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Diminishing homeland security Donald Devine Only in the wacky world of Washington would a bill to strengthen homeland security in the wake of the September 11 attack end up with less power to provide security than beforehand. Yet, that is precisely what the United States Senate is planning to do as its first item of business immediately after Labor Day. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat, and his fellow Government Affairs Committee legislators want to create a new Department of Homeland Security that simply cannot function. For the first time in history, an American Cabinet secretary would not be able to...

The thrum of conspiracy buzz has surrounded MSNBC's Phil Donahue. Whether it proves beneficial buzz remains to be seen, however. On his talk show Tuesday night, Mr. Donahue featured an interview with Jean Charles Brisard, author of "Forbidden Truth," a contentious book published in France in November and released in the United States two weeks ago. It promotes the idea that the Bush administration protected its "big oil" interests at all cost, maintaining secret diplomatic links with both Saudi Arabia and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which ultimately caused the September 11 attacks. "All the dots connect to Saudi Arabia,"...

Goldy is making a movie about the guy that got killed because he was gay out in the west, my question to her is what about the 14 year boy that was killed by two gay guys, kis she going to make a movie about him? Whats the problem here, children can be killed and forgotten. I am outraged that there is no justice here. Why is she memoralizing this guy and forgetting the child that was tortured and forgotten.

Clinton helped Enron finance projects abroad By Patrice Hill The Clinton administration provided more than $1 billion in subsidized loans to Enron Corp. projects overseas at a time when Enron was contributing nearly $2 million to Democratic causes. Clinton officials refused to finance only one out of 20 projects proposed by the energy company between 1993 and 2000 to build power plants, natural-gas pipelines and other big-ticket energy facilities around the world, according to the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp., the agencies that provided the subsidies. In addition, the administration, which lauded Chairman Kenneth L. Lay as ...

http://www.sermonaudio.com/new_details.asp?ID=10834 Smart Growth or Stealth Enslavement? (SermonAudio.com is not responsible for the content of external internet sites) Monday, November 19, 2001 FRONT PAGE · All News · Choice · Comments · Christian · Gay · Catholic · Evolution · BJU · Paisley WASHINGTON – Bob Harrison couldn't believe what he was hearing. Even when his visitor, "John Smith," placed the document on his desk and said, "Look at this," Harrison wasn't convinced. As director of public policy for the Defenders of Property Rights, a non-profit legal group based in Washington, D.C., Harrison had heard of many outrageous schemes that would ...

Sounds of the media detractors David Limbaugh President Bush cautioned patience from the beginning saying that we would prosecute the war on our own schedule, not the terrorists'. Perhaps he should now turn to the media and tell them the same thing. Many in the foreign press, especially in Britain, have marshaled an all-out-propaganda campaign against America's effort in Afghanistan. The criticisms range from charges we are waging an inhumane war to derision that we are too weak to achieve our military goals. One British paper decries our "repeated bombing errors, including the killing of seven children as they ate ...

Secret means secret, stupid! 2001 David H. Hackworth While watching the tapes of U.S. Army Special Operations warriors parachuting into Afghanistan on a dangerous raid, I felt a great surge of pride for the skill, professionalism and daring of our raiders. What I didn't know was that before our troopers had completed their mission, The Washington Post and other members of the U.S. press had rushed to tell the world that our Rangers and Green Berets were operating in Afghanistan on a highly secret hit-and-run mission. Had this happened on June 6, 1944, when the 82d and 101st Airborne Divisions ...

Shomyla H. Lahore, Pakistan My Dear Americans Hope you are safe and fine. To begin with my name is shomyla and I am 28 years old an advocate by profession, happily married and have two kids my son Firhaj, nick name Pinni ,is 4 yrs old and my daughter Minhal, nick name Minno, is 1 yr old. My husband Hammad is an electrical engineer and is 34 .I live in Lahore (the city of gardens) in Pakistan. Honestly speaking, I will to start with a prayer because right from the day of attack on U.S. I wanted to express my ...

I don't know about you, but I think this show was irresponsible in it's reporting. They were saying such things as our friends would not be supporting us in any other campaigns other than Afaganistan. Thanks for the aid and comfort to bin Laden. Our allies would not follow us into Iraq if necessary. Now I have not heard that anywhere else. I thought Tony Blair was pretty clear. If we do not root out this evil it will always be there to haunt us. I'm writing to Ted's sponsors. I haven't watch this show in a very long time ...

How to break hearts and bend minds Psy-war is back, but so far we're using it mostly on ourselves. Top Stories • Reagan Airport to reopen • German FM: no one solution in Mideast • Bin Laden behind plot to destroy US embassy • Court hears high-speed Internet case • Blair warns Taliban time is running out • Bush: al Qaeda accounts frozen • Giuliani warns terror leaves no room for neutrality • Katherine Harris to run for Congress • Uganda holds suspected bin Laden associates • Terrorist group likely on the move • Pentagon to focus on defense of ...

British troops exchange fire with Taliban? Updated on 2001-09-24 13:55:48 LONDON September 24 (PNS): A four-man British special forces team is already in Afghanistan and briefly exchanged gunfire with Taliban troops outside of Kabul, The Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday reported. The gunbattle, which the Times described as ''more symbolic than directed,'' happened late Friday, the newspapers said, quoting unidentified military sources. No one was injured, according to the reports. The Ministry of Defense and Downing Street would neither confirm nor deny the reports. The British government has a long-standing policy of never discussing the actions of its ...

Better to profile Suzanne Fields Globalization is the catchword for the 21st century, but the terrorist attack on America has revived the importance of neighborhoods. The terrorists who signed their own names for motel rooms, cars and gyms were mostly free of suspicion by their neighbors, even though they were strangers in the neighborhood. Men and women who look exotic pass without much notice. This is the way we want it to be in America. Money — and whether they have it — usually determines the way we react to foreigners. Bigotry is more likely to be aimed at ...

Rambo Reno: Das hoot Kathleen Parker I don't know when I've laughed so hard. Waco was a gas, then came the witty Elian rescue. You have to hand it to Rambo Reno -- she's a character! Now she's running for governor of Florida, my birth state, and seems to be campaigning on her indefatigable sense of humor. Speaking before a crowd of 2,500 students at Penn State University a few nights ago, Rambo told the students that they should be able to laugh at themselves. "It is important that Americans laugh together," said the well-known comedienne. "To break free ...

Reparations clamor of dubious design Bruce Bartlett The recent United Nations conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, raised again the issue of reparations for slavery. This is an idea that was first developed last year by Randall Robinson's book, "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks." Now, it seems, the issue has moved past compensating the descendants of slaves to compensating those who sold them into slavery in the first place. At the U.N. conference, some African leaders said that since slaves were forcibly taken from Africa, they deserve compensation for this loss. Among many problems with this argument ...

Where's that surplus banked? Martin L. Gross There are certain unwritten rules in column writing. One is not supposed to say our distinguished politicians in both parties are, in the main, either liars or just plain ignorant. One is not supposed to insult fellow members of the media. One is not supposed to repeat oneself. One, above all, is not supposed to insult the holy of media holies, the august New York Times. Yet, you'll excused me if I break all of the above dicta in order to bring you one of the most important messages of our time. Back ...

Agendas in the classroom Linda Bowles There was a time, let's call them the good old days, when parents could send their little children off to school with full confidence they would be in good hands. Sadly, the good old days are gone. It is appropriate that most of the criticism of government schools deals with academic failure. But that is only half the wretched story. Contrary to what many parents think, most of those responsible for the education of our children are not socially and politically neutral. They are ideologues with an agenda. While a good case could be ...

On thin ice John R. Lott Jr. Were votes by black Americans systematically disallowed during the 2000 elections? Mary Frances Berry, the chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told the press in early June that this indeed occurred. Miss Berry even felt it necessary for the Justice Department to investigate whether the discrimination was intentional. It is hard to think of more inflammatory charges. The civil rights commission's Democrats asserted that "Statewide, based upon county-level statistical estimates, African-American voters were nearly 10 times more likely than white voters to have their ballots rejected." In addition, blacks were said ...

Stem cells without benefit of embryos Michael Fumento "Bloody rotten timing," as the Brits might say. On July 24, researchers in Rostock, Germany, announced that two weeks before they had successfully transplanted stem cells into the heart of a man whom, they report, is now doing well. The problem? The cells came from the man's own marrow. No embryos were harmed in the making of this miracle. What bloody awful news. It does nothing to help the full-court press to force the Bush administration to lift the funding ban on embryonic stem cell experimentation. Which is why you've probably heard ...

It's off to see Europe, to get a belly-full Irish voters told Europe last week to get lost, sort of, and what that did to the Treaty of Nice, which sets out the foundation for a European superstate, was not very nice. Irish voters, ignoring instructions from their government, their newspapers and television networks and businessmen eager to trade sovereignty for bigger markets in trusses, brassieres, bedpans and other stuff, refused by a decisive margin to ratify the treaty. The Irish, who treasure their neutrality with such relish that they even winked at the Nazis during World War II, are ...