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"In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars." U.S. government "Summary of Evidence" for an Iraqi member of al Qaeda detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba FOR MANY, the debate over the former Iraqi regime's ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network ended a year ago with the release of the 9/11 Commission report. Media outlets seized on a carefully worded summary that the commission had found no evidence "indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing...

The Supreme Court of Canada finally gets one right. GOVERNMENT HEALTH-CARE ENTHUSIASTS in the United States have long looked to Canada as a leading light of health care fairness and equity. From a distance, Canada may seem to have it all: modern medicine and universal insurance. Up close, the story is quite different. On June 9, the Supreme Court of Canada called the system dangerous and deadly, striking down key laws and turning the country's vaunted health care system on its head. The ruling aptly symbolizes the declining enthusiasm for socialized medicine even in socialist nations. American legislators--such as those...

Associated Press Microsoft to Adopt Further Windows Changes Tuesday March 29, 8:27 am ET Microsoft Says It Will Adopt Further Changes to Windows As Demanded by EU Regulators BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it will adopt all of the main changes demanded by European Union antitrust regulators for its stripped-down version of Windows sold without the Media Player program. ADVERTISEMENT U.S. software maker's top lawyer in Europe, Horacio Gutierrez, said the company had contacted the European Commission "to inform them that we have accepted all the main changes they have requested." Changes to the Windows program will...

Top of the fold -- Judicial Supremacists and the Despotic Branch... The U.S. Constitution suffered some serious setbacks this week. The future of liberty and the rule of law suffered likewise. It's bad enough that Democrat obstructionists are once again denying President George Bush's federal-bench nominees their constitutionally prescribed up-or-down vote by the full Senate. In a fine example of why we need those nominees on the bench, Leftists on the Supreme Court are, again, "interpreting" the so-called "living Constitution" as a method of altering that venerable document by judicial diktat. Worse yet, these Left-judiciary Supremacists -- Justice Anthony Kennedy...

For Immediate Release > February 18, 2005 > Contact: Joseph Agostini > (850) 222-7920 > > BILL NELSON = JUST ANOTHER > OUT-OF-THE-MAINSTREAM LIBERAL > > *Democrat Florida Senator Joins Liberal Senate Colleagues > Clinton, Kennedy, Kerry, Boxer in opposing Tort Reform* > > TALLAHASSEE, FL - Republican Party of Florida Chairman Carole Jean > Jordan issued the following statement regarding Florida Senator Bill > Nelson's vote against tort reform: > > "Today, President Bush signed the landmark Class-Action Fairness Act of > 2005 into law and by this act, took a critical step towards ending the > lawsuit culture...

Dershowitz Speaks On MEALAC, Israeli State by Morgan Sellers Columbia Spectator February 8, 2005 http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/08/420868c4aedec http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1610 The accusations against Columbia's Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures department and the tensions surrounding the issue were on clear display yesterday afternoon as Alan Dershowitz addressed a packed house in Lerner Cinema. Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University, is a civil libertarian lawyer best known for defending high profile clients like O.J. Simpson in his murder trial. He also wrote numerous books including The New York Times bestsellers Chutzpah and The Case for Israel. Yesterday's event was sponsored...

Report Reveals Shocking New Details About Teacher POSTED: 12:11 pm EST December 3, 2004 UPDATED: 5:07 pm EST December 3, 2004 SCHOOL REPORT: Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 (all PDF files) ARREST REPORT: Kathy Garrett Arrest Report (PDF file) LETTER: Teachers' Union Responds To Parent Who Complained (PDF file) SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- Punching, swearing and throwing children across the room, details in a new report that lists the horrific allegations of abuse by Seminole County teacher Kathy Garrett....

Union Sent Threatening Letter To Parent Who Complained POSTED: 5:16 pm EST November 18, 2004 UPDATED: 5:37 pm EST November 18, 2004 LETTER: Teachers' Union Responds To Parent Who Complained (PDF file) SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- Channel 9 has obtained a letter from the teachers' union to a parent who complained Kathy Garrett beat her child years ago. Carol Goings was shocked by the threatening letter she received.

The latest issue of the AARP Bulletin http://www.aarp.org/bulletin is typical,filled with leftist, socialist, Democrat idiocy. For example, an article attacks the drug industry and suggests that companies producing drugs in countries with price controls do not have a problem, because they can negotiate prices with their government. Another article says that Medicare has been slow to recognize obesity as a "disease". Another suggests that Bush will cut VA benefits, when in fact VA spending has increased significantly under Bush. Another article points out how Superman (Christopher Reeve) had a hard time understanding Bush's position on stem cell research. As if...

October 28, 2004 Edition > Section: New York Printer-friendly version Email this article Bollinger to Probe Bias on Campus BY JACOB GERSHMAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun October 28, 2004 Engulfed in a public relations crisis, Columbia University has decided to investigate student claims that some professors are prejudiced against Israel and stifle opposing views in the classroom. Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger, said in a statement yesterday that he was "troubled" by student accusations against professors featured in a new documentary film, "Columbia Unbecoming," produced by a pro-Israel group in Boston. Calling the student accounts "disturbing," Mr. Bollinger said...

October 27, 2004 Edition > Section: Foreign Printer-friendly version Email this article Urgent Warning on Iraqi Cache Issued in 1995 BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun October 27, 2004 WASHINGTON - Nine years ago, U.N. weapons inspectors urgently called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to demolish powerful plastic explosives in a facility that Iraq's interim government said this month was looted due to poor security. The chief American weapons inspector, Charles Duelfer, told The New York Sun yesterday that in 1995, when he was a member of the U.N. inspections team in Iraq, he urged the...

Kerry's Dishonorable Discharge... "Reporting for duty"? For a guy who's hitched his entire presidential campaign to his military service record, John Kerry sure is parsimonious when it comes to releasing that record. As noted in this column on more than one occasion, Kerry has consistently refused to sign a Standard Form 180 authorizing the Department of Defense to release all of his records. George W. Bush's military records were so spotless that Dan Rather gleefully trotted out some fabricated documents in order to kick up a little dust. Of course, if Rather were a real journalist rather than just a...

It turned out days later that the Kerry campaign has a plan -- nay, a promise -- to cure paralysis. What is the plan? John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable. First, the inability of the human spinal...