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Republican congreesional members' constituents care more about immigration and border security than any othe issue, according to a new congressional insiders poll.Seventeeen of the 37 Republican House and Senate members who responded to the National Journal's survey identified immigration as the issue "most on the minds of your consituents these days." That easily topped the next closest issue, the economy, which gained 10 votes, followed by gasoline prices with four votes and terrorism with threee votes.One Republican called immigration the "highest-octane issue in America," while another said, "It is here that the mismatch between the federal government's inaction and the...

<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and Judicial Watch released previously undisclosed documents from the Border Patrol which show that President Bush’s proposed amnesty plan encourages illegal aliens to cross the border into the U.S.</p> <p>The documents, the result of a lengthy legal fight between DHS and Judicial Watch, are survey results from illegal aliens interdicted by the Border Patrol. The survey asked illegal aliens whether they had heard of a U.S. government amnesty plan for illegal aliens (61 percent had) and whether the amnesty plan influenced their decision to cross the border (45 percent answered that it did).</p>

A new study uses advanced brain-scanning technology to cast light on a topic that psychologists have puzzled over for more than half a century: social conformity. The study was based on a famous series of laboratory experiments from the 1950's by a social psychologist, Dr. Solomon Asch. In those early studies, the subjects were shown two cards. On the first was a vertical line. On the second were three lines, one of them the same length as that on the first card. Then the subjects were asked to say which two lines were alike, something that most 5-year-olds could answer...

Study: Women's Orgasms Relieve Stress, Anxiety Researchers Couldn't Get Reliable Results From Men COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- For women, having an orgasm is more than just pleasurable -- it's apparently also a stress-reliever. Researchers in the Netherlands have found that the part of a woman's brain that governs fear and anxiety is turned off during an orgasm. But it remains active if she's faking. In the study, researchers injected men and women volunteers with a dye that shows changes in the brain function on a scan. For women, the scanner measured brain activity at rest, and during real and faked orgasms....

(CNSNews.com) - A new survey shows how the three network evening newscasts (ABC, NBC, CBS) have tilted their recent coverage of the Terri Schiavo case in ways that bolster her husband Michael's arguments.At the same time, network reporters have attempted to debunk arguments made by her parents, the Media Research Center (MRC) reported. (The MRC, the parent organization of CNSNews.com, documents liberal bias in the media.) In a report released Tuesday, MRC said its analysts looked at all 31 evening news stories aired between Thursday, March 17 (when the impending removal of Mrs. Schiavo's feeding tube put her case back...

IF YOU'RE A TV critic, it's hard not to look at Tuesday's election results and realize that you're covering a medium that's probably still out of touch with large segments of the country. Red-staters, security moms, conservative Christians - whatever label you pin on the people who helped give President Bush four more years, they're not the people you're likely to see showing up as sympathetic characters on "Will & Grace," "The O.C." or "Saturday Night Live." Some of that shouldn't be surprising: Commercial television, certainly, is largely pitched toward the people Madison Avenue, not George Bush or John Kerry,...

The U.S. military continues to back its estimate that the former Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq transferred much of its weapons of mass destruction arsenal to neighboring Syria. U.S. officials said that U.S. Army Intelligence does not share the conclusion that Saddam had abandoned his WMD program before the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003. They said military intelligence has attributed the U.S. failure to find Iraqi WMD platforms or munitions to Saddam's transfer of these systems to Syria in late 2002 and early 2003.

  DoD Homeland Defense Official Convinced Terrorists Would Use WMD By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, January 26, 2004 -- If al Qaeda and other terrorists were given even "half an opening," they would use weapons of mass destructions within the United States, said DoD's official responsible for homeland defense. Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense, addresses members of the Reserve Officers Association Jan. 26 at the group's mid-winter meeting in Washington. McHale encouraged reserve officers to continue the fight against terrorism. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USA(Click photo for...