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A couple of weeks ago I walked into my office and saw that someone had placed a poster on my desk which advertised a "walk out" in protest of Bush's war on terrorism. Unlike the walkouts of the sixties which were organized by students, this event was organized by a number of UNC-Wilmington professors and staff members, some of whom are avowed socialists. The poster reflected all of the usual tactfulness and refinement of the University Left. Beside a picture of President Bush with the word "bully" printed across his forehead, there was a picture of Lady Liberty shoving a...

<p>WASHINGTON - Memory problems and unpopularity are only a few of the many troubles plaguing the Democrats these days -- as noted by a recent underwhelming event in the South.</p> <p>On a beautiful Saturday, with clear blue skies and puffy white clouds as a backdrop, the Gang of Nine came to town, but few among the good people of Columbia, S.C., took notice.</p>

Published on TaipeiTimeshttp://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2003/05/12/205657 Expert hits out at prevention flawsEPIDEMIC LOOPHOLES: The director of the WHO's communicable diseases department warned that facilities must learn to communicate with each otherCNA Monday, May 12, 2003,Page 3 A man quarantined in the Huachang Public Housing Complex in Taipei's Wanhua District chats to reporters from his veranda yesterday. PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES Poor coordination among SARS-fighting agencies and a lack of sufficient knowledge about the new disease in the initial stage of the outbreak are the major reasons for the deterioration in the SARS situation in Taiwan, said a World Health Organization (WHO)...

I've been thinking about this lately, and I like Coleman/Rice. If anyone else saw Norm Coleman's debate against Mondale, and the way he handled Wellstone's death, you know he's got the "Bush" quality that people love. I think his views are pretty in line with Bush's, but need to look into it more. Condi Rice in the VP slot is a great way to show America which party can elect a woman or a black. (Though I don't think the country is ready for that on the top of the ticket.) Plus it carries the Bush foreign policy forward. I...

US sacks its woman in BaghdadWashington replaces its team for the anarchy-hit capital after failures Ewen MacAskill in Baghdad Monday May 12, 2003 The Guardian The US yesterday sacked one of its most senior envoys to Iraq after only three weeks, in an admission that the task of running the country is proving tougher than expected. With Baghdad still in a state of chaos, there was a whiff of panic about Washington's removal of the top layer of its team responsible for reconstruction. There was also a hint that it is being forced to rethink its post-war strategy. Barbara Bodine,...

VIETNAM FALLS It Is Time To Establish Responsibility by Susan L.M. Huck NO RECRIMINATIONS. That's the current Establishment line. No Recriminations about Vietnam. The idea is that no recriminations should be directed toward the deliberate architects of America's first clear-cut military defeat in history—a defeat in which the enemy has literally driven us flying into the sea and captured four billion dollars' worth of American war matériel. Always watch a "Liberal" when he says "we." It means you will either be given orders or blamed for something. "We must" is a "Liberal" giving orders, and "we are responsible" is a...

I was introduced as "a blogger" when I gave an after-dinner speech last week to the annual meeting of Russell 20-20 Association, a group of the world's largest investment managers and pension plans, sponsored by the Frank Russell Company (my speech, "The Economics of Mass Destruction," can be viewed on the Trend Macrolytics site). The president of the Frank Russell Company, who introduced me, didn't know what a "blog" is -- and neither did anyone else at my table, which included one of the most senior faculty member of Stanford University (where the meeting was held), the manager of the...

Front Page CU project waits as developer, site owner negotiate By:M. Tye Wolfe April 30, 2003 Few hurdles remain before the downtown Cornell Office/Hilton Hotel project can begin construction. The project's developer, Buffalo-based Ciminelli, is still in negotiations with Tom Pine, who owns a 50 percent stake in the property on which the project is slated to be built. Ithaca Mayor Alan Cohen said Tuesday that the city is waiting to hear from the developer about whether negotiations are successful. If not, the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency would move ahead with eminent domain proceedings to acquire the property. ©Ithaca Times...

<p>Sometimes the best political strategy is simply to stand still and allow yourself to be attacked by the wrong guy.</p> <p>We are witness to such a phenomenon as George Bush--cheered, regaled and not-bad in his Top Gun duds--finds his form-fitting aviator pants leg in the clenched teeth of Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., playing the Taco Bell Chihuahua to Bush's Rin Tin Tin.</p>

New 'killer bees' aiming to break legislative quorum By Guillermo X. Garcia Express-News Austin Bureau Web Posted : 05/12/2003 12:00 AM AUSTIN — A group of Democratic House members, intent on breaking a legislative quorum, planned to leave Texas on Sunday night to hide out until the end of the week. If successful, the action will derail and likely kill major pending bills that have been termed a priority by the Republican—controlled legislature. The action was taken as retaliation against the Republican leadership, one of the organizers said Sunday. The GOP has 88 members, the Democrats 62. In major legislative...

Republican challenger Sam Katz has made a race of the fund-raising battle for City Hall, as campaign-finance reports filed yesterday show that he and Mayor Street both have more than $3 million available to spend on the coming campaign. While Street is about $224,000 ahead in cash on hand, Katz outraised Street in the first five months of the year, pulling in more than $4 million to Street's roughly $2.5 million. "I think we're doing a better job of raising money," Katz said in an interview yesterday. "I'm gratified by the extensive support that's materialized both in money, in volunteers...

Hey, all. Just wanted to introduce myself. I was a Libertarian during high school (80's), but then decided the Libertarians had discredited themselves by focusing on the wrong issues--and were unelectable. By the time I went to college, I considered myself an Objectivist, and eventually held senior position at the Ayn Rand Institute for awhile. I am, however, more interested and open to talking to and working with other reasonable parties on the right than are most Objectivists, and have been an ardent supporter of the Republican party and, on the whole, of Bush (despite disagreements on some issues) for...

Dear Freedom-Lovers, The well-known and famous newspaper, "The New York Times," has once again become the megaphone for the theocratic Islamic Republic. This standard-bearer of liberty, democracy and freedom has once again brazenly affronted millions of besieged and freedom-loving Iranians. While millions of Iranians are striving for Secularity and Democracy and are sacrificing their lives to put an end to the repressive and backward rule of the corrupt Clerical regime, and while, at long last, many U.S. officials and analysts such as: Senator Sam Brownback, Senator Ron Wyden and others have heard the cry of the Iranian Nation, this famous...

President of Iran's Wrestling Federation (IWF), Mohammad-Reza Taleqani, announced on Saturday that five Greco-Roman wrestlers of the United States will arrive in Tehran on Wednesday, May 14, IRNA reported. Taleqani told IRNA the visas of the American wrestlers have been issued and the US Greco-Roman wrestlers would arrive here early Wednesday morning. According to the IWF head, the US wrestlers will have a short training in the hall of Shahid Shiroudi Sports Complex, central Tehran, and will fly later to the western city of Sanandaj where Takhti Cup is held. Taleqani added the US Greco-Roman team will depart Tehran next...

Divine law has not made men so that they should ever abuse one another in that way."—St. Augustine Postmodernists and homosexual activists have made a serious effort to remold public opinion regarding homosexual behavior. In a basic sense, these efforts are intended to show that the Biblical texts — from which Western culture has derived its concepts of homosexuality — have been misunderstood. They attribute these ‘misunderstandings’ to inaccurate translations and the confusion of modern commentators on the substance of what the writers of the Bible actually meant when they discussed homosexual behavior, or what the Bible calls "sodomy." Fortunately,...

America is interrogating captured Iraqi commanders to ascertain whether forces loyal to Saddam are still at large, possibly armed with weapons of mass destruction. The US top military commander, Gen Richard Myers, said it was unclear whether banned weapons had been issued to elite Iraqi forces, or hidden around the country. "Were they full-deployed, and could they have been brought to bear on us, or are they still out there somewhere in some sort of bunker and could they have been used?" Gen Myers said yesterday on a visit to the US regional HQ in Qatar. "We are trying to...

May 11, 2:41 PM (ET) LOS ANGELES (AP) - The federal government should guarantee parents protection against testifying against their own children, former White House intern and reality TV host Monica Lewinsky says. In an opinion piece published in Sunday's Los Angeles Times, Lewinsky said it seemed appropriate on Mother's Day to urge Congress to establish a parent-child privilege. "We have a husband-wife privilege, a doctor-patient privilege, an attorney-client privilege and even a privilege between priest and penitent," she wrote. "Isn't the parent-child relationship every bit as important, if not more so?" Lewinsky had a sexual relationship with President Clinton...

"TOPOFF 2" - Week-Long National Combating Terrorism Exercise Begins May 12, 2003 For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary May 5, 2003 Beginning May 12 at 3:00 p.m. EDT, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of State, in cooperation with Federal, State, local, and Canadian partners, will undertake a five-day, full-scale exercise and simulation of how the Nation would respond in the event of a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) attack. The exercise consists of simulated attacks in the Chicago and Seattle metropolitan areas. The State of Washington, King County, and the City of Seattle...

The New York Times has acted honorably in dealing with the wreckage of the Jayson Blair scandal. It published corrections, 54 in all, on Blair's inaccurate reporting. When at last it became obvious that Blair was plagiarizing, making up quotes, and filing stories from places he never visited, the Times applied pressure and Blair resigned. At this writing, the Times is preparing a long article detailing Blair's checkered career. This is the way newspapers are supposed to behave--put it all out on the table. But there is an issue that the Times may not be ready to discuss--whether racial preferences...

The '70s folkie formerly known as Cat Stevens has become a voice of moderate Islam since the Sept. 11 attacks. But Israeli officials are charging that thousands of dollars donated by the "Peace Train" songwriter for humanitarian causes in 1988 were rerouted to the terrorist group Hamas, GP magazine reports. The article by Jake Tapper claims that Stevens, who changed his name to Yusef Islam in 1977, gave the money to Mouhammad Abdel-Rahman, a son of the notorious blind sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. "We don't think this--we know it," Israeli government...