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"I can wage a better war on terror than George Bush has." So speaks Senator Kerry in the U.S. presidential campaign's final days, again reminding voters that the key issue in this race remains as it was a year earlier - deciding which candidate will better protect Americans from terrorism.As with so many topics, the basic difference between Kerry and President Bush is one of character, with the challenger repeatedly changing his mind and the president sticking with one position.On occasion, Mr. Kerry adopts Bush-like terminology. For example, in September 2004 he talked about the war on terror being "as...

I move into a new county from the bustling city life of Charlotte to the smaller quiet life of Monroe. Left to wonder what I could do to keep busy and get to know and meet new people, I decided to start a Young Republicans club, since there was not one already in existence. I took it upon myself to make sure that the proper procedures were taken to start it up the right way. I make the announcement at the May Executive Committee meeting. This happened on May 6th. Since then we have had one planning meeting and have...

Posted Dec. 31, 2002 Even after tragedy, missionaries fight fear with faith By Kara Patterson Post-Crescent staff writerAPPLETON — For Southern Baptist missionary and frequent Fox Valley church guest speaker Kathleen Gariety, the Yemeni people were her life. In a country where faith-based conversations between Muslims and Christians can be illegal, Gariety, a Milwaukee native, learned Arabic. On Monday, Gariety and two other medical missionaries were killed by a gunman who fired into a meeting room of the Yemeni Baptist hospital in Jibla, where Gariety, 53, had worked as a supply manager. Fox Valley area Christians with overseas missions...

The Disconnect Between Hollywood and America Reprinted by permission from IMPRIMIS, the national speech digest of Hillsdale College (www.hillsdale.edu).Written by Pat Sajaak Here in this quiet, peaceful corner of Michigan, you might not have a sense of your importance in the world. I come from a community that has the opposite problem. Because it is so big and so powerful, so great and so well-known, it has an exaggerated view of its significance. That community is Hollywood. Not Hollywood, the town. Not much Show Business actually goes on there. Most of the studios are spread around other Southern California...

Sorry to do this, but Freepers have at their command more sources than any other group of people I know. Recently a news magazine, I believe both Time and Newsweek, ran a story on the differences between the sexes. I am in the middle of a debate with a co-worker and need to reference that article. Does anyone have a link or the date and publication the article appeared in?

It is thought by anthropologists that Man descended from the apes. This specious claim is easily disproved with one simple example. Apes of all sorts from chimpanzees to gorillas have been dressed by those who use them for entertainment purposes. They have appeared in everything from farmer's coveralls to black tie formal dress -- and except for those specifically trained to do so, none has ever......(snip)For complete article, please CLICK HERE

Citizen Muckraking How to Investigate and Right Wrongs in Your Community With 6 billion people on the planet and 270 million living in the United States, who can blame anyone for thinking that one person can’t make a difference? But don’t believe it for a second.In two decades as an investigative journalist, uncovering impropriety around the nation and abroad, countless times I have seen individuals persistently ask unpopular but entirely reasonable questions about matters affecting their daily lives: the air they breathe, the water they drink, the food they buy and eat, the schools their children attend. And frequently their...