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Saturday, September 27, 2003 WEAPONS OF CHOICEDaschle supports pro-gun billMeasure bans lawsuits against firearms industry Posted: September 27, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The Senate's top Democrat has broken ranks with most of his party's constituents and has agreed to support legislation banning potentially ruinous lawsuits against the firearms industry. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. "The vast majority of gun owners, manufacturers and sellers are honest and law-abiding," said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, according to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. "It is wrong – and it is a misuse of the civil-justice system – to...

    The Real Reason Conservatives are So Vehemently Opposed to the Candidacy of Arnold Schwarzenegger By Eric DonderoWhat do you think the real reason is for why the conservatives are so vehemently against theSchwarzenegger candidacy?It's not the reason they are telling you.  It's not because Arnold Schwarzenegger is a "liberal."  It'sbecause our so-called conservative cousins are scared to death that if Arnold wins his new brand of "fiscally conservative/socially tolerant" Republicanism will catch on and spread like wildfire outside of California across the nation.It almost happened a couple times in the past. Senator Barry Goldwater shocked fellow Conservatives by...

   http://writ.findlaw.com/mariner/20021209.html ----YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENTBy JOANNE MARINER ---- Monday, Dec. 09, 2002 Anyone who has ever watched a cop show knows that you have a right to remain silent in response to police questioning, and that if you knowingly waive that right, "anything you say can be used against you in a court of law." The Miranda warnings, named after the 1966 Supreme Court case that gave rise to them, are deeply embedded in both legal and popular culture. Given the warnings' established place in police procedures, TV cops and real-life police officers might be...

Tuesday, September 3, 2002 Home Schooling in CaliforniaCalvary Christian Center SchoolSacramento, CA Thank you and good morning. Yesterday, Gray Davis told reporters that he wouldn't let me roll back four years of progress. Well, I have a message for the governor: what I'm going to undo is his four years of failed leadership. It has to do with four years of failing schools, power crises and blackouts, and budget problems stretching from last year that are projected for years to come, all caused by his mismanagement and failure to lead. Though the governor's definition of progress doesn't seem to...

<p>Miss America 2003, Erika Harold, yesterday said pageant officials have ordered her not to talk publicly about sexual abstinence, a cause she has advocated to teenage girls in Illinois.</p> <p>"Quite frankly, and I'm not going to be specific, there are pressures from some sides to not promote [abstinence]," the 22-year-old woman from Urbana, Ill., told The Washington Times.</p>

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Dark Blue Worldreview by Carrie Gorringe, 21 September 2001 26th Toronto International Film Festival Somewhere in the middle of director Jan Sverák's film, Dark Blue World (Tmavomodrý svet) in the middle of a labor camp in post-World War Two Czechoslovakia, a former SS doctor who is now working for the Communists attending to sick inmates, states cynically (but truthfully) that there's not much difference between the two ideologies. This was not supposed to be the way things should have turned out; these inmates were former war heroes, trained pilots who fled from Czechoslovakia one step ahead of the Nazi ...

Today: November 05, 2001 at 15:55:24 PST Rep. Boland, D-Mass., Dies SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Edward P. Boland, who rose from a working class neighborhood to represent Massachusetts in Congress for more than three decades, has died. He was 90. Boland had been hospitalized since Oct. 11 with a broken hip. He died Sunday night at Mercy Medical Center of cardiovascular complications, a hospital spokesman said. Known for authoring the amendments that barred U.S. aid to the Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s, Boland chaired the House Intelligence Committee from 1977 to 1985. "He took the New Deal values of ...

The US message to the Taliban 'Attention. You are condemned. Did you know that? The instant the terrorists you support took over our planes, you sentenced yourselves to death' Julian Borger in Washington, Rory McCarthy in Islamabad and Richard Norton-TaylorSaturday October 20, 2001The Guardian US electronic warfare planes were yesterday broadcasting bloodcurdling warnings to Taliban soldiers, telling them how to surrender and threatening them with certain death if they failed to give themselves up. The extraordinary propaganda campaign is one of a series of signs that special forces combat operations in Afghanistan are imminent, as helicopter-borne elite units gather on ...