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<p>September 18, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - A new audiotape allegedly from Saddam Hussein declared that mounting U.S. casualties are beginning to "eat away at the enemy like wildfire," and called on U.S. forces to negotiate with his imprisoned former aides a withdrawal from Iraq. The 14-minute recording surfaced yesterday on the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite TV network, the latest of nine desperate diatribes from the ousted dictator designed to fire up his murderous supporters and keep ordinary Iraqis from embracing coalition rebuilding efforts.</p>

At a time when religious and conservative right-wing groups are attempting to dismiss homosexuality as "unnatural," a leading zoologist has said gay people could be seen as the "pinnacle of evolution." Speaking at the Edinburgh Book Festival, Clive Bromhall said that humankind's evolution has resulted in our present state of "infantilism," in which we break the primate mold by being playful, creative and childlike right into adulthood. "From men's obsession with swollen breasts to our constant search for a pseudoparental God, everything about the human species is infantile," Bromhall said in a lecture. "Like baby chimps, we have soft, downy...

Nader's 9/11 Plan Get a load of this: Likely 2004 third-party presidential hopeful Ralph Nader thinks the 9/11 terrorist attacks wouldn't have happened if he had been president. He claims that amid all the big decisions new presidents have to make after inauguration, he would have ordered cockpit doors to be hardened against attack. He says an old report warning about how easy it is to get in the cockpit still sticks with him. What's more, he would have wiped out Osama bin Laden and his gang without a shot being fired. How? Bribe Osama's friends to hand him over.

OCCASIONALLY history produces moments that make one pause and give thanks that some past event turned out the way that it did. Al Gore’s speech at New York University yesterday was one of those moments. It made us very thankful that George W. Bush won the 2000 Presidential election. Gore strongly suggested yesterday that had he been President he would not have used American military forces to remove Saddam Hussein from power. After accusing the Bush administration of being dishonest, he said: “The way we went to war in Iraq illustrates this larger problem. Normally, we Americans lay the facts...

<p>A Fayette County man who believes he will be the next president of the United States was found guilty but mentally ill for harassing the staff of Fayette County Children and Youth Services.</p> <p>Ronald P. West Sr., 41, of Perryopolis, said Tuesday that he believes the verdict against him was fair.</p>

It's not a contradiction. Neither are you. I like that. If I had the money I'd put it up on billboards across America and if I ever win the lottery maybe I'll do just that. I suppose I need to actually play the lottery to raise my odds on winning but that's neither here or there. When I wrote that short little phrase, and as I write this essay I'm thinking of you who fervently believe there's no such thing as a "Christian lesbian." You consider the term to be an oxymoron but more than that, you regard it an...

'Saddam' Tape Forecasts Defeat Soon for U.S. Troops Reuters Friday, August 1, 2003; 12:15 PM By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI (Reuters) - A new audiotape purportedly from Saddam Hussein, broadcast on Friday, forecast that U.S. and British forces would soon be defeated by Iraqi resistance. "Our belief is strong that God will grant us victory and we are confident that the moment for the foreign army to collapse is possible at any moment," said the tape aired by Al Jazeera satellite television. The voice sounded like Saddam's. "It (defeat) is coming at any time because of the painful blows of the...

In the four days since U.S. forces succeeded in tracking down and killing Uday and Qusay Hussein, elected Democrats have been noticeably reluctant to praise President Bush for a job well done. But at least one Democrat has now stepped up to the plate to give credit where he says credit is due - to former President Bill Clinton.

Summer is the Democratic season of hope. Last year around this time, they launched a campaign against the impending war in Iraq. President Bush was in Crawford, Tex., playing cowboy when a front-page New York Times headline announced, "Top Republicans Break With Bush on Iraq Strategy." According to The Times, Brent Scowcroft, the national security adviser under Bush's father, thought the U.S. should be more unilateral. So did Henry Kissinger. House Majority Leader Dick Armey had voiced similar concerns. A mutiny was brewing. It soon emerged that Kissinger was actually in favor of the war. The posse of critics never...

Bush's Cover-Up Precedes the Scandal NEW YORK--"When it's all said and done," Bush still confidently insists, "the people of the United States and the world will realize that Saddam Hussein had a weapons program." This once again begs the question of presidential dyslexia: You're supposed to find the WMDs before the war, silly rabbit! This bizarro Administration does everything bass-ackwards. The recession is hardest on the poor and middle-class, so Bush gives tax cuts to the rich. When an overwhelming invasion force was needed to secure Afghanistan and Iraq, Rumsfeld sent in a skeleton crew. Now that the citizens of...

Clyde Prestowitz, a former Reagan aide, says that Bush could lose the next election if the fighting in Iraq continues and the WMD remain undiscovered For a moment in early May, American neoconservatives thought they had died and gone to heaven, so much did Bahgdad seem to them to resemble paradise. Their vision of an America that would shed its paper-tiger hesitation and boldly use its overwhelming military power to crush tyrannical regimes and reshape the world for decades to come by establishing American-style democracies in their place seemed well on its way to realisation. As the months have passed...

Some time very soon, President George Bush is expected to sign a $400 billion bill adding a prescription-drug benefit to Medicare -- and he is sure to be flanked not only by Republicans but also by Democrats, perhaps including that arch-liberal, Senator Ted Kennedy. It's an image that is apt to drive former President Bill Clinton around the bend. The Democrats have, in effect, agreed to hand to Bush precisely the kind of politically precious legislative victory on health care that the Republicans went to any lengths to deny to Clinton back in 1994. Could it be that the Democrats...

At last it can be told. The mystery of why New York Sen. Hillary Clinton was willing to sacrifice her self-respect and her dignity to stay in a humiliating marriage to ex-President Clinton is a mystery no longer. She did it to save America. In her book "Living History," Mrs. Clinton recalls that after she learned about Monica Lewinsky, "I knew what I did and said in the next days and weeks would influence not just Bill's future and mine, but also America's." "Bill's Presidency, the institutional Presidency and the integrity of the Constitution hung in the balance," Hillary recalls,...

At last it can be told. The mystery of why New York Sen. Hillary Clinton was willing to sacrifice her self-respect and her dignity to stay in a humiliating marriage to ex-President Clinton is a mystery no longer. She did it to save America. In her book "Living History," Mrs. Clinton recalls that after she learned about Monica Lewinsky, "I knew what I did and said in the next days and weeks would influence not just Bill's future and mine, but also America's." "Bill's Presidency, the institutional Presidency and the integrity of the Constitution hung in the balance," Hillary...

U.S. Brings Saddam Back to Power! 04/23/2003 17:56 Russian politicians know how Saddam is feeling and where he has taken shelter The Iraqi dictator is still refusing to leave some people in peace. Saddam is a mysterious person: He disappeared, and nobody knows where he can be hiding. Russian politician and Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Vladimir Zhirinovsky has suddenly become anxious about the fate of his best friend, which is how he himself refers to Saddam Hussein. In fact, Zhirinovsky may know something no intelligence agency in the world can even guess, not to mention the...

Dictator's Collusion In The Iraq 'War' By Parviz Esmaeili The Tehran Times 4-9-3 Note - This is the first story to point in the direction of possible/probable answers to a number of key questions about the US-UK zionist subjugation of Iraq. When the Iraqis failed to blow a single bridge - a classic and mandatory defensive military strategy - suspicions arose immediately. Aside from a handful of oil well-head fires in the South, there was no effort to torch Iraq's oil assets by Saddam. The repeated deployment of the regular Iraqi army and the Guard into exposed areas in the...

April 5, 2003, 4:37 AM EST NEW YORK (AP) _ Mayor Michael Bloomberg predicted publicly that he would return to office in the next citywide election. "I'm going to get re-elected, I don't know how to break that to anybody," he said during his weekly radio show on WABC-AM, saying his administration is "doing a good job." Mayor Bloomberg's popularity rating increased to 48 percent in February, even though he successfully got an 18.5 percent property tax hike passed. The mayor made the comments when speaking about his push for $600 million in union givebacks on the radio show. Also...

ICONOCLAST DAILY NOTEBOOK.... Chew On This My Leftist Comrades.... Today's recommended reading (especially for all of Sunday's anti-War celebrants of Neville Chamberlain Day) is by excommunicated radical-left enthusiast, but truth teller extraordinaire, Christopher Hitchens. This essay, addressed to his "dear brothers and sisters, boys and girls, comrades and friends," first appeared on Seattle's Stranger.com Web site and then was reposted on David Horowitz's FrontPageMagazine.com site under the title: "Chew On This My Leftist Comrades" And if anyone knows the illusions, evasions and follies of today's Neville Chamberlain vanguard, it's Mr. Far Left, 'Henry Kissinger Is The Devil Incarnate!' Hitchens. Referring...

Remarks of Senator John Kerry December 3, 2002 At The City Club of Cleveland We come here at an important time. Every American understands the challenge of our economy in very personal ways. Lifetime savings have been wiped out by greed, bad judgment, criminal activity and the natural course of economic cycles. Jobs have been lost - retirements postponed - personal debt has increased and more and more of our fellow Americans are squeezed out of health care. Long term unemployment has doubled. The stock market has plunged more than 30 percent. We have seen the weakest level of economic...

<p>Sekou Mims's son was 16 when he experienced a sudden psychotic breakdown. Over three months, the black teenager had a series of delusions - that white police were following him, that white strangers on a train were staring at him menacingly. He'd hyperventilate walking down the street. All his delusions revolved around racism.</p>