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BELLEVUE -- The latest flare-up over Christmas trees in public places has longtime Bellevue chiropractor and resident Sidney Stock protesting the large tree standing in the lobby of City Hall. The tree is a symbol of Christianity, Stock and his wife, Jennifer, told City Council members this week. They said it is inappropriate to display symbols of any religion in a public place. Their objection follows a recent flap over Christmas trees at branch libraries in the King County Library System, which first banned trees then decided to allow them at the discretion of branch librarians. ``I think it's inappropriate,''...

McPhail announces candidacy for 2005 Detroit mayoral election 12/14/2004, 8:29 p.m. ET The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Detroit City Council member Sharon McPhail held a Tuesday evening rally to kick off her campaign for the city's 2005 mayoral election. McPhail announced her candidacy along with former Detroit Police Chief Benny Napolean, who is running as McPhail's choice for the appointed Deputy Mayor position. The pair has adopted the campaign theme "Elect the Power of 2." "We multiply possibility by two, we multiply strength by 2, we multiply hope by two," McPhail told supporters gathered at the rally. "Walk with...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Al Qaida may have tried to kill former President Clinton, apparently while he was in office, and perhaps planned further attempts on world leaders, United Press International has learned. Specific references to Clinton were found among handwritten notes and sketches of U.S. Secret Service protective methods recovered from the Shomali compound near Kabul where al Qaida members received specialized training in assassination and hostage taking. "We have attempted to kill Clinton, but failed," documents in Arabic released exclusively to United Press International Monday state. Although the text indicates the attack was planned around some...

Voting irregularities were few in Minnesota this year -- until it really counted. Defeated Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry likely is going to get one less electoral vote nationally than he should have -- 251 instead of 252 -- because of an apparent mistake Monday by one of Minnesota's 10 DFL electors. One of the 10 handwritten ballots cast for president carried the name of vice presidential candidate John Edwards (actually spelled "Ewards" on the ballot) rather than Kerry. "I was shocked ... this will go in the history books," said Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer, who presided over a...

Paula Zahn Gripe Leads to Arrest December 14, 2004 10:54 PM EST NEW YORK - An advocate for two red-tailed hawks evicted last week from their nest at a luxury Manhattan apartment building was arrested Tuesday and charged with harassing CNN anchor Paula Zahn, who lives in the building, and her family, law enforcement sources said. Lincoln Karim, 43, was arrested by plainclothes detectives as he prepared to lead a demonstration outside Zahn's Fifth Avenue building across from Central Park. Karim, a video engineer for Associated Press Television News who was on vacation Tuesday, was charged with multiple counts of...

Boxer criticizes vetting of security nominee She also speaks out on drugs in baseball and Rumsfeld's war Sen. Barbara Boxer warned Monday that Americans "should feel concerned" about the administration's "very bad job of vetting" Bernard Kerik, who withdrew as President Bush's nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security last week within days of his selection because of questions about his career and personal life. "They're not doing their job over there," Boxer, D-Calif., said of the White House in reaction to the embarrassing developments over Kerik, whose troubles included a failure to disclose immigration problems and pay taxes...

The Ohio delegation to the Electoral College cast its votes for President Bush on Monday, hours after dissident groups asked the state Supreme Court to review the outcome of the state's presidential race. The 20 GOP electors voted unanimously for Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. "The vast majority of people understand this election is over," said Gov. Bob Taft, who was at the electors' voting session in the state Senate chamber. The challengers who went to the Supreme Court question whether Bush won the key swing state by 119,000 votes, guaranteeing his victory over Democrat John Kerry. The court...

Washington, DC, -- Sen. Hillary Clinton's hard-line against illegal immigration is seen by some as the Democrat's attempt to solidify support for a 2008 presidential bid. Clinton, D-N.Y., who has received the liberal moniker for her efforts as first lady in the 1990s, may be trying to win support in conservative states by coming out against illegal immigration, the Washington Times reported Monday. In fact, the paper reported, Clinton's stance is more conservative than President Bush's, calling for an entry and exit ID system for immigrants.

Walk onto the popular-music floor of Virgin Records in midtown Manhattan, and you encounter, as you’d expect, kids with shoulder tattoos and pierced body parts, wandering through rows of the latest hip-hop, altrock, and heavy-metal CDs as heavily amplified beats thunder. At the checkout counter, though, is a surprise. A single book is on display: perennial radical Noam Chomsky’s latest anti-American screed, 9/11—an impulse item for the in-your-face slackers of the Third Millennium. Strictly speaking, 9/11 is a non-book, a hastily assembled collection of fawning interviews with Chomsky conducted after the terrorist attack on New York City and the country,...

The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle There’s a famous definition in the Gospels of the hypocrite, and the hypocrite is the person who refuses to apply to himself the standards he applies to others. By that standard, the entire commentary and discussion of the so-called War on Terror is pure hypocrisy, virtually without exception. Can anybody understand that? No, they can’t understand it. —Noam Chomsky, Power and Terror, 2003 Noam Chomsky was the most conspicuous American intellectual to rationalize the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The death toll, he argued, was minor compared to...

www.frontpagemag.com       Return to normal view The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky FrontPageMagazine.com | September 26, 2001URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/horowitz/2001/dh09-26-01p.htm WITHOUT QUESTION, the most devious, the most dishonest and -- in this hour of his nation’s grave crisis – the most treacherous intellect in America belongs to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. On the 150 campuses that have mounted "teach-ins" and rallies against America’s right to defend herself; on the streets of Genoa and Seattle where "anti-globalist" anarchists have attacked the symbols of markets and world trade; among the demonstrators at Vieques who wish to deny our military its training grounds; and wherever...

This news release was issued... our people are at the ER right now... shouldn't be anything serious - making sure no broken bones or fractures... RECALL SUPPORTERS ATTACKED IN SACRAMENTO PROTEST AT TAXPAYER-FUNDED ANTI-RECALL WORKSHOP TURNS VIOLENT - DAVIS THUGS ATTACK RECALL SUPPORTERS ATTACK CAUGHT BY FOX NEWS CHANNEL CREW Charges To Be Filed as Recall Supporters Rushed to Emergency Room (SACRAMENTO) – Recall Gray Davis supporters were violently attacked a little more than one hour ago by Gray Davis supporters. Those who were assaulted have been taken to a local hospital emergency room in Sacramento. A protest was underway...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai predicted Sunday that luck would play a role in catching terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, but he promised "we will get him sooner or later." Karzai, hand-picked by the Bush administration as interim leader before he handily won election to the presidency in October, told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" that he believed bin Laden was still "around the region." "No fugitive can run forever," he said. "We will get him sooner or later. And trust me on that. We will do that. "In terms of the specifics of the Afghan nation and the coalition...

Over the past few months, I've seen numerous posts from concerned parents and friends of members of our armed forces about what these brave men and women really need. Here is a list I came across this AM and it makes more sense than any I've seen. For those interested in buying some of this stuff it can be found on line at places like www.cheaperthandirt.com www.brigadequartermasters.com or www.blackhawktactical.com

To the Editor: Re "Directions for the Democrats" (Op-Ed, Dec. 8): We Democrats should start by recommitting ourselves to the party and what it stands for. Rather than connect his campaign with the record of the Democratic Party, John Kerry constantly said that he and John Edwards "had a plan." Voters need to be reminded that the Democratic Party brought them Social Security, Medicare, environmental protection and civil rights. Because of these successes, the party can be counted on to deliver a foreign policy that develops peaceful relations with the international community, a domestic platform nurturing families young and old...

Go to this link and click "Contact Us" near the bottom. http://www.historychannel.com/global/feedback/faq.jsp?NetwCode=THC&level_1=nodes_38&level_2=nodes_71&level_3=nodes_86&x=27&y=19 A Letter to the History Channel (feel free to copy, paste and edit): To Whom it May Concern - I would like to express my displeasure with your recently broadcast program about the life of Benjamin Franklin. One-hundred-five minutes into the 120 minute broadcast is when the comment of one of your "experts" completely ruined and brought into question the veracity of the entire program. The comments by this "expert" demonstrate either a historical error made the the HISTORY Channel, or an attempt by the HISTORY Channel to...

The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Democratic soul-searchingBy Donald LambroPublished December 9, 2004 The Democratic governors were in town the other day to talk about why Democrats keep losing presidential elections and what can be done to stop their party's political erosion.     Ironically, one of their complaints was that their party has become too Washington-fixated, though this is where they decided to hold their daylong strategy sessions. But this is where the national news media is, and they were looking for some attention and knew they wouldn't get it if they met in Altoona or Cleveland.     Even so, many of them,...

"U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, promoting his life-long passion for the U.S. Constitution, has inserted into a massive federal spending bill a requirement that schools devote at least part of a day each year to teaching about the document," according to the Los Angeles Times. "The provision applies to all schools, elementary through college, that receive federal aid. Education groups worry the provision could be the opening wedge in a campaign by Washington to influence what schools teach." In the Cato Handbook for Congress, David Salisbury, director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom, writes: "The U.S. Constitution gives Congress no authority...

It's recently been said that political correctness is inverted McCarthyism. Well, this is not going to be politically correct. But I need to say the following, and hope it is heard by someone. I'm really not very political, even though I take an almost obsessive interest in what's going on in the world of politics. I liked and agreed with Charles Colson's comment in the Patriot Newsletter the other day saying that, no matter who the president is, or how competent he might be, the Kingdom of God will not be found in Washinton. Even so, it just irritates and...