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WASHINGTON - Congress' agenda for the remainder of the year has changed dramatically in the last few days, as lawmakers vowed to help Gulf Coast hurricane victims and senators faced a confirmation decision for a new chief justice — rather than an associate justice of the Supreme Court. ...In a short time, Bush promised, he also will send the Senate a nominee for an associate justice to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Parts of the planned schedule will be set aside, said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., including legislation on the estate tax.Congressional leaders were meeting with...

Cut the red tape, Lott says Criticizes FEMA for holding up 20,000 trailers 'sitting in Atlanta' Monday, September 5, 2005; Posted: 9:12 p.m. EDT (01:12 GMT) POPLARVILLE, Mississippi (CNN) -- Sen. Trent Lott berated both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and his own state's emergency management, MEMA, for being mired in red tape at a time of urgent need given the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. Lott said he has been trying to get FEMA to send 20,000 trailers "sitting in Atlanta" to the Mississippi coast, and he urged President Bush during a meeting Monday to intervene. He said...

<p>President Bush, saying the economic recovery is firmly in place, yesterday proposed adding $1 trillion to the national debt to fund the cost of shifting to a partially privatized Social Security system.</p> <p>The massive increase in debt, coming on top of a $7 trillion national debt that is growing by about $500 billion a year, adds controversy to what was already promising to be a difficult reform to get enacted.</p>

Hume: "The French government now admits that American anger over its opposition to the war in Iraq is eating away at its tourist industry. But the damage may be even worse than the government is willing to say. The French Ministry of Tourism says the number of American tourists fell by 30% in the first quarter of this year. But the president of the French travel agents union tells The Scotsman newspaper that the number of Americans visiting France has actually fallen by as much as 80% so far this year."

An interview of Henry Kissinger by Greta Von Susteran on Fox News at 9pm: Greta: Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger joins us. Welcome, Dr. Kissinger. Kissinger: Good to be here as always. Greta: Dr. Kissinger, is there any point to this summit on Sunday? Do you think it's a good idea? Kissinger: I think it's a good idea for the president to meet with the two allies who deserve so much credit for having supported us and who have -- who have set an example which if the other allies had joined would have given us an opportunity to...

Brit: Despite its record of seeming solicitude for Saddam Hussein's regime, France has never gone as far out on a limb for the Iraqi dictator as it appears this time. For more on the reasons why, we turn to Fox News contributor Marc Ginsberg, former ambassador to Morocco and the man who's advised presidents on the Middle East going back 25 years or more. Welcome. Nice to have you. Ginsberg: Thank you, Brit. Brit: How much does this relationship between Iraq and France have to do with Jacques Chirac himself? I remember covering the first President Bush and the president...

NATO's 'Old Europe': Rumsfeld Wasn't Kidding! When Donald Rumsfeld referred to France, Germany and Belgium as "Old Europe," he wasn't joking around. In a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal, reporter Philip Shishkin details why U.S. soldiers wouldn't want some of the members of the NATO fighting force to participate in an attack on Iraq: They're old, soft and ill-equipped. The article specified one Belgian soldier, a 47-year-old hairdresser, who spends his time on an amateur singing career featuring Elvis and Tom Jones tunes. He said that when the military sent him on a field exercise, he was...

Not for the faint-hearted! Zoo sperm bank worker Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang wins "Worst Job in Singapore". Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), which runs the Singapore Zoo,has set up a bank of sperm and animal tissue in order to help preserve species.The thankless task of collecting the sperm falls to Mr. Binatang's, starting his rounds at 4 a.m. "We start so early in the morning because a lot of the animals have 'morning glory' when they wake up, and it's easier to collect the sperm.Wearing rubber gloves and carrying a cooler box filled with ice and tupperware, Mr. Binatang, 25, told ...

SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD by Jonathan Edwards -Their foot shall slide in due time- Deut. xxxii. 35 In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God's visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God's wonderful works towards them, remained (as ver. 28.) void of counsel, having no understanding in them. Under all the cultivations of heaven, they brought forth bitter and poisonous fruit; as in the two verses next preceding the text. The expression I have chosen for my text, Their ...

ABC described that cell calls from the planes described only knives, no guns mentioned. Jennings and company at ABC described the three different planes from which calls came and they said only that knives were used, not guns. One of the calls said the hijackers were using boxcutter knives. Earlier today, I heard ABC mention plastic knives but haven't heard any more on that rumor again.

INVENTING AN EPIDEMICThe traditional diseases of Africa are called AIDS By Tom BethellThe American Spectator, April 2000 Hype about AIDS in Africa has reached new heights. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Vice President Al Gore (at the U.N. Security Council) have declared it to be an international security threat -- as grave as warfare. AIDS is now called the leading cause of death in Africa, with over two million deaths last year, and the epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is spreading "nearly unabated." Seventy percent of all AIDS cases are said to be African. On Newsweek's cover we read ...

George Whitefield Sermon 34 The Pharisee and Publican Luke 18:14, "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: For every one that exalteth himself, shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted." Though there be some who dare to deny the Lord Jesus, and disbelieve the revelation he has been pleased to give us, and thereby bring upon themselves swift destruction; yet I would charitably hope there are but few if any such among you, to whom I am now to preach the kingdom of God. Was I to ...

The False Doctrine of SINLESS PERFECTION &nbsp;By Bob L. Ross &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The devil has deceived people in many ways and with many false doctrines, and the heresy of sinlessness in the flesh is one of them.&nbsp; Not many communities have escaped this heresy, and I am sure that wherever you may live, some false teacher has come along to propagate this doctrine.&nbsp; In fact, from the pulpit, over the radio, and on television, people are subjected to this heresy all over the world. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In view of the widespread area this false doctrine has permeated, we deem it ...

Election no Discouragement to Seeking Souls A Sermon (No. 553) Delivered on Sunday Morning, February 7th, 1864, by the Rev. C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "I will be gracious upon whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy upon whom I will show mercy."&#151;Exodus 33:19. BECAUSE GOD IS THE MAKER, and creator, and sustainer of all things, he has a right to do as he wills with all his works. "Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay of ...

Free Will - A Slave A Sermon(No. 52) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 2, 1855, by theREV. C.H. SPURGEONAt New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life."—John 5:40. This is one of the great guns of the Arminians, mounted upon the top of their walls, and often discharged with terrible noise against the poor Christians called Calvinists. I intend to spike the gun this morning, or, rather, to turn it on the enemy, for it was never theirs; it was never cast at their foundry at all, but was intended ...

To: P-Marlowe, George W. Bush, the_doc, Jerry_M, Sovereign_Citizen_W, Diamond, youngrepublicanrach In the SECOND place, I am going to perform, what is for these threads, a pretty irregular form of Argumentation: I am going to FULLY extend to you what is called "the Principle of Logical Charity". That is, I am going to COMPLETELY GRANT your reading of 1 Timothy 2:4 and 1 Timothy 4:10 as, "every single man without exception". And I will show you how, IF your reading is entirely correct, it serves to reinforce the Calvinist position.We are now going to grant P-Marlowe's reading of "all men" ...

To: P-Marlowe, Uriel1975, youngrepublicanrach As a follow-up comment, let me say that it occurs to me that you want to reduce conversion to a simple formulaic procedure, i.e., a list of actions. But the problem in the lost soul is more profound than a set of actions which are needed. So, even a short list of actions may wind up missing that point. Man's real problem toward God is one of attitude, not action. Now, how are we going to address that by a formulaic set of actions? The Romanists have tried to do this with no success whatsoever. ...

A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Poor People in IrelandFrom Being Aburden to Their Parents or Country, andFor Making Them Beneficial to The Public Jonathan Swift It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time ...

To: P-Marlowe, the_doc, Jerry_M, youngrepublicanrach I am convinced that anyone who "hears" the gospel is "called" and anyone who truly responds to the gospel-- be it through the inescapable irresistible force of God's perfect will, (such as in the case of Paul) or through the desperate act of grasping at the hem of Jesus garment -God's permissive will-- is "chosen." Period. End of discussion. I agree.In fact, I would even agree further, and remove the qualifying quotation marks around chosen which are not found in Biblical passages concerning God's Choosing: Anyone who truly responds to the gospel is Chosen. Period. ...