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According to Fox News, the Ninth District Court (yes, the one that ruled the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional) has been, on a yearly basis, overturned between 71% and 100% of the time since 1999. So, why not get rid of it? If the Supreme Court has to hear all of its cases anyway and then throws most of their decisions out, why not just get rid of the Ninth Circuit Court and simply send its cases directly to the SCOTUS? This would save a lot of money, a lot of time, and a lot of aggravation. Who do we...

As the Bud Light Spirit of Freedom reaches the final leg of Steve Fossett's solo bid to circumnavigate the globe by balloon, it is now anticipated that he will land northeast of Adelaide, Australia.Due to limitations from the sun and heat, Steve will attempt to land at either dusk on Wednesday July 3, or dawn of Thursday July 4.The landing time and location are subject to change and will be determined by his air speed, timing and direction after crossing the Australian coast.A helicopter will take video and still shots of the landing.The footage and still shots will be available...

URGENT UPDATE ON EUROPEAN UNION PROTEST THEY WON'T STOP ARAFAT'S FUNDING BUT THEY SUSPENDED YOUR PROTEST! Over 10,000 of you have joined the Simon Wiesenthal Center's campaign urging the European Union to suspend funds to the Palestinian Authority until it is ascertained that none of the funds are being diverted for terrorism. The EU has informed our email server that your emails have been "blacklisted". Please be assured that one way or the other your protest will be delivered by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Please do the following immediately! Re-sign and send the protest Tell a friend to sign...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Monday, July 1, 2002 Tom Cruise: 'U.S. Is Terrifying' America turned Tom Cruise from an obscure, undereducated yahoo into a multimillionaire star, but is he grateful? Just the opposite. "I think the U.S. is terrifying, and it saddens me," he told the British newspaper Daily Express. "You only have to look at the state of affairs in America." And his adopted children are too good for the U.S., the pampered Hollywood actor says. They'll be raised overseas, probably in Australia, the homeland of his ex-wife, Nicole Kidman. "Cruise,...

C B C   A r t s C a n a d a - A r t s   N e w s   :'Hunchback' changed to 'Bellringer' in UK productionThe Arts ReportLast Updated 2002-06-28 00:00:00.000London - A British theatre company has changed the title of its adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame so it won't offend people with the disability.Producer Elli Mackenzie of Oddsocks Production said she changed the name to The Bellringer of Notre Dame after consulting with a disability adviser. Mackenzie said Friday she didn't want the title of her show to upset people with...

Egyptian Academics And Educated Elite Discuss Elimination of Israel by June 18, 2002 A recent article in the Jordan Times (Monday, June 17, 2002 AP) sheds lights and startles the reader on the current state of affairs in Egypt, even among the educated elite. At a seminar entitled “After the Demise of Israel,” that country’s educated elite made know its views on the elimination of Israel, in spite of what often appears to be the leading role taken by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in regional piece talks and in apparent disregard for the peace treaty signed between Egypt and Israel...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nearly one third of deaths among US children under age 18 were tragedies that might have been avoided, Arizona researchers report. "Many child deaths are preventable," study co-author Dr. William Marshall, a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Arizona in Tucson, told Reuters Health. "There are things that communities can do to try to reduce child mortality." Child fatality review teams used death certificates, hospital records, autopsy and police reports to review 4,806 cases of children who died in Arizona from 1995 to 1999. The review was conducted by the Arizona Child Fatality...

<p>Democrat Tom Harkin holds a 9-percentage-point lead over Republican Greg Ganske in his quest to win a fourth U.S. Senate term, but the race is tightening, a new Iowa Poll shows.</p> <p>Harkin is the choice of 50 percent of Iowans who say they definitely will vote in the Nov. 5 election. Ganske, a congressman from Des Moines, wins the backing of 41 percent of likely voters. The other 9 percent are unsure whom they'd support.</p>

The hype of corporate corruption - and its roots You know the mood has changed when you can read an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal and its main focus is what the author calls "White-Collar, Big-Money Psychopaths." The current, burgeoning scandal of corporate corruption lends itself to this kind of analysis. Evil plutocrats? We got 'em. There's Kenneth Lay, pretending to create a brand new company trading energy, while secretly constructing a financial scam that robbed millions of people by fiddling the books (and bribing journalists to keep quiet). There's Samuel Waksal, ImClone's financial genius and a rising...

Ananova: Snake escaping eagle kills two people A snake which had been snatched by an eagle wriggled free and killed two people in Iran. The reptile was dropped by the bird and it fell into a car which was passing by below. It bit four of the passengers, killing two of them instantly. The others were treated in hospital. The incident happened in Tehran according to the Islamic Republic News Agency . http://www.irna.com/ Story filed: 13:34 Monday 1st July 2002

Surrogacy 'leads to better parenting' First scientific study shows that families who receive the child are more caring and the handover after birth is not a problem The world's first scientific study to lift the veil on the realities of surrogacy carried out in Britain suggests not only that surrogate mothers have no problem handing over babies, but that the families who receive the child are warmer, happier and more caring than ordinary families. "It is often assumed that surrogate mothers will have difficulties handing the child over following the birth," said Fiona MacCallum, one of the researchers from City...

Rosemary Clooney, who has died aged 74, shot to fame in the 1950s with songs such as Come On-a-My House and Hey There, had a brief but successful cinema career, including a co-starring role with Bing Crosby in White Christmas (1954), and endured a stormy marriage to the actor-director Jose Ferrer.At the height of her fame, she appeared on the covers of Life and Time magazines, the latter commenting that her voice was "known in the trade as both 'barrelhouse' and blue, ie robust and fresh, with an undercurrent of seductiveness. It can spin out a slow tune with...

OSLO, July 1 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Some supermarkets in Norway are identifying goods from Israel by sticking yellow labels on them, to give consumers the option of purchasing or not purchasing them, a Palestinian website reported. In an editorial published on its website, the Palestine Chronicle said that there should be no action against products that are made by the U.S. , or any other country, by firms owned by loyal citizens who happen to be Jewish, Islamic, or Christian. However, the paper added, if there are products from Israeli firms in the world marketplace, and people wish...

I am being swamped with emails from Newsmax.com from other subscribers saying they are not sending them spam. Is there a new virus on the loose? Is anyone else having any problems?

By Devlin Barrett Associated Press Writer Monday, July 1, 2002; 3:24 PM NEW YORK –– The federal death penalty was declared unconstitutional Monday by a judge who said too many innocent people have been executed before they could be vindicated. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff is the first federal judge to declare the 1994 Death Penalty Act unconstitutional. Monday's ruling would not affect individual states' death penalty statutes. The federal government was expected to appeal the ruling, which came in the case of two alleged drug dealers accused of killing an informant. "In light of Judge Rakoff's decision, we are...

The nomination of Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Richard Griffin to the federal bench makes him the latest pawn is an outrageous, lingering stalemate between the White House and the U.S. Senate. It has created a severe shortage of judges. For years, it was a deadlock between the Clinton White House and the Republican-ruled Senate. Now it's between the Bush White House and the narrowly Democatic Senate - where Michigan's Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow essentially have veto power over appointees from their state.On Thursday, President Bush nominated Griffin to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has declared...

You want action. I want action. Enter Stage Right has action! This week's edition of Enter Stage Right is out now! Check it at http://www.enterstageright.com --This week's issue--> Put the "independence" back in Independence Day: The forgotten meaning of America: This July 4 Michael S. Berliner would really like his fellow Americans to remember what it took to earn the independence of the United States of America Rebels, they were not!: Contrary to what you might believe, the American colonies didn't rebel against England, writes Steve Farrell. What really happened was that England became a rebel against the law and...

<p>Mayor Bloomberg has given his endorsement to a City Council bill that would have New York recognize gay marriages from other states - a move that Speaker Gifford Miller calls "simply the right thing to do."</p> <p>With all due respect, Miller and the mayor are wrong on this one.</p>