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I am in Long Island, Virginia about 25 minutes away from Red House, Virginia where a group of Al Fuqra Muslims have built themselves a nice little compound. I can hear the planes coming from the North and their flight path is taking them directly over my house. They are props... Heavy and Low. Seems like they are taking a straight trajectory to Charlotte County and then depart heading west and then north again. I am familiar with the angles out here and the normal timelines so I know this is new to the area. The word here is that ...

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AP) — In a star-spangled sendoff, President Bush told hundreds of fatigue-clad U.S. soldiers Saturday that ``America will not blink'' from the fight against terrorism and Osama bin Laden. He vowed to bring that message to Asia. Amid cheers of ``USA! USA!'', the commander in chief made a quick refueling stop at this snowy Air Force base to rally U.S. troops and headline a $400,000 fund-raiser for the Alaska Republican Party. He was leaving from here for a three-nation Asian trip that ends Friday. In a cavernous fighter jet hangar, Bush pledged to tell his ...

As a project for a local citizen watchdog group in our county, I am trying to put together a comparison chart of sorts defining the differences between right-wing Republicans and leftist Democrats. I have not been successful in finding anything that would serve the purpose. We are trying to find something that would help convert life-long Democrats who don't know the issues over to our cause (or anybody for that matter). I live in the West and in a county that has suffered much from federal government encroachments. Any help anybody can give would be great. If I have posted ...

CodeCon Source code for ZeroKnowledge Systems' discontinued anonymous Internet service has leaked onto the Web, apparently with the blessing of ZKS' Chief Scientist Ian Goldberg. The announcement was made on Goldberg's behalf at the CodeCon conference by Len Sassaman, co-organizer of the three day grassroots P2P and crypto conference . Until early last October, Freedom Network offered anonymous web surfing and email with a comprehensive, belt-and-braces approach to anonymity involving dedicated servers, tricky routing tactics and the generation of noise traffic. All packets were encrypted. ZKS discontinued the service but denied that the decision was a consequence of the post-September ...

Libertarians in Santa Barbara, California have scored a victory for freedom of association by helping to nullify a resolution that censured the local Boy Scouts chapter. On November 14, county supervisors approved a statute forbidding the government from discriminating against private organizations -- even if that group has "incorrect membership requirements," said Santa Barbara LP Secretary Robert Bakhaus. "Even the U.S. Supreme Court had said the Boy Scouts have the right to associate, and make their own internal rules as they choose," he said. "If LPers could not lead in such a case as local government censuring the Boy Scouts, ...

There is no text. I heard McCain being interviewed on a news blip this morning. And, he did say that the absence of finance reform laws make good people to bad things.I don't think good people do bad things regardless of their circumstances. Using that logic would mean that good people would commit murder with out some kind of laws.I think the statement by McCain was as close to stupid as it gets.

This segment is from Morning Edition Thursday, February 14, 2002 Sect Couple NPR's Tovia Smith reports on the case of a Massachusetts couple who are members of a religious sect that doesn't believe in medical care. They are in jail because a court wants proof their religious beliefs did not cause the death of an infant they say was lost in a miscarriage. The case has become a popular topic among some constitutional scholars, because of the issues it raises in the area of religious freedom and a woman's right to privacy. (4:31)

Yet another plebiscite on abortion looms in Ireland FEW issues have so dominated public debate in Ireland, or proved so divisive, as abortion. The weary Irish electorate has endured four plebiscites on the subject in 20 years. In the next few weeks they will face a fifth, intended to tighten already restrictive abortion laws even further. Last year an estimated 7,000 Irish women travelled abroad, mainly to England, to end unwanted pregnancies. At home, abortion is illegal on all except the narrowest of grounds: where the life of a pregnant mother is threatened because she is suicidal. The entitlement ...

The National Education Association (NEA) and the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) are teaming up this year to violate the free speech and religious freedom rights of millions of school children. They´re not honest enough to clearly state this as their goal, but it is their objective. These two groups are engaged in a campaign to establish "anti-harassment" and "anti-discrimination" policies on school campuses that will prohibit students from engaging in honest discussions about the behavior of homosexuality. Those students who wish to express medically-based or morally-based opposition to homosexuality as a lifestyle will be punished if ...

Here's the poll (on the left side of the page). "In the Congressional race in 2002, for which party's candidate do you intend to vote - Democrat or Republican?" Let's let 'em have it.

Do you agree with President Bush's assertion that Iraq, Iran and North Korea constitute an "axis of evil?"Click to vote: HERE.:

Doctor Troubled by Pain of Infants in Abortion February 8, 2002www.massnews.comLetters to the EditorThomas V. Messe, M.D. As a physician, I am always concerned about the level of pain my patients have. One group of people who never receive attention to their level of pain is unborn children. Many scientists have discovered that unborn children experience pain as early as seven weeks gestation. This has been shown by accelerations in their heart rate and brain waves during an abortion. There is no question that a baby in the 2nd and 3rd trimester experiences pain during an abortion. I would like ...

Virginia Bill Would Bring National Motto into the Classroom (CNSNews.com) - The Virginia House of Delegates is expected to take a final vote Thursday on a bill requiring every Virginia public school to post a sign bearing the national motto, "In God We Trust." The bill received preliminary approval on Wednesday. Del. Robert Marshall (R-Prince William), the bill's sponsor, says it is particularly important after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to post the motto invoking God in Virginia schools. But on the opposite side of the argument, people who consider the motto "religious graffiti" don't even want it on ...

Poll Question: The topic of Gays and Scouting seems to be omnipresent on this forum. Given the amount of current discussion, it might be interesting to see where we all stand on this issue. I ask everyone to be on their Scouts Honor and vote only once: If Avowed Gays were let in Boy Scouts I would: Current Results -- 12 total votes: Leave Boy Scouts 3 / 25.0% Stay in Boy Scouts 9 / 75.0%

Thanks in no small part to a group called the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, or "ABC," it has recently become in vogue throughout the pro-life movement to tout the results of various studies linking abortion to breast cancer. The results of these studies are presented as if they were not only gospel truth, but also the most effective way to prevent any woman from ever considering an abortion. Unfortunately, the studies are not definitive by any stretch. The disparities between the results of the 37 known studies linking breast cancer and abortion are great. They range from results that are ...

School gives extra credit to students who picket clinic where abortions are performed By Associated Press, 2/8/2002 13:58 WARMINSTER, Pa. (AP) A Roman Catholic school has been offering extra credit to students for picketing a health clinic that performs abortions. About 50 students from the Archbishop Wood High School protested Thursday outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in the Philadelphia suburb of Warminster, about a mile from the school. The students received a boost to their grade in a class on morality. Religion teacher June Littel said the extra credit was meant to reward students ''for giving of their time.'' At ...

<p>WASHINGTON — The Bush administration, re-igniting the national debate over so-called "partial-birth" abortions, has asked a federal appeals court to revive an Ohio ban on the procedure.</p> <p>The debate over the rarely used mid-term procedure that foes have labeled "partial-birth" abortion had faded since 2000, when the Supreme Court struck down Nebraska's ban on it. That ruling jeopardized similar laws in 30 other states, including Ohio.</p>

A Philosophy Of Morality By Deborah Venable 01.30.02 Any political philosophy that does not serve as a lighthouse to warn of the dangers that lie in the shallow waters of political corruption will never cure the ills of America&#146;s political leadership. It would seem that too many of our so-called political leaders lack any philosophy at all, other than whatever they think they need to do to get reelected. It is often said that America&#146;s two party political system has been degraded to an almost indistinguishable one party system. Differences exist mostly in the minds of those who would ...

Adolf Hitler's homosexuality has been demonstrated beyond question by German historian Lothar Machtan's massively researched new book, The Hidden Hitler, which shows homosexuality's central role in Hitler's personal life. But the crucial role within the Nazi movement of the most vicious and lawless types of homosexuality, which Machtan also shows, is even more important than Hitler's personal preference. In 1933, six months after Hitler took power, the distinguished Jewish author Ludwig Lewisohn described what Machtan confirms, that "the entire [Nazi] movement is in fact and by certain aspects of its avowed ideology drenched through and through with homoerotic feeling and ...

The Pacific Justice Institute recently filed a lawsuit, on behalf of parents, against the Novato Unified School District in Novato, Calif., for authorizing pro-homosexual assemblies without any prior notice or parental consent. The suit alleges the parents' fundamental constitutional and civil rights to direct the upbringing of their children and the free exercise of religion were violated. "This is the beginning of a litigation campaign to defend the rights of parents," declares Brad Dacus, president of the nonprofit legal defense organization specializing in the defense of religious freedom, parental rights and other civil liberties. The presentations, entitled "Cootie Shots," ...