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Focus on the Family's founder and chairman talks at length about the Terri Schiavo case — and the extraordinary efforts of Americans to help save her life. It was a momentous day in Florida yesterday, when the Sunshine State's Legislature passed "Terri's Bill — legislation giving Gov. Jeb Bush the authority to rescue Terri Schiavo from the court-ordered dehydration she's been suffering through since last week. As of this moment, Schiavo is receiving the nourishment she needs to live. Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, told a national listening audience on his daily "Focus on...

The latest entry in the Democratic presidential candidate lineup has rocketed to become the top candidate within two weeks of his announcement. General Wesley Clark is a retired general and a Rhodes scholar, and he served as NATO commander during the Kosovo war as well as a CNN commentator during the Iraq war this spring. His words of July 11 sound like the kind of straight talk that could reassure Americans increasingly uncertain about the direction of the war in Iraq: “When I was in the military,” he said, “I took an oath to uphold the Constitution. There is nothing...

Some conservative Republicans who say they believe state Sen. Tom McClintock would be a better governor than Arnold Schwarzenegger but who planned to vote for Schwarzenegger as their best hope of electing a Republican are switching to McClintock in light of recent polls indicating both GOP candidates will likely finish ahead of Cruz Bustamante. "If it is down to a two-man race," a GOP activist said, "my vote is for Tom. Schwarzenegger seemed to be the lesser of two evils compared to Bustamante, but that rationale disappears when Bustamante turns out to be the candidate that can't win." McClintock, who...

<p>The top Democrat on the House education panel has condemned the continuing efforts of many of his fellow party members and the National Education Association to water down school reform provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.</p> <p>In a letter to fellow House members last week, California Rep. George Miller said critics have spread "misleading or outright inaccurate information" about federal requirements to improve student achievement.</p>

Psyops Teams Combat Baghdad Rumors By Spc. Christopher Stanis / 1st Armored Division BAGHDAD, Iraq - In a city that has a reputation of running on widespread rumors, the opinions of Baghdad's residents might be easily swayed because of misinformation. The 1st Armored Division's tactical psychological operations teams throughout the city combat false rumors daily to subdue fears and paranoia citizens may have about the coalition. "If there is somebody spreading rumors against (the United States), we're not going to go out and call them liars; that would just lend them more credibility," said Cpl. Philip Chun, Tactical Psychological...

Today I received via e-mail two notes from corporate leadersheep (sp!) Both of these notes contained 'red flag' notes in them within the first 2 paragraphs. Please understand when you read this that my company does not make Iraqi sand sifters or camel pooper scoopers. The statements:First-"I know there are a lot of things out of our control such as the economy and the situation in Iraq."Second-"Plus, the Iraq situation remained unsettled, and the economy wasn’t showing much life."

Being a newcomer to Free Republic, I have noticed a sharp decline in confidence in the Bush administration lately over the WMD and SOTU issues. I don’t understand why this is, so I thought I might post a thread soliciting opinions on it. I am wondering how many Freepers really believe that the Administration does not know what it is doing. I also would like to hear why many of you seem so concerned over Democrat and Media attacks on the President, when he has shown himself to be completely capable of handling these attacks skillfully. I firmly believe that...

Safety/Guns and Kids Are my children at risk if I own a gun? Every 2 hours, someone’s child is killed with a loaded gun.For every child killed by a gun, 4 are wounded.43% of American households with children have guns.There is a loaded gun in one in every 10 households with children.The risk of suicide is 5 times greater if there’s a gun in the home.The risk of domestic homicide is 3 times greater if there’s a gun in the home.A gun kept in the home for self-protection is 22 times more likely to kill someone you know than...

<p>As a public official, I appreciate and commend those trying to protect our nation against terrorist attacks," the letter from a municipal employee of Bothell, Wash., begins. "I also have concerns, specifically regarding the treatment of those who have been identified as potential risks. It has become apparent, over the course of my last few trips, that I am one of those individuals."</p>

<p>How could Saddam Hussein have been so fatally wrong? How could he have so misjudged President Bush? How could the late Iraqi dictator, with access to informed judgments by his allies like French President Jacques Chirac, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, not have realized that President Bush would go to war?</p>

It is becoming increasingly clear that the mainstream press have become 'information brokers' who present very specific information in a manor which meets a very specific agenda. "Baghdad Bob" serves as an example even a casual viewer can understand of the crucial role control of the news media and the dissemination of propaganda plays in the ability to gain and maintain control of an entire nation. Yet here in the US, where we treasure our heritage of a free press, we've have hardly seemed to notice that ownership of vast media entities has been consolidated into the hands of just...

The Iraqi Minister for Defense Sultan Hachem Ahmad ensured Thursday that Baghdad was "impregnable", grateful however that the first American units were with 140 kilometers of the doors of the capital. "the enemy is currently in the east of the town of Diwaniah, that is to say to some 140 km in the south of Baghdad", declared Mr. Ahmad at the time of a press conference. "We will not be astonished if the enemy encircles Baghdad from here five to ten days but it will have to take the city. Baghdad will remain impregnable for the Americans and the...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Up to 15 people were killed in a poor Baghdad residential district on Wednesday in what enraged residents said was a missile strike during intensified air raids on the city. Reuters correspondents counted at least 15 scorched corpses lying in the street in Baghdad's Shaab district, amid blackened and mangled cars and rubble from broken buildings. Flames poured from an oil tanker truck. "There are at least 13 killed and some 30 injured. Two missiles hit the street," local civil defense official Haneed Dulaimi told Reuters. Yelling residents pulled a man with a bloody head from rubble....

The bridges into Baghdad are rigged with explosives, and a large convoy of Republican Guard units was heading south toward U.S. troops, wire reports said today. Those reports, quoting intelligence officers with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said at least 1,000 Republican Guard vehicles were advancing toward U.S. Marines in central Iraq. But at a press briefing today, the U.S. military dismissed those reports. "We have not seen any significant movements ... in and around Baghdad. There have been some local positionings. There have been some survival positionings ... but we certainly remain, we believe, well in control of the...

Last August, Andrew Card, President Bush's chief of staff, was asked by a New York Times reporter about the timing of the administration's campaign to garner congressional and public support for war with Iraq. Card explained that the persuasion would begin after Labor Day, because from a marketing point of view it is not a good idea to introduce new "products" in August. Our first MBA president is certainly not the only public official to apply business principles to running a government, but the war on terror and the plans for war against Iraq have highlighted new and startling trends...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/space/20021126/sc_space/endeavour_docks_with_space_station__crews_greet_each_otherhttp://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/11/26/shuttle.spacewalk.ap/index.html The above articles have inaccuracies that will help students flunk physics. Both the AP and Reuters have botched articles on the space shuttle Endeavor doing work on ISS. The articles refer to the "weight" of the girder to be put in place and, even the AP article refers to the weight of the Space Station. However, this shows how uneducated the media really is: A quote from CNN-AP article: The 14-ton girder, an aluminum beam crammed with wiring and loaded with a rail cart and radiators, increased the mass of the entire space station to almost 200 tons....

The report stated that "there had been three "hunting" accidents reported in Virginia ,so far this season. In one ACCIDENT, a 62 year old man was found dead of an apparent heart attack, as was a second 70 year old man who had been out hunting. He was found next to a dead deer. In the third incident, a VA lawman had an accidental discharge from a black powder gun, which wounded him, when getting down from a tree stand."

Okay, uh, I ran across this site tonight, and it freaked me out, because it is ACTIVELY CALLING FOR MILITARY TO DESERT. Go look and judge for yourself. And it's located in *Washington (the state)*. Someone tell me this is government propaganda...*please*...whois information listed below -- it's hosted by EARTHLINK! If this thing is for real they should get FReeped HARD! Enter the site and check out: "Coming; "Who do you serve?" A page for military and law enforcement personnel." PUBLIC WHOIS INFORMATION: Organization: Roger Bullock Roger Bullock 2101 South 324th St. #16 Federal Way, WA 98003 US Phone: (253)...