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NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Mario Russo, an alleged peeping Tom, is in a North Royalton, Ohio, hospital intensive care unit after a tree branch was used to sexually attack him. WEWS-TV in Cleveland reported Tuesday the 44-year-old man was attacked after being seen outside a bedroom window with his pants around his ankles, while watching a 5-year-old girl sleep. The girl's mother, Stacy Umstott; her aunt, Athena Lemieux; their boyfriends and two others face felonious assault and rape charges for allegedly beating Russo for more than an hour, p;olice told WEWS-TV. Lemieux admitted to police she sexually...

NAACP: Nonpartisan Branch of the Democratic Party By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 16, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms NAACP Chairman Julian Bond claims his organization is “nonpartisan” while at the same time using vitriolic rhetoric to attack the Bush administration. Why would President Bush wish to speak before the NAACP after the way in which they’ve treated him? Some claim Bush should swallow his pride and speak before the group in the interest of “outreach.” I would argue that Bush has already engaged in more outreach than any other administration in U.S. history: 2001: President George W. Bush appoints: Condoleezza Rice, Assistant...

"This is a robbery!" warns man armed with tree branch LISBON (AFP) - A 46-year-old man armed with a tree branch robbed just over 1,000 euros (1,260 dollars) from a customer at a bank in suburban Lisbon but was forcibly subdued by other bank clients before he could escape, it was reported. The man pressed the branch against the back of the customer on Monday and shouted "This is a robbery!" before grabbing the cash which the bank client had just withdrawn, a police source told daily newspaper 24Horas. But as the assailant attempted to flee, he was grabbed and...

(Last update: February 8, 2001)TREATIES: A SOURCE FOR FEDERAL MUNICIPAL POWER     Within the last decade, many people have been utterly astonished at the phenomenal growth and influence of the so-called environmental movement. From its "salad days" of the early seventies, this movement has blossomed so quickly that it now has the visible support of giant corporations and powerful political figures. But, there appears to be a hidden agenda behind the environmental movement with its promotion of an environmental treaty.    Quite obviously, environmental legislation is inherently the proper subject of legislation for the State, and many States currently have...

CHRIST’S RETURN TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES John Blanchard Evening of September 6, 2002 Feast of Trumpets We have learned, brethren, that God’s thoughts are higher than man’s thoughts. God’s thoughts are so high compared to man’s thoughts that man cannot comprehend the difference actually. I want you to turn to our first scripture of the day. Turn to Isaiah chapter 55, verse 8: “’For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts...

<p>NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court rejected an attempt by survivors to collect damages from the government for the deadly 1993 confrontation in Waco, Texas, between government agents and members of the Branch Davidian cult.</p> <p>Without dissent, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (search) late Monday turned aside contentions that a lower-court judge who ruled against the survivors was biased.</p>

Voluntary Alternatives to Taxation Stuart K. Hayashi Most Americans believe paying taxes is a patriotic duty. Yet this very nation was founded upon people evading taxes in 1776. When individuals don’t pay taxes, the government goes after them with guns, even though they haven’t used force on anyone else. Thus, taxation is an initiation of physical force against the individual’s right to life, liberty and property. Because taxation is forcible extortion, it violates your right to property. If you don’t pay taxes, you can be jailed, hence depriving you the right to liberty. And if tax “evaders” fight tax...

Man leaves tree home of 12 years, huts dismantled The Associated Press Published 11:20 a.m. PDT Wednesday, October 30, 2002 BRISBANE, Calif.(AP) - The tree home on San Bruno Mountain that attracted national attention when two squatters refused to leave a pair of meager huts after 12 years there, is now just a tree again. Besh Serdahely, 58, cleared out of the tree house Tuesday and park officials dismantled the dwelling, two months after San Mateo County officials stapled a notice to the 300-year-old oak in August saying Serdahely and his wife, Thelma Caballero, no longer were welcome. "I spoke...