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I just found out today that Rick Santorum has introduced the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. I could not find the announcement in a search on FR and wanted to make sure everyone is aware of this, as it must have happened under the radar with all the war talk going on. Please pray for passage of this legislation. Bill Summary can be found at the Thomas Legislation site (url posted above)...just put "Partial Birth Abortion" in the search engine and follow the links (I don't think it will link to a query, which is where I found it). S.3 Sponsor:...

<p>The co-pilot who died in Friday's plane crash with Sen. Paul Wellstone played a minor role in the story involving Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused Sept. 11 conspirator who briefly attended an Eagan flight school.</p> <p>Co-pilot Michael Guess, 30, had performed administrative work at the Pan Am International Flight Academy last year as he continued accumulating flying hours. There he met Moussaoui, the school's most infamous student.</p>

WASHINGTON – Top Clinton Democrats found themselves in legal hot water Tuesday when Judical Watch filed its promised lawsuit against the telecom giant Global Crossing and some of its Democrat benefactors. After a series of NewsMax.com exposés, a congressional committee held a hearing on Global Crossing in late March, and other House panels are investigating the company, which experienced an Enron-like bankruptcy, leaving shareholders and employees high and dry. The suit names 13 top officers and directors of the company, including chairman and CEO Gary Winnick. The suit was filed on behalf of Global Crossing shareholders who have brought claims...

For Immediate Release March 27, 2002 SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL FILES LEGAL CHALLENGE TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following through on his promise to challenge the constitutionality of the campaign finance bill recently passed by Congress, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) today filed a legal challenge with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia moments after the bill was signed into law. "Today, I filed suit to defend the First Amendment right of all Americans to be able to fully participate in the political process,” said McConnell. "I look forward to being joined by a strong group of...

University of Texas researchers think they might be within weeks of confirming the discovery of an antidote to the anthrax toxin. "We need to do a second round of experiments to declare victory," said Brent Iverson, a UT professor of chemistry and biochemistry. For the past five years, researchers in the UT lab supervised by Iverson and colleague George Georgiou have searched for ways to defend against biological and chemical warfare. And now they think they may have found a key in fighting the anthrax bacteria, which produces the toxin in humans and animals. "What they've demonstrated is that they ...

FLORENCE, Ore. (AP) _ Nine years ago, members of a narcotics task force stopped in the early morning darkness in front of Danny Lee Kyllo's house and scanned it with a thermal imaging device. The task force was investigating whether Kyllo's neighbors were growing marijuana. But when they trained the thermal scanner on Kyllo's home, it showed indications of excessive heat. Based on that scan, electricity records and an informant, investigators got a search warrant to enter Kyllo's home, where they found more than 100 marijuana plants growing under high-intensity lights. Kyllo contends that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated ...

The worst part about the political drama unfolding in Florida may be what the “experts” are saying about the Constitution. They tell us that the Electoral College is an outdated and outmoded form of calling presidential elections. They tell us that the only reason it was ever created was out of a fear of the stupidity of uniformed voters. As Hillary Clinton put it last week in her call to abolish the current system with a constitutional amendment: “I’ve always thought we had outlived the need for an Electoral College, and now that I’m going to the Senate, I am ...

It is poetic justice. President Clinton thought he could pull off one of his classic bury-the-bad-news maneuvers by announcing on the eve of the Labor Day weekend that he was going to fob off on his successor the decision to begin deploying a national missile defense. This represents just the latest in a series of hash-ups the Clinton-Gore administration has made of what is, arguably, the single most important national security challenge facing the American people today: Our utter, wholly unnecessary and increasingly reckless vulnerability to mass destruction via a ballistic missile-delivered weapon. In today's announcement, the President tried to ...

LOS ANGELES -- A federal court Thursday made public affidavits filed by lawyers for the former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee in which two former intelligence officials said they were aware of instances in which government employees were caught in serious cases of apparent espionage but were not prosecuted. The defense has introduced the statements in its efforts to prove that Lee, who has been indicted on charges that he illegally downloaded a wealth of nuclear weapons secrets with the intent of helping a foreign country, was unfairly singled out for prosecution because of his race. Lee, 60, a ...

Not Your Typical New Democrats By Ronald Radosh Karl Marx observed that history often repeats, "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." That certainly was not lost on the three avowed Marxist-Leninists charged Oct. 6 with spying for the former East German Communist regime. James Michael Clark, Theresa Marie Squillacote and Kurt Alan Stand, the FBI alleges, were paid $40,000 during one four-year period alone; the funds were used to visit their East European handlers more than 30 times, to learn how to use spy paraphernalia and to send code on short-wave radios. The three were apparently ...

I just heard on KTSA radio that Archbishop Patrick Flores has been held hostage at the Catholic Chancellory here in San Antonio by an El Salvadoran man since 10:30 this morning. Archbishop Flores presides over the largest Diocese here in Texas with a membership of about 700,000. They have not been able to determine why the man took him hostage yet, except that he made a statement that he is "fed up with the Government". It has been reported that the man has a hand grenade. From what I understand, they are not doing much coverage of the event on ...

ALBANY - Insurgent wing vows to fight ruling that complicates plans for Independence Party's forum this weekend. An insurgent wing of New York's Independence Party that took control of the embattled political organization earlier this year was ousted from power Wednesday by a state judge who promptly reinstated the former chairman to his post. The court ruling, handed down by state Supreme Court Justice Bernard J. Malone Jr. in Albany, marks the latest legal chapter in the bizarre saga of infighting that has plagued the state's arm of the national Reform Party since last year. It also comes three days ...

Forgoing a platform fight, Pat Buchanan has agreed to make his case against abortion through an "open letter" should he become the Reform Party presidential nominee, the party's chairman said Monday. The letter would affirm Mr. Buchanan's positions on social issues such as abortion and gay rights while leaving untouched the party's platform, which concentrates on trade, immigration and foreign policy. National chairman Pat Choate revealed the agreement after the party's executive committee met over the weekend in Washington with Bay Buchanan, Mr. Buchanan's sister and top campaign adviser. The group also acted to quell a rebellion in state affiliates ...

In his first foray into superpower geopolitics, Texas Gov. George W. Bush met here today with one of Russia’s top officials and said they “politely disagreed” on U.S. plans to build a national missile defense shield. The meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov comes just two days after Bush, moving to counter pot-shots from critics that he lacks the foreign policy experience to be president, met with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo just south of the border. This morning, Ivanov stopped by Bush’s hotel in Washington, where he was greeted by the Texas governor’s chief foreign policy adviser, Condoleeza Rice. ...

Pat Buchanan is trying to "hijack" the Reform Party to become its presidential nominee, but the party won't survive his candidacy, a rival candidate charged this week. John Hagelin, the Natural Law Party candidate who also is seeking the Reform nomination, said Mr. Buchanan is "not a reformer but a reactionary" who will lead the party to destruction. "He is pulling that party so far to the right that it's in danger of going off the deep end, whereas the Reform Party created by Ross Perot was intended to be a mainstream alternative," he said. Mr. Hagelin's Natural Law ...

Is George W. Bush Pro-Life? The question is a matter of great import to millions of Pro-Life voters in America who will make their choice for president based primarily on the Life Issue. Some Pro-Life spokespersons contend that John McCain is not truly Pro-Life. But it is the current Governor of Texas, George W. Bush, who is singled out for special criticism. Is the governor the "Great Pretender," or alternatively, a lot shrewder cat than we Pro-Lifers are used to seeing? It is axiomatic, particularly with politicians who too often fail to deliver on promises, that actions speak louder ...

Bush Rallies Wisconsin Republicans By SANDRA SOBIERAJ, Associated Press Writer MILWAUKEE--Forget waiting until fall -or the summer political conventions, even. George W. Bush is already rallying Republicans in the swing state of Wisconsin to "man the phones, distribute the literature, stand up and say, 'Let's go get 'em!"' Today, with a fund-raising luncheon in Green Bay, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee adds another $50,000 to the war chest for his seven-month campaign against Vice President Al Gore. At a dinner Thursday night benefiting the Waukesha County GOP outside Milwaukee, Bush asked the state's ground troops to mobilize. He ridiculed his ...

Gore: Keep Elian in U.S. for Now By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON--Vice President Al Gore wants Elian Gonzalez's case resolved in Florida family court, a position that puts him at odds with the administration he serves but in step with South Florida's politically potent Cuban exile community. In a statement Thursday, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee urged Congress to pass legislation granting permanent resident status not only to the 6 -year-old boy but to his father, stepmother, half-brother, grandmothers and grandfather -all now in Cuba -"so that the case can be adjudicated properly." The Immigration and Naturalization Service ...

McCain Gives 6 Delegates to Bush From Associated Press LANSING, Mich.--John McCain is giving former GOP presidential primary rival George W. Bush six of the Michigan delegates he won and has similar deals or is close to agreement in several New England states that the Arizona senator won before suspending his campaign. The deal reached Thursday in Michigan allows Gov. John Engler to attend the National Republican Convention as a Bush delegate and is the latest move toward GOP reconciliation after the divisive primary contest. At one point, McCain and Engler talked by phone, a McCain aide said. McCain agreed ...

Enter Saint Jack A new v.p. possibility, from W. himself. By NR's Editors Gov. Bush touched base with NR last week to discuss his plans for the race ahead, and wound up good-naturedly engaging in speculation about possible vice-presidential picks. Bush ran through most of the commonly mentioned contenders, but dropped two new names, one of which could be a serious dark-horse candidate. W. said how much he liked Missouri Sen. John Aschcroft who, if he were available, would be a v.p. pick who would “anchor the base.” But Ashcroft, of course, is committed to his own re-election race. But, ...