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Ask 5 amateurs "What is Field Day?" and you will likely get a dozen different answers. Field Day is the premier operating event of the year and is held on the fourth full weekend of June. It is sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Field Day is a chance to take to the hills and fields. It's a test of our ability to communicate under adverse conditions, it's an exercise, and it's a contest, as Field Day stations try to contact as many other stations as possible during a 24 hour period. Clubs and individuals operate from emergency...

In Cobb County, Ga., controversy erupted this spring when school board officials decided to affix "disclaimer stickers" to science textbooks, alerting students that "evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things." The stickers were the Cobb County District School Board's response to intelligent design theory, which holds that the complexity of DNA and the diversity of life forms on our planet and beyond can be explained only by an extra-natural intelligent agent. The ID movement -- reminiscent of creationism but more nuanced and harder to label -- has been quietly gaining momentum in a number...

Good morning all, My son Aric Kincaid was born this morning at 6:19 AM, he weighs in at 9 lbs even, and is 21 1/2" long. Our newest patriot, I will groom him well in the rules of law and the constitution. He will be a conservative, but I know this because all my kids are VERY intelligent and they will ALL be conservative, (whether their mother likes it or not) LOL. So please welcome our newest Freeper, Aric Kincaid. Yes, I am VERY proud PAPA. Mother and son are doing well, and for this one we decided on a...

Introduction: Through an e-mail sent last December to HELM Harbor, HELM's e-mail list, I learned that the Bryant children had been placed into the custody of DSS. This news was totally unexpected, and I was stunned. What I learned about this situation has deepened my concern for the increasing forcible restraint of parental rights. Home educators have a responsibility to act in support for the Bryants and others waging battle in the front lines. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Bryant family continues a five-year-old court battle which, though located on the battleground of homeschooling, is part of the much...

<p>Lyndon Johnson was facing his first re-election as a U.S. senator in 1954, and he wanted more than a victory; he wanted to thrash his opponent and beat back the party's McCarthyite right flank so thoroughly that it would never challenge him again.</p>

SPOKANE - Federal agents arrested a Spokane Valley man Wednesday for investigation of manufacturing a biological weapon in his home. Kenneth R. Olsen, 47, was making ricin, a deadly poison made from the beans of the castor plant, FBI agent Norm Brown said. While traces of ricin have been found by U.S. troops in Afghanistan at suspected al-Qaida biological weapons sites, there is no sign that this case is connected with terrorists, Brown said. "We have no knowledge he had any connections with outside or national organizations," Brown said. Brown did not say if any ricin was found in the...

My wife doesn't allow a television in our home, so when I'm traveling alone, as I often must, temptation sometimes overwhelms me and I find myself indiscriminately channel-surfing for hours, searching for what -- I don't know, perhaps a football game even in March or April, May, June, July, August. It was on such a fruitless mission in April that I paused on the A&E channel long enough to hear that a documentary about cults was in the offing. If I watched the thing, I was promised I would learn the six secret principles of cults, how to enslave the ...

Ladies and Gentleman freepers, I need some help and advice here. I am an Oregon resident and am the Northwest Regional Sales manager for an electronics company out of Singapore. Business has gone down the tubes since September and the recession has literally killed the electronics manufacturing industry. So, needless to say, I have been looking for another employment opportunity. I recieved a call today from an RV component manufacturer, who is looking for a National Sales Manager and is very interested in discussing the position with me. And here's the part where I need advice. They will not go ...

This is an e-mail that I recieved from my best friend in Texas, we served together in Turkey, and I love him dearly. One of his sons is named after me, and I am his daughters godfather. This little girl needs all the good energy and prayers that you freepers can give her. She is in a world of hurt and it just breaks my heart that I can't be there in Texas for them at this trying time. Please read the following, I am leaving it totally unedited, I am hoping that by doing this, I am bringing as ...

A tragedy of the dimensions of Sept. 11 can bring a search for scapegoats in its wake. On the political left we find some who blame the supposed evils of "global capitalism," while on the political right we find some who blame the godlessness of American society. Although the particulars differ, both camps suggest that the victims were complicit, whether directly or indirectly, in their own destruction. And thus is any concept of authentic innocence swept aside. The Cold War is a thing of the past, so the religious right can no longer target godless communism as the source of ...