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Dog Runs As Write-In Candidate Against Katherine Harris Owner: Dog Free Of Sex Scandals Due To 'Timely Neutering' Posted: 5:43 a.m. EDT July 1, 2002 Updated: 7:48 a.m. EDT July 1, 2002 SARASOTA, Fla. -- The newest candidate challenging Secretary of State Katherine Harris in her bid for Congress is truly an underdog: a border collie mix. Percy the dog is running as a write-in candidate in the Republican primary, said his owner and campaign manager, Wayne Genthner. Genthner is offering up his canine candidate as both satire and as a protest against the political establishment. "No one has a...

The Los Angeles Times makes a pretense of objectivity even as its news reporting is frequently permeated by left-wing bias, sometimes subtle and a matter of tone or emphasis and on other occasions utterly transparent. Of course, the paper is free to promote its political agenda in its editorials, the more opinionated the better. But the Times has yet to declare itself an advocacy journal, and until it does so, the reader has a right to expect the news to be presented impartially. The Times’ current marketing slogan, "Subscribe to a higher standard of journalism," takes on unintended meaning...

<p>WASHINGTON -- When President Bush announced last week that the United States would back a Palestinian state once Yasser Arafat was replaced, standing at his side were Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.</p>

I know a distinguished social pathologist who is wondering, at this juncture, whether there is a new component in the economic picture in America. Something is certainly new, given the near-daily advent of a fresh company detected in evasion and worse. The free-market models give us: entrepreneurs; stockholders; accountants; federal watchdogs; bankruptcies; — and jails. The mix of those elements is supposed to encourage thrift; investment; merchandising; and profits — to the stockholders and to the buying public.What appears to the inquirer as unique in today's situation is a body of actors who disengage from the accepted disciplines and...

July 1— By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Chanting "we are not beggars," thousands of unemployed Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza City on Monday to accuse Yasser Arafat's governing authority of corruption and failing to provide them with jobs."Israel is the cause of all miseries, but the Palestinian Authority has a duty to protect its citizens from hunger," said march organizer Mohammad Dahman.Organizers said at least 7,000 people took part in the march, many made jobless by a Palestinian uprising that erupted in September 2000 and led Israel to ban entry to tens of thousands of Palestinian laborers.Arafat...

<p>Recently, Emory Professor Kenneth Stein and I spread a detailed map on my office floor and examined the hundreds of strategically planted Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, each surrounded by a military force and connected by a web of guarded highways. The remaining unoccupied Palestinian lands appeared as small, isolated red splotches.</p>

I went to our neighborhood picnic. We live in the west side of Milwaukee. Nice family neighborhood. So we will call my neighbor hosting the party "Liberal Lou" and neighbor number two is Republican Rob. L.L. has a bumper sticker that reads: "When Women Vote DemocRATS win." (So this makes me barf already.) So, it's about 10:30 on Friday night and we all have had a few brewski's and are just "shootn' the shit", talking about movies,etc... Republican Rob (they are both teachers) says "Did ya hear about the case in CA about the kickball?" Liberal Lou says "Yes, I...

<p>SNOW: Secretary Powell, is Yasser Arafat a man permanently compromised by terror?</p> <p>POWELL: We believe that the leadership he has provided to the Palestinian people has been inadequate, and we believe he is compromised. That's why the president strongly has advocated new leadership coming into the Palestinian government.</p>

An American scientist, being questioned by the FBI in connection with a spate of anthrax attacks that killed five people after the September 11 terrorist attacks, has close ties to imprisoned Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader, Eugene Terre'blanche. His CV says he served in the old South African Defence Force. Steven Hatfill, 48, graduated as a medical doctor at the University of Zimbabwe in 1983, and gained a master of science degree at the University of Stellenbosch's medical school in 1990. Sources say that, around 1987 or early 1988, Hatfill used the Milnerton Shooting Association's shooting range in Table View for...

The recent federal ruling making school recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional because it includes the words "under God" is terribly flawed. That's not just my opinion. It's verifiable by anyone willing to review historical documents and analyses by impartial sources. Church-state separatists often cite the writings of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison as proof that the founders were not Christian -- or even religious -- in order to spin the First Amendment's establishment clause to mean that religion and government must be kept separate. Of course, opposing quotes from Patrick Henry, George Washington, and others are often cited...

The right to abortion is the law of the land — and the law should extend to all women serving in the military, whether stationed in the U.S. or overseas. The U.S. Senate, led by Sens. Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, and Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine, recently agreed to lift the ban on abortions at military hospitals around the world. This is not a dispute about who pays. Federal funding to help military personnel and dependents obtain abortions at military hospitals was outlawed except under certain circumstances in 1979, and would remain so. Under the Murray-Snowe amendment, women undergoing...

<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>

Triarc's Norman Peltz, one of the Street's savviest bottom-feeders, doesn't know who to trust these days, but he's sure the worst isn't over Nelson Peltz, chairman and CEO of investment firm Triarc Companies (TRY ), has built a corporate empire using junk bonds to acquire companies, most notably American Can in 1986. For the last two years, Peltz has been looking to pick up another company with about $700 million in accumulated cash. But he has held back, believing there was still too much overvaluation in stock prices. He's looking prescient today. And even after the latest blow to...

In a bid to make the National Imagery and Mapping Agency more relevant, military and congressional leaders overseeing the organization want to address emerging homeland security requirements and exploit the potential of measurement and signature intelligence (Masint). The overhaul is also aimed at overcoming shortfalls that materialized late last year in support of the U.S. war in Afghanistan and operations in other areas. NIMA went on a war footing to support the military 24 hr. a day. But that "was a challenge" because the agency wasn't staffed for such intense operations, says NIMA Director James R. Clapper, Jr. Clapper,...

The Bush administration has instructed the military to stock up on anti-radiation pills and make plans to give them to troops should they be exposed to radioactive fallout from an attack or accident. Suppliers of potassium iodide say shipments to the military have increased in recent months amid fears of war between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan and terrorist threats against U.S. targets, including nuclear power plants. The Pentagon wouldn't discuss its policy. The tablets have been shown to protect the thyroid gland from diseases caused by radiation if they are taken immediately after exposure.

Faced with the possibility that the Pentagon may order cuts to its prize program, the F-22 Raptor fighter, the Air Force is billing the plane's capabilities as a precision strike bomber. In an interview with Defense Week, Air Force Secretary James Roche said Lockheed Martin's F-22 will be as adept at supplying precision air support to ground troops as it will be at clearing the skies of enemy fighter planes. In fact, Air Force leaders are casting the F-22, which is slated for deployment in 2005, as a multi-role aircraft that will be a fighter par excellence, a bomber,...

Two years ago, politicians and bureaucrats at the European Commission announced their intention to turn the 15 nations of the European Union into "the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010." This is a tall order. Smothered by oppressive tax rates and burdensome regulations, Europe trails the United States by a wide margin.Thanks in large part to the Reagan tax cuts and other free-market policies, per-capita national income in America is now 50 percent higher than it is in Europe. Our growth rate over the last decade has been about 60 percent higher, and our unemployment rate...

North Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship near the sea border in the West Sea has raised questions about the rules of engagement set and enforced by the United Nations Command (UNC). When South Korea's warships are dispatched to repel invading North Korean vessels, they should first broadcast warnings with loudspeakers and fire warning shots before opening fire, according to the rules. But the South's warships have to take the risk of coming within at least 900 meters of the North Korean ships to broadcast warnings. From that distance, warships come within a 90 percent chance of being...

The recent federal ruling making school recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional because it includes the words "under God" is terribly flawed. That's not just my opinion. It's verifiable by anyone willing to review historical documents and analyses by impartial sources. Church-state separatists often cite the writings of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison as proof that the founders were not Christian -- or even religious -- in order to spin the First Amendment's establishment clause to mean that religion and government must be kept separate. Of course, opposing quotes from Patrick Henry, George Washington, and others are often cited...