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ASHINGTON, June 27 — The Supreme Court, concluding that Cleveland's voucher plan was "a program of true private choice," today upheld the use of public money for religious school tuition in a decisive 5-to-4 ruling that the majority called a logical outgrowth of recent decisions and the dissenters described as a fundamental break with the past.The most important ruling on religion and the schools in the 40 years since the court declared organized prayer in the public schools to be unconstitutional, the decision, issued on the final day of the court's 2001-2002 term, will not end the passionate debate...

Dear President Bush: You had us worried there for a while. In the wake of your inspiring and brilliant speech this week, one feels a little sheepish to have doubted you. Yet your trumpet on the Middle East had been, let's face it, a little uncertain during the past few months. Back in April, when Israel was belatedly taking military action against the terrorists who have spattered Israel's pizza parlors, bat mitzvah parties, and supermarkets with blood and gore, you sternly called upon Prime Minister Sharon to pull out. (Though you would have scorned anyone who called upon the...

Arming Repression: U.S. Arms Sales to Turkey During the Clinton Administration by Tamar Gabelnick, William D. Hartung, and Jennifer Washburn with research assistance by Michelle Ciarrocca A Joint Report of the World Policy Institute and the Federation of American Scientists October 1999   Acknowledgements Contents Executive Summary and Recommendations I. Introduction: Humanitarianism and Double Standards II. U.S. Arms Sales to Turkey: Rhetoric and Reality III. Turkey's Use of U.S.-Origin Weaponry in Its War Against the Kurds IV. Fueling Tensions: Cyprus and the Greek/Turkish Arms Race V. Turkey's Weapons Shopping Spree: The $150 Billion Question Mark VI. Human Rights in Turkey:...

MIDI - BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL Our court has spoken and the news is quite good You won't be taken as fools If you are in an institution that's failing, one that really sucks big With teachers dumber than mules Just say goodbye to that school…oh, yes, those vouchers are cool Bye-bye to that school…get out of there right now Goodbye to that school We have heard the NEA screaming like the world's gonna end It's like a meteor struck It's so refreshing that you'll now have a choice to choose where your kids will go In dead...

First my comments. It seems the Balkan posts linking al-Qaeda and 9/11 to elements of the Balkan Jihad has been noticed. See the paragraph were Stephen Schwartz aka Suleyman Ahmad writes about the propaganda that continues to be spread against Bosnian and Kosovar Muslims. Who else could he mean but the Freeper posters and others who did some digging and shed some light on the Chechen, Bosnian and Albanian links to al-Qaeda? (Check out his loving words on the Chechens too) It also seems that this once liberal (during Clinton) and now neo-con (just in time for Bush) 5th column...

Now that the decision of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to ban "under God" from the pledge of allegiance has been protested all over the landscape, perhaps we might step back and consider the broader implications of the fact that such a decision could have been made in the first place. The ostensible basis for the 9th Circuit decision is the Constitution of the United States. Contrary to what some may think, there is no mention of "separation of church and state" in the Constitution, much less any "wall of separation" that keeps getting mentioned, even in Supreme...

WASHINGTON--Happily, the number seven was not lucky on Thursday for the disgustingly determined and mostly liberal people who oppose extending to poor parents the right of school choice that is routinely exercised by middle-class Americans, including many liberals. In the most important case concerning equality of opportunity in the 48 years since the school desegregation decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Cleveland's school choice program, which empowers parents to redeem tuition vouchers at religious as well as nonreligious private schools, does not violate the constitutional prohibition of ``establishment'' of religion. It was the seventh consecutive defeat in the court...

ASHINGTON, June 27 — The directors of the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. told Congress today that their agencies would share secret intelligence with the proposed Department of Homeland Security. But they expressed support for a Bush administration plan that would keep their agencies independent of the new organization.In a joint appearance before a Senate committee to discuss the relationship between intelligence, law enforcement and domestic security, George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, and his counterpart at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, promised to turn over all of their terrorism-related intelligence reports and even...

Ohio Consumers' Counsel, Industrial Energy Users-Ohio and AMP-Ohio File Complaint Against American Electric Power For Violating Electric Choice Law COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ohio Consumers' Counsel (OCC), the residential utility advocate, joined with the Industrial Energy Users-Ohio (IEU - Ohio) and American Municipal Power - Ohio (AMP - Ohio) in a complaint filed today at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) against American Electric Power (AEP) for violating the state's electric choice law. The OCC and its partners in the complaint believe that by failing to honor commitments to promote the efficient and effective transmission of...

nvestigators looking into the WorldCom scandal have found no records to support decisions to shift billions of dollars in expenses on the company's books, people close to the company said yesterday — a fact that increases the likelihood that the transactions involved criminal fraud.Instead, investigators have found that the sums involved — which reduced reported operating expenses over the last five quarters — were exactly those needed for WorldCom to meet its profit margin goals, these people said."From all appearances, this started with the desired profit margin and then backed into the expense number," one person close to the...

<p>Members of a leading Muslim advocacy group gathered on Capitol Hill yesterday to educate the American Muslim community on ways to lobby Congress in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.</p> <p>Leaders of the American Muslim Council, which began its four-day annual convention yesterday, said the community has an enhanced responsibility to educate mainstream Americans about Islamic religion and culture in the aftermath of the attacks blamed on Islamic terrorists.</p>

<p>Circuit Court nominee Judge Dennis W. Shedd faced tough questioning yesterday by a Senate panel, including one Democrat who threatened to vote against the candidate's confirmation unless he detailed his views on abortion.</p> <p>The South Carolina district judge was nominated by President Bush to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. He declined to state his abortion views, saying it would require his recusal in future court hearings on the issue.</p>

Pre-emptive Expulsion Two Iranian U.N. Workers Expelled From the United States By John McWethy June 27 — Two men who work in New York for Iran's mission to the United Nations are being expelled from the United States, ABCNEWS has learned. Sources told ABCNEWS that the two Iranians were seen five days ago videotaping the Brooklyn Bridge, the entrance to the tunnels into Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. The men, who have been in the United States only four months and are described as security workers for the mission, were stopped and questioned by New York police, sources said,...

<p>Prominent black Democrats are among those urging Rep. J.C. Watts Jr. of Oklahoma, the lone black Republican in Congress, not to retire.</p> <p>"I want to see him stay," said Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat and a veteran of the struggle for civil rights. "I think he can make a contribution. It's important for him to stay."</p>

<p>The federal appeals court in San Francisco that found the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional Wednesday is known as an activist court whose decisions regularly are overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, legal analysts said yesterday.</p> <p>"The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' liberal record ... and its reputation as the most overturned court in the country ... have almost grown to the status of an urban myth," said Steven Fitschen, president of the National Legal Foundation.</p>

<p>The ABM treaty, which for 30 years prevented this country from defending itself against missile attacks, has been tossed out with the garbage. Yet so-called arms controllers are still trying desperately to contain, cripple, derail or otherwise prevent the deployment of missile defenses.</p>

From: thelibertycommittee@topica.email-publisher.com (The Liberty Committee) Date: Thu, Jun 27, 2002, 12:57pm (EDT-3)Subject: Pledge confusion Reply to: mail@thelibertycommittee.org June 27, 2002 It's not just the judges of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals who are confused about "God" in our public schools. We are receiving a wide range of conflicting responses. Please read Congressman Ron Paul's concise statement on this issue. Dr. Paul makes the important point that the First Amendment "...does not bar religious expression in public settings...it expressly forbids federal interference in the free expression of religion."The judge of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals are guilty of just such interference. The...

<p>Much has been made recently of some high-profile incidents, or at least accidents, on the part of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). With calls for restructuring coming from virtually every corner of Capitol Hill, I was somewhat encouraged by the recent vote in the House to restructure the INS. However, it seems that in all the debate and controversy over INS policies and procedures, we may be missing a bigger, more fundamental point, one that poses a most serious threat to our national security, as well as global commerce.</p>

Similar to Drudge's baby bomber picture, this is an Arab website featuring kids training to kill. Multi-culturalism at it's best. Here's the linkChildren at play Scroll down the page for the really disturbing stuff. I tried to copy the photos and post them directly in the thread, but the source is in arabic and I can't figure it out. prisoner6