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My WT editor friend asked that I post this; looks like related articles have been posted but didn't find this one. *********************************************** THE WASHINGTON TIMES -- PAGE A2 SUNDAY, FEB. 11, 2001 Killing spree fuels debate in Wichita over hate crimes 2 blacks accused in slayings of 5 whites By Valerie Richardson THE WASHINGTON TIMES A horrific weeklong crime spree that ended with five persons dead in Wichita, Kan., has exposed a raw nerve over the selectivity of prosecuting hate crimes. Two brothers, Reginald D. Carr Jr., 23, and Jonathan D. Carr, 20, were charged last month with multiple counts ...

Military officials at Aberdeen Proving Ground unveiled a new, lightweight vehicle fighting platform designed to take the Army into the 21st century. "We realized we need to become more flexible, be able to deploy more rapidly to hotspots around the world," said General Morewestland in comments to assembled journalists. The first tangible results of Project WASTE, a $8.3 billion program headed up by DARPA, were shown to the public at the test center Friday. Careening out of the hard-packed earthen hills surrounding the test complex, a platoon of SCUTR-equiped heavy cavalry rolled in sinister, eery silence. "You couldn't sneak ...

How Tyranny Came To America By Joseph Sobran One of the great goals of education is to initiate the young into the conversation of their ancestors; to enable them to understand the language of that conversation, in all its subtlety, and maybe even, in their maturity, to add to it some wisdom of their own. The modern American educational system no longer teaches us the political language of our ancestors. In fact our schooling helps widen the gulf of time between our ancestors and ourselves, because much of what we are taught in the name of civics, political science, or ...

Classes need broadband, study says WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools connected to the Internet but lacking instant, complete access to its resources will be left behind this century, just as those with dated textbooks were in the last one, a bipartisan panel concludes. The report, released Tuesday by the Web-based Education Commission, argues that it's now an ancient goal to have merely a computer — even one with an Internet hookup — in every American classroom. Instead, broadband networks that instantly transmit video and audio are vital for meaningful education in the future, yet that technology is moot if teachers aren't ...

The following is in the Yahoo news summary right now as normal news... but then, it's no flakier than some stuff the liberal media comes up with ;-) Tuesday December 19 11:57 AM ET 'Red Nose' Detected at North Pole 'Red Nose' Detected at North Pole CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN (Reuters) - Santa Claus is coming to town.NORAD, the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command that keeps watch on the skies to spot missiles approaching North America, said on Monday it is detecting unusual activity in the North Pole region.NORAD analysts, highly trained and always on the alert in their mountain bunker, ...

TO: Racebannon and all other interested parties; For those of you who missed it, FReeper Racebannon was the subject of a vicious attack by local leftist media charging "anti-semitism" because FReepers dared picket Lieberman's home. I just got the following note in my email from an online buddy of mine at the Washington Times: Eric: If you would be kind enough to put at post on Free Republic, informing the Freepers that their tiff with the Hartford Courant columnist who accused them of anti-Semitism (for 12/2 protest at Lieberman{'}s house) will be mentioned in Thursday{'}s Inside Politics column in The ...

Damn the Democrats, cut the taxes! And then start cutting federal programs. And then keep on cutting taxes and programs and I'll be happy. Do this and Bush will win in a landslide next term. Yes, and dream on. -Jim Robinson, 12/13/00 There has been a good deal of hand-wringing about the circumstances and outcome of the election in conservative circles, and for good reason. History shows that in the past the opposition party gain ground in the following elections. I submit history will prove to be a repeat if President-elect Bush and the Republicans in Congress are timid and ...

Professor to wire computer chip into his nervous system Professor Kevin Warwick, surrounded by his robots, holds up a computer chip he plans to have implanted in his nervous system December 7, 2000 Web posted at: 12:55 PM EST (1755 GMT) READING, England (CNN) -- This summer, a professor plans to take a step closer to becoming a cyborg -- part human, part computer -- by implanting a silicon chip that communicates with his brain. Kevin Warwick heads the Cybernetics Department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and views himself as a futurist. As robots become free ...

Khartoum accuses US of recruiting Sudanese children for Marines KHARTOUM, Dec 6 (AFP) - Khartoum's top diplomat accused the United States of planning to recruit thousands of Sudanese children into the US Marine Corps from a refugee camp in Kenya, in remarks published Wednesday. Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail was quoted by independent Al-Rai Al-Aam daily as saying his ministry had learnt that the US wants to recruit 3,800 Sudanese children from Kakoma refugee camp in north Kenya as Marines. The children were reportedly being moved from Kenya for resettlement in the United States, in collaboration with the United Nations ...

Kiss Me Now from Boundless.org by Bethany Torode "When my husband kisses me, I know it will be praise that goes straight to heaven." With those words I snagged a husband. In August of 1999, Boundless published my first article, entitled "(Don’t) Kiss Me." The gist of it was that Christians need to take kissing more seriously, and I shared my own personal vow to save my first kiss for my wedding day. But as Sam Torode rightly accused me of in his rejoinder, "There’s More Than One Kind of Kiss," I was not entirely innocent in my musings — ...

Tuesday, December 05, 2000 Earliest human, or hominid hoax? By ALANNA MITCHELL Globe and Mail Update A stunning fossil find announced in Kenya Monday that may hold the key to human evolution has been plunged into controversy because of the maverick past of the Dalhousie University-educated scientist who found it. Martin Pickford, who went to school in Kenya before getting his first university degree at Dalhousie, shocked the paleontological world Monday when he announced at a press conference in Nairobi that his French team had found the oldest fossilized remains of a human ancestor. He said the fossils " including ...

Techs crumble on Gateway warning Nasdaq off over 50% from its all-time high By Julie Rannazzisi, CBS.MarketWatch.comLast Update: 12:32 PM ET Nov 30, 2000 Newswatch Latest Headlines Get Alerted   NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Tech stocks got slammed Thursday, with a profit warning from Gateway unleashing another wave of widespread selling that took the Nasdaq down a crippling 50 percent from its all-time high reached on March 10. The bomb from Gateway and a warning from Altera that revenue growth will be flat in the current quarter generated a gaggle of downgrades from Wall Street analysts. "We're facing the ...

THE MEDIA DOUBLE THINK THAT IS DRIVING UP ABORTION David Quinn If newspaper columnists and editorial writers were a guide to what the nation thinks about abortion, then Brian Lenihan would have to conclude that we are overwhelmingly opposed to holding another pro-life referendum. Since Lenihan released the report of the all-party Oireachtas committee on abortion, I have counted 22 columns and editorials opposed to a further referendum and just one in favour. That does not include pieces by campaigners on both sides of the divide, of which I have counted two - one in favour and one against. When ...

Analyzing Media Reports (part 1) Students need to recognize that most of their information about the world and how it works comes to them through the media. But the media isn't some massive channel that simply dumps unadulterated facts into their laps. As we have seen, everyone has a worldview: the "actors" in a news story, the "experts" who comment on it, the reporter of the story, even the editors who decide which story to cover. And each of these worldviews has an impact on the information that eventually reaches you. At times, the influence of a particular worldview ...

Asking Questions Francis Scott Key, the man who penned the words to the Star Spangled Banner, was also a great Christian apologist. He once wrote, "I do not believe there are any new objections to be raised to the truth of Christianity. Men may argue ingeniously against our faith, but what can they say in defense of their own?" Mr. Key understood a profound, yet little known principle of defending the Christian faith (1 Peter 3:15). It is simply this: the best defense is a good offense! If a student finds it difficult to stand up for what he ...

The Power of Legal Review: Do Judges or Citizens Rule? This FAQ is born of debate over the power of legal review - the notion that the legislature can enact a law that conflicts with the Constitution, such that the law should be overturned. Who holds this power, this responsibility to see to it that the legislature is kept in line, and its actions corrected when it strays? Modern opinion overwhelmingly asserts this power lies with the courts, citing the regular activity of the Supreme Court and other courts today in striking down laws, and sometimes establishing laws. This is ...

What a wild and woolly evening! They had it 196 Bush to 198 Gore, now all of a sudden it is 212 Bush to 173 Gore. That loss of 25 must be Florida, lessee, what did Bush pick up....

This morning I cast my vote for Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party. But that's by the by. Last night on a little (quite non-political) Christian message board I help moderate I decided to let people blow a little steam and comment - in one thread - on the election, which would otherwise be considered off-topic. I should point out that a young lady whom I would describe as my best friend (though we've only met in real life once) is on this board. She is black, and a resident of the Washington suburbs. And so as you may expect ...

Chinese pour in for offensive against rebels Date: 28/08/2000 THE TELEGRAPH London: Tens of thousands of Chinese have been moved into Sudan in preparation for an offensive against southern rebels to try to end one of Africa's longest-running conflicts, Western counter-terrorism officials say. The Chinese, a mix of prisoners and soldiers, have been brought in by air and sea, ostensibly to guard Sudan's increasingly productive oilfields in which the China National Petroleum Corporation is a leading partner. Colonel Johnny Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) has managed in recent weeks to advance within 15 kilometres of the oilfields in the ...

I barely visit Free Republic these days due to other pressing time constraints but I ran across an essay on my last visit that I thought I should respond to. The gist of the essay was that one did not need to believe in God to have morality. The author seems to have perceived that theists believe morality without God is impossible. That, I suggest, is not quite right. The question is not whether you can develop a moral code without reference to an omnipotent, transcendant creator. Of course you can, as I'll explain below. The real question is: what's ...