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Friday, the city would temporarily halt all indoor dining, reduce the capacity of fitness centers and movie theaters, and pause the reopening of indoor instruction at high schools..., the Department of Public Health said it would work with high schools that want to reopen in an outdoor setting. "I know this is not the news our residents and businesses wanted to hear, but as I've said all along, we are making decisions based on the data we're seeing on the ground. Right now, our public health officials are telling us we need to take these steps to get the virus...

 First order of business: Thank you Florida! People there are still cleaning up after the hurricanes and some still do not have proper residences. Yet they took the time to stand in line to vote. We should all take the time to send a note of thanks to a friend in Florida. Y'all see all the red on that USA Today map? Check out the difference between the 2000 map and this year's.[1] Dubya is the first President to be re-elected and gain seats in both the House and Senate since 1936. The last President to receive an outright majority...

Howard Dean's experiments on children Posted: December 12, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By Cliff Kincaid© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com While Howard Dean is a Northeastern liberal, he's no Michael Dukakis. So says William Kristol of the Weekly Standard, writing in the Washington Post about Dean's chances to win in 2004. In 1988, the former Massachusetts governor lost to George H.W. Bush after being branded a dreaded "Massachusetts liberal." By contrast, the media have labeled Dean a "conservative" or "centrist" on some issues. But the truth about Dean's embrace of the radical homosexual agenda could put the former Vermont governor on the far, far left side...

CONCORD – Before Rev. V. Gene Robinson was making national headlines as the Episcopal Church’s first elected gay bishop, he helped Ryan Bolin deal with being young, Christian and homosexual. “I had a real hard time reconciling being gay and being Christian at the time,” said Bolin, who met Robinson at Concord Outright in 1995. Robinson was working as assistant to the current Bishop Douglas Theuner when he helped launch Concord Outright. Bolin, 17 at the time, said Robinson was very caring and respectful. “He helped me out with the bigger picture. He made me feel very welcome and very...

<p>A horror story has surfaced in the liberal bastion of Madison, Wis., that illustrates how destructive bilingual education can be at least for one immigrant student.</p> <p>Our story centers on 15-year-old Kiet Tran, who moved to the United States last year after his Vietnamese mother married John Gardner of Madison. The teenager didn't understand English, so Madison public school officials placed him in a bilingual education class &#8212; for Spanish speakers.</p>

<p>A homosexual clergyman's election as Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire was delayed yesterday as church officials investigated his links to a homosexual youth group and charges that he sexually harassed another man.</p> <p>Episcopal leaders meeting in Minneapolis had been scheduled to vote to approve Canon V. Gene Robinson as the church's first openly homosexual bishop until the 11th-hour accusation by a Vermont man, who said Mr. Robinson's advances toward him at a church convention showed an "alarming weakness of character."</p>

Episcopalian Vote on Gay Bishop Postponed Reuters Monday, August 4, 2003; 7:57 PM By Sarah Tippit MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Episcopal bishops postponed a vote at the last minute on Monday on the church's first openly gay bishop to investigate charges of sexual misconduct. "We have two concerns: one, his relationship to the Web site of Outright.org, and two, an e-mail accusation of inappropriate conduct circulated to a group of bishops," New Hampshire Bishop Douglas Theuner told his fellow [snip]...in reference to the Rev. Gene Robinson, who was set to succeed him as Bishop of New Hampshire. ...[snip] A highly visible...

Fistgate IV will be held again on March 15 to teach teenagers how to play with the sexual organs of other students.The first Fistgate was in 2000 and caused waves of protests from parents and others. It was exposed by the Parents Rights Coalition which taped part of the scandal so that people would finally understand what was happening, and by MassNews which reported it.The homosexual community has said that its agenda was badly damaged by the scandal. It was almost unable to find a location for the event in 2001, but Tufts University finally did let them use its...

Episcopalian bishop-elect Gene Robinson has some curious affiliations. by Fred Barnes 08/04/2003 2:48:00 PM Fred Barnes, executive editor THE CONTROVERSIAL gay Episcopal bishop-elect of New Hampshire is a founder of a group called Outright that supports gay, lesbian, or "questioning" young people 22-years-old or younger and gets them together with older gay and lesbian role models. On its website, Outright had a link to a pornographic website--until the link became an issue in the fight at the Episcopal Church's national convention in Minneapolis over ratifying the election of the bishop-elect, Gene Robinson, by New Hampshire Episcopalians. The link, indeed all...