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<p>A grand jury indicted a retired Roman Catholic priest on six counts of sexual abuse and 36 counts of indecent and immoral practices today after dozens of victims came forward saying they were sexually abused when they were children.</p> <p>A Jefferson County grand jury handed down the indictment against the Rev. Louis E. Miller, 71, who served in several churches and schools in the Louisville Archdiocese.</p>

There have been numerous posts on the Katie Couric Ann Coulter interview today. Rush just read cyber alert transcripts proving that Katie lied when she insisted the show didn't incorporate "Reagan is an airhead" on three shows as Ann said.Katie haarrruphed, saying she would get the transcripts, which she will never do.Don't bother katie, Rush just read them, you're a proven liar, just like your hero Klintoon, just like Ann said you were.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Ten Pakistani soldiers and two suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in a gunbattle in the lawless tribal area bordering Afghanistan ( news - web sites), a senior government official said on Wednesday. The men were killed after the Pakistani soldiers raided a house they suspected of being a hideout for al Qaeda operatives who had fled Afghanistan, he said, adding details would be released later. Sources said a small number of U.S. forces were also in the area helping in the search for al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives but did not take part in the raid...

Calling All California Taxpayers!Please join us on the North Steps of the State Capitolat 11:30 am on SATURDAY June 29th('L' St. & 11th St., Sacramento)We must send an urgent message to Governor Davis: California deserves a balanced State Budget with NO NEW TAXES! Over the past three years California’s population has grown by about 5%. Governor Davis has increased state spending by 37%! In just two years he turned over $7 BILLION in surpluses into a massive $24 BILLION deficit. To “solve” this problem he has proposed over $5 BILLION of new taxes, including doubling the car tax! Governor Davis...

<p>When he became a WorldCom customer two years ago, Infolink CEO Prieur Leary hoped for a good relationship. Instead, he wound up owing WorldCom $100,000 because of billing mistakes he says WorldCom made.</p> <p>Leary says Infolink, which sells communications services, was billed for the same items by different WorldCom units — and both were wrong. It was charged for some services that should have been free, was overcharged for others and was billed for taxes that shouldn't have accrued.</p>

Filed at 12:59 p.m. ET CINCINNATI (AP) -- Evangelist Billy Graham made his first face-to-face apology for anti-Jewish comments he made at the White House that were recorded 30 years ago, an aide said Wednesday. The apology came Sunday at Graham's first meeting with Jewish leaders since tapes were released in March revealing a 1972 conversation with President Nixon in which the Southern Baptist evangelist expressed disdain for what he saw as Jewish domination of the media, aide Melany Ethridge said. ``This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country's going down the drain,'' Graham said to Nixon. Rabbi...

Ken Feld's Line in The Sand Author: Brian Tubbs, Senior Policy Analyst, National Legal and Policy Center The most popular legend in American history stems from the gallant sacrifice made by roughly 180 besieged fighters at an old Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas. These fighters included ex-U.S. Congressman and frontier hero Davy Crockett and the legendary Jim Bowie. According to popular history, when informed that reinforcements would not be coming, Colonel William Barrett Travis, the Alamo's commander, called for an assembly in the main courtyard. Standing before his men, Travis told them the grim news and explained that their...

I shock many students on the first day of my Property classes by defining property ownership in terms of control: whoever gets to make decisions about an item of property is the effective owner, regardless of what legal definitions may have to say about title. I then propose the following application of a property principle (which I ask them only to understand, not necessarily to agree with): "based upon what I have just stated, I may do whatever I want with my property, without any restrictions or limitations whatsoever. If I may not do so, then someone else – the...

Arizona has lost more acres to wildfire this year than any other state in the nation except Alaska. The "Rodeo-Chediski" fire, one of the worst disasters ever to hit our state, has displaced families, destroyed property and wildlife habitats and decimated large portions of our forests. It will take a century to fully recover. Compounding this tragedy is the knowledge that we could have prevented much of it. Federal officials have known for years what needs to be done to protect our forests. For almost a decade, I have promoted ecological forest management, including thinning to protect our forests from...

Wake up, Europe By Melanie Phillips. First published in the Jewish Chronicle, June 14 2002. It is commonly assumed by many that the Arab quarrel with the Jews is over Israel, and more particularly over Israel’s policies in the occupied territories and the settlements and towards the idea of a Palestinian state. This assumption surely puts the cart before the horse. At the root of the quarrel lies instead the Muslim perception of the humiliation of Islam by the west, of which the presumption to statehood by the Jewish people is both a symbol and a particularly intolerable affront. Two...

That's right, profiled! *GASP* How will I ever recover from such an insult!?! Let me tell you about it. There we were, heading off to work on a bright, sunny morning, just about to cross over the Martinez/Benicia bridge. Suddenly, out of nowhere, there's a CHP behind us, and two Calif. State Patrol cars following him. Of course, I pulled over; there's little chance I'd try to outrun THESE guys in a Dodge Utility Van. The moment I stopped on the shoulder, the van was surrounded by officers, guns drawn, and very serious expressions on their faces. After the initial...

I was just wondering what you all thought of the interview this morning...assuming you watched it. The more conservative you are, the less you watch her probably :)

What follows is an email exchange between Deacon Father John and a few Calvinist  Protestants. The latter's remarks are in Arial font... It has been asserted that foreknowledge of a choice, necessarily determines that choice, and eliminates other possibilities as possibilities. Let's take the godless world of Star Trek, just to test whether this logic holds up. At the most, the Trek universe has some sort of personless force behind it... certainly no being who governs the affairs of men. Now suppose that a person in this godless universe discovers a way to go back into the past, but can...

Ever since Enron melted down late last year the press and congressional committees have been on a steady witch-hunt to find similar corporate sneaks and the occasional Mr. Burns. And hey, to be fair the business world isn't the only institution having problems. Just ask the boys running the Catholic Church about management problems. By the time the stock markets closed this past Friday, it marked the fifth consecutive week of downturns. Sure the markets haven't hit that post-September 11 low yet, but they are trying as hard as they can. Terrorist warnings and Mid-East uncertainty surely aren't helping either,...

Women’s Leadership in Resistance to Fundamentalism in Iran Donna M. Hughes Women’s Studies International Forum Vol. 19 No. 6, xv-xvii, 1996 The revolution in Iran in 1979 brought to power religious fundamentalists who have created the most misogynous theocracy in the world. Since 1979 the ruling mullahs have systematically denied women’s equality to men claiming women are physically, intellectually and morally inferior to men. Women have limited access to education, employment and public activities (Parliamentary Human Rights Group, November 1994). The most symbolic and visible sign of oppression for women in Iran is the legally required hejab, or dress code....

<p>I want to buy your children. As I understand it, you have seven children still alive (your son Mahmoud killed himself, I'm sorry to hear). I'll offer more than Saddam Hussein has offered; he'll pay $25,000 each, if they are willing to turn themselves into human bombs, but I'll pay $30,000 each.</p>

Child shares milk with 'holy' temple rats A child has been sharing milk from a bowl with a group of "holy" rats at an Indian temple.Hundreds of rats live undisturbed at the Karni Mata Hindu temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan.It's known locally as "Rat Temple".The high priests protect the rats because their bodies are thought to house the souls of dead worshippers.There are special holes allowing the rats to move around the temple.It's said if you spot a white rat, you'll have good luck.Story filed: 15:56 Wednesday 26th June 2002

WASHINGTON - A new book about Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher, the former Kansas Citian and naval pilot reported killed in the early hours of the Persian Gulf War, contends that he is alive and being held prisoner in Iraq. And U.S. officials have known it, according to the book's author, Amy Waters Yarsinske, a former naval intelligence officer who spent eight years researching the Speicher story. She also alleges that Speicher was brought down not by an Iraqi MiG-25 or a surface-to-air missile, but by friendly fire. She said that fear of embarrassment spawned a series of denials and...

<p>WASHINGTON - As fires continue to ravage parts of eastern Arizona, Colorado and California, the U.S. Forest Service is conducting an internal study into how much environmentalists may be to blame.</p> <p>Environmentalists said Tuesday that there's a recent government report addressing the issue and that it shows they aren't to blame for the wildfire crisis.</p>

NewsMax.com Monday June 24, 2002; 11:15 p.m. EDT FBI Raids Hillary's Warehouse in Whitewater Deja Vu Ten years ago, L. Jean Lewis, an investigator with the government's Resolution Trust Corporation, was able to piece together a complicated Arkansas bank fraud conspiracy from a treasure trove documents she unearthed in an out-of-the-way Kansas City warehouse. The result was the Whitewater scandal, which, after six years worth of twists and turns, ended in the first impeachment of an elected president in U.S. history. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton surely hopes that history isn't repeating itself with the raid conducted by the FBI...