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Gov. McGreevey Is Gay, And Still Popular A month after he shocked the nation by announcing he had had a gay extramarital affair and would resign, Gov. James E. McGreevey's approval ratings have remained steady, according to a new poll. In the latest Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers poll, 46 percent of voters surveyed approved of McGreevey's performance in office, while 42 percent disapproved.

Right now Bill Maher (Sp?) is saying that President Bush sat for 7 minutes after being informed of 9/11 and that is proof positive that he is not a good President (deal breaker were his words).Hannity agreed - then said but I judge him on the whole of his performance since that moment. If Hannitty had any brains he would probably have done some research and known that there are very sophisticated plans in place for the President's movements in the event of an attack against America. Not having lose lips, I think it is safe to say that the...

Let's cut right to the chase: Are you going to lose your overtime pay under the new Labor Department rules? While lawyers, labor leaders and policy wonks pore through the 536 pages of regulations the government released Tuesday, a few clear winners and losers have emerged. If some of the critics are right, millions of U.S. workers are in danger of losing their overtime pay. And don't think the issue doesn't apply to you. If you are suddenly no longer eligible for overtime, what's to stop your boss from working you 60 hours a week? Or 80? So, let's get...

<p>SANAA, Yemen, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- A purported statement by al-Qaida in Yemen warned Saturday of a "major strike" soon in the United States.</p> <p>The statement, distributed by the Yemeni Tagamoo Party for Reforms, said: "A major strike, a big event will take place in America soon," reminiscent of the Sept. 11 attacks.</p>

'The bigger they are, the harder they fall" is an accurate adage, especially as it applies to Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh, of course, once claimed to be the brightest and the most well-informed where the American body politic is concerned, a conservative political pundit whose views on right, wrong and morality once served as a watermark for the values that helped make this nation great. Now, he has been reduced to asserting before a court of law that he is a victim of blackmail. I find it downright insulting that his attorney, Roy Black, has claimed before the 15th Circuit Court...

Ann Coulter might want to steal an advance copy of Joe Conason's "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth," due out next week. The mini-skirted mouthpiece is skewered for 23 pages as Conason, the New York Observer national correspondent, barbecues her and Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Bernard Goldberg and other angry-for-the-airwaves pundits. Conason notes that while the 41-year-old blond may idolize anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, she isn't exactly a "model for her 'abstinence education' campaign. ... Sexual abstinence ... is for the poor rubes who stay home watching 'The 700 Club,' not for urbane young Republicans...

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. Sloth may not seem that enjoyable, nor anger either, but giving way to deep laziness has its pleasures, and the expression of anger entails a release that is not without its small delights. In recompense, envy may be the subtlest--perhaps I should say the most insidious--of the seven deadly sins. Surely it is the one that people are least likely to want to own up to, for to do so is to admit that one is probably ungenerous, mean, small-hearted. It may also be the most endemic. Apart...

... The average Frenchman listening to state-run France Inter radio or Antenne 2 television during the first week of the war in Iraq saw the United States spiraling toward a humiliating defeat, and Bush, the "cowboy" president, headed for ignominy if not impeachment. In tones that mixed elation and awe, newsmen and pundits began speculating on how the Middle East would look the day after the United States lost the war against Saddam. Wouldn't this dramatic display of U.S. vulnerability encourage other nations and terrorist groups to challenge overrated U.S. military might?...

Just got off the phone with my 6th grade, 12 yr old daughter "B__"'s dad. Seems at school lunch Monday, she sat down at the table with her usual group of friends and one of them said "Why is B__ here?" My daughter B__ said "because I have friends here?", at which point they all got up and moved to another table, telling her she wasn't welcome in "the group" anymore. She didn't tell me or her father this until last night at dinner when he took her out just the two of them, breaking into tears three times hysterically....

<p>Granted, there is upheaval in the world and there are battles where a great deal is at stake -- life itself. All the more precious, then, the minor skirmishes on the home front that mean a great deal in a small way and remind us of how lucky we are to feel innocent hatreds, from summer to summer, at the ballpark.</p>

BERLIN - America's ears must be burning. On German television, a theater director sniffs that the only U.S. creation worth mentioning is chewing gum. A book doubting that al-Qaida terrorists launched the Sept. 11 attacks is selling 10,000 copies a week. In the German magazine Der Spiegel, an essay on "sprouting anti-Americanism" describes the United States as the people who "eliminated the Indians, bombed Dresden, burned Hiroshima (and) didn't sign the Kyoto Protocol." And this is a piece defending America. Gary Smith, the director of the American Academy in Berlin, a nonprofit center that promotes closer ties between Germans and...

It is a well known fact that there are scores of computer professionals who have been laid off and are out of work in this country. Those positions include software engineers, network engineers, and electrical engineers. Those who have lost their jobs in the past 24 months know what I am talking about. We all know WHY we've been laid off. It is because indentured servants from other lands have overrun our country with the help of Congress due to the false premise of a labor shortage by IT industry lobbyists. Here we have an opportunity to "layoff" those who...

RUCH, Ore. -- When a church bought several acres in this bucolic corner of the Applegate Valley, Jim Hicks envisioned waking up to the chiming of bells and the soothing melody of hymns. But on a typical Sunday morning, Hicks is jolted at 7 by the crackling sound of amplifiers and the banging of drums. By 9, the steady rumble of hundreds of cars turning into the Applegate Christian Fellowship's parking lot drowns out the sound of chirping birds and rustling leaves. By 10, sermons and music broadcast on loudspeakers echo more than a mile away. With a congregation of...

Intel Rubbishes AMD's Hybrid Plans DATE: 09/12/2002 The head of Intel Corp's server chip division rubbished AMD's 32/64-bit hybrid processor proposition yesterday, saying that if it's such a good idea, why hasn't anyone done it before? Mike Fister, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's enterprise, speaking after a keynote speech at the vendor's developer forum in San Jose, questioned the logic of supporting both 64-bit and 32-bit computing on the same processor. Advanced Micro Devices Inc is pushing its hybrid approach as a way for corporations to smooth their transition from legacy 32-bit applications to 64-bit computing. Fister...

<p>Cultural bridges to the Islamic world" rightly suggests that we need to bridge the culture gap and make the Muslim world more moderate. However, a bridge runs two ways, and the article fails to mention how the United States can become more moderate also. While most everyone can agree that the teachings of the Taliban and other Muslim fundamentalists are extreme, so are modern day American values -- from the other end of the moral spectrum.</p>