Articles Posted by Fzob
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<p>MANTUA TWP. -- Former New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler and military personnel from McGuire Air Force Base joined students and staff at Gloucester County Christian School Wednesday for a ceremony to reflect and remember the events on Sept. 11, 2001.</p>
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Proud Papas Gay Dads Delighted Over New Quadruplets A gay couple who own two hair salons in Lexington, Ky., are now the proud fathers of 7-week-old quadruplets, with the assistance of a surrogate mother. The biological dad, 36-year-old lawyer Meehan, and his partner, Dysarz, 31, are believed to be the first gay couple ever to have quadruplets. They had the children through in-vitro fertilization after Dysarz met the babies' mom, a 23-year-old Kentucky woman, by chance at one of their salons. Both men joined the woman, who does not want her name publicized, in the delivery room when the...
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OpinionIs a Dictator Building Democracy in Pakistan? Commentary by Steve Chapman Sep 12, 2002 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf made a conscious decision to be in the United States this Sept. 11. His purpose was to show solidarity with America, and perhaps to induce a bit of amnesia. Last year's attacks, remember, were spawned by terrorists harbored by Afghanistan's Taliban regime, which was recognized by only three countries -- one being Pakistan. Musharraf, a career officer in an army that had extensive ties to the Taliban, made a dramatic about-face after Sept. 11. That happened because the Bush administration forcefully...
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<p>Are lunatics running the asylum policy?</p>
<p>Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:01 a.m.</p>
<p>NEW YORK--Zhang Shengli is running out of options. He came by our office here this week, hoping a talk with the press might help save him from being deported to China--where he fears he would go straight to prison. I think his fears are well-founded, all the more so because he is not flashy, not brilliant, not famous. Mr. Zhang is a sturdy 48-year-old fellow with thick eyebrows, a warm smile and what he describes as "so-so" skills in house painting and carpentry. In many ways, his greatest obstacle to freedom is that he seems so ordinary.</p>
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Are you tired of the mushy "friendship" poems that always sound good but never actually come close to reality? Well, here is a "friendship" poem that really speaks to true friendship and truth itself ...Friend,1) When you are sad, ...I will get you drunk and help you plot revenge against the sorry bastard who made you sad.2) When you are blue, ...I'll try to dislodge whatever is choking you. 3) When you smile, ...I'll know you finally got laid.4) When you are scared, ...I will rag you about it every chance I get.5) When you are worried, ...I will tell...
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DEMOCRACY CORPS JAMES CARVILLE . STANLEY GREENBERG . ROBERT SHRUM 10 G STREET, NE . SUITE 400 . WASHINGTON, DC 20002 202-478-8330 (TEL) . 202-289-8648 (FAX) WWW.DEMOCRACYCORPS.COM Date: April 25, 2002 To: Friends of Democracy Corps From: Stan Greenberg James CarvilleBob ShrumRE: THE MEAT AND POTATOES STRATEGYReport on a New National SurveyWe may finally be entering a period where tactics can shift the Congressional elections – perhaps decisively – in favor of Democrats. As the President’s popularity begins to ease and as the challenge overseas becomes more complicated and protracted, there is reason to believe that people are turning to...
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Bush vs. Corporate Corruption Inside Report by Robert Novak Jun 27, 2002 George W. Bush sat down privately with the nation's top business executives late last Thursday afternoon and gave them an earful about corporate ethics in what is being called America's second Gilded Age. It is a subject the president feels deeply about but so far has not addressed fully in public. So, his unscripted comments to the businessmen were not released. Will President Bush ever speak to the public definitively on what he considers corporate conduct that poisons the stock market and threatens the economy? "Stay...
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06/11/2002 17:52:44 ESTU.S. may alter smallpox strategy By STEVE MITCHELL, UPI Medical Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. government's impending change of strategy for smallpox vaccination, announced by Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is already being questioned by citizens groups, representatives told United Press International. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently is reconsidering its smallpox vaccination strategy, which calls for delaying vaccination until after a biological attack involving the virus has occurred. The vaccine will still protect people up to four days after exposure to smallpox, which is...
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Commentary: Harvard loves jihadBy DANIEL PIPES PHILADELPHIA, June 11 (UPI) -- Imagine the month is June and the year is 1942 -- just a few months after Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States. It's commencement time at Harvard University and a faculty committee has chosen a German-American to give one of three student orations at the festive ceremony. He titles his talk "American Kampf," purposefully echoing the title of Hitler's book, "Mein Kampf" --"My Struggle" -- in order to show the positive side of "Kampf." The talk prompts protests but a Harvard dean defends the planned talk as...
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Chemical, Water Plants to Be Checked Fri Jun 7, 7:50 PM ETBy JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Bush administration plans to require the nation's 15,000 chemical, water and waste-treatment plants to assess how vulnerable they are to terrorists and then fix any problems, The Associated Press has learned. The terrorism assessments would be similar to risk management plans the Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites) already requires from the same facilities for accidental releases of toxins, a senior EPA official said Friday. An interagency group chaired by the White House's Office of Homeland Security has...
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Rapper Fined for Hitting His Monkey Fri May 31,11:20 AM ET PARIS (Reuters) - A court fined French rapper Joey Starr 9,750 euros ($9,100) Wednesday after he hit his pet monkey on television, sparking a storm of protest from animal rights activists including former film star Brigitte Bardot. Starr slapped the caged Barbary ape several times during a program recorded at his home in March by the M6 commercial channel, provoking a flood of complaints from viewers that alerted Bardot and other animal rights groups. The court in the Paris suburb of Bobigny found Starr, whose real name is Didier...
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I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day. I want to return to a time when life...
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Self-Government and the Distinctive Character of American Civil SocietyPosted on February 9, 2002by Hans Eicholz Hans Eicholz is a Liberty Fund senior fellow and author of Harmonizing Sentiments: The Declaration of Independence and the Jeffersonian Idea of Self-Government (Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2001). When America resisted British taxation, Parliament was amused. The Americans would get their comeuppance by force of arms because America had forsaken the law and order of the empire. As days moved to weeks, and weeks to months, the amusement changed to frustration and the frustration to shock. Edmund Burke explained why: We were confident, that the...
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Because what is at stake now for America is the very soul of our democracy, it is time for the opposition in this country to step forward and articulate an alternative vision for America and the world. In order to shake a largely disconnected public out of the ignorant acquiescence that currently characterizes the relationship of the people to their government, the Democratic Party must get beyond tepid criticisms of the administration larded with assurances of "100 percent support for the president on the war." Meaningful opposition will require vocal, articulate and contrary argument. To mount it, the Democratic Party...
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PETA Still Critical of College's Use of a Cow Thursday, February 14, 2002 By ERIK ORTIZThe Ledger LAKELAND -- An animal-rights group is not satisfied with Florida Southern College's explanation for allowing a game of cow bingo on campus. In a letter dated Feb. 7, FSC officials defended their treatment of the cow used during a Jan. 16 fund-raising event. "To our knowledge, no laxatives were used on the cow. School officials were present from start to finish while the cow was on the campus," said FSC spokeswoman Shari Szabo in the letter to the People for the Ethical Treatment ...
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Don't know it this has been posted before, but it's a great story. No matter how bad your week was, be thankful your not this guy going home to the wife! Two hunters from Michigan--(true story or so this claims.) This is from a radio program, a true report of an incident in Michigan: A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500 and has $560 monthly payments. He and a friend go duck hunting in winter, and of course all the lakes are frozen. These two guys go out on the lake with the guns, the dog, and ...
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Self-Government and the Distinctive Character of American Civil Society by Hans Eicholz Hans Eicholz is a Liberty Fund senior fellow and author of Harmonizing Sentiments: The Declaration of Independence and the Jeffersonian Idea of Self‑Government (Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2001). When America resisted British taxation, Parliament was amused. The Americans would get their comeuppance by force of arms because America had forsaken the law and order of the empire. As days moved to weeks, and weeks to months, the amusement changed to frustration and the frustration to shock. Edmund Burke explained why: We were confident, ...
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In the 105th Congress, the Committee unanimously approved Terms of Reference for investigations into ``Impacts to U.S. National Security of Advanced Satellite Technology Exports to the People's Republic of China (PRC)'' and ``The PRC's Efforts to Influence U.S. Policy.'' These investigations were prompted by (1) press reports of possible export control law violations by Loral Space and Communications Ltd. and Hughes Electronics Corporation, in the course of launching U.S. satellites on Chinese rockets that may have harmed U.S. national security by providing expertise to the PRC's military ballistic missile programs, and (2) a report that Johnny Chung, a Democratic Party ...
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U.S. Navy Lt. Commander ``Scott'' Speicher was shot down over Iraq on January 17, 1991, the first night of the Gulf War. He was subsequently declared ``Killed in Action'' (KIA). For several years, the Committee has been concerned that LCDR Speicher has never been adequately accounted for. The issue surfaced in the 105th Congress when the New York Times ran a front page article that reported that Admiral Stanley Arthur, then Vice Chief of Naval Operations and formerly Commander of Allied Naval forces in the Persian Gulf during the Gulf War, believed ``that Commander Speicher had ejected successfully and survived.'' ...
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ABCNEWS.com : Moon's Dark Side Gives Climate Hints Moonshine and the Climate — If he were alive today, Leonardo da Vinci could spend most of his time saying "I told you so." Four centuries ago he postulated that the light that makes the dark part of the crescent moon visible to us some of the time comes from the Earth, not the moon. And now, all these years later, scientists have found a way to use Leonardo's discovery to help us understand the Earth’s incredibly complex climate system. They have figured out how to use "Earthshine," the sunlight reflected ...
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