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Key excerpts. From Section 1.2 titled "What does 'anarchism' mean?" continuing through 1.4 "Are Anarchists SocialistsA.1.2 What does "anarchism" mean? To quote Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism is "the no-government system of socialism." [Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets, p. 46]. In other words, "the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is the abolition of private property [i.e. capitalism] and government." [Errico Malatesta, "Towards Anarchism," in Man!, M. Graham (Ed), p. 75] Anarchism, therefore, is a political theory that aims to create a society which is without political, economic or social hierarchies. Anarchists maintain that anarchy, the absence of rulers, is...

The end of a Supreme Court term means speculation about retirements and new appointments. One rumor in particular must be quashed. No justice announced retirement this year. The court’s 2001-02 term, which closed on June 27, was the eighth with the same lineup, the longest stretch without a vacancy in more than 175 years. Only four American Presidents have not made even a single appointment, and two of them did not serve a full term. The odds are a vacancy will happen soon.Most court watchers say the next retirement will likely come from among Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices...

<p>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn — A statewide poll shows support remains virtually equal for Senate candidates Paul Wellstone and Norm Coleman in one of the nation's more closely watched races.</p> <p>After months of campaigning, Wellstone, the two-term Democratic incumbent, is favored by 47 percent of likely voters surveyed in the Star Tribune Minnesota Poll. Forty-three percent favor Coleman, a Republican and former St. Paul mayor. A February Minnesota Poll showed Wellstone a Green Party candidate Ed McGaa drew 3 percent, while 5 percent had no opinion. The poll of 812 Minnesotans was conducted June 20 to 24 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.</p>

Hello Everyone...........I only sent this to those who would be open minded enough to read this and judge for yourself the merits of the article without accusing me of being insensitive. I thought the article interesting.............that's all. Slavery Reparations by Fred Reed On the Web I find that Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard, is demanding that whites, pay reparations to blacks. It's because of slavery, see. He is joined in this endeavor by a gaggle of other professional blacks. I guess he'll send me a bill. Huh? I feel like saying, Let me get...

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 273(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)       H RES 459     2/3 YEA-AND-NAY     27-JUN-2002   4:16 PM       QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree       BILL TITLE:  Expressing the Sense of the House of Representatives that Newdow v. U.S. Congress was Erroneously Decided, and for other purposes YEAS NAYS PRES NV REPUBLICAN 220     2 DEMOCRATIC 194 3 11 3 INDEPENDENT 2       TOTALS 416 3 11 5 --- YEAS    416 --- Abercrombie Goss Osborne Aderholt Graham Ose Akin Granger Otter Allen Graves Owens Andrews Green (TX) Oxley Armey Green (WI) Pallone Baca...

For a century, the U.S. Forest Service suppressed minor wildfires rather than let them burn out the underbrush in National Forests. As a result, the General Accounting Office (GAO) told Congress in 1998, "vegetation accumulated, creating high levels of fuels for catastrophic fires."In 1999, the GAO told Congress that because of the way the Forest Service was administered by the Clinton Administration "many acres of national forests in the interior West may [still] remain at high risk of uncontrollable wildfire at the end of fiscal year 2015."In January 2001, President Clinton approved the "Roadless Area Conservation Rule," which restricted the...

Rabbi convicted of fondlingFriday, June 28, 2002By TOM DAVISStaff Writer </TD< tr> LANNER</TD< tr> A former Bergen County rabbi was found guilty Thursday of fondling a teenage student while he was principal of Hillel Yeshiva in Ocean Township during the early 1990s.However, the jury of six men and six women in Freehold acquitted Baruch Lanner of two charges relating to a second female accuser.Both women, who were teenagers when they were Lanner's students, testified during the trial against the nationally known rabbi.After two days of deliberations, the jury convicted Lanner on two counts of endangering the welfare of a child,...

<p>BUCHAREST, Romania (Reuters) -- The group that oversees the Internet's name system voted on Friday to exclude ordinary Web surfers from its board in a move critics say allows mainstream interests to tighten their grip on the online world.</p> <p>ICANN, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, unanimously passed the resolution at its quarterly meeting, clearing one of the most controversial issues in the development of the four-year-old organization.</p>

At about 1 pm (till 3 pm) today TN Republican and I conducted the first unofficial action of the E. TN chapter. We stood next to Cumberland Avenue in front of the University Center where local politicians and President Shumaker explained why we just NEED an income tax, whether nor not it was constitutional. They are going to shut the university down if a budget doesn't pass by this weekend. This, of course, is a blatant scare tactic to motivate the students and their parents--who are often campaign doners--to support an IT. This is especially obvious when one realizes that...

U.S. law enforcement officers in the Southwest are convinced that Mexican military units are crossing the Arizona-Mexico border to aid smugglers in carrying drugs into the United States. In one incident, says a senior federal law enforcement officer, a major in the Mexican Army was caught at the U.S. port of entry at Naco, Ariz., carrying a detailed drug-smuggling map among his papers. The Mexican officer, said the official, was "coming into the United States and they found the drug smuggling maps on him that showed all the drop points and trails" that local smugglers used for bringing narcotics into...

Russian Lawmakers Pass Extremism Bill Friday June 28, 2002 10:20 AM MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's lower house of parliament approved a bill aimed at stopping a rising tide of hate crimes, but opponents feared the measure might be used to muzzle political activists. Lawmakers in the State Duma on Thursday voted 275 to 145 to pass the bill in its third and final reading. The bill defines extremism as any activity aimed at overthrowing the government, instigating social, national or religious hatred, or distributing fascist literature. The bill is expected to be passed by the upper house and signed by...

<p>The judge in the case learns that the defendant never entered a plea.</p> <p>The trouble-plagued marijuana trial of Bryan James Epis may have hit an insurmountable obstacle Thursday -- the defendant has never entered a plea.</p> <p>The charges on which Epis is being tried are contained in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Jan. 30, but there was no arraignment.</p>

In honor of our favorite litigious female rocker, here's a Courtney Lovefest: 1) Our gal is embroiled in a nasty Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit with the owners of a Beverly Hills mansion Love briefly rented last year for $25,000 a month. Courtney claims she vacated the home in mid-December because her landlord "continually 'snooped' around," entered the house without her consent, and failed to fix "substantial leaks." The owners, of course, see things a bit differently, as detailed in the below excerpt from their cross-complaint. They charge that Love "left behind a trail of damage and missing items," including...

<p>BERGENFIELD, N.J. (AP) Three students who allegedly put a preserved pig's heart in their substitute teacher's coffee cup have been charged with assault.</p> <p>The prank occurred June 13, when the male students two 16-year-olds and a 17-year-old allegedly put the heart in the cup during an English class. The teacher drank from the cup but did not consume the heart, authorities said.</p>

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) - Scientists digging south of Denver say they have uncovered evidence of a lush and vibrant rainforest that emerged surprisingly soon after the asteroid collision that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.The fossils of more than 100 kinds of towering conifer trees, huge ferns and blooming flowers challenge scientists' long-held assumption that a desolate Earth took about 10 million years to recover from the catastrophe and sprouted only a few dreary plant varieties for a long time.Instead, the finding suggests that plant life — at least at this now-dry prairie along Interstate 25 —...

<p>So say eggheads from the University of Arkansas in a new study, and I guess that means lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, queers, questionings and anyone who vaguely resembles them may now feel free to waltz anywhere, hand in hand, without fear of reprisal. Yay!</p>

Palestinians alone can choose their leader: SaudBy Mohammed Alkhereiji, Arab News Staff JEDDAH, 27 June — The Palestinian people alone should choose their leader democratically, and whomever they elect should then be acceptable to the American administration and the rest of the international community, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal told a press conference here yesterday. The press conference followed a meeting between Prince Saud and his French counterpart, Dominique de Villepin. Earlier, Villepin and Saudi Minister of Finance and National Economy Ibrahim Al-Assaf signed an investment protection treaty. (See Page 2) "The history between our two countries is rich...

Arizona parents who are ready to sign up their kids for a private school, and expect the state to pick up the tuition bill, are in for a big disappointment. There are months of politicking, and perhaps a statewide vote, standing between eager parents and state money. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Thursday allows states to give parents grants, commonly known as vouchers, to help pay tuition at private or religious schools. But before parents can take advantage of the ruling, Arizona legislators would need to wrestle a tuition voucher program into state law. "There are all sorts of...

What Church Should Be Constitutionally Separated from the State?Samuel G. Dawson This article examines the meaning of the word "church" in the phrase "separation of church and state." It is a particularly timely subject because of movements to restrict the expression of religion and morality in our society based on the "Constitutional Separation of Church and State." Examples of these ever-increasing restrictions are the recent 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States is unconstitutional because the words "under God" violates the separation of church and state. Earlier the same...

. Nine women are to be ordained as Roman Catholic priests in a secret ceremony in Austria this weekend which could lead to their excommunication from the church. The women, who are from Austria, Germany and the United States, are to gather in an undisclosed location on Saturday for the ordination, which Church authorities have insisted will not be valid. But the group, who include several pioneer theologians, argue that the Roman Catholic Church's refusal to ordain women has no basis in the scriptures. "Both the doctrine of the ban on women priests and the law that is based on...