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Dear Editor: For over two years now, American service members (all volunteers) have been fighting in combat in the war against terrorism in far away lands. I was "over there" also, serving with the US Army in Afghanistan. So why do they do it? Why do people voluntarily risk their necks for a year at a time while we sleep safely in our beds? After many, many conservations with the "grunts on the ground," I can report the following informal conclusions on reasons that do not motivate them to fight: 1. No one is fighting so that a mother can...

<p>PG&E's top brass may be laughing all the way to the bank with more than $83 million in bonus money. But state regulators are gearing up to investigate the matter, and legislation is in the works aimed at discouraging such generous payouts from happening again.</p>

October 1, 2003 Labor Pains By Elizabeth Wasserman In May, after Hewlett-Packard Co. beat out IBM Corp. for the privilege of taking over the computer operations of Procter & Gamble Co., a deal worth $3 billion over a ten-year period, the 166-year-old Cincinnati-based consumer marketing giant tried making a virtue out of cost-cutting necessity. Announcing that nearly 2,000 technology workers would be leaving P&G, where many had hoped to make lifelong careers, all 2,000 of them would be offered jobs at H-P, at comparable—and sometimes greater—salaries. Managers touted H-P's ranking among Fortune magazine's "Best Companies to Work For" and Working...

Do you like having rights the government cannot take away? Do you like being equal? Do you like a country with few laws? These ideas have origins. RIGHTS To have individual rights the government cannot take away, rights must come from a power "higher" than government. The Declaration states "all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men" In other words, rights come from God and government's job is to protect your rights. In his Inaugural Address, 1961, President John F. Kennedy put it...

Has anyone else noticed the past few days change in emphasis on the reasons for the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq? They don't support NOW's agenda.

There are three major reasons behind the decision to launch an offensive against Hamas, which is based mainly in the Gaza Strip. The first has to do with the cease-fire talks in Cairo. The second is related to the firing of Qassam rockets at the southern town of Sderot. The third reason is indirectly related to the looming war in Iraq and the period that will follow it. Hamas brought about the failure of the talks between the various Palestinian groups on a cease-fire to be initiated by them. Hamas torpedoed even an Egyptian proposal for a temporary cease-fire with...

You Can't Go Home Again is the title of a once famous novel by Thomas Wolfe. There is deep wistfulness in his novel. He believed that going home again is bound to be a great disappointment. Not so with the Catholic Church. No matter how long you've been away, you can always come home. You can start coming to Mass. You can become a part of a parish community. You can enter into the faith far more deeply than when you left... There are as many reasons for coming back to the Church as there are people who left. While...

The Importance of Bible Prophecy A Playground for Fanatics or Green Pastures for Disciples? by Dr. David R. Reagan Although prophecy constitutes almost one-third of the Bible, its importance is constantly downplayed by those who dismiss it as having no practical significance or by those who object to it on the grounds that it is a "fad" that takes people's eyes off Jesus.Revelation 19:10 says that "the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." Thus, if prophecy is properly taught, there is no reason for it to divert anyone's attention away from Jesus. In fact, it should serve...