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Ever loyal, President Bush is rewarding conservatives with his choice of John Roberts—a man that liberals will have difficulty blocking. George W. Bush keeps surprising the wise guys. They keep thinking that he’s going to be something other than what he is and that he will do something other than what he says he will do. Well, he and Karl Rove built his career on West Texas Bible Belt conservatism, with deep ancestral ties to the Establishment “up East.” And it was that president—half Cambridge, all “Come to Jesus”—who chose John G. Roberts Jr. for the U.S. Supreme Court. In...

Osama WHO ??? I just checked the FBI’s Rewards For Justice page: There is still a $25 million bounty for his arrest-with another $2 million offered by the Airline Pilots’ Association. (Here’s the reference for those who insist on “citations.”) http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/fugitives/laden.htm That’s $27 million dollars-for somebody who isn’t worth two cents to us – dead or alive ! The very existence of this reward has its roots in our “Criminal Rendition” program – and that’s dead wrong. Osama is a terrorist, not someone who robs banks and Post Offices – and he should be dealt with accordingly. That 27 million...

The 20th Century’s energizing dynamic was totalitarian socialism. Leading that parade were proponents like Stalin and Communist Russia, Hitler and his National Socialist Party, China’s Chairman Mao and a host of lesser lights like Saddam Hussein in Iraq. All preached the equality of outcomes for their people despite their own personal power-hungry obsessions. All seduced the world with their “humanity” that no one should paid more for their work than any other. They all preached a socialism that elevated the group at the expense of the individual. Fortunately for America, their citizens continued their abiding devotion to individualism during the...

Buttons raise awareness of missing children 07:21 AM PDT on Monday, June 6, 2005 KREM 2 News SPOKANE -- Some local businesses are doing what they can to bring home the missing Coeur d’Alene Groene children home. AP These undated family photos provided by the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department show Shasta and Dylan Groene. Nine-year-old Dylan Groene and his 8-year-old sister Shasta were last seen alive in mid-May at the home where their 13-year-old brother, mother and her boyfriend were found beaten to death. G.W. Hunters is asking for donations in return for buttons with photos of the kids. Patty...

Webster's Dictionary defines famous as "widely known," but also "honored for achievement," while infamous is defined as "having a reputation of the worst kind," a synonym for "disgraceful." In the big business of celebrity journalism today, there is no discernible difference between fame and infamy. Today's celebrity journalism is only interested in that which is interesting, no matter how vile the atrocity. It will make all kinds of excuses for the infamous if they can be milked for Nielsen ratings points. Worse yet, it will pay the infamous for the privilege of wallowing in their vomit-inducing lives. Some of today's...

This would be funny if it weren't true. Congress has passed legislation curbing legal insanity several times, but the prez vetoed it. This is the Legal Reform legislation since Bush took office. Gotta wonder where the loop holes are. As I type this, listening to Jerry Doyle on the radio, he's is telling even a worse abuse. I'll tack it on the end of this message. Rich Martin Editor, Slick eZine   FW: This year's Stella Awards] From: Keith Carter [email deleted]   THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH OUR LEGAL SYSTEM It's once again time to review the winners of...

[World News]: Islamabad, Jan 7 : The US today advertised huge rewards in a top Pakistani daily for information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden and 13 other "most wanted people." Bin Laden and his deputy Aiman al-Zawhri each carried a reward of USD 25 million while Taliban supremo Mullah Muhammad Omar had a USD 10 million price on his head, according to the half-page advertisement published in the Urdu daily 'Jang'. "All the information would be kept secret," the advertisement issued by the US Justice Department said. The ad entitled 'Rewards for the Arrest of the Most...

The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 (US) for a middle-income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition. For those with kids, that figure leads to wild fantasies about all the things we could have had. WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU GET FOR YOUR $160,140? Naming rights. First, Middle and last. Glimpses of God every day. Giggles under the covers every night. More love than your heart can hold. Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs. Endless wonders over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies. A hand...

Sadly, with all of the focus recently upon the deficit, and the current accounts balance, there is developing, with very little media attention, a virtual catastrophe in the making. I'm talking, of course, about the virgin gap. Since each martyr is allotted his 72 virgins, and the U.S. military are doing their best to facilitate the entry of many more of those charming creatures to the queue of killers waiting outside the Sandy Gates, the sheer numbers are actually becoming daunting. I understand that spending more of the taxpayer's money is universally accepted as being a sign that a candidate...

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan Wednesday announced rewards totalling 1.1 million dollars for information on six wanted terror suspects including Al-Qaeda's Libyan planner Abu Faraj Farj, described by Pakistani intelligence as the new number three in Osama bin Laden's network. The government placed photos of the six on the front pages of major newspapers, offering rewards of 20 million rupees (345,000 dollars) each for Faraj and Pakistani militant Amjad Hussain Farooqi. Bounties of 10 million to five million rupees (172,000 to 86,000 dollars) each were offered for four other Pakistani suspects. All six are Al-Qaeda suspects believed to have played a...

During the past century, the left managed to seize the commanding heights of those institutions which generate and grant prestige in American society. Control over higher education, arts organizations, charities, publications and broadcasters, as well as most major foundations and award-granting institutions, provides jobs and financial resources for activists, on the one hand, and a reward system to co-opt the energies and resources of a broad range of talented and successful members of the public, on the other. Without its semi-monopolistic control of the institutional infrastructure of prestige, the left would be quickly decline to a level of powerlessness commensurate...

WASHINGTON – Over the years, presidential downtime has fleshed out the image of the man - whether it be clearing brush (Reagan and Bush II) or speed-boating (Bush I) or hunting (Teddy Roosevelt). All presidents need to show the public they're not captured by work, and that they know how to recharge their batteries. But what about presidential- candidate downtime? As Democratic standard-bearer John Kerry relaxes at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, there's a calculation at work that he can vanish from public view for five days without the Bush campaign filling the void with the definitive (read: negative) take...

MR. SENOR: The coalition always makes every effort to issue rewards to those Iraqis who have provided us information leading to the capture of one of the 55 "most wanted" high-value targets from the former regime and others we are pursuing even beyond the list from the 55, from the deck of cards. Last month the coalition announced the capture of Khamis Sirhan al-Mohammed, the Ba'ath Party regional chairman for Karbala, for the Karbala governate. And just last week, we issued a reward of $1 million to an Iraqi who had provided critical information that led to Mr. al-Mohammed's capture....

History is King Vanity who (check our bio) went into Respirtory Distress beat the odds again. We are still praying for Becky, neice to Pegita, for severe broncial (ventilator) distress. Please see Trussell for details. Also Logan and NICU freinds. Bottom Line is the Lungs and health issues. Soooo then we with like Prayer needs had a situation. I am tired, I am happy, so this may not be fluent but here goes. Glory Be to God as we continue prayers for all. Hi We made it home even though it is a bad storm. Chris was put on a...

<p>If you do not recognize and reward success, you cannot achieve it. That is the vision behind the A+ Plan, and that vision is why we are seeing rising student achievement in Florida's public schools.</p> <p>You can see the results in Duval County. Over the past five years, three schools have raised their grades from D's in 1999 all the way to A's last year: Dinsmore Elementary, Fishweir Elementary and Ramona Boulevard Elementary.</p>

Huge rewards offered for Saddam and his henchmen Allied military chiefs are offering bounties for information leading to the capture of Saddam Hussein and his leading henchmen. Officials have refused to disclose the price on Saddam's head but anyone telling the coalition where he is will be able to claim a huge sum. US Brigadier General Vince Brooks said: "A rewards programme has been established for information leading to the capture of regime leaders." As the hunt for weapons of mass destruction remains fruitless, the coalition is also offering financial rewards to any Iraqi leading them to the "smoking gun"....

[ Printer Friendly ] [ EMail This Article to a Friend ] Mar. 31, 2003 Iraq rewards family of suicide bomber By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq Advertisement Iraq gave $34,000 to the family of an Iraqi army officer who killed four U.S. soldiers in a suicide attack, and the leader of the militant group Islamic Jihad said Sunday its volunteers had gone to Baghdad for similar bombing missions against the "American invasion." Ali Jaafar al-Noamani, a noncommissioned officer with several children, was posthumously promoted to colonel and awarded two medals for the attack in Najaf that killed the unidentified...

A captured Egyptian radical ratted out terror kingpin Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - but only after squeezing $27 million in reward money from American investigators, it was reported yesterday. The unnamed radical agreed to tell his captors where to find Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden's lieutenant after he was arrested in a Feb. 14 raid on a safehouse in Quetta, Pakistan, Newsweek magazine reports in its current edition. But the Egyptian, identified only as an Al Qaeda foot soldier, was not satisfied with the $25million bounty on Mohammed's head. He demanded - and got - $2 million more to cover...

Rape victim seeks reward for arrest tip 12/07/02 MAXINE BERNSTEIN The last alleged victim of Ladon Andre Stephens thinks she should receive the $10,000 reward for information leading to his April arrest and indictment in the Melissa Bittler slaying. But Crime Stoppers has given the money to a tipster who two months earlier gave police Stephens' name, even though that tip did not lead to his arrest. Stephens wasn't arrested until the April rape victim, Lakecia Banks, 24, reported her assault and identified him as her attacker. Once police arrested Stephens in April, they got a warrant to obtain his...

<p>In his two terms as California governor, Pete Wilson offered rewards in an effort to bring criminals to justice 31 times.</p> <p>Former Gov. George Deukmejian, another governor who aggressively touted his crime-fighting credentials, offered 23 such awards during his two terms.</p>