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Immediate Media Release June 23, 2002 AARLC Headquarters Ronald Reagan Building 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 700 Washington, District of Columbia 20005 Contact Person: Kevin L. Martin Political & Govt. Affairs Director 202-675-8338 fax:202-546-6589 African American Republican Leadership Council Demands that Senate Democrats end there racial and nomination profiling The African American Republican Leadership Council demands that Senate Democrats end their racial and nomination profiling of President Bush’s Judicial Nominations. Senate Democrats led by Majority Leader Tom Daschle continues to engage in their political wohobism on Capitol Hill. The Democrat Control Senate Judiciary Committee led by the extremist left-wing Senator...

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com -- When the United States builds a missile-defense shield, it should leave a small hole right above Harvard University -- and Yale, Stanford, Columbia and Brown. Each of these institutions bans the U.S. Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) from conducting classes on its campus. Until they let ROTC back on campus, let them defend themselves. Now, when America is under attack, it is vital that America's youth know the military personally, rather than buying professorial slander about the military-industrial complex and the "dark side" of the U.S. armed forces. Still, many top-notch universities ban ROTC. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia...

This November, there will be an initiative on the ballot to amend Florida's Constitution. This amendment, Amendment 6, will ban smoking in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants and their connected bars. Stand alone bars would be exempt, but smoking would be banned in private residences if they are used to provide health care, child care, or elder care.

In recent years, Agustin Gomez Mendez and other Maya Indians in far southern Mexico have taken yet one more sharp turn in a long quest for redemption, deciding that Jesus Christ isn't their personal savior after all. "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger," says Gomez Mendez, a poor farmer and father of six who converted his family to Islam in 1996 under the tutelage of Spanish missionaries. Over the past few years, about 300 evangelical Christian Maya have converted to Islam in southernmost Chiapas state, which has been riven by spiritual struggles for centuries. The...

Authorities in Loxley, Alabama, are investigating the alleged beating of a preacher by funeral mourners who didn't like his blunt eulogy. Glynis Bethel tells The Associated Press that her husband -- Pastor Orlando Bethel -- was attacked during a June 14th funeral and dragged out of the church. That's because Bethel told mourners the deceased was in Hell and that they were headed the same way. The dead man was Mrs. Bethel's uncle. Pastor Bethel referred to him as a "drunkard and a fornicator." Mrs. Bethel, who's also a preacher, says -- quote -- "the fornicators didn't like what he...

Should we bail out AMTRAK...Again?

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday banned F. Lee Bailey from practicing law before the justices, a formality for the attorney who has already been disbarred in two states. Bailey, who defended O.J. Simpson and other high-profile clients, was accused of mishandling stock owned by a drug defendant. The Supreme Court refused in May to review a Florida Supreme Court decision that barred Bailey from practicing law in that state. Bailey also lost his law license in Massachusetts after a review of the Florida decision. AP-ES-06-24-02 1141EDT

Bush letter to property rights group raises outcry St. Petersburg Times; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Jun 22, 2002; CRAIG PITTMAN; Copyright Times Publishing Co. Jun 22, 2002 In Florida's courtrooms, the Pacific Legal Foundation has argued against dimming beach lights to help baby sea turtles. It has fought for the rights of boaters upset about manatee protection regulations. It has opposed the state Department of Environmental Protection over a land use case. And it has won a notable fan: Gov. Jeb Bush. The cover of the most recent newsletter from the foundation's Atlantic Center in Miami reproduces a letter from Bush...

Monday 24 June, 2002 Why there is no food author/source:ZWNEWS published:Mon 24-Jun-2002 posted on this site:Mon 24-Jun-2002 Article Type : Report The myth that the famine is caused by drought click here to download article

Televised proceedings a far cry from O.J. fiasco By Alex RothUNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERJune 23, 2002 In retrospect, it's hard to pinpoint the most cartoonish aspect of the O.J. Simpson trial. Maybe it was the sitcom-style insults traded by the attorneys, or the ringing cell phones in the courtroom, or Johnnie Cochran making up rhymes during closing arguments. All of it broadcast live on television. The Simpson case was a public-relations fiasco for the California courts – and many people blamed the television camera. It became conventional wisdom in the legal community that televising trials was a bad idea. The...

WASHINGTON – Prosecutors do not have to turn over more evidence to defendants considering guilty pleas, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. Full story available at WP.

CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan said his news network had made "inexcusable mistakes," and had presented "incorrect perceptions" of the Middle East conflict, but denied that it was biased against either Israel or the Palestinians in its coverage. After CNN founder Ted Turner equated Israeli military actions with suicide bombers, the company dispatched Jordan to Israel as part of a damage-control mission. "We're not perfect," Jordan admitted, speaking to Israel Insider staff. "There are things we can do better, and our intention is to be totally fair in our coverage." An online petition posted on Israel Insider demanded that...

***Media Research Center CyberAlert*** Monday June 24, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 100) The 1,301st CyberAlert. Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996 PBS Rejected Charlie Daniels' Tribute, "The Last Fallen Hero"; Sunday Morning TV Too White & Male; Like a Liberal, Couric Saw a Conservative; Environmentalist Role in Fires Cited #### Distributed to more than 10,500 recipients by the Media Research Center, bringing political balance to the news media since 1987. The MRC is the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias. Visit the MRC on the Web: http://www.mediaresearch.org. CyberAlerts from this year are at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/cyberwelcome.asp Subscribe/unsubscribe information, as...

AUBURN NY- The Cayuga County Republican Committee has endorsed Dr. David Walrath, R-Sennett, over incumbent Congressman Sherwood Boehlert. The committee heard each candidate speak for about 10 minutes before voting here Sunday evening. Redistricting recently placed 20 of Cayuga County's 23 towns in the 24th Congressional District, represented by 10-term U.S. Rep. Boehlert, R-New Hartford. On Sunday, Boehlert and Walrath each spoke to more than 120 members of the county's GOP committee at the Ukrainian National Club, 113 Cottage St. After the committee caucused, Walrath, a surgeon at Auburn Memorial Hospital, came away with the endorsement. "Both men made excellent...

SPECIAL REPORT: Mechanics of Failure in Israeli Government GAMLA is about to send out a very important report through it's intelligence newsletter. Only subscribers will receive this. In order to subscribe, for FREE, CLICK HERE Here is partof this report: SPECIAL REPORT: Mechanics of Failure The Slaughter The slaughter of innocents inflicted on Israel this week by Palestinian murderers is unparalleled since the days of Nazi Germany. No longer are Israelis murdered singly; whole families are being wiped out while asleep, riding buses, celebrating. The terror stalking every corner of the country lends the term holocaust a fearful, intimate...

June 24, 2002 IMPERIAL TRANSPORTATION BUREAUCRAT SAYS YES TO LAVISH OFFICES, NO TO ARMED PILOTS Undersecretary John Magaw, the chief of the new Transportation Security Administration, has been very busy lately. He just spent $410,000 of your tax dollars installing lavish fixtures in his new office suite at the Transportation department headquarters. The Washington Post reports that "With its plush carpeting, mahogany stained doors, crown molding, and state-of-the-art conference room equipped with $109,000 worth of audio equipment, it has struck some visitors as ‘a little bit over the top.’" Incredibly, Magaw managed to spend about $132 per square foot on...

Did you ever wonder why the Lord commanded His disciples to wait in Jerusalem? The Holy Spirit could have come anywhere. The answer is in a prophecy from Isaiah sung by religious Jews in synagogues across the world. "Ke Mitzion Taytzeh Torah" - And the Law shall go forth from Zion. "Oodavar Adonai may Yerushalayim" - and the Word of the Lord shall go forth from Jerusalem. when Orthodox Jews chant this, they actually bear witness to Messiah, who brought the Word of God to the world from Jerusalem. If the Jewish people knew the Gospel would have to begin...

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Critics Question Bush Palestine Plan Mon Jun 24,11:33 AM ETBy SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer As President Bush ( newsprepares to roll out his Mideast peace blueprint, members of Congress and Palestinian leaders are already expressing doubts about its core goal — provisional Palestinian statehood. Photos "A state is a state, and you cannot be provisionally pregnant, and you cannot have a provisional state," Palestinian Cabinet Minister Nabil Shaath said on CNN's "Late Edition." One administration official said Monday he believed Bush intended to deliver his speech in the afternoon. But a high-ranking White House official spread his arms in...

WASHINGTON, DC, Jun 20, 02 (CWNews.com) - US House Republicans on Wednesday proposed a new bill that would once again try to ban partial-birth abortion, a procedure that kills a child after he is mostly delivered outside his mother's womb. Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, predicted that the bill would be approved by Congress and signed into law this year and that it will survive a constitutional challenge. Previous versions of the ban were vetoed by former President Bill Clinton. Chabot said the US Supreme Court's action in 2000 of overturning a Nebraska partial-birth abortion...