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Jewish World Review June 11, 2002 Jews and the GOP:Dalliance or Alliance? By Jeff Ballabon and Ron Coleman http://www.jewishworldreview.com | The press is bubbling over what appears to the first meaningful crack in Franklin D. Roosevelt's venerable New Deal Coalition since the Reagan Democrats: the beginning of a meaningful Jewish flirtation with the Republican party. Notwithstanding years of marginal involvement in the G.O.P., it is a political verity that American Jews are every bit an "automatic" Democratic vote as the African American and labor caucuses. Evidence that the Democrats can take the Jewish vote for granted is legion and -...

"Southwest Airlines is under fire for its policy of charging overweight passengers for two tickets if they spill over into their neighbor's seat." AP, June 20, 2002 OBESE PASSENGERS DEMAND RIGHT TO EAT PERSON IN NEXT SEAT Policy Would Solve Overcrowding and Spare In-Flight Food Problems Washington, D.C. (SatireWire.com) — Controversy over a Southwest Airlines' policy continued today as advocates for the obese angrily insisted overweight passengers should not be forced to buy an extra ticket, but should instead be allowed to eat the person in the seat next to them.    Another proposal, to seat Americans at the front planes,...

WASHINGTON--On Sept. 11 of last year, President Bush declared, "Freedom has been attacked, but freedom will be defended." However, a new Cato Institute report shows that Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft have supported measures that are antithetical to freedom, such as secretive subpoenas, secretive arrests, secretive trials, and secretive deportations....(snip)Read the rest here (new window)

Imagine a world of private laws, where laws are written by legal experts instead of inept politicians, and are voluntarily and explicitly agreed to in advance (including the penalties for breaking the law) by each individual, instead of imposed on everyone without notice and against their will. In this world, victims of crime are immediately indemnified for their loss. People have a strong financial incentive not to aggress against non-aggressors. Competing arbitration companies ensure that justice is administered fairly. Jails compete for the business of violent criminals. And organized crime (both by the State and the mafia) and police brutality...

CALL FOR BETTER FOREST MANAGEMENT Arizona Gov. Jane Hull compared the fire to an out-of-control train at a press conference Sunday in which she highlighted the need to thin the often-dense forest growth amassed after decades of battling wildland blazes. Some environmentalists have fought the move, saying it would disrupt habitats.“Mother Nature is saying to Arizona and the West, we have got to clean up these forests,” she said. “Nature is telling us that we got to get this under control.”

JAIL OVERCROWDING County jails across Oklahoma are overcrowded, and drugs are getting the blame. Sheriffs across the state estimate anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of their inmates are being held on drug charges, and methamphetamine seems to be the drug of choice. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says the state is making more meth arrests per capita, than any other state in the union.

The Greening Of The North: Real, And Caused By Climate ChangeTwenty years of satellite observations have indicated a "greening" trend in northern regions of the northern hemisphere (boreal regions). Scientists at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC) in Jena, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Lund University, Boston University and the Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement (LSCE), Paris, have developed an advanced global ecosystem model showing that the trend is just as would be expected due to the warming climate (Science 31st May 2002). Some years ago Ranga Myneni and his colleagues at Boston University...

Retail Patriarch Penner Dies Week After Son's Death Sam Penner, patriarch of San Antonio's oldest family owned men's clothier, died Saturday. He was 92. Sam Penner, a Polish immigrant who entered the United States through Ellis Island, owned Penner's Men's Clothing Store with his two sons. Penner became a successful businessman despite never being schooled in finance or business administration. Penner believed that to remain in business and make a profit, he had to serve a niche market. He did so by offering shoes made by Stacy Adams, guayabera shirts, and big and tall men's suits. He also established...

PTA Addresses Sex Ed School Prayer Email story to a friend Parents want their school-aged children to learn about safe sex, not just abstinence, according to a survey released Sunday at the National PTA's annual conference. The survey, conducted by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, found that while 97 percent of the parent surveyed put abstinence at the top of their list, 85 percent said students should learn more about condoms and 84 percent said they should learn more about other forms of birth control. Half of all high school students are sexually active, said Virginia Witt, a...

President George Bush recently did a photo opportunity in which he announced the United States would contribute $500 million to fight AIDS in undeveloped countries. Another example this is of phony philanthropy. The $500 million isn't Mr. Bush's money, it's the American people's money, and did he ask the American people if that is how they want to spend their own money? Of course not. Aside from the fact that 32 million Americans are living below the government's poverty level, aside from the fact that there is nothing whatsoever in the Constitution authorizing the federal government to give the people's...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. WASHINGTON -- The Coast Guard, rearming for the war on terrorism, will replace its deep-water ships and its air fleet with modern equipment capable of detecting chemical weapons and quickly checking the identities of crew members and cargo shipments, a spokesman said Monday. The new ships will replace vessels that date from World War II and the new planes and helicopters will replace 30-year old models, said the spokesman, Cmdr. Jim McPherson. They will be phased in over 20 years and represent the largest infusion of new equipment at one time...

Search Continues for Missing Man, Daughter Heat-Seeking Scanner To Be Used In Search Posted: 11:48 p.m. MDT June 23, 2002 Investigators continued their search Sunday for an Albuquerque man and his daughter who were reported missing. State police said James Chapman, 46, and Crystal Tuggle, 20, were last seen Thursday. They told relatives they were going to Spirit Cave near Mount Taylor. Chapman's wife reported them missing Saturday. A park ranger located their vehicle Friday morning at El Malpais National Monument. However, police said there have been no other clues. The U.S. Air Force is stepping in to help. It...

THE BUSH DOCTRINEAfter WWII the U.S. faced unprecedented challenges--the emerging Cold War with the Soviet Union and the rebuilding and democratizing of shattered Europe and Japan. Harry Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson entitled his memoirs of the era, Present at the Creation. Among America's innovative responses was the creation of NATO, which enabled our allies to have a firm sense of security, despite active military and diplomatic threats from the U.S.S.R. Another era of new thinking is needed now after the attacks of Sept. 11, and President Bush took the first step in a June speech at West Point....

Working Wives Lower Divorce Chances Employment Doesn't Lead To Happiness, However POSTED: 4:17 p.m. EDT June 24, 2002 Full-time work for wives decreases the likelihood of divorce but does not improve marital happiness, Penn State researchers say. Marital unhappiness frequently drives wives into the workplace, said Dr. Robert Schoen, a sociology professor. Whether it be unhappy wives, husbands or both, unhappiness can play an important role in wives taking on full-time employment. Schoen's study looked at people over time. For couples that reported unhappiness at the first time point, the likelihood that the wife would be in the full-time...

24 June: The next radical Islamic terror attack in America could well originate in a corner of the Balkans, where a new jihad force is taking shape quietly and unhindered. In its last issue, published on Friday, June 21, DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military sources reported that close to 20,000 fighters, battled-hardened veterans and eager young recruits, are already under arms, with more joining up all the time. An Islamist bloc of nations (whose formation has been reported in the past by DEBKAfile) - made up of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, al Qaeda and Hizballah, with active Palestinian support - is behind the...

Universities Lose Millions as Students Use Cell Phones June 24, 2002 1:38pm Sacramento, Calif. (AP) - Instead of paying 9 cents a minute through Sonoma State University, 20-year-old Sadie Gardere pays a flat monthly rate of $45 for a nationwide long distance plan that covers her calls home to the Bay Area. Savvy students like Gardere are saving money for themselves, but costing cash-strapped public universities millions of dollars by not using the school-provided telephone services in residence halls and dorm rooms. Universities say it is only a matter of time before they will have to consider raising student...

The Times Higher Education Supplement June 21, 2002 SECTION: OPINION; No.1543; Pg.18 LENGTH: 645 words HEADLINE: Why I ..believe Guns Do Not Increase Violence BYLINE: Joyce Malcolm Professor of history Bentley College Massachusetts BODY: Gun control advocates have praised the English model, where the toughest arms restrictions of any democracy are credited with producing a low level of violent crime. But the historical record contradicts that assumption. When there were no restrictions on guns, England had an astonishingly low level of armed crime. Between 1890 and 1892 there were only three handgun homicides in a population of 30 million. In...

Remarks delivered June 24, 2002 at the Rose Gardenhttp://www.jewishworldreview.com | For too long, the citizens of the Middle East have lived in the midst of death and fear. The hatred of a few holds the hopes of many hostage. The forces of extremism and terror are attempting to kill progress and peace by killing the innocent. And this casts a dark shadow over an entire region. For the sake of all humanity, things must change in the Middle East. It is untenable for Israeli citizens to live in terror. It is untenable for Palestinians to live in squalor and occupation....

<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>

A Yemassee man charged with resisting arrest by dumping urine and paint over his body filed a $10 million lawsuit last week against the town, mayor, police department and Beaufort County Sheriff's Office. Shemuel Nahum Ben Yisrael -- widely known for his outrageous signs blasting police and government leaders as "devils" -- claimed that his Dec. 9, 2000, arrest was unlawful, that he was illegally imprisoned, defamed on police radio, emotionally distressed and assaulted by police who were trespassing on his property. Yisrael was arrested after a police officer saw him possibly trespassing. The officer tried to stop him, but...