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Statement Of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton On The Pledge Of Allegiance I am surprised and offended by the decision of the Appeals Court of the 9th Circuit and hope that it will be promptly appealed and overturned. I believe that the Court has misinterpreted the intent of the framers of the Constitution and has sought to undermine one of the bedrock values of our democracy -- that we are indeed "one nation under God," as embodied in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. While our men and women in uniform are battling overseas...

WASHINGTON - Two Chinese jet fighters came within 45 m of an American reconnaissance aircraft near China in the first such incident since a collision last year between another US spy plane and a Chinese jet. The close encounter occurred in international airspace near the Chinese coast north of Taiwan on Monday, officials said yesterday. Two Chinese F-7 interceptors flew parallel to a US Navy P-3 surveillance aircraft and then, for a few minutes flew very close to the propeller-driven plane, The Washington Times reported. On April 1 last year, a Chinese F-8 interceptor collided with a US spy plane...

The president's speech on the Middle East this week unveiled a radically new idea that goes far beyond the "Arafat has to go" headlines. Of course Arafat has to go. He has spent his eight years in control of Palestinian society encouraging and glorifying violence. "Asking Arafat to give up terrorism," explains Bernard Lewis, the dean of Middle East scholars, "would be like asking Tiger Woods to give up golf." As long as Arafat is in control, the blood is guaranteed to flow. Of course he has to go.But President Bush went far beyond the obvious. He dared to apply...

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<p>This is just what we need. Amid mass murder on U.S. soil, a difficult war on terror, the fires of hell consuming Colorado and Arizona, the stock market extinguishing people's wealth, almost ungraspable fraud alleged at WorldCom, the phenomenon of suicide bombers, the threat of biowarfare, Martha Stewart hurled into media purgatory--amid this, the federal appeals court in San Francisco decides now is the moment to declare that God is dead.</p>

<p>The politicians can't stop school choice now.</p> <p>Yesterday's broadly written Supreme Court ruling upholding a school choice program in Cleveland has been a long time coming. It was back in 1983 that the Education Department issued its "Nation at Risk" report warning of "a rising tide of mediocrity" in the schools. Two months later, the Supreme Court opened a first crack in the door of school choice when it declared that states could allow taxpayers with children in private schools to deduct tuition and other expenses from state income taxes. Yesterday's ruling represented the high court's final and complete retreat from the suspicion it once displayed towards school choice and the role religious schools can play in it.</p>

Prohibition Till Troops Disband Enemy Envoys in Truculent Spirit Say Afterward They Would Not Have Signed Had They Known They Were to Leave First by Different Way China Refuses to Sign, Smuts Makes Protest These Events Somewhat Cloud the Great Occasion at Versailles--Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George Receive a Tremendous Ovation RELATED HEADLINES Wilson Promises to Act: Must Wait Until Complete Demobilization, His Word from Paris: This Will Take 7 Weeks: President Calls Attention of Congress to His Request for Repeal: Liquor Men Unprepared: Had Hoped Until Announcement That Executive Would Intervene at the Eleventh Hour President Sends A Prohibition...

<p>Free at last, private school choice is free at last.</p> <p>The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday struck the greatest blow for equal public education since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. In the process it also stripped away the last Constitutional and moral figleaf from those who want to keep minority kids trapped in failing public schools.</p>

Loose framing Books for walking on treadmills or beachesBy Marvin OlaskyThe builder of my house once told me it was loosely framed, which I don't think was a good thing. My guess is that the person who designed the house and lived in it for several years changed her mind a few times as the house was under construction, leaving it with some curious angles. It's a wonderful, odd house, but it could have been a disaster, and some books—including Dave Burchett's When Bad Christians Happen to Good People (WaterBrook, 2002)—are like that. Mr. Burchett's book has problems but also...

The rise of the White Collar Big Money Psychopath. Three scenes. It is a spring day in the early 1990s and I am talking with the head of a mighty American corporation. We're in his window-lined office, high in midtown Manhattan, the view--silver skyscrapers stacked one against another, dense, fine-lined, sparkling in the sun--so perfect, so theatrical it's like a scrim, like a fake backdrop for a 1930s movie about people in tuxes and tails. Edward Everett Horton could shake his cocktail shaker here; Fred and Ginger could banter on the phone. The CEO tells me it is "annual report"...

Critical hole found in encryption program A popular open-source program for encrypted communications has a serious flaw that could let Internet attackers slip into servers running the software, said its creators and a security company this week. The program, Open Secure Shell (OpenSSH), is included in many widely used operating system distributions, such as OpenBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.1 and FreeBSD-Current, all open-source variants of the Unix OS. Such operating systems appear on networking equipment and security appliances, among other things. The flaw affects versions 3.0 to 3.2.3 of the software, said Grant Slender, principal consultant for Australasia at network protection...

How CAIR Put My Life in Perilby Khalid Durán On April 4, 2001, a self-described advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. by the name of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), issued a press release1 attacking my forthcoming book, Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews.2 CAIR's attack snowballed into a campaign of personal vilification, which eventuated in a Jordanian political leader calling me an apostate (murtadd).3 Neither CAIR nor Sheikh ‘Abd al-Mun‘im Abu Zant of Jordan's Islamic Action Front had ever read or even seen my book, but the CAIR attack prompted the latter to issue an...

The Bush administration has clearly lost the momentum that seemed irresistible in the wake of September 11, when all ambiguity was blown away on a date that shares infamy. The prospect of hanging concentrates the mind, as Dr. Johnson famously said, but nothing is permanent. Nothing much has happened since September 11, so a lot of us have stepped down from the gallows and back to the carefree life. Some of the things the government has done - color-coded warnings, streets-closings to make motorcades safe, warnings of suitcase bombs posted from Moscow - have hardly helped. The lick-and-a-promise approach to...

Nothing to lose With no eternal risk, Christians are called to continual temporal riskBy John PiperLast month President Bush reflected on the national effect of 9/11. "We are a different nation today—sadder and stronger, less innocent and more courageous, more appreciative of life, and for many who serve our country, more willing to risk life in a great cause." Yes, and how much more true for those who are Christians first and Americans second? They serve the greatest cause in history, spreading allegiance to Jesus Christ for the joy of all people. Missionary Martin Burnham, dying in the Philippines, last...

In recent days we have been shown how God is being deleted in every aspect of life and government. That's right I stated government. It is my own personal belief that we as american people have been lied to and manipulated to long. It is high time we know and search for truth. Following, is a few statements made by some very influencial individuals who founded this country. "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."

Once upon a time there lived a small boy. Born of Muslim parents in undivided India he grew up to see and experience the turmoil of migration. He saw the bloody partition of a country. He also saw the birth of his present homeland. But in those four years that he lived in an old haveli in Delhi he drank in information of a lifetime. He saw things that no four year old should perhaps have seen. He witnessed what no toddler should perhaps have ever been witness to. He heard that, which would have singed the ears of hardened...

Commenting on the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that school vouchers were indeed constitutional, Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., said that vouchers "are the wrong policy when it comes to educating our children." Oh really? The fact is that the Court's timing couldn't have been better. It made its ruling just one day after the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that reciting the pledge of allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional because it contains the words "under God," and on the SAME day that the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that commemorative tiles created by Columbine High Scholl...

34 Asylum-Seekers Break Out of Camp Thu Jun 27,11:05 PM ETBy PETER O'CONNOR, Associated Press WriterCANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Thirty-four asylum-seekers escaped from Australia's most notorious detention center when their supporters dragged down fences with a car, the government said Friday. Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said 15 asylum-seekers were involved in the late Thursday breakout from the Woomera detention center, a former missile testing base in central Australia. The other 19 fled into the desert during the confusion."This is a deliberate, organized breakout by people who have been in contact with detainees," Ruddock told Melbourne radio station 3AW.Ruddock said...

Greg Wersal laughed happily on the phone today after hearing he had won a long-fought battle over free speech for judicial candidates. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down limits on what some judicial candidates may tell voters in the case initiated by Wersal, a 46-year-old Golden Valley attorney. "I'm elated," said the three-time state Supreme Court candidate. "I think it's fantastic." The Supreme Court agreed with Wersal that Minnesota's strict limits on speech amounted to an unconstitutional gag order on judicial candidates. Most states keep candidates from divulging their positions on issues that might come before their court. Minnesota is...

Gator sued over pop-up adsThu Jun 27, 7:38 PM ETStefanie OlsenA group of publishers this week sued the Gator online advertising network ( news - external web site) in a bid to bar the company from serving pop-up ads on their Web sites without their permission. • Maximize Windows XP • Get live tech help • Find the perfect PDA • Avoid CRM challenges  Sign up for the free ZDNet News Dispatch:     (CNET Networks Privacy Policy) The suit was filed Tuesday in federal court in Alexandria, Va. The Washington Post, The New York Times, Dow Jones and seven other publishers allege...