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The appalling story of the pedophile priests deserves all the negative press it has been getting. But is the press critical of them because they are pedophiles or because they are priests? After all, there are many other pedophiles, some of them with their own organization, and they are welcomed on our leading academic campuses, as well as getting a free pass in the mainstream media. Even as regards the pedophile priests, the media shy away from the plain fact that these cases are primarily cases of homosexual abuse of children. Fear of the homosexual lobby always seems to immobilize...

ATLANTA – In most of the southeastern United States civil rights and ethnic diversity historically have been viewed through a black and white prism, but a fast-growing Hispanic population is threatening to alter the ebb and flow of race relations and rewrite the political agenda in the region. Like previous generations in California, Florida and Texas, Hispanics in a number of states in the Deep South are for the first time seriously campaigning for seats on school boards, city councils and in state legislatures. Latino candidates have been emboldened by a heavy influx of Hispanics, primarily Mexicans, who were drawn...

<p>NEW YORK -- A woman who wore nothing but a thong and body paint at last year's Mermaid Parade in Coney Island has sued the city, charging police wrongfully arrested her for exposing her chest.</p> <p>Amy Gunderson, a 30-year-old model, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in Manhattan federal court alleging police violated her First Amendment rights when they arrested her last June 29.</p>

The sole remaining lawsuit that grew out of a tree-cutting protest in downtown Eugene five years ago was settled out of court Thursday with a $30,000 city payment to three demonstrators who were pepper-sprayed by police. In the settlement, neither side admitted wrongdoing. But the city agreed to require all officers with the rank of sergeant and above to attend two training sessions on police response to nonviolent protests. The sessions are to be conducted by an outside consultant in 2003 and 2004. Spokesmen for both sides said the protest and its turbulent aftermath taught them bitter lessons but left...

Odd new concept sub the Royal Navy is currently looking at.. looks a bit stange, any submariners or navy types out there care to comment? Is the US Navy looking at similar concepts?

An Austin Review investigation has revealed that U.S. Senate candidate Ron Kirk is employing an anti-Israel activist who has defended terrorist groups and is friends with American Taliban John Walker Lindh. The Review has also learned that Kirk has received numerous campaign donations from individuals linked with terrorism and anti-Semitism, one of whom also violated U.S. export laws by shipping sensitive technology to Libya and Syria. Kirk's recently filed campaign report shows payments to a Steven L. Hyland, Jr. of: $1133.22 for "payroll expense" and three separate payments totaling $638.30 for "postage and delivery." Hyland has a long history as...

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Who might replace him if push comes to shove in 2004? NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE June 20 — Coming to the capital has not been a great career move for Tom Ridge. A year ago he was a widely-respected governor of Pennsylvania, the man George W. Bush almost, but not quite, chose as his running mate in 2000, and a leading contender to join the ticket in 2004 if Vice President Dick Cheney decides to, or is encouraged to, retire. BUT NOW, as he begins his sales pitch to Congress for the new Department of Homeland Security, Ridge is damaged political...

Suspect Being Chased By Police Electrocuted On Subway TrackJUNE 21ST, 2002 A man fleeing police in Manhattan died Friday after running onto subway tracks and getting electrocuted. The incident happened early this morning at the Christopher Street station. According to authorities, officers were pursuing a man they say was involved in a drug deal. Police say when they approached him, he ran down into the subway. A train was stopped in the station, but police say the man tried to go between two subway cars and fell to the tracks, where he hit the third rail. Southbound train service on...

The Washington Post reports today that whether Yaser Esam Hamdi is an "enemy combatant" or not, he is entitled to a lawyer and a chance to hear the government's proof against him, a federal public defender argued yesterday in a brief to an appeals court. Hamdi, 21, was captured in Afghanistan with retreating Taliban forces in November, and he has been in U.S. custody ever since. He was moved from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a Navy brig in Norfolk after disclosing that he was born in Louisiana and might be a U.S. citizen. When Public Defender Frank W. Dunham Jr....

State Dept.: Bush plan for Palestinian state 'evolving' By The Associated Press President George W. Bush's senior advisers debated Friday how to create a Palestinian state in the violent Middle East, leaving an anticipated presidential announcement on hold. "There are still discussions going on," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. He offered no prediction when unsettled issues might be resolved. "This is an evolving process," Boucher said, "but the president has indeed reached some conclusions." Bush's senior advisers were unable Friday to decide on terms for launching a Palestinian state, leaving an anticipated presidential announcement on hold. The main unresolved...

In an interview with a Belgian weekly published Friday, King Abdullah of Jordan said Yasser Arafat has lost his control over the extremist Palestinian organizations, and that he expects an escalation of violence in the Middle East in the near future, Israel Radio reported.

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga: Patron of Youth by William Hart McNichols, S.J. "St. Aloysius with battered poor children" "The Lord nurtured and taught him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye...the Lord alone was his leader." -Deuteronomy 32:10-12 Eight years ago I was visiting my parents' home in Colorado when I decided to look through a drawer of Jesuit Bulletins my mother keeps faithfully in a living room table. I was actually looking for a picture of my then-favorite Jesuit saint, the English poet/martyr St. Robert Southwell. Instead I stumbled across an issue with a photograph of a...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Merrill Lynch cutbacks hit Nasdaq trading desk Wall Street may lose as many as 35,000 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, in the coming year, analysts said. Yesterday, Merrill Lynch continued its cutbacks, slashing 45 people in New York and New Jersey from its Nasdaq trading desk. The volume of trading has collapsed this year along with the prices of most Nasdaq stocks with the tech-heavy index plunging again yesterday below 1,500. Meanwhile, analysts said Morgan Stanley — which yesterday reported quarterly earnings fell 14% — has quietly cut 1,337 jobs,...

What's so good about democracy -- generally understood as having trust in the general will of a democratic people, as expressed by a vote of the majority, to make all important decisions? If a majority of our 535 congressmen votes for one measure or another, is that all right with you? You say: "What's the story, Williams? Is there a better method of making important decisions?" I say yes, but let's first decide whether we'd really like majority rule as a criterion for making important decisions. Suppose you're making the important decision to marry. Would you like the decision about...

The Days of the All-Green $20 Bill Are NumberedBy Jeannine Aversa Associated Press WriterPublished: Jun 20, 2002WASHINGTON (AP) - Andrew Jackson is first in line for a makeover, and we're not talking wrinkle removal. The $20 bill - which carries Jackson's image - will get color and possibly other new features as part of an effort to foil high-tech counterfeiters. The new twenty could be put into circulation as early as the fall of 2003, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing said Thursday. The $20 bill is the most counterfeited note in the United States and the second-most commonly used...

CLICK HEREfor the judgement of the Bishop of Haarlem on this apparition, messages and devotion. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now Your Spirit over the earth, Let the Holy Spirit live  in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved  from degeneration, disaster and war. May the Lady of All nations, who once was Mary, be our Advocate.  Amen From the EWTN website: From 1945 to 1959 a woman in Amsterdam, Ida Peerderman, received messages in which Mary states that she wants to be addressed " in these our times" as "The Lady Of All...

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 Weekday Commentary from Jim Puplava Home Source: CBS MarketWatch Changing Preferences The Velocity of Money & The Short Seller's NightmarePart 2 Now OnlineGuest Editorial 6/21Ned W. SchmidtStepping Forward to $1,254 Gold Guest Editorial 6/17James E. SinclairA Top in Gold at $330 or simply a Chapter in Gold's "Long Term Bull Market?" GLOBAL ANALYSIS with J. R. Nyquist The Error  Friday's Market Scoreboard  June 21, 2002  Dow Industrials 177.98 9253.79  Dow Utilities 0.08 277.0  Dow Transports 8.28 2755.64  S & P 500 17.19 989.13  Nasdaq 23.82 1440.93  US Dollar to Yen 121.255  US Dollar to Euro .9710  Gold 1.4 325.1...