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3:09 pm - Judge Dawson plans to enforce his order for the passport and related papers, even if the case is moved to Ohio. 3:10 pm - "We still don't have a complete copy of (Rifqa's) passport," said Bartholomew. "I am very alarmed that it hasn' been provided," she added. She said she has learned there are more documents being withheld. 3:18 pm - Attorneys are talking about arrangements for a psychological evaluation and counseling. She is to see a local psychologist on Friday morning. 3:21 pm - Elahi said he suspects "a ploy" by Rifqa's legal representatives to delay...

HOUSTON - Michael Garza's parents say they weren't sure who to believe, their 8-year-old son or his reading teacher Savonya Depland Haston. -snip- After Michael calls the reading teacher "ma'am," Haston is heard on the tape replying "I'm not your ma'am. If I owned you, and you were my slave, I would beat you down." -snip On the tape, you hear her tell the class of 7 and 8-year-olds she could have charges filed against them and their parents for lying and violating her civil rights. "When you lie on me, I have the right to an attorney, I have...

TUCSON, Ariz. — A jury in Tucson has found that a southern Arizona rancher didn't violate the civil rights of a group of illegal immigrants who claimed he detained them at gunpoint in 2004. The federal jury also found Roger Barnett wasn't liable on claims of battery and false imprisonment. But the jury did find him liable Tuesday on four claims of assault and four claims of infliction of emotional distress. The jurors ordered Barnett to pay nearly $78,000 in damages. The bulk of that is punitive.

" COWBOY UP " > > When a Cowboy's in a pinch > > he just tightens up the cinch, > > spurs his horse and rides right through it > > cause that's the way the Duke'd do it. > > He'd Cowboy Up. > > > > And with our country now in danger > > a cowboy's like the old Lone Ranger. > > Ridin' hard and shootin' straight > > fightin' those who spread the hate. > > He'd Cowboy'd Up. > > > > A Cowboy's ready and he's willin' > > to face the...

I just got the ABC radio news. The lead story was the sniper. His name was mentioned three times. Each time he was referred to as John Williams -- once the news reader said "(also known as John Mohammed)".

Mobs storm Pakistan city; protester burning U.S. flag catches fire Associated Press A demonstrator setting an American flag on fire today is engulfed by the flames. Associated Press Oct. 08, 2001 12:34:00 QUETTA, Pakistan - Mobs stormed this city by the Afghan border today, lobbing firebombs while chanting glory to Osama bin Laden and hatred for America. Police shot one man dead in the tear gas-shrouded confusion. In Peshawar, a pro-Taliban demonstrator was engulfed in fire while protesters burned a U.S. flag during protests against the sirstrikes. The demonstrator was taken to a hospital, and his present condition is unknown. ...

Report: Bin Laden Hiding in the Pamir Mountains NewsMax.com Wires Tuesday, October 02, 2001 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Osama bin Laden, the chief suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States, has entrenched himself in northern Afghanistan for a final showdown with the U.S. forces, reports said Tuesday. The Pakistani newspaper, The News, said bin Laden has built a state-of-the-art military base in the inaccessible Pamir mountains. The opposition Northern Alliance had earlier informed U.S. officials that bin Laden was hiding in the caves in a desolate part of Urzgun province, northeast of Taliban headquarters in southwestern Afghanistan. ...

Here is where Rep. Lee (Democrat) Calif.--the only member of either the House or the Senate to vote against the use of force against the WTC/Pentagon terrorists--has to say about National Defense:Our defense budget can and should be more efficient and must be re-designed for the twenty-first century, post-Cold War world. To be secure in this world, we must educate our children, house the homeless, and feed the hungry. We must work to promote peace and attack fundamental threats to global security such as AIDS and other profound health threats. These are national security issues, and they must be addressed ...

Notepad in hand, the reporter asked the tall, hulking WWF contender to comment on the upcoming Florida gubernatorial race."I want to see Jeb Bush beaten." said former Attorney General Janet Reno "And I'm just the one to do it", she said, wearing her sexy black leather outfit and tapping her riding crop menacingly against the palm of her hand. Meanwhile, having seen Janet's remarks posted at the S/M website, lickmyboots.com , where he had just logged on with his usual X42 handle, a pale and pudgy figure grew increasingly upset at the thought that a rival, especially one named Bush, ...

Alarming statistics Number of physicians in the US: 700,000. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000. Accidental deaths per physician.... 0.171 (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services) Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000. Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) 1,500. Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188 Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. "FACT: Not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at least one Doctor." Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand. As a Public Health ...

Monday, Feb. 5, 2001 9:52 p.m. EST Nixon's Watergate Scandal Was Just About Sex Since Bill Clinton became the first elected U.S. president ever impeached, his defenders have desperately clung to the notion that it was just about sex. If Clinton hadn't succumbed to the temptations of a thong-snapping intern and then lied about it in his Paula Jones case deposition, the Sexgate scandal that led to his downfall would have never happened. Now the liberal media's favorite scandal, Watergate - which was a "good scandal," of course, because it caused the political demise of the evil Richard Nixon - ...

Recount failing to provide Gore with enough votes to catch Bush Democrat faces 'steeper hill to climb,' expert says 11/19/2000 By Todd J. Gillman and Charles Ornstein / The Dallas Morning News PLANTATION, Fla. – As workers slogged through a hand count of thousands of presidential ballots Saturday in two Democratic strongholds, the numbers weren't going Al Gore's way. Even if the vice president persuades the Florida Supreme Court to force the revised totals on a reluctant secretary of state, Mr. Gore has gained so little ground in the recount that statisticians and other experts doubt he can overcome Gov. ...

bush wins! According to NBC

Updated: Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2000 at 00:28 CDT Early voters set first-day records; presidential race cited as a reason By Bechetta Jackson Star-Telegram Staff Writer Voters in Tarrant and Dallas counties turned out by the thousands Monday to get a jump on the Nov. 7 general election, shattering records for the first day of early voting. Tarrant County more than doubled its previous first-day record of 5,286 votes in 1996, after 12,802 people cast their ballots Monday, said Robert Parten, the county's elections administrator. "At this rate, we'll have more people vote the first week of early voting than some ...

Touché! It's Long Been Over John L. Perry Oct. 3, 2000 In a James Thurber cartoon, two men are fencing. One swings his saber. The other's head, bearing a startled look, flies off. The caption: "Touché!" This election was already won . . . long before tonight's debate, by George W. Bush, by a substantial margin, in the Electoral College, where it actually counts. It all came together somewhere back there between impeachment and Independence Day, when people finally said to themselves that too much of Bill Clinton and his crowd was enough. Little that's happened since then has mattered ...

The Conservative Leadership Political Action Committee has formed an emergency committee to raise $8.5 million dollars to target 13,000,000 undecided voters in 20 key battleground states--AR,FL,GA,IL,IN,IA,KY,MI,MN,MO,NJ,NM,NC,OH,OR,PA,TN,WA,WV,AND WI. The committee is headed by Lyn Nofziger, Former Press Secretary andSenior Staff Assistant to President Reagan.The focus of the effort will be to inform the voters of the central role of Al Gore, Jr. in the "Chinagate" scandal. The committee promises a hardhitting campaign of mailings, phone banks and e-mails to these voters.The "Chinagate" scandal involves the pouring of an avalanche of dollars into the 1996 Clinton/Gore re-election effort...and the Clinton-Gore Whitehouse permitting ...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Saturday September 23, 2000; 1:39 AM EDT Bush Media Consultant Suspected as Gore Mole The offices of a media consultant who once worked for Bush family political rivals Ann Richards and Michael Dukakis have come under the scrutiny of the FBI as Beltway Republicans worry that Texas Gov. George W. Bush's presidential campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, has been penetrated by a Democrat mole. "Some GOP and Bush campaign officials have voiced suspicion that the confidential debate materials which found their way into the hands of a key ...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Tuesday September 5, 2000 5:27 PM EST LA Times: Fox Stealing CNN's Franchise Nobody at CNN will admit it, but the recent management shake-up there is not due simply to falling ratings - but to the fact that other networks, such as Fox News Channel, are set to overtake the network. Last week the Los Angeles Times reported quite bluntly that the recent departure of CNN USA President Rick Kaplan could be explained by the fact that "in four short years - both Fox and MSNBC went on ...

More political news 08/24/2000 From wire reports Buchanan's running mate says mental-disability claim was false LOS ANGELES – Ezola Foster, Pat Buchanan's running mate on the Reform Party ticket, collected workers' compensation payments for a year for a mental disorder she now says she did not have, The Los Angeles Times reported in Thursday's editions. The disability claim, which was contested by her employer, the Los Angeles Unified School District, capped a checkered career in which Ms. Foster struggled financially as a result of bad business deals and twice resigned as a teacher after becoming embroiled in controversy, according to ...