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Grateful for patriot acts To civil-liberties alarmists, Viet Dinh is a traitor. To me, he is an American hero. Dinh, 35, is widely known-and reviled-as the primary architect of the Patriot Act. Until May, he was an Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy in John Ashcroft's Justice Department. (He stepped down to return to his law school post at Georgetown University.) Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Dinh told the Christian Science Monitor, "our nation's ability to defend itself against terror has been not only my vocation but my obsession." This Fourth of July holiday, I will...

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-asecmaali19111902nov19,0,2277730.story?coll=orl%2Dhome%2Dheadlines I-Drive magnate counters allegations By Henry Pierson Curtis, Pedro Ruz Gutierrez and Beth Kassab Sentinel Staff Writers November 19, 2002 Orlando gift-shop magnate Jesse Maali and his lawyer spent the day in federal court Monday deflecting a string of accusations by prosecutors trying to link him to groups advocating Middle East violence.

Fox news just reported that thousands of Troy ounces of gold and silver are missing from the vaults under the twin towers. Neil Cavuto said that there will be other bizarre stories like this one. I seem to remember a thread that discussed missing gold. I believe that it was in the last 30 days. Any Freepers with knowledge of this please help.

Ozzie Spengler was probably right in his book, The Decline of the West. He said the age of money, which we're in, will be followed by the age of Caesar. He meant a return to authoritarian governments. I believe the trend has already begun. The reason is simple: The Founding Fathers of this country were right -- democracy can't work on a large scale. That's why they didn't create a democracy, but rather a republic with a limited franchise. We have, of course, systematically dismantled that republic and now have, in effect, a sort of mob democracy. All one ...

Saturday, May 19, 2001 12:57 p.m. CDT Rosie Hates Gun Rights, and Free Speech Too Rosie O'Donnell has become the poster girl of liberal hypocrisy. An advocate of gun control, she has used her TV show as a platform for her views. But when revelations sufraced that she has gun-toting bodyguards, some of whom even escorted her children onto school grounds against regulations, she was simply red faced. Recently Rosie conducted a poll on a Web site promoting her new magazine, Rosie. The "poll" asked about readers' views on gun control. But unlike other polls that leave the answer ...

I'm a BAD American! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am Your Worst Nightmare. I am a BAD American. I like big cars, big hooters and big cigars. I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family -- not some mid-level governmental functionary with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts squirting out babies. I'm not in touch with my feelings and I like it that way, damn it! I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer. I believe it's called the Boy Scouts for a reason. I don't think being a minority makes ...

MOTHER'S DAY BANNED . . . By ANDREA PEYSER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 8, 2001 -- PARENTS whose kids attend a pricey Manhattan private school are in an uproar over a new policy aimed at protecting the feelings of children raised by same-sex couples: Mother's Day has been banned. And in the interest of fairness, Father's Day, too. Students at Rodeph Sholom Day School on the Upper West Side, where tennis legend John McEnroe sends his children, came home Friday with an unusual note tucked into their book bags. "I am writing this letter to inform you that after much thought ...