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Posted on Tue, Jul. 20, 2004 Lesbians sue to have all states recognize Massachusetts marriage MITCH STACY Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. - A lesbian couple from Bradenton who were married in Massachusetts sued the federal government Tuesday to have their union legally recognized in the rest of the country. The suit was filed against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft in federal court in Tampa. The couple's attorney, Ellis Rubin, has filed five previous suits in state and federal courts challenging the ban, but Tuesday's was believed to be the first to attempt to compel the federal government and other states...

City Journal The Immigrant Gang Plague Heather Mac Donald        Summer 2004 Before immigration optimists issue another rosy prognosis for America’s multicultural future, they might visit Belmont High School in Los Angeles’s overwhelmingly Hispanic, gang-ridden Rampart district. “Upward and onward” is not a phrase that comes to mind when speaking to the first- and second-generation immigrant teens milling around the school this January.“Most of the people I used to hang out with when I first came to the school have dropped out,” observes Jackie, a vivacious illegal alien from Guatemala. “Others got kicked out or got into drugs. Five graduated,...

Philly Pride seeks court order to prevent 'Outfest' evangelism

A Cochise County man who fired on a truckload of people crossing his property Wednesday morning near Douglas, escaped unscathed an hour later when the vehicle apparently returned and its occupants shot up his house, officials said. A 24-foot travel trailer on the property about four miles east of Douglas also was on fire when the unidentified homeowner escaped, said Carol Capas, a spokeswoman for the Cochise County Sheriff's Department. No one has been arrested. The homeowner opened fire on the vehicle about 9 a.m. trying to scare it off because he was tired of his property being trekked across...

LOS ANGELES – A graduate student with alleged connections to a radical environmentalist group was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of firebombing and vandalizing dozens of sport utility vehicles, authorities said Wednesday. Billy Cottrell, 23, a physics student at California Institute of Technology, was indicted in connection with vandalism that damaged or destroyed about 125 vehicles at car dealerships and homes in the San Gabriel Valley last August. The indictment was returned Tuesday and announced Wednesday. Cottrell appeared Wednesday in court where a judge ordered him to remain held without bond. The indictment charged him with one...

It's bizarre how America is expected to fight a war like no other nation on Earth. Let Russia invade Chechnya, let China occupy Tibet, or France invade the Ivory Coast, and no one marches in the streets worrying about civilian casualties. The fact there were many civilians killed in the American-led "humanitarian bombing" of Kosovo in 1999 is now overlooked by many of the same people marching for "peace" with Iraq. Ironically, that "humanitarian bombing" - also conducted outside the auspices of the United Nations - was demanded by many of the very same "peace" protesters ready to go berserk...