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May 16, 2002, 12:55 p.m.Reclaiming the ConstitutionA problem with the judicial-nomination fight.By Roger Pilon yron York's "Schumer's Attack" points to the dilemma Republican judicial nominees are facing in the ongoing confirmation battle in the Senate. On one hand they want to assure the Senate that they'll apply the law, not make it — which is fine. But on the other hand, they're reluctant to say much about that law, for fear they'll compromise their independence and, ultimately, the rule of law. That's fine too — except that it won't wash with Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee bent on...

June 24, 2002Lott’s Son Lobbies Hill - Clients Include BellSouthhttp://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/06/news0624b.html By Mark Preston Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott’s (R-Miss.) son has quietly been lobbying Congress for more than a year on issues ranging from Internet gambling to telecommunications.Chet Lott joins a long list of Members’ relatives engaged in Washington’s influence-peddling business, including Joshua Hastert, the son of Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), who recently was named director of government relations for Federal Legislative Associates.Lott is a principal in Lott & Associates, a Lexington, Ky.-based firm that represents the likes of BellSouth and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. It’s unclear whom Lott...

SEVILLE, Spain June 22 — Tens of thousands of people banged drums, blew whistles and danced their way through Seville's streets Saturday night in a rally against globalization. The Interior Ministry said about 20,000 people took part in the rally. Organizers said 10 times that number marched. No violence was reported in the two-hour rally.Last March, an anti-globalization rally in Barcelona saw major clashes between protesters and police, significant property damage and dozens of arrests.Saturday's rally coincided with the end of a European Union summit in Seville, where member countries agreed to tighten border controls to reduce illegal immigration.

<p>Seattle Slew, the horse that won the Triple Crown in 1977, has died. So have the political ideas that were as dominant as he was 25 years ago.</p> <p>Caught up in today's political battles, we forget how much the world has changed since then. Jimmy Carter was president. Tip O'Neill, whose political life began during F.D.R.'s New Deal, was speaker of the House. Despite Nixon's usurpation, everyone knew that Democratic control of the American government was permanent — as was communist domination of half the world.</p>

January 17, 2002 Top Ten Fiscal Myths of Sens. Kennedy and Daschle WASHINGTON—In an economic address yesterday at the National Press Club, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) called for supplanting the next stage of the $1.35 trillion tax cut, passed last year, with more federal spending on existing and new programs. Sen. Kennedy's speech echoed many of the ideas expressed recently by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S. Dak.). Cato Director of Fiscal Policy Chris Edwards identified 10 enduring myths in both senators' speeches. 1) Myth: Tax cuts cause budget deficits, but more spending doesn't. Reality: Spending is set to soar...

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A growing number of U.S. cities are accepting Mexican ID cards" in order to give immigrants better access to city services! If they were legally here, they'd have the proper documents to get services. So, ipso facto, this is to help illegal immigrants beat the system. "Chicago is the latest city to vote to recognize Mexican ID cards", according to the AP story on Newsmax.com. Long way from the border, folks! Los Angeles is mentioned as "among those cities." Cutting edge destructive economics from California again. With the current climate of piling on bandwagons as the political decision-making du jour,...

LONDON: As comic book hero Spider-Man fills cinemas with his webby adventures, prepare to meet an equally astonishing creation - Spidergoat. Scientists have combined the DNA from a goat and spider to create an animal which produces silk that is five times stronger than steel. The fibre, derived from the goats' milk, harnesses the huge strength of silk spun by spiders. The breakthrough could be worth millions because the silkmilk fibre can be used to make body armour which is far tougher than normal bullet-proof vests – while weighing little more than a cotton shirt. The hybrid goats were created...

"Some folks might remember that George Bernard Shaw -- a sandal-wearing socialist vegetarian -- tried to reform the spelling of the English language. Big deal. Big musty flop. This book -- by the hard-drivin', hard-lovin', full-throbbin', high-octane, deerslayin', allthings-scarin', ballistic guitarboy -- Nugetizes it. Get ready to rock, doc." (Ted Nugent)Ted Nugent writes lyrically of his intense enjoyment of the hunt, whether for deer, bears, ducks and geese, fish, ferocious boars, or scampering rabbits and squirrels. He writes about the environment during the hunt, and of his stealthy movements through it, with such immediacy and vividness that one can almost...

Here we go again. The same geniuses who ran George W. Bush’s South Carolina campaign in 2000 are on the march against Mark Sanford. If they remain true to form, it is only a matter of time before we see anonymous campaign literature claiming Sanford once paid for an abortion for his homosexual lover out of campaign funds the former congressman received while smuggling heroin for the Communist Chinese. The attacks launched against Sanford thus far are stupid, dishonest, and — in the case of the “independent” attack mailing sent out by Bob Peeler’s mail house — potentially illegal. (Note...

WASHINGTON (AP) - New regulations requiring that airline passengers remain seated until 30 minutes after takeoff from Reagan National Airport led to an embarrassing incident for a Georgia congressman. Unable to wait in a long bathroom line when passengers were finally allowed to move freely, Rep. Sanford Bishop ( news, bio, voting record) contends he had no choice but to ask a flight attendant for a plastic cup and some privacy. "The bottom line is he desperately needed to go to the bathroom," Bishop's spokesman, Selby McCash, explained Friday. "There was someone in there taking a very extended time. He...

This is rather disturbing. We are supposedly at war with those who would take away our freedoms, yet the religious right has formed a coalition with the Islamists to lobby the UN. They have been helped along by the Bush Administration. I fully support the war on terrorism, but I'd like an explanation as to why the religious right is so unpatriotic as to form an unholy alliance with the Islamists.

At least 500 die in Iran mountain quakeSat Jun 22, 2:50 PM ETBy Parisa HafeziCHANGOUREH, Iran (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake ( news - web sites) in northern Iran killed at least 500 people and injured 1,500 on Saturday, reducing dozens of mountain villages to dust. Photos Reuters Photo The death toll was set to rise, the official IRNA news agency reported, with many people still trapped in rubble created in an instant by a quake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale. State television said there were too many contradictory figures to be sure how many had died. In the...

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryJune 22, 2002 Radio Address by the President to the Nation The Cabinet Room      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Earlier today, the First Lady and I joined the White House staff for the inaugural President's Fitness Challenge Run and Walk. Every participant took important steps on the road to better health, and runners and walkers volunteered to perform community service or to contribute to charities. The Fitness Challenge is part of a larger initiative I launched this week to help Americans live longer, better, and healthier lives. And the good news is this: when...

Letters to the Editor: DETAILS EXPLAIN TEACHER CENTER VETOE Re: Gov. Bush, why can't you support the Florida Center for Teachers?, by Bill Maxwell, June 9, 2002 Dear Bill: Thank you for your second annual open letter to me about the Florida Center for Teachers. Once again, I vetoed a $275,000 appropriation for this professional development option, and once again you have let me have it. I thought I'd respond in the same style. You said you wouldn't waste my time "with a lot of detail." Boy, were you ever honest. Here are three major details you left out. First,...

<p>Police in southern Brazil detained a Lebanese immigrant Saturday who is wanted in Paraguay for suspected links to the Islamic militant group Hezbollah.</p> <p>The Supreme Court ordered Assad Ahmad Barakat's detention after Paraguay requested his extradition, federal police spokesman Gledston Campos said. The court did not say when it might rule on Paraguay's extradition request.</p>

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Northwest Airlines has stopped selling discounted tickets on Priceline.com, the name-your-own-price Internet company.The airline has grown "increasingly concerned with the changes in Priceline's business model," Northwest spokeswoman Mary Beth Schubert said Friday. Schubert did not explain the concerns and said she didn't know if it might resume using the company in the future.On the Priceline.com site, Internet users can bid on leisure airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages.Nearly all the major airlines sell distressed seats - those that are not likely to be sold through traditional sales channels - through the site.The New...

Judge kills controversial beef program Copyright © 2002 AP Online   The Associated Press ABERDEEN, S.D. (June 22, 2002 3:30 p.m. EDT) - A federal judge ruled Friday that the national beef checkoff program violates the constitutional rights of cattle producers by infringing on the First Amendment. U.S. District Court Judge Charles Kornmann ordered a halt to collections for the checkoff program, which requires cattle ranchers to pay a $1 per-head fee on cattle sold in the United States for beef promotion and research. The decision is expected to be appealed. In his ruling, Kornmann said cattlemen should not be...

I was tipped by Big Bunyip that there was a petition going on. It's in Australia, the land of the Australian Acadmic Community. Remember Them? This time there is a petition on asylum seekers (aka Trojan Horses) and there are words mentioned like UN and 'victims of oppression'. The thing is once they arrive they start to oppress others themselves!So go over and check the nice comments that were already placed.