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Rushing to the defense of the Creator Jewish Law prohibits the writing of the Creator's name out in full. The spelling below is not intended to be disrespectful, particulary given this column's topic --- editor. http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | In cartoons, when a character runs away suddenly, there's always a little swirling dust devil left behind. On Wednesday, America was overcome with these little vortexes - whatever you call them. A court in California ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional because it uses the phrase "under G-d," and every politician in the country was in such a hurry to be...

<p>The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power profited from a trading scheme that bounced energy across the state and ultimately forced taxpayers to pay a nearly fourfold increase in the cost of the power, according to a 40-page transcript of energy traders' conversations unveiled on Thursday.</p>

FL Gov Jeb Bush: "[HBO film] 'The First of May' underscores the extraordinary level of filmmaking talent and expertise found in Florida. I congratulate Paul and his team for a job well done and encourage Floridians to tune in to HBO next week to see this wonderful family film." Governor Bush Congratulates Florida Director for Debut of Florida-Based Film on HBO For Immediate Release Thursday, June 27, 2002 Contact: Rebecca Mattingly or Robert Grimm (850) 410-4765 TALLAHASSEE - Governor Jeb Bush today congratulated producer and director, Paul Sirmons, on the HBO debut of "The First of May," a feature...

I just found out today that Milwaukee Alderman Terrance Herron has decided to join the Republican Party. Actually, this is not much of a surprise, as Herron has been seen on some conservative talk shows lately and has been taking stands on some issues that leaned to the right. Herron, one of six Blacks on the 17-member city of Milwaukee Common Council, served as a Milwaukee County Supervisor before being elected alderman in 2000. He started out with support from some pretty lefty groups, some of whom have been displeased with him for some time. One reason Herron gave for...

Ben Shapiro http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | JUNE 2005, JERUSALEM I'm writing to you from Jerusalem, where I recently interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Effie Eitam . Eitam entered the Israeli government as minister-without-portfolio in the government of Ariel Sharon in 2002 and as a member of the National Religious Party. After the Palestinian intifada intensified during the fall of 2002, Sharon called new elections. Likud won a plurality and formed a coalition with the other right-wing parties in Knesset. Sharon made Eitam minister of defense. In the winter of 2003, the largest terrorist attack in Israeli history took place in Haifa, with nearly...

U.S. President George W. Bush kisses U.S. Rep. Connie Morella (R-MD) during a fundraiser for Morella in Washington D.C. June 28, 2002. Bush praised Morella for her support on education programs sponsored by the White House. REUTERS/Win McNamee

<p>ALEXANDRIA, Pa. -- He was a Scotsman come to America, just 3 1/2 years removed from his homeland. So, unlike his schoolboy son, George Docherty didn't have The Pledge of Allegiance stamped deep in memory.</p> <p>"What did you do in school today?"</p>

Drug testing reaches local high schools; Includes cheerleaders, band members By Mai Do KGET 17 News 06/28/02 Bakersfield - A new ruling by the Supreme Court says that students involved in extra-curricular activities can be tested for drugs. Right now, the Kern high school district doesn't do random drug-test of any students. But that could soon change thanks to a new ruling by the Supreme Court. Jocks are no longer the only ones open to random drug testing. Now it's the cheerleaders, school choir singers and band members. Even the highly academic team of the "We the People" team. According...

What the heck. It's Friday. It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!! Make sure your speakers are on.

From the Red Skelton Hour, January 14, 1969 The following words were spoken by the late Red Skelton on his television program as he related the story of his teacher, Mr. Laswell, who felt his students had come to think of the Pledge of Allegiance as merely something to recite in class each day. Now, more than ever, listen to the meaning of Red's explantion of these words. Red Skelton later wrote down, and eventually recorded, his recollection of this lecture. It is followed by an observation of his own. "I've been listening to you boys and girls recite the...

Angered Bush to Give Speech on Corporate Reforms Reuters Jun 28 2002 11:07AM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush, angered at relentless scandals in U.S. boardrooms, will use his Saturday radio address and a July 9 speech in New York to urge Congress to approve his plan for corporate responsibility, the White House said on Friday. Bush has already proposed plans that if enacted, would ban corporate executives from profiting from erroneous financial statements. That was in response to the implosion last year of the Texas-based Enron Corp., one in what has become a string of recent corporate scandals. WorldCom, the...

SHOW LOW, Ariz. (AP) - The huge fire that has swept across eastern Arizona broke through a containment line Friday and raced toward some 600 homes in a mountain subdivision, fire officials said. -more-

A bomb blast has wounded twenty people in northern Iraq, a spokesman for the party controlling the Kurdish region said Thursday, pointing a finger of blame at Islamist militants. "The bomb went off Wednesday evening in Brosek public park in downtown Arbil," regional capital of the area controlled by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), said the KDP's international relations chief Hoshyar Zebari. "Twenty civilians were wounded. Their injuries were minor, except for a 12-year-old boy who sustained serious injuries," he told AFP. "We have no hard evidence about who carried out this terrorist act and investigations are continuing. But to...

Just hear Limbaugh play a snip of a blues song sung by none other than our Atheist poster boy, Newdon, on CNN! Does it now seem that his hidden agenda has nothing to do with constitutional issues? Perhaps the whole stinking thing was a publicity stunt to get his stupid song on the national airwaves? What a phony!!

We hope those fun-loving first twins, Jenna and Barbara Bush, had a good time Wednesday night at Stetson's, the Texas-themed Washington saloon where they were spotted by multiple witnesses sucking down Budweisers and chain-smoking cigarettes with a group of friends till well past midnight. But we suspect that as a result of this item, President Bush's 20-year-old daughters -- who've had embarrassing scrapes in the past over their under-age drinking in public places -- won't be consuming much more alcohol in the nation's capital, at least not until they reach the legal age of 21 on Nov. 25. Here is...

<p>Washington -- Alaska Congressman Don Young sounded off Thursday against senators who want to increase the nation's use of ethanol as House and Senate members met to begin negotiations on the energy bill.</p> <p>"They're not going to walk over me," he vowed during the opening session of the conference committee charged with reconciling the differences between the House and Senate energy bills.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Want milk? The government is trying to figure out what to do with $1 billion worth of nonfat milk powder that it bought over the past three years to prop up the prices paid to dairy farmers.</p> <p>That is the equivalent of about 1.3 billion gallons of skim milk, enough to supply the nation's entire consumption for 16 months. It would take 635,000 cows an entire year to make all that milk.</p>

Milosevic Is Unbowed After a Year in Detention By MARLISE SIMONS HE HAGUE, June 27 — Exactly one year ago, on June 28, Slobodan Milosevic arrived in The Hague in handcuffs, under cover of darkness. He was whisked off to a United Nations prison to face the first modern war crimes trial of a head of state. That trial, focusing first on charges of crimes by Serbian forces in Kosovo, is in its fifth month now, with Mr. Milosevic conducting his own blustery defense as he tries to cast himself as another martyr for the Serbian cause. During the 13...

here's a couple paragraphs:To qualify for this clearance, he was reportedly required to take a polygraph test. Hatfill allegedly told the military official that he failed the polygraph on questions concerning his activities in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The people conducting the polygraph were amateurs, Hatfill allegedly complained to his interlocutor; they couldn't understand what Cold Warriors like himself had to do in Rhodesia. The military official recalls Hatfill as saying that his father-in-law had been killed by rebels in Rhodesia, and that he had consequently undertaken some actions that caused concern when he was given his polygraph test. Hatfill has...