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WASHINGTON (AP) — It's just a trickle now, but some Republicans are urging people to back GOP congressional candidates because they'd constrain Hillary Clinton's agenda should she be elected president this November. -snip - Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., facing a competitive re-election fight, unveiled a video this week promising to "act as a check, not a rubber stamp," if Clinton wins the White House. In fundraising emails in recent weeks, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., GOP operative Karl Rove and a Colorado lawmaker battling for his seat made similar appeals. - snip - "America cannot afford an unchecked Hillary Clinton...

This is not violence,” an angry abortion advocate screams while physically attacking a Created Equal team member. Last week a Columbus, OH resident roughed up one of our outreach team members even before he had an opportunity to dialogue with his intended audience. It seems increasingly common for abortion advocates not only to dissent to our message but also to resort to violence. In defending the violence of abortion, abortion advocates use violence to intimidate preborn defenders. But this call for protectionism isn’t just for abortion advocates or unbelievers anymore, but we now see it cropping up among Christians, especially...

New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade capitulates in a two-decade-long dispute with gay groups. One of New York City’s longest-running civic and political battles came to an end this week, not with a bang but a whimper. The organizers of the New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade announced that they would allow the Lavender and Green Alliance—a group composed of gay, lesbian, and transgender people of Irish descent— to participate in the annual march up Fifth Avenue. The group’s application to join the parade had been denied every year since 1994 due, parade organizers said, to its advocacy of...

Symbolic gesture gives assurances that US does not want to topple regime. Officials of Barack Obama's have drafted a letter to Iran from the president aimed at unfreezing US-Iranian relations and opening the way to face-to-face talks

WACO, Texas — Three war protesters on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against McLennan County, claiming two new ordinances banning roadside parking and camping infringe on their right to protest near President Bush's Crawford ranch. --snip---

RUSH: I gotta share these next two sound bites with you. This is a total change of pace, but I promised myself I'd get these in today, and so I'm going to fulfill the promise. What I have here, first off is a story from the Times of London. It's about a woman named Annie Clayton. She has a book, video, whatever called "Bring Your Husband to Heel," and she says, "'You can use your skills as a dog trainer to retrain husbands. How does it work? Well, all animals from parrots to goldfish to gorillas learn in the same...

Andrea Levin is grateful that Broward County schools care about her daughter's safety. But this year when they posted a sign that demanded "no running" on the playground, it seemed like overkill. "I realize we want to keep kids from cracking their heads open," said Levin, whose daughter is a Gator Run Elementary fifth grader in Weston. "But there has to be a place where they can get out and run." Broward's "Rules of the Playground" signs, bought from an equipment catalogue and displayed at all 137 elementary schools in the district, are just one of several steps taken to...

Centrists from both parties reached a compromise Monday night to avoid a showdown on President Bush’s stalled judicial nominees and the Senate’s own filibuster rules, officials from both parties said.

Dear DTogo, The proposal Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist sent to his Democrat colleagues yesterday could not have been a fairer compromise to end Democrat obstruction of President Bush's highly qualified judicial nominees. Leader Frist's proposal would guarantee President Bush's nominees a fair up or down vote on the Senate floor while allowing all Senators an opportunity to have their say through a guaranteed 100 hours of debate. This is a reasonable resolution to the Democrats' unprecedented use of the filibuster against President Bush's nominees, and will ensure that the filibuster remains intact for use against legislation. Democrats are obstructing...

A short, 2-minute video stream clip here, is quite worth the view (300k) if you have Microsoft Windows Media.It is from Japanese TV today (JNN Network). They sent a Japanese TV crew/reporter to a recent seminar in Los Angeles on how to emigrate to Canada, organized to appeal to American Democrat-Socialist Lib Losers.The video clip is accessible by direct link (above), and also here at this URL (cut and paste and view):http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20041208-00000031-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm300k The URL link might last another day or so.

<p>These are "nice guys" — a growing group in America according to a new book entitled No More Mr. Nice Guy.</p> <p>"I can remember driving home from work. I was expected to be home at five o'clock," recovering nice guy Grant Walker confessed. "Come hell or high water, I was going to be home by five o'clock because I didn't want to make her angry."</p>

Japan Foreign Ministry Blasts (Their) Consulate Staff in China for Being Too Soft Thursday, May 9, 2002 at 18:30 JST TOKYO — Japanese government spokesman Kosei Ueno criticized staff at the consulate general in Shenyang on Thursday for allowing Chinese police to act inside the consulate Wednesday without Tokyo's consent. "Foreign Ministry officials at the consulate could have taken different action if they had properly felt Japan's sovereignty was being infringed on," Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Ueno told a news conference. The Chinese officers rushed to the premises, seized two men believed to be North Korean asylum-seekers Wednesday at the...

<p>WASHINGTON — Perhaps bolstered by a shift in focus to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, critics of U.S. military policy who had mostly confined their protests to college campuses are suddenly feeling more comfortable in the street.</p> <p>Joining a hodgepodge of interest groups — including those representing anti-globalization and Palestinian solidarity — a coalition of anti-war groups plan to converge on Washington in a show of activist angst this weekend.</p>