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U.N. rule to bar religious offense sought CAIRO, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- The European Union is debating ideas and measures that might be endorsed by the United Nations to bar the slandering of religions. EU foreign policy and security commissioner Javier Solana said after a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Tuesday the EU and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) "are considering certain ideas to safeguard and protect religious values in general, but the time is not appropriate to disclose the details." Solana issued a joint statement Monday with the chief of the Jeddah-based OIC Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu stressing their...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2005 – The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks showed that the United States could no longer ignore the threat of global terrorism and that America must go on the attack, President Bush said during a nationally televised address Dec. 18. The United States did not start the war against global terrorism, Bush pointed out. Terrorists flew commercial airliners into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City, crashed another plane into the Pentagon, and commandeered another that crashed in a Pennsylvania field. "On that day, we were not in Iraq, we were not in Afghanistan," Bush...

Coach Brings New Offense To Millwood By Berry Tramel The Oklahoman Desota Bell's phone rang several times. He's not on the Millwood school board anymore, but folks still called. Millwood had gone and hired a white football coach. Keith Bell is the white shadow of Millwood's all-black and always-successful gladiators. The independent school district in northeast Oklahoma City long has been a magnet for the black community, and the Falcons take pride in their football, with four state titles in the last 15 years. But when longtime coach Don Willis resigned earlier this year to take a job in Texas,...

Unoffendable Francis Frangipane http://www.Frangipane.org "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh" (Ezek 36:26) God has a new heart for us that cannot be offended, an "unoffendable" heart. Beloved, possessing an unoffendable heart is not an option or a luxury; it's not a little thing. Consider: Jesus warns that, as we near the end of the age, a majority of people will be offended to such a degree that they fall away from the faith. Listen...

BOISE, Idaho — A 16-year-old girl was allegedly tied up and scalped with a 4-inch knife in what police say may have been an act of revenge by another woman. The girl, who had a punk-style mohawk haircut before the attack, is recovering at home. Doctors could not reattach her scalp, which was found near a hot spring. Police searched for Marianne Dahle, 26, who disappeared after the Jan. 18 attack at Kirkham Hot Springs, about 70 miles from Boise.

MIAMI -- Former Pro Bowl center Barret Robbins, who was shot by a detective investigating a burglary call, was charged Wednesday with three counts of attempted felony murder. Miami Beach police found Robbins Saturday night inside an administrative office at a building housing a nightclub, gym and jewelry store. Robbins also was charged with two counts of attempting to deprive an officer of his weapon, two counts of resisting an officer with violence and trespassing. Police said Detective Mike Muley shot him during a struggle. Robbins was critically injured. Muley received hospital treatment for minor head injuries. The former Oakland...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

Strip the Army of those Bradley Fighting Vehicles[1] used in the Golf War. And take away the big M-1 Abrams Tanks[2] the Army likes so well. Strip the Navy of the last few fancy Aircraft Carriers[3] so popular to provide air cover. Then, scrap the Aegis anti aircraft system[4] the Navy depends on to search, track and guide missile functions. Scrap those P-3 Orion[5] upgrades, too. The Navy doesn't really need the better anti-submarine warfare aircraft. Over at the Air Force, let's get rid of the B2 stealth bomber[6] that sneaks in on targets and wages destruction. Also get rid...

Second Toy Found In Candy Appears To Depict Osama Bin Laden POSTED: 10:43 am EDT August 30, 2004 MIAMI -- In Miami, a wholesaler has announced that his company will recall 14,000 bags of candy. The bags contain a toy that looks like a plane flying into a building and, we found, a second toy that looks like Osama Bin Laden suspended between the two buildings. Eyewitness News broke this story, but, for the first time, we had the chance to speak with a representative from the corporation that distributed the candy. "Importers did not realize what they were buying....

"Men cry, 'peace, peace,'" said Patrick Henry, "but there is no peace. The war has already begun." Today in America there are people who loudly insist they are against war. "No war!" their bumper stickers proclaim. They believe that we should not have invaded Iraq. They apparently feel that we should wait for the next terrorist attack on our own soil, rather than rooting out the terrorists and their supporters where they live. -snip- There's another point, too, one enunciated by retired General Tommy Franks, the officer who directed our invasion of Iraq. "If you want your grandchildren to grow...

The Saudi ambassador to London has reinforced controversial claims by the kingdom's royal family of a link between "Zionists" and recent al-Qaeda terror attacks in the country. In a television interview, to be broadcast today, Prince Turki al-Faisal is asked about comments made by Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia's de facto leader, that "Zionist hands" have been behind the attacks. The ambassador replies: "When you're under attack by people who come and kill your countrymen and visitors to your country, and you see at the same time an attack on the kingdom from the outside, from Zionist circles, it is...

LONDON - Police arrested 14 people on suspicion of terrorism offenses in raids around Britain Tuesday. The suspects' names and nationalities were not released. Four men were arrested in London, and four men and two women were arrested at two separate addresses in the university city of Cambridge, police said. Four men also were arrested in Dudley and Walsall in central England. All 14 were detained "on suspicion of involvement in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism," police said. The arrests in London came during raids on six homes and three businesses in the southwestern section of...

BAGHDAD — U.S. Army doctors are trying to repair the damage done to Iraqi medicine during the reign of Saddam Hussein when, as one doctor put it, “medicine stopped.” The soldier/physicians held a three-day clinic this week on emergency obstetrics, and there is hope that such professional development classes will become regular events and cover a wide range of topics. “Our doctors are very interested in these courses,” said Dr. Hassan Baker, general director for the ministry of health. “We’ll do as much as we can,” said Dr. (Lt. Col.) Mark Harris, division surgeon for the 1st Armored Division. “I...

Bush-Cheney '04 Blog Update: President Bush's Agenda Meaning Progress on Health Care and Economy but Democrat Leaders Choosing Obstruction October 24, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In a piece by the New York Post's John Podhoretz today, the difference between the President's agenda and Democrat leaders' obstruction was made clear. As a bill modeled after the President's plan to give seniors' prescription drug coverage appears close to passing, Democrat leaders in Washington have to choose between doing what's right for America's seniors or more political obstruction. But as Podhoretz points out, this isn't the only issue where Democrats are making the wrong...

Governor Vetoes Castration Bill Thu Jun 6, 8:48 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have made the state the first in the nation to sentence certain rapists to surgical castration. Keating, a Republican, said the legislation would violate the U.S. Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. "This bill provides an unnecessary and arguably unconstitutional punishment of surgical castration for second offenses of the type covered by the bill," Keating said in a brief statement to the legislators. "A more effective way of dealing with these offenders is to make...

With our deep passion for football, won't it be better if the Department of Defense is renamed to "Department of Offense" (lead by an Offensive Coordinator/Secretary, in charge of external affairs) and the new Homeland Security is renamed to "Department of Defense" (lead by a Defensive Coordinator/Secretary in charge of internal affairs).