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RNC Research - For Immediate Release May 6, 2005 DAY 8 AFTER PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES SOCIAL SECURITY PROPOSAL; HISPANICS SHOW SUPPORT, BUT DEMOCRATS STILL SAY NO President Bush's Job Approval Rating On Social Security Has Seen A Net 7-Point Improvement Since Westhill/Hotline's Last Survey On April 7th. (Westhill/Hotline Poll, 800 Registered Voters, Conducted 4/28-5/1, Margin Of Error +/- 3.5%) "According To A Study By The Non-Partisan Pew Hispanic Center, 49% Of Hispanics Approve Of President Bush's Plan For Individual Investment Accounts, Compared With 35% Of All Americans." (Raul A. Reyes, Op-Ed, "Cinco De Mayo And Social Security," USA Today, 5/6/05) "The...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Sex abuse allegations against U.N. peacekeepers and other staff more than doubled last year, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report released Thursday, calling the increase "deeply troubling." There were 121 allegations in 2004 compared with 53 allegations reported in 2003, Annan said in a report to the U.N. General Assembly. Annan said the rise in allegations could be partly due to new measures put in place by the U.N. to encourage alleged victims to come forward. He added that the figures collected for last year may not reflect the extent of the abuse because...

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LONDON (Reuters) - UK advertising regulators signaled a weariness of the double entendre used by French Connection to sell its FCUK brand and warned the clothing chain again, this time over a promotion for its line of fragrances. In an ad placed for French Connection by Zirh International in the Boots pharmacy chain's magazine, a picture of a young couple sitting on a bed in their underwear included fold-out samples of perfume with the phrases "open here to try fcuk her" and "open here to try fcuk him." Though it received just two complaints, the UK's self-regulatory Advertising Standards Authority...

    The New Year's Eve Party has begun!  Welcome to everyone that is joining us for this huge celebration! I am Queenie and I will be hosting the festivities tonight along with the Canteen Deejays. In this section, you will find a variety of fun celebratory music! Remember that this music is dedicated to our Troops and their families! Happy New Year everyone!! (Music will be removed on Monday afternoon!) Don't forget to request music through email: canteenusa@canteenusa.com ("Music Request" in the subject line please), on the thread, and via FReepmail! Thank you!   Big Bad Voodoo Jive...

Russia on alert after double jet crash Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow and Colin Blackstock Wednesday August 25, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, last night ordered the FSB security services to begin an investigation after one passenger plane with 42 people on board crashed and another aircraft carrying 52 went missing within minutes of each other after taking off from Moscow. The involvement of the FSB and an order for airport security to be tightened suggested the possibility that the incidents could have been caused by terrorism. The emergencies ministry confirmed that one plane had crashed...

As this column has noted more than once, in a Church wracked by dissent and scandal in every nation, Fr. Nicholas Gruner of Canada, who has done nothing wrong, is the one and only priest in living memory the Vatican apparatus has seen fit to condemn publicly with an announcement in L’Osservatore Romano—the very day after 9/11! Fr. Gruner’s "offense" is his all-too-effective promotion of the Fatima Message as it relates to the current crisis in the Church and the world. The curious treatment of Fr. Gruner has prompted this running "Double Standard Update" feature. The latest example of the...

Crushing double defeat at polls for Berlusconi By Bruce Johnston in Rome (Filed: 29/06/2004) The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi suffered one of the worst setbacks of his political career yesterday when he was badly defeated in local elections, including in his provincial stronghold around Milan. In two rounds of elections his centre-Right coalition, which swept to national power three years ago with the largest majority in post-war history, lost 52 out of 63 provincial council contests. The centre-Right also lost 22 out of 30 mayoral races. Trouble at home: Silvio Berlusconi at the Nato summit yesterday Critics said the...

US accused of double standards after granting Saddam prisoner-of-war status By Robert Verkaik and Rupert Cornwell 17 December 2003 The US administration was accused of gross hypocrisy yesterday after granting Saddam Hussein the legal rights that for more than two years it has denied the 660 detainees held in Guantanamo Bay. The treatment of Saddam as a prisoner of war under the terms of the Geneva Conventions and the promises he will be given a fair trial contrast sharply with the status of the "illegal combatants" picked up by the coalition forces in the war against terror. The decision has...

Double blow for Mugabe's allies By Anton La Guardia in Abuja (Filed: 06/12/2003) President Robert Mugabe's allies suffered a double defeat last night after they failed to secure Zimbabwe's reinstatement to the Commonwealth and lost the fight to unseat Don McKinnon, the organisation's secretary-general. Mr Mugabe addresses his ruling Zanu-PF party congress in Masvingo The decisions amounted to a victory for Tony Blair, who came to the Commonwealth summit in Nigeria determined to ensure that Zimbabwe was not re-admitted before it had halted the repression of political opponents. The battle now moves to the terms and conditions that Zimbabwe will...

US goods set to double in price as Europe plans huge trade war By Stephen Castle in Brussels 11 November 2003 American jeans, Florida orange juice and dozens of other US products could double in price from next month because of a growing transatlantic trade war. The World Trade Organisation gave the European Union permission yesterday to impose huge import tariffs, which will allow price increases of between 8 and 100 per cent on a range of goods. The row, which began when America imposed special duties of up to 30 per cent on European steel last year, reached a...

GOING TOO FAR by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher September 22, 2003 For some, it's love of the game. For others, it's an opportunity to get away for two or three hours to watch athletes at the top of their game doing what they do best. For players, it's a dream come true, getting paid to do what they did in the playground as a kid. For fans, it's a chance to relive their childhood as they take their children or just some friends to whatever game they're watching.However, in the last couple of years, I've had to ask myself...

<p>AL OUJA, Iraq - Saddam Hussein, dressed in a greasy blue jumpsuit, spends his afternoons pumping gas at this sleepy village's service station, just south of his hometown of Tikrit.</p> <p>Or at least that's how it looks to visiting motorists who pull in for a fill-up and quickly do a double take at Mohammed Hussein Daoud, with his unmistakeable heavy jowls, bushy mustache and big dark sunglasses.</p>

<p>YUCAIPA, Calif. (AP) - A deputy shot and killed a man who had just fatally shot his neighbor in a dispute over slashed tires, authorities said. Donald Van Zant, 74, shot his neighbor Saturday while standing next to a sheriff's deputy, said Robin Haynal, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Carl Miles, 49, died at Loma Linda University Medical Center.</p>

<p>Accelerated logging in the Sierra Nevada is the best way to ease fire threats, protect wildlife, create jobs and ultimately have more old-growth forests a century from now, the Forest Service said Thursday.</p> <p>Without a sharp increase in logging aimed at thinning overstocked forests across 11.5 million acres of the Sierra, fish and wildlife habitat will face far greater risk from wildfires, the agency said in an environmental study.</p>

<p>Mother Ruby Muhammad had hoped to get her watermelons and summer annuals into her Sacramento County garden before a trip to Chicago. But there hadn't been enough time.</p> <p>And she'd like to write another poem.</p> <p>At 106, Mother Ruby is downright vivacious. She was sad for a friend who confided to her that she was just waiting for the Lord to take her to heaven.</p>

As US Forces tightened their grip on Baghdad, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, along with his two sons, fled the capital three days ago for his home town of Tikrit, 175 km to the north, media reports said. "I have been informed that once he had firm evidence that the Americans were closing in on Baghdad, he fled to his home town of Tikrit," claimed Haitham Rashid Wihaib, Saddam's former Chief of Protocol in The Mail. The dictator who used to being ferried around in a vast fleet of heavily armoured Mercedes left by way of anonymous taxis and battered pick...

The Bush administration has concluded the U.S.-led "decapitation" attack failed to take out Saddam Hussein, but an Iraqi opposition leader claims a higher authority already got the job done. Moslem al-Asadi, a doctor living in exile in Iran, said he believes the real Saddam died in 1999 from cancer. "The real Saddam died because he had cancer of the lymph nodes, and since his death in 1999 they're just showing his doubles," he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. In a plot reminiscent of the Hollywood tale of a body double subbing for an incapacitated American president titled "Dave,"...

High-tech analysis of the video recently released by Iraq has allowed me to conclusively identify the body-double portraying Saddam Hussein:

Whoever said that the university stands as a pillar of civilization has obviously never been to Arizona State. Arizona's public universities, now infamous for their broad progressive curricula composed of subjects to the likes of queer pulp fiction, postmodern pornography and special workshops on "sex workers," have always been a string of lone islands surrounded by a reality that remains alien to the hermitic Marxists lying within their academic workings. There is indeed a dark underside lurking beneath the trite silliness of academic department heads – who for the most part missed out on the latest social and political developments...