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Not surprisingly, National Atomic Testing Museum executive director Allan Palmer has triggered a whinefest for having the gall to sponsor an upcoming lecture billed as "Military UFO Files: Secrets Revealed." Mainly it's coming from the How can you sully the Smithsonian brand with little green men? crowd. Palmer doesn't care. Although the Atomic Testing Museum is affiliated with the Smithsonian, it isn't a subsidiary. And when it comes to UFOs, like most reasonably intelligent people, the retired Navy commander would prefer an independent inquiry to a laughably outdated government fact sheet. "Well it is a little risky, because we've got...

BOSTON -- An MIT student has won a prize for his "flying car" invention. Carl Dietrich can now take a major step in getting his drawings off the ground with the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Inventiveness. The annual award encourages engineering creativity in the name of Jerome Lemelson, a prolific inventor. Dietrich worked with a team of two other MIT students that included his fiancee. Their idea is to alleviate motor vehicle congestion and utilize small, underused public airports in one swoop. The team designed what they call the Transition, a car-plane hybrid about the size of a Cadillac...

In the constitution it says we have freedom to worship whatever we want, that doesn't hold true in Alabama. I support Judge Moore who shoudn't take the monument down. I want your oppinion

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Rocky Oldaker bought a wood box for $2 at a thrift store because it looked interesting. When he opened it, what he found inside was priceless to Linda Bigford: her mother's ashes. "I don't think that is what someone's life should boil down to ... $2 at a thrift store," said Oldaker, who bought the box along with a stuffed animal and a picture frame. When he unscrewed the box bottom at home, Oldaker discovered a plastic bag of ashes and a note identifying them as those of June Peltier of Marion, Mich. Peltier, 77, died...

County sued over court Bible display Alabama case sparks local call for removal By ALLAN TURNERCopyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Citing concern over what she perceives as growing religious fundamentalism, a Houston woman filed suit Monday in federal court against Harris County, demanding it remove a King James Bible from a monument near the Fannin Street entrance of the civil courthouse. The Bible, tattered and waterstained, has occupied the lighted display case since 1995, when an employee of then-state District Judge John Devine's court undertook an effort to refurbish the neglected monument. The 4-foot-tall pedestal was erected in 1956 to honor...

DEBKAfile reported consistently that the Iraqi ruler was unhurt and in command, despite claims he was killed or injured in first bombardment

Fox subtite just announces that the "Shock and Awe" has begun!

Debka- Fighter-bombers took off from USS Kitty Hawk Wednesday night for bombing missions over Iraq...

The Democrat establishment isn't even listening to its own supporters. As the House minority leadership prepares to plunge leftward, the rank and file thinks the party is already too far from the middle. That's one of the highlights of a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll released today. Fifty-four percent of Democrats polled said the party should moderate its "liberal" message. Also, a majority of Americans surveyed supported President Bush's strategy on Iraq and said Democrats were not tough enough in dealing with terrorism. The poll, completed over the weekend, also found that most people believe that Republicans have a clearer plan for...

Senator Miller, I very much appreciate the leadership you have shown and the votes you have cast during your tenure as Georgia’s Senator. I do feel that you have carried forward the work of Senator Coverdell who preceded you. As much as I value your voting record, I do hold one issue against you. I would ask you, dear Senator, to please reconsider your party affiliation. In the coming days your chosen party will seek to redefine itself given the enormous losses it received this Tuesday. The Democrats will need to clearly articulate its identity before they can hope to...