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Say goodbye to diaries — those small books with breakable locks that little brothers could easily get their hands on. Today’s women have computer programs that help them track their most cherished secrets. Women practicing Natural Family Planning (NFP) can throw away their paper charts and store that information in their palm pilot. And there is no worry about this sensitive information falling into the wrong hands — with the click of a button, the intimate details of a woman’s life can be protected by a password. Woman Calendar, a program by BEIKS LLC, is a simple program that any...

WEST MILFORD - A leader of the Million Mom March is coming to town Thursday to speak to parents about the consequences of keeping a gun at home.Joyce Sooy, joyces3@excelonline.com  president of the Bergen/Passaic chapter of the Million Mom March, will speak on the topic, "Can We Prevent Gun Violence?" at 7:30 p.m. Our Lady Queen of Peace R.C. Church on Union Valley Road.Sooy led a bus caravan from Bergen County on Mother's Day in 2000 to attend the Million Mom March in Washington, D.C. Thousands of mothers around the nation gathered to call on lawmakers to enact stricter gun...

The Clinton Presidential Center’s time to shine was in 2004. Now, the former president’s detractors say, it’s the Counter Clinton Library’s turn to cast a shadow. A group pledging to build the Counter Clinton Library in Little Rock is moving forward with its plans this year for a rebuttal to the Clinton Presidential Center despite fund-raising delays. More than 40,000 letters will be sent out this month soliciting donations for a private museum criticizing Bill Clinton and his time in office. Last year the organization behind the Counter Clinton Library, Counterlibe Corp. of Washington D. C., was granted status...

The same Arlen Specter who awaits his expected coronation as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has a long record of betraying both his party and America's gun owners. To hear Specter talk, his fellow Republicans count on him. They do. Senate Republicans count on Arlen Specter to vote their way only until his vote is absolutely critical to the issue at hand. When he is most needed on the political battlefield, Arlen is either AWOL or preening in the enemy's tent about casting a difficult vote of conscience, to the applause of CBS, NBC, and the Washington Post. Proof?...

Columbus, Ohio-- The Ohio supreme court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that opponents to the state's concealed weapons law had filed in an attempt to stop sheriffs from selling the permits. The court, unanimously and without comment, dismissed the suit filed by the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence. The legislature passed the law after nine years of debate, and Gov. Bob Taft signed it on January 7. It went into effect on April 8, and the coalition sued the sheriffs the next day. The law, which bars people who have been institutionalized against their will from obtaining permits, does not...

FREEPER MEETING WHOLE HOG CAFE, LR - FEBRUARY 21, 2004 There were 24 attendees of which about half were Freepers We give special thanks to Dick Erickson, our quest speaker, for driving up from Houston, TX, to speak to our group. We also thank my friend for introducing us to Dick. Dick is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Counter Clinton Library and, among others things, he said: Although I have never been actively involved in politics, I am definitely a political- and news-junkie, and I consider myself politically savvy, and very patriotic. I am a member of Free...

Think for a moment of the rights that Americans enjoy. Which is the most precious? Which is the most fundamental? Which of our rights can we truly not be free without? Freedom of speech? Freedom of religion? How about Freedom against unreasonable searches and seizures? Yes these are all hallmarks of a free society. Yet there is one freedom which protects these and all our other rights in America. That right is found in our Constitution in the form of the Second Amendment. Yes truly the right of Americans to keep and bare arms is the most fundamental of all...

Take a look at this number and see if it means anything to you, 2,452,643. Does it ring a bell? No? Well if you are thinking these numbers represent a lotto winner’s purse or the number of times Democratic candidates have attacked President Bush in the last month you are mistaken. No instead this very large number represents the number of times Americans have used firearms to thwart crimes and defend themselves over the past year. According to the National Self-Defense Survey created by Florida State University criminologists in 1994 the rate of defensive gun uses can be projected to...

HOUSTON -- We could be a pen stroke away from a new law allowing Texans to secretly carry a loaded handgun into a city or county facility. A state bill, now awaiting the governor's signature, would open the door for people carrying legally concealed handguns to go freely into courthouses, libraries, even police stations. That law likely sends chills through the Houston Police Department because of the shooting, a decade ago, of Danny Vaughn. It had been a sleepy Saturday morning in 1993 -- until the gunfire began. Then -- chaos. A deranged shooter had walked into a police substation...

<p>TEL AVIV - Near a sign declaring "Winchester, what America shoots," Gil Furman loaded shining rounds into a Colt .45, preparing to fire his newly refurbished pistol at targets whose silhouettes were black on white but whose real identity was obvious to anyone.</p>