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Smith, Sununu Clash on Rewarding Illegal Aliens Newsmax.com August 29, 2002Some people think crime does pay: Rep. John E. Sununu, the New Hampshire Republican hoping to replace Sen. Bob Smith, wants to reward some illegal aliens by granting them amnesty. Sununu favors the amnesty extension bill that passed the House on March 12 - with the support of President Bush. It would let illegal aliens stay in the U.S. while their applications for permanent legal residence are processed, if they are related to a U.S. citizen or have certain job skills. Sununu claims the measure is "pro-family” because some of...

Jane's Defence Weekly August 28, 2002 Russia To Retain MIRVs Beyond START II Deadline By Nikolai Novichkov, JDW Correspondent, Moscow Russia will not destroy its arsenal of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV) inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in the timeline stipulated under the provisions of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II), but will retain its MIRV capability until 2016, according to Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov. Following the signing of the Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty by US President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin on 28 May, Russia announced it would withdraw from the provisions of START...

Marxist May Win the Presidency in Brazil This Fall David T. Pyne August 25, 2002[Note: This column originally ran as a two-part series.] Brazil seems poised to elect the standard-bearer of a Communist-aligned coalition movement as its president this October. Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, the perennial candidate of Brazil's Communist-aligned Popular Front who continues to lead his opponents in every presidential poll during this election cycle, is currently polling 37 percent of the vote. If elected president, da Silva would revolutionize Brazil and form a 'Castro-da Silva-Chavez axis' along with the Communist leaders of Cuba and Venezuela. Secretary of...

<p>Senior Pentagon officials, considered that the Army’s multibillion dollar Stryker armored vehicle may be too difficult to airlift, are questioning the program’s future, according to top officials. “We’ve got a lot of questions the Army needs to answer,” one senior official said. The Stryker is the centerpiece of the Army’s Stryker Brigade Combat Teams, designed to usher in the Army’s transformation to a lighter, more mobile force. Army leaders want to buy more than 2,000 Strykers to outfit six brigades — at a cost of $1.5 billion per brigade — the first of which would be fielded in January 2003 and be designated “combat ready” four months later. Senior Army officials said they were unaware of any move to kill the Stryker program.</p>

<p>President Bush will appear at two private fund-raising events for California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon today, but he will not share the stage with the aspiring politician when he addresses Hispanic community leaders in Santa Ana, just south of Los Angeles.</p>

Bush Administration Plan to Invade Iraq Dubious at Best First of Three Parts by David T. Pyne August 16, 2002 Recent news reports indicate that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in an unprecedented move, has locked out the Joint Chiefs of Staff from further planning for the planned US invasion of Iraq. This action was reportedly taken due to recent leaks by some of our highest-ranking general officers of US war plans, who remain wary of fighting another war against Iraq this time without provocation or justification. While our top generals are not convinced that war with Iraq is a...

Smith and Sununu stress differences By MARK HAYWARD Manchester Union Leader Staff, 8-13-02 DERRY — The Derry widow of a man who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks last night confronted U.S. Rep. John E. Sununu over his vote against establishing a commission to investigate the terrorist attacks against the United States. Ellen Mariani, whose husband, Louis “Neil” Mariani was on United Airlines Flight 175, was a panelist at a debate between Sununu and incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Smith at WNDS-TV studios. The two are seeking the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate. While the two have been genial...

U.S. Helps America-Hating North Korea Build Nukes NewsMax.com Wires and NewsMax.com Thursday, Aug. 8, 2002 SEOUL, South Korea – A concrete-pouring ceremony Wednesday marked the beginning of a U.S.-led project to build two light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea. The international consortium pledged eight years ago to build a nuclear power plant with two 1,000-megawatt light-water reactors for North Korea, supposedly in exchange for the county giving up its military nuclear program. The light-water reactors produce less weapons-grade nuclear material than other models, officials said. The U.S. is aiding North Korea even though: President Bush has called the communist dictatorship...

The Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party July 10, 2002 by David T. Pyne It's primary season again and all across the country, there is a war being fought between the candidates of the liberal Republican establishment and the principled champions of the conservative grassroots members of the Republican Party who form its base. This conservative Republican base is responsible for every one of the nationwide victories of the Republican Party in recent memory; most notably the 1994 GOP landslide that swept Republican majorities into Congress. It continues to rebel against many of the moderate to very liberal...

Can The Us Really Trust Russian President Putin to be a Reliable Strategic Partner? July 5, 2002 by David T. Pyne During the past several weeks, the world has seen the relationship between Russia and the West and particularly the US, radically transformed with a rapid succession of agreements. One agreement is to reduce the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads to 2200 or below, and another to allow Russia into NATO as a de-facto member with veto power over many of its decisions. An accompanying strategic framework agreement is included in which the US promises not merely to limit...

Bush's Record Calls into Question His Conservative Label David T. Pyne June 4, 2002 President George W. Bush, having won an extremely close and hard fought election in November 2000, has been attacked by liberal Democrats for being "too conservative" almost from the time he was elected. However, Bush's overall record since assuming the office of President calls into question the general perception that Bush is a conservative. During his first few months, Bush seemed to set a commendable course as a moderate conservative. Some of Bush's notable conservative accomplishments include his decision to withdraw the US from the strictures...

De-Facto Russian Membership Signals the End of NATO May 31, 2002 by David T. Pyne Earlier this week at the heavily guarded NATO summit in Rome, the NATO Council of 20 voted unanimously to make Russia its newest partner country. This landmark agreement grants de-facto NATO membership to Russia via its participation in a newly established NATO-Russia Joint Council. The agreement brings Russia into NATO's decision-making structure, which due to the fact that all of the alliance’s decisions must be unanimous, grants Russia veto power over most of NATO decisions except those relating to its “mutual defense” role and admission...

Bush’s Offer to Jointly Develop Missile Defense System with Russia Unwise David T. Pyne 5-28-02 In the wake of the recent signing of a sweeping new nuclear arms disarmament treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russian President Putin has reportedly accepted President Bush’s invitation to join the US in the cooperative development of a new US missile defense system. Mr. Bush had issued this invitation for the same reason he accepted Putin’s demand to sign a nuclear arms disarmament treaty, which he had initially resisted and the Pentagon opposed. That reason was...

The Moscow Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty—Arms Control at its Worst By David T. Pyne May 24, 2002 Note: This is a special follow-up to the three part series on the Bush-Putin Nuclear Reduction Treaty posted last week. The soon to be signed Treaty of Moscow, which mandates that US and Russian deployed strategic nuclear warheads do not exceed 2200 warheads, is deeply flawed and will do little or nothing to reduce the threat posed by the Russian nuclear arsenal to the United States. One of reasons for this is the fact that the Bush Administration did not want to sign...

New Nuclear Disarmament Treaty Heralds the Beginning of the End for the US as a Superpower by David T. Pyne May 21, 2002 Note: This is the final Part of a three part series on the Bush-Putin Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty. Earlier this week, President Bush (right) announced his intention to sign a sweeping new nuclear disarmament treaty with the Russian Federation, stating his belief that "this treaty…would make the world more peaceful and put behind us the Cold War once and for all." The nuclear disarmament of the United States was the liberal's policy prescription for ending the Cold...

OPPOSED BY THE PENTAGON BUSH'S NUCLEAR DETERRENT DISARMAMENT PLAN (PART 1 Of 3) By: David T. Pyne US and Russian arms control negotiators have reportedly reached an agreement on the terms for a new treaty between the US and Russia to reduce the size of the US arsenal to about 1700-2200 nuclear warheads each. President Bush has announced that he plans to sign it at the Bush-Putin summit in Moscow on May 24th. The Russians sought a binding agreement in order to make the planned US nuclear disarmament measures “irreversible” while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld worked to keep provisions...

May 14, 2002 Bush to sign missile treaty By Bill Sammon THE WASHINGTON TIMES President Bush announced yesterday that he will sign a landmark treaty in Moscow next week to slash the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia by two-thirds during the next decade. "This treaty will liquidate the legacy of the Cold War," Mr. Bush told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House. "It'll make the world more peaceful and put behind us the Cold War once and for all." The treaty will reduce the nuclear stockpiles of the United States and Russia to 1,700...

<p>Police arrested a suspect, a white male Dutch citizen, close to the scene of the 6 p.m. shooting in Hilversum, 10 miles south of Amsterdam. The shaven-headed Mr. Fortuyn, 53, sustained numerous gunshot wounds to the head, chest and neck as he emerged from a radio studio and approached his car.</p>

San Jose Mercury News April 27, 2002 Rumsfeld Reportedly Resists Firm Limits On Nuclear Arms By Jonathan S. Landay, Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his aides have been fighting a rearguard action against White House efforts to limit the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal in a treaty with Russia, senior administration officials contend. At one point, President Bush had to order Rumsfeld to stop opposing a treaty now being negotiated that would limit the United States and Russia to deploying no more than 1,700 to 2,200 operational warheads each by 2012, said the...

TOP "TEN" CONSERVATIVE LIST based on 2001 Conservative Index scores published in The New American magazine: US House 1. Rep. Tancredo (R-CO) 95% 2. Rep. Paul (R-TX) (former Libertarian) 92% 3. Rep. Schaefer (R-CO) 90% 4. Rep. Hostettler (R-IN) 88% 5. Rep. Royce (R-CA) 84% 6. Rep. Rohrbacher (R-CA) 83% 7. Rep. Sensenbrenner (R-WI) 81% 8. Rep. Duncan (R-TN) 79% 9. Rep. Barr (R-GA) Rep. Goode (R-VA) (former Democrat) Rep. Pombo (R-CA) all tied for 9th place with a 78% conservative rating. US Senate 1. Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) 74% 2. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) 72% 3. Sen. Robert Smith...