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12/15/2005 - RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFPN) -- Thousands of miles from the day-to-day bustle of holiday shopping and military missions, school children and orphans are receiving school supplies, toys and clothing -- from people they've never met. The children live in Afghanistan and they've been receiving these much-needed items through the generosity of men and women stationed here. This is where Maj. DuWayne Bredvik, the policy and doctrine chief for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Plans and Programs Directorate, has stepped up to collect donations and mail the donations. "My boss was deployed to Afghanistan, and he mentioned...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal agency collected extensive personal information about airline passengers although Congress told it not to and it said it wouldn't, according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press. A Transportation Security Administration contractor used three data brokers to collect detailed information about U.S. citizens who flew on commercial airlines in June 2004 in order to test a terrorist screening program called Secure Flight, according to documents that will be published in the Federal Register this week. The TSA had ordered the airlines to turn over data on those passengers, called passenger name records, in November....

John Conyers is trying to collect a couple million emails on the voting investigation.. He has set up a special form for you to ask questions of the committee.. Please send off an email with a question for the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Ohio Vote. Click below and take a moment to write your opinions of the 2004 Presidential vote.http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/contact.html

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Chris and Bob Brown are telephone customers who have earned the right, it seems to me, to scream out loud! The parents of two teenagers, the Browns tell their boys to call home should they need a ride after school or sports practice. In one stretch last month, the boys called eight times to be picked up -- most of the calls lasting no more one minute -- and the bill came to $124.50. "Something like this," said the agitated mother, Chris, "shouldn't be legal." According to what I learned, it may not be. The Browns live in Franklin, about...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - Opponents of the Republican-led campaign to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis reported Tuesday collecting $344,000 in donations, including $50,000 from Univision president and chief executive A. Jerrold Perenchio.</p> <p>Perenchio is one of California's top political donors and spreads his wealth among Democrats and Republicans. He gave nearly $5 million to candidates and causes in 2001-2002, including more than $1 million to the Republican Party and its candidates for governor and at least $500,000 to Davis.</p>