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See for example this thread first. The Feds are now set to announce on Cross-border drugs they will pounce not drugs from señors but those for seniors will Viagra get street-sold by the ounce?

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(AgapePress) - A Navy chaplain says God answered his prayers this weekend when his superior officers permitted him to wear his uniform while publicly praying in a manner in accordance with his Christian faith. For 18 days Lieutenant Gordon James Klingenschmitt conducted a hunger strike to protest the U.S. Navy's policy of not permitting Christian chaplains to pray in the name of Jesus in public. Klingenschmitt had been stripped of uniform and faced the possible termination of his 14-year military career, partly because he has defied military policy by continuing to pray publicly in the name of Jesus. On December...

Make up of the 13 federal appellate courts. There are currently 15 vacancies on the 11 numbered appellate courts plus the DC Circuit and the Federal Circuit. There are no vacancies on the First, Second, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, and Federal circuits. The Ninth has 4 vacancies, the DC circuit has 3, and with Judge Alito's promotion the 3rd circuit has 3. Of the 179 active judge positions, 60 have been appointed by Bill Clinton(33%). GW Bush has appointed 22%(39), Reagan 17%(30), GHW Bush 16%(28), Carter 3%(6), Nixon 0.5%(1). 8%(15) of the seats are vacant, with 3 nominations pending(Saad, Myers, and...

Iraq admitted in 1995 that it had produced nearly four tons of VX, but UN inspectors believed Saddam had imported 600 tons of VX precursors -- enough to produce 200 tons of the nerve agent. VX was clearly important to the regime. According to UNMOVIC’s March 6, 2003 report, [i]n a top secret letter, written in 1987 by the Director-General of Al Muthanna [a large chemical weapons production and storage facility near Baghdad] to senior government officials, the importance of the agent to Iraq was recognized. In the letter, VX was compared to a nuclear weapon: “two tons carried by...

I have to admit that although I'm an avid reader of current events, I have *not* been a good student of history. What I'd love to read now is History regarding Western Civilization and history on the United States. While I'm not particularly looking for a 'conversative' history per se, I am most definitely want to avoid PC history or revisionist history. (BTW, I remember years ago reading a revisionist history book on the U.S., slamming Christopher Columbus, Washington, and Jefferson. My naive, pre-FReeper days in the '80s!!) I'm cheap and enjoy reading things off the web, so a good...

Okay fellow FReeper Researchers! I love doing research here on FreeRepublic. But I am always in search of new Research sites. So… Here are some of the sites I use when I am researching. What are your favorite research sites? Black Book Online: Bankruptcies, reverse look-ups, phone directories, real estate, businesses, death records, criminal records, sex offenders, state records, federal records, non-profits, aviation, vessels. Global Environmental Policy Research Tools: General information on using the internet for environmental research (including other collections of web resources), International governmental collaboration (treaties, international organizations, ...), Nongovernmental organizations, Information on National Governments (sorted by region), ...

Pete Carnley lets the cat out of the bag: With its composition still in the planning stage, the Panel of Reference envisioned by the primates will help people deal “eye-to-eye,” rather than through the media, according to its chairman, the Most Rev. Peter F. Carnley. “That’s been one of the problems of our Communion over the last decade or so,” Archbishop Carnley said. “We’ve been communicating to each other by talking about one another through the media rather than speaking with one another. I see mediation in those terms: encouraging conversation.” Anglicans are going to solve all their problems by...

The World Factbook 2005 is now available on the Central Intelligence Agency Web site CIA). The World Factbook remains the CIA's most widely disseminated and most popular product, now averaging more than 6 million visits each month. In addition, tens of thousands of government, commercial, academic, and other Web sites link to or replicate the online version of the Factbook. Although this reference site provides information as of 1 January 2005, it will be updated biweekly throughout the year to provide wide-ranging and hard-to-locate information about the background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for countries...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

2004.11 VANNROX BOOKMARK ARCHIVESINCLUDES 2004 ELECTION POSTS BUSH-HATING DEMS MUST FIND NEW WAYhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270007/posts Candidate's disappearing yard signs reappear - at the dumphttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1206479/posts 'THOUGHT CONTROL' ALLEGED -Teachers who protest anthem to undergo 'retraining'http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189193/posts Al-Qaeda group downs US spy planehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1214458/posts Al-Qaeda group downs US spy planehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1214458/posts NC License Issue Explodes: Illegal Alien Gang Rape Suspects had Valid NC Licensehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1261858/posts US 'will not free' Iraq scientisthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223366/posts 'Bush likes war, makes and creates war' - (Sentiment abroad)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203284/posts 'EARLY BIRDS' BACKING BUSHhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1258420/posts A Few of FR's Finest...Every Day...10-27-04...."Writer33 ~ Defining a Conservative"http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1258512/posts CBS FORGES AHEADhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1215359/posts CONGRESS BIGS NIX PROBE INTO 'RATHERGATE'http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1217528/posts KILLER EFFORT TO...

It lays claim to being the greatest cultural enterprise on earth. But there was no champagne, red carpets or air kisses when it was launched yesterday.This was not a Hollywood film or a fashion range. The celebrations were for a new book - and they made a vicarage tea party look like a rave. Brian Harrison [left] and Robert Faber The editor, Brian Harrison, retiring (in both senses of the word) professor of Modern History at Oxford, sat behind a stack of the blue buckram-covered volumes, politely answered a few questions and concluded that posterity would be the judge...

The Persian Wars may be famed in history, but few artifacts and material remains have emerged to shed light on how the ancient Greeks defeated the Asian invaders and saved Europe in what scholars call one of the first great victories of freedom over tyranny. It is well known that a deadly warship of antiquity, the trireme, a fast galley powered by three banks of rowers pulling up to 200 oars, played a crucial role in the fierce battles. Its bronze ram could smash enemy ships, and armed soldiers could leap aboard a foe's vessel in hand-to-hand combat with...

<p>In the next few days or weeks, one of the world's most comprehensive online reference sites will publish its 200,000th article. More accurately, one of the site's contributors will publish the article.</p> <p>Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), an encyclopedia created and operated by volunteers, is one of the most fascinating developments of the Digital Age. In just over three years of existence, it has become a valuable resource and an example of how the grass roots in today's interconnected world can do extraordinary things.</p>

The case centers on Trevor Richards, a junior at Westside High School, who moved from Johannesburg to Nebraska six years ago. Richards and his classmates, 16-year-old twins Paul and Scott Rambo, were booted from classes last week after distributing posters touting Trevor as a candidate for Westside High's "Distinguished African-American Student" award on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

This is a small collection of links, organized into four consecutive categories:1- A look back from now. 2- The 9-11 attack "as it went down, live..."3- The aftermath.4- Remembrance.As with all such posts, there are links within links within links, and to fully remember and inform yourself, you need to follow them all- but be warned! Some will take you to gruesome pictures and disturbing stories, so tread carefully.I honestly believe that most Americans need to view these things, and never forget, or forgive, what was visited on defenseless and innocent people on that black day.Use your own judgement, but...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925952/posts Alert Issued as U.S. Monkeypox Cases Grow to 37     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/925554/posts?page=39#39 Officials Scramble to Contain Monkeypox   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925529/posts Medical Alert (Global SARS Response & Bioterror Preparedness)     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925177/posts West Nile virus crops up early     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/924577/posts Identifying A Killer   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/922928/posts New kids' respiratory virusNews 24 (South Africa) ^           http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925789/posts Germ research gets urgent     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/924937/posts MYSTERY DISEASE KILLS 19 INDIAN INFANTS     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/921908/posts Researchers Discover Possible Diagnosis, Treatment, Vaccine For Mad Cow, Prion Diseases   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/916640/posts Cats Likely Source of SARS, Say Researchers (Chinese delicacy likely source of...

INFORMATION LINKS:United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention World Health Organization (WHO) International Society for Infectious Diseases (ProMed)SARS Info Centerper loin’s Charts and Graphs FREE REPUBLIC THREADS: November 10, 2001 1. Colorado Governor Orders Post Office Shut Down After Employee Hospitalized for PneumoniaNovember 21, 2001 2. Odd Pneumonia in SverdlovskFebruary 12, 2003 3. Fear spreads in China over mystery lung virus March 10 – 16 4. Precognition (Mother Abigail) 5. First Known Case of Atypical Pneumonia in Europe Quarantined in Frankfurt (with 155 passengers) 6. UN Warns of Worldwide Threat from Killer Pneumonia 7. UN warns of worldwide threat...

OK, let's create one master reference thread for our favorite classic political pictures. I keep seeing requests inside of threads for particular pictures, so how about we post our favorites here, and then if someone still can't find what they are looking for they can request it in a post here. Bookmark for future reference. Here are some of my favorites to start things off: Anyone got the version where his ears are wiggling? And my all-time favorite Bush photo

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 Full official text - Roadmap Full official text - Roadmap http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/20062.htm Press Statement Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC April 30, 2003 [IMRA: This is consistent with previous versions that have been available. Under the roadmap the Palestinians make declarations, "start" taking actions, but have no obligation to actually achieve anything significant regarding ending the terror infrastructure. In sharp contrast, Israel is expected to stop defending itself (no action against "civilians" when terrorists are considered "civilians") and be silent regarding Palestinain violations ("All official Israeli institutions end incitement against Palestinians."). The roadmap represents a major achievement...