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Hey fellow freepers! My daughter's teammate at her allstar cheerleading gym, The Georgia Allstars, is nominated for Cheerleader of the Month, and is about 400 votes shy of winning. The voting ends this evening, so I am shamelessly asking you to freep the poll to help put our girl over the top! The poll is on the lower left, under March high school cheerleaders, and her name is Lauren Calhoun (Georgia). Thanks in advance for your help, and have a blessed Easter!

WASHINGTON - Microorganisms locked in Antarctic ice for 100,000 years and more came to life and resumed growing when given warmth and nutrients in a laboratory. Researchers led by Kay Bidle of Rutgers University tested five samples of ice ranging in age from 100,000 years to 8 million years. "We didn't really know what to expect. We knew that microorganisms were really hardy," Bidle, an assistant professor of marine and coastal sciences, said in a telephone interview. The findings are reported in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers tested samples of the oldest...

DURHAM, N.C., April 22 — The Duke University lacrosse team's troubles began with a phone call. A team captain using an assumed name called an escort service to hire two exotic dancers for a party on March 13. Last week, two Duke players were indicted (snip) To all but some of the people at the party, the truth of what happened that night to one of the dancers, who accused three white players of raping her in a bathroom, is a mystery. Mr. Nifong says a sexual assault occurred, based on hospital records and the account of the accuser, who...

ELECTION 2004: God's country Christians' support for Bush illustrates moral counterattack Gayle White - Staff Sunday, November 7, 2004 A maroon Ford Explorer making its way down I-85 Wednesday morning provided a rolling summary of the previous day's presidential election: A Christian fish symbol on the bumper, an American flag on the fender and, in the back window, an oval W '04 sticker. God, country and George W. Bush. Wednesday-morning quarterbacks poring over exit polls seemed surprised to find that "moral values" drove many people to vote for Bush, even if they were concerned about the economy and worried about...

I tried to tell you . . . Democrats repel voters, who put faith in freedom Published on: 11/04/04 America's faith in freedom has been reaffirmed. With the re-election of President Bush, America recommitted itself once again to expanding freedom and promoting liberty. Only the 1864 re-election of Abraham Lincoln, the 1944 re-election of Franklin Roosevelt and the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan rival this victory as milestones in the preservation of our security by the advancement of freedom. This election validated not just freedom, but also the faith our Founding Fathers placed in average folks to navigate the course...

Kerry: I Wouldn't Respond to Nuclear Attack John Kerry told Democrats gathered in Boston two weeks ago that he defended his country as a young soldier in Vietnam and he would defend it again as president. But as Michael Dukakis' lieutenant governor, Kerry authored an executive order that said the state of Massachussetts would refuse to take part in any civil defense efforts in response to a nuclear attack on America. The presidential candidate was an ardent proponent of the nuclear freeze at the time, and viewed Cold War civil defense preparations as an attempt to delude the American people...

COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION DAY Money trail behind Kerry's Iran stance Candidate has financial ties to backers of mullah regime -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 3, 2004 10:25 p.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kerry's call for providing Iran with the nuclear fuel it seeks, even while the regime is believed to be only months away from developing nuclear weapons, is being linked to his campaign contributions from backers of the mullah government in Tehran. During last Thursday's nationally televised debate between the Democratic presidential candidate and President Bush, Kerry insisted as president he would provide Tehran with the...

November 2 is approaching fast. Who would get your vote for the next president of the United States? Beyond the glitz and glamour of the conventions, the media hype, and the PR spin of the campaigns lies the substance of each candidate's bid for the White House: the issues. Do you know which candidate would best represent your views on important economic issues such as tax rates, the minimum wage, and international trade policies? Or which candidate would take the action you deem appropriate on a range of crucial foreign policy issues such as the situation in Iraq, North Korea's...

Putin's Talking Tough Wednesday, September 15, 2004 By John Gibson Just for laughs I clicked on a story in the Financial Times of London about a member of the European Parliament saying the Euros have to develop some mettle to stand up to not Usama, or Saddam... but to the United States and Russia. I am telling you this because every so often you need to be reminded how far out in the ozone our so-called friends in Europe really are. So get this, after the Beslan (search) school terror in Russia, Vladimir Putin (search) said Russia will go anywhere...

The Scorecard: Swiftees vs. Kerry David Limbaugh Monday, August 30, 2004 Despite the partisan media's claims to the contrary, John Kerry has not successfully refuted "almost all the Swiftees' charges." Though he has attempted to dodge the bullets, he has been deeply wounded by them. Instead of responding factually to the charges, Kerry and his defenders have: personally attacked the Swiftees and reportedly hired private investigators to look for dirt on them mischaracterized Swiftee John O'Neill as a Nixon dirty trickster reiterated their lies about President Bush's Air National Guard service filed complaints with the FEC to muzzle the Swiftees...

ELECTION 2004 Questions swirl around Kerry's Silver Star Researchers say 'unheard of' multiple citations 'sanitize' record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 26, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Raising questions about John Kerry's Silver Star medal won in Vietnam, two researchers say its accompanying citation was reissued twice, an "unheard of" occurrence serving to expunge from the record the shooting of an enemy solider in the back and upgrade the signer from an admiral to the secretary of the Navy. To reissue a citation, regulations would have required Kerry to prove there was an error in the previous citation or...

Qualified psychiatrists would have to say whether John Kerry is mentally ill. But any layman should have no trouble recognizing he’s conducting one sick campaign. In the study of mental illness is a definable aberration known as “projection.” Sigmund Freud said that’s when a patient, threatened by or afraid of his own darker impulses, resorts to attaching those unacceptable qualities to someone else. One description in the psychiatric literature puts it this way: “Projection reinforces guilt by displacing it onto someone else, attacking it there and denying its presence in one’s self – an attempt to shift responsibility to others.”...

John O’Neill commanded the same Swift boat during the Vietnam War that John Kerry did. One of 254 Swift boat veterans who holds a negative view of the Democratic presidential candidate, O’Neill is co-author of the current best-seller Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (Regnery Publishing). To learn more about this group of highly-decorated veterans, visit SwiftVets.com. John O’Neill is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Texas Law School. He was law clerk in 1974 for Justice William Rehnquist at the...

Hordes of election observers flock to Florida Folks from near, far beat a path to Sunshine State to boost their man, ensure no repeat of 2000. By MONI BASU The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 08/23/04 Come Election Day, Martha Fagan won't be anywhere close to her home in Morningside. She, like thousands of other Americans, will be in the mother of all battlegrounds: Florida. Legions of labor organizers, poll watchers, high-powered lawyers and sneaker-clad volunteers from Maine to California are heading to the Sunshine State. They could be joined by an official election monitoring team from the Organization for Security...

Kerry's Reaction John LeBoutillier Monday, Aug. 23, 2004 What the Swift Boat Controversy has done is show the world what many of us have known for years: John Kerry is a completely ruthless, calculating, pathological, overly-ambitious liar who will do anything to win the White House. However, as bad as things seem for him at the moment - and make no mistake that this controversy is the worst chapter in his campaign since the days of Howard Dean zooming ahead in the race a year ago - the fact that he is being proven to be a liar, an exaggerator,...

Kerry's war Debra Saunders (back to web version) | Send July 20, 2004 When Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., cast his vote in favor of the Senate resolution authorizing military force against Iraq in October 2002, he made his bed. Now, the president's political guru, Karl Rove, is preparing to tuck Kerry snuggly inside those sheets. In Sacramento Friday, Rove laid out the problem with Kerry's position -- or positions -- on Iraq: "If Sen. Kerry now wants to come out and say, 'I looked at the intelligence ... I said (Saddam Hussein) was a danger, I said he had weapons...

What John Kerry's America will look like Ben Shapiro (archive) July 14, 2004 This week, I began to think for the first time about what I would write if Sen. John Kerry were elected president in November. But then, I realized I should write that column now. What good would it do to awaken people to the dangers of a Kerry administration after that administration had been elected? Here, then, are a few predictions of what will transpire in the unlikely event that John Kerry becomes the most powerful man on Earth. Major terrorist attacks will occur in the United...

<p>Robert Greenwald, an admirer of Michael Moore, is trying to give Fox News Channel the kind of cinematic spanking that Moore just delivered to President Bush in "Fahrenheit 9/11."</p> <p>"Fox is not a conservative network, it's a Republican network," and its fair-and-balanced slogan is "ridiculous," the Los Angeles director says in explaining why he sought funding from two liberal groups -- and took out a loan -- to make the documentary "Outfoxed."</p>

Fake voter sign-ups increasing By ERIN NEFF and BRIAN HAYNES REVIEW-JOURNAL Nevada's position as a battleground state in the presidential election has sparked a surge in fake voter registrations, Clark County's top election official said. "We've never seen anything close to this," said Larry Lomax, registrar of voters. So far, the office has flagged several hundred suspicious registration forms, but Lomax believes many more escaped detection among the 5,000 forms coming through his office every week. "There are stupid criminals out there, and there are smart ones," Lomax said. "We can spot the stupid ones because they submit them in...

See where Edwards puts his millions James P. Pinkerton July 8, 2004 Pundits seem taken with the idea that Sen. John Edwards is a man of the people. But maybe they should read the fine print about Edwards that's appearing in their own publications so that they can see what he's really all about. Writing in yesterday's New York Times, Nicholas Kristof enthused, "He'll help with the Democrats' most crucial task: reconnecting the party to Middle American voters." The Washington Post's David Broder praised Edwards' stump speech as "a thing of beauty - a populist depiction of 'two Americas' divided...