischief under a statute that makes it a felony to intentionally ``maim, mutilate, torture or wound'' an ...

JERUSALEM (August 3) - Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said yesterday in Rome that he is committed to implementing a cease-fire and appealed for the immediate deployment of international observers to help calm tensions. Arafat was in Italy to discuss the Middle East with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Pope John Paul II. "From Rome, I call to stop all forms of violence, including bombardments, and [for] the dispatch of international observers immediately," Arafat said during an airport news conference. Arafat said in an interview published in La Stampa that the situation has deteriorated to the point where it could ...

For fans of former XYT talk radio personality Mark Scott, he will be returning to the(cyber)airwaves Monday August 6. see here

Rarely do trial balloons burst so quickly. During the recent British campaign, Tory shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe had no sooner proposed tougher penalties for marijuana possession than a third of her fellow Tory shadow-cabinet ministers admitted to past marijuana use. Widdecome immediately had to back off. The controversy reflected a split in the party, with the confessors attempting to embarrass Widdecombe politically. But something deeper was at work as well: a nascent attempt to reckon honestly with a drug that has been widely used by baby boomers and their generational successors, a tentative step toward a squaring by the ...