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Federalist Patriot comments on Senator John McCain's recent response on Roe v. Wade: This week's "Alpha Jackass" award: "Yeah, I certainly do to some degree. It was based on medical technology and knowledge at the time that indicated that babies are -- children are not viable at its [sic] earliest stage as they are today. So there [sic] certainly wasn't based on sound, up-to-date medical

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Without A Forward Looking Agenda Of Their Own, The “Party Of No” Resorts To Over-The-Top Negative Attacks On The Bush Administration DNC Chair Howard Dean: “They All Behave The Same. They All Look The Same. It’s Pretty Much A White Christian Party.” (Carla Marinucci, “In S.F., Dean Calls GOP ‘A White Christian Party,’” San Francisco Chronicle, 6/7/05) Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY): “We Are

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New York Times: Veiled Praise By FATINA ABDRABBOH Every television in the gym highlighted some aspect of America's conflict with the Muslim world: the war in Iraq, allegations that American soldiers had desecrated the Koran, prisoner abuse at Guantánamo Bay, President Bush urging support of the Patriot Act. The stares just intensified my alienation as an Arab Muslim in what is supposed to be my

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Stop the ACLU: ACLU demolishing the Los Angeles Seal: A Call to Action from David Horowitz The one on the left was the official seal from 1957 until last September, when L.A.'s Board of Supervisors voted to abolish it in favor of the one on the right. They did this because the ACLU threatened to sue Los Angeles County. Do you see the little cross on the old seal? Look closely. To the ACLU

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Money / CNN: Debate raging over oil -- Goldman predicts a spike above $100 but Morgan Stanley sees a tumble. What's it mean for the U.S.? by Paul R. La Monica With oil creeping near $60 a barrel, there's a debate raging in the energy markets over whether crude will soar above $100 or take a tumble as the energy bubble bursts. Aren't you glad we have experts? Thanks to Fark.

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National Review Digital (login req.) : Are They In the Army Now? -- Cries of shortfall, exhaustion, and overstretch by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Recent dips in Army enlistments also fueled a new conventional wisdom: that the U.S. military is almost dangerously undermanned, exhausted, and overstretched. An unpopular war, domestic opposition, televised casualties, extended service, divorce and social

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THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH: Hit the showers, boys -- Youth baseball team ousted from league for being ‘too good’ by Kirk D . Richards No one misbehaved. No one broke any rules. But after only a few games, the Columbus Stars have been kicked out of a recreational youth baseball league in Canal Winchester. The players, ages 11 and 12, were deemed too good. On May 9, the Stars beat the Red Sox, 18-0

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CNN: Wood: Rescue shows policy working -- The Australian hostage held captive for nearly seven weeks in Iraq before being freed last week has said his rescue by Iraqi troops is a sign that U.S. and Australian policies are working. The 64-year-old engineer also apologized to U.S. President George W. Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard for statements he made at gunpoint in a DVD his

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Via James Taranto at Opinion Journal, Andrew Sullivan isn't quite sure WHAT he thinks: "MOORE AWARD NOMINEE: 'The torture that was so bad under Saddam, is equally bad under U.S. command.' -- Markos Moulitsas, on DailyKos yesterday. Look, few have been as outraged as I have been by what this administration has perpetrated and permitted with regard to detainees in U.S. care. But this kind of

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Via Michelle Malkin, my choice for Obituary of the Year: Corwyn (Cory) William Zimbleman Tucson, AZ (formerly of Champaign, IL) Age 53. Born April 18, 1952 to the late Willard and Gilda (Ebert) Zimbleman, died June 10, 2005. Throughout his life Cory was an extraordinary artist. His artistic talent and imagination would bring awe to all who viewed his work. [...] As a child he was always

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Sen. Durbin Apologizes for Gitmo Remarks By GLEN JOHNSON Chicago Sun Times: Durbin slanders his own country BY MARK STEYN Just for the record, some 15 million to 30 million Soviets died in the gulag; some 6 million Jews died in the Nazi camps; some 2 million Cambodians -- one third of the population -- died in the killing fields. Nobody's died in Gitmo, not even from having Christina Aguilera

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Hampton Roads: PETA president condemns dumping, defends euthanizing animals Activist Cash: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Center for Consumer Freedom PETA Kills Animals

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Sand covers the lettering on part of Terri Schiavo's grave Monday night June 20, 2005 in Clearwter, Fla. Terri, the center of a right-to-die battle, died March 31, 2005, 13-days after her feeding tube was removed. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) Terri Schiavo's tombstone in Florida features two jabs at those who fought to save her from her husband's order to starve her. In the center of the stone is

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or, "Brit Farmers With Nothing Better to Do" Potato Farmers Loathe 'Couch Potato' Term By EMILY ROTBERG British potato farmers demonstrated outside Parliament on Monday to publicize their bid to remove the term "couch potato" from the Oxford English Dictionary, arguing that the description of slothful TV addicts harms the vegetable's image. The group of about 30 farmers carried signs that

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CNN: Vote on Bolton delayed again -- Democrats defeat move to close off debate --Republicans failed Monday for the second time to move the Senate toward a vote on President Bush's nomination of John R. Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations.

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National Review: Dean on Defense -- The “White Christian” party. By Peter Kirsanow During a discussion with minority leaders and journalists on Monday, Howard Dean declared that Republicans are “a pretty monolithic party. They all believe the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party.” He further stated that “the Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds

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Washington Post: Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War By Dana Milbank In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe. They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags

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MRC: A Democratic Senate Leader Compares American Soldiers To POL POT, Stalin's Gulag, and Nazis -- Why Is That Not News? -- Networks Target U.S. Military "Abuses," But Skip Dick Durbins "Nazi" Rant "

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BBC: Oxfam pays $1m tsunami aid duty -- British charity Oxfam has had to pay the Sri Lankan government $1m in import duty for vehicles used in tsunami reconstruction wor Paperwork had kept the 25 four-wheel drive vehicles idle in the capital, Colombo, for a month. The Sri Lankan government told the BBC News website the aid had been duty-free until the end of April but was now needed to prevent

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Oversight Sought After Disney World Death By MIKE SCHNEIDER If state inspectors who regulate Florida's thrill rides want to look into why a 4-year-old boy died this week after going on "Mission: Space" at Walt Disney World, they're going to need permission from the theme park. That's because Disney World and the state's other big theme parks are exempt from most Florida laws governing carnival

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Iran to Have 1st Presidential Runoff Ever By BRIAN MURPHY

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Do you still think Michael Schiavo has a human conscience? NY Post: SHOPPING SCHIAVO By KEITH J. KELLY Sean Hannity: Schiavo: Big Bucks For CBS Movie Deal While he's looking for his conscience (and the highest bidder), Mr. Sensitivity Michael will not be bothered by the story below: World Net Daily: Autopsy suggests Schiavo cognizant -- Analyst: 'It's possible Terri was aware of everything

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THE WASHINGTON TIMES: Durbin rebuked on floor of Senate By Rowan Scarborough and James G. Lakely The Senate Armed Services Committee chairman yesterday accused Sen. Richard J. Durbin of insulting American soldiers with a "grievous error in judgment" by comparing U.S. treatment of al Qaeda suspects to the crimes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot, and demanded that the Senate's No. 2

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Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: 286 words. The Declaration of Independence: about 1,300 words. The U.S. Constitution: about 5,000 words. The Bible: about 783,000 words. The Federal Income Tax Code: 9 Million words and rising. -- Taken from Steve Forbes's book, "Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS"

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Project 21: Black Activist Decries Civil Rights Apologists -- Senate Apology for Lynching Perpetuates "Posture of the Victim" Project 21 member Lisa Fritsch calls the passage of the resolution "a day late, a dollar short and not worth a dime." Fritsch's statement on the resolution and the movement for government apologies follows: "I am all for the gracious acceptance of an apology that is due

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Newsday: PETA Workers Arrested for Alleged Cruelty

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E-Mail Embarrasses 119 Failing Students

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The Australian: God bless America: Wood by Patrick Walters and John Kerin

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CNS: Anti-War Activists Want to 'Bring This President Down' By Randy Hall

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CNS: House Passes Bill to Cut Dues to United Nations By Melanie Hunter

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Dear Senator Durbin, Your comparison of what occured to a detainee to the Soviet gulags and Nazi death camps was historically inaccurate and morally hideous. You need to be reminded that millions died and were tortured in Hitler's camps, millions died and were tortured under Pol Pot, millions died and were tortured in the Soviet gulags. No one has died and no one has been tortured in

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'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says. Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for

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Artist Stages 9/11 'Falls' From Museum Roof Collaborating photographers snapped away as Kerry Skarbakka fell more than 30 times from the five-story Museum of Contemporary Art on Tuesday. The photographs will be retouched to erase the pulleys and wires that kept Skarbakka from hitting the pavement. [...] In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg called it "nauseatingly offensive," and some who lost

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CTV: Australian held hostage in Iraq rescued

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Oprah Winfrey is an extremely needy soul. She apparently has no problem walking over the country that made her what she is in order to feel even a fleeting connection to, in this case, South Africa. BBC: US chat show host could be a Zulu -- DNA experts have questioned Oprah Winfrey's belief that she is a member of South Africa's Zulu nation [Oprah] told South Africans she felt "at home" in the

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CNSNews: Autopsy Does Not Change Moral Aspects of Terri's Death, Priest Says By Melanie Hunter

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Seattle Weekly: Blue City Conservatives -- Meet Seattle's biggest closet cases: the Republicans next door. by Matt Rosenberg • Sandy Beeman of the Central District's Squire Park, 49, is a physician's assistant who assists cardiovascular surgeons at Swedish Hospital. She arrived in Seattle from Texas a year ago and is still adapting. At a neighborhood picnic, she asked which party a voter

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The Rodney Dangerfield of the Senate runs his mouth. The Guardian: White House Castigates Durbin for Remarks By NEDRA PICKLER The White House said a senator's comparison of American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was reprehensible and a disservice to those serving in the military. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said it

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The Time Seems Ripe to Tie the Knot in Iraq By Louise Roug Since President Saddam Hussein was ousted two years ago, the number of nuptials in Iraq has soared, say party planners, judges and clergy members. Although there are no reliable countrywide statistics, those in the business estimate that the number of "I do's" has doubled since the uneasy months before and after the U.S.-led invasion

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(AP Photo/Michael Conroy) Whoever heard of a nice piece of jackass?

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Townhall: Close Gitmo? by Rich Lowry World: Senate GOP: Closing Gitmo not the answer By LIZ SIDOTI Heritage Foundation: No Good Reason To Close Gitmo by Jack Spencer, Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., Jim Phillips, and Alane Kochems Atleast the G-bay detainees are eating like kings. They're eating better than US prisoners and our military. Cost of feeding Guantanamo detainees averages $12.68 a day By

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If the economy is as "bad" as doomsayers say, why are personal income tax receipts up 20%? National Review: Many Happy Returns -- What the IRS is telling us about the economy. By Jerry Bowyer

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87-year-old Australian man fights off intruder with shoe An 87-year-old Australian man fought off an intruder with his shoe after being attacked in his home, reports said. "I took the bloody shoe off and thumped him," semi-retired horse trainer Johnny Oswin was quoted as saying by the Australian Associated Press.

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Lawyer: Jackson Won't Share Room With Kids By LINDA DEUTSCH The Independent: 'We expected some better evidence but it just wasn't there' say jurors By Helen McCormack

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The History Of Flag Day Jasper Johns, Three Flags History of the Flag of the United States of America

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Vatican Gets Victory in Italian Referendum By ALESSANDRA RIZZO In victory for the Vatican, Italian voters shunned a referendum that would have eliminated bans on egg and sperm donation, freezing embryos and other widely used methods by couples wanting to have children. Pope Benedict XVI had endorsed a call by Italian bishops for a boycott of the vote, held Sunday and Monday. The four ballot

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The essay by Mark Steyn below recounts how Robert Mugabe, head cheese in Zimbabwe, ordered the demolition of a Mosque recently. Knowing the religious sensitivities of Muslims, shouldn't this have prompted a massive outcry, rioting and protesting? No silly! CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Quran desecration crock a win for Jihad spin docs BY MARK STEYN

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Via Publius Pundit: SURVEY: IRANIANS FEEL AMERICA’S PRESENCE IN THE REGION HELPS THEIR CHANCES FOR FREEDOM Read the Terrance Group survey here and a press release here. Also from Publius: NY Times: Hundreds of Women Protest Sex Discrimination in Iran by NAZILA FATHI

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The History of Air Conditioning By Lou Kren Alfred Wolff, Stuart Cramer and Willis Carrier are the three men most responsible for the introduction of air conditioning and climate control, according to Gail Cooper, author of Air Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960. The three carried on where a some left off, namely John Gorrie, a Florida physician who, in

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Cheney Criticizes Dean Over Remarks "So far, I think [Dean's] probably helped us more than he has them," Cheney said in the interview taped Friday. "That's not the kind of individual you want to have representing your political party." The vice president added: "I really think Howard Dean's over the top. And more important ... I think many of his fellow Democrats feel the same way." Via Lilly

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Domestic Violence Drops by More Than Half By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH Child abuse and other forms of violence involving families fell by more than half between 1993 and 2002, in line with the decline in crime overall, the government said Sunday.

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Townhall: Thomas' originalism by Charles Krauthammer The Scalia-Thomas argument was not about concern for cancer patients, the utility of medical marijuana or the latitude individuals should have regarding what they ingest. It was about what the commerce clause permits, and even more abstractly, who decides what the commerce clause permits. To simplify only slightly, Scalia says: Supreme Court

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Via Opinion Journal: Guardian: Quebec Private Health Insurance Ban Nixed The universal health-care system [in Canada] -- while considered one of the fairest in the world -- has been plagued by long waiting lists and a lack of doctors, nurses and new equipment. Some patients wait years for surgery, MRI machines are scarce and many Canadians travel to the United States for medical treatment.

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Telegraph: Cross removed from crematorium chapel By Richard Savill A wooden cross has been removed from the wall of a crematorium chapel "to cater for everyone in a diverse multi-faith society". Torbay council, in Devon, has also renamed the building a "ceremony hall". The Rev Anthony Macey, vicar of nearby Cockington and Chelston, discovered that the 5ft cross had been taken down when he

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LA Times: Dean's Zeal Is Looking Like Zealotry, Some Fear -- Tone down the rhetoric, Democrats tell their leader after his recent inflammatory remarks. By Richard Simon Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said on her way into the Capitol Hill meeting with Dean that he "ought to stick to organization, raising funds and supporting Democrats, rather than creating friction and splitting the party."

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by Henry Payne at Comics. com

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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: GOP leader criticizes Democrat remarks By David M. Brown

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Via Fark: The Billings Gazette: 5 without driver's licenses appeal convictions By GREG TUTTLE Five Billings residents who claim they were wrongfully convicted of driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license because they were never issued a driver's license...

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Possible Supreme Court Nominees

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Morissette Has Gotten Over Her Anger Morissette got engaged to actor Ryan Reynolds last year, but they have yet to set a date. Morissette says "the feminist" in her "has had a lot of issues with the whole concept of being a wife." "What does that mean in 2005, versus what it means in the '40s and even in my mom's generation?" she said. It probably means two people who love each other wanting

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"Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything -- and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers." -- Justice

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The Nonsense That is Ozone-Depletion There is not a ‘layer’ of ozone at all, any more than there is single layer of air; and ozone doesn’t protect us from anything. The Sun's rays hit us at exactly the same time as they hit the ozone. Therefore, protection is impossible. In the same way, 'hard' water molecules, H3O, doesn't prevent anyone from getting wet. If we could snap our fingers and make

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CNSNews.com School Clinic Dispenses Birth Control Without Parental Consent By Jered Ede

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MRC:The Howard Dean Blackout by L. Brent Bozell III As Dr. Dean traveled the country dispensing gaffe after gaffe, the national networks ignored him almost entirely. On Thursday, June 2, he cracked at a left-wing convention that a lot of Republicans "have never made an honest living in their lives." ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored him for three days, until the Sunday morning interview programs,

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Townhall: Liberals and class by Thomas Sowell These chaotic and violence-prone communities in Britain do not have the excuse of racism or a legacy of slavery. What they do have in common with similar communities in the United States is a similar reliance on the welfare state and a similar set of intellectuals making excuses for their behavior and denouncing anyone who wants them to change

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Senate Approves Pryor for Appeals Court By JESSE J. HOLLAND

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 1st Session Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of William H. Pryor, Jr., of Alabama, to be U.S. Circuit Judge )

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UPDATE: Freed Italian hostage flies home after ordeal in Afghanistan Italian Held Hostage in Afghanistan Freed By DANIEL COONEY

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CNSNews: Nurse Who Refused to Dispense Morning-After Pill Sues By Melanie Hunter

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Militants Display Pictures of Torn Qurans By MARK LAVIE

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TechNewsWorld: Try Using Alternative Browsers: Microsoft Dares You By Jack M. Germain

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Opinion Journal: Seeing Red -- Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean rage against Republicans. It's not a winning approach. by Peggy Noonan

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SF Chronicle: In S.F., Dean calls GOP 'a white Christian party' by Carla Marinucci James Taranto at Opinion Journal responds: Howard Dean is accusing Republicans of being white. We most assuredly are not jiving you: Howard Dean--scion of Park Avenue, former governor of Vermont, a state that is 96.8% people of pallor--is faulting Republicans for being white, even though he himself is whiter than

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National Review: The Roosevelt Mystique -- Who cares what FDR would do today? by Jonah Goldberg "If the measure of the New Deal is whether it boosted confidence in activist government, it was a huge success. If you evaluate it according to whether it ended the Depression — its intended purpose — the historical judgment is in: It was a miserable failure."

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Boston Globe: Unions alleged to pad payrolls with children By Ralph Ranalli and Mac Daniel Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly's office is probing allegations that longshoremen's unions in Boston have for years padded payrolls with children as young as 2 1/2 years old, in a scheme designed to guarantee higher wages for their dependents once they are old enough to join the union, state officials

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Katherine Harris to Run for Senate in 2006 By BRENDAN FARRINGTON

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Townhall: Victimhood: Rhetoric or reality? by Walter E. Williams Some argue that the state of the black family is the result of the legacy of slavery, discrimination and poverty. That has to be nonsense. A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of black families were nuclear families, comprised of two parents and children. In New York City in 1925, 85 percent

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Previously unknown Bach aria discovered in Germany

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Prison would prove tough if Jackson convicted By Jill Serjeant

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Senate Confirms Janice Rogers Brown By JESSE J. HOLLAND

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Move over Rambo, you're cramping new man's style Macho man is an endangered species, with today's male more likely to opt for a pink flowered shirt and swingers' clubs than the traditional role as family super-hero, fashion industry insiders say. "The masculine ideal is being completely modified. All the traditional male values of authority, infallibility, virility and strength are being

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ACLJ Demands That CA Community College Order Instructor to Reverse Low Grade of Student Who Was Punished for Mentioning "God" in English Paper

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Woman Claims She Inspired Stephen King's "Misery"

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BBC: Iraq insurgents 'ready to disarm' -- A prominent Iraqi Sunni politician has said that two insurgent groups are ready to disarm and begin talks with the Iraqi government.

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Al Jazeerah: Syria’s Ruling Party Eyes Reform Within Limits Thanks to Gateway Pundit.

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National Review book review: Decline and Fall By Victor Davis Hanson Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond (Viking, 592 pp., $29.95) The main problem . . . with this book is that [Jared] Diamond’s well-meaning, environmentally correct storytelling cannot impart any coherent lesson of why in fact societies fail. Environmental degradation, climate change,

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Leaders deny Bush manipulated Iraq intelligence By Ron Hutcheson

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CNN: Dean defends remarks about GOP -- Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean on Wednesday defended his recent harsh criticism of Republicans, including his observation that they are "pretty much a white, Christian party." Asked about it on the "Fox & Friends" show, GOP Party Chairman Ken Mehlman joked that "a lot of folks who attended my Bar Mitzvah would be surprised" he heads a Christian party.

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Proving once again that America's borders are as wide open as a 24 hour Walmart. ABC News: Man With Stained Chain Saw Let in to U.S. -- U.S. Border Patrol Under Scrutiny After Man Carrying Stained Chain Saw Is Allowed Into Country By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Gregory Despres is shown in this image from television. On April 25, 2005, Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais,

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ABC News: Conservative Phone Company Exploits Wedge Issues for Profit -- Company Attempts to Capitalize on Country's Culture Wars By JAKE TAPPER and GEOFFREY BENNETT Of course, liberal groups would never exploit any wedge issue for profit!

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 1st Session Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Nomination of Janice R. Brown, of California, To Be U.S. Circuit Judge )

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Popular mechanics: 9/11: Debunking The Myths -- PM examines the evidence and consults the experts to refute the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11. Thanks to Annika.

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Townhall: Our trade deficit by Walter E. Williams When we as consumers purchase goods from China, and the Chinese don't purchase a like amount of goods from us, it is said that there's a trade deficit. But instead of purchasing goods, the Chinese might purchase corporate stocks, bonds or U.S. Treasury debt instruments.

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Weekly Standard: An American Gulag? -- Human rights groups test the limits of moral equivalency. by Kenneth Anderson What to expect of reporters who seem to believe that they have heroically dug out vast evidence of U.S. government wrongdoing against detainees, when virtually all of it has been the government's own laborious record-keeping handed over to them on a silver platter? Never mind--

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Boston Globe: Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student -- His 4-year average on par with Bush's By Michael Kranish During last year's presidential campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex, while George W. Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences. But newly released records show that Bush and Kerry had a virtually identical grade

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World Net: The president & the porn star by Joseph Farah Carl Forti, communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee, explained to WND that self-described pornographer Mark Kulkis and his date, porn star Mary Carey, will be attending the two-day event, "The 2005 President's Dinner and Salute to Freedom," next Monday and Tuesday because their money is just as good as

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World Net: Clinton's human-rights crime by Joseph Farah As governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton knowingly oversaw the illicit sale of state prison blood to hemophiliacs and others – spreading AIDS and other deadly diseases to thousands in the 1980s.

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Townhall:Confirmation trouble by Robert Novak On the day before Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen was confirmed by the Senate as part of a negotiated compromise, Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin called her "wacko." Harkin, appearing on liberal Randi Rhodes's national radio talk show, became animated as he said of Owen: "This is not a person to put on the bench for a lifetime appointment.

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Supreme Court Rejects Women's Sports Case By GINA HOLLAND The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider reinstating a lawsuit that accuses federal officials of discriminating against male athletes in enforcing equal opportunities for women. [...] Over the past two decades, the number of wrestling teams at NCAA schools has dropped from 363 to 222, while football teams increased from 497 to 619,

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