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<p>Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight.</p> <p>In just a few moments, Senator Jeff Bingaman will enter the No Spin Zone. But first, the Talking Points Memo, about a new bill that would require Americans to pay for the health care many illegal immigrants, a bill sponsored by Bingaman and Senator John McCain.</p>

Israel has decided on a punitive policy of exiling to Gaza the families of Palestinian suicide bombers and deporting the men who organise their missions.The decision was taken by the security cabinet after 31 Israelis were killed in two suicide bombings and a shooting attack on a West Bank settlement. Legal experts are drawing up guidelines which would allow expulsions from the West Bank to take place without the victims being able to challenge them in the Israeli courts.The government has so far stopped short of exiling the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, on the grounds that it would be likely...

Islamic terrorists linked to al-Qa'eda plotted to destroy Bologna's 14th century cathedral because it contained a medieval fresco depicting the Prophet Mohammed in hell.The plan was foiled by Italian paramilitary police according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper. The group was identified after police intercepted telephone conversations between several Tunisians and Moroccans with links to a Libyan known as Amsa, considered one of Osama bin Laden's chief operatives in Europe.The cathedral, in the city's central Piazza Maggiore, is dedicated to Bologna's patron saint, San Petronio. The 15th century Mohammed fresco, in the Bolognini chapel, shows the Prophet being set upon...

GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority placed the founder and spiritual mentor of the Islamic militant group Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, under house arrest in Gaza City on Monday, a Palestinian security official said. The move came amid redoubled Israeli and international pressure on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to crack down on militants after two suicide bombings in Jerusalem and a gun attack on a Jewish settlement left 31 Israelis dead last week. "It was decided, starting from tonight, to impose house arrest on Sheikh Ahmed Yassin to safeguard the ultimate national interests of the Palestinian people," the official told...

23 Jun 2002 18:13 ET DJ Autopsy Indicates Baseball Player Kile Had Heart Attack Copyright © 2002, Dow Jones Newswires CHICAGO (AP)--St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile likely died from blockage of his coronary artery, the medical examiner's office said Sunday. Kile was found dead in the team hotel Saturday after other players realized he was not at the ballpark and called hotel officials to check on him. Police said it appeared Kile had died in his sleep of natural causes. After a preliminary autopsy Sunday, Dr. Edmund Donoghue said Kile had an 80% to 90% narrowing of two of...

30 Years Later, Watergate Memories Endure Scandal's Lesson: Don't Take Presidents At Their Word POSTED: 4:21 p.m. EDT June 18, 2002 UPDATED: 6:19 p.m. EDT June 18, 2002 WASHINGTON -- It happened 30 years ago, but the memory of the Watergate scandal lives on. It all began on the night of June 17, 1972, when President Richard Nixon's Republican operatives broke into the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex. Their action led to one of the worst scandals in the American presidency, with Nixon lying and trying to use the FBI and CIA in his elaborate cover-up. It also...

                    A U.S. Army sergeant stationed in Germany is                   being punished, instead of the senior enlisted man                   he caught having an affair with his wife, even                   though such adulterous behavior is illegal.                    Worse, according to sources in Germany, senior                   officers may even have been ordered by top brass to                   keep quiet about the incident out of fears that the                   senior sergeant involved "may have something on                   them."                    Details of the affair involving Sgt. Ken Eiland, his                   wife Tina, and Eiland's senior non-commissioned                   officer, SFC Vernon Pollard, were first...

For an immigration time-out: http://projectusa.org/ Anchor babies: more immigration folly Issue 120-16v: June 19, 2002 +== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+ The Los Angeles Times reported a few weeks ago on a large and growing industry in Asia catering to "birth tourists"  -- pregnant women who time trips to the United States to coincide with their due dates.  The motivation for these mothers-to-be is simple:  thanks to a gross misinterpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, the U.S. grants automatic citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil.  These children are known as "anchor babies."  That is, they may legally "anchor" themselves and their...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. NEW YORK -- Tell, even before you're asked. And once you tell, brace for hard questions. That's the advice gay candidates are getting in this election year as activists try to add to the minuscule numbers of openly gay elected officials. While their ranks have quadrupled in the past decade, out-of-the-closet gays and lesbians represent only 218 of the roughly 511,000 Americans in elective office -- less than 0.05 percent. Three serve in Congress, 47 are state legislators, the rest are local officials, according to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund,...

June 22 Spiritual Bouquet: I am the resurrection and the life. St. John 11:25"Saint Paulinus" SAINT PAULINUS OF NOLABishop, Confessor Paulinus was of a family which boasted a long line of senators, prefects and consuls of Rome, and he was educated with great care. His genius and eloquence in oratory, prose and verse were the admiration of all the brilliant Christian minds of his time, including Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Ambrose, Saint Jerome, Saint Augustine, and Saint Martin of Tours. It is believed that Saint Ambrose would have chosen him to replace him as bishop of Milan, but...

23 Jun 2002 18:48 ET DJ France's Foreign Min Insists On Israeli Security First Copyright © 2002, Dow Jones Newswires CAIRO (AP)--A political solution is the only way Palestinians can achieve statehood, but such a goal will not be obtained if Israeli security needs are not met, the French foreign minister said on Sunday. Dominique de Villepin told reporters on the first day of his four-day Mideast visit that the situation in the region was "dangerous" and "dramatic." Only a political solution could lead to a just settlement, he said after meeting with Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Maher, who de Villepin...

Cop guns may go high tech -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Shelly Whitehead, Post staff reporter The Newport Police Department hopes to be the country's first to use a new technology that keeps a microchip record of the time, date and number of rounds fired from each officer's weapon. Police Chief Tom Fromme said he will recommend the city buy the device, known as the Accu-Counter, for all departmental firearms when he meets with City Manager Phil Ciafardini and city commissioners in the next week. Fromme believes the device, invented and patented by a Crestview Hills man, promises to become standard law enforcement...

MOSCOW: Russia has started the deliveries of the final modification of multirole Su-30 MKI fighters to India. First two Sukhoi Su-30 MKI were shipped to India on board a Russian cargo plane on Saturday by the Irkutsk-based IAPO aircraft corporation, according to a news report. Russia will dispatch 10 fighters this year, while another 22 are to be delivered next year. Under the deal for 50 aircraft signed in November 1998, Russia has already delivered 18 Su-30k fighters which would be upgraded to MKI in 2004 with the simultaneous production of 140 fighters by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited under license. The...

There have been several threads here on FreeRepublic about the author/liar Michael Bellesiles and his "book" Arming America: The Origins of the Gun Culture where the claim is made that gun ownership at the time of the American Revolution was relatively rare. I have come across an interesting refutation of this from an unlikely source. For Father’s Day this year my son gave me ”A Few Bloody Noses” by Robert Harvey, the subtitle of which is The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution. Early on, Harvey attempts to set the mood on both sides of the Atlantic. He quotes...

LONDON: British Muslims are the main bankrolling force behind an opportunistic anti-Western alliance between al-Qaeda commanders and Pakistani militants, according to Pakistani intelligence sources quoted by a British newspaper. The alleged alliance is planning to topple General Musharraf's administration, the paper said. The Sunday Times report, datelined Islamabad, coincides with a televised message purporting to come from al-Qaeda second-rung leader Sulaiman Abu Ghaith and FBI warnings of further attacks on Western targets. The report, which is filed by the paper's award-winning war correspondent Marie Colvin, said that the exact sums despatched from the UK were unclear but that "Pakistani militants...

RIYADH, Arab News — Prince Sultan, second deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, stated yesterday that Saudi Arabia was not targeted by Al-Qaeda organization. However, he warned that the government would deal with terrorists and troublemakers with an iron hand. Speaking to reporters after attending a graduation ceremony here, the prince said it was difficult to prevent cross-border smuggling into the country. He was replying to a question on how the recently arrested Al-Qaeda men smuggled two SAM-2 missiles into the Kingdom. "As you know, the Kingdom’s long border comprises sands and mountains. So it will be difficult...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert gave no indication Sunday whether Congress would provide the $200 million bailout Amtrak contends it needs to operate beyond midweek and said some railroad routes should shut down. He said Amtrak's management must correct what he called money-losing policies before turning to Congress whenever the railroad runs out of cash. Amtrak's new president said he completely agreed. "I want to change the way we do business," David Gunn said in an interview. "My goal is to turn (Amtrak) into a much more focused organization with...

Large boxes of powdered caesium 137, a powerfully radioactive substance, are lost in the former Soviet Union. In the hands of terrorists, just one would provide enough "dirty bomb" material to badly contaminate large urban areas, forcing their evacuation and possibly their abandonment. These caesium sources are a major reason why the US has committed at least $25 million in 2002 to an urgent effort to track lost radioactive sources in former Soviet states, as New Scientist reported on Thursday. Media reports that the caesium was originally spread on fields in secret Soviet agricultural experiments are wrong, says Melissa Fleming,spokesperson...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military awarded medals Saturday to U.S.-trained troops involved in a gunbattle with the leader of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf rebels, whose still-missing body now has a $1,000 bounty on it. Ensign Christopher Salimbangon (L) is congratulated by Brigadier General Donald Wurster (R) commander for US troops in the Philipines, after being awarded the Gold Cross medal. Salimbagong, took part in the naval assault mission that led to the killing of Abu Sayyaf leader Abu Sabaya. AFP PHOTO/CONRADO MARALIT Abu Sabaya, a notorious leader and spokesman for the al-Qaida linked Abu Sayyaf, was believed...

President Bush had a previously undisclosed meeting last week with General Tommy Franks, commander of United States forces in Afghanistan, to dicuss what was described on Sunday as 'concrete' military plans to attack Iraq.'One of the meetings that wasn't reported this week was a briefing by General Franks in the Oval Office of the President on Wednesday revealed 'Fox News Sunday' panelist Bill Kristol, citing an unnamed administration source.Kristol said that the Bush-Franks meeting indicates that the administration had decided to take action against Iraq regardless of the status of Middle East peace talks adding, 'Bush may be moving faster...