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Looking for a date for Friday night? Want someone to read thepoliticker.com with and talk to about Eliot Spitzer's fiscal policy late into the night? Like-minded city singles are looking to tonight's Barack Obama rally as more than just a politically charged soiree: It'll be a raging pickup scene. The rally from 5-8 p.m. in Washington Square Park, promises to draw a young, intelligent crowd. And what better time to hook up than a beautiful fall evening while waving a banner for democracy? "You are likely to have similar political views, and those often cross into other things that aren't...

progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reform, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday. One likely result of the report will be a vastly accelerated debate among President Bush's top aides on withdrawing troops and scaling back the U.S. presence in Iraq.

Let us conservatives clamor for a Fairness Doctrine at American Universities. They are havens for far Left, Marxist idealogy. Let us demand equal time to balance their hateful idealogy. Let us begin with Duke University.

As I watch these elected representatives craft legislation on how to deal with illegal immigration, I wonder how many of them employ illegals themselves, a la Zoe Baird ( from the Clintoon years)? You know, nannies, gardeners, lackeys, etc. Perhaps a conflict of interest, no?

According to villagers and witness accounts posted on the Internet, officials in several parts of Guangxi mobilized their largest effort in years to roll back population growth by instituting mandatory health checks for women and forcing pregnant women who did not have approval to give birth to abort fetuses.

For 62 years, Akira Makino spoke not a word of what he’d done, but to those who knew him well it must have been obvious that he was a man with a tortured conscience. Why else would he have returned so often to the obscure, mosquito-blown town in the southern Philippines where he had experience such misery during the Second World War? He set up war memorials, gave clothes to poor children, and bought an entire set of uniforms for a local baseball team. Last year, at the age of 83, he embarked on a gruelling pilgrimage to 88 Buddhist...

A judge ruled Friday that a 16-year-old boy fighting to use alternative treatment for his cancer must report to a hospital by Tuesday and accept treatment that doctors deem necessary, the family's attorney said. The judge also found Starchild Abraham Cherrix's parents were neglectful for allowing him to pursue alternative treatment of a sugar-free, organic diet and herbal supplements supervised by a clinic in Mexico, lawyer John Stepanovich said. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/21/D8J0MGOO1.html

Police briefly cordoned off Times Square in New York on Monday, closing off one of the busiest streets in the city after a report of a suspicious package, a police spokesman said. The area was later reopened to traffic after the package was checked and found to be no threat.

Today I recieved an urgent prayer request about a pastor in Mosul, Iraq who has been threatened by Muslim fanatics to leave town. He, his family, and his congregation have reached out for prayer in the hopes of changing the situation, since the American military seems unable to protect his chuch. The Christian organization I recieved this news from has asked that no information be given out about the pastors they support due to such persecution. They feel that calling attention to the problem in the media will only identify and endanger their members. So I can't name anyone involved....