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WND Exclusive CONTROLLING THE SUBSTANCES Big money in Mexican meth New laws cut down on U.S. labs, but drugs still flow Posted: August 19, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com While new state and federal laws are cutting down the number of U.S. meth labs, the deadly drugs continue to flow into the U.S. across the porous border with Mexico, say law enforcement authorities. The federal anti-meth law was recently amended to permit states to impose their own stiffer restrictions and penalties. In Oregon, for instance, legislators now require cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a principal ingredient in methamphetamine, to...

The Beauregard-Vernon NAACP on Thursday formally denounced an upcoming Civil War re-enactment. The local chapter cited racism and hatred as its reasons for opposition. The Rev. James Piper was the chief spokesman during the meeting Thursday. About 20 people attended. "I have checked, and the NAACP is against reenactments nationwide," he said...Piper said his group is against anything that "brings disharmony" and that "disrupts social and civil peace."

Massive Rallies on Global Day of Protest Against Iraq War Saturday, February 15, 2003 NEW YORK — Anti-war rallies drew more than one million protesters in Rome and tens to hundreds of thousands in cities around the world and in the United States Saturday to express their opposition to a possible U.S.-led attack on Iraq. In New York, demonstrators poured into the streets north of the United Nation's headquarters Saturday, filling in police-barricaded zones for more than 20 blocks as singers and actors energized the banner-waving crowd. "Peace! Peace! Peace! Let America listen to the rest of the world —...