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The ProjectUSA billboard at 499 Englewood in North Buffalo was defaced within days of going up. The Wall Street Journal's editorial page has denied responsibility. The billboards in Buffalo at 612 Sheridan Dr., 3684 Delaware, and 3670 River Rd have avoided any damage so far. The ProjectUSA voter awareness campaign in New York’s 26th congressional district was barely underway before someone ruined one of our billboards by scrawling the words "erase racism" across its face. The billboard carried the factual statement, “Congressman Tom Reynolds supports amnesty for illegal aliens,” and was one of four located in the northern and...

In case you haven't heard, the Marriage amendment got shot down in the house: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134134,00.htmlHere's the Republicans voting Nay: Bass Biggert Bono Castle Cox Dreier Foley Frelinghuysen Gerlach Gibbons Gilchrest Greenwood Hobson Hostettler Houghton Johnson (CT) Kirk Knollenberg Kolbe Leach McInnis Ose Paul Pryce (OH) Sanders Shays Simmons Here's the republicans not voting: Boehlert Cannon Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dunn Hunter Nethercutt Ros-Lehtinen Tauzin Be sure to contact these people & show your appreciation. Here's the list of Dems voting FOR: Berry Bishop (GA) Boucher Boyd Carson (OK) Chandler Cooper Costello Cramer Davis (AL) Davis (TN) Edwards Etheridge Ford Gordon...

The RAF's new jet fighter has been saddled with a gun it cannot fire, it has been reported. A powerful wing-mounted cannon was ditched four years ago in a bid to save A£90 million on the A£109 billion Eurofighter project. But the hi-tech jet's sophisticated computerised flight controls rely on the ballast the gun provides. Engineers attempted to substitute lumps of lead or concrete before deciding it was cheaper to fit the cannon, newspapers reported. But to save A£2.5 million on the aircraft that has been renamed Typhoon after a series of set-backs it will have no rounds to fire....

Man Charged In Cannon Explosion Two men were killed when a homemade cannon exploded and sent chunks of stainless steel flying at an annual holiday weekend gathering of bikers in Marion County, the sheriff's office said. James McKinniss, 39, and Jackie Byrd, 64, both of Marion, were killed by flying pieces of metal when a two-foot steel tube being used a cannon exploded Saturday night. Witnesses told the Marion County Sheriff's Office that the cannon was used to fire pieces of bread. Investigators said the device had been fired about 24 times without incident before the explosion. Byrd died at...

Oppose Massive Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Working in Agriculture S. 1645 and H.R. 3142, the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act of 2003, introduced by Sens. Larry Craig (R-ID) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Reps. Chris Cannon (R-UT) and Howard Berman (D-CA), is a massive agricultural guestworker-amnesty bill. Amnesty for estimated 3 million Of the 1.2 million illegal aliens currently working in agriculture, an estimated 860,000 plus their spouses and children could qualify for this amnesty, so the total could reach three million or more. Past amnesty for agricultural workers failed The 1986 Special Agriculuture Worker (SAW) amnesty showed...

Cannon glides to primary victory By Tad Walch Deseret Morning News PROVO — The irony of where their respective campaigns met on primary election night wasn't lost on either candidate in the 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday night. Incumbent Rep. Chris Cannon's supporters watched results pour in at the Hampton Inn in Provo while Matt Throckmorton's backers did the same from a Hampton Inn in Orem. A few miles on I-15 were all that separated the gatherings, and only a handful of key issues separated the candidates in the Republican primary. Otherwise, they were nearly identical ideological twins. Their differences...

An anti-immigration group is accusing Utah Rep. Chris Cannon of soliciting illegal campaign donations from undocumented immigrants during an appearance on a Spanish-language radio station. The accusations come just a week before the June 22 primary election, where Cannon is being challenged by former state Rep. Matt Throckmorton for the Republican Party nomination in Utah's 3rd Congressional District. A partial transcript of the program -- which aired May 22 on station KBJA 1640 AM -- was provided by Salt Lake attorney Steve Staker, who provided it to The Tribune at the request of ProjectUSA, one of several national organizations actively...

<p>On March 24, the House Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing called “How Would Millions of Guest Workers Impact Working Americans and Americans Seeking Employment?”</p> <p>The hearing took place in connection with various “guest worker” bills pending before Congress. Rep. Chris Cannon (search), R-Utah, a committee member, has spent extraordinary resources trying to convince voters that the bill he co-sponsors is not an amnesty, though it would not prosecute the millions of illegal aliens (search) who have committed a crime by entering or remaining in the U.S. without a current visa. Instead, it would give them a work permit.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - House and Senate lawmakers rallied yesterday behind legislation that would legalize as many as 500,000 illegal immigrants employed as farmworkers, but the Bush administration has yet to endorse the measure.</p> <p>Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., the bill's chief sponsors, are urgently working to get the measure onto the Senate floor before the end of the year. They are trying for support from at least 60 senators. So far, the bill has attracted 54 sponsors from both parties.</p>

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Naval Historical Center (NHC) recently transferred a 9-inch Civil War-era Dahlgren cannon, originally from the famous Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia, to the Fredericksburg Area Museum, Fredericksburg, Va.This cannon, named after its designer, Rear Adm. John A. Dahlgren, is one of a few surviving artifacts saved from the famous ironclad, and was one of six cannons that were used by the ship.Built from the scuttled remains of the Union sloop of war USS Merrimack, Virginia set out against the blockading Union fleet off Norfolk, Va., March 7, 1862.The next day, this particular Dahlgren cannon was damaged during...

<p>A bipartisan delegation of U.S. congressmen visiting Mexico Wednesday said they expect quick passage -- perhaps as soon as December -- of a bill that would help some immigrant agricultural workers gain legal residency.</p> <p>However, the delegation, which is to meet with Mexican President Vicente Fox Friday, said broader immigration reform is still far off.</p>

<p>WEST POINT, Ky.--A casualty list from the Knob Creek Gun Range, which hosted one of the country's largest machine-gun shoots this past weekend, would look something like this: Two dozen old appliances. A dozen junked cars. Tens of thousands of rounds of spent ammunition. Zero people.</p>

<p>COLFAX - A Texas man accused of driving alongside another vehicle and killing the driver at random last year pleaded guilty Thursday.</p> <p>Jimmy Jack Maddox, 27, was sentenced to 52 years in state prison, Grant Parish District Attorney Jay Lemoine said.</p>

The cannon fires two-and-a-half inch cannonballs A home-made cannon has been handed in to a police station in Birmingham as part of a nationwide gun amnesty. The camouflage-coloured cannon, which is on wheels and fires two-and-a-half inch cannonballs, was handed in to Castle Vale police station, on Monday. A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said: "This is probably the strangest item we have had so far. "But it is good to see people still bringing things in towards the end of the amnesty." During the month-long project, which ends on Wednesday, more than 1,000 weapons have been handed in anonymously...

Utility workers in Petoskey, Mich., weren't too impressed with the rusted iron cylinder they hoisted from a construction site six years ago. In fact, they dumped it in a field behind the Department of Public Works, where it sat unappreciated - until a few months ago, when the relic was identified as a Confederate artillery piece made in Augusta. "They said they had an old cannon, and did we want it," said Fred Knoodle, a Harbor Springs, Mich., member of the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War - a northern equivalent of the Sons of Confederate Veterans....

Picture this: Three men with Long Bay Salvage Co. arrested a barge late Sunday night. The concept of arresting a barge is unusual for landlubbers but is the correct procedure for maritime salvage. Capt. Rick Skimmyhorn, Rodney Thomason and Rufus Perdue live in Murrells Inlet. They found the Reconstruction-era barge about 40 miles off the coast of South Carolina, and recovered two cannon in July. Monday morning, the three men brought a third cannon, a 10-inch Columbiad, to the port of Georgetown. A crane from Andrews Metal Works lifted the cannon from the water and placed it on the shore...

ELLETTSVILLE, Ind. -- When Jim Bristoe told his wife he wanted to build a cannon that would shoot a pumpkin a mile, she told him he wasn't all there. But he built one anyway, with a 30-foot-long barrel. It is powered by a 700-gallon air tank and is appropriately named "Ain't All There." It looks much like a mobile anti-aircraft gun. "You don't need to cover your ears, but you're going to know I shot it," the 42-year-old electrician and mechanic said during a demonstration on Wednesday. When Bristoe fires the cannon, a 10-pound pumpkin is hit with 11,300 pounds...

<p>SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) --Captain Cook fans who credit the English explorer-adventurer with the formal "discovery" of eastern Australia may have to think again.</p> <p>History teacher Greg Jefferys said on Tuesday he believed he had found remains of a Portuguese warship buried under a beach in what is now the state of Queensland and he had dated the wreck to as much as 200 years before James Cook landed in Botany Bay.</p>

FARMINGTON -- The City Council is once again trying to sell its old cannon.The council voted to request proposals for the purchase of the cannon, which sits outside the Old Tithing House. The Old Tithing House will soon become the city's museum. The cannon is a Confederate Iron Napoleon cannon, used in the Civil War. It has no place in Farmington's history, other than it was used during some city celebrations, and it is unknown how it arrived in Farmington. Although the city has already received four offers to buy the cannon, City Manager Max Forbush has found other museums...