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Kerry campaign:"There was no terrorism in Iraq before we went to war."CIA Analysis, January 2003: Iraqi Support for Terrorism, (p.   314 of Senate Intel Report):"Iraq has a long history of supporting terrorism."Kerry campaign:"There was no terrorism in Iraq before we went to war."CIA Analysis, January 2003--Iraqi Support for Terrorism, (p. 314 of Senate Intel Report):"Iraq continues to be a safehaven, transit point, or operational node for groups and individuals who direct violence against the United States, Israel and other allies."Kerry campaign:"There was no terrorism in Iraq before we went to war."Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Report (p. 315):"The CIA...

New York THOUGH IT'S BEEN SOME TIME since official Baldwin Brother Rankings were released, most Baldwinologists agree that of the acting Baldwin brothers, Stephen Baldwin is generally stalled in third place. The fame index has him ahead of black-sheep Baldwin brother, Daniel--he of the naked, crack-fueled Plaza hotel rampage of 1998. But he's still slightly behind Brother Billy, the Dreamboat / Creative-Coalition-helming / Chynna Phillips-marrying Baldwin. And he's way behind Alec, the Baldwin who best exemplifies the A-List and A-hole version of a Baldwin brother. (It was chronically outspoken Alec who once called Al D'Amato "the bozo pool attendant from...

Peter Sprigg begins his new book on same-sex marriage, Outrage, with a paradox: Most Americans oppose it, "yet in terms of political action, the pro-family, pro-marriage majority has been strangely muted." Sprigg attributes this to a lack of intellectual ammunition and aims to remedy that deficiency with this book. He is certainly qualified to do so. Director of the Center for Marriage and Family Studies at the Family Research Council (FRC), Sprigg has also co-authored a more scholarly book published by FRC that assembles the scientific research on homosexuality. Some highlights of that research provide the factual foundation for...

An Indian theoretical physicist who questioned the existence of black holes and thereby challenged Stephen Hawking of Britain at last feels vindicated. But he is sad. Abhas Mitra, at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, was perhaps the first and the only scientist who had the guts to openly challenge Hawking of Cambridge University who is regarded by many as the modern-day Einstein. For over 30 years Hawking and his followers were perpetuating the theory that black holes -- resulting from gravitational collapse of massive stars -- destroy everything that falls into them preventing even light or information...

Stephen King to have regular column in Entertainment Weekly BANGOR (AP) -- Stephen King loves Arnold Schwarzenegger in the third "Terminator" movie but Celine Dion took it on the chin in is first regular column for Entertainment Weekly. King calls Schwarzenegger "the perfect machine." As for Dion, he says he thinks "Who Let the Dogs Out" is better than the sum of her work. King's comments appear in the magazine's Aug. 8 edition. It marks King's first regular column since his days at the University of Maine student newspaper, where he had a fixture called "King's Garbage truck." King's...

FAMILY FEUD The manuscripts and their classifications and reading will be studied in later pages. What we shall do now is closely scrutinize the centers from which our extant manuscripts have originated. It will be revealed in later study that Biblical manuscripts(MSS) are divided into two major groups. These two groups have been found to disagree with each other in many areas. Every English Bible in existence today will be found to proceed more or less from one of these two groups. The fact that there is ONE God plainly tells us that there cane only be ONE correct reading...