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Sherman woman, two kids slain; husband turns self in Sherman police say man had surgery for self-inflicted cuts10:42 PM CST on Saturday, March 27, 2004By JASON TRAHAN and TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News SHERMAN – A father with self-inflicted cuts walked into the Sherman police headquarters Saturday and turned himself in hours after his estranged wife and her two children were found stabbed to death. Laura Christine Thomas, 20, was discovered about 7:30 a.m. by her father, Paul Boren, at the Arrow Wood Apartments at 1200 W. Taylor St. in Sherman. He also found the bodies of his...

Official: Kerry failed to act on pre-9/11 tip 3rd agent to say he warned security lapses made Boston airport ripe for 'jihad' attack WASHINGTON - A third federal aviation-security agent, one still with the government, has stepped forward to say he also warned Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry about security lapses at Boston's Logan International Airport before the 9/11 hijackings there. Earlier this week, two former FAA agents said the Democratic presidential hopeful failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his home airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings. Brian Sullivan, a retired special agent from...

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel...

Milwaukee - 02.04.04 By now you know that the veto override fell short by just one vote. What happened yesterday is very interesting, and demonstrates what we need to do to get a concealed carry bill passed. The Assembly went into session at about 11am and, as usual, the two parties went into caucus. However, the Democrats stayed in caucus for several hours, a sign that the Democrat leadership didn't know if they had the votes to sustain Governor Doyle's veto. Early in the afternoon, word filtered out that the Democrat leadership was putting pressure on Representative Barbara Gronemus, one...

The lobbying pressure is on Wisconsin Assembly Democrats as the lower house's Republican leadership Wednesday, for the second time, delayed a vote on overriding Governor Doyle's veto of a bill allowing Wisconsin residents to carry concealed weapons. The vote is bringing a flood of communications to assembly lawmakers both for and against the concealed carry bill. The Senate approved the override last week with one more vote than the necessary two-thirds. If the Assembly approves the override by a two-thirds majority, the bill will become law despite Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s veto. The Assembly originally placed the vote on Tuesday’s...

"War is cruelty. You cannot refine it." That's what Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman told Atlanta officials in 1864. But the U.S. armed forces during the past month routed both Iraq's army and nearly 140 years of military doctrine. Sherman was a military innovator, consciously going against the tradition of not waging war on civilians. During 1863, his forces in Mississippi pillaged and burned towns. In 1864 in Georgia, he ordered his men to "burn 10 or 12 houses of known secessionists, kill a few at random, and let them know it will be repeated every time a train is...

The First Day April 6, 1862 With the loss of Forts Henry and Donelson in February, General Johnston withdrew his disheartened Confederate forces into west Tennessee, northern Mississippi and Alabama to reorganize. In early March, General Halleck responded by ordering General Grant to advance his Union Army of West Tennessee on an invasion up the Tennessee River. Occupying Pittsburg Landing, Grant entertained no thought of a Confederate attack. Halleck's instructions were that following the arrival of General Buell's Army of the Ohio from Nashville, Grant would advance south in a joint offensive to seize the Memphis & Charleston Railroad,...

Dear Lord, There's a young man far from home, called to serve his nation in time of war; sent to defend our freedom on some distant foreign shore. We pray You keep him safe, we pray You keep him strong, we pray You send him safely home ... for he's been away so long. There's a young woman far from home, serving her nation with pride. Her step is strong, her step is sure, there is courage in every stride. We pray You keep her safe, we pray You keep her strong, we pray You send her safely home...

  The War Lover by Clyde Wilson The American Enterprise magazine, a slick-paper, coffee-table arm of the neocon publishing empire, has recognized the premiere of the Civil War film epic "Gods and Generals" by devoting its March issue to the Late Unpleasantness. TAE brings out some deep thinkers to examine American history 1861 ? 1865 under the rubric "Just War." (Shouldn't there be a question mark in that title? Just for the sake of suspense, if nothing else.) A proverbial put-down of historical works which presume to be original and important goes like this: the part that is original is not accurate...

<!-- a{text-decoration:none} //--> CONTENT="">   The Other Reparations Movement by Thomas J. DiLorenzoJack Kershaw of Memphis, Tennessee, wants to file a class-action lawsuit against the US government for reparations. Not on behalf of the descendants of slaves but on behalf of Southerners of all races whose ancestors were the victims of the US government’s rampage of pillaging, plundering, burning, and raping of Southern civilians during the War for Southern Independence.   Sherman the Mass Murderer   In 1860 international law – and the US government’s own military code – prohibited the intentional targeting of civilians in war, although it...