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OK all you military FreePers......Has the USMC reduced its recruiting requirements? There appears to be a recruiter running around locally telling High School Seniors to drop out of school and he'll have them in Boot Camp within 2 weeks of signing the papers..... Is he legit or someone who's afraid of loosing a stripe for failure to fill his quota?

HOMELAND INSECURITY Mexicans posing as U.S. agents obstruct probe Consular staff flashing INS badges retrieve illegals from detention -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 15, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Mexican consulate staff posing as U.S. immigration agents interfered with a murder and smuggling probe following a border patrol chase of illegal aliens that ended in a fatal freeway crash near San Diego. The incident, which appears to be a breach of national sovereignty and security, began last Thursday when U.S. Border Patrol agents and California Highway Patrol officers chased a pickup truck loaded with Mexicans believed to...

Politics: House weakens ethics rules on lobbyists Copyright © 2003 AP Online By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (January 7, 2003 7:31 p.m. EST) - House Republicans unraveled some of their strict ethics rules Tuesday, passing changes that would allow charities to give lawmakers free travel and lodging at resorts and make it easier for lobbyists to send complimentary food to congressional offices. The move by the Republican leadership was so well hidden that it even caught leaders of the House ethics committee by surprise. A Republican leadership aide called the changes cosmetic, but Democrats characterized them as a serious...

Federal V.I.P. Penn - 11/13/02 Last Thursday I was flying to LA on the Midnight flight. I went through security my usual sour stuff. I beeped, of course, and was shuttled to the "toss-em" line. A security guy came over. I assumed the position. I had a button up shirt on that was untucked. He reached around while he was behind me and grabbed around my front pocket. I guess he was going for my flashlight, but the area could have loosely been called "crotch." I said, "You have to ask me before you touch me or it's assault." He...

The Media Research Center has just announced it's Fifteenth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting. Please access link for article......

The upcoming 2005 Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC) commission will trim excess domestic base infrastructure, which is estimated at 25% too large and costs billions of dollars a year. In addition, heighten base security is now a tremendous financial drain, and older buildings constructed during the Cold war have decayed and need replacement. The four previous base closure rounds now save our military $6.6 billion dollars each year. Read this GAO report (pdf) for more information. Nevertheless, there is a movement to derail the next round of base closures by convincing people it is cheaper to keep all bases open...

Text | User Agreement | Privacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Health & Science: Ohio mother apparently faked daughter's cancer Copyright © 2002 AP Online Search the archive for: cancer More stories like this in Weird News The Associated Press URBANA, Ohio (December 19, 2002 6:37 a.m. EST) - Police say a woman tried to trick her daughter and community into thinking the girl had cancer so she could raise money, even going so far as to shave the 7-year-old's head, give her sleeping pills and put her in counseling to prepare to die. No charges had been filed against Teresa Milbrandt, 35, as...

Alternative Clinton Library Keeps the Truth Alive Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Thursday, Dec. 5, 2002 WASHINGTON – Bill Clinton, America’s only elected president ever impeached, will not get away with rewriting the history of his legacy. In the fall of 2003, a Counter Clinton Library is scheduled to open in Little Rock, Ark., to set the record straight. Furthermore, it will be located just a short walk from the official Clinton Library that will spin the legacy, as presented by Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Counter Clinton Library is set to open about six months ahead of the sanitized Clinton version....

Left-Wing Campus Thought Police Harass Dissenters Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2002 Arizona State University’s “political correctness” enforcers may be on the verge of wrecking the life of a conservative student who bucks their orthodoxy. It is further evidence that academia’s enemies of free speech have dropped all pretense at fairness. The case involves two students at ASU who tried bring balance to the campus lecture program, the “free marketplace of ideas” that campus leftists have used as an excuse for bringing in every Marxist advocate they champion. Shanna Bowman, vice president of activities for the ASU student government,...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com A Surprising Voice Calls From Our Backyard Christopher Ruddy Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2002 With Americans focused on problems in the Middle East, particularly those relating to terrorism, and with Republicans relishing recent election victories, we should not forget that a disastrous situation now faces America in our own backyard. Recently, I returned from a visit to Panama, one of the most strategically important nations in the Western Hemisphere. My friend Wilson C. Lucom lives in Panama City – and has been warning Americans of the threat now posed by the increasing communist influence in Central America. We...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Monday, Nov. 25, 2002; 4:58 p.m. EST McCain Apologizes to Clowns for Comparison to Rush Sen. John McCain, RINO-Ariz., today withdrew his comparison of talk radio star Rush Limbaugh to a circus clown - by apologizing to clowns. "I apologize to circus clowns all over America," McCain told Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto. He specifically mentioned Bozo and Chuckles. McCain said his previous comment sparked angry phone calls to his office from circus clowns nationwide. You don't like him, Cavuto pressed. The senator insisted he didn't dislike Limbaugh...

<p>As the United States prepares for war against Iraq, tens of thousands of fathers who serve as reservists are preparing to say goodbye to their families and serve their country overseas.</p>

Text | User Agreement | Privacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Health & Science: Grazing temporarily blocked on endangered owl lands Copyright © 2002 AP Online Search the archive for: environment By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN, Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (November 25, 2002 10:42 p.m. EST) - A federal judge has issued an injunction that could temporarily ban cattle grazing on huge swaths of national forest land identified as nesting and foraging sites for the endangered Mexican spotted owl. U.S. District Judge Raner Collins' order blocking grazing in areas of Arizona and New Mexico was signed Thursday in response to a lawsuit by environmental groups...