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In the coming weeks, I will acknowledge an anniversary of thirty (30) years as a registered Republican. I have always been a Republican and my first presidential election was a vote cast for Ronaldus Magnus, one of my heroes. I have always voted the GOP line in state and local races, except when there were only Democrats running wherein I would either vote for the most conservative or skip that particular match up entirely. I'm afraid that this year will be different. As a conservative who found a home in the GOP 30 years ago, I now find myself without...

Peter Hammond is a missionary in Africa who has a great deal of contact with Muslims, and has authored books on Islam. He gives this insight relating to why some populations seem to have more violent confrontation with this religion: As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. ... Between 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. [Europe, Australia, USA and Japan] From...

I'm in the process of doing research on those people who have hurt the Church (universal) both in the past and in the present.I would appreciate any help in gathering the names of those you think whose positions, actions, practices, etc., have done harm to the Body of Christ, although they may have been well-intentioned.Would you please list your pick(s) and a brief summary of why you chose them. For example, Augustine is considered a "church father," although his writings encouraged the marriage of church and state for the purpose of societal transformation, even if it required forced "transformation" (i.e.,...

Welcome to The Truth About Iraq.org! The more than forty countries that comprise the Coalition Forces have done a great service to the Iraqi people, the American people and the world by deposing one of the most brutal and prolific killers in history. Our goal is to help the American people better understand the situation in Iraq through sources other than the mainstream media - public opinion research, statistical analysis and personal accounts.

ABCNEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MEMO SPARKS CONTROVERSY: BOTH SIDES NOT 'EQUALLY ACCOUNTABLE' **Exclusive** An internal memo written by ABCNEWS Political Director Mark Halperin admonishes ABC staff: During coverage of Democrat Kerry and Republican Bush not to "reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable." The controversial internal memo obtained by DRUDGE, captures Halperin stating how "Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win." But Halperin claims that Bush is hoping to "win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions." "The current Bush attacks on...

There are many articles which have pointed out the distortions, falsehoods, and lies in the film Fahrenheit 9/11. This report compiles the Fahrenheit 9/11 deceits which have been identified by a wide variety of reviewers. In addition, I identify some inaccuracies which have not been addressed by other writers. The report follows the approximate order in which the movie covers particular topics: the Bush family, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. This report focuses solely on factual issues, and not on aesthetic criticism of the film. To understand the deceptions, it helps to understand Moore’s ideological position. So let us start...

We are in the process of planning a new church plant in the eastern Tennesse/western North Carolina area in the near future.Our target group will be young families with children and youth (i.e., teens), as well as the 18 - 35 age group, known as the "emerging church."If you are already familiar with the emerging church generation, then you know that they are basically resistant to the status quo of what has wrongly been called "church" (i.e., heirarchial structure organizations, non-relational, etc.) and instead are looking for real, authentic truth and relationships.What I am asking of you are ideas for...

Maintaining his stance on behalf of Augusta National that the club will invite a female member at a time of the club's own choosing, Hootie Johnson today underscored that the club's position is the club's, and not just Hootie's: "If I drop dead this second, our position will not change." Good for Hootie! The mindless egalitarian leftists on Martha Burk's side present Augusta's all-male membership as discrimination – as though there is any such thing as a "right" to partake of private property that is not yours, on which you could associate with people who don't want you there –...

Wednesday, March 19, 2003 Posted: 9:08 AM EST (1408 GMT) NORTHGLENN, Colorado (AP) -- Jan and Suzanne Strickland didn't set out to raise a military family. But today, three of their four children are either in the Middle East or awaiting deployment -- and the parents are delighted. "I couldn't be any more proud of my children than if they were all CEOs," said Jan Strickland, a family practice physician. Concerned about keeping their children away from drugs and other trouble in the 1970s and '80s, the Stricklands put all four on a strict physical regimen. The three girls and...

If Lincoln Was Correct... Then MUST the U.S. Abide By United Nations’ Demands? Recently, while listening to a conservative radio talk show, the host mentioned that someone (I failed to get the name) had either written a book or made a statement to the effect that the United States was obliged to follow all of the mandates of the United Nations, primarily because the U.S. entered into a pact or contract with member nations to do so. This contention intrigued me as to the parallels it has regarding whether Lincoln was indeed right when he claimed that the South illegally...

Do you remember those Information Technology (IT) jobs that were going to take the place in the "new economy" of those outsourced manufacturing jobs? Don't bother to retrain. The IT jobs are leaving, too. Knowledge work can be done anywhere there are educated people. These days, that's just about everywhere: the Philippines, India, China, Russia, Eastern Europe, Costa Rica and South Africa. Outsourcing of "new economy" jobs is exploding. A recent article in the Feb. 3 Business Week describes "dazzling new technology parks" on the outskirts of India's major cities, where U.S. companies such as Bank of America, Texas Instruments,...

The point of the Roe v. Wade decision is not abortion, but rather usurpation by the Supreme Court of legislative powers. Under our system, the legislative branches decide moral and philosophical issues; the courts decide issues of law. The Constitution is dead-silent on the subject of abortion, just as it is silent on virtually all moral and philosophical issues. The Constitution is a charter of government, laying out the branches, the powers and the division of those powers. It says nothing about social issues. Prior to the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, the 50 state legislatures handled the issue...

T’was just weeks before Christmas, when all through the chamber, The Republicans were aghast at the words of one not a stranger. The words that were said it seemed were just a blunder, But soon they rolled across the airwaves and were louder than thunder. The Republicans were horrified and covered their heads, While the Democrats gleefully cheered, “And they though we were dead!” The spinmeisters were called and they all began to plan, How to bring down the president with the words of one man. Then out in the media there arose such a clatter, With Jesse and Al...

By WILL SENTELL wsentell@theadvocate.com Capitol news bureau High school biology textbooks would include a disclaimer that evolution is only a theory under a change approved Tuesday by a committee of the state's top school board. If the disclaimer wins final approval, it would apparently make Louisiana just the second state in the nation with such a provision. The other is Alabama, which is the model for the disclaimer backers want in Louisiana. Alabama approved its policy six or seven years ago after extensive controversy that included questions over the religious overtones of the issue. The change approved Tuesday requires Louisiana...

It's only a small, indeed microscopic, matter, but it made the news. It seems the Bush administration has changed the federal regulations governing scientific research in order to class human embryos as human. Goodness, has somebody in Washington been reading a biology textbook? What did they think the human embryo was before -- feline? equine? crustacean? Or just a meaningless clump of cells in a petri dish? This new addition to the list of "human subjects" whose welfare must be considered in scientific experiments -- along with fetus, child and adult -- is not expected to have any dramatic effect...

<p>PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The city's public high school students will be offered free screenings and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases after tests showed girls at two schools were twice as likely as other Philadelphia teens to have chlamydia.</p> <p>The voluntary, confidential testing is part of a citywide health department plan to cut the rate of sexually transmitted diseases in teens.</p>

LAFAYETTE -- An Acadiana area pro-life organization said Wednesday it wants voters to know U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu does not have a strong record of voting for pro-life issues. Brenda Desormeaux, a member of the Acadiana Right to Life Committee, said many people she's talked to have assumed Landrieu is pro-life. "That's just not the case," Desormeaux said. Suzanne Tierney, president of the committee, said Landrieu's Republican opponent, Suzanne Terrell has pledged to fight abortion if elected. During Landrieu's six years in office, she's voted several times in opposition to limits on federal funding of abortions for federal employees, Tierney...

JARRATT, Va. (AP) -- A Pakistani man who gunned down two CIA employees outside the agency's headquarters was executed under tight security in Virginia, while armed soldiers patrolled the streets in his hometown in Pakistan to guard against retaliation. No violence had been reported by Friday evening. Aimal Khan Kasi, given a lethal injection, softly chanted "There is no God but Allah" until he lost consciousness Thursday night at the Greensville Correctional Center. His execution focused international attention on the tiny town of Jarratt, where security around the prison was greatly increased in response to warnings from the State Department...

WASHINGTON -- Shortly after 9 o'clock Tuesday night, election returns from Gwinnett County, Ga. (30 miles northeast of Atlanta) pointed to a national Republican triumph and trouble for Democrats far into the future. The result validates George W. Bush's aggressive political strategy and signifies collapse of the Democratic southern remnant. These returns showed Republicans running well in Gwinnett, which is usually carried by GOP candidates for president but not state office. The entire state of Georgia itself has been a stubborn holdout to Republican domination of Southern politics. The Democratic debacle in the region Tuesday followed relentless targeting by President...

Southern kindness, Yankee stinginess persist in charity, according to 'generosity index' By Justin Pope, Associated Press, 11/5/2002 03:52 BOSTON (AP) Southerners still take the prize when it comes to charitable giving, though a few Yankee states are making progress toward shedding their stingy reputations. Relatively poor Bible Belt states, headed by Mississippi, retained their lead in the latest ''Generosity Index,'' a survey measuring the disparity between what residents of each state earn and what they give. Mississippi has finished first in five of the six annual surveys. In the latest, the Magnolia State once again has the greatest disparity between...