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<p>Jennings, preparing for his "PJ the DJ" debut as host of a three-hour ABC musical special on the Fourth of July, is a country fan who has Keith's 2001 album, "Pull My Chain," in his collection.</p> <p>Keith lashed out at Jennings and ABC last month for not including his September 11-themed song, "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)," in the special. ABC said Keith was considered but not invited because he insisted on opening the show.</p>

Reason Magazine, March 1997Copyright 1997 by Reason Magazine Read an editorial based on this article. Why are the Gulf War vets getting sick? You won't find out by reading The New York Times and USA Today. "For Some, a Day of Betrayal," ran a headline in Denver's Rocky Mountain News the day before Veterans Day. A Persian Gulf vet said to be suffering the effects of the mysterious Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) was profiled, and the story by reporter Dick Foster contained a startling figure: "Cancers have developed in Gulf veterans at three to six times the rate among the...

School Vouchers: Ultimate Public Accountability In a landmark decision last week, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of a school voucher program in which public dollars could be used by parents to send their children to religious or secular private schools. In light of this decision, CNN chose to rebroadcast "Private Schools/Public Money," a special focusing on the Milwaukee, Wisconsin school voucher experiments. The special was surprisingly fair and highlighted the major issues surrounding the school choice debate (though it never gave credit to Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize winning economist who first proposed the idea of school...

Texans often have unusual and colorful ways of dismissing the views of their adversaries in debate. Famed Texas hero Sam Houston once attributed a political opponent’s differing views as being the result of the man’s use of "water as a beverage." I must confess to having similar thoughts when I recently saw the information released by the Violence Policy Center in its dramatically titled "License to Kill IV." This study uses skewed statistics and misinformation about the Texas Concealed Handgun Law to make the case to the citizens of Ohio and their elected representatives that these laws are a recipe...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 2 (UPI) -- The daughters of an 80-year-old great-grandmother said Tuesday that their mother was strip-searched at Gerald R. Ford International Airport after her knee replacement set off metal detectors. Mary Jane Price was headed home to Florida after visiting family members when security personnel directed her into an employee break room where she was ordered to pull down her pants and lift her blouse to prove she was not wired with explosives. "What upsets me is how it was handled," Price's daughter, Kim, said. "Does an 80-year-old elderly woman pose any type of threat as...

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A group of Japanese security enthusiasts has developed a little tool called IE'en which exposes traffic between an IE user and any server he's contacting, including logins and passwords over HTTPS. The group, SecurityFriday, has made the tool available for download here. To use the tool it's necessary to log in as a current user on a Win-NT or 2K system. Of course if someone can log into your account they already have a great deal of your life in their hands and this is only going to give them a little bit more. What's interesting here is the ability...

M O N T I C E L L O, N.Y., July 1 — In the video game called Grand Theft Auto III, players enter a virtual world called Liberty City and assume the role of an escaped criminal who hijacks cars, guns down pedestrians, has sex with a prostitute and then earns extra points by killing her so he can take back his money. It is as close as you can get to killing someone without being arrested or really killing someone," says 13-year-old Lawrence Jones, who played the game one recent afternoon with three schoolmates in Monticello, N.Y....

Apple dumps on 70,000 users What are these people like?By Andrew Thomas, 02/07/2002 10:16:42 BSTAPPLE'S MASTERLY BUSINESS SENSE has once again come to the fore. Trumpeting the company's takeover of German pro audio outfit Emagic, which will now operate as an Apple division, the company was obviously concerned that Emagic was far too successful and has immediately taken the axe to 35 per cent of its revenues. Apple says that Mac based products account for over 65 per cent of Emagic's current revenues and that all Windows-based products will be discontinued at the end of September. With a claimed 200,000...

On June 11, Saddam Hussein signed Military Directive 531 odering commando units from the Republican guards and special military intelligence combat units to head into northern Iraq.He had just recieved intelligence reports that the US special forces and CIA personnel he knew to have landed in the northern region of Iraq were making impressive strides in recruiting and training Kurdish fighters for their anti-Saddam combat units.According to DEBKA Net Weekly military sources the presidential decree directed the commandos 'to wage a secret, tenacious and sustained war to destroy enemy forces that have invaded the Iraqi motherland' employing the following tatics:1.Ambushes...

<p>A woman has been convicted of a hate crime for plowing her car into a man of Middle Eastern descent, using derogatory slurs, spitting on him, biting his hand and kicking him at a San Jose intersection, a prosecutor said today.</p>

Aztec man misses water, breaks leg By Darren Marcy/Outdoor editor NAVAJO DAM An Aztec man missed the water and hit a rock while attempting to jump from rocks into Navajo Lake Sunday. Scott Zieger, 30, is in fair condition at San Juan Regional Medical Center after being airlifted to the hospital by Air Care I. Zieger was attempting to jump from some rocks into the water near a picnic cove at the lake. But he landed on a rock, breaking his left leg, according to a report taken by Navajo Lake State Park personnel. Emergency Medical Technicians called for Air...

Microsoft shares Hotmail users data without asking Vole employs sneak tactics to promote spam By Paul Hales, 02/07/2002 08:53:31 BST AFTER RANTING A LITTLE about how Microsoft benefits from spam by persuading users to upgrade to the paid-for service in order to get more space to accommodate all the Viagra/debt management/penis extension mail, we were bombarded with readers’ thoughts on the matter, some of which we published here. Now, it seems, the increase in spam to my own Hotmail account can be traced back to a move by Microsoft to add a couple of buttons to the Options screen on...

I'm struggling with my atheism. I don't mean that I'm losing my belief in a random universe. I mean it's getting harder to remain in a congregation in which the membership -- at least that part that grabs the headlines -- skews toward the sullen, cantankerous and litigious. Last week's court ruling that the Pledge of Allegiance violates the Constitution for its use of the phrase "under God" has no doubt many true believers crying, there "they" go again. The "they" is, of course, me, in that I'd be a card-carrying atheist if "they" bothered to issue one. But also...

Here's the good news, if you're a congressional Democrat flogging your party's issue du jour. The latest CNN/USAToday/Gallup poll, released Monday, asked the following question: "Do you think big business does — or does not — have too much influence over the decisions made by the Bush administration?" Sixty-three percent of those polled answered yes, while 32 percent said no — numbers sure to warm the hearts of Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt.But here's the bad news, if you're a congressional Democrat flogging your party's issue du jour. The Gallup pollsters then asked, "Do you think big business does...

Hundreds of Idahoans told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday the Pledge of Allegiance is perfect the way it is and that schoolchildren should still get to utter the words “under God” when they recite the pledge. Gathered on the Statehouse steps, they sang patriotic songs and declared that the United States is “one nation under God” even though a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals says the reference to God in the pledge is unconstitutional. “The problem is not with the Pledge of Allegiance,” Attorney General Al Lance told the crowd. “The problem...

<p>LONDON, England (CNN) -- As the euro heads towards parity with the U.S. dollar, one currency watcher expects the euro to hit $1.05 by the end of the year.</p> <p>"Its only a matter of time before parity but it won't stop there. It may be at 1.05 (U.S. cents) by the end of the year and then 1.10 a year from now," Steve Barrow, currency economist at the Bear Stearns, told CNN.</p>

Vice President Annette Lu (§f¨q½¬) yesterday pointed with alarm at the "one country, two systems" model proposed by Beijing for Taiwan, in light of the situation it has created in Hong Kong after only five years of Chinese rule. Lu, at a meeting with over 150 researchers at Academia Sinica, said that Hong Kong residents, having watched their economy regress, their real estate drop in value and their unemployment rate skyrocket, have not been pleased since British colonial rule ended in 1997. In addition to the deterioration of the quality of life, Lu noted that the population's identification with the...

In TV Interview, Ehud Barak Calls Arafat A Serial Liar Copyright © 2002, Dow Jones Newswires JERUSALEM (AP)--Yasser Arafat is a serial liar, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday, and urged fellow Israeli moderates to denounce him. In his first interview to Israel Television since being voted out of office in February 2001, Barak denounced Arafat, his former negotiating partner, as untrustworthy. "When you try to embrace him, he will evade you like smoke," Barak said. "He is a serial liar, so deeply unbelievable that I say it is a waste of time talking about him," Barak said....

<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A wildlife surveyor for the Mescalero Apache Tribe pleaded innocent Friday to setting a fire on an arson-plagued reservation parched by drought and torn by political infighting.</p> <p>Paul James Valdez, 27, of Tularosa, who worked for the tribe helping take the census of federally protected Mexican spotted owls, was arrested Wednesday on charges of setting the half-acre Lower Cooley Fire on June 2.</p>