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NEVER FORGET From the Front Page of today's Los Angeles Times: 'Welcome to Our Cities, Unless You're Communist' Memories of the Red Menace may be fading in much of America, but they are very much alive in Orange County's Little Saigon. Little Saigon's Garden Grove and Westminster, California to declare themselves a 'COMMUNIST-Free Zone' NEVER FORGET

SEATTLE - You can't feel it, but at this moment, parts of Washington and British Columbia are having an earthquake. It is a slow-moving trembler that can't be felt and won't cause any injuries or damage. Still, by the end of the event, which already has lasted more than two weeks, it is likely to have released about as much energy as equivalent to a 6.7 quake – similar to that the Nisqually earthquake did in February 2001. The movement is occurring deep beneath the Strait of Juan de Fuca and parts of Vancouver Island in the area where the...

The constitution promises equality for all citizens. But immigrants in crime-ridden sink estates tell a startlingly different story Jon Henley in Val-Fourré Tuesday January 7, 2003 The Guardian Funnelled between grey tower blocks, a bitter wind shrieks across Val-Fourré's main square. The few shoppers there hug the concrete walls for shelter. Kids hang around on corners in big-logo parkas and tight woollen hats, smoking, joking, staring. Here you'll be fine, someone says. But don't go down to the end of the road, not on your own. It is claimed that Val-Fourré is Europe's largest council estate, housing 28,000 people (officially;...

Pssst, mister. Wanna learn about a scandal bigger than Enron and World Com combined? Pssst, lady. Wanna learn about billions of dollars squandered, hundreds of millions of lives diminished by a thirty-year scam? Surprise! It's hiding in plain sight in the New York Times Magazine for July 7. It's the cover story, no less, a huge article, maybe 5,000 words. The title is a coy question because, finally, the NYTimes editors have no more guts than an amoeba, but the facts are all there, diligently answering the question posed, What If It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? For thirty...

August 2002 Spin This The trouble with Bill O'Reilly By Cathy Young To his detractors, Bill O’Reilly, the tough-talking host of the phenomenally popular Fox News show The O’Reilly Factor, exemplifies the meanness and vulgarity of public discourse. The leftist media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting calls his show "The Oh Really? Factor" and takes him to task on a regular basis for mistreating guests and clutching "at any straw to avoid admitting he’s wrong." To his admirers, O’Reilly is a scourge of liberal pieties, a commentator who cuts through elitist nonsense and upholds common sense. As...

U.S. Troops to Move Closer to Philippine Combat Zone Mon Jun 3, 7:27 AM ET By Erik de Castro ISABELA, Philippines (Reuters) - The Philippines and the United States agreed Monday to move U.S. special forces closer to combat areas in the country's south in a stepped-up manhunt for Muslim guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden (news - web sites). The presidential palace in Manila announced the decision as U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz flew to the southern island of Basilan, stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf guerrillas, and met U.S. troops training Filipino soldiers in counter-terrorism. Delayed military reports...

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DRUG ARRESTDrugs in schools, and now, what's next? A ten year old Alamo student is arrested for bringing a dangerous drug to school and now is being investigated for distribution of that drug. She will be charged for having a dangerous drug, Arbuterol, in a drug free zone, which is a Class A misdemeanor. And now police are looking into charging her with distribution of the drug which is a felony. And she could soon be attending a different school with other students who have committed felonies.Today seemed like any other day at Alamo elementary. But yesterday a...