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In Scandinavia, illegitimate birth rates exceed 50 percent. The majority of Swedish and Norwegian children are born out of wedlock, and 60 percent of first-born children in Denmark have unmarried parents. Meanwhile, marriage rates subtly decline while, in some countries, divorce rates have skyrocketed to nearly 80 percent

Why this libertarian will vote for Bush:

looking for websites that document jesse jackson racist activities and comments.. please post URLs

NATIONAL BIASED RADIO Two moments stand out for me from a lifetime of listening to taxpayer-funded National Public Radio. The first was a commentary by Daniel Schorr one day before the 1990 elections in Nicaragua. Schorr was certain that the Sandinistas were on the cusp of a historic victory that would crush, once and for all, the arguments of the Reagan and Bush administrations about that tyrannical communist regime. In the event, of course, Violetta Chamorro won a resounding victory. The other NPR moment also stands out. I was driving home from the White House (where I worked for the...

Did anyone here attend the debate last week between Baron Hill (democratic incumbent from IN's 9th congressional district) and Mike Sodrel (republican challenger)... I have heard that after the debate, Hill sucker punched Sodrel in the kidney (sent him to the floor) when Sodrel went to shake his hand... I am looking for someone who was there to confirm or deny the story

all this talk about the shootings in the d.c. area possibly being al-crappa has got me thinking... (scary i know)... how do 'terror' organizations work?.. how do they pick their targets? etc.. is it likely that the same organization that brought down the towers and hit the pentagon and was trying to hit the white house or the capital, now turn to individual citizens? .. do groups like al-crapas, hamhocks, palestian 'lie'beration organization, all act in similar fashion? or does the type of attack (the target) point to or away from a particular group?... i just dont see this shooting...

i would have thought the .223 is a little 'light' for a tpical snipe round.. thought most military/etc snipers used a .308 or more powerful round.. or .. if they were going for quiet.. would =use a subsonic .22 lr as for the al crapa 'link'..I think there is no link.... afterall, wouldnt they be using eastern block type caliber? since that is what they train with??? anyone have any more info on this?

..introduce a Senate measure today to try to overturn the Federal Election Commission's new campaign-finance regulations.......Sen. John McCain, ..., is displeased with the rules the FEC has written to implement his legislation and he will seek to kill them

The visit takes Bush within hailing distance of Clinton, Mississippi, the headquarters of long-distance telephone and data services company WorldCom. A huge accounting scandal at WorldCom has made the company's name a byword for investors' anxieties and helped build momentum for the corporate reform law Bush signed last week.

its just a matter of time before the stripper mom opens a website .. (actually she seems to be PR genius) so whats she gonna call it? (have fun but dont get to vulgar.. if you wouldnt want your mom to read it dont post it)

MADRID -- On paper, Western Europe seems like a gun control utopia. The laws governing firearms are tougher than those in the United States. Citizens are less likely to be armed. And the number of gun crimes is substantially lower. On the street, though, there are signs of ominous change. Friday's massacre at a school in Germany was the latest in a series of bloody gun crimes around the continent during the last year. The two worst examples were the slaughter of eight city council members in a Paris suburb last month and the killing of 14 regional legislators in...

NEW YORK (AP) - A team of scholars is investigating a disputed, prize-winning book about the role of guns in the United States. The dean of Emory College, where author Michael Bellesiles is a professor of history, asked for the panel after the school concluded its own inquiry of "Arming America," according to a statement issued Thursday by the school. Robert Paul, dean of the Atlanta-based college, "has concluded that further investigation would be warranted by an independent committee of distinguished scholars from outside Emory," the statement said. However, the statement did not specify why the new investigation was necessary...

"And so, in my State of the—my State of the Union—or state—my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation—I asked Americans to give 4,000 years—4,000 hours over the next—the rest of your life—of service to America. That's what I asked—4,000 hours." —Bridgeport, Conn., April 9, 2002 For more, see "The Complete Bushisms." Bush on Bushisms! "Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom—or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. [Laughter.] But I'm kind of...

Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for the signing of the Oslo peace accords the year before. Given the events of recent weeks, can the Nobel Committee strip Arafat—or Peres—of his prize? No. The Nobel Committee does not allow for the revocation of any prizes—and it has never happened in the award's 101-year history. The 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which established the prize, says it should go to the person who "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations." Nowhere in his will or the Statutes...

the link takes you to a story about the first human clone pregnancy.. what if the baby is born or what if a clone is never born.. how would this effect the view of a 'soul' in the religious context? or would it have no effect?

has anyone else noticed how many of these radical islamic fundamentalist (those that want to live like the 5th century) wear glasses? does that seem hypocritical to anyone? when were glasses invented? how about things like guns? or medical equipment like the kidney dialysis that OBL needs?.. why doesnt some mullah call for all 'true' moslems to throw their glasses in the street and 'stomp on the devil technology'???? just wondering

But Saddam is not the only one giving money. Charities from Saudi Arabia and Qatar — both U.S. allies — pay money to families of Palestinians killed in the fighting, including suicide bombers. The mother of Jamal Nasser, a 23-year-old architecture student who died trying to ram an explosives-laden car into a bus carrying Jewish settlers, said she received a check for $10,000 from Iraq and another for $5,000 from Saudi Arabia. She said she plans to put the money toward buying an apartment. She wants to move her family from the small place they’ve been renting for more than...

During his confirmation hearings, Attorney General John Ashcroft promised to enforce our nation's civil rights laws. Upholding the protections that these laws provide is one of the most important responsibilities of the Attorney General, yet mounting evidence now suggests that Ashcroft is crippling the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice. This fundamental shift in the Department's policy includes the decision to abandon a case against the Philadelphia transit system that used a test that excluded nearly all women applicants from transit police positions and the failure to fully enforce the Voting Rights Act in Mississippi. The Justice Department's...

For three decades, Bob Knight glowered on Indiana University's sidelines as college basketball's Wicked Stepfather. He stuffed a belligerent fan into a trash can during a Final Four. He berated his team's cheerleaders for distracting an IU player during a free throw. He head-butted one player and kicked another—who happened to be his son. In the end, he self-destructed, as so many predicted he would, fired amid allegations of choking a player, throwing a vase at a secretary, and breaking another son's nose and dislocating his shoulder during a hunting trip. But only two years later, Knight is back at...