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There are only a few of our 43 presidents – Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR and Reagan come immediately to mind – whose legacies are emblazoned in the glorious history of our embryonic "experiment" in democracy. After only 200 years, we are now recognized as the most generous, powerful, wealthy country on earth – and the envy (and therefore animosity) of all others. George W. Bush can now relax vis-à-vis what is sure to be his remarkable legacy. With his second term in office only beginning, he already has changed the configuration of the world! And on domestic issues, he has...

Prominent Jewish and Catholic leaders meeting in New York yesterday said the spirit of respect and cooperation between the two religions forged by Pope John Paul II is now so strong that it would continue beyond his papacy. "I am optimistic that what this pope has done for the last 26 years cannot be reversed," said Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Vatican council responsible for Jewish-Catholic relations. He added that "everyone can only be happy about the progress that has been made, which is so important for peace in the world." The World Jewish Congress is hosting the two-day...

Much has been written recently about the fact that Democrats, arguably with malicious intent, mercilessly attack Republican positions, programs, and political appointees without offering any positive alternatives of their own. This has been ascribed variously to their hatred of George W. Bush (which is certainly a factor), to the fact that a significant percentage of the Democrat base and their elected representatives are unrepentant '60s-style liberals (this, too, plays into the current scenario), even, as Michael Medved has put it, to "an internal contradiction deep within the liberal soul." The bottom line is that, no matter how we might characterize...

CAPITOL HILL Some of the items in President Bush's war funding bill are raising some eyebrows on Capitol Hill. The 82 (b) billion dollar request includes money for conducting public opinion polls in Ukraine, seven provincial hospitals in Afghanistan and water treatment plants for Jordan. At a time when U-S agencies are being told to tighten their belts, some are questioning the allocations in the foreign aid proposal. Even Majority Leader Tom DeLay says some of the requests "probably do not qualify" for the expedited treatment the president is seeking. The new spending plan is a sharp contrast to the...

Over the last few years there has been much speculation of just what would be the real Clinton legacy. Rush has guessed, so has Sean and Michael Savage. Petey Jennings and his buddies over at cnn, nbc and cbs hae tried desperately to shape a favorable legacy for the former disgraced impeached expresidante Comrade Clinton. Clinton himself has tried to define and redefine himself, but, now at great personal cost, we at Christian-news-in-maine.com willing to spare no expense and unafraid to lean on all of our sources, ar now ready to reveal the True Clinton Legacy. The clinton legacy

Fayetteville’s future still may include a Clinton-themed museum. The Advertising and Promotion Commission favored a proposal Monday to lease and ultimately purchase the former home of Bill and Hillary Clinton from the University of Arkansas, but its members sought more information before agreeing to seek a contract. Commission Executive Director Marilyn Heifner and Convention and Visitors Bureau Director Allyson Twiggs introduced the business plan Monday at the group’s monthly meeting. Twiggs considered the Clinton house Fayetteville’s best opportunity to cooperate with tourist efforts in other parts of the state while adding another perspective on the lives of Bill and Hillary...

Rice warns North Korea over nuclear talks (Filed: 10/02/2005) Condoleezza Rice, the American secretary of state, has called on North Korea to return to talks on nuclear disarmament following the country's first public admission that it has nuclear weapons. A North Korean propaganda poster Earlier, the North Korean foreign ministry issued a statement saying that it had suspended participation in talks for "an indefinite period" after scrutinising George W Bush's inaugural and state of the union speeches. Dr Rice who is in Luxembourg as part of her European tour, said: "We are trying to give the North Koreans a different...

CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps It's ironic that the first "C" in the CCC refers to the "Civilian" Conservation Corps because the program was actually run by the U.S. Army. The CCC was a public works program that put more than three million young men and adults to work building roads and trails in parks, building conservation dams, building campgrounds, planting trees, draining swamps, replanting grazing land, renovating historic buildings and stringing telephone lines. Delbert Apetz joined the CCC in York and was sent to Pawnee City, Nebraska, for his induction and training. Like other CCC enrollees around the country, Delbert...

The voter turn-out in Iraq has stunned the world!   click here for really large version This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

The comparison to Roosevelt is just as strained. Progress for America, a conservative group, has run television ads arguing that Bush, in his drive to restructure Social Security, is displaying the same "courage and leadership" that Roosevelt did in creating the program during the Depression. No one doubts that Bush is willing to take political risks. But he is taking those risks on behalf of an agenda that, for better or worse, inverts Roosevelt's vision of how to increase economic security for ordinary Americans. With ideas like personal investment and healthcare savings accounts, Bush is proposing policies that would shift...

When Margaret Thatcher left No 10 in tears her influence was thought to be over. But John Sergeant reveals how politics and the destiny of Michael Howard and Tony Blair – one of her biggest fans – are still under her sway Tony Blair met me in the cabinet room and ushered me through the french windows into the garden of No 10. “It’ll be quieter here,” he said. The prime minister had agreed to see me to talk about Margaret Thatcher. What surprised me was the extent to which he was prepared to acknowledge her strengths, and to make...

Plans to build an 80ft statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator character in his Austrian home town have been scrapped because he's backing President Bush. The steel abstract design was unveiled in a blaze of publicity last year with public and private backers putting up the money for the £3.5 million project. But the southern city of Graz is angry that its most famous son is backing Bush in the upcoming US election campaign and supported the war in Iraq. Project manager Herwig Hoeller said: "Yes, the project has been shelved because it no longer has the backing among the population...

King legacy honored Pols, schools evoke dream BY BILL HUTCHINSON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Manhattan Country School on E. 96th St. sponsors march from school to Central Park yesterday in observance of Martin Luther King Day. With soulful songs and stirring speeches, New Yorkers of all colors remembered the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday. Gov. Pataki paused to praise the civil rights leader for his courageous fight against injustice that was cut short by an assassin's bullet. "Thank God for the memory, for the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," Pataki said at a ceremony in Albany, where...

JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) - War, poverty, violence and social injustice are dampening Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy as the nation prepares to celebrate the slain civil rights leader's birthday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told a church gathering Sunday. In a passionate speech at Dixon Grove Baptist Church in Jonesboro, south of King's native Atlanta, Jackson assailed the war in Iraq and insisted the gap between rich and poor in America is widening despite King's message of peace and equality. "It's easy to admire Dr. King," Jackson told the 650 people at the church. "It's a challenge to follow him." Jackson,...

Washington -- Four more years of President Bush in the White House is a prospect that instills hope in some and fright in others. Yet Bush's influence is likely to extend well beyond January 2009, when his second term officially ends. From reshaping the Supreme Court and American foreign policy to transforming Social Security, the tax code and environmental laws, Bush has an opportunity to put his imprint on policies for generations to come.

Recent News! They discover proof that Atlantis did not submerge complete but only one part...By Salvador Morales. Atlantis News Agency. Madrid, Spain. 01-06-2005. The Spanish investigator and scriptologist, Georgeos Diaz-Montexano, has discovered paleographical proofs that in fact the island or peninsula (Nêsos) denominated like Atlantis or Atlantic, it was divided in two parts below the sea. To date all atlantologists and students of the Timaeus and the Critias de Plato had thought that in texts of the Greek philosophist narrated the collapse of the all island or Atlantis peninsula, nevertheless, Georgeos Diaz-Montexano has reviewed the oldest texts known writings in...

The Civil War's Tragic Legacy The Civil War produced at least two important outcomes. First, although it was not President Lincoln's intent, it freed slaves in the Confederate States. Second, it settled, through the force of arms, the question of whether states could secede from the Union. The causes of and the issues surrounding America's most costly war, in terms of battlefield casualties, are still controversial. Even its name the - Civil War - is in dispute, and plausibly so. A civil war is a struggle between two or more factions seeking to control the central government. Modern examples of...

FOX News Channel host Bill O'Reilly claimed that former President Bill Clinton's newly opened presidential library gives Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) "access to money because Bill Clinton's got a checkbook that he can write anything off against that library he wants." O'Reilly predicted Bill Clinton would use library staff and funds to further his wife's alleged presidential ambitions. In fact, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), a federal agency, took over the Clinton Presidential Center, including its management and funding, on the day the library opened. NARA administers all ten presidential libraries. On the November 18 edition of...

Read this passage slowly and carefully, especially the second sentence: "The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballet et al., don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history. It is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself." It was not the fault of the...

It resembles a giant bamboo shoot, can carry people more than a kilometre skyward in less than 40 seconds, and yesterday it was officially declared the world's tallest building. The 508 metre tall building in Taipei's Hsinyi district is 56 metres taller than the previous record holder, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. The opening of Taipei 101 - a reference to the number of floors - was attended by local dignitaries keen to bask in the glory of one of Asia's most ambitious engineering projects ever. As an opera company entertained the crowd, the world's fastest passenger lifts whisked...