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Our position: It will take more than a makeover to make John Lindh look good. American Taliban sympathizer John Walker Lindh has undergone a remarkable transformation. When arrested in Afghanistan last fall during a firefight with American soldiers, he was a tangle of long black hair with an unkempt beard and hauntingly vacant dark eyes. Now charged with conspiring to murder U.S. nationals, providing support and services to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and using firearms during crimes of violence, Mr. Lindh has radically altered his appearance. Appearing recently in a Virginia courtroom, Mr. Lindh was clean-shaven, with cropped hair,...

<p>ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) -- At least a couple of times a week, mechanic Ernie Pride tells customers at his independent repair shop he can't fix their cars because he doesn't know what's wrong with them. Go to the dealer, he advises.</p>

A Rose By Any Other Name... By Jeff Elkins Published 06. 22. 02 at 22:42 Sierra Time Shortly after President George W. Bush announced that Governor Tom Ridge would be serving his Administration as leader of a nascent "Homeland Security" agency, I wrote: "It has an ominous sound, that name, almost Germanic. (I can't wait to see the uniforms.)" Now, almost a year later, Republican speechwriting maven Peggy Noonan agrees and has started a campaign to change the name "Homeland Security" to something more palatable, something that will not have such a jarring effect on American ears. Says Ms....

Coming up in moments on the Dennis Prager show is someone Dennis describes as "The World's Greatest Islamic Terrorist Expert." I don't think he even gave us a name yet. Dennis is sydicated, and he is on the web through www.krla870.com

A man takes the day off work and decides to go out golfing. He is on the second hole when he notices a frog sitting next to the green. He thinks nothing of it and is about to shoot when he hears, Ribbit 9 Iron." The man looks around and doesn't see anyone. Again, he hears, "Ribbit 9 Iron." He looks at the frog and decides to prove the frog wrong, puts the club away, and grabs a 9 iron. Boom! He hits it 10 inches from the cup. He is shocked. He says to the frog, "Wow that's amazing....

<p>Panama City, Panama -- A country known for its hats, bananas and dictators has become an unlikely battleground for Taiwan and China, longtime adversaries waging their civil conflict a hemisphere away.</p> <p>With the aim of strengthening ties, leaders on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have encouraged businesses to invest in Panama. It's a fight that touches the Bay Area, where local investors and international companies that do business here also have interests on the isthmus.</p>

The Cult Of The Neurotic Hate HuntersBy H. Millard (c) 2002 Published 06. 21. 02 at 21:33 Sierra Time It has been said by some philosophers that history repeats itself. With this in mind we might be forgiven if we sometimes think that 1600's Salem, Mass. has not only come back, but has now spread to the whole nation, but with some new twists. As we look at back at history we all know that had we lived in the days of the original witch hunters we would have stood up for those who were falsely accused. Right? Nope....

  Easy investment not meant to beArticle Courtesy of Houston Chronicle   Easy investment not meant to be Easy investment not meant to be By THOM MARSHALL Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle Maybe you can relate to this: I hear about other people reaping spectacular rewards on investments, but when I get wind of some amazing deal in the works, something always happens. For example, I recently got a lead on a house scheduled for public auction that might have been an amazing deal. You could move into it or rent it out like the current owner has been doing. The only hitch was that...

I received the following request via email. If anyone can help this person, please post a reply here. Subject: RVN Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:04:38 -0400 From: "Al Hlad" < romm99@earthlink.net > To: < webmaster@freedomusa.org > I served with the 4th Infantry Division, 77th Artillery, HQ Battery. The time period was 11/65 until 8/67. I am trying to find a site that could give me a listing of US and RVN personnel during that period. The 4th shipped out on the Wm. S. Walker out of Tacoma, Wa. In 9/66. Any help for a web site would be appreciated....

<p>LEXINGTON, Kentucky (AP) -- Two gay men are expecting to become parents of quadruplets after a surrogate mother gives birth in August.</p> <p>Thomas Dysarz and Michael Meehan enlisted the help of a 23-year-old woman who agreed to help the domestic partners have a baby through in vitro fertilization.</p>

<p>On May 30 and 31, The Ithaca Journal published an article and editorial concerning the solar panels on the new Tompkins County Public Library.</p> <p>The pieces contain many inaccuracies and misunderstandings that should be addressed for your readers.</p> <p>Despite what the editorial on May 31 implies, there has been no sinister cover-up among county officials to hide solar panel data. Rather, there have been numerous difficulties in implementing the startup of the panels and in coordinating the sharing of data among the various parties. Admittedly, the first 11 months were a learning process, but the situation is improving.</p>

Did anyone else catch the comment by Rush a little while ago? He was thanking his guest host and he thanked Bill Cunningham and said, "Well, that got the FREEPER network fired up." (oh something to that effect).

Marijuana is made of the crumbled leaves, stems, seeds and flowering tops of the hemp plant, according to the American Council for Drug Education. It contains more than 400 chemicals and when smoked produces more than 2,000 chemicals, all of them harmful, according to the ACDE. The chemical that results in the “high” is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol or THC. According to the ACDE, smoking one joint “can leave traces in the body for three or four weeks. A habitual user is never free of the chemicals and actually builds them up with continued use.” Local health leaders say marijuana isn’t as innocent...

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati got them going. As the powerful cleric and key figure in Iran's Islamic government ripped into America in a fiery sermon during Friday prayers, a lone voice far back in the crowd yelled "Margbar Amrika." Before long, the isolated chant had turned into a roar as thousands of worshipers screamed "Death to America" in Farsi, taking on the cadence of a high school pep rally. The owlish Jannati looked on with pride and when the chants died down, he continued his vengeful sermon a stone's throw from two Americans watching the spectacle. Welcome to Friday prayers at...

My firewall software frequently logs attempted penetrations of my computer. Among the information it captures is the IP address of the offending PC. My question is, can I use this information to counter-attack the hacker, or notify an unwitting computer owner that his PC or server is infected? How do I go about doing this? I've played with tracer programs before, but never really used the information to follow up.

<p>Social Security, it's been said, is the third, electrified rail of American politics. Touch it and you risk political electrocution.</p> <p>In California, the same can be said of immigration, whose sensitivity has become a staple of state political campaigns. Politicians cannot endorse unrestricted immigration, or advocate public benefits for undocumented immigrants, without running the risk of alienating California voters. But neither can they appear to be anti-immigrant without angering the fast-growing Latino voting bloc.</p>

last chance to vote on the next terrorist event in the us. www.scoogiespin.com

<p>An Iowa festival planning a bullfrog-jumping contest was forced to cancel the event after local animal rights activists complained that it was "inhumane and barbaric," reports the Cedar Rapids Gazette.</p> <p>Nancy Hedges Wendler, director of the Freedom Festival in Cedar Rapids, had planned to buy six bullfrogs from an Idaho bullfrog farm, race them in wet grass then free them in private ponds in the area.</p>

<p>ONCE AGAIN, the Senate is full of presidential wannabes. Three Democrats, John Edwards of North Carolina, John Kerry of Massachusetts, and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut are out most weekends, cultivating friends in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina and wooing contributors everywhere. Joseph Biden of Delaware and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut reportedly are weighing the possibility of joining the chase. And Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota has carefully left the door open for himself.</p>

Kournikova 'no longer sexiest tennis player' A tennis magazine says Slovakian teenager Daniela Hantuchova has replaced Anna Kournikova as the sexiest woman in the game.Hantuchova was awarded the title by pundits for Ace magazine.Kournikova was second, followed by Austrian player Barbara Schett.Swiss player Miroslava Vavrinec and Jelena Dokic, of Serbia-Montenegro, also made the top five.The Daily Mail reports Hantuchova has the longest legs in lawn tennis. At 44 inches they're five inches longer than those of her rivals.The 19-year-old, who's ranked 11th at Wimbledon, said: "I always try to look my best on court. It is very flattering to...