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Do you feel that Canadian Muslims are doing enough to keep radical imams and mullahs away from their mosques? We need to send a message to the lefty news media in Canada before they start blaming our Conservative PM for this turn of events, blame the RCMP for entrapment, etc. Please freep.

(CNN) -- In a new poll comparing President Bush's job performance with that of his predecessor, a strong majority of respondents said President Clinton outperformed Bush on a host of issues.

Saw this headline but no link - anyone hear of this yet?

ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Authorities have made an arrest in the case of a young Alabama woman who disappeared while vacationing in Aruba, an Aruban official said Saturday. Mariaine Croes, a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office, said Aruban authorities were not prepared to disclose why the person was arrested. Croes also would not say how the arrest was linked to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway nearly a year ago, on the final night of her high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island. Croes would only say that the person who was arrested is 19 and has the initials...

A provocative $4-million documentary by Toronto filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici claims to have found archeological evidence verifying the story of the biblical Exodus from Egypt, 3,500 years ago. Religious Jews consider the biblical account incontrovertible — the foundation story of the creation of the nation of Israel. Indeed, they celebrated the Exodus Wednesday night and last night with the annual Passover recitation of the Haggadah. But among scholars, the question of if and when Moses led an estimated two million Israelite slaves out of pharaonic Egypt, miraculously crossed the Red Sea ahead of the pursuing Egyptian army and received the Ten...

Saguenay, Que. — A fifteen-year-old girl with a severe peanut allergy did not die from kissing her boyfriend after he had eaten peanut butter, Saguenay coroner Michel Miron says. The story made headlines round the world, and Mr. Miron said he wants people to know that a peanut-butter sandwich did not cause the death of Christina Desforges last November. Mr. Miron would not reveal the cause of death, because he has not submitted his final report to the provincial coroner's office and is also waiting on some final test results. He said, however, that he wanted to speak out before...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A group of Israelis who lost children to Palestinian suicide bombings appealed on Wednesday to organizers of next week's Academy Awards to disqualify a film exploring the reasoning behind such attacks. The bereaved parents said they had gathered more than 32,000 signatures on a petition against the nomination in the best foreign film category of "Paradise Now", a drama about two West Bank friends recruited to blow themselves up in Tel Aviv. The controversial film was made by an Israeli Arab director and actors working with a Palestinian crew and locations. The producer was a Jewish Israeli...

Synopsis Superintendent Sam Steele of the North West Mounted Police was no stranger to action. The big, burly Mountie had helped rid the west of whisky traders, policed the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and averted war between natives and white settlers in British Columbia. At last, as commanding officer at Fort Macleod, married, with three children, he thought he might settle into peaceful retirement. But the discovery of gold in the Klondike changed that prospect. Canada needed someone to control the thousands of miners [mostly American] who flooded the Yukon. They also needed someone to hold the territory...

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand. 2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity. 3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists. 4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding. 5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV's. 6. You...

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chances of surviving his severe stroke are very high, but his ability to think and reason have been damaged, one of his surgeons said Saturday.

I was watching O'Reilly tonight and at the end he had on Jackie Mason who gave a terrific two minute spiel about how a true Jew wouldn't take any offence in Merry Christmas - the only people taking offence were anti-religionists. I was cheering in my bunny slippers! He went on to talk about Jews4Fairness. I did a Freep search and came up with nothing. Anybody know about this group - I only did a cursory scan of their website. Appreciate your feedback. Bella

French police say levels of violence in France have returned to normal, following three weeks of unrest by urban youths across the country. Police said 98 vehicles were torched on Wednesday night, marking a "return to a normal situation everywhere in France". A state of emergency remains in force after parliament voted on Wednesday to extend it for three months. Almost 9,000 cars have been set ablaze and about 3,000 people have been arrested since the violence erupted. Curfew lifted The police service said the figure of 98 cars burnt was in line with the nightly average before the trouble...

8,973 cars burnt 2,888 arrests 20 night of riots (From their sidebar) The French Senate is set to pass emergency laws a day after the lower house of parliament voted for a three-month extension. The laws allow local authorities to impose curfews, conduct house-to-house searches and ban public gatherings. Violence continued across France overnight but fewer cars were set on fire than during previous nights. Nationwide, 163 cars were burnt - almost down to the levels seen before the riots began last month.

The lower house of France's parliament is expected to approve plans to extend a national state of emergency until February after a wave of urban rioting. On Monday President Jacques Chirac said the unrest had shown that France is suffering a crisis of identity. He pledged to create new jobs for the young and fight the "poison" of racism. Some 215 cars were set alight on Monday night, the police said, 69 fewer than the previous night and a sign that the unrest is past its peak.

Police said 284 cars were set on fire overnight on Sunday, and 115 people were arrested. Vandals rammed a car into a primary school in the southern city of Toulouse before setting the building on fire. In northern France, arsonists set fire to a sports centre in the suburb of Faches-Thumesnil and a school in the town of Halluin. The disturbances are France's worst since the 1968 student-worker protests. 13 November: 284 cars 12 November: 374 cars 11 November: 502 cars 10 November: 463 cars 9 November: 394 cars 8 November: 617 cars 7 November: 1,400 cars

About 8,400 vehicles have been burnt nationwide along with dozens of public buildings including schools and gyms, according to a tally released by the French state news agency AFP on Sunday. Dozens of people including residents, police and firefighters have been injured, while one firefighter received serious facial injuries from a petrol bomb and a disabled woman suffered serious burns when a bus was set alight. The death of a 61-year-old man in a street assault has been connected by some to the riots. Police have arrested 2,652 people, the youngest of them aged 10, and 592 were remanded in...

Police in the French city of Lyon have used teargas to disperse youths throwing stones and attacking cars, the first rioting in a major city centre. The unrest, which followed more than two weeks of violence in France's poor suburbs, occurred hours before a curfew for minors came into force in Lyon. In Paris, a ban on public meetings has ended, with no reports of unrest. Police overnight said the situation across France was "much calmer" than on previous nights. More than 370 cars were burned overnight, down from 502 the previous night. A further 212 people were arrested.

PARIS, France (AP) -- Emergency security measures went into effect Saturday in Paris, with 3,000 police patrolling train stations, the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysees to prevent France's worst unrest in decades from spreading to the capital. National Police Chief Michel Gaudin said police were taking "every precaution," including banning certain public gatherings, a day after calls for "violent actions" Saturday evening in Paris were posted on Internet blogs and sent in text messages to cell phones.

Police in the French city of Lyon have fired tear gas to break up groups of youths who hurled stones and bins hours before a curfew was due to begin. Police on the city's famous Place Bellecour square made two arrests in what state news agency AFP says is the first rioting in a major city centre.

A ban on all public meetings likely to provoke disturbances has come into effect in the French capital. The move - imposed under new emergency measures - started at 0900 GMT and will remain in force until Sunday morning. Police say the ban was introduced after calls for "violent acts" in Paris were found in e-mails and text messages. Rioting that erupted two weeks ago is now less intense across France, but unrest continued on Friday night, as more than 500 cars were set on fire. Two police officers were wounded and 206 people were detained across the country. This...