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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hollywood director Rob Reiner warned the California Hospital Association Friday to withdraw or rewrite a ballot proposal it's pushing for 2006. "If the initiative remains in its current form, I will have no other option but to actively and aggressively oppose it," Reiner said in a letter to C. Duane Dauner, the association's president.Reiner championed a 1998 ballot proposal slapping a 50-cents-a-pack tax on cigarettes to fund health and education programs for children up to 5 years old, now known as First 5 California. In his letter, Reiner argued the hospital proposal, which calls for a...

07:00:46 pm, Categories: Ethics and Science, I.D. and Creationism, 499 words On the Origin of Evolution "It is like confessing a murder." So wrote Charles Darwin in 1844 to botanist Joseph Hooker of his now famous theory of evolution by natural selection. At the time, the dominant belief was that all species were created by God in their present form. So Darwin, loath to provoke controversy, nurtured his idea in secret for nearly two decades before finally revealing it--first to a few trusted colleagues, then to the world in his book, On the Origin of Species. Published in 1859, the...

  The Two Faces of Hillary ClintonBy William John Hagan Friday, November 18, 2005 Without question, Hillary Clinton is using every weapon of mass deception in her arsenal to attain the Presidency. With a solid lock on the liberal vote, Clinton is now pursuing moderate voters with breath-taking zeal. Senator Clinton has been remarkably successful at distancing herself from her husband’s legacy of appeasing Osama bin Laden by casting herself as one of the few Democratic Party leaders who supports the liberation of Iraq. While she may be successful at fooling a pliable public, one of the major issues that...

This is the nasty professor who went after this female freshman for inviting Scott Rutter to speak at their local community college. The professor went on to say that our soldiers should execute their commanding officers in Iraq. Rebecca Beach, the student involved, told her side of the story today in New York on Kevin McCullough's show. She is slated to be on Hannity and Colmes tonight .

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When a group of New Mexico State Police officers returned from two weeks of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in Louisiana in September, they brought with them haunting tales of devastation, refugees and the wide swath of destruction the storm had wrought on the Gulf Coast. They also carried with them something darker, more disturbing even, than the might of Katrina itself. The Sante Fe Reporter has learned New Mexico police allege they witnessed numerous and shocking incidents of police abuse committed by members of the Baton Rouge Police Department. According to New Mexico Department of Public Safety spokesman Peter Olson,...

(Waterbury-AP, Nov. 18, 2005 6:35 AM) _ First, a McDonald's employee in Waterbury was accused of stabbing a co-worker in the neck. Now, a Burger King worker in nearby Watertown has been charged with slashing the throat of a customer who complained about a food order. Police have charged 41-year-old Harold Lewis with first-degree assault, after they arrived at the Main Street fast-food outlet to find the 34-year-old customer bleeding profusely. The victim is in serious condition at Waterbury Hospital. Tuesday at the McDonald's next to Waterbury's Brass Mill Mall, a male employee stabbed a female co-worker in the neck...

Two state legislators want the governor to create a task force to examine why African-Americans are imprisoned at a higher rate in Wisconsin than in any other state, including the states of the Deep South. Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison, and Rep. Tamara Grigsby, D-Milwaukee, are circulating a memo asking their colleagues to join in a written request to Gov. Jim Doyle.Black said the idea came up after the Black Commentator published a story in July listing Wisconsin as the worst state to be in for African-Americans. John Odom, a longtime Madison civil rights activist, brought the article to Black's attention....

— Suspects in a Thursday morning convenience store robbery evaded capture during a high-speed chase by making a run for Mexico and crashing through a border checkpoint, according to a Brownsville police report. According the report, two men walked into a Circle K convienence store near Boca Chica Boulevard and Owens Road at 3:16 a.m. Thursday. The two men allegedly held up the clerk using a large knife and a screwdriver. They took $15 from the register, two packs of cigarettes and the keys to the clerk’s brown 1999 Ford Windstar. The suspects fled the scene in the mini-van but...

"Regarding the war in Iraq..."

Just reported by MSNBC. Liberals there are wetting themselves with excitement. Speculation on who is next to be indicted. Breaking...

PERHAPS the biggest weapon in the arsenal of the US's critics is carefully selective amnesia. Conveniently forgetting important historical facts enables tactical amnesiacs to make claims about US policy that seem to support their contention that the country's Government is uniquely evil. The latest evidence that George W.Bush is a war criminal has apparently come this week with the acknowledgment that the US military used white phosphorus (WP) on enemy positions in Fallujah. This is deemed an outrage. And the discovery that US soldiers refer to WP cavalierly as "shake and bake" seems to have come as an additional shock...

THE government is set to resume the enforced return of failed asylum seekers to Iraq, according to reports last night, a move attacked as "unsafe" by refugee groups. The move is said to follow new advice from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that returns to the relatively peaceful Kurdish region of northern Iraq were now "feasible". According to Channel 4 News, about 15 refugees will be flown out this weekend to the northern city of Irbil. It quoted a Home Office document as saying: "Despite reservations about the general situation, UNHCR conclude that the forcible returns to...

11/18/2005 - ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AFPN) -- Anchorage police are calling two Airmen heroic for their actions in helping catch a truck thief. Staff Sgts. Joseph Harder and William Young, of the 3rd Equipment Maintenance Squadron’s aerospace ground equipment section, pulled off the feat. The two were on their way to a restaurant, for a going-away luncheon, when a delivery truck crossed their path Nov. 9. “We had just pulled into the parking lot when the truck cut us off,” Sergeant Harder said. “Then we noticed the delivery driver running after his truck with his hands in the...

Defense cash focuses on lobbying By Roxana Tiron The U.S. defense industry has been riding high for the past four years, propelled by the Pentagon’s growing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the large cost of homeland security.But defense contractors — which are receiving a handsome portion of the nearly $500 billion that Congress has appropriated for defense and homeland security in 2006 — do not make hefty political campaign donations.Unlike other industries fighting for recognition from Congress, defense companies do not have to use political donations to compete for members’ attention, according to Larry Noble, executive...

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MAN sought the help of a medium after he got tired of a female ghost who wanted to have sex with him every night for the last 16 years, China Press reported. The 34-year-old man from Kuala Lumpur, known only as Kelvin, said he felt very tired every night as the long-haired ghost would lure him into making love with her by appearing in different images. “I have been having bad luck since she appeared in my dream. I have not been able to get married although I have had five girlfriends. “My employers fired me because I could not...