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San Francisco voters Tuesday will weigh in on the national debate over gun control by deciding whether to make their city home to the toughest handgun ban in the country. And in a place known for its left-leaning politics, gun opponents would seem almost guaranteed a victory. Proposition H would make it illegal for city residents to possess handguns, and those who already own them would be required to turn the weapons in to police by April 1. The measure also would make it illegal to buy, sell, distribute and manufacture firearms and ammunition within city limits, though there is...

Cambridgeshire, England Actress Jane Fonda said she was considering studying in Cambridge during a visit to the city on Tuesday. The Oscar winner, political activist and fitness guru was in the city as part of a visit to Britain to promote her autobiography, My Life So Far. In an interview with BBC Look East she said she was thinking about returning to study theology and feminism there. "It (Cambridge) is so beautiful that it is just breathtaking. I hope I come back," said Fonda, 67. "I am thinking about studying here if I can persuade my daughter and grandchildren to...

Thursday, May 19, 2005 LA mayor-elect breaks with governor on civilian border patrols - By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer Thursday, May 19, 2005 (05-19) 17:17 PDT Los Angeles (AP) -- Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday he opposes civilian volunteers patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border to discourage illegal immigration, putting him at odds with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "We need our Department of Homeland Security, which patrols the border ... to address the issue of security," Villaraigosa, who was elected Tuesday, told CNN. "We have an old saying from the days of the wild, wild West ... leave your gun outside...

Fonda flick doesn't fly in Hardin County By JOHN FRIEDLEIN The owner of Hardin County's two movie theaters is refusing to show the nation's top-grossing movie. Like many veterans, Ike Boutwell has an issue with "Monster-in-Law" star Jane Fonda. On the ticket window at the Elizabethtown Movie Palace is a sign that tells movie goers the cinema will not show the film because of what she did in Vietnam. Below the message are pictures of Fonda clapping with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft crew in 1972. The sign on the marquee outside Showtime Cinemas in Radcliff reads: "No Jane Fonda movie...

Ron Siddell (RD1), a Navy vet in the Lynnwood, WA area forwarded this to me. We served together supporting Swift Boat ops in Qui Nhon, RVN. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sarge6000 Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:03 PM To: Sarge6000 List Subject: Hanoi Jane Protest Report Well, I got my satisfaction if nothing else. There really is not much to report. I tried to rally the troops to protest Hanoi Jane's book signing event today. A long time veterans advocate and buddy of mine showed up as did 2 Vietnamese. I can assure everyone that I no longer want to hear any...

Claudia Bermúdez, daughter of slain Nicaraguan Contra leader Enrique Bermúdez is challenging Oakland, California tax and spend Democrat Barbara Lee (D-9). Claudia Bermúdez calls herself a Reagan Republican. To learn more http://www.goclaudia.com/

Subject: Kerry and the Special Forces Officer January 26, 2004 Commentary (U.S.) Conduct Unbecoming By STEPHEN SHERMAN A turning point may have been reached in the Iowa Caucuses when Special Forces Lt. James Rassmann came forward to thank John Kerry for saving his life in Vietnam. Although Mr. Rassmann, like most of my veteran friends, is a Republican, he said that he'd vote for Mr. Kerry. I don't know if The incident influenced the caucus results. But I took Special interest in the story because Jim served in my unit. Service in Vietnam is an important credential to me. Many...

Former LCCC professor, fake SEAL kills self A former Luzerne County Community College adjunct history professor who was fired for falsifying his job application and had falsely claimed to be a Navy SEAL committed suicide in Delaware last week. Officer Trinidad Navarro confirmed that David Silbergeld, 65, of Mountain Top, was found in Rockwood Mansion Park at about noon April 15. "He was found on the walking trail, deceased, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound," said Navarro, police media coordinator in New Castle County, Delaware. The body was taken by the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy. Medical examiner's office...

Watch for gun control blueprint to emerge from Iraq occupation - thousands of Iraqi households keep firearms for protection and part of a long tradition - with collapse of Saddam Hussein government and disappearance of rational civil policing of criminals - there may emerge public safety pretexts for gun confiscation in Iraq - gun control activists embedded in U.S. military will attempt to transfer lessons learned to the U.S.

A German far-right leader on trial for praising the 11 September attacks continued to lash out at the US in his first court appearance on Monday. Horst Mahler, a leading ideologue of the extreme-right National Democratic Party, is accused of condoning an illegal act. Nine days after the attacks in September 2001 he said in an interview on the ARD television network they were "cruel" but "justified" and said the perpetrators had his full sympathy. In court in Hamburg he said Arabs had a right to retribution against the United States, which he described as "the bloodiest and most imperialist...

Ship to Be Built From Trade Center Steel Sat Dec 28, 2002, 8:29 PM ET By JOEL STASHENKO, Associated Press Writer ALBANY, N.Y. - Steel salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center was headed to a Mississippi shipyard Saturday for use in the USS New York, a warship named in honor of those who perished in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. It was the Navy's idea to incorporate the steel into the vessel, said Capt. Kevin Wensing, a Navy public affairs officer in Washington. He said the steel was removed Friday from the New York landfill that holds...

That should pis off those rednecks! They can't stop me now! LEFT Mon Nov 18, 2:17 PM ET. Southern Poverty Law Center Director Morris Dees, left, discusses a ruling by U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson concerning the Ten Commandments monument on display at the State Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala. At Dees' right is SPLC attorney Richard Cohen. (AP Photo/Dave Martin). RIGHT The Ten Commandments monument designed by Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is pictured at the State Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala., in this Aug 7, 2001, file photo. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled Monday,...

"I ain't got time to bleed"; or "Barking Seal". Mon Nov 4, 2002, 3:40 PM ET In the above photo; Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura speaks to the media after appointing Independent Dean Barkley as the senatorial replacement for Paul Wellstone at the governor's office in the state capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, November 4, 2002. Barkley ran for U.S. senate as an Independent Party candidate in 1994 and 1996. Wellstone was killed in a plane crash October 25. Ventura expressed anger at the press for ignoring the Independence Party. REUTERS/Eric Miller

"I ain't got time to bleed"; or "Barking Seal". Mon Nov 4, 2002, 3:40 PM ET In the above photo; Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura speaks to the media after appointing Independent Dean Barkley as the senatorial replacement for Paul Wellstone at the governor's office in the state capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, November 4, 2002. Barkley ran for U.S. senate as an Independent Party candidate in 1994 and 1996. Wellstone was killed in a plane crash October 25. Ventura expressed anger at the press for ignoring the Independence Party. REUTERS/Eric Miller

Is Bill Kristol the Antichrist? Patrick Buchanan, sitting in his sparse MSNBC office, explodes with a guffaw. He knows why he's being asked this. In late September he launched The American Conservative, a new magazine with a succinct mission statement: Kick the bejesus out of the neoconservatives. And Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and son of original neocon Irving Kristol, is the Michael Corleone of the clan Buchanan accuses of hijacking his beloved conservative movement. "No, he is not the Antichrist," the 63-year-old pundit and three-time presidential candidate replies. "But there is no doubt the neocons have come to...

FREE MUMIA. FREE THE CUBAN 5. FREE JAMIL AL-AMIN (that’s H. Rap Brown, the former Black Panther convicted in March of killing a sheriff’s deputy in 2000). And free Leonard Peltier. Also, defeat Zionism. And, while we’re at it, let’s bring the capitalist system to a halt. When tens of thousands of people gathered near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for an anti-war rally and march in Washington last Saturday, the demands hurled by the speakers extended far beyond the call for no war against Iraq. Opponents of the war can be heartened by the sight of people coming together in...

Jane Fonda joins with Revolutionary Communist Party According to L.A. Weekly writer Steven Mikulan; "the “Not in My Name” campaign - which pushes an anti-war statement signed by scores of prominent and celebrity lefties, including Jane Fonda, Martin Luther King III, Marisa Tomei, Kurt Vonnegut and Oliver Stone - has been directed, in part, by C. Clark Kissinger, a longtime Maoist activist and member of the Revolutionary Communist Party." Mikulan continued; "Lately, another kind of debate has swirled around the doctrinaire beliefs of the anti-war movement’s organizers. International ANSWER (Act Now To Stop War and End Racism), the group behind...

<p>THE plunge in AOL Time Warner stock has hurt the Democratic Party and its chances of controlling both houses of Congress after tomorrow's elections. Many Democratic candidates across the country were pinched for campaign funds which they might have gotten in years past from Jane Fonda. The ex-wife of Ted Turner is reported to have given $11 million to leftist groups in the year 2000. But since most of her fortune is in AOL Time Warner shares, and the share price has plummeted from a high of $100 since then to less than $15 on Friday, Fonda has not been as generous. And it's not just liberal politicians feeling the pinch. Groups like Planned Parenthood and the Sierra Club, past recipients of Fonda cash, cut back on their advertising budgets this year. "The left-leaning organizations are spending less because they've raised less," said one media consultant. Planned Parenthood is only spending $2 million compared to $10 million in 2000.</p>

RELIGION OF PEACE WATCH – by Don Feder http://www.donfeder.com/news.ivnu (October 28, 2002) Three incidents last week highlight the peaceable nature of Islam and provide further evidence of just how fortunate we are to have millions of adherents of this enlightened faith living among us. Incident #1 - In Paris, novelist Michel Houellebecq was acquitted by a French court of inciting racial hatred against Moslems when he declared in an interview last year that Islam was "the most stupid religion." In most of Europe, political correctness has reached a fevered pitch -- You can be criminally prosecuted for saying something that...

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