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President Joe Biden is planning three events in Pennsylvania in the next week as he strives to reboot his political agenda and campaign against “MAGA Republicans” ahead of the midterm elections. The president will deliver a gun control and crime speech on Tuesday in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and a prime-time address on the threats to democracy on Thursday in Philadelphia. On Monday, the president plans to participate in a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh to champion organized labor.

Ok, deleted 4 paragraphs.. We need to bring back the Kitties (Viking Kitties/ZoT).. It is getting 'lax' here on FR, and I have received both Freepmail and email about the currant situation...

Alfie Evans' dad battled to keep his son alive with mouth-to-mouth before being forced to accept he could not save him, it has emerged.

Living According to God's Word You have dealt well with Your servant, O LORD, according to Your word. (Psalm 119:65) David was a man who basically lived by grace (that is, by depending on the Lord to work in his life). Consequently, he trusted in the word of God ("the word of His grace"- Acts 20:32). David lived according to God's word. Psalm 119 bears substantial testimony of what can happen when one lives in this manner. "You have dealt well with Your servant, O LORD, according to Your word." The strategic phrase ("according to Your word") has two implications:...

The big surprise in California's new economic development plan unveiled Friday by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was -- um, nothing. No surprises. Not a one. It's all strategies we knew were needed, most of them laid out earlier this year in a Silicon Valley Leadership Group white paper on the California economy. But codifying them in a plan is the first step toward ending Sacramento's inexplicably laissez-faire attitude toward creating jobs and attracting business -- or even trying to keep the companies we've got. States and cities struggling to do that in recent years have had nowhere to turn at...

President Obama called Monday for a "full-scale attack" to revive the struggling economy as Congress returns from recess with lawmakers fixated on the November election. The president, after meeting with his economic team, said the administration is "hard at work" trying to find new ways to promote economic growth.

WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats on Monday dropped their demand for union bargaining rights for airport screeners, hoping to revive anti-terrorism legislation that had stalled because of a presidential veto threat. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada made the announcement on the Senate floor as he called for House and Senate negotiators to begin reconciling bills implementing the July 2004 recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 commission. The legislation has been one of the new Democratic majority's priorities, but it had stalled because of a presidential veto threat over allowing airport screeners to have collective bargaining rights. Because of the veto...

WASHINGTON - President Bush, trying to recover from a stinging setback on immigration, will personally try in a visit to the Capitol next week to revive the embattled plan for legalizing millions of unlawful immigrants. Bush's scheduled lunch on Tuesday with GOP senators is part of a campaign by the White House and allies in both parties to placate or outmaneuver conservative Republicans who blocked the broad immigration measure this week. They said Friday they would try again to reach accord on the number of amendments the dissidents could offer. Opponents of the bill promised to continue fighting all such...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Army News Service, May 2, 2006) – Two towns located near Baghdad are again being patrolled after a four-month absence of coalition forces. Squaretown and Triangletown, named for their shape on the map, are a spill-over from nearby Sadr City, close to Baghdad. Apache Troop of the 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, stationed at Forward Operating Base Rustimayah, have resumed patrolling the area due to a recent increase in insurgent activities. The patrols present convoy drivers with unique challenges as they roll along roads riddled with refuse, but Apache Troop is...

As electric utilities look at new power plants for the next 30 years, overwhelmingly they are plowing money into burning pulverized coal — cheap, abundant domestically and full of carbon dioxide. Some of the 132 new coal-fired plants proposed for the United States will not be built, but federal energy analysts are predicting the new plants will boost greenhouse-gas emissions for the electric industry 43 percent by 2030. Ceres, a coalition of environmentally minded investors and environmental groups, reported Wednesday at its meeting in Oakland that those releases account for nearly all growth in U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions for the next...

THE MOST STARTLING DEVELOPMENT IN WORLD HISTORY Tuesday, May 24, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00 a.m. Eastern Writer's note: You may have more trouble with this column than with anything you have ever read. I can't say I blame you. It took me a lot of research time before I fully accepted the now-well-attested fact that God has been bringing hundreds of people back from the dead in recent years. By Jim Rutz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com As I was leaving New Delhi in 2003, I called an Indian friend, Rodrick Gilbert, who leads a network of house churches with 26,000 former...

Peru Farmers Revive 'Waru Waru' System By DREW BENSON Associated Press Writer ALTO CATACHA, Peru (AP)--Viewed from atop a rocky hill beside this remote hamlet, the worn earthen mounds and canals of an ancient farming system that once fed an empire stretch out to the horizon. The method faded out of use a millennium ago. But today it has been brought back to life by dozens of Indian communities located on the plains around Lake Titicaca as a way to protect crops against drought, floods and even frost damage. Known as ``waru waru,'' in the local Quechua language, the technique...