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David will take on Goliath, Mar. 13, as Southern Golden Gate Estates property owner Jesse Hardy fights the state of Florida for 160 acres of land he has called home for 27 years.Located in what is called the "Hole in the Donut," the property is part of the state's 55,000-acre buy-out to restore natural water flows to the SGGE, once slated for development.Hardy says his property is not necessary to the restoration project and will not be adversely affected by it."I'm not against any of the environmentalists' work to re-hydrate the Southern Golden Gate Estates," he says. "I'm all for...

The Justice Department . . . seems to be running amok. . . . This agency right now is the biggest threat to personal liberty in the country. —Republican conservative Dick Armey, former House majority leader, New Republic, October 21, 2002 This nation . . . has no right to expect that it always will have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. . . . [If] the calamities of war again befall us, the dangers to human liberty are frightful to contemplate. —United States Supreme Court, Ex Parte Milligan, 1866, declaring Abraham Lincoln's suspension...

Piscataway gets OK to condemn farmland December 3, 2002 By Patrick Jenkins, Star-Ledger Staff pjenkins@starledger.com 732-634-3607 To submit a Letter to the Editor: eletters@starledger.com The future of the Cornell Dairy Farm was decided yesterday when a state judge granted Piscataway the power to condemn property that has been at the center of a bitter, three-year legal battle between the Halper family and township officials. Superior Court Assignment Judge Robert Longhi rejected arguments by Halper attorney John J. Reilly to dismiss the condemnation proceeding. Longhi restated his ruling from June 2000 that Piscataway had a legitimate purpose in taking the 75-acre...

Hells Angels 'offended' to be linked to terrorism Authorities seized 'colours' at airport, then dropped case Adrian Humphreys National Post Thursday, January 16, 2003 The secretive airport seizure from a member of the Hells Angels that led prosecutors to consider charges under the Anti-Terrorism Act was simply the biker's jacket with the gang's insignia stitched to the back, the National Post has learned. The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club conducted an "internal investigation" after reports that an item seized from a Quebec member at Montreal's Dorval airport raised the spectre of the world's most notorious motorcycle gang being linked to terrorist...

Why is the government so resistant to a formal celebration of our founding freedoms? REVIEW-JOURNAL Americans make a big hubbub over the Fourth of July. True, the victory of 1781 was an amazing triumph, and the vision of those gathered in Philadelphia five years before -- that men may rightfully form or disband governments at will, for the higher purpose of protecting our God-given individual rights -- is still worth celebrating. But that confederation of free men ended on June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the new U.S. Constitution, making it the law of...

By Doug Fiedor December 15, 2002    Today, our Bill of Rights becomes 211 years old. These 461 words were intended to be the backbone for defense of what the Founding Fathers called our "unalienable" rights. And so they were, with only few exceptions, for nearly 147 years. Starting with the blatant and unconstitutional socialism of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, Washington has steadily eroded our rights. So, today, many of our so called "unalienable" rights are but privileges allowed or refused at the whim of a capricious central government, and some have been all but completely usurped by Washington....

I WANT YOU TO ATTEND THE BILL OF RIGHTS DAY CELEBRATION December 14, 2002 In Loveland, Colorado At The Pulliam Building The annual Bill of Rights Day Celebration will be held on December 14, 2002 at the Pulliam Building 524 North Cleveland from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM. The evening will begin with a potluck dinner at 6:00 PM. The doors will open after 5:00 PM. After dinner, we will discuss the past, present and future of the Bill of Rights. The Fife and Drum Corps will be providing entertainment. If you are concerned that the War on Terrorism...

March 9, 2002 The city's oldest Sikh temple, a nexus for the Sikh community along the East Coast, was destroyed early yesterday morning when fire engulfed the building and injured six visiting priests, the authorities said. The temple, or gurdwara, at 95-30 118th Street in Richmond Hill, Queens, erupted in flames about 12:30 a.m. with about 25 people sleeping inside, fire officials said. The fire quickly spread to the priests' quarters and the attached cultural center, destroying a library of 15,000 books, they said. Five minutes after the first firefighters arrived, a second alarm was sounded, they said. A few...