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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. counterterrorism officials are looking at an emergency proposal on the legal steps needed to postpone the November presidential election in case of an attack by al Qaeda, Newsweek reported on Sunday. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned last week that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda network may attack within the United States to try to disrupt the election. The magazine cited unnamed sources who told it that the Department of Homeland Security asked the Justice Department (news - web sites) last week to review what legal steps would be needed to delay...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Three years and billions of dollars after California's botched attempt at electricity deregulation led to blackouts and ...

Dear Fellow Car Owner: As you probably know, Governor Gray Davis recently tripled the Car Tax that all California vehicle owners must pay in order to register their vehicles. The 300% increase will take effect for vehicle registrations due in October 2003, with bills likely being mailed to homes and businesses in August. On average, this illegal tax increase will cost car owners $158 per year. The Car Tax increase is not right, it’s not fair, and it’s not legal, and I am taking steps to assure the tax is reduced. To that end, I have teamed up with the...

CAIRO, Egypt - A group claiming to be an Iraqi branch of al-Qaida said it is behind recent attacks on U.S. forces — not Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) — according to a videotape aired on an Arab TV station Sunday. The tape couldn't be immediately verified. Al-Arabiya, a satellite station based in Dubai, aired the 4-minute video showing a black-and-white still photograph of an unidentified man dressed like an Islamic cleric in a robe and white turban. He has a long white beard, also typical of Islamic clerics. A distorted male voice reads a message warning American forces...

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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is prepared to dramatically intensify economic pressure on North Korea (news - web sites) through Asian allies and the United Nations (news - web sites) unless Pyongyang stops its nuclear weapons programs, U.S. officials said Saturday. The strategy hinges on the belief of U.S. officials that North Korea's neighbors, thus far unwilling to crack down on the communist regime, will grow impatient and nervous if the situation worsens. After several days of escalating tensions, President Bush (news - web sites)'s advisers are pondering ways to confront North Korea with the prospect of economic collapse if...

What do you blame for the undecided presidential election? George W. Bush 6% 1489 votes Al Gore 53% 12169 votes The lawyers 7% 1529 votes The Electoral College system 10% 2330 votes Florida voting procedures 24% 5524 votes Total: 23041 votes This QuickVote is not scientific and reflects the opinions of only those Internet users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of Internet users in general, nor the public as a whole. The QuickVote sponsor is not responsible for content, functionality or the opinions expressed therein. Related:

I was making a batch of peanut butter cookies for a VICTORY snack tomorrow. I noticed if you used a three-pronged fork, you can make the most excellent "W" pattern on them. Hand 'em out to friends and remind them to vote tomorrow. Here's the recipe: Mix 1 cup each of the following butter, white sugar, brown suger, peanut butter, add 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons of baking soda, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 3 cups flour, Mix well in big bowl Place on greased cookie pan and press the "W" on top Bake at 350 degs for 12 minutes Especially good with ...

A friend of mine sent me this photo and I wanted to share it with my freeper friends. I almost shed a tear of joy when I saw it. SRC="http://home.earthlink.net/~munsing/RCRPHQ/images/ItsTime.jpg">

The debates are opening up a can of worms for the democrats. Expect the dems to get nastier as time goes by, they hate getting caught in their own lies. We need to keep up the pressure. I sent the following letter, which is a compilation of several posts and stories, to the editor of our local newspaper after hearing Joe Lieberman describe Al Gore's bipartisan record on the debates last night. Please use this and send it to your local papers! Letter to the Editor After the Vice Presidential debate ended last Thursday night, I was watching CNN's Judy ...

The public, through the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), yesterday (January 18, 2000) took ownership of almost 225,000 acres of key parcels of private lands spread throughout the California Desert in San Bernardino County as part of an unprecedented public-private partnership to protect the Desert's natural values. The Partnership, in addition to BLM, involves The Wildlands Conservancy (TWC), a non-profit group based in Oak Glen, Calif., which contributed $15 million to private funds toward the purchase; Catellus Development Corporation (NYSE:CDX), owner of the alternate sections of lands originally granted to Southern Pacific Railroad, which sold the lands at a ...

...Agencies using $20 Million in private and federal money will acquire 180,605 acres....federally protected lands.....algore said in a statement today....The purchase from Catellus Development Corp.....hey doesn't Sen. Diane Feinstein's husband have a majority share of that company?

Casualties of China connection - Kenneth Timmerman Investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board now believe that manufacturing problems in China caused the crash of an MD-83 airliner last month, killing all 88 Americans on board. If their suspicions are borne out, Alaska Air Flight 261 could become a powerful symbol for all that has gone wrong with President Clinton's failed policy of appeasement toward China, as well as a tragic monument to the shortsightedness of major U.S. exporters such as Boeing, who have shipped jobs overseas relentlessly in pursuit of the phantomChinese market. Shanghai Aviation Industrial Corp. manufactured the ...