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In a statement, Jon Nesvig, president for advertising sales for Fox Broadcasting in New York said that after the GoDaddy.com spot aired the first time, 'it became obvious that its content was out of step with the other ads and programming broadcast by Fox on Super Bowl Sunday, so Fox made the decision to drop the repeat airing.'GoDaddy.conm president Bob Parsons said that he called Fox executives to find out why his 2nd spot was not run and was told that National Football League execs 'ordered it to be pulled.'The commercial spot was filmed to look as if Super Bowl...

DENVER -- Colorado Gov. Bill Owens has removed an online pamphlet from the state Web site that offered advice in Spanish to illegal immigrants on living and working in Colorado. Titled "¡Entérese!" which means "Inform Yourself," the 50-page pamphlet was posted on the Colorado Department of Education Web site until Monday, when the governor's office had it removed after criticism from advocates for tighter borders.

WND EVOLUTION WATCH Smithsonian in uproar over intelligent-design article Museum researcher's career threatened after he published favorable piece Posted: January 29, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The career of a prominent researcher at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington is in jeopardy after he published a peer-reviewed article by a leading proponent of intelligent design, an alternative to evolutionary theory dismissed by the science and education establishment as a tool of religious conservatives. Stephen Meyer's article advocates the theory of intelligent design. (Photo courtesy Discovery Institute) Richard Sternberg says that although he continues to work...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) issued a statement on Thursday blasting soon to be former Homeland Security Sec. Tom Ridge after reports that funding for 2,000 additional border patrol agents mandated by the recently passed intelligence reform bill would likely not be included in the DHS budget proposal. "I'm disappointed but not surprised as Mr. Ridge has never taken border security too seriously," said Tancredo, head of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. "It's equivalent to denying a crime ridden city more officers for protection, it simply makes no sense." Tancredo also expressed concern that three years after...

When I telephoned a man named Ali Fadhil in Baghdad last week, I wondered who might answer. A C.I.A. operative? An American posing as an Iraqi? Someone paid by the Defense Department to support the war? Or simply an Iraqi with some mixed feelings about the American presence in Iraq? Until he picked up the phone, he was just a ghost on the Internet. The mystery began last month when I went online to see what Iraqis think about the war and the Jan. 30 national election. I stumbled into an ideological snake pit. Out of a list of 28...

Yes, the election is behind us, but it is not yet time to heal the wounds. We cannot let the Democrats forget the vitriol they spewed during the campaign. Their ugly tactics are part of history. Forget history and we repeat our mistakes. Remember Bob Woodward’s charge that President Bush and the Saudis had a secret “deal” to keep oil prices low in the run-up to the 2004 presidential election? (See also here). There is no documentation showing that such a deal was ever made. Historical oil and gas prices in 2004 provide empirical evidence that no such deal was...

WASHINGTON, JAN. 4, 2005—For the first time ever, the United States does not rank among the world’s 10 freest economies in the Index of Economic Freedom, published annually by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. The United States’ score in the 2005 Index, did not change from 2004. But improvements in the economies of Chile, Australia and Iceland enabled all three to surpass the United States, leaving it in a tie for 12th with Switzerland and out of the top 10 for the first time in the 11-year history of the Index. “The United States is resting on...

After the horrific loss of life in the Indian Ocean region from the record earthquake and resulting tsunami last week, I was struck by the immensity of what had happened. While scientists continue to argue over whether we can even measure mankind's influence on weather or climate in the face of naturally occurring hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, cold waves, blizzards, and floods, Mother Nature shows us that she still rules the day. There is no question that the Earth knows that humans live here -- six billion people are going to have some effect on the environment, no matter how...

Source: Ohio State University Date: 2004-12-24 Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson worries that he may have found clues that show history repeating itself, and if he is right, the result could have important implications to modern society. Thompson has spent his career trekking to the far corners of the world to find remote ice fields and then bring back cores drilled from their centers. Within those cores are the records of ancient climate from across the globe. From the mountains of data drawn by analyzing...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 5 -- When Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell certifies the state's final presidential election results, declaring President Bush the winner by about 119,000 votes, critics say they intend to present two challenges. Lawyers representing voters upset about problems at the polls plan to contest the results with the Ohio Supreme Court, citing documented cases of long lines, a shortage of machines and a pattern of problems in predominantly black neighborhoods. In addition, third-party candidates, bolstered by a favorable federal court ruling, plan to file requests for a recount in each of Ohio's 88 counties. About...

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A comprehensive four-year study of warming in the Arctic shows that heat-trapping gases from tailpipes and smokestacks around the world are contributing to profound environmental changes, including sharp retreats of glaciers and sea ice, thawing of permafrost and shifts in the weather, the oceans and the atmosphere. The study, commissioned by eight nations with Arctic territory, including the United States, says the changes are likely to harm native communities, wildlife and economic activity but also to offer some benefits, like longer growing seasons. The report is due to be released on Nov. 9, but portions were provided yesterday to The...

<p>Dirt-poor Mexican teen Rodrigo Perez Sanchez illegally crossed the border into the United States in 1971 in search of a good job and found his way to the Northwest. Since then, he's worked hard, acquired a house and a few thousand dollars in savings. He's also acquired a long criminal rap sheet, including convictions for first-degree rape, felony assault and two instances of DUI. That criminal history -- and three previous deportations -- made Perez Sanchez a target for investigators with Immigration and Customs Enforcement based in Seattle, who arrested him and 54 other illegal immigrants last month. Since June, arrests of illegal immigrants such as Perez Sanchez around Washington have fueled rumors of wholesale dragnets in which ICE officers indiscriminately arrest any Latino lacking proper papers. But high-level ICE officials say they have neither the interest nor the resources to conduct "sweeps" targeting otherwise law-abiding, undocumented immigrants. "We never, ever pull anyone over just because we think they might be illegal," said Blake Brown, supervisor of a six-person Detention and Removal squad that covers Washington, Oregon and Alaska. "Our interest is in arresting fugitives." A review by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of arrests by this squad between June 1 and Oct. 26 does not support the contention that ICE has been conducting indiscriminate dragnets. In that time period, the squad has arrested 94 people. Ninety-one of them were fugitives, defined as those who have failed to comply with a final order that they present themselves to be deported. Of the 91, 41 have criminal histories beyond immigration offenses, and 12 have been deported before. Three people without proper documentation that had neither a criminal history nor a fugitive warrant were arrested. Leigh Winchell, special agent in charge of ICE criminal investigations, also has responsibility for enforcing immigration laws. Winchell has fielded many calls generated by rumors of sweeps. "They are rumors -- no substance to them," Winchell said. And like his colleagues at ICE's Detention and Removal Operations, Winchell has to prioritize how his agents spend their time within their vast three-state turf. Winchell's agents are responsible for seaport security, anti-terrorism operations, money laundering, child pornography, narcotics, commercial fraud and illegal exports. "I need to have my agents focus on those persons who pose a threat either to national security or to the community at large. Therefore, when my agents start arresting people (on immigration charges), their focus is on those people who have a criminal impact on the community." But Magdaleno Rose-Avila, executive director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, is not convinced by statements from ICE executives or the arrest statistics. "As soon as we found out they were doing these sweeps, community groups raised their voices," said Rose-Avila. "Their statistics would have been very much different if we of the ICE Melt Coalition hadn't raised our voices. We were looking over their shoulder." ICE Melt is an ad hoc coalition of community organizations that came together to speak out for the rights of immigrants in the face of what they characterized as "sweeps" by ICE officers. Its leader is Carlos Marentes of the Committee for General Amnesty and Social Justice. Marentes says he is concerned about the fear the arrests have generated in the community. ICE officers "were going to apartment complexes, they were hanging out in shopping areas, even outside (English as second language) classes," Marentes said. "By doing these types of activities without any information at these types of locations, it was causing fear within the community." When asked how immigration arrests can be conducted within a community that includes a large number of illegal immigrants without causing fear, Marentes said: "There is no simple answer. We understand that they are doing their job. What we object to is their inability to communicate with the community that is impacted by their operations." Marentes said ICE Melt suggested to ICE officials that they conduct a forum with the community, but did not get one. "We declined to do a public forum," ICE spokesman Mike Milne said. "When you have community forums, the meetings generally are contentious and not a lot of good comes from them." But Milne said ICE did agree to meet with community "and we gave them assurances that we weren't doing random, wholesale sweeps." It was a targeted operation, based on investigative work, which led to the arrest in late September of convicted rapist Rodrigo Perez Sanchez on immigration charges. In an interview at ICE's Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Perez Sanchez described how easy it has been for him to return to the United States despite being deported three times. On one occasion, Perez Sanchez said, he "got drunk with a friend and was driving like this" and raised his hands aloft to demonstrate a weaving motion. "They stopped and arrested me and immigration showed up and deported me to Tijuana. "I just came back right away. I just walked around the gates at night." Perez Sanchez, now 54, said he had been back just two weeks when the same two immigration officers spotted him and deported him again to Tijuana. "I waited exactly one week and then me and another guy walked three or four hours, climbed a fence" and took a bus back to the Northwest. A few weeks ago, Perez Sanchez was on the job at a vitamin factory in Vancouver when a supervisor called him into the office. Two immigration officers where there to arrest him. "I said: 'What are you doing? I don't even have a parking ticket.' " But Perez Sanchez does have a conviction for felony assault as well as for first-degree rape of his 16-year-old stepdaughter. Perez Sanchez said he was drinking one day while his stepdaughter was using marijuana when he had sex with her. He admitted "having sex with her just one more time and that's it." When asked if the United States should allow someone with his criminal history to stay in the country, Perez Sanchez said: "A country is like a house. If you let bad people get into your house, you're going to corrupt your own people. I understand that." But since Perez Sanchez got out of prison in 1995, "I don't even have a parking ticket. I've tried to fix myself. Why don't they give me a chance." This time, it's not likely that Perez Sanchez will simply be deported again. Perez Sanchez was in U.S. District Court yesterday facing a felony charge of unlawful entry into the United States. If convicted, he's looking at two years in federal prison followed by deportation to Mexico.</p>

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Sunday rejected a proposal by U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry who has suggested supplying the Islamic state with nuclear fuel for power reactors if Tehran agrees to give up its own fuel-making capability. Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said it would be "irrational" for Iran to put its nuclear program in jeopardy by relying on supplies from abroad.

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October 3, 2004 How the White House Embraced Disputed Iraqi Arms IntelligenceBy DAVID BARSTOW, WILLIAM J. BROAD and JEFF GERTH his article was reported by David Barstow, William J. Broad and Jeff Gerth, and was written by Mr. Barstow. In 2002, at a crucial juncture on the path to war, senior members of the Bush administration gave a series of speeches and interviews in which they asserted that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear weapons program. In a speech to veterans that August, Vice President Dick Cheney said Mr. Hussein could have an atomic bomb "fairly soon." The next month,...

Lehrer Stacks Deck Against Bush Presidential debate moderator Jim Lehrer showed once again Thursday night why top aides to President Clinton used to call him "our moderator" when presidential debate time rolled around in 1996. The questions, which Lehrer announced at the outset had been authored exclusively by him, were supposed to help the American people determine which candidate would be a better steward of U.S. national security in a post-9/11 world. But there were no queries to Sen. Kerry about his long Senate record of voting against defense appropriations, or his sponsorship of a bill to cut CIA funding...

Top Bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahri has been caught in Pakistan, according to a report from the region quoted on Israel Radio Monday. Pakistani forces operating against al Qaida strongholds in the country report capturing the Egyptian national, who was formerly the head of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which operated in the past against the Egyptian regime. Earlier Monday, the US commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan Lieutenant-General David Barno told Reuters that there is little evidence of al Qaida fighters still in Afghanistan, and that Pakistan's crackdown on al Qaida-linked operatives has made life harder for fugitives hiding in...

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Mexico's newest border czar wants to begin building additional travel lanes at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border and to increase the number of border crossings into the United States — the first steps, he hopes, toward an open border with no checkpoints. Arturo Gonzalez Cruz, a Tijuana businessman named in April by President Vicente Fox as the Mexican Foreign Ministry's institutional liaison for northern border affairs, said access changes along the 1,940-mile U.S.-Mexico border were "necessary" to facilitate increased travel and trade between his country and the United States.