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<!-- @import url("/links.css"); -->  September 11, 2004        It's FREE: Kerry 'Unfit' Book            Home · Late-Night Jokes · Archives · Cartoons · News Alerts · U.S. News Links   Int'l  News Links · MoneyNews · Contact Us · NewsMax Store · Classifieds · Get Your Site Listed   With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Click Here Click Here Click Here Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004 8:19 p.m. EDTBen Barnes' 'Daughter': My Dad Lied About Bush A woman purporting to be Amy Barnes, daughter of former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, said Thursday that...

Marcel Matley was used by the Democrats to vouch for the aunthenticity of the Vince Foster suicide note Vince Foster's death on "Unsolved Mysteries" TV show March 22, 1996 Robert Stack as narrator: Our next story concerns the ontroversial suicide of a high-powered Washington attorney. It threatens to become one of the biggest political scandals of our time. It began with a somber announcement, and remains for many an unsolved mystery. Bill Clinton: I have just met with the White House staff, ah, to basically talk with them a little bit about the death of my friend of 42 years,...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- George W. Bush began flying a two-seat training jet more frequently and twice required multiple attempts to land a one-seat fighter in the weeks just before he quit flying for the Texas Air National Guard in 1972, his pilot logs show.The logs show Bush flew nine times in T-33 trainers in February and March 1972, including eight times in one week and four of those as a co-pilot. Bush, a first lieutenant, flew T-33s only twice in the previous six months and three times in the year ending July 31, 1971. Meanwhile, questions were raised Thursday about...

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<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Gov. Gray Davis will ask the California Supreme Court to delay his Oct. 7 recall election until March and make him a candidate to, in effect, replace himself, his attorneys said Sunday.</p> <p>Voters will make two decisions on the recall ballot: whether to remove Davis, and who his successor should be if he is recalled. Under California election law, the subject of the recall cannot be on the list of replacement candidates.</p>

LAJES, Azores Islands (AP) - On the brink of war, President Bush and summit partners from Britain and Spain gave the United Nations a Monday deadline to endorse the use of force to compel Iraq's immediate disarmament. "Tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world," said Bush, commander-in-chief of 250,000 troops ringing Iraq and ready to act with or without U.N. approval. He spoke Sunday after an Atlantic island summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. Though the leaders pledged to seek compromise with U.N. foes through the night and all day...

Soldiers haul off inventory; drinks to go to `the people' BY FRANCES ROBLES frobles@herald.com PHOTO BY CARLOS BALZA/AP National Guard Gen. Luis Felipe Acosta, in front, leads a search of the Coca-Cola plant in Valencia, in Venezuela's Carabobo state on Friday, declaring: 'Collective rights come before individual rights.' CARACAS - Acting on orders from President Hugo Chávez, armed soldiers raided the Coca-Cola and local beer bottling plants Friday, seizing soft drinks and alcoholic beverages that the government said it would distribute ``to the people.''In televised scenes broadcast nationwide, rifle-toting soldiers stormed the Coca-Cola bottling plant, roughing up employees and driving...

<p>WASHINGTON(AP) - Sen. Barbara Boxer wants to equip all 6,800 U.S. commercial jet airliners with technology to protect them from a missile attack.</p> <p>The proposal would cost taxpayers $7 billion - about $1 million a plane, Boxer said. In the meantime, Boxer said the government should use Coast Guard and National Guard units to patrol airport perimeters to prevent attacks.</p>

Residents: Airliner Flew Close to Condo The Associated Press Residents of a high-rise told federal authorities a China Airlines jumbo jet flew dangerously close to the side of their 41-story building. Ana Marie Vaisanen said she could see passengers inside the Boeing 747 as it swept past her 12th-floor condominium at Century Center Saturday morning. "This roar became louder and louder and louder ... and I look out and there is a 747," Vaisanen said. Some residents told television station KITV the plane came within 30 feet of the building and that one of its wings passed over the fourth-floor...

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King Kong vs. Fay Wray on your small screen!!!

Basically a pro CNN propaganda, Pro Iraq, anti-American piece of hollywood drivel.The wailing and gnashing of teeth over the air raids in Gulf War I are meant to illicit sympathy for the insane tyrant Hussein at the expense of American righteousness.Saddam will look back fondly on the first Gulf War, this time he is a goner and Bernie Shaw, Peter Arnett and even Batman Michael Keaton won't be enough to save him.

<p>December 3, 2002 -- Mayor Bloomberg approved the largest tax increase in city history yesterday at City Hall, in a ceremony just after sunrise that barely lasted 10 minutes.</p> <p>Not a single person showed up to testify. Neither did 37 of the 41 City Council members who voted for it.</p>

United Airlines Mechanics Reject Pay Cuts 1 hour, 42 minutes ago Add Business - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Kathy Fieweger CHICAGO (Reuters) - Mechanics at United Airlines said on Thursday they rejected their portion of $1.5 billion in proposed pay cuts over 5-1/2 years, potentially leading to an imminent bankruptcy filing unless the No. 2 U.S. airline can hammer out a new deal with the union workers quickly. Related Quotes UALDJIANASDAQ^SPC 3.638931.681487.94938.87 +0.12+255.26+43.51+25.56 delayed 20 mins - disclaimerQuote Data provided by Reuters The International Association of Machinists, District 141M, said its 13,000 members rejected the deal by a 57 percent...

Nation: New law barring non-citizens as airport screeners found unconstitutional Copyright © 2002 AP Online               By GARY GENTILE, AP Business Writer  AP Photo/Lucian ReadMark Rosenbaum, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, talks with reporters after a federal judge temporarily blocked a rule saying the government's new airport security screeners must be U.S. citizens, outside the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, Nov. 15, 2002. LOS ANGELES (November 15, 2002 7:54 p.m. EST) - A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a rule saying the government's new airport security...

Services to plunge, taxes & fees to soar By JOANNE WASSERMAN and DOUGLAS FEIDENDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Garbage is dumped under railroad tracks in August 1977 amid cutbacks in services. President Gerald Ford rejected pleas to help city in October 1975. Firefighters relieved in the midst of dousing flames and sent home by cab to lighten the city's overtime tab. Police told not to arrest suspects, even violent offenders, in the last three hours of their tours so they can get off the clock faster. Doctors and nurses at municipal hospitals, those not yet deleted from the payroll, begging...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI SEPT 13 2002 14:09:37 ET XXXXX GOP: MIAMI-DADE IN COUNTYWIDE RECOUNT - BROWARD SHOULD BE NEXT TALLAHASSEE - Miami-Dade elections officials began a countywide recount at 1:00 p.m. today, due to yesterday's review of just four precincts, which revealed over 1,800 votes that had not been counted. Given the massive and well-documented problems in Broward County, which utilized the same new electronic voting machines as in Miami-Dade, the Broward County Supervisor of Elections should IMMEDIATELY begin a recount of all their precincts, machines and tabulators, to make certain every legal vote is counted. Based on...

Today: September 12, 2002 at 19:00:19 PDT Alleged Mullah Omar Statement Aired By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGDASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt- An Arab satellite station carried a statement Thursday allegedly from the vanished Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar in which he vows to drive U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Qatar-based al-Jazeera as well as a prominent Islamic Internet site - both known for obtaining material linked to Islamic militants - carried the statement, which was dated to coincide with the Sept. 11 terror attacks anniversary but first appeared Thursday. It was impossible to verify the statement's authenticity or how the pan-Arab station...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2002/09/08/nextre08p.jpeg Login or Register | | Monday 9 September 2002 telegraph.co.uk News home Business news Crossword Society Feedback Golden Jubilee Law reports Obituaries Opinion Weather War on terrorism About us Contact us   London to host Islamic 'celebration' of Sept 11By Thair Shaikh (Filed: 08/09/2002) Extremist muslim clerics will meet in London on September 11 to celebrate the anniversary of al-Qaeda's attacks on America and to launch an organisation for Islamic militants.The conference, which will be attended by the most radical mullahs in Britain, will argue that the atrocities were justified because Muslims must defend themselves against armed aggression. It...

John Henry Williams, left, reportedly wants to freeze the body of his dead father Ted Williams, right, for future cloning purposes. The two are shown here in 1995. Dispute arises over body of Ted Williams Estranged daughter saysson wants to freezeHall of Fame father for cloning NBCSPORTS.COM NEWS SERVICES     July 6 —  A day after the death of baseball great Ted Williams, a dispute has already arisen over what to do with his body, as Williams’ estranged daughter says her half-brother plans to freeze the Hall of Famer’s body — possibly in hopes of selling his DNA...