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I'm fighting yet again with my best friend over Bush (he hates him) and once again he's talking about Bush fighting a war based on oil. I don't understand the connection, i don't know how to fight back, i'm lost. Please help!

A patron walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender asks to see some ID. Without asking permission, the barkeep swipes the driver's license through a card reader and the device flashes a green light approving the order. The bartender is just verifying the card isn't a fake, right? Yes, and perhaps more. Visitors to an art exhibit at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts got more than their martinis when they ordered drinks at a bar inside the gallery's entrance. Instead of pretzels and peanuts, they were handed a receipt containing the personal data found on their...

Responsible lust is healthy, normal By ROGER LIBBY GUEST COLUMNIST Iraq is not the only war the Bush administration has been conducting. For some time, right-wing politicians have been using lies as bullets to fight an ugly war against lust. Sexual motives and meanings that are lustful and/or explicit, especially if they are not limited to monogamous, reproductive marriage, are openly scorned. Condoms, women's reproductive choices, objective sex education, sexually explicit depictions and gay and lesbian expression are all under vicious attack. In a futile attempt to eradicate non-marital sex, the federal government is trying to make erotic pleasure frightening...

It was 1986, and Jan Warren knew she had to do something to change her life. She wanted to get home to California where her father had just died and left her a produce business. But Warren, 35, was stuck on the East Coast with no money, in a dead-end relationship and pregnant. Desperate, she made a mistake: She agreed to sell cocaine for her cousin. It was the only time Warren had ever sold drugs, and it turned out to be a police sting. Under strict New York drug laws, Warren was given fifteen years to life. And one...

Pop star Madonna put on a private performance for 200 guests of a radio station in Paris and thanked France for its opposition to the Iraq war. Dressed in a low cut black top, black glittery trousers, and with dyed black hair, she performed the title track to her new album, American life. The exclusive event, held at the city’s Nobel restaurant, lasted 40 minutes. But for those not invited to the venue the concert was broadcast by the radio station live over the internet and to nine European countries. “Here in France I feel at home,” Madonna told her...

Anyone care for a Saddam cartoon? http://www.gijargon.com/imagesmembers/CANYOUHEARMENOW.jpg

The right of individuals to keep and bear arms may have some validity on the federal level, but states have a right to regulate and ban firearm ownership among the people, says California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. In a letter sent earlier this month to David Codrea, co-founder of Citizens of America, a California-based gun-rights organization, Lockyer said that while his duty is to enforce the laws of his state and the nation, "the responsibilities of my office do not permit me to independently interpret the state and federal Constitutions or the statutes written pursuant to those Constitutions." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29009