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Sen. Barbara Boxer says women will die President Bush nominates a pro-life judge to the Supreme Court. Five thousand women a year will die if President Bush nominates a pro-life judge to the Supreme Court — that's the claim of liberal U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. And it's just a sample of the ramped-up rhetoric you can expect as Bush prepares to nominate a replacement for the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor. Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, said Boxer's claim of 5,000 deaths, made to an Associated Press reporter, pure fantasy. "Senator Boxer's reliance on...

On June 13, USA Today declared that “The debate’s over: Globe is Warming.” That’s another headline you can ignore. The world has been warming ever since the last Ice Age, but it is not rapidly warming in ways that threaten our existence, nor warming in a way that requires the industrialized nations to drastically cut back on their use of energy to avoid the many scenarios of catastrophe the Greens have been peddling since the 1980’s. Global warming is a classic scare campaign initiated by the Greens after a previous effort in the 1970s to influence public policy by declaring...

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) - A man who made threats and was seen leaving suspicious packages on an Amtrak train was being questioned Wednesday by the FBI as a bomb squad examined the items, police said. The man, described as Middle Eastern and in his mid-30s, was approached by an Amtrak ticket taker and apparently became agitated after being told he had missed his stop, Lt. Mark Gagan said. The man said "the train was going to fall into the sea and the train was going to disappear," according to Gagan. Business and homes in the area were evacuated after an...

Latin America: Odd, that as "popular" as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is said to be, he's so detested by Venezuelans that he can no longer go to baseball games without being booed by the whole stadium.

WARMING DEADLIER THAN HITLER May 14 2005 GLOBAL warming is a bigger threat to the world than Hitler, a leading historian has warned. Dr Jim Hunter told a conference on renewable energy that it would finish the job of the Highland Clearances Dr Hunter, former chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise, said Scottish communities would be obliterated over the next two generations by climate change. He said: 'Global warming is a more insidious and longer-term danger than Hitlerism,but it's one that could be far more deadly Dr Hunter added that windfarm objectors in the Highland and Western Isles were missing...

Asbestos and Alar are only two of many instances where vast sums were spent on hypothetical risk while science was ignored. In the past we used our natural resources freely. We took great pride in our ability to convert resources into products with a direct benefit to the public. We turned trees into houses, coal and iron into automobiles. Today we hear that we must stop using our economic resources. Scale back! Harvest fewer trees. Drill fewer oil wells. Use less fertilizer. Build no new power plants. Encourage the government to buy back land it once offered to its people,...

Bush makes a foxy pick By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - In a breathtaking victory for right-wing hawks, US President George W Bush has nominated Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton to become his next ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, widely considered the most unilateralist and least diplomatic of senior US officials during Bush's first term, will have to be confirmed by the US Senate, where some Democrats, a few of whom were said to be stunned by the nomination, are expected to put up a fight. One aide called the nomination "incredible", particularly...

LONDON (Reuters) - Sudan's ambassador wants to know why a cancer-causing dye that caused a food scare in Britain is named after his country, but no one seems to have an answer. Britain took 428 sauces, soaps and frozen meals off the shelves last week -- the biggest recall in UK history -- because a banned dye called Sudan 1 was found in a batch of chili powder used to make Worcestershire sauce. But that didn't please the country of the same name. Ambassador Hassan Abdin told Reuters his embassy had written to the Food Standards Agency asking for an...

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The Aberdeen Police Department and Aberdeen Fire and Rescue were called to the Brown County Courthouse Tuesday for a complaint of a suspicious substance. Aberdeen Fire and Rescue shift commander Roger Bortnem said an employee reported the substance at approximately 3 p.m. The hazardous materials team was released to investigate. The substance turned out to be lint from Kleenex. "It was an innocent mistake," Bortnem said. "Rather safe than sorry." No further details were available.

Bush Wins Election--If Kerry Doesn't Cheat Written by Isaiah Sterrett Thursday, October 28, 2004 Next Tuesday, when millions of Americans make a choice that will forever affect America and the world, George W. Bush will be reelected--assuming that Sen. Kerry and his thugs don’t attempt to rip off the people by cheating. This is not the worry of an alarmist partisan looking for excuses; this is the worry of someone who was alive four years ago. The Supreme Court can be a pretty loopy bunch, especially since Clinton added Ginsburg. But in 2000, the justices broke precedent and did their...

MORE SCARE TACTICS FROM THE LEFT Yesterday, John Edwards spoke during two stops around Ohio before largely black crowds in Cincinnati and Dayton. He warned that there were "forces against us" trying to keep supporters of The Poodle from voting. Then, The Tort King reassured the party faithful by saying "We are going to make sure if you want to vote you are going to get to cast a ballot." Sounds like there might be trouble on Election Day. But there won't be. The fact is he was lying. The Democrats have successfully repeated the myth and the media has...

A draft wouldn’t sit well with many college students who were polled at random on Wednesday in Springfield. "I'm not for the draft," said one. "It would be very scary and difficult to accept,” said another. It also wouldn’t sit well with some parents. "I'm not going to send them off to war,” said Valerie Griffin. “It's ridiculous. If they choose to go to the military, that's their choice." Griffin opposes the idea of her sons being sent off to war as mandated by the government, a concern sparked by an e-mail message. "I was panicked," she said. The e-mail...

Elect George Bush, some Kerry surrogates said last week, and you or your children will be drafted to fight in Iraq. Inspiring fear in voters seems to be in political vogue this fall. (Cheney has since amended his comments to say he meant to argue that Bush has a more serious approach to deterring terrorists than does Kerry.)

Tuesday, June 29, 6:03 p.m. By Bob Reynolds, Terror Scare in Luzerne County State and federal investigators surrounded a van not far from the nuclear power plant near Berwick Tuesday. It happened after a group of five men asked for directions to the plant, saying they wanted to go fishing. At a time the whole nation is on high alert, the terror scare hit close to home. Five men, four from Bangladesh and one from Pakistan were pulled over on Route 11 around 11:00 Tuesday morning. All the men live in New York City. Police wanted to know if they...

DENVER - The mad cow scare has widened a division between some ranchers and meatpackers over a law set to take effect this fall that will require labels identifying U.S.-produced beef sold in grocery stores.   Ranchers say it's more important than ever for their products to be labeled to bolster consumer confidence. Meatpackers, however, want a two-year delay in the law's implementation, contending it will require an expensive tracking system and may limit free trade without making meat any safer. Right now, consumers don't know the history of beef products in the grocery store freezer; beef produced in the...

Chinese Sars scare gathers pace The case is not yet confirmed China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have stepped up their screening of travellers following a suspected case of Sars in southern China. Chinese health officials say a man from Guangdong province with symptoms of Sars is in a stable condition. He and medical staff who had contact with him have been quarantined. The World Health Organisation is sending an expert to Beijing to review what it called the confusing results of initial tests on the man. "So far the tests have been mixed, in testing done so far there have...

World wide alert in new Sars scare A new Sars threat has been revealed after an infected Taiwanese military scientist did not go into strict home quarantine after becoming sick and two of his colleagues travelled to the United States. A search has also started for for five foreigners who travelled on the same plane as the infected man - a medical researcher - more than a week ago. So far, at least 90 people in Taiwan and Singapore have been quarantined, though none have developed Sars symptoms. The developments raise disturbing questions about decisions made by the 44-year-old patient...

The U.S. Postal Service shut down 11 postal facilities in the Washington area late on Thursday after preliminary tests indicated possible anthrax at a U.S. Navy mail handling center, officials said. The Navy closed the automated mail handling operation at its naval air station in Washington on Thursday to run additional tests after sensors detected traces of a substance that could be anthrax, a Navy spokeswoman said. The substance was identified late on Wednesday by equipment that routinely samples the air in the facility and preliminary tests indicated that it could possibly be anthrax, a deadly bacterial disease, Lt. Corey...

Guantanamo interviews to be revised in spy scare By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 06/10/2003) A line-by-line review has been ordered of every interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp involving an air force interpreter suspected of espionage and treason. Intelligence officers face the nightmare prospect that Ahmad al-Halabi, a Syrian-born linguist who served at the camp in Cuba for eight months, may have edited or deliberately distorted information given by al-Qa'eda and Taliban suspects during interrogation sessions.Tapes of those interrogations - some lasting hours - are being freshly translated. "If the subject answered 'five' and [Halabi] told interrogators he...