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New Twist in Israeli Soldiers Case by EDIE LEDERER Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A U.N. report revealed the existence Friday of three videotapes related to the abduction of three Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border and indicated they may have been badly injured. Earlier the United Nations acknowledged the existence of only one tape, taken by a U.N. peacekeeper 18 hours after the Oct. 7 abduction. The deputy commander of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon acknowledged in the report that, on humanitarian grounds, the world body should have informed Israel of the tapes' existence earlier. The ...

President fleeing the White House for a month on the ranch By Scott Lindlaw, Associated Press, 8/3/2001 13:53 WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush seems to bolt from the White House every chance he gets. He begins a monthlong vacation on his Texas ranch Saturday, and by the time he returns he will have spent nearly two months of his presidency there. And that doesn't include the many weekends he's spent at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. The White House calls the Texas trip a working vacation and notes that he'll have staff with him to help him ...

In the debate over federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, some of the massive media coverage has been fair, accurate and thorough, but much of it - too much of it - has fallen short of reasonable journalistic standards.By far the most troubling piece I have seen was the editorial, "Zealotry vs Science," published by the Denver Post on July 14. I respect the Post and the force for good it often represents in our community. But in this case, the Post used bombast and misleading information to argue its support for federally funded embryonic stem cell research in ...

Education board votes against requiring creationism in Hawaii science classes By Bruce Dunford, Associated Press, 8/3/2001 13:19 HONOLULU (AP) The state Board of Education has unanimously rejected a proposal to require Hawaii public schools to teach biblical creationism in science classes. The board's Education Committee had wanted to include multiple theories of how humans began as part of a performance standard for science. That would have effectively included the belief that God abruptly created life. Before Thursday's vote, scientists from the University of Hawaii and science teachers ridiculed the idea as an alternative theory to evolution. ''I hope and trust ...

August 3, 2001 So we've been lying to you Gary M. Galles      President Bush's Social Security Commission staff has just issued an interim report concluding that "the system is broken." Despite the immediate flurry of objections from reform opponents, it contains no surprises, reflecting what has long been known to anyone who has studied the issue carefully. But very few people are in that group. And that is the key.      The main point of the report is essentially to admit that, when it comes to central claims made to defend Social Security, the government and other apologists of the system ...

Liberals were jumping for joy last week because they scored another big court win against liberty, privacy and the American rule of law. On May 21, the United States Supreme Court said it is legal for certain people (me included) to receive stolen goods and use them for personal and commercial gain. Yippee! Finally, I too get a free pass on something. I am now a protected class on one little topic and may now violate the law with impunity. Yeah, for once, after all this sickening liberal claptrap these idiots have been spouting over the years, they sent ...

DeLay to Limbaugh: 'I've Vote Against My Principles' The Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which authorizes federal grants to local public schools kindergarten through 12th grade, and which was the vehicle for President Bush’s education reform plans, is now in a contentious House-Senate conference committee. The bill includes a federal testing program and a massive increase in federal education spending. Last year, Congress approved $18.5 billion in grants for primary and secondary education. The House version of this year’s bill would up that 24% to $23 billion, while Senate version hikes it 122% to $41 billion. Both versions would ...

TROPICAL STORM BARRY INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 5A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1 PM CDT FRI AUG 03 2001 ...BARRY NEARLY STATIONARY AND BECOMING BETTER ORGANIZED... A TROPICAL STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA FROM THE MOUTH OF THE PEARL RIVER TO MORGAN CITY LOUISIANA. AT 1 AM CDT...1800Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM BARRY WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 26.9 NORTH...LONGITUDE 87.2 WEST OR ABOUT 185 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. BARRY IS NEARLY STATIONARY OR DRIFTING SLOWLY TOWARD THE WEST. A GRADUAL SLOW INCREASE IN FORWARD MOTTION TOWARD THE WEST OR WEST-NORTHWEST ...

Washington, DC – "Senate Democrats are apparently not satisfied with demoting Republicans on Senate Committees. Now they’ve decided to demote God as well," said Andrea Lafferty, Executive Director of Traditional Values Coalition today. "Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has just exposed an undercurrent of anti-God bigotry in the U.S. Senate that needs to be exposed," said Lafferty. "The Senator has challenged his Democrat colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee to explain why they have dropped ‘So help me God,’ from the oaths administered to nominees who come before the committee for confirmation." The practice of ending a sworn oath with "So ...

WASHINGTON, August 3 — Six months into his presidency, George W. Bush is quietly and steadily using the federal government’s far-reaching regulatory authority to stamp his imprint on American society. Aided by a cadre of appointees who are skeptical of government regulation, if not hostile to it, Mr. Bush is easing enforcement of many government rules. And the effects of the changes are beginning to reverberate throughout the nation’s economy, among banks and hospitals, oil companies and telecommunications giants, employers with labor-management problems and corporations seeking tax breaks. At the Department of Health and Human Services, a top official has ...

Friday August 3 12:33 PM ET State Official-US Against Targeted Israeli Killings By Elaine Monaghan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior State Department official said on Friday the United States remained opposed to Israel's policy of targeted killings of suspected Palestinian militants despite remarks by Vice President Dick Cheney suggesting Israel had ``some justification'' for the policy. The long-standing U.S. position has been that Washington opposes the Israeli government's policy of killing Palestinians who it fears are planning bombing attacks on Israelis. Secretary of State Colin Powell just reinforced the position on Wednesday in a telephone call with Israeli Prime Minister ...

Report estimates 850,000 homeschooled Most have well-educated parents, live in one-income home, study shows Greg Toppo APBaltimore Sun August 3, 2001, 12:17 PM EDT WASHINGTON — In the first detailed profile of homeschooled children, a government report reveals that most live in cities and have well-educated parents rearing a handful of children on one income. About 850,000 of the nation's 50 million schoolchildren are being taught at home rather than in schools, according to a study released this week by the U.S. Department of Education. It calculates that 1.7 percent of American children were homeschooled in 1999, resulting in a ...

Yet another national group that once had a reason for being has outlived its usefulness and turned into little more than a bunch of common buttinskis. Notice all those police roadblocks on the highway lately? Don’t blame the cops. They don’t know any better. Sure, they took the same oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution as everyone else in government did. But, well, that was a long time ago for most of them and attitudes change after they are on the street for a few years. “Liberty” is basically a foreign word for some of today’s ...

August 3, 2001 Heeding the light on the dashboard Gale Norton California's rolling blackouts have become less frequent. Gasoline prices have fallen from peak levels. Air quality is stable. America is getting back to business as usual. We shouldn't be.      This week the U.S. House approved legislation that if passed by the Senate and signed into law, would be our country's first comprehensive energy plan in a generation. The House bill, Save America's Future Energy Act (SAFE), recognizes Americans must not become complacent. It provides many important common-sense solutions that will work not just tomorrow, but for decades to come. ...

Federal judge orders North Smithfield election By Brian Carovillano, Associated Press, 8/3/2001 13:28 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) A federal judge ordered North Smithfield to hold elections in November, ruling that the town's failure to schedule a vote for town offices this year violated the U.S. Constitution. In could be a precedent-setting decision, U.S. District Judge Mary Lisi said Friday that town officials were guilty of ''woeful conduct'' when they opted to skip the 2001 elections and extend the terms of sitting town council and school committee members by a year. ''North Smithfield has been brought back into America,'' said Robert Rossi, ...

PHILADELPHIA –– A federal court has thrown out a challenge from the broadcasting industry against the U.S. Copyright Office, which ruled late last year that radio stations must pay extra royalties to broadcast over the Internet. The ruling was a major defeat for operators of radio stations, many of whom also operate Web sites that carry the content of their broadcasts live. If the court's ruling stands, they will have to pay licensing fees to songwriters, music publishers and record companies. U.S. District Judge Berle M. Schiller ruled Wednesday that although it might make sense for Congress to treat Internet ...

Most American patriots are familiar with the basic thrust of The Federalist Papers of Hamilton, Jay and Madison, or at least they should be. Much of its content is worthwhile. But it remains a fact that the Federalists ignored or played down the various parts of the proposed constitution that would later be exploited to facilitate the rise of tyrannical centralized power in America. Comparatively little is known to the average patriot about the opponents of the Federalist trio, the largely anonymous papers of the Anti-Federalists. As one reads these fascinating dissenters, one is immediately struck by their incredible ability ...

White House Wants Brown Gone Friday, August 03, 2001 Email this Article WASHINGTON — White House officials are looking for ways to remove the current head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission after a Senate committee sank President Bush's choice to take over the panel. Asked Friday if the White House was studying whether it could legally strip CPSC Chairwoman Ann Brown of her post, Bush strategist Nicholas Calio replied, "The issue has come up and, you know, there are legal opinions available." He said no determination has been made. "We're reassessing," said Calio, the White House's top liaison to ...

There are now, according to a new release from the Education Department, about 850,000 American children who study at home. Soon they will be a million. "The million home-schooled American children are a triumph and a tragedy," said Rabbi David Eidensohn. "They are a triumph because a parent who has a child home all day is a brave and heroic person, and the child benefits from superior schooling. They are, however, also a tragedy, because the billions of dollars spent to prepare children for public school pedophiles come from the taxes paid by these parents, and the benefits are denied ...

The following is an article regarding the scale of military spending in this nation and the high degree of waste and fraud involved therein. It's relevence to TWA 800 is twofold. First, that weapons systems are often procurred purely on the basis of buying votes, not on whether the system is effective or even works, and second, that there is a huge financial incentive to keep the lid on the TWA 800 shoot down rather than risk a public re-examination of why so much money is spent for systems that do not perform that well. The following should be ...