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Last evening - Thursday 27JUN2002 - I went to Reagon National Airport to pick up my wife. She was coming in from Pittsburg. Well, due to the storms in Pittsburgh and then in the DC area the plane was delayed - a total of six hours! Anyway, while I was waiting at the gate for her plane - gates 33-45, concourse C - around 1930 there was a big rush. People were coming off a flight and I stood up so that I could ask someone what flight it was. Then a whole bunch of security people and airport cops...

"This bill is nothing more than a massive middle-class entitlement," said Flake. To read the rest of Flake's comments click on the link.

President Bush’s June 24th speech on the Middle East situation certainly reflects his bold and visionary leadership style. But is it realistic to expect the Islamic world to enact needed reforms in the foreseeable future given its history and entrenched ways? In full finesse mode, Bush called for the ouster of the Palestinian Authority, and its leader, without referencing Yasser Arafat by name, simply stating that "new and different Palestinian leadership" must be elected. Moreover, Bush pressed for the regeneration of fundamental aspects of Palestinian society, changes that must prevail before any real progress can be made toward the establishment...

Lawyers for convicted voyeurs say women can't expect privacy in public places OLYMPIA _ Two men caught secretly taking photographs up women's skirts appealed their felony voyeurism convictions Thursday to Washington state's court of last resort, the Supreme Court. The men argue their victims -- one a young woman waiting in line for ice cream at a Seattle festival, the others employees at a Yakima-area shopping mall -- can't reasonably expect privacy in a public place. Washington legislators, infuriated by the dismissal of charges in cases where victims were photographed in bedrooms and bathrooms, crafted a law in 1998 banning...

Putting Politics First, Bush White House To Provide Special Briefing (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, expressed grave disappointment in the Bush administration’s decision to allow FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III to be the keynote speaker at a luncheon hosted by the American Muslim Council in Alexandria, Virginia on Friday, June, 28, 2002. The Bush administration is also scheduled to provide a special briefing to approximately 30 American Muslim Council members prior to Mueller’s speech. More - Click link

Text of article: "On June 20 of this year, a large group of South Korean junior high school girls faced down a group of heavily armed American troops at the Garison Camp Red Cloud of the US 2nd Infantry Division, located Uijongbu a few miles north of Seoul. The young girls were marching in protest of two of their school mates crushed to death by the Americans. Photo: Korean teens - "Let's drive out the US military" Some 180 students of the Yijungbu Junior High School were joined by some 70 civic organizations. They held a protest rally in front...

Love Leads to DeathCarbon monoxide overtakes couple Photos The garage and the house of the victims (Newsday Photo / Jean Chung) Family members of victims decline interviews (Newsday Photo / Jean Chung) By Sean Gardiner, Bryan Virasami and Lola AlapoSTAFF WRITERS. June 28, 2002 A tryst turned fatal when a pair of young Queens lovers were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes after seeking privacy in the backseat of a running car they parked in a garage. Yan Wang, 23, a recent college graduate, and her boyfriend, Yen-Chun Hwang, 22, were found dead inside a green 1997 Infiniti in the...

                                FRIDAY JUNE 28 2002                   ShopNetDaily   Page 1 News   Page 2 News   LocalNetDaily   Commentary   Classified Ads   Letters   People Search   SportsNetDaily   Health   Weather   TV Guide   Movies   Business   Stocks     Parents fight hospital over care of preemie Officials contact county after folks refuse vaccinations, federal handouts Posted: June 28, 20021:00 a.m. Eastern By Ron Strom © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com A couple took their 4-month-old baby boy home from the hospital this month after battling both hospital officials, who urged them...

Arafat and his nightmare regime must go.   06/28/2002 Irish Times P18 Copyright (C) 2002 George Bush is right to show Yasser Arafat the exit door, argues Tom Cooney. Through his barbarous mendacity, the Palestinian leader has shown himself not to be a man of peaceA Palestinian state is not to be abruptly born. But, for the Palestinians and Israelis, President Bush has a noble dream: "two states, living side by side in peace and security". Realism draws the atlas of the future he envisions: Arafat and his nightmare administration must go. Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, objects: "The issue...

Gephardt called the GOP bill a "sham", "full of trickery" and "deceit". He is pissed! That should tell you about what a blow he's feeling from the GOP's passage of this bill!

The past few weeks have seen puzzling pairings of economic releases and market responses. The latest June data have suggested that consumers are happily spending away again in the early summer, and even the lowly manufacturing sector has begun to turn around. And the stock market? Down again. Undoubtedly, a good deal of the market pessimism is associated with very real risks. News of WorldCom, Enron, Tyco, dirty bombs, a possible war with Iraq, and the conflict between India and Pakistan threatens both our near-term peace and our prosperity. But underneath this fear has been the continued absence of...

5 Rules of Conceal and Carry (like a pistol) author unknown [Someone sent us this; source is unknown. ] -------------------------------------------------------- * YOUR CONCEALED WEAPON IS FOR PROTECTION OF LIFE ONLY. Draw it solely in preparation to protect yourself or an innocent third party from the wrongful and criminal activities of another. * KNOW EXACTLY WHEN YOU CAN USE YOUR WEAPON. A criminal adversary must have or reasonably appear to have: A. The ABILITY to inflict serious bodily injury. He is armed or reasonably appears to be armed. B. The OPPORTUNITY to inflict serious bodily harm. He is positioned to harm...

Voyeur gets women to bare breasts for satellite (Filed: 28/06/2002) Four women have contacted police after being persuaded to stand topless in their windows or balconies so that a satellite could give them a mammogram.The women, aged between 19 and 45, living in the Algarve, southern Portugal, were all contacted by telephone by a woman claiming to be a doctor.She told them that a revolutionary method had been developed of conducting breast examinations by satellite.They were told that the consultation would be free if they followed instructions by stripping to the waist and standing in view of the satellite.One...

flag: History Symbolical standards were used by the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Jews. Biblical references to standards, ensigns, and banners are numerous. Early flags usually had a religious significance. The Dannebrog of Denmark, a red ensign that is swallow-tailed and bears a white cross, is no doubt the oldest flag design still in use. In France the Cape de St. Martin, originally kept in Marmoutier abbey, was borne upon the standards of the early kings, but this was succeeded by the oriflamme, the ancient banner of the abbey of St. Denis. The oriflamme was later replaced by the Bourbon white...

Al Gore blamed the nation's economic scandals — from Enron to WorldCom — last night on President Bush's economic policies.

Why has John Magaw – head of the new post-Sept. 11 agency charged with making America's skies safer – chosen to build a vast new bureaucracy of air marshals rather than to arm commercial pilots? The Transporation Security Administration's stated task is gargantuan: "To protect the nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce." Given the American public's zeal for travel, as well as the scope and horror of the 9-11 assault, the agency has its work cut out. But some officials and aviation experts are wondering aloud whether Magaw – whose last job was as...

BUSINESS DTI cash prizes for Norfolk firms KEIRON PIM June 26, 2002 09:01 Five Norfolk firms have won awards for innovation from the Department of Trade and Industry. The businesses were among 27 from East Anglia to receive Smart Awards from the department's Small Business Service. Winners at the awards ceremony in Cambridgeshire were Listawood, of Fakenham, SSAF (East Anglia) of Martham, External Corrosion Management, of Yarmouth, Maxview Aerials, of King's Lynn, and Pear Technologies, of Norwich. Each receives government funding towards its chosen project – either up to £45,000 for a feasibility study or up to £150,000 to develop...

As the morals of this world continue to careen downhill like a hippopotamus on Rollerblades attempting to negotiate Lombard Street in the dark, one can only thank one's lucky stars that those beacons of probity and virtue, CEOs of public companies, are in a position of prominence to illuminate the road for us and keep the rest of us from veering off the right path! Okay, maybe not.As we have learned from recent headlines, corporate managers are often more interested in lining their own pockets with the shareholders' money than they are in placing the shareholders' interests ahead of their...

Gores Buy $2.3 Mln Home In Wealthy Town Near Nashville Copyright © 2002, Dow Jones Newswires NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP)--Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper have bought a $2.3 million home in Belle Meade, an affluent town of 3,000 people bordering Nashville. The white frame, colonial-style home sits on a little over two 2 acres (nearly one hectare) filled with magnolia trees. The deed was signed June 17, records show. Belle Meade, home to an exclusive country club, a botanical garden and art museum, is the fifth-richest town in the United States. The annual per-capita income is...

June 28, 2002By Margo MacFarlandHerald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON – Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell castigated environmentalists Thursday for advocating land-management policies he said have left Western lands more vulnerable to wildfires like the Missionary Ridge blaze, but a Durango environmentalist said Campbell was grandstanding."I’ve seen the negative effect that some environmental organizations have had in the West for a long time," Campbell told his colleagues in a Senate speech. "Some of these organizations have effectively paralyzed responsible forest management practices, thus contributing to poor forest health."The Republican senator from Ignacio charged that environmentalists have too often opposed legitimate thinning of the...