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BAGHDAD – Ten terrorists were killed and eight suspects detained during Coalition forces operations Saturday north of Samarra. During three coordinated operations early Saturday, Coalition forces targeted senior al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders and associates, killing a wanted individual, believed to be associated with the Badush prison escape in March. Reports indicate that the wanted individual had previously been imprisoned for weapons smuggling. As the ground force approached the target area, they were engaged by armed men who were then observed maneuvering into defensive positions near a reed line. Responding in self-defense, the ground force called for supporting aircraft to engage,...

Based on a thorough examination of the historical record, I have concluded that the prototypical modern liberal wasn't Norman Thomas, Dr. Spock, Eugene McCarthy or George McGovern, but the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's "Through The Looking Glass." Consider the following exchange: "I can't believe that," said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try." Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for a half-hour a day. Why, I've sometimes believed...

A motorist in Helsingborg has been ordered to pay back over a quarter of a million kronor in disability benefits after claiming to be blind for a period of ten years. The person in question was caught driving a car on three separate occasions while at the same time receiving benefits totalling 268,000 kronor ($38,500). The Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) explained its decision to request reimbursement in a letter to the individual concerned: "While investigating your case in the autumn of 2006, we received information suggesting that you cannot be considered sightless.

LONDON: Iranian naval vessels seized 15 British sailors and marines Friday in Iraqi waters, the Ministry of Defense said. The British personnel from the frigate HMS Cornwall were "engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters," and had completed their inspection of a merchant ship when they were accosted by Iranian vessels, the ministry said in a statement. "We are urgently pursuing this matter with the Iranian authorities at the highest level and ... the Iranian ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office," the ministry said. "The British government is demanding the immediate and safe...

Former National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger, fined $50,000 for taking classified documents from the National Archives, hid the papers under a construction trailer where they later could easily be retrieved, a report yesterday said. The National Archives Office of Inspector General said that during a 2003 visit to the facility, Mr. Berger left the building unescorted for a break, during which time he "placed the documents under a trailer in an accessible construction area outside Archives 1 (the main Archives building)." The report said Mr. Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and brought...

WASHINGTON, April 29, 2006 – Coalition forces captured 10 terrorist suspects in Iraq over the past two days, U.S. military officials reported. Coalition forces spotted two suspected terrorists videotaping their convoy as they conducted a security patrol in Mosul yesterday. When the soldiers began to move towards the camera crew, the two individuals attempted to flee, but effective maneuvering allowed the troops to capture the men without incident, U.S. officials said. Improvised explosive initiating devices were found in the suspect's car. Both men tested positive for explosives residue and were taken to a coalition detention facility for processing. In a...

My web site JunkScience.com celebrated its 10th anniversary on April 1, 2006. To mark the event, this column spotlights 10 big junk science stories of the last 10 years. In no particular order, they are: 1. The most toxic manmade chemical? That’s what some called dioxin, a by-product of natural and industrial combustion processes and the “contaminant of concern” in the Vietnam-era defoliant known as Agent Orange. Billions of dollars have been spent studying and regulating dioxin, but debunking the scare only cost a few thousand dollars. Keying off Ben & Jerry’s claim on its ice cream packages that “there...

Top 10 Reasons Democrats and Liberals Make Me Sick 10: Barney Frank 9: Anti-Death Penalty 8: Ted “Miller Time” Kennedy · Enough said. 7: They complain too much. · It’s called the Electoral College. You know, that thing that’s been around since the ratification of the Constitution. Ringing any bells? 6: Pro-Abortion 5: Political Correctness · Affirmative action · It’s “In GOD we trust,” get over it, liberals. · No nativity scenes, Christmas trees, or “Merry Christmas” signs: liberal utopia 4: Hippocracy · Protesting illegal alien laws = valiant · Patriotism = racist 3: The Clintons 2: Wasted Tax Money...

Thousands of French students have taken to the streets to... protest for cushy jobs? Au moment même où vous avez pensé ce ne pourrait pas devenir plus mauvais. Well, it has. Much worse. France's economy is sluggish, sporting a whopping 10% unemployment rate, precisely because of the stiff and rigid sentiments of the student protestors. There's nothing Bohemian ("libéral") about them; precisely the opposite. Dynamic economies flourish. State-controlled economies decline. From the BBC: To the barricades, they went, these revolutionaries, to fight for their rights - to pensions, mortgages and a steady job. Such odd revolutionaries. No heartfelt cry to...

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2006 – Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan on March 21 left 10 enemy fighters dead, military officials reported. Four al Qaeda terrorists were killed when they engaged coalition forces during a raid about eight miles south of Samarra, Iraq, Multinational Force Iraq officials said. Troops approached three vehicles during a raid against a top al Qaeda cell leader who controls a large number of al Qaeda associates in the area near Samarra and Balad, officials said. The enemy, positioned around the vehicles, engaged the coalition troops. A firefight ensued, and four enemy terrorists were killed. A fourth...

Palestinian Legislative Council Candidate and Mother of Three Hamas Terrorists Umm Nidal Farhat: Israelis are Not Civilians and There are No Prohibitions on Killing Them; I Am Willing to Sacrifice My Ten Sons The following are excerpts from an interview with Umm Nidal [1], Palestinian Legislative Council Candidate and the mother of three Hamas terrorists who were killed while taking part in "martyrdom" operations. Dream2 TV aired this interview on December 21, 2005.TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=980 . Interviewer: "Umm Nidal is a woman who voluntarily sacrificed her sons for the sake of resisting the occupiers. This woman...

This week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on government displays of the Ten Commandments. Apparently some of the justices have enrolled in the John Kerry School of Advanced Nuance and Nonsense. Displaying the Ten Commandments outside the Texas state capitol is OK, but displaying them inside Kentucky courthouses isn’t. Bringing some common sense to the matter was, as usual, Justice Antonin Scalia. In his dissent he wrote: "What distinguishes the rule of law from the dictatorship of a shifting Supreme Court majority is the absolutely indispensable requirement that judicial opinions be grounded in consistently applied principle." Consistency? Principle? In present...

According to the Associated Press: A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of displaying the Ten Commandments on government land, but drew the line on displays inside courthouses, saying they violated the doctrine of separation of church and state. Sending dual signals in ruling on this issue for the first time in a quarter-century, the high court said that displays of the Ten Commandments — like their own courtroom frieze — are not inherently unconstitutional. But each exhibit demands scrutiny to determine whether it goes too far in amounting to a governmental promotion of religion, the court...

WASHINGTON -- As Republican strategists weigh the party's prospects for 2006 and 2008, they are increasingly worried about a political confrontation with Roy S. Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who became a hero to religious conservatives when he refused to follow a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state's judicial building.

Just when I thought I had seen everything, I stumble across what might be the most grotesque example of intellectual insanity in the history of the universe. It figures I would find such a shining example of imbecilic lunacy in the halls of our own congress. This special kind of idiocy takes the form of House Resolution 288, conceived and sponsored by none other than Mr. “can’t we all just get along without religion” John Conyers, Jr. [(D) of course…] our esteemed Representative from Michigan. The pending bill is Mr. Conyers answer to the bogus Newsweek report which wrongly accused...

[Editor's Note: This article first appeared on August 27, 2003.]Every day the nation is reminded of how much the Left wants to remove the subject of God from the American lexicon and, thereby, the American mindset. They support cries to remove the Ten Commandments from schools and courthouses, to strike "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, to erase "In God We Trust" from our currency, and to prevent Nativity scenes from appearing on court house lawns. Anything that alludes to Judeo-Christian theology automatically receives the disdain of liberals. And few things point to the authority and history of the...

Supreme Court decision pending... cartoon by FReeper IPWGOP (aka Linda Eddy)courtesy of www.iowapresidentialwatch.com click here for really large versionThis is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

ASPEN, Colo. - They all laughed 20 years ago. It was then that a physicist named John Schwarz jumped up on the stage during a cabaret at the physics center here and began babbling about having discovered a theory that could explain everything. By prearrangement men in white suits swooped in and carried away Dr. Schwarz, then a little-known researcher at the California Institute of Technology. Only a few of the laughing audience members knew that Dr. Schwarz was not entirely joking. He and his collaborator, Dr. Michael Green, now at Cambridge University, had just finished a calculation that would...

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!

DU has a new piece out listing the "top ten conservative idiots." They are... 1. "Team Bush" 2. Dick Cheney 3. Condi Rice & Tom Ridge 4. George W. Bush 5. George W. Bush 6. Vote Fraudsters 7. George W. Bush 8. Tom Delay 9. Alan Keyes 10. Randal Wagner So we have a whole group of people for #'s 1 & 6, two people for #3, and one person listed three times. I guess to someone who can't actually count to ten, they wouldn't understand the world we live in, so they might be inclined to call names for...

Thou shalt have no other Gods before me, unless of course the other God in question happens to be Teresa, who would smite me down and make me sleep on the couch till next August if she thought I for a second implied that her bank account was not the Supreme Diety Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images, unless your name is MoveOn.org, in which case you can go graven to your hearts content and malign the character of the infidel George W. Do not take the liberals name in vain, particularly in the realm of suggesting...

Henry to Display Ten Commandments Move Could Prompt Legal Fight POSTED: 6:25 am EDT July 7, 2004 MCDONOUGH -- Henry County commissioners have voted to display the Ten Commandments in the county courthouse after a citizen donated a 3-by-2 foot framed copy. "Let them sue. I'm not afraid of a lawsuit," Commissioner Gerry Adams said Tuesday as the commission agreed to the display requested by Ray McBerry, who said he represented League of the South. McBerry suggested that his donated copy of the Ten Commandments, along with the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, be placed in the...

P.O. Box 2153 Woodstock, Georgia 30188 Constitution Party of Georgia 2004 State Convention"The Second American Revolution: For God, Family, and Country" Date:  Saturday, June 19, 2004 Time:  9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Location:  ACS, Inc., 6400 Peake Road Macon, Georgia Keynote PresentationMichael Anthony Peroutka Constitution Party candidate for President and founder of Institute on the Constitution will introduceRoy S. Moore Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice"Restoring the Moral Foundation of Law" Confirmed SpeakersBuddy Hanson, Christian Policy Council "The Lesser of Two Evils or the Greater of One Good"Pastor Dan Thrower, Enon Grove Community Church "The Law of God: Deterrent to...

A justice on Alabama's Supreme Court who voted to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building was soundly defeated in the Republican primary. Former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore backed Tom Parker, his former aide who campaigned against Supreme Court justice Jean Brown's vote to remove Moore's monument. Although three other candidates backed by Moore lost to incumbents in Tuesday's statewide Republican primary, Parker managed to defeat the incumbent Judge Brown. Parker received 51 percent of the votes to the Brown's 49 percent in the primary. Now he will go on to face Democrat Robert Smith, a...

"Top Ten Way Saddam Hussein Celebrated His 67th Birthday." 10. Entertained by stripper dressed as U.N. inspector 9. Visits from wives 1, 3 and 12 and Sean Penn 8. Arranged fleas on his chest to form number "67" 7. Thanked Allah he wasn't drafted by the San Diego Chargers 6. Wondered why Uday and Qusay haven't called 5. Spent a little time in the "spider-hole," if you know what I mean 4. Folded old death warrants into festive birthday hats 3. Cellmate popped out of giant falafel 2. Realized he's one year closer to going to hell 1. Pretty much...

The other day, Sen. Zell Miller, the Right's favorite Democrat, gave a compelling speech in which he lamented the "deficit of decency" in America and pondered ways by which we might regain our moral bearings. During the speech he noted the many attacks on morality by the "Culture of Far Left America" and an out-of-control federal judiciary, remarking that it's happening in a number of areas "whether it is removing a display of the Ten Commandments from a Courthouse or the Nativity Scene from a city square" or "eliminating prayer in schools or eliminating 'under God' in the Pledge of...

Group Calls For Removal Of 10 Commandments From Public Park Local Churches, Groups Offer Home For Monument POSTED: 6:37 PM EST February 2, 2004 UPDATED: 11:59 PM EST February 2, 2004 HANOVER, Pa. -- It has been 50 years since a Ten Commandments monument was placed in Wirt Park in Hanover, York County. Do you think it is all right for a religious monument to be displayed in a public park? Do you think it is all right for a religious monument to be displayed in a public park? Yes No Only if other religions are equally represented Now, Hanover...

It seems to me that based on this AG Pryor should be opposing the rogue federal judge and not prosecuting Chief Justice Moore... Moore is not guilt of breaking any law but in not following a federal judges order that is not based on any law... Sunday, April 27, 1997 Religious Display Proper By Bill Pryor The display of the Ten Commandments in the Alabama courtroom of Judge Roy Moore is not an establishment of religion. In its landmark school prayer ruling of 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged, "The history of man is inseparable from the history of religion."...

Justice Moore Says Ten Commandments Battle Not Over Yet By David Brody Congressional Correspondent November 4, 2003 Justice Moore's Ten Commandments crusade came to a screeching halt at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday. CBN.com – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Even though the Supreme Court has decided not to hear the case of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, the legal battles over the Ten Commandments are far from over. Justice Moore's Ten Commandments crusade came to a screeching halt at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday. The justices were simply unwilling to take the case,...

At the American Cause's "Voices for the Unborn" conference October 4, HUMAN EVENTS Associate Editor Joseph A. D'Agostino interviewed Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Moore, who addressed the conferees, has become a hero to many constitutionalist Americans by standing up to federal courts who have ordered the removal of his stone monument of the Ten Commandants from public display in the Alabama supreme court building. Moore is currently attempting to have the U.S. Supreme Court reverse lower federal court decisions that have forced the removal, at least for the time being. Moore argues that Americans are not obliged to obey...

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, I walked a block from my hotel in Washington, D.C. to St. Matthew’s Cathedral on Rhode Island Avenue. A 10 a.m. service was scheduled at the church, where the Red Mass would be celebrated—a service held prior to the beginning of a new session of the U.S. Supreme Court and which the Supreme Court justices normally attend. I was walking with two ladies with whom I had been travelling on the Spirit of Montgomery Save the Commandments caravan from Montgomery, Alabama to Washington, D.C. When we approached the block where St. Matthew’s is located, we...

Let’s stop beating around the Burning Bush. Chief Justice Roy Moore, of the Alabama Supreme Court, might need to have these modern, up-to-date alternatives ready for display on the first court date after Labor Day. The Ten Nolo Contenderes I. There is no Lord, often referred to as God, so false gods are fine, especially Political Figures and Supreme Court justices. For all practical purposes, Government is god. Get used to it. All religious zealots who criticize this section are absolute evil, terrorists, and the enemy, and thou shalt turn them all in. II. Speaking of Political Figures, thou shalt...

In a recent piece of hate mail, I was taken to task for using the term "God-given rights." "GOD doesn't give rights; the CONSTITUTION does," wrote the critic from Surf City, California. Actually, the constitution acknowledges the rights that are established in the Ten Commandments of God. Like Mr. Surf City, Judge Myron Thompson misunderstood the relationship between God and government when he ruled that Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore cannot display the Ten Commandments. In this iconic battle between American values and liberal secularism, every political and social debate that is worth the fight will be won or...

I'm in rage over the recent decision to again "erase" our history in Alabama. I'm worried for Judge Moore. I'm worried for the protesters that were carried off to jail. Hand cuff yourself to an "old growth" stump and you'll be "safe guarded" by the police. Tie yourself to the Ten Commandments and you go to jail. More logic from the left. Are any Freepers (or can any) in the generally locale going to organize a national response? Perhaps something could be coordinated with a concerned talk show host (Glenn Beck seems willing to take media risks)? I'm pi$$ed as...

Caption the real extremists: George Whatley, left, of Birmingham, Ala., holds his Bible as he speaks with reporters in front of the State Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2003. Whatley was representing the Alabama Afterthought Association which has called for the removal of the Ten Commandments monument from the building. Chief Justice Roy Moore has said he would defy a federal court order to remove the monument from public display. At right is Patricia Cleveland who was representing the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)Yes, it DOES say Freedom FROM Religion Foundation. Who...

The Ten Commandment exterminators are out in full force. All around America, public displays of the Ten Commandments are the object of lawsuits, ACLU threats, city council battles, and civil disobedience. As Slate magazine writes, “It’s starting to be the Summer of Decalogues....(snip .....the people who are offended by the Ten Commandments are the ones who are eager to make it easier to violate them. They may not be murderers, rapists, and robbers, but they probably want greater leeway in the sentencing of thugs. They probably don’t cheat on taxes, but they didn’t mind when a president lied in court....

The Ten Commandment exterminators are out in full force. All around America, public displays of the Ten Commandments are the object of lawsuits, ACLU threats, city council battles, and civil disobedience. As Slate magazine writes, “It’s starting to be the Summer of Decalogues.” The most notable case is that of Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore whose 5,300 pound Ten Commandments monument in the State Supreme Court building was ordered to be removed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last month. On July 22, Moore announced that he will appeal the decision directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile,...

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore is probably about as close as you can get to a Shas-style politician in America. He campaigned for his job as the "Ten Commandments Judge." And indeed, when he took office he erected a two-and-half ton stone rendering of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of his courthouse. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court (11th Circuit, Atlanta) found that the monument violated the Constitution's First Amendment prohibition of the establishment of religion. In April, the US Supreme Court took the same position, striking down a resolution passed by the Kentucky legislature that would have...

No Big May Day Celebrations in Lithuania TodayBy Andrew L. Jaffee, May 1, 2003 You won't find any big May Day celebrations today in downtown Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. This country suffered brutal Russian communist occupation for 46 years. How many other peoples suffered (or are still suffering) under "socialism?" Why aren't Lithuanians celebrating May Day? There are still those die-hards clinging to the Marxist dream of a proletarian paradise. Today, those dreamers are celebrating May Day. In Berlin and London today, the dreamers got violent. Strange that people in developed, democratic societies overloaded with social programs and...

The Rev. Daniel King believes the two tablets depicted on Richmond County's Superior Court seal clearly portray the Ten Commandments. The 53-year-old Unitarian minister in Augusta also thinks the seal carries an unmistakable message: non-Christians are second-class citizens in the eyes of that court. "When I first saw the seal a few years ago, I was really surprised the Ten Commandments were on it," said King, who once practiced law. "I thought, 'Gee, haven't they gotten beyond this?'" Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and joined by an Augusta attorney and a retired schoolteacher, King filed suit in 2000...

Nemesis: Does the Sun Have a 'Companion'?By Robert Roy BrittSenior Science Writerposted: 07:00 am ET03 April 2001 "The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance. It's know'n so many things that ain't so." -- A favorite quote of Richard A. Muller, by 19th century humorist Josh Billings.When you think big, as Richard A. Muller does, you're bound to create ideas now and then that are so compelling you just can't let go of them -- ideas so outlandish that mainstream scientists are equally eager to dismiss them.Muller, a physicist at University of California at Berkeley, has had...

From the November 6 Late Show with David Letterman, the "Top Ten Signs President Bush is Getting Cocky." Late Show Web page: http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow// 10. Didn't even try to hide fact he voted 5 times yesterday 9. Claims he has a plan to "tax poor people back to the Stone Age" 8. Instead of the United States Marine Band, now travels with the Foo Fighters 7. Encouraging his daughters to drink more in public 6. On CNN, referred to Tom Daschle as his "bitch" 5. Three words: Presidential Rally Monkey 4. He's been mispronouncing bigger words lately 3. Told Secret Service...

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Today I drove home for lunch from work, something I like to do occasionally, especially on such a nice day. On the way home I saw something that gave me pause. I was passing through Aston, Pennsylvania, a small township in the middle of Delaware County. In the other direction on the road I was on, one of two major arteries passing through the town, was a half-mile backup. At the head of the line were two police officers with a fold-up orange sign that read: "Safety Check Ahead". They had stopped an elderly driver and were speaking to him....

“Ten weddings and two funerals”: this is the formula used in the Brussels circles to describe the current path in the enlargement process. Ten candidate countries are on the way to signing their accession to the European Union by the end of the year, and join in 2004. Two other candidate countries, Romania and Bulgaria, are expected to be told they have to work more to improve their economic performance before being accepted. However, Bucharest and Sofia are set to fight to transform the funeral into an engagement. Roadmap and entry date The two countries will seek to get a...