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By Authority of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States of America To United States Department of Justice Serve: Attorney General John Ashcroft You are hereby commanded to produce the things identified on the attached schedule before the full committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives of the United States, of which the Hon. Dan Burton is chairman, by producing such things in room 2157 of the Rayburn Building, in the city of Washington, on September 11, 2001, at the hour of 5:00 PM To Danleigh Halfast or US Marshals Service to serve and ...

Belarus: Device explodes near US embassy information centre in Minsk BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Sep 9, 2001 Text of report in English by Russian news agency Interfax Minsk, 9 September: An unidentified explosive device went off in the near vicinity of the information centre of the US Embassy in Minsk on Sunday evening [9 September]. The explosion occurred in a kindergarten adjacent to the information centre, destroying a bench and damaging a veranda roof, an Interfax correspondent has reported from the scene. No-one was injured. Officials from the US Embassy to Belarus confirmed the information about the explosion ...

GOP Mulls a New Face By SHERRY BEBITCH JEFFE Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a senior scholar in the School of Policy, Planning and Development at USC. She's also a political analyst for KCAL-TV September 9th, 2001 While California Republicans were wooing Arnold Schwarzenegger in hopes he'd save their electoral bacon, they may have been flirting with the wrong actor. Make it "Leonardo DiCaprio for governor," for surely the party's latest scheme to bring it back from the near-dead is the political equivalent of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. When the state GOP meets ...

Where are our leaders? When are they going to do something about this corruption? When are the laws going to change to these people accountable for their actions? Who died and made social workers G-d? National Outrage Web Site Reform CPR website Parents Falsely Accused website A Voice For The Children website

ALGIERS, Sept. 9 — Suspected Islamist rebels attacked a funeral in western Algeria, killing 11 people, the official APS news agency reported on Sunday.        The attack took place at around 9:00 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Saturday and was carried out by an armed group, APS said in a brief statement.        Ten people were killed initially, but the toll reached 11 on Sunday with the death of an elderly man who had been wounded.        Several others were wounded, at least three seriously.        Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni visited ...

Did the recount decision in Bush vs. Gore hurt the Supreme Court's credibility? Yes 56% No 42% Undecided 2% 2210 responses When we first started this thread this afternoon, the numbers looked like this: Yes 75% No 23% Undecided 2% 775 responses Their 52-point lead has shriveled to a mere 14 points. Let's keep up the outstanding Freeping! But remember, this is a left-wing news media organization and they will shamelessly delete any vote that traces back to Free Republic. Therefore I am not posting a link. Please cut and paste the following URL address, then scroll down to the ...

LAGOS, Nigeria, Sept. 8 — President Olusegun Obasanjo called out the army Saturday to combat Muslim-Christian violence raging in a northern Nigerian city, where terrified residents told of churches and homes burned and bodies piling up in the streets.        Authorities imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew to quell the fighting, which erupted Friday night at the time of Muslim prayers — some said, when a Christian woman angered Muslims by trying to cross a street where Muslim men were praying.        One young man in Jos said he was part of a mob of Christians who ...

Does a fellow Freeper happen to have Mike Mcnulty's e-mail address?

New Christian Take on the Old Dating Ritual By LAURIE GOODSTEIN ORRISTOWN, Tenn., Sept. 5 — Casey Moss and Kara Price never dated each other, or anyone else. They never shared a meal alone, never talked about their dreams or plans. They never kissed and never held hands. Yet two years ago, when Kara was 14 and Casey was 20 and heading off to medical school, they pledged their lives to each other in an improvised ceremony at their church that they called a betrothal. They exchanged matching signet rings, promised to be faithful and considered their vows as ...

A GROUP of astronomers and cosmologists has warned that the laws thought to govern the universe, including Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, must be rewritten. The group, which includes Professor Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, say such laws may only work for our universe but not in others that are now also thought to exist. "It is becoming increasingly likely that the rules we had thought were fundamental through time and space are actually just bylaws for our bit of it," said Rees, whose new book, Our Cosmic Habitat, is published next month. "Creation is ...

The patient is in: Man visits emergency room 1,200 times in five years DAVID FOSTER, Associated Press Writer Saturday, September 8, 2001 Breaking News Sections -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (09-08) 09:16 PDT (AP) -- A longer version moved Sept. 5 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- It's a mystery, Gregory Goins insists, why his chest begins to hurt when it does. He might be riding the bus, walking down the street, or dozing on a park bench. Suddenly, the pain comes on, spreading through his rib cage, and Goins remembers just how sick a man he is. That's when his thoughts turn to the emergency ...

A month after the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision for George W. Bush in the presidential election, dissenting Justice David Souter met at the Court with a group of prep-school students from Choate. He told them how frustrated he was that he couldn't broker a deal to win over one more justice - Anthony Kennedy being the obvious candidate. "If he'd had 'one more day - one more day,' Souter now told the Choate students, he believed he would have prevailed," according to an excerpt of an upcoming book by Newsweek Senior Writer David Kaplan.

                 The bar is almost empty in the                  afternoon. Its chrome-plated stools and greenish                  marble countertop coolly reflect the lamplight. A                  woman sits alone at one end of the bar and leans                  against her own reflection in a mirrored wall.                  Only a second glance reveals the secret diva of this                  locality on the shelves behind the counter -- absinthe.                  There it is, that legendary herbal spirit, displayed in                  seemingly endless variations, including Absenta Deva,                  Absenta Serpis, Staroplzenecky, Absinthe Ordinaire                  and Absenta Tabu. Their various shades of green                  shimmer alluringly, ...

Anarchists too scared to stage protest in China BRITISH anarchists - veterans of protests ranging from Seattle to Gothenburg and Genoa - are refusing to demonstrate at an economic summit of world leaders in China next month because they fear being shot or imprisoned. Despite causing havoc at economic summits around the world over the past two years, the anti-globalisation organisations have decided not to attempt to disrupt the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation forum to be attended by President George Bush and other leaders, in Shanghai in October. One British anarchist website seen by The Telegraph advises potential protesters not ...

FLOOD OF ILLEGAL MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS VICENTE FOX WANTS A "MIGRATION DEAL" By: W. James Antle III The media drumbeat in favor of an amnesty program for illegal immigrants, particularly from Mexico, may soon surpass the one in favor of embryonic stem-cell research. This time President Bush is benefiting from press advocacy. But will America? At least 6 million people live illegally in the United States; the true figure is likely closer to 9 million. Only 46,750 were deported last year. Illegal immigrants are now staying longer than ever and sending increasingly large sums of money back home - Newsweek magazine ...

<p>The secretary of defense said on Fox News Sunday that he will urge President Bush to veto a military-spending bill that cuts $1.3 billion from his request for missile-defense and restricts testing.</p> <p>"There is a hard core of people who, for whatever reason, are determined to kill missile defense. And I just don't believe that vulnerability of the American people to ballistic missiles is a rational policy," Rumsfeld said.</p>

Some minor changes and tweeking here and there. Nothing too dramatic or earth-shaking. Unless you live in my district (58), in which case whatever little strength we did have after a resonably decent first map a week ago has been SLICED AND DICED LIKE A TEENAGER IN A HORROR FILM. These Democrats... I tell ya. And of course, it's all done to protect the ultimate "community of interest", the Democrat incumbents.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Opposition leader and former defense chief Ahmed Shah Massood was injured and his close aide was killed Sunday in an explosion in northern Afghanistan, said Hajji Kahar, an opposition spokesman. Two men from Algeria posing as journalists apparently hid the explosive device in their camera, Kahar told The Associated Press in a satellite telephone interview from Khodja Bahauddin in northern Takhar province, where the explosion occurred. It's not clear whether the two men with the camera were killed. It's believed they were suicide bombers. "There was a lot of noise and smoke," said Kahar. Massood ...

1. The palace was restored in the 1860s, and served as the presidential palace until the 1930s. In 1940 it became a museum, and in 1945 hosted the Inter-American Conference on hemispheric security. Starting in 1841, the palace served as National Military Academy, until the hill was stormed in 1847 by U.S. troops who killed most of the Mexican cadets in battle. What hill in western Mexico City has a name that translates to "hill of the grasshopper"? 2. Discovered in 1872 by Ernest Giles, it appears to change color as sunlight strikes it at different angles. It is about ...

Agenda for New Jersey Pledges to increase funding for arts programming and historic preservation during his visit to Count Basie Theater in Red Bank (Red Bank, September 7)- Republican gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler continued his bus tour through New Jersey today, stopping in the bustling downtown section of Red Bank, the hometown of legendary jazz pianist Count Basie, to announce his plan to increase state support for arts and cultural programming. “In Jersey City, much like Red Bank, one of the keys to our success in improving the quality of life for our residents was promoting a vibrant arts and ...