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Hungry, Homeless Figures Increase in U.S. Tue Dec 14, 6:05 PM ET U.S. National - AP By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Requests for emergency food and shelter increased in many large U.S. cities this year, but not by as much as in recent years, according to a survey released Tuesday. AFP Photo Requests for food rose by 14 percent, while appeals for shelter increased by 6 percent, said the annual report by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, based on surveys of 27 large cities. The numbers have risen every year since the conference began the survey 20...

It's always a sad, and sometimes an uncomfortable thing to see someone who was once at the pinnacle of their game try to remain long after their days at the top have gone. Show me someone who doesn't wince when they see an over-the-hill Hollywood elite trying to recapture their glory days, dozens of facelifts stretching their skin over their skull like plastic wrap on a Tupperware container, and I will show you someone who is truly desensitized to their surroundings. Such is the case with White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Recently, in an impromptu interview with a NewsMax correspondent,...

90% of violence is in few Sunni areas, he says Here's an example of how the media have it wrong about the violence and insurgency in Iraq, according to professor James Mayfield: Earlier this year, while he was in Iraq helping to establish local governments as part of a State Department program, Mayfield spoke to a gathering of Iraqi high school teachers in Karbala. The teachers, he said, gave him a standing ovation. Later that night, on CNN, Mayfield watched a news report headlined "Chaos in Karbala." "I had just been in Karbala. There was no chaos," said Mayfield, University...

Bush Cuts President Duties for Campaign 1 hour, 33 minutes ago By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Since August, President Bush (news - web sites) has welcomed just one foreign leader to the White House — the interim prime minister of Iraq (news - web sites). No other meetings with foreign dignitaries are on the horizon until Bush goes to Chile in late November for a gathering of Asia-Pacific leaders. AP Photo Latest Headlines: · La. Senate Outcome Not Likely Before Dec. AP - 3 minutes ago · Changes May Lead Voters to Wrong Polls AP - 17...

I clicked through MSNBC last night as saw Swift Boat Hero O'Neill being interviewed by Pat Buchanan. O'Neill usually provides some new insight into the filthy lies and distortions that Traitor John ("Viet Cong") Kerry spreads.With Pat was a blonde guy named Lawrence Sanders (Saunders?) who was labeled as some sort of MSNBC correspondant. He may have been drinking.As O'Neill presented his litany of irrefutable fact, overwhelming proof of Kerry's mendacity and the refusal of Kerry to respond to any of these facts, Sauders started screaming, at the top of his lungs, "Liar." He was raving! Of course, he had...

Nicholas Warr, Chapter President 1/5 Vietnam Veterans Unit Chapter 1st Marine Division Association P. O. Box 2680 Hendersonville, N. C. 28793 FLASH: READ & DISTRIBUTE http://www.1-5vietnamveterans.org/ To All Vietnam and other Veterans: Please read the attached plea from a Marine fighting in Iraq. If after reading it you feel as I do, that no matter what your politics are we should be doing everything possible to support our troops, pass this on to your family and friends. Semper Fidelis! FROM MARINE NOW IN IRAQ Hello Everyone, I am taking time to ask you all for your help. First off, I'd...

Last week, the Pentagon noted a bleak milestone: More than 1,000 U.S. troops have lost their lives to the misguided mission in Iraq. And with the insurgency once again intensifying, hundreds more will die in the coming months. That's an awful lot of sons and daughters, fathers and brothers who won't be coming home. Some have died in those meaningless battles that yield not a square inch of territory nor a single bit of intelligence. After U.S. troops started a fierce assault on Fallujah in April, following the discovery of the mutilated and burned corpses of four American contractors, U.S....

Anti-abortion Catholics can support pro-choice candidates, as long as they agree with the candidate on a range of other issues. That pronouncement in an Italian magazine from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's top spokesman on Catholic teachings, went unnoticed in the din of presidential election-year politics. But it could reverberate in a close election, which pits President George W. Bush, a conservative Christian abortion opponent, against Democratic Sen. John Kerry, a Catholic who favors abortion rights. Catholics account for about one-fourth of the Michigan electorate and are evenly split between Kerry and Bush, said pollster Ed Sarpolus of the Lansing-based...

What a nasty, filthy piece of work! If she writes like she speaks, she is pure propaganda and of the bitterest, most vile kind.How could any newspaper print anything she has written and claim any semblence of "journalistic integrity" or "objectivity."She can only be as anti-Bush as she is (irrationally so) because she loathes herslf far backing such a filthy criminal as Wille. She knows that, in supporting Willie, she has become Willie and hates herself for it. She takes out this self-hatred on Bush, the very opposite of Willie (and herself) in the hopes that the shame, pain and...

Go to this website and FREEP this trailer. Looks like another hackjob, propaganda film that distorts the facts. Uncovered: The War on Iraq

China Erases All Pre-1948 Korean History from Ministry Website China removed all accounts of pre-1948 Korean history, including Goguryo history, from the website of the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday. The Chinese government, having received strong protests from the Korean government concerning distortions of Goguryo history, decided on this course of action Monday and informed the Korean government through diplomatic channels. The Chinese government, however, is not acceding to strong Korean demands that it restore the section on Goguryo history back to the description of Korean history on the Chinese Foreign Ministry website (www.fmprc.gov.cn), and it's latest response measure...

Copywrite prevents the posting of this article. Here is a link...Rossie: Hard to argue with the reality in 'Fahrenheit' This is one of the most disgusting articles I have ever read in support of Moore and his propaganda piece of crap.

The soup thickens... Tribune, the parent company of the LA Times and many other US newspapers, has found inflated circulation numbers at two of its papers, and is reviewing circulation accounting procedures at all of its papers including the LA Times

Washington, DC-- In a major Washington policy address this Thursday, former Vice President Al Gore will accuse the Bush Administration of intentionally misleading the American people by continuing to falsely claim a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. He will charge that Bush and Cheney have "institutionalized dishonesty as an essential element of their policy process." Gore will also urge the broadcast media to further resist Administration efforts to manipulate and intimidate them, to fearlessly report the fact that there is no Al Qaeda/Saddam collaborative relationship, as the 9/11 Commission staff report has concluded. Gore will also discuss the...

Sunday 06 June 2004, 11:48 Makka Time, 8:48 GMT President Ronald Reagan's administration remains morally responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of East Timorese, human rights groups have asserted. While tributes to Reagan - who died on Saturday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease - have flooded in from former Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe and other US allies, in East Timor reactions to his passing have been tempered by his role in supporting Jakarta's occupation. Reagan refused to ban use of US-supplied arms in East Timor "The world must not forget that under his leadership, America...

[Poster note: I saw this guy on Conan O'Brien's Late Show on Tuesday night. He's obviously fishing for a Kerry post -- and I dare say POWER.] Radcon 3: The right-wing trifecta - morality, prosperity, and patriotism - and how to fight it. by Robert R. Reich The American Prospect magazine, May 2004 In my view, being a liberal is something to be proud of. Yet for more than 20 years, liberals have been on the defensive and conservatives ascendant. Radical conservatives- "radcons," I call them-are taking over the public agenda. Radcons are revolutionaries. For them, ends justify means. They'll...

<p>The Iraq war pushed the number of journalists killed on the job last year to 36, up sharply from the 19 killed in 2002, according to a report by an organization that monitors international press freedom.</p> <p>"It was quite a discouraging year," said Ann Cooper, the director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. But 2003 was considerably better than 1994, the worst in the past decade, when 66 newsmen and women were killed.</p>

Already, Kerry is whining about negtive tactics of republicans, when his party has been engaing in those very same tactics since Bush was elected. It appears they like to dish it out, but can't take it. Charles Krauthammer does an excellent job pointing out their hypocrisy in this article: Mudslinging Democrats now cry foul (excerpt) And now, after six weeks of carpet-bombing Bush, the Democrats are shocked -- shocked! -- that the Republicans might answer back with "negativity." And now, Kerry even tries to use his military service to defend his voting record, equating because he served, no one should...

Victory for Free Speech at William & Mary WILLIAMSBURG, VA— After pressure from and public exposure by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the College of William & Mary (W&M) has reversed course and allowed an "affirmative action bake sale" to proceed without interference. A student group, the Sons of Liberty, saw its satirical protest unlawfully halted by W&M in November; it was one of many such protests nationwide that were shut down on campuses this past fall. While W&M allowed the group's bake sale to proceed without incident this time, W&M President Timothy J. Sullivan issued a...

Juxtaposing these maps provides a new perspective on the political landscape. (Interactive moment: Color in the blue and red states — then you'll get the full picture.) Republicans seem to have become the new welfare party — their constituents live off tax dollars paid by people who vote Democratic. Of course, not all federal spending is wasteful. But Republicans are having their pork and eating it too. Voters in red states like Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are some of the country's fiercest critics of government, yet they're also among the biggest recipients of federal largess. Meanwhile, Democratic voters in the...