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Seeking to raise the stakes in the confirmation process, Senate Republicans and some conservative activists are actively encouraging President Bush to mount a more forceful attack against Democrats over the judicial nomination process. At a Thursday meeting between Bush and Congressional GOP leaders, Republican Policy Committee Chairman Larry Craig (Idaho) said he and Minority Whip Don Nickles (Okla.) pointedly raised the judicial nomination issue, along with a list of other "must do's and priorities." Craig said they asked Bush to become more engaged in the process by pressuring Senate Democrats to confirm judges and by accelerating the pace of appointments. ...

<p>Police and Western Michigan University officials were trying Sunday to understand why thousands of drunken teenagers and beer bottle-throwing college students rampaged through a Kalamazoo neighborhood during the weekend, injuring police officers, setting fires and destroying property.</p> <p>Twenty-one people were arrested -- many charged with felonies, including inciting a riot and assaulting a police officer. Another 46 people were ticketed for underage drinking and other misdemeanors.</p>

10 Reasons To Boycott the NAACP (Rev. Peterson's Solutions to the NAACP's Problems) by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson SpinTimes Exclusive Commentary 09/10/2001 As many of you know, eight weeks ago, I called for a national boycott of the NAACP. Some of you have asked us, "Why are you and your organization B.O.N.D. leading a boycott of the NAACP?" The reason is fairly simple: The NAACP no longer stands for the advancement of black people, but instead, appears to stand for the advancement of the Democratic Party and its partisan platforms. The past two Presidential election races, for instance, provide plenty ...

September 10, 2001 Judicial Leaders Mull Web Monitoring By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 4:42 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- A panel will decide Tuesday how closely to monitor the use of computers by federal judges and their staffs. Choices range from a proposal for extensive monitoring to no monitoring whatsover, the demand of some judges. Some privacy advocates had said an original proposal for close checks would have opened the 30,000 court employees, among them about 1,800 judges, to extensive illegal monitoring. Court administrators contend their close-monitoring recommendation was simply to keep employees from spending work time downloading music ...

<p>Friday, September 7, 2001 12:01 a.m.</p> <p>"Clindit." The combo name has a vague but appropriate indecency to it. Even those who repudiate the parallelism are compelled to run a sort of check-off list to reassure themselves that there isn't any real comparison between Gary Condit and Bill Clinton. (And it must say something about the "legacy" of our most recent ex-president that this uncouth auction of comparable features is most forcibly suggested by mentions of the suborning of perjury and the obstruction of justice.) How far may the analogy be extended?</p>

US Eager to See China's Growth Continue: O'Neill Visiting US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said Monday that the United States is eager to see China's growth continue. He made the remarks in a prepared speech when addressing the University of International Business and Economics Monday morning. O'Neill said that all the countries around the world have a moral obligation to contribute to the betterment of people's lives and the growth throughout Asia is crucial to global prosperity. "China is experiencing strong economic growth, little affected by the slowing of the rest of the world," he said, adding that the steps ...

Border crosser is suspected in 4 killings in U.S. By Gregory Alan Gross SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE September 8, 2001 TECATE -- When a Border Patrol agent tracked down four illegal border crossers in the hills east of here, he had no way of knowing that one of them was wanted in connection with four homicides in Southern California. Luckily, a Border Patrol computer did. The detainee, who initially gave his name as Salazar Diaz Magdaleno Flores, was revealed by a fingerprint scan to be Alfred Flores, 22. Flores, whose nickname is "The Wizard," is wanted on suspicion of killing three ...

ASHINGTON, Sept. 10 — Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Republican minority leader, said today that he would be willing to consider a Democratic proposal to reduce the payroll taxes levied on all workers and employers, as both parties sought ways to blunt the economic and political impact of rising unemployment and slowing growth. "I would like to at least see how that would work, discuss it with Democrats," Mr. Lott said at a news conference. His openness to such a step — which has been floated by a few Democrats without any details — was evidence of the intensifying ...

WASHINGTON -- Beware, for the champions of Canadian-style health care are sniffing around the halls of the Senate. The ascension of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) to the chairmanship of the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, where Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) sits as his closest ally on the issue, means that the backdoor drift toward "Clintoncare" will continue. For years, Kennedy has labored to bring socialized medicine to America. Hillary, sadder but wiser since her first effort on the issue failed miserably, is seeking an opportunity for vindication. (Click for Entire Story)

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Harare - President Robert Mugabe's lawless militias went on the rampage in the western city of Bulawayo on Monday after the opposition Movement for Democratic Change headed for a clean sweep in municipal elections, said independent sources. "War veterans went into the streets and were sjamboking (whipping) pedestrians going past the party headquarters," said Shari Eppel, the local director of Amani Trust, which monitors incidents of violence. "People were running away and the area was sealed off by riot police," she said, quoting witnesses at the scene in Makokoba township adjacent to the city. "Police were beating people. There ...

The first National Book Festival, hosted by Laura Bush and sponsored by the Library of Congress, brought together readers and writers on the East Lawn of the Capitol over the weekend for a day-long literary love-in. Throughout Saturday's free event some 25,000 folks moved from book signings to author presentations to readings by professional basketball players to booths on literacy programs to musical performances to misting machines to food stands to the library itself, across the East Lawn, for self-guided tours of its Great Hall. Along the way they might have bumped into historians Stephen Ambrose and Michael Beschloss, mystery ...

Sources close to Elizabeth Dole have told NCRepublicans.com that Elizabeth Dole will officially announce her candidacy for the US Senate Seat held by Jesse Helms on Tuesday. For more information, visit http://www.ncrepublicans.com. The site is also running a poll asking who should be the GOP nominee for Senator Helms' seat. NCRepublicans.com is an independent web site focusing on Republican politics in North Carolina.

"Of great concern to all of us is that, if the land issue is not urgently resolved amicably and peacefully, the economic and political problems Zimbabwe is facing now could easily snowball across the entire southern African region." - President Bakili Maluzi of Malawi Leaders of southern African states have been putting pressure on Zimbabwe's President Mugabe to bring the land crisis there swiftly under control. President Bakili Maluzi of Malawi, who currently chairs the Southern African Development Community (SADC), told Mr Mugabe that the problem threatened to affect other states. He was speaking at the start of two ...

Football Cannon Blast Kills Fan By Associated Press September 10, 2001, 5:02 PM EDT TRENTON, Mo. -- A cannon fired to celebrate touchdowns by the Trenton High School football team went off accidentally, killing a man loading it onto a trailer. Bud Meek, 41, died Friday after being hit in the chest at close range with the hot gases from the exploding black powder, Coroner Tom Eads said. The accident happened just after players were cleared from the field because of approaching thunderstorms. Meek's son is a freshman member of the team. The cannon is usually fired one last time ...

Who do you think is responsible for the current economic climate? Business economists have grown more pessimistic about growth prospects for next year, as democrats and republicans blame each other for the current state of the economy. Who do you think is responsible? Who do you think is responsible for the current economic climate? President Bush Former President Clinton Vote Here

You think the USA has dumb laws? Check this out in Israel. Families Of Dead Terrorists Eligible For Payments The families of the Israeli-Arab suicide terrorist who murdered three in Nahariya yesterday are currently eligible to receive monthly stipends of some 2,800 shekels ($650) each. He was married to two wives, and each one of them may apply for the "insurance" payment as a result of his death. The law currently does not distinguish among various causes of death, and even the family of someone who died in the process of killing himself and others is eligible. Similarly, after a ...

Labour MPs are warned today that they could face deselection before the next general election if they support Tony Blair by voting in favour of President George Bush's "son of Star Wars" programme. Writing in The Independent, the veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell declares that resisting the "dangerous folly" of the Bush plan is "more important than keeping this Prime Minister in ... Downing Street". Mr Dalyell, who as the longest-serving MP is father of the House of Commons, makes clear he will crusade against the controversial missile defence system. More than 200 Labour MPs have already signed a Commons ...

Marxist COWS vs. Realist mammoths By Michael Moriarty web posted September 10, 2001 Fighting a rabid religion like Marxism with political ideology is like hitting fastballs with balsa wood bats. They break every time. The North American home team needs to adopt a new strategy. CHALK-TALK ONE It is now the bottom of the seventh inning. Game is delayed because of 'rain'. Despite George W. Bush's collaboration, the Marxist hegemony isn't moving at quite the same light-speed as it did during the Clinton years. We of the Realist Party are not at bat, but neither are the Marxists. With ...

If that isn't bad enough, look at this -- from Kenneth Cole's website. FREEP THIS LOUSY POLL. Click on the poll to the left to go to the URL and then click on &quot;COLE&nbsp;POLL.&quot;