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The ninth circuit worries that the mention of God somehow implies Jesus, yet their own website calender shows the court is off for "CHRISTMAS". (Scroll to bottom)

GOP voters pick Sanford Former congressman will next face Hodges BY SCHUYLER KROPF AND BRIAN HICKSOf The Post and Courier Staff      It was never even close.     Former congressman Mark Sanford overcame a late start to decisively win the Republican nomination for governor Tuesday, upsetting early favorite Lt. Gov. Bob Peeler and emerging as the new face of the South Carolina GOP.     Peeler, as the highest-ranking Republican in state government, had for years been building a machine to become the party's challenger to Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges. Sanford, meanwhile, was one of the last of the seven Republicans candidates to...

Professor Dr.-Ing. Carl-Alexander Graubner Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Interview by Michael Wutzke. Translated from German into English by John W. Cahill, AIA. New York City Photos by Nate Lindsey. What should architects learn from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center? We must seriously re-examine the topic of evacuation, especially in buildings which were built between the 1960's and 1970's. There are two points in which we have to differentiate between the situation in the USA and that in Germany. In Germany, skyscrapers must have two separate exitways in different corners of the building. In the USA, these...

An child places his arms in a tray full of milk as rats drink at the Karni Mata Hindu temple in the town of Deshnoke in India's northwestern state of Rajasthan. Rats, hundreds and hundreds of them, are everywhere at the temple in the state and woe betide anyone who takes fright and steps on one. Picture taken June 20, 2002. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore/TO MATCH FEATURE LIFE-INDIA-RATS

This is the PERFECT REASON why we must unseat Democrats who appoint liberal judges who advance their liberal activist agenda instead of interpreting the constitution. Help unseat one! Dump Democrat Davis Here And Dump Liberal Judge Appointing Davis Here Too!

In her opening monologue at 3PM today, South Florida Talk Show Host Randi Rhodes ocompared an ugly couch one hates to the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Her soliloquy lasted ten minutes or so. Randi told of how she bought a new house, picked out the best paint, the best tile and then her husband came home with an ugly leather couch she had to live with for years until she had it taken to the dump. That is, she said, how she has felt about listening to the phrase "under God" all her life. She is...

The editorial page of last Sunday's Arizona Republic was in keeping with a long journalistic tradition. The tradition happens to be that of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, but it is a tradition nonetheless. If you think the comparison is unwarranted, consider Sunday's three editorials, which endorsed more taxes, more government spending, more redistribution of income, more government control of families and more central planning. And that is not all. Also in keeping with the Pravda tradition, the editorials distorted the facts and served as propaganda pieces for the paper's statist agenda. One editorial said that the city of Mesa...

CANADA: UPDATE 1-Bush warns of consequences if Arafat stays. By Adam Entous   13:50 ET Reuters English News Service (C) Reuters Limited 2002. KANANASKIS, Alberta, June 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush threatened on Wednesday to cut off money to the Palestinians if they failed to embrace reform, stepping up pressure for the removal of longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat."I've got confidence in the Palestinians, when they understand fully what we're saying, that they'll make the right decisions," said Bush. But he warned: "I can assure you, we won't be putting money into a society which is...

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. tennis great Martina Navratilova criticized her adopted homeland in a German newspaper on Wednesday, saying money is the only thing that matters there. Navratilova, a Czech-born American who won 18 grand slam singles titles when she dominated women's tennis in the late 1970s and 1980s, also wrote in an article for Die Zeit weekly that she believed free speech was being suppressed in the United States. "The most absurd part of my escape from the unjust system is that I have exchanged one system that suppresses free opinion for another," said Navratilova, 45, who fled Czechoslovakia...

Jun 26, 2002Sudan Makes Spirited Defense of Islam as Officials From 57 Muslim Nations Debate Terrorism ^AP Photo XAN101 By Hamza Hendawi Associated Press Writer KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Addressing representatives of Muslim nations, Sudan suggested Wednesday that they, rather than the West, have been the primary targets of terrorism since Sept. 11. Mahdi Ibrahim, Sudan's information minister, said foreign ministers and senior officials from the 57 nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference were looking for a "strategic and comprehensive vision" to counter attempts to defame Islam and link it to terrorism. "The Muslim nation is the real...

My Fellow Freepers....I dont' even know if this is allowable under the posting rules but I am so incensed by this ruling by that appeals court, I decided to post this offer! If its pulled, so be it! I offer one FREE Sheet of Pledge of Allegiance 0cents Stamps (10 self-adhesive stamps) to any Freeper who sends me a SASE (Self Addressed Stamped Evelope)! This is one of my favorite stamps from both a message and an artistic viewpoint. It was designed by my Freeper wife several months ago - way before this 9th Circuit BS.I just want my...

Some may have thought the recent Andersen trial was riveting, but apparently not a couple of jurors. The Houston Chronicle reports it looks like the judge cautioned two jurors for catching up on a few zeds during some of the less juicy parts of the trial. His actions followed a note given to a US marshal by one of the more wide awake members of the jury, Jack Gallo. The marshal did not pass it on to the judge, saying he was already aware of the problem. However the next day the sleepy twosome were pulled from the jury room...

An obituary is overdue for three things died in Islamabad this week: sense, common sense and hope. Sense died with criticism of nomination of Dr. Abdul Kalam Azad. I am not sure why our intelligentsia is so keen to smell rat in such a nomination. Missile man he might be but he is after all a Muslim. He is being made the president of India and not head of any international nuclear authority. Apart from his knack in the field he is also a good Muslim and a man free of corruption. Our hawkish doves would challenge his being a...

Thursday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote on whether to approve S. 556, "the Clean Power Act," proposed by James Jeffords, Independent of Vermont. The bill requires drastic reductions in power-plant emissions of sulfur dioxide (75 percent), nitrogen oxides (75 percent), mercury (90 percent), and carbon dioxide (26 percent) — all by 2008.Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the inescapable byproduct of the hydrocarbon fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) that produce 70 percent of America's electricity supply and 84 percent of all U.S. energy. CO2 is also the principal greenhouse gas targeted by the Kyoto Protocol, the unratified...

Hoping for Neutrality06/24/2002 This week ABC News President David Westin put an end to the worst kept secret in broadcast news and officially declared that George Stephanopoulos would take over as the host of ABC's This Week in September. Media bias activists don't buy the magical metamorphosis from Clinton's spin doctor to unbiased newsman, but most had been reading the smoke signals and were not at all surprised. What was disturbing was some absurd commentary from people who ought to know better. Consider the comments of Eric Burns, host of Fox News Watch, who advises us to wait and see...

Breaking Hard and FAST!. Atheist movement overseas also taking notice and quite happy due to these shocking developments. (Pledge of Allegiance)

" HOUSTON (KHOU) -- Two teenage girls say that they can no longer live with their mother because she is gay. They've asked the state to take them in, but it says it won't interfere with this family that's divided. Inside a Missouri City home two teenage girls packed their bags and moved out. Seventeen-year-old Keena Green and her 15-year-old sister, Nikki, are no longer living with their mom. A mom who says that they were kidnapped. "Yes, I know that they were," says Kilma Green. She says a church called the Body of Christ kidnapped them. Keena and Nikki...

I think this ruling is great because it gives us something to hammer away at the left with going into the election. It is a perfect example of why the loser left needs to be defeated. The Senate needs to be flipped back to GOP control so we can get better judges confirmed.Think of the campaigning possibilities that can be found in this ruling. Hopefully Bush and the GOP are awake enough to pick up on this.I hope you read this before responding to the title.

Law Extends Benefits To Same-Sex Couples Firefighters, Officers Killed on Duty Covered President Bush has signed a bill allowing death benefits to be paid to the domestic partners of firefighters and police officers who die in the line of duty, permanently extending a federal death benefit to same-sex couples for the first time. The new law allows a $250,000 federal benefit for survivors of public safety officers to be paid to any beneficiary listed on the victim's life insurance policy. The money has been available only to spouses, children and parents. Gay activists had lobbied for the bill, and the...

U.S. President George W. Bush has been adamant since Sept. 11 about stopping terrorism, but he took a firm step in the opposite direction in his speech yesterday. He should have told the Palestinians clearly and unequivocally that their 21-month campaign of violence against Israel is unacceptable and must conclude before any discussion of rewards can be started. Instead, the President outlined his vision for a "provisional" Palestinian state and demanded an end to what he called "Israeli settlement activity in the occupied territories." Both of these constitute very major benefits to the Palestinians; as such, they represent rewards for...