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Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Rep. J.C. Watts announced Monday that he will not seek reelection to Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District seat, which he has held since the "Republican Revolution" of 1994. "It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey," Watts said. "My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home, to go on with other things in my life, and assume one of the most honored titles in all of America - citizen." Chad Alexander, state chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Committee, says he...

The Hamas Website Provides A Platform For Surfers Who Support the Murder of American Citizens Participants in a chat- forum of the official Hamas website have discussed ways and methods to murder American citizens. What appears below are their comments, as found on the site. 1. Al- Awsad (user number 1):Once a week, a group of American "dogs" come near us on the sea front. I have been following them for a long time and am interested in your suggestions for ways to get rid of them secretly. 2. Salam (user number 2):If they arrive in a private car,...

ATF failed to charge killer for gun-buy attempt, chief says By TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER tmorgan@leader.net SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. - The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating its handling of a case involving a convicted felon who killed his pregnant stepdaughter and wounded another person before killing himself early Sunday morning, an agency spokeswoman said Monday. South Abington Township Police Chief Robert Gerrity said his department on May 30 asked the ATF to arrest Charles D. Schuler after he tried to purchase a gun, but the charges were never filed. Schuler is prohibited from buying a gun - a...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but it continues to arouse passions even today. Dr. Thomas J. DiLorenzo of Loyola College has stoked such passions anew by provoking a heated debate among conservatives and libertarians over that war and the legacy of Abraham Lincoln with his book, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and An Unnecessary War.DiLorenzo's scathing reappraisal of both the Civil War and Lincoln - a president deified across the political spectrum and placed by the American psyche in the same pantheon as the Founding Fathers - does not make for politically correct...

Real men design, build parade floats Monday July 01, 2002, 08:20:07 PM Carl's Jr. is wrong. Their latest ads talk about how real men do not eat 49-cent hamburgers, but guys who design floats do. I beg your pardon. Jared and Joel Sweeney design floats, eat $2 hamburgers and in addition, will tackle questions about their masculinity. July is not the time to be talking about the Rose Parade. That's about 182 days away. A stinking parade is the last thing we want to think about. Except, Bakersfield has two semi-wild and creative brothers who were chosen to design...

The California legislature has a bill in committee at the moment that's aimed at citizens that complied with California's 'assault weapon' registration demands. It now appears that Sacramento is prepared to authorize the Department of Justice to send agents to the doors of those who lawfully registered these items to check for 'safe storage' and make sure that the inventory of registered 'destructive devices' matches what the CA-DOJ has on file. The bill had begun life intended to allow searches of private citizens' homes as described above, but is now masquerading as a bill that simply allows agents to check...

In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she had been called Amazon Dot Com. She said unto Abraham, her husband, "Why doth thou travel far from town to town with thy goods when thou can trade without ever leaving thy tent?" And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, Dear?"...

<p>American hunters and recreational shooters who strongly support the Second Amendment to the Constitution — the right to keep and bear arms — are keenly aware of what is happening to their closest friends and allies, the Canadians.</p> <p>Our northern neighbors are in the middle of a national nightmare; a heavy-handed government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a mandatory national gun registration program that sends loud and clear messages to Canadians that they shouldn't own guns. The government seems to say, "Don't worry. Only soldiers and police need firearms. We'll protect you."</p>

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Security Council diplomats said on Tuesday they would prepare to shut down the U.N. mission in Bosnia after losing hope Washington would bend on its demand for immunity for American peacekeepers from a new global war crimes court. Envoys said European Union ( news - web sites)'s U.N. ambassadors had discussed the matter at a morning meeting and decided to plan an early shift of responsibility for the mission to the EU, which was to take over at the end of this year in any case. Despite a fierce international outcry, Washington threatens to shut down...

<p>A newspaper in Taiwan says a 14-year-old boy needed a 20-minute operation to remove congealed glue from his ear. It got there because his mother mistook a small bottle of instant glue for ear drops.</p> <p>The teen's doctor says the two bottles were kept next to each other in the refrigerator, and the mother grabbed the wrong one when she went to treat the boy's inflamed ear.</p>

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Emil Zola wrote an article called I Accuse to protest the unjust conviction and imprisonment of Capt Alfred Dreyfus on Devil's Island. It worked, Dreyfus was not only exonerated but returned to France a hero. I've decided to borrow the idea, tweak it a bit and use it to express without apology my thoughts, opinions and feelings about current events.Its a little something I've called I REFUSE. I invite my fellow Freepers to join in with their own refusisms.

<p>Duffy Blume was fishing in the north fork of Campbell Creek on Sunday evening, several hundred yards south of the Alaska Botanical Garden in Far North Bicentennial Park, when he heard a grunt and a growl in the brush across the creek to his left.</p>

This was first read on the Hugh Hewitt show and posted on Free Republic in October of 2000. Hugh read it again yesterday. I thought with Al Gore getting in the public arena again, it would be nice remind people what a pathetic loser he is. GORELERO(To be read to the music of Ravel’s Bolero)It began when Al Gore was a young man:In the fall of 1968 Al Gore claimed that he’d influenced the nomination acceptance speech of Hubert Humphrey through conversations with a Chicago Sun columnist. Al Gore asserted he was Humphrey’s ghost writer, but the columnist said that...

We know that AIDS ravages bodies. But can the disease topple governments? Some experts fear the infectious epidemic that has already killed 22 million worldwide could also unseat leaders, change borders and threaten global security. The theoretical trail of wreckage goes something like this: AIDS decimates military, police and peacekeeping forces, erodes social services and local institutions and incites internal unrest by eroding faith in government. Ultimately, the epidemic could leave power vacuums in hardest-hit countries, making nations vulnerable to aggressors and terrorists. "If you simply sit back and watch these places become unhinged, particularly in weak states to...

Here is a middle eastern site that may be used as a message source and links to terrorism. Does anyone know arabic and can translate? Good luck and good reading..... CLICK HERE

<p>California may become first state to regulate 'greenhouse gas' from cars.</p> <p>California would become the first state to regulate "greenhouse gas" emissions from passenger vehicles under legislation narrowly approved by the Assembly and sent to the governor Monday.</p> <p>AB 1493 was hailed by supporters as a first step toward easing global warming, but critics called it "feel good" legislation that would raise car prices and reduce safety.</p>

<p>Fed official: Consumers OK New York bank chief tells Poles that accounting scandals, terror fears don't daunt Americans.</p> <p>WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) - The wave of accounting scandals hitting corporate America and fears of new Sept. 11-style terrorist attacks have not hit the willingness of U.S. consumers to spend, a U.S. central banker said Tuesday.</p>

<p>Manufacturing index rises ISM manufacturing measure shows expansion for the fifth straight month; construction spending dips.</p> <p>NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Manufacturing activity in the United States grew in June at a faster pace than in May, the nation's purchasing managers said Monday, the fifth straight month of expansion following a long recession in the industry.</p>

Link post: Geology Picture of the Week, June 30 - July 6, 2002 Volcano Tungurahua in Ecuador.