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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Highway Patrol this week retracted a controversial report on militia activity and will change how such reports are reviewed before being distributed to law enforcement agencies. The Highway Patrol also will open an investigation into the origin of the report, which linked conservative groups with domestic terrorism and named former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin.....

My wife, Nettie, and I could not believe what we were seeing. Roberto, our favorite Mexican employee for four years, had sent the money he made back to Mexico to build a bakery. We had no idea he had done that. We knew he, like most Mexican workers in the United States, sent a significant portion of his earnings home once a month. He must have sent more than the 40 percent that is typical. His family took the money and built a bakery so he would have a business to go home to in his village of Tepanzacoalco in...

As war unfolds, Iraqi sleeper cells and al-Qaida operatives aren't the only threats we face on the domestic front. Homegrown environmental radicals cast their own fatwah on America this week. And they're not just talking about lighting tea candles while they sing Bob Dylan tunes in their Birkenstocks. These anarchist menaces are deadly serious about undermining national security through physical and economic harm. In a manifesto published this week across left-wing Internet sites, infamous eco-thug Craig Rosebraugh called on his anti-war troops to take "direct actions" against American military establishments, urban centers, corporations, government buildings and media outlets. This is...

What this war is not about By RICK SALUTIN Friday, January 3, 2003 – Page A13 Four things the coming war against Iraq is not about: It is not about terror. Proof A: No connection has ever been shown between Iraq and al-Qaeda; in fact, there is long enmity between their leaders. Proof B: U.S. leaders have clearly used Sept. 11 as a pretext to attack Iraq. Bob Woodward says in his new book that Donald Rumsfeld was already calling for Iraq's inclusion in the war on terror on "the day after"; national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told The New...