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Thursday, March 30, 2006 Study Casts Doubt on Claims That Conservative Students Face Discrimination in Classes By JENNIFER JACOBSON A study showing that conservative and liberal students do equally well in courses with politically charged content casts doubt on conservative activists' claims that liberal faculty members routinely discriminate against their conservative students. The study found no difference in the grades conservative and liberal students receive in sociology, cultural anthropology, and women's-studies courses. It also found that conservative students tend to earn higher grades than their liberal classmates in business and economics courses. Titled "What's in a Grade? Academic Success and...

OFFICIAL 2004 DNC CONVENTION PROGRAM 6:00pm - Opening flag burning ceremony. 6:30pm - Anti-war rally no. 1. 6:40pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast. 7:00pm - Tribute theme to France. 7:10pm - Collect offerings for al-Zawahri defense fund. 7:20pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast 7:25pm - Tribute theme to Spain. 7:45pm - Anti-war rally no. 2. (Moderated by Michael Moore) 8:00pm - John Kerry presents one side of the issues 8:25pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast. 8:30pm - Terrorist appeasement workshop. 9:00pm - Gay marriage ceremony. 9:30pm - * Intermission * 10:00pm - Flag burning ceremony no. 2....

MONTPELIER, Vt. — A group of Vermont teen-agers threw rocks at a uniformed female Vermont National Guard sergeant last week, in the latest example of a service member facing hostility in the United States. National Guard spokesman Capt. Jeff Roosevelt said the woman was not injured in Friday's incident, which took place in Plainfield, but said the woman had decided she would no longer wear her uniform outside of work. "We are a very tolerant state and people in the military also expect to be treated with the same courtesy and respect that we show to others," Lt. Col. Scott...

<p>March 26, 2003 -- It has become painfully obvious that America faces a threat from within.</p> <p>The threat comes not just from terrorists who have managed to penetrate America's porous borders - the 9/11 terrorists, for example - though that danger is real enough.</p>

U.S. Arrests Man for Allegedly Planning Dirty Bomb Attack By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ASHINGTON -- The U.S. government has arrested an alleged al Qaida terrorist who plotted to build and detonate a radiological "dirty" bomb, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday.

Using Robotics, Researchers Give Upgrade to Lowly Rats By KENNETH CHANG roviding a biological twist to robotics, scientists have fitted live rats with remote controls to guide them through mazes, past obstacles and even up trees by typing commands on a laptop computer up to half a mile away. The approach, which takes advantage of an animal's innate ability to do things like climb over rocks, could ultimately be applied to inspecting a disaster area, said the scientists, who report their findings in today's issue of the journal Nature. "An animal, especially a rat, has much greater facility for getting...

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) believes the big-spending demands of the Senate's 18 most liberal members, one-third of the Democrat Caucus plus one independent, take priority over the consensus of a bipartisan majority of Senators who want to act now to pass the President's economic recovery plan to help America's unemployed and uninsured. Daschle has said that "a majority plus one" wasn't enough for him to schedule a vote, but that two-thirds of the Democrat Caucus is "a pretty good figure." (CNN'S "Novak, Hunt & Shields," December 8, 2001). This means that the 18 most extreme liberals have veto ...

The American's Creed I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a Republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its Flag; and to defend it ...

1,200 CUNY students enlist to work at polling places NEW YORK (AP) _ More than 1,200 students at the City University of New York have begun training to become poll workers for the Board of Elections this fall, school and city officials announced Thursday. The student enlistment is part of an aggressive recruitment campaign to remedy a severe shortage of election workers. ``Last year, the city was short 4,000 poll workers and that is unacceptable,'' City Councilman A. Gifford Miller said. ``I am thrilled that CUNY can make a difference in the coming election by adding well over 1,000 student ...

Thursday, June 07, 2001 By Eric Burns What a great idea it was for the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor. The Disney Company will probably make a fortune out of it. And ABC News is doing all it can to help. Background item one: Pearl Harbor is a new movie produced by Disney's Touchstone Pictures. Background item two: ABC News is also owned by Disney. Background item three: The Japanese are nicer to us these days. It is not news anymore when the news division of a major American company promotes the interests of another division of that major American ...

Does anyone out there know what exactly they are counting? On T.V. it looks as though they are counting punch cards that were generated by machines that read the ballots. The cards they are squinting at are certainly not the ballots. If that is so, how can they determine a voter's intention without seeing the actual ballot?

I just received an e-mail from my brother, a retiree living in Florida. He said that for the last three days he has received phone calls from Gore people telling him that if George Bush is elected, retirees will lose their Social Security benefits. He said the polls in Florida are still showing a very close race and the old folks scare easily. He also asked that we let the Bush camp know what's happening - which I have done. Is there some way we can combat this? Should we notify the press or protest to the Gore camp? Help!

I work in midtown Manhattan and on my lunch hour accidently walked into the solidarity march for Israel. There were thousands of Jewish people carrying signs and handing out flyers. Many of them anti-Hillary. When I got back to my office building the store in the lobby had a TV on and they were reporting the march and showing parts of Hillary's speech. They did not mention the anti-Hillary protesters I saw all over the place. Following is the text of the flyer they gave me: Hillary Clinton vs Israel Support for Militant anti-Israel Groups: Hillary Clinton was Chairperson of ...

>> Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow >> black >> panther named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was suspected of >> disloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely >> immobilized by >> his friends they tortured him for hours by, among other things, >> pouring >> boiling water on him. >> After torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbo took >> Rackley >> outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later >> found >> floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, ...

Congress hog wild on new entitlements By John Godfrey THE WASHINGTON TIMES Visit our Election 2000 page for daily election news and analysis Congress is on a spending binge, throwing pork into the annual appropriations bills, adding entitlement money for the elderly, boosting veterans' benefits and increasing reimbursements to Medicare providers. Top Stories • Barak extends deadline on violence • Honesty questions hurt Gore • Hillary's political influence questioned • Gore mistakes White House for 'Big Brother' house • Beijing turns up heat on banned Falun Gong "People have gone crazy," Sen. Phil Gramm, Texas Republican, said as he left ...

BACK TO CREDIBILITY GAP ... Thursday,October 5,2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Al Gore told George W. Bush Tuesday: "You may want to focus on scandals; I want to focus on results." No doubt. Because a full focus on all the scandals - and the veep's seemingly compulsive need to deceive - wouldn't leave time to talk about results. Or anything else, for that matter. Face it. This is an issue that ain't goin' away anytime soon. Bush provoked the veep's outburst by noting Gore's 1996 fund-raising indiscretions: "I felt like, that there needed to be a better sense of responsibility of what ...

Hillary Clinton Fudged Campaign Travel Costs Thursday, September 28, 2000 A flight Hillary Clinton took on a government plane last December has shown up on the radar of a Republican congressman, who said Thursday that U.S. taxpayers may be footing the bill for the first lady's New York Senate campaign. AP/Wide Worldwide Hillary Clinton is under fire for campaign travel expenses. Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., chairman of the House Treasury and Postal Subcommittee on Appropriations, accused the White House of providing his panel with incomplete information on the first lady's campaign travel. According to a new report Kolbe's panel received ...

THIS MAN PUTS THE ‘ILL' IN SILLY SEASON Friday,September 22,2000 By STEVE DUNLEAVY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I HAVE always felt sorry for anyone named Billy whose Little Willie makes him look silly. Kathleen Willey (pronounced Willie) has sued Billy over invasion of privacy. Now Willey has a lot more in her arsenal against Billy that is far from frilly. On Nov. 29, 1993, in the Oval Office, she alleges far more egregious acts took place. Such as Billy forcing Willey's hand on his Little Willie ... really silly, Billy. Gloria Steinem, at the time, defended Billy by writing in The New York ...

AL'S COURTING H'WOOD DEVIL Friday,September 15,2000 By STEVE DUNLEAVY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THERE is no question tobacco millionaire Al Gore knows we are a bunch of fools barely out of diapers. Here he was last night taking millions of dollars from a Harvey Weinstein bash and he looked as innocent as a Holy Picture. Harvey is a pretty brilliant boss of Miramax, but what he churns out in terms of movies is a guided tour of the morgue and the gutter. Gore, his wife, Tipper, and vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman are screaming like banshees about sex and violence in the movies. ...

WHITE HOUSE CHEF SERVES UP SEX SUIT Thursday,September 14,2000 By BRIAN BLOMQUIST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON - The White House's assistant pastry chef is suing her boss for sexual harassment - and charging President Clinton failed to create regulations for workers to complain about discrimination. In a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, Franette McCulloch demanded $2 million, saying she was "subjected to severe and perverse sexual harassment" by executive pastry chef Roland Mesnier. Among her allegations, McCulloch claims that Mesnier: * Persuaded her to let him stay at her house because his air conditioning had broken, then later said ...