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Led by God Steve Farrell Monday, Nov. 17, 2003Liberty Letters, Jefferson, Letter 6 On Monday, March 4, 1805, Thomas Jefferson gave his Second Inaugural Address as president of the United States. In his closing remarks he painted a provocative parallel between the settling and establishment of the United States following our exodus from tyrants in Europe, and the settling and establishment of ancient Israel following the Israelites* exodus from tyrants in Egypt. He referred to God as "that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old, from their native land, and planted them in...

President G.W. Bush Meets With Osama Bin Laden Pres. Bush and Bin Laden meet in Iraq. Bin Laden to Bush: "I had a beautiful dream last night. In all your major cities, banners were flying from the buildings, and they all read, 'Long Live Osama. Hail Allah." Bush to Bin Laden: "You know, I had a similar dream. Throughout the great Islamic cities of the Middle East, including Mecca, there were banners flying from all the buildings and mosques." Bin Laden asks Bush: "What did the banners say?" Bush replies to Bin Laden: "I don't know. I can't read Hebrew."

FCC APPROVES USE OF THE "F" WORD ON TV AND RADIO! The Federal Communications Commission has approved the use of the "F" word for use on any TV show or radio program, ANYTIME DAY OR NIGHT! The FCC said the word can be used whenever desired except in sexual situations! >>That means that real soon you will be watching a sit-com on TV, or news, or any drama or movie-ANY PROGRAM-and it*s ok! Hollywood is rejoicing! >>Soon, when you are driving your kids to school you will be listening to a song which makes extensive use of the word. >>Shock...

STOLEN: A StarMaster 30" telescope w/ an Argo Navis DSC Someone in Albuquerque has stolen a huge 30" telescope in a trailer and the owner thinks the robbers will try to sell it. So if you here of a telescope up for sale, here are the details. A StarMaster 30" telescope w/ an Argo Navis DSC and a White 17* Haulmark "V" nose, tandem wheel trailer which has a ramp rear door and a 36" side door on the right. Items were taken from my residence in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the early morning on Thursday, 13 November, 2003. Also...

Misleading Newsweek Factoid By Notra Trulock November 13, 2003 A recent issue of Newsweek carries a long investigative report on the reconstruction of post-war Iraq. Entitled "The $87 Billion Money Pit," the article chronicles the difficulties encountered by the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in restoring services throughout the country. The authors, Rod Nordland and Michael Hirsh, blame all the "problems" on a lack of prewar planning and alleged overspending, favoritism, and corruption in the awarding of war reconstruction contracts. The rest of the article is below.

Car Thieves Can Steal Your Car Without Breaking Into It It seems that car thieves have found another way to steal your car or truck without any effort at all. The car thieves peer through the windshield of your car or truck, write down the VIN number from the label on the dash, go to a local car dealership and request a duplicate key based on the VIN number. The car dealer's parts dept will make a duplicate key from the VIN number and collect payment from the thief who will return to your car. He doesn't have to break...

THE ORIGINS OF VETERANS DAY When President Abraham Lincoln stood to address the war-torn nation in his Second Inaugural Address in 1865, he made a promise to our nation's veterans, saying that America would "...care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan." Those words of President Lincoln's became the motto of the Veterans Administration. A few generations later, when the end came to World War I, November 11, 1919 was set aside to commemorate the sacrifices made by American soldiers to gain a lasting peace for the world. Called Armistice Day, soldiers...

Your Senators Must Hear From You On Justice Janice Rogers Brown! California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown has been nominated by President Bush to serve on the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Her nomination is being opposed by special interest groups like People for the American Way (PFAW) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). These groups published a document called "Loose Cannon" that attacks Judge Brown's record on the California Supreme Court. These groups are falsely charging that Judge Brown is anti-government, anti-civil rights, and an enemy of the poor. In a recent...

Manna Appearing Again in Sinai PENINSULA, EGYPT - In a startling new discovery that is turning the heads of biblical scholars and skeptics alike, manna, a nondescript bread-like edible substance has reportedly been found covering the ground each morning in a dry and desolate region outside of Serabit El-Khadem. Hossam Almeleh, an anthropology student at the University of Cairo, was conducting a research project with Dr. Daunis Abadi and two of his classmates when he stumbled upon a 27-acre desert flat completely covered with a white bread-like substance. "I had only walked over a knoll a few feet from our...

Vote Results: A bill to prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 108th CongressVote date: October 21, 2003 5:09 PMMeasure Number: Senate Bill 3 (Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 )Vote Summary: Vote Counts:YEA: 64NAY: 34NOT VOTING: 2 Vote by Party: Republicans: YEA: 46NAY: 4 NOT VOTING: 1 DemocratsYEA: 19NAY: 29NOT VOTING: 1 Independents:YEA: 0NAY: 1Not Voting: Republicans: 1 Democrats: 1 Votes by States:Alabama: Sessions (R-AL), YEA Shelby (R-AL), YEAAlaska: Murkowski (R-AK), YEA Stevens (R-AK), YEAArizona: Kyl (R-AZ), YEA McCain (R-AZ), YEAArkansas: Lincoln (D-AR), YEA Pryor (D-AR), YEACalifornia: Boxer (D-CA), Nay Feinstein (D-CA), NayColorado:...

Big solar storm will hit Earth Friday Oct 24th BOULDER, COLO. - A strong geomagnetic storm is expected to hit Earth on Friday. Scientists say it may knock out electrical grids and satellite communications. A "sunspot cluster" said to be 10 times the size of Earth could damage satellites and power grids, as well as cable TV, pager and cellular telephone service. Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo., say it is one of the largest sunspot clusters in years. Larry Combs, a forecaster at the federal Space Environment Center in Boulder, says the sunspot cluster...

The communists didn*t stop the liberation of Iraq, but now they hope to force a U.S. military withdrawal. Toward that end, the two leading "anti-war" groups, International ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice, have joined forces to stage an October 25 "March for an end to the occupation of Iraq." Their aim is to force the U.S. out and turn the country over to the Islamic terrorists. Rest of the story is below.

After 9/11, allegations surfaced that the Bush administration had permitted members of the Saudi royal family and relatives of Osama bin Laden to surreptitiously fly out of the U.S. without being questioned by the FBI. That story was debunked, but it got new life with the publication of an article in September's Vanity Fair. The rest of the story is below.

Mideast Groups Make Unofficial Peace Plan By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press WriterJERUSALEM - Succeeding where their governments have failed, prominent Palestinians and Israelis have produced an unofficial peace settlement that gives the Palestinians a state and could divide part of Jerusalem with a bulletproof glass wall, but keeps most refugees out of Israel. The still-unreleased 50-page document, which includes a map of a future Palestine, has no formal standing, but its authors, among them participants in the failed Camp David peace talks in 2000, hope it will be the basis of official negotiations in the future. Israel's center-right government derided...

In Their Own Words - (Liberal Democrats Are Two-Faced Liars) By Tom Barrett Politicians are funny people. They talk and talk and talk. They love to be heard. But sometimes they forget that people not only listen to what they say, but remember. Today the liberal left is savaging the President and his Administration over going to war with Iraq. They claim that his reasons for going to war were invalid, that there were no weapons of mass destruction, and that Iraq posed no threat to the United States. They are two-faced liars. When Slick Willie was in office, and...

The New York *Slimes Trashes Nathan Hale By Arne Steinberg October 10, 2003 The trashing of American heroes is one of the basic procedures of the hate-America crowd in the U.S. media. This media strategy of belittling heroic figures in American history is a noticeable part of the agenda to dismantle and undermine the heritage on which the U.S. is built. The media campaign to tear down Thomas Jefferson, by smearing him as one who had sexual relations with a mulatto slave, comes to mind as an example. (The rest is below)

SIGN THE ACADEMIC BILL OF RIGHTS ENDORSEMENT! TO SIGN - CLICK HERE What has happened to our colleges and universities when a person who decides to serve his country can be, in essence, blacklisted? Sadly, there are hundreds of examples like this on campuses around our nation. That's because the most successful and pervasive blacklist in American history is the blacklist of conservatives on American college campuses, their marginalization in undergraduate life, and their virtual exclusion from liberal arts faculties, particularly those that deal with the study of society itself. Over the last two years, I've spoken at more than...

LATEST POLL NUMBERS: DAVIS IS TOAST!! Following are the most recent poll numbers on the Recall: CNN/USA Today/Gallup -------------------------------------------- YES on Recall -- 63% NO on Recall ---- 35% Undecided --------- 2%Los Angeles Times --------------------------------------------- YES on Recall -- 56% NO on Recall ----42% Undecided ---------2%Field Poll ---------------------------------------------- YES on Recall -- 57% NO on Recall ---- 39% Undecided ----------4% The only way Davis can survive is through massive vote fraud -- which we don't put past him considering that he is one of this country's most corrupt governors. However, since Gray Davis' "unfavorable" ratings are as high as 73%,...

Even a democrat can get it right sometimes: FCC's Recent Ruling on Media Ownership Rules This is a letter I received from Senator Murray on the subject: Dear _____________: Thank you for sharing your concerns regarding the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) recent decision to change media ownership rules. I believe that it is important to ensure that the marketplace of ideas is not dominated by a few corporate conglomerates at the expense of our citizens and our democracy. Recently, the FCC voted along party lines to relax rules that govern media ownership. Specifically, they lifted the decades-old restriction prohibiting a...

Houses of Worship Free Speech Act Must Be Passed! Summary: North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones (R) is pushing for passage of H.R. 235, the Houses of Worship Free Speech Act. He currently has 120 co-sponsors. Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC) is urging passage of H.R. 235, a bill that will overturn an injustice that has been done to pastors since 1954. That year, then-Senator Lyndon Johnson inserted language into the IRS code that restricted what pastors could say on political issues from the pulpit. Johnson added this language to seek revenge upon conservatives in his state who opposed his re-election. Rev....