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FOUR US SOLDIERS KILLED Four US soldiers are reported to have been killed in central Iraq. It is thought that they were hit by a a rocket propelled grenade. More to follow...

Thompson calls Senate bid unlikely With elections next year, his plate is full at HHS By CRAIG GILBERT Last Updated: March 7, 2003 Washington - Reiterating his lack of interest in the office, U.S. health secretary Tommy Thompson said Friday that he is "very unlikely" to run for the Senate next year against incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold. "You know, I could have been a United States senator many times. I've had the option to run and I've never decided to run, and at 60 years of age, why would I run now?" the former governor said at an hourlong breakfast...

Flags to wave for U.S. soldiers By PETER MALLER Last Updated: March 5, 2003 Polk - Upset by recent demonstrations opposing a possible war in Iraq, Kathy Kiernan is organizing a rally to show support for American soldiers as they prepare for battle. "It just hurt us to see so many protests that were not appropriate," said Kiernan, whose rally Sunday at Washington County Fair Park is being sponsored by the Washington County Republican Party. "The worst part was the signs they (demonstrators) were carrying," she said. "They made our president look like a bad guy. Saddam Hussein is the...

Common Sense Counterpoints: A Constitutional Response to a Common Conservative By J.J. JohnsonPublished 03. 3. 03 at 2:03 Sierra Time It seems that the Bush Administration has finally found a case for war. The case: ”we really don’t need a case”. To that end, common sense reasons for supporting or not supporting a war have gotten lost in the rhetoric between the left and the right. For this reason, I’ve decided here to take on a well-respected conservative, Tom Adkins. His well written article, “SNAPPY ANSWERS TO STUPID LIBERAL SOUNDBYTES: Defeating the Anti-War idiots” deserves a response from a...

Emeregency personnel are on the scene of a fire at the Tetraco chemical facility on the 2500 block of Francis Road in south Midland, and residences and businesses up to one-half mile away are being evacuated. CLICK HERE for a live report from the scene. CLICK HERE for residents' accounts of the fire. OPRIMA AQUI para un reporte en vivo desde el lugar de los hechos en Español.

Pro-life adverts banned Claire Cozens Wednesday January 29, 2003 Pro-life leaflets featuring pictures of aborted babies were criticised today by advertising watchdogs. The advertising standards authority said leaflets sent to people's homes by UK Life League were likely to cause serious offence and were unduly distressing to recipients. Complaints from the public came from London, Scotland and north Yorkshire to the direct mailing, which included images of aborted babies under the headline, "RIP In memory of six million unborn British babies murdered by abortion since 1967". Inside the leaflet were more pictures of aborted babies, along with articles about the...

<p>BAGRAM, Afghanistan — A shootout with enemy forces in Afghanistan left a U.S. soldier dead on Saturday, the U.S. military said.</p> <p>Reporting from Bagram Air Force Base, the military reports that while on patrol in the eastern province of Paktika, the soldier's unit came under fire.</p>

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<p>President Bush's advisers are recommending that he declare Iraq in violation of a U.N. resolution on disarmament, administration officials said Tuesday night, but they do not consider the offense an immediate cause for war.</p> <p>Bush will be briefed as early as Wednesday on the available options in response to Saddam Hussein's 12,000-page declaration of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.</p>

With war possible soon in Iraq, the chiefs of the two U.S. ground forces are challenging the belief of some senior Pentagon civilians that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will fall almost immediately upon being attacked and are calling for more attention to planning for worst-case scenarios, Defense Department officials said.

USA TO DEPLOY ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM BY ´04; ALASKA TO HOUSE INTERCEPTORS No further details.

President Bush has decided not to intervene to save Sen. Trent Lott (Miss.) after concluding he has become an albatross to the party and no longer has any chance of surviving as Republican majority leader, administration sources said yesterday. The White House had hedged about Lott for nearly a week. Yesterday, after Republicans scheduled a vote that could lead to Lott's ouster, administration officials said Bush would not intervene. A Senate aide working to save Lott said Bush's continued silence could amount to a death sentence.

INSIDERS WARN: STEP DOWN OR BE PUSHED Mon Dec 16 2002 22:45:08 ET 2002 In words that seemed sure to surprise and possibly infuriate a good portion of Sen. Trent Lott's traditional political base, he told his interviewer, Ed Gordon of Black Entertainment Television, "There has been immoral leadership in my part of the country for a long time." MORE Many Republicans said Lott might not survive until a planned Jan. 6 Republican meeting, as some prominent party officials predicted privately that the Mississippi Republican might have to relinquish his post even sooner if it became clear he did not...

Partnership for ProgressIn the Mideast, America is on the side of freedom and prosperity.BY COLIN POWELLFriday, December 13, 2002 12:01 a.m. EST (Editor's note: Mr. Powell delivered this speech at the Heritage Foundation yesterday.)The Middle East is a vast region of vast importance to the American people. Millions of us worship in churches, mosques and synagogues, professing the three great faiths that were born in the lands between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Our language and traditions are filled with references to Jerusalem, to Bethlehem, to Mecca. Our phone books list names--such as Mousavi, Levy, and Shaheen--that speak...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 — In a notable shift of sentiment, several associates of former Vice President Al Gore said today that they were becoming increasingly convinced that he would not run for president in 2004 and would instead announce in early January that he was stepping aside to allow a new face to challenge President Bush. These associates emphasized that Mr. Gore had not told them his intentions and that in fact he had not made up his own mind. Given his bitter loss in the presidential election of 2000 and his frequent criticism of Mr. Bush, they cautioned, he...

Bonding roads is right direction By Shannon Fiecke The Daily’s Nov. 25 story about the Hiawatha light rail corridor development problems, “Light rail’s imminent arrival spurs neighborhood concerns,” shows the purpose of the light rail system is not cleaner, more efficient transportation. Instead, the goal is “smart growth” designed to control our lives. The Metropolitan Council is deeply concerned over the lack of dense population along the Hiawatha corridor line. Its worries are needless because if its proposed rail system actually works, development will naturally occur. A stereotypical young adult who works in Minneapolis and likes living in a packed...

Amid talk of war, a plea for peace BY AMY MAYRON Pioneer Press About 200 people in downtown Minneapolis joined a national day of protest Tuesday against a war with Iraq by chanting at rush-hour traffic, carrying signs and performing a dramatic skit about the rubble and bodies left behind after bombings. "We're sick and tired of putting up with Bush and his lies," Erika Zurawski shouted into a microphone to rouse the crowd at the federal court plaza across from City Hall. "So today we're going to say 'no' to his lies, 'no' to the killing of innocent people."...

Mullings An American Fifth-Column A Scamp Abroad Rich Galen Wednesday December 11, 2002 From Villa Tatiana Geneva, Switzerland One of the things about writing from Europe is you read European newspapers – not just on the web as you can from Mullings Central in Alexandria, Virginia – but really read the International Herald Tribune as a newspaper.As an example on page 4-II in yesterday’s IHT a piece by John Vinocur has this lede:“Scratch an anti-American in Europe and very often all he wants is a guest professorship at Harvard or to have an article published in the New York Times.”The...

After hearing about the anti-war protests that took place at the University of Minnesota and the protest that was scheduled for today in front of the Federal Buliding in Minneapolis, I decided to make my way down there and lead a counter-protest. On the suggestion of Terriergal, I made a sign that read: SUPPORTERS OF SADDAM <== I stood out at the corner of 4th St. and 3d Avenue, outside the Public Service Commission building, from the time they started to chant until all that was left were the true believers.  Among the chants that these geniuses came up with...