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Rice Says U.S. Blacks Should Not Be Paid for SlaveryWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, one of the most influential blacks in the Bush administration, said Sunday she did not think African-Americans should be compensated for the past wrongs of slavery. Rice said the United Nations conference on racism, which ended in Durban, South Africa, Saturday without U.S. participation, looked too much at the past by focusing on the issue of reparations for slavery and on finding ways to condemn Israel. Slavery ended in the United States 138 years ago with the stroke of Abraham Lincoln's pen ...

Okay people - time to take action! On Wednesday, September 5, basil, Ms. AntiFeminazi, tillacum, Mr. tillacum, and a local TRT member met in Waco to scope out the logistics of the upcoming protest of Janet Reno who has been invited BY BAYLOR UNIVERSITY to speak on ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT on Thursday, September 13, 2001. There was much discussion about where we should park ourselves to get the most visibility by Ms. Reno. We drove out to the airport and decided that is NOT a good idea. The airport is very far from campus and is difficult to find. We ...

It will be very easy for you to say, "Well, I will do something, some day. When I can afford it, I am going to." But would you let an old "grad" tell you one thing now? Giving is a habit. Get into the habit now, because you will never be able to afford to give and contribute, thus to repay the obligation you owe to those people who made this college possible, if you wait until you think you can afford it. Start now regardless of how small, and in the days to come when you are confronted ...

The advertisements addressed to gay men were provocative: Learn to write racy stories about your sexual encounters, choose toys ``for solo and partner sex'' or share tales of erotic experiences. All of it was done at government expense, in the name of preventing AIDS (news - web sites). These expenditures - along with other recent allegations of fraud and abuse of federal money to fight AIDS - have upset some AIDS activists and lawmakers. ``The tragic consequences are that people die when they don't get their vital medical services,'' said Wayne Turner, spokesman for the AIDS activist group Act Up ...

<p>Tennessee is in hot water with the federal government for closing eight state parks, including Dunbar Cave State Natural Area and Port Royal.</p> <p>Federal officials say the closings violated federal law because those parks received federal funds for land acquisition and development under the condition that they remain open for public outdoor recreation use.</p>

In January of 1989, I first introduced H.R. 40, the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. I have re-introduced H.R. 40 every Congress since 1989, and will continue to do so until it's passed into law. One of the biggest challenges in discussing the issue of reparations in a political context is deciding how to have a national discussion without allowing the issue to polarize our party or our nation. The approach that I have advocated for more than a decade has been for the federal government to undertake an official study of the impact of ...

WEST WING star Rob Lowe claims President Clinton once let Lowe's two children play with the special briefcase that holds the coordinates for the nation's nuke bombs! MORE Lowe says that during one White House visit -- the president did nothing as his kids toyed with the case across the South Lawn. "My kids were carrying the football -- the briefcase with the nuclear coordinates with all of our launch codes," Lowe tells PLAYBOY magazine in fresh editions. "My 7-year-old and 4-year-old had the nuclear launch codes of the United States." The episode occurred after Lowe and his family watched ...

Spokane, WA Doctrine divides Presbyterians Manito congregation to vote on severing ties with church Members of Manito Presbyterian Church will decide this weekend whether they still want to be Presbyterians. The pastors and the elders of the church have recommended that the congregation drop its affiliation with the Presbyterian Church (USA), saying, "the theological state of our denomination has deteriorated over the past 25 years." Many members of the Manito congregation differ with the national denomination over how to interpret scripture, including the acceptance of homosexual relationships. If they follow the recommendation, the congregation will become the first to leave ...

They are on the radio, on CD, on college campuses, all over the Internet and, they claim, increasingly likely to be living in a neighborhood near you. The National Alliance, the hate group that covertly dumped racist fliers in Arlington last weekend and anti-Semitic literature in Sharon a few weeks earlier, says the controversy generated from the two actions has helped boost its ranks locally - exactly what the group intended. And those new followers, the group vows, will soon be spreading their message of hate to even more Bay State communities in the dark of night. ``Our membership is ...

<p>Mr. Harris, who lives in Las Flores, is a marketing manager at Beckman Coulter.</p> <p>I am a self-confessed environmentalist wacko. So, I was elated to read that the Department of the Interior had struck a deal last week to protect 29 endangered species. But as I read on, I realized that we are no longer saving bison and bald eagles. I discovered two cases that point to the dangers of the current Endangered Species Act deployment by my fellow environmentalists. The cases of the Channel Island fox and the Mississippi gopher frog point to the misapplication of the Endangered Species Act as a means of land management and controlled growth, rather than as protection for unique wildlife habitat against man's encroachment.</p>

One Democrat accuses another of being racial divisive, Republicans spar over jokesNEW YORK (AP) A candidate near the bottom of polls in the city's mayoral contest accused a front-runner Sunday of being racially divisive as the leading Democratic hopefuls held their final debate two days before the primary. In a GOP debate, long shot Herman Badillo gnawed at billionaire opponent Michael Bloomberg over a pamphlet of offensive gags and jokes attributed to the media executive and given to him as a birthday gift in 1990. "Thank goodness, we're now beginning to find out who the real Mr. Bloomberg is," Badillo ...

How to fix the Illegal Alien, Unequal Trade, and Economic Problems of America Illegal Aliens: Illegal aliens do not contribute to our tax base. They will “work for less” on a cash basis, because they will not have payroll taxes taken out of their pay, nor will they pay an income tax. As a result, money earned in the United States (untaxed) is sent to their home countries, where that dollar will purchase much more for less. It’s difficult to put the blame on these people, when all they want to do is provide for their family back home. If ...

<p>Mr. Uhler is president of the Sacramento-based National Tax Limitation Committee.</p> <p>Gov. Gray Davis stood on a newly opened section of a Southern California freeway recently and announced that no more freeways would be constructed in California. For the state built on the automobile, this is akin to China banning rice. Even the communist dictators are more sensitive to China's needs and political reality than Davis is to California's well-being.</p>

Quotes - A great introduction.&nbsp; Individuals give brief firsthand insights.&nbsp; Jim Wade's Testimony - A San Diego veteran's family suffers intense abuse by a system gone mad. NCCPR Chairman's Testimony - A great guy shares a great many uncomfortable facts about the pathology of Children's Services employees. The Loudenbecks - A heart-rending case from Bend, Oregon.&nbsp; If you think children don't make things up, or that Children's Services just wants to help people, this story provides an excellent reality check. Family Abuse - A long and revealing overview of child protection, published&nbsp; by Insights magazine.&nbsp; The piece contains many quotes ...

WASHINGTON - In a city where "stardom" comes via congressional committee assignments, there is a certain affinity for the real thing. So when Warren Beatty and Annette Bening arrived at the Madison Hotel here to trumpet a new political organization called Progressive Majority, the crowd was thick and excited. It took the duo more than 30 minutes to move the 30 feet to the podium, as admirers and liberal political types waited to shake hands and snap pictures. Some real politicians came, too, including Sens. Paul Wellstone and John Corzine and much of the Democratic side of the California ...

Al Sharpton's Jihad

(IsraelNationalNews.com) The Sprint Company has released a statement announcing that the listing of “Palestine” on the company’s website and on some client bills was an error that has been corrected to reflect “Palestine Authority”. Last week, ‘INN’ reported that Sprint was listing Palestine on client bills for some telephone calls made to the region. Sprint spokesperson Monica Evans-Trout explained that since the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) activated the PA calling code of 970, the code has been added to the Sprint database. The 970 code is now used to reflect certain Mideast designations as per international agreement. “Sprint uses the ...

Krunching Klamath . . . A Numbers Game in Progress &nbsp;&nbsp; (stay tuned) Last weekend I rather breathlessly reported that the Bureau of Reclamation was out of compliance with Gale Norton's July order to give the Klamath Basin farmers 75,000 acre feet of water.&nbsp; I initially reported that the farmers were shorted by 35,000 acre feet . . . just over half of the promised water had actually been delivered.&nbsp; I was wrong.&nbsp; To this date my calculations suggest that the farmers were only screwed out of 20,000 acre feet.&nbsp; (Not counting the court ordered, environmentally correct screwing administered in ...

Fund seen as safety net for those who want to come out BOSTON -- The decision to tell his family he was gay didn't go well for one Bridgewater State student. His father threatened to cut him off financially and left the junior feeling "like a piece of trash." "There's no way I could support myself," said the 22-year-old, who asked that his name not be used. "I was very, very scared." A new scholarship offered by the school could make it easier for gay and lesbian students to break such news. The financial aid would definitely help gay students ...

Two paid informants helped the FBI in the investigation that led to the capture earlier this year of James C. Kopp, accused of killing Dr. Barnett A. Slepian. The role of the informants was revealed last week by lawyers representing a New York City couple accused of helping Kopp to elude authorities for 21/2 years. The identities of the informants remains a secret, but the attorneys said one of them was an acquaintance of Loretta C. Marra, who with her husband, Dennis J. Malvasi, is charged with assisting Kopp. Bruce A. Barket, Marra's lead attorney, says he is outraged by ...