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Ruling of America  By Balint VazsonyiJeanne Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Reagan administration, is in trouble with the law. Apparently, she left her poodle in her automobile while going into a shop. Worse still, she did so despite a sign posted right where she had parked the car. It reads: "Pets Die in Hot Cars! It's Against the Law. If You See It, Report It! Call 911 Immediately."     Forty years ago, when I arrived on these shores, Americans regularly poked fun at Germany's proclivity for prohibiting all manner of normal human activity -- from walking on grass...

ZAMBOANGA - One of four Indonesian crewmen kidnapped in southern Philippine waters by suspected Abu Sayyaf rebels was found by villagers in the rebel stronghold of Jolo island yesterday. Second officer Ferdinand Joel, 35, escaped from his captors and was found by residents in a village near the predominantly Muslim town of Luuk in Jolo island. A marine rescue team dispatched to bring the Indonesian sailor to safety found him trembling in fear, officials said. Mr Ferdinand was later flown by helicopter to the military's southern command in Zamboanga city for a debriefing and a medical check-up. He was treated...

Radio talk show host Glenn Beck is on saying he is going to show evidence that McVeigh was connected to Islamists and specifically Iran.

<p>JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) — An Adamsville man admitted placing a sign reading ''We support bin Laden'' in front of an immigrant's business in Selmer six days after Sept. 11, police said. Kenneth Earl Newell, 41, said he put up the sign because of a report that the business' owners had cheered while watching television coverage of the attacks, according to the warrant filed in McNairy County General Sessions Court. Newell, free on $5,000 bond, is to appear in court June 27 on reckless endangerment charges.</p>

 Rus   Eng   Nor Nuclear powered vesselsComprehensive updates on the nuclear powered submarines and nuclear powered cruisers still in operation in the Northern Fleet. Jump to section     About Bellona           Energy               Russia        You are here:  www.bellona.no : Russia : The Russian Navy : The Russian Northern Fleet : Nuclear powered vessels : News story | Focus Search Bellona Web Site mapAdvanced Search <!- /left -->  Russia scraps TyphoonsCold war demolition machines — five Typhoon class submarines — will be scrapped. New generation subs are entering the scene. Typhoon class submarine in dry dock. photo: submarine.id.ru Igor Kudrik, 2002-06-12 19:03Severodvinsk shipyard Sevmash has started defueling a...

Does anyone think it somewhat odd and curious that the New York tabloids eulogized the death of organized crime boss John Gotti for page after page, but those very same tabs saw fit to trash successful businesswoman Martha Stewart over a relatively modest stock sale?Gotti, who pursued a life of crime on a full-time basis, was convicted of murder and racketeering in 1992. He was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole and sent to federal prison in Marion, Illinois, where he remained until his recent death from cancer.Stewart, a rags-to-riches success story that is as American...

Election reforms get more review Key characters will skip state briefing By Bill Cotterell DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER Some major players in Florida's 2000 post-presidential drama won't be on hand as the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights reconvenes today to assess election reforms. Top Republicans, including Secretary of State Katherine Harris, see the commission's Miami "briefing" as a partisan opportunity to bash Gov. Jeb Bush and the GOP. But Leon County Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho welcomes a chance to troubleshoot new laws that did away with dangling chads and mandated uniform recount methods for all 67 counties. After two days of...

Experts unsure if Pittsburgh senator's backing will be blessing or burden Santorum travels to unfamiliar territory to aid Barletta By KENNETH P. VOGEL Times Leader Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG - In his first crack at king making outside his home turf of western Pennsylvania, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum has thrown himself full bore behind Hazleton Mayor Louis Barletta's bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski. If Barletta, a 46-year-old Republican who is a relative political newcomer, overcomes long odds to beat the nine-term Democratic incumbent congressman from Nanticoke, it would be a major coup for Santorum, who would deserve much of...

This is a WAKE UP thread for all those who would be concerned -- if they only knew -- what kind of danger we are in. Here is the one of the sites that has kept me up all night ... you won't be able to sleep either. Jihad!

Courtesy of The Jewish WeekMarseille, France -- Evelyne Sitruk always envisioned Marseille as a model of tolerance and diversity amid stodgy, stratified France, a Mediterranean port of 800,000 with a cosmopolitan mix of Italians, Armenians, some 70,000 Jews and North Africans. Now she finds it downright hostile. "I was strolling with my family at Pesach," she recalls, "and for the first time in my life, someone spat on me and called me a 'sale Juive' [dirty Jew]. It was like a slap in the face." Marseille may be Le Pen country -- one in four voted last month for Jean-Marie...

Yes to air Fox News, in response to comments by CNN's Turner By Ha'aretz Service Yes satellite television will begin broadcasting the Fox News channel Thursday, in light of remarks made by CNN founder Ted Turner, equating IDF actions with terrorism, Israel Radio reported. Even before Turner's comments, Israel's cable and satellite companies had received numerous letters from viewers requesting that the Fox News station be added to the viewing package, because they consider its coverage of the Middle East more balanced than CNN's, the radio said. Yes had submitted the request to air Fox News to the Cable and...

<p>LANSING -- A plan by Republican leaders to use a cigarette tax increase to solve state budget problems suffered a setback early today.</p> <p>GOP leaders delayed until next week any vote on the tax hike after a related bill failed by two votes.</p>

Article exposes the machinations of America's most active traitor and anthrax hoaxer, Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, aka Dr. Strangelove, who has just begun yet another of her periodic agitprop campaigns.

GALVESTON -- A Houston man accused of beating a police officer unconscious in a convenience store was wounded by police gunfire after a short car chase early Wednesday, authorities said. Daniel Joseph Lawniczak, 49, of the 12000 block of Wessex, was in fair condition in a Galveston hospital after being struck by at least four police bullets, said Galveston police Capt. Kenneth Mack. Lawniczak was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer and other charges were pending, Mack said. The shooting occurred after an unprovoked attack on Port of Galveston police officer Richard Garcia shortly after midnight, witnesses told...

Politics: GOP candidate gets a hearing on coastal drilling cutbacks. The White House also steps into his campaign to oust a top strategist. By MICHAEL FINNEGAN and MARK Z. BARABAK , Times Staff Writers WASHINGTON -- Moving on two fronts to bolster California's Republican candidate for governor, the Bush administration on Wednesday gave Bill Simon Jr. a national stage to assert leadership on the issue of offshore oil drilling even as it forced the ouster of a top Simon campaign aide. The administration, which has been criticized for its close ties to the oil industry, also tried to raise doubts...

Yes to air Fox News, in response to comments by CNN's Turner By Ha'aretz Service Yes satellite television will begin broadcasting the Fox News channel Thursday, in light of remarks made by CNN founder Ted Turner, equating IDF actions with terrorism, Israel Radio reported. Even before Turner's comments, Israel's cable and satellite companies had received numerous letters from viewers requesting that the Fox News station be added to the viewing package, because they consider its coverage of the Middle East more balanced than CNN's, the radio said. Yes had submitted the request to air Fox News to the Cable and...

Matt Maggio, Publisher & Editor Email A heavily-armed man shoots three people of another race at a big-city bar - and it isn't front-page news in every "mainstream" daily for days. It probably wasn't even on the front page of your "mainstream" daily the day after. Why? It's hardly just for the reason that a gun-rights group said the next day - Monday - that such an incident happening in New York City in spite of that state's notoriously-draconian antigun laws showed that gun laws don't prevent "headline crimes." After all,a recent "school shooting" by an expelled ex-student in Germany...

When a pair of F16 fighter jets roared off a runway in Kuwait the night of April 17, they were piloted by two veteran airmen flying on two very different career paths. The lead pilot, Maj. Harry Schmidt, 37, was a full-time fighter jock, a genuine "Top Gun" with a list of qualifications and experience that placed him in the highest ranks of the world's most elite occupation.His wingman that night, flying in the other F16, was Maj. Bill Umbach, 43, a competent airline pilot and part-time soldier who hoped the mission ahead of him would be among his last.In...

A century and a half after the war against Southern secession, the foreign policy of our country is still hampered by this tragic event. That is, had the war of federal aggression not taken place, had the South been allowed to leave peacefully, America would be in a far better position to exert a positive direction on several events which trouble the globe at the present time. This does not imply that a libertarian US foreign policy would include the role of world policeman; organizing non-constitutional standing armies; stationing soldiers abroad in, literally, hundred of other countries; posting battle ships...

<p>BIN LADEN RELATIVE SELLS PROPERTY Mohammed M. bin Laden, a relative of Osama bin Laden, has sold one of his condominiums at Charlestown's Flagship Wharf.</p> <p>It wasn't clear whether the transaction meant anything but a simple sale for a good price. Mohammed bin Laden purchased the two-bedroom unit in 1995 for $245,000 and sold it this spring for a whopping $1.8 million to an F. W. Johnson, according to online real estate records from the Warren Group.</p>