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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 28% of Adults believe it is at least somewhat likely that some states will try to leave the United States and form an independent country over the next 25 years or so.

...The morning he came back to the Naval Academy was a Wednesday, but it will stick in your memory as the day you heard that Ted Kennedy had died and the week when you learned that someone might have killed Michael Jackson. The politician and the entertainer of their generations, they were lionized by many and scorned by some. One pleaded guilty, the other was found innocent. But they each died with an indelible asterisk, a footnote to their legacies that time will not erase. Matt Freeman died clean....

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that licensed firearms owners may not carry guns into parts of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. GeorgiaCarry.org, a gun-rights group, and state Rep. Timothy Bearden (R-Villa Rica) challenged the airport’s ban on guns. They contended a law enacted last year overrode a longstanding policy prohibiting visitors to the airport from carrying firearms in non-secure areas.

Lawmaker won't bring weapon today; will rely on court case to challenge banA state representative decided not to carry a gun into the Atlanta airport in defiance of the firearms ban there, saying he'll let a gun-rights group fight the ban in court. State Rep. Tim Bearden (R-Villa Rica), who sponsored a new law that that took effect Tuesday and allows licensed gun owners to carry in public places, had vowed to take a gun to Hartsfield-Jackson when picking up his father. But Tuesday morning, Bearden said he reconsidered his strategy.... "That showdown will still happen, but it will take...

Georgians with weapons permits will be able to carry guns in far more places under a bill that passed both chambers Friday night. An amended version of House Bill 89 allows holders of concealed weapons permits to carry guns into restaurants, state parks, and on MARTA trains and other public transportation. The legislation, which gun-rights proponents hailed as a major victory, also allows employees to leave weapons in parking lots as long as it's okay with the company.

... With me now to take a closer look at Muslim reaction to Beslan, Fouad Ajami, director of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University. ... ZAHN: Let me pose that question. ... ZAHN: Is there something fundamentally wrong with Muslim society that continues to spawn these terrorists? AJAMI: Well, I think this is a question that's haunting ordinary Muslims. ... Ben Wedeman has done a good job giving you a sense of the responses in the Muslim world. And there was this editorial in one of the leading papers in the Arab world, "Al Asharq Al-Awsat," where a very...

Windows XP Service Pack 2: Install With Care By Frank J. Ohlhorst and Vincent A. Randazzese, CRN 9:00 AM EDT Fri. Jul. 23, 2004 The real surprise with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 isn't potential compatibility issues, but the mayhem that can occur when SP2 is downloaded onto a system. CRN Test Center engineers evaluated a release candidate two (RC2) version of SP2, and upon completion of the install on three out of five systems, the machines blue-screened. A message stated that "winserv" was missing. The blue screen occurred on both Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel platforms,...

Phishing scammers have gone political, message-filtering firm SurfControl said Wednesday. For the first time, phishers have targeted people who contribute to political campaigns, SurfControl said as it rolled out an alert about a pair of messages that masquerade as contribution come-ons for the Kerry-Edwards ticket. "We've been on the lookout for messages like these for the past month," said Susan Larson, SurfControl's VP of global content. "But they're definitely the first to actually appear." The messages, complete with legit-looking logos, carried subject heads of "President John Kerry, please vote and contribute," and included links to Web sites where users could...

National Media Event – Tuesday Morning, August 26, 2003 In light of recent press reports of new threats to airliners and the TSA’s potential security draw downs due to cost overruns, the Airline Pilots Security Alliance, the Coalition of Airline Pilots, the Allied Pilots Association, members of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association and other groups, as well as a large contingent of pilots, and interested political leaders, will hold simultaneous national press conferences on August 26 to protest the hamstringing of the Federal Flight Deck Officer program. On August 26, at 1100 EDT (1000 CDT, 0900 MDT, 0800 PDT) we...

Prayer Request - Joshua Byers, killed in Iraq, called '110%' in career & faithJoshua Byers, killed in Iraq, called '110%' in career & faithJul 25, 2003By James Dotson Missionary sonJoshua Byers, 29, killed July 23 in Iraq, was a U.S. Army captain who "always did everything 110 percent, and that's how his walk with God was too," said his brother, Milam Byers, lead guitarist for the Christian rock band Bleach. Byers was the son of North American Mission Board workers Lloyd and Mary Byers. ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--U.S. Army Capt. Joshua T. Byers, son of North American missionaries Lloyd and Mary...

[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 11/6/02 ] ELECTION 2002 Republicans roll Perdue elected Georgia's first GOP governor in 130 yearsChambliss ousts Cleland amid party's gains nationwide By JIM GALLOWAYAtlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Gov. Roy Barnes and House Speaker Tom Murphy were swept from office Tuesday, as voters ended 130 years of Democratic domination and created a divided state government that leads Georgia into uncharted territory. Sonny Perdue, a former state senator from middle Georgia who was outspent 6-to-1, became the state's first Republican governor since 1872. Georgia was the only state in the nation that didn't elect a Republican governor sometime...

I was monitoring the State of the Union speach on NBC (know thy enemy) and the signal went blank for a few seconds toward the end of the speach. Thanks to a posted transcript, I determined that the missing part was: "We've come to know truths that we will never question: Evil is real, and it must be opposed." (more or less) I'm trying to determine if it was a local problem or a network-wide drop out. Was anyone else watching the speach on an NBC affiliate?