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WASHINGTON –– At least three small airplanes intruded into airspace over Camp David this weekend while President Bush was at the mountain retreat in Maryland, including one escorted to a nearby airport by fighter jets, the Secret Service said Sunday. Spokesman Jim Mackin said Secret Service agents questioned the pilots of all three planes – one of them an ultralight – determined the intrusions were inadvertent and took no action against them beyond referring the cases to the Federal Aviation Administration for possible administrative action. He said a fourth plane – also an ultralight – possibly was involved in a...

Former vice president Al Gore inched toward a third presidential race in 2004 when he assured key supporters Saturday in Memphis that he would spend less time on strategy and tactics and more time speaking about his values and vision for America. "If I had to do it all over again, I'd just let it rip. To hell with the pollsters, the consultants and all the rest," donors said they were told at the beginning of a daylong strategy session at The Peabody. More here...

Police detonated a large bomb this morning in the Jerusalem suburb of Givat Ze'ev, Israel Radio reported. The bomb, found two days ago was monitored by Police 24 hours a day during a stake-out with the hope that the person who left the bomb there would return to claim it. The Police believe that the bomb was intended for an attack in Jerusalem After two days, Police sappers detonated the explosive device.

Ah, San Francisco. You'll be tickled to learn that the town that spawned judges who think uttering "one nation, under God" in a government-run school is an unconstitutional vulgarity, from which every delicate child must be shielded, is the same town that just hatched government-sponsored ads featuring a smiling cartoon penis with syphilis sores. I am not making this up. The city used $50,000 in taxpayer funds to create a "whimsical" public awareness project called "Healthy Penis 2002." (Motto: "Making every penis a healthy penis.") Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, the city's director of sexually transmitted disease control, told the San Francisco...

<p>Checkpoint screeners at 32 of the nation's largest airports failed to detect fake weapons — guns, dynamite or bombs — in almost a quarter of undercover tests by the Transportation Security Administration last month, documents obtained by USA TODAY show.</p>

Abortion Traning: Forcing Doctors to Kill After three decades dominated by the rabid rhetoric of reproductive choice, the number of doctors choosing to perform abortions keeps shrinking. This is a significant cultural phenomenon, but don't look for the National Organization for Women or National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) to explore it truthfully anytime soon. Honoring the Hippocratic Oath The last thing feminists want to contemplate is how their crusading efforts to diversify medical schools might have actually backfired by resulting in more women doctors — who take their commitment to protecting all human life seriously. The abortion...

Our troops need our support and encouragement. They are away from home, some for the first time, and usually lonely or discouraged. It is important for us to reach out and help them in the same way we would want someone to reach out to our loved ones if and when they are in the same position. They answered their call and we are answering theirs offering them the USO Canteen FReeper Style each day and thanking them for serving. This is IN Coming Mail from some of those serving now. We at the USO Canteen FReeper Style, a...

<p>July 1, 2002 -- NEW YORK'S high court may hand Andrew Cuomo and Carl McCall a political hot potato as soon as today - tossing out New York's popular death-penalty law.</p> <p>The Court of Appeals, known for its liberal-oriented findings, will make its ruling in the first-ever challenge to the state capital-punishment law that passed in 1995 - the year George Pataki became governor.</p>

LOU ROCKWELL Supporters of school vouchers are jumping for joy over a Wisconsin Supreme Court edict that permits tax dollars to be used at religious schools. They hope the decision will be the basis of a vast expansion of vouchers (four other states are debating this same question), eventually leading to a federal voucher program that will "privatize" all education. But there are flies in this ointment, enough to cause religious conservatives to rethink any sympathies they've had for vouchers. For the court did not rule that religious schools can receive government money with no strings attached. It ruled narrowly...

PRINCETON, NJ -- The race for control of Congress appears now to favor the Democrats, as the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll shows them taking a healthy eight-point lead over Republicans among registered voters, 50% to 42%. Democrats have led in the generic ballot in three of the last four polls, with the other poll showing essentially a tie. Among "regular voters" -- Americans who report voting in the last congressional and presidential elections -- the Democratic lead is four points, 49% to 45%. Last month Republicans received 46% of support among registered voters, and the Democrats 45%. The two previous...

<p>July 1, 2002 -- I HAVE a foolproof battle plan for invading Iraq: Let's issue helmets, rifles and one-way airline tickets to all those experts who were much too important to serve in uniform themselves but who insist that Saddam can be toppled on the cheap.</p>

<p>Has Sen. John McCain become so petty that he now feels he should freeze the entire federal government just to get his own way?</p> <p>So it would seem.</p> <p>The petulant Arizona senator and former presidential candidate seems unable to declare victory and move on.</p>

<p>BRIEF ENCOUNTER: Dubya shows off his skivvies in "George W. Bush and His Family - Paper Dolls."</p> <p>Plenty of folks dress President Bush down, but now you can dress him up - the first family has been turned into a collection of paper dolls.</p>

<p>July 1, 2002 -- A desperate Yasser Arafat yesterday pleaded for a chance to meet President Bush "anytime" to talk about Mideast peace - but the White House made clear there's no way that will happen.</p> <p>In fact, Secretary of State Colin Powell - who has met with Arafat in the past - said he has no plans to do that again, as Team Bush seeks to get the Palestinian leader dumped.</p>

<p>The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday vowed to "go after" Vice President Dick Cheney if an SEC probe finds wrongdoing when he headed Halliburton Corp., the giant oil-field company.</p> <p>"I head an independent regulatory agency," SEC Chief Harvey Pitt told ABC's "This Week" when asked specifically about Halliburton and Cheney.</p>

<p>Concerned pilots who fly single-engine planes say it's easy to glide over a reservoir and dump hundreds of pounds of hazardous chemicals into the drinking-water system.</p> <p>"I was surprised and scared at the same time," said Charles Sibirsky, 55, an amateur pilot from Brooklyn. "The reservoirs are so vulnerable, it's ridiculous."</p>

The Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin (PMW), June 30, 2002, per Itamar Marcus, reported on PA verbal attacks and threats directed at the US and Israel reminiscing those before the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001. According to PMW, this Friday, in the official sermon on Palestinian Authority TV a religious leader, Ahmed Abdul Razek, predicted an impending divine blow to the US and to Israel. PMW quotes the preacher´s own words. "A divine blow will be dealt soon to the US and Israel, by Allah´s will. The believers will rejoice with Allah´s victory." PA verbal attacks and threats on the...

<p>Families of Israeli terror victims joined Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) outside the Palestinian Mission on East 65th Street yesterday to call for an end of all U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority.</p> <p>"It has become increasingly clear that U.S. dollars are leading to increased violence and increased terrorism by Palestinians against Israelis, and it should stop," Weiner said.</p>

siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1377581 Back to Article Calif. Lawmaker Calls For P2P Vigilantism June 26, 2002 Fed up with illegal file sharing over peer-to-peer networks like Morpheus and KaZaA, U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Mission Hills, CA) is putting the final touches on a bill he says should help curb copyright infringement. Berman's proposed legislation calls for a myriad of measures including stronger digital rights management laws, lawsuits by copyright owners, and prosecutions against the most gregarious infringers. Additionally he calls for "technological self-help measures" including redirection, decoys, spoofing and file blocking. "I am a strong believer in the beneficial potential of...