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Discipline Is The Only Way To FreedomBy Dr. Douglas A. Rehberg, Senior Pastor, Hebron U.P. Church, Pittsburgh, PAEnglish journalist and author, G.K. Chesterton once wrote, "Christianity has not so much been tried and found wanting as it has been found difficult and left untried." When one looks around the church of Jesus Christ these days, one sees the truth of these words.I am continually running into people who wish that they were more mature in their faith, more understanding of the Scriptures, more pious in their behavior. But what they don't realize is their unsatisfactory state is the result...

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NEPAD is flavour of the month. For much of this coming week, when G8 leaders gather in Kananaskis, Alberta, to discuss the recovery plan's merits with a group of African presidents, and in the weeks following, we can expect to hear of little else. It will also be at the top of the African Union's agenda when it meets in Durban next month. Presidents Mbeki, Obasanjo and Wade are the leading advocates of the plan ù the New Partnership for Africa's Development ù but because they crafted it with a minimum of consultation with their own civil societies it is...

<p>SANTA MONICA — A Santa Monica elementary school has banned the game of tag, once synonymous with youth and innocence, because they say it creates self-esteem issues among weaker and slower children.</p> <p>"We had some children who were not playing 'it' appropriately. How do you differentiate between those that are playing correctly and those that aren't?" asked Franklin Elementary School Principal Pat Samarge.</p>

WASHINGTON - Investigators into last fall's anthrax attacks say they remain hopeful that sophisticated genetic fingerprinting, which has so far proved fruitless, may help crack the case. The most promising avenue to date has failed to boost the investigation, law enforcement officials say. But they are hopeful that similar genetic coding still under way will eventually help track down the source of the anthrax. "There's still potential out there," a senior law enforcement official said Wednesday. "We are not at the point yet of being able to say it's over, done, there's nothing there." Scientists outside the investigation aren't so...

How is conected the war with the terror and the future of the Balkans?

Islam’s many children Saeed Naqvi Heaven knows a lot could have been said about Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s elevation to the Rashtrapati Bhavan, but considering that he is almost our president, deference to the office dictates that we set aside such observations that he may be some sort of an Islamic hippie. Even reservations on his hairstyle can be held back. In fact, the great bonus one can extract from his elevation is this: his persona will go a considerable distance in demolishing stereotypes about Muslims on the subcontinent. In popular perception, the Muslim is an Urdu-speaking qasai or a...

A decade of deficits Jun 20th 2002 | WASHINGTON, DC From The Economist print edition America's budget looks unlikely to return to surplus anytime soonSOMETIME this summer, when most of Washington has left for the beach, the Bush administration will release some news it would rather bury: that America's federal budget is spilling red ink and is likely to stay that way. This year's deficit may reach around $160 billion (1.5% of GDP). Using some heroic assumptions, Mr Bush may still cling to the idea of a balanced budget by 2005, but who will believe him? Unless something dramatic happens,...

For Sale: Yugoslavia's Once Mighty Arms Industry BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - Milan Popovic of Yugoslav weapons producer Krusik is desperately seeking an investor ready to help to revive and transform his company. "Our production is almost at a standstill," said Popovic, marketing manager at what was once the country's main manufacturer of 60-120 mm caliber ammunition and rockets. "Army orders are dwindling. The rocket line has been halted. Exports have been slashed tenfold from over $100 million a decade ago," he told Reuters. In the 1980s, Yugoslavia's arms exports averaged over $400 million a year and sometimes much more....

In colonial America, one of the sparks that lit the flame of liberty was the dreaded "Writs of Assistance," more commonly referred to as the king’s "general warrants." Such general warrants were a declaration issued by the Crown that allowed the king’s soldiers to search for smuggled goods in any suspected house or premises, day or night, without giving notice or warning. In 1761, James Otis, a Boston, Massachusetts lawyer, who was advocate general of the Boston vice-admiralty court, was asked to defend the general warrants. Mr. Otis refused since he believed such warrants were a violation of a person’s...

Only about one half hour away, GO U.S.A.!!!!Just thought I would waste a little bandwidth with a thread concerning our impending victory over Germany. So whether you are a fan or not, turn on the game and join it!

CNSNews.com) - An environmental advocacy group is releasing more names of politicians it describes as Congress' "Dirty Dozen," based on their votes on issues dealing with water quality, energy, family planning and international trade. But one critic says the listing of the dirty dozen is intended "to elect as many Democrats as possible." Colorado Republican Sen. Wayne Allard is the latest addition to the list compiled by the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund (LCV). Allard is running for re-election this year. Rep. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Rep. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), both running for Senate seats currently occupied by Democrats,...

Washington (CNSNews.com) - Two school employees from Ohio, who claim the state affiliate of the National Education Association (NEA) discriminated against their religious rights by forcing them to join the union, told their story before a House subcommittee Thursday. The panel, chaired by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), is considering the National Right to Work Act (H.R. 1109), which would eliminate the federal authorization of forced union dues. Dennis Robey, a public school teacher in Dayton, Ohio, and Kathleen Klamut, a school psychologist in Ravenna City, Ohio, said the Ohio Education Association (OEA) was guilty of religious discrimination. They accused...

(CNSNews.com) - Senate Democrats have held up hearings for the president's 46 judicial nominees for 406 days and counting. Conservative groups, impatient with what they consider partisan delay and obstruction, staged a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol Thursday demanding that Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) fulfill their constitutional duty by allowing the Senate to vote on the nominations. Former Attorney General Edwin Meese called the problem a "judicial emergency" and "one of the most important causes facing the nation." The chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court has...

MAJOR food donors have threatened to suspend aid to Zimbabwe unless government removes constraints preventing the private sector from importing grain to feed over six million Zimbabweans facing starvation, it emerged this week. Diplomats said donors have started to question government's commitment to stave off hunger when it was deliberately stifling private-sector participation in food imports. They said suspension of supplies was now a real possibility. Government last year gave the Grain Marketing Board a monopoly to import grain. The country is on the brink of starvation as government has failed to import adequate stocks of food while relief agencies...

Thieves have dug up and stolen thousands of worms from a Scottish recycling plant.The European dendrobaena worms stolen from Campbeltown Waste Watchers in Argyll turn rubbish into fertiliser.The worms also make excellent fishing bait.A haul of 50,000 would be worth £5,000 to anglers, the Daily Record reports.The worms usually spend three years filtering waste at the plant before they're sold to fishing shops.General manager Clive Good said: "The thieves are a determined bunch - we have high fences and gates with a 12ft fall at the other side."We've reached a point where we can't continue outside. We've halted production and...

JERUSALEM, Jun 21, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is prepared to accept a Mideast peace plan put forward by then-U.S. President Bill Clinton in December 2000, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Friday. In an interview at his Ramallah headquarters, Arafat told Haaretz reporter Akiva Eldar that he would take the Clinton plan without changes, Eldar told The Associated Press on Friday. "I am prepared to accept it, absolutely," Eldar quoted Arafat as saying, and he endorsed the points of the plan one by one, Eldar said. Palestinian officials could not immediately be reached for...

AT least 2 500 commercial farmers slapped with Section 8 Orders will have to close shop on Monday when their 45-day notice period expires. An amendment to the Land Acquisition Act, which came into force on May 10, gave farmers who prior to that date had been issued with Section 8 Orders 45 days to cease operations. After Monday it becomes illegal for the farmers to continue farming and anybody defying the edict is liable to a two-year jail term or a $20 000 fine, or both. Theoretically farmers can remain in their homesteads until August 10 but they are...

<p>June 21, 2002 -- An anonymous Pakistani e-mailer asked a New Jersey ambulance corps how to buy an ambulance and run a rescue squad just a month before two Middle Eastern-looking men tried to buy a replica ambulance from a movie-prop shop, The Post has learned.</p>

<p>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan will soon enact laws that ban the teaching of extreme Islamic views at its 8,000 madrassas, or religious schools, the country's religious minister said Thursday.</p> <p>"No madrassas will be allowed to indulge in militancy," Mehmood Ghazi told reporters at a press conference. Islamic clerics who refuse to obey the laws would face prison terms of up to two years, he said.</p>