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WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. worked behind the scenes for a coalition of gay rights activists, and his legal expertise helped them persuade the Supreme Court to issue a landmark 1996 ruling protecting people against discrimination because of their sexual orientation. Then a private lawyer in Washington specializing in appellate work, Roberts helped represent the gay activists as part of his pro bono work at his law firm. He did not write the legal briefs or argue the case before the high court; he was instrumental in reviewing the filings and preparing oral arguments, several lawyers...

AMITE -- Nearly 200 Christian activists attended the Tangipahoa Parish School Board meeting Tuesday night where they prayed and protested the fingerprint scanners at two schools that some liken to the biblical end of the world. Despite a thunderstorm, the activists gathered in front of the School Board office before the meeting for a half-hour of group prayers and to circulate petitions to remove the scanners from schools. Network news crews, one from ABC "World News Tonight" and another from the Fox News Channel, recorded the prayers and protests as part of news stories addressing the American Civil Liberties Union-sponsored...

An Indonesian court has found Australian woman Schapelle Corby guilty of smuggling drugs into Bali and sentenced her to 20 years in jail. Corby's family said she would appeal against the verdict, which could have seen her sentenced to death. Corby, 27, said her luggage had been tampered with, after she was arrested last October with 4.1kg (9lbs) of marijuana in her bags at Bali airport. Her case has stirred widespread public sympathy in Australia. Corby fought back tears and there were screams from her supporters in court, as the verdict and sentence were announced. "Judges are of the opinion...

Drama at the open sea: Israeli, American and French naval forces assisted Wednesday in the rescue of Egyptian and Syrian sailors whose ship sank in international waters off the coast of Nahariya. Shortly before 2:00 p.m. (7:00 a.m. EST), the cargo ship Adora, traveling from Ashdod to Turkey, received a dispatch that another ship, which was apparently transporting cement, was in trouble. The dispatch said the ship, which was carrying at least seven Egyptian and Syrian crew members and flew a North Korean flag, was sinking in international waters as it was making its way from EL Arish Port in...

While we all debate about homosexual 'marriage', a much more dangerous enemy of the timeless union between man and woman is threatening our great country! It should be no surprise that of course it is being pushed on us and our children by left wing liberal Hollywood! Right under our noses. Please unite with me in banning man - fish marriage! Two recent films, one a cartoon directly aimed at children and put out by gay loving Disney, depicts the love of a man and a creature that can only be called a 'mermaid' - half woman and half fish!...

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That's how Nao kicked off her infamous 1992 work "Indigurrito" in which she strapped-on a burrito to her loins and called for white men to come up on stage, take a bite out of the burrito and absolve themselves of 500 years of the white man's guilt. There was no shortage of enobled participants, who knelt in front of the protuding offering, some taking delicate bites, others deep-throated chunks.

Boost-phase missile-defence will not work IT HAS been described as hitting a bullet with a bullet. These are America's plans for a missile-based defence programme to intercept and destroy incoming ballistic missiles before they can reach American soil. It sounds like a nice idea. The problem is that a group of eminent physicists and engineers—all long-time members of the defence establishment—have declared that a crucial part of it would be next to useless if it were built. The plan for missile defence is to create systems that can intercept an incoming ballistic missile during all three stages of its flight—the...

Marijuana 'Guru' Walks Free in Calif. 1 hour, 32 minutes ago Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! By KIM CURTIS, Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Ed Rosenthal, the self-proclaimed "Guru of Ganja," walked free Wednesday after a federal judge sentenced him to one day in prison for a marijuana conviction. Rosenthal, 58, was found guilty in February of growing more than 100 plants in an Oakland warehouse and could have faced as much as 60 years behind bars. Rosenthal had argued his actions were legal under a 1996 law passed by California voters that permits marijuana use...

A top police commander retired abruptly yesterday amid accusations of racial profiling for recently urging officers to stop "every black male" late at night at a bus stop where a rape occurred. The Feb. 22 directive by Maj. Donald E. Healy, commander of the Northeastern District, came to light yesterday during a morning radio talk show and prompted angry criticism from the city's black leaders, at least one of whom phoned Mayor Martin O'Malley demanding Healy's removal. "I'm deeply sorry if I offended any citizens," said the 52-year-old Healy, who is white, in a statement released by police at a ...

Two Northwest Baltimore teen-agers were charged yesterday with killing a former high school wrestling standout during a botched drug deal in the parking lot of Owings Mills mall. Baltimore County police said Christopher Richard Williams, 15, and Avion Richard Rodriguez, 18, killed Kevin Garmzaban of Eldersburg after a dispute over marijuana Tuesday evening. Williams bragged about the fatal shooting a few hours after it occurred and "laughed" when he told a friend about it, according to court documents. Williams, of the 5700 block of Winner Ave. in Pimlico, and Rodriguez, of the 3900 block of Clarks Lane in Falstaff, ...

The Kurdish curse is chasing us both By Meron Benvenisti The IDF's working plan, based on a prognosis that the armed conflict with the Palestinians will "continue to 2006," has resulted in bitter reactions: Are we going to live in hell for another five years? The army, of course, has to plan for the worst, and prophecies of doom are particularly appropriate to the mood in which the entire political spectrum is now trapped. The right's version is that Israel is in a permanent existential war. The left believes that it's impossible to beat a nation fighting for its liberty ...

A United Nations war crimes tribunal convicted former Bosnian Serb Gen. Radislav Krstic of two counts of genocide, five counts of crimes against humanity, and one count of war crimes, or "violations of the laws or customs of war." What's the legal definition of genocide? How does it differ from war crimes and crimes against humanity? When the Security Council established the tribunal that tried Krstic (officially, "The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991"), it statutorily defined the crimes for which ...

I found this on the web. Can anyone dispute this? What do you think?... THERE ARE ONLY TWO passages in the Bible that speak directly to the issue of abortion, and both indicate unequivocally that abortion is not murder: • In Ex. 21:22-25, God tells us what to do if a man who is brawling knocks against a pregnant woman. If the woman dies, the principle of "life for life" is invoked and the man responsible for her death must be killed. If she lives but has a miscarriage, then the death of the fetus is to be compensated for ...