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UN: 150 Sex Abuse Charges in Congo Peacekeeping Mon Nov 22, 8:43 PM ET By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations (news - web sites) is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded on videotape, a senior U.N. official said on Monday. The accusations include pedophilia, rape and prostitution, said Jane Holl Lute, an assistant secretary-general in the peacekeeping department. Lute, an American, said there was photographic and video evidence for some of the allegations and most of the charges came to light since...

Kerry Took BOTH Sides In First Gulf War In Separate Letters To Same Constituent. “Rather than take a side--albeit the one he thought was most expedient--Kerry actually stood on both sides of the first Gulf war, much like he did this time around. Consider this ‘Notebook’ item from TNR’s March 25, 1991 issue, which ran under the headline ‘Same Senator, Same Constituent’: "Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition ... to the early use of military force by the US against Iraq. I share your concerns. On January 11, I voted in favor of a resolution that would...

The following is from the islamic web site http://ramadhan.org/index.php found under "leaflets". They are actually claiming that the Americans are commiting the suicide bombings! This website shows just how scary these people are. Hizb ut-Tahrir mass distributes leaflets exposing the occupiers' hands behind the bombing of civilians------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As part of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s ongoing global campaign against the occupation of Iraq and the subservience of the Muslim rulers, a leaflet entitled 'Occupying forces use criminal explosions to conceal their crimes' was distributed on mass throughout Pakistan. The leaflet issued by the central leadership of Hizb ut-Tahrir was also widely distributed across...

The 2000 Election: Where's the Disenfranchisement? --------------------------------------------------------------------------by Joseph Kerry Senator John Kerry made a fantastic statement while speaking to a predominantly black audience in Indianapolis this past spring. While criticizing the Bush administration for calling "[the Kerry campaign] pessimists for speaking truth to power," Kerry stated: "Don't tell us disenfranchising a million African Americans and stealing their votes is the best we can do. This time, in 2004, not only will every vote count - we're going to make sure that every vote is counted." This wasn't a new accusation by Kerry. Both he and Edwards made similar statements in...

In the future, when one of your hippy friends says something about Bush, or conservatives in general being fascists, ask them for a definition of fascism. Of course, they won't know, so educate them: It was a concept pretty much invented by Mussolini. In an article in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana, written by Giovanni Gentile and attributed to Benito Mussolini, fascism is described as a system in which "everything is within the State and... neither individuals or groups are outside the State.... For Fascism, the State is an absolute, before which individuals or groups are only relative." This quote leads...

Bush leads in states won by Gore By James G. Lakely THE WASHINGTON TIMES President Bush is pushing ahead of Sen. John Kerry in several states won by Al Gore in 2000, which puts the Democratic senator at a disadvantage in his presidential bid because he must commit resources to protect turf once considered his. Mr. Bush holds leads in all but two of the 17 states identified by both campaigns as swing states in the Nov. 2 election, according to the latest polls, and in the four states that Mr. Gore took by less than two percentage points four...

Bush’s National Guard years Before you fall for Dems’ spin, here are the facts What do you really know about George W. Bush’s time in the Air National Guard? That he didn’t show up for duty in Alabama? That he missed a physical? That his daddy got him in? News coverage of the president’s years in the Guard has tended to focus on one brief portion of that time — to the exclusion of virtually everything else. So just for the record, here, in full, is what Bush did: The future president joined the Guard in May 1968. Almost immediately,...