Craig Remains in Office, for Now

By JAKE TAPPER

Though Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, had previously pledged to resign by Sunday, amid allegations he cruised for gay sex in a public bathroom.Minnesota Hennepin County Judge Charles Porter said in a hearing Wednesday no decision would be made on Craig's request until next week ,

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A Quiet Triumph May be Brewing

By Ray Robison

There are signs that the global Islamic jihad movement is splitting apart, in what would be a tremendous achievement for American strategy. The center of the action is in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the very territory which is thought to harbor Usama, and from which Al Qaeda was able to launch 9/11. Capitalizing on existing splits, a trap was set and closed, and the benefits have only begun to be evident.

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Attack on Iran Said To Be Imminent

By BENNY AVNI

Yesterday's edition of Le Canard Enchaîné, a French weekly known for its investigative journalism, reported details of an alleged Israeli-American plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. The frontpage headline read: "A report sent to the Elysée — Putin tells Tehran: They're going to bomb you!"
The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, also expressed concerns to reporters in New York that an attack on Iran might be imminent.

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Boulder High protesting recitation that includes 'under God'

Dozens of students at Boulder, Colo., High School have launched a series of protests against the traditional "Pledge of Allegiance," substituting their own version which pledges allegiance to "diversity … with liberty, freedom, choice and justice for all."
"A lot of people have different reasons (for the protest), but mainly it's (because the traditional Pledge is) a complete violation of our separation of church and state,"

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Boulder's budding Marxists hold their "rally" against the pledge

Gay Prince Fairy Tale

Democratic Candidates Say They're OK With Second-Grade Teacher Reading Gay Prince Fairy Tale By Catherine Donaldson-Evans

A fairy tale about two princes falling in love sparked a backlash — and a lawsuit — against a teacher and a school last year when it was read to a second-grade class in Massachusetts.

But the three frontrunners in the Democratic presidential race suggested that they’d support reading the controversial book to children as part of a school curriculum.

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Al Gore's 'sentimental climate mush'

Al Gore's climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth was described in the High Court today as containing "serious scientific inaccuracies, political propaganda and sentimental mush".
The attack came as father-of-two Stewart Dimmock, a Kent school governor and a member of The New Party, challenged the Government's decision to provide the film to every secondary school in England.

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Dems can't make guarantee on Iraq troops

By Beth Fouhy

The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013.
"I think it's hard to project four years from now," said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation's first primary state.
"It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting," added Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
"I cannot make that commitment," said former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.
Sensing an opening, Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson provided the assurances the others would not.
"I'll get the job done," said Dodd, while Richardson said he would make sure the troops were home by the end of his first year in office.

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Loans, grants broaden, thanks to Kennedy

By Wayne Woodlief

The bill Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) championed, and President Bush is scheduled to sign today, provides the biggest boost in college student loan aid since the GI Bill that followed World War II. That’s a victory in itself.
It increases Pell Grants by $1,000, raising individual grants to over $5,000. It caps monthly payments on loans from private and public sources at 15 percent. Try to soak students with sky-high rates - as some lenders did - and you’re now breaking the law. Finally, if you’re a firefighter, police officer, teacher, public health worker, member of the military or in several other public service positions, your loans will be forgiven after 10 years.

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A Good Night for the Republican Nominee

by William Kristol

Last night, for the first time this election cycle, I watched a Democratic presidential debate. It was appalling. But it was also, in a way, encouraging. Before last night, I thought it was 50-50 that the Republican nominee would win in November 2008.
Now I think it's 2 to 1. And if the Democrat is anyone but Hillary, it's 4 to 1.
Here, judging from the debate, is what the 2008 Democratic nominee is likely to be for. Abroad: ensuring defeat in Iraq and permitting a nuclear Iran. At home: more illegal immigration, higher taxes, more government control of health care, and more aggressive prosecution of the war on smoking than of the war on terror.

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Pace Repeats View That Gay Sex Immoral

By Anne Flaherty

WASHINGTON (AP) - Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, caused a stir at a Senate hearing Wednesday when he repeated his view that gay sex is immoral and should not be condoned by the military.

"We need to be very precise then, about what I said wearing my stars and being very conscious of it," he added. "And that is, very simply, that we should respect those who want to serve the nation but not through the law of the land, condone activity that, in my upbringing, is counter to God's law."

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Hispanic immigrants sue U.S. city after crackdown

By Av Harris

DANBURY, Connecticut (Reuters) - Ten Hispanic immigrants filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a Connecticut city, its mayor and police chief, and federal agents who led a crackdown on illegal immigration last year. The suit filed in U.S. District Court in New Haven, Connecticut, claims the arrests violated the civil rights of nine workers and a 10th man who was stopped at a traffic light, including their right to due legal process, free speech and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, according to court documents.

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Fruitland mom is accused of texting teen boy

By Katy Moeller

Parents of Fruitland High School's football team were surprised that one of their own is accused of exchanging sexually explicit text messages with one of the team's teen-aged players.
But an Idaho prosecutor said he's seeing more cases of older women abusing young men.
Sheryl A. Nawahine, 35, faces three felony counts of sexual battery of a minor for exchanging explicit text messages — plus sharing at least one photo and a video — with a boy who is a close friend of her teen-aged son and daughter.

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Apartments Banning Tattoos

It's against the law for landlords to discriminate based on the color of a person's skin. But can they reject you because of what's on your skin?
Some San Antonio apartment complexes are refusing to rent to people with tattoos and body piercings.

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Banning Boyhood

By Selwyn Duke





Diane Farr, a curriculum specialist in Austin, Texas, explained that her school district implemented the [dodge ball] ban to satisfy a panel of professors, students and parents who wanted to ‘preserve the rights and dignity' of all students in the district. So dodge ball is a dignity thief? Of course, claims Farr. ‘What we have seen is that it does not make students feel good about themselves.'
There's more. According to one anti-dodge ball crusader, ‘at its base, the game encourages the strong to victimize the weak. ... Schools preach the values of harmony, community and cooperation. But then those same schools let the big kids loose to see if they can hit the skinny nerd in the head with a hard, red rubber ball.'

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We don't need no education

We dont need no thought control

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

Teachers leave them kids alone

Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!

All in all it's just another brick in the wall.

Ahmadinejad appearance reveals questions on reality of Holocaust

By Aaron Klein

"This invitation proves that when Muslims and Arabs come from a position of power to the West they receive more respect and consideration to their causes and to their conditions and to their insisting on their sovereignty," stated Abu Mosaab, an Islamic Jihad spokesperson and leader in the Gaza Strip.

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Illegal immigrants pin hopes,on "Dream Act"

By Lornet Turnbull

The so-called Dream Act — short for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act — would apply to illegal immigrants under 30 who came to the United States before they were 16, have lived here for at least five years, graduated from a U.S. high school and stayed out of trouble.
Supporters estimate that U.S. high schools graduate about 65,000 such students a year. They say an estimated 360,000 college students or recent graduates could benefit.
The Tacoma woman graduated from Henry Foss High School after coming here from Mexico 10 years ago with her parents, who found jobs as restaurant workers. Much about her future is riding on the Senate's action, she said.

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S-CHIP loophole - New health care benefits for illegal aliens?

By Michelle Malkin

I’m getting several heads-up e-mails about a loophole in the recently House-passed S-CHIP bill that might create a new path for illegal alien health care benefits. Many people are saying during conference the conferees fixed the illegal immigration issues that pertain to the House-passed SCHIP bill by adopting the Senate language which said the Social Security Administration (SSA) will verify citizenship status. I do not see that as being the case after reading Title II Subtitle B.

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The Last Supper San Fran style

NHS rationing has caused patient deaths

One in six doctors has seen patients die because NHS resources were rationed, according to a survey published today.
More than half report seeing patients suffer because treatment was rationed. And two-thirds claim they have been told not to prescribe certain drugs by their NHS trust, even though the results could be fatal.
The survey of more than 850 GPs and hospital doctors was carried out jointly by Doctor and Hospital Doctor magazines.
It shows the situation has deteriorated since a similar survey by Doctor nine years ago. Then, one in five doctors reported that patients had suffered as a result of treatment rationing and one in 20 knew patients who had died.

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Understanding The Holocaust: Ahmadinejad at Columbia

By Propaganda Department

Iranian President claims that the idea of genocide originates from Allah himself, who had created the Great Flood that killed off nearly the whole human race. "Allah had destroyed whole Creations innumerable times until he came up with one that popped," he says. "Obviously a world dominated by the United States is yet another evolutionary disaster and is subject to demolition. So when we want to nuke up we're only doing Allah's good work."

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Beyond the pale?

By Naresh Puri

The skin-lightening industry is worth at least £100m in India and the Fair-and-Handsome-for-Men range is the latest product from one of the market's big players. Manufacturers say they are responding to a demand, but in recent years protests in India have seen at least one advert taken off air. Other lightening products targeted at black women have been on sale for years, some of them containing chemicals banned for years from British goods.

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Academia's Ugly Blindness

By Arthur Herman

President Bollinger argues that a university is above all a forum for hearing conflicting views and opinions - as if Ahmadinejad were some controversial social theorist, not the leader of the world's leading sponsor of terror.Yet the real issue is not about words but actions - actions with consequences in an ongoing conflict in which American soldiers are being killed and Iranian dissidents are being beaten and tortured every day. And what Bollinger's actions (as opposed to his words) reveal is that Columbia somehow considers itself neutral ground in the War on Terror ism. In other words, this is a matter of "free speech."

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Bush Pulled United States Out of Kyoto ?

By Richard Newcomb


Journalists like to tell us about their professionalism and the many layers of editors that ensure their accuracy. However, somewhere in those layers of editors, have reporters lost the ability to perform basic research? In the case of Reuters reporter Jeff Mason, it would seem to be so. Mason wrote an article on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Monday speech on global warming, in which he wrote,
President George W. Bush pulled the United States out of the Kyoto accord, saying it unfairly burdened rich countries while exempting developing countries like China and India.

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This is a startling revision of history. Apparently Mason forgot, if he ever knew, that although then-President Bill Clinton signed Kyoto, he never submitted the Kyoto treaty to the Senate for ratification.

Is torture ever justified?

The September 11th attacks have not driven any rich democracy to reverse itself and make torture legal. But they have encouraged the bending of definitions and the turning of blind eyes. There is a greater readiness among governments that would never practise torture themselves to use information which less squeamish states have obtained—through torture.

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Maniac in Morning Side Heights

By Jacob Laksin

Contrary to what you may have heard, Iran doesn’t “believe” in nuclear weapons. And pay no heed to reports of young Iranian women being stoned to death for adultery. Actually, Iranian women are among “the freest in the world.” In addition, further research is needed to determine whether the Holocaust happened, and to discover who was really responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Oh, and there are no homosexuals in the Islamic Republic.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

By DAN MANGAN and LARRY CELONA

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the stage at Columbia University to a blistering welcome from the president of the school, who said the hard-line leader behaved like "a petty and cruel dictator."
Ahmadinejad smiled as Columbia President Lee Bollinger took him to task over Iran's human-rights record and foreign policy, and Ahmadinejad's statements denying the Holocaust and calling for the disappearance of Israel.
"Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator," Bollinger said, to loud applause.
He said Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust might fool the illiterate and ignorant.
"When you come to a place like this it makes you simply ridiculous," Bollinger said. "The truth is that the Holocaust is the most documented event in human history."

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The Southern Drawl: Is It Spreading?

By PATRIK JONSSON

True story: A North Carolina teacher gave an example to his class of a statement by the school's football coach: "I'll be done drove there by 3 o'clock." Now, the teacher said, give the correct future perfect tense of that sentence. A boy's hand shot up. "I'll be done drive," he said proudly.
Borne out in grammatical and metaphorical mazes, talkin' Southern -- or talkin' country -- is the cadence of Atticus Finch and Andy Griffith, presidents and preachers, ballplayers and businessmen in Brooks Brothers suits. To many Americans, it's also the lingua franca of honky-tonk pluckers, bumpkins, rascals and hicks.

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Black and white becomes gray in La. town

By TODD LEWAN

JENA, La. - It's got all the elements of a Delta blues ballad from the days of Jim Crow: hangman's nooses dangling from a shade tree; a mysterious fire in the night; swift deliberations by a condemning, all-white jury. To Ben Reid, 61, who set down roots in Jena in 1957 and lived here throughout the civil rights era, "this whole thing ain't no downright, racial affair."
Reid, who is black, presently serves on the LaSalle Parish council. He reads the papers. He hears the talk outside of church on Sundays about how the Jena Six business is dividing his hometown down racial lines.
He doesn't buy it.

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France's pursuit of illegal aliens taking its toll

PARIS — A Russian boy suffers head injuries after falling from a window while trying to elude police. A North African man slips from a window ledge and fractures his leg while fleeing officers. A Chinese woman lies in a coma after plunging from a window during a police check.

As France races to deport 25,000 illegal aliens by the end of the year — a quota set by President Nicolas Sarkozy — tensions are mounting and the crackdown is taking a toll.

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But with three months left in the year, police have caught at least 11,800 illegal aliens, less than half the target, so Mr. Sarkozy has ordered officials to pick up the pace.

Bush, Not Ahmadinejad, Desecrates Ground Zero

By Mark Finkelstein

This morning's column by James Carroll, the Boston Globe's resident gushy liberal, is so predictable you wonder whether it might have been produced by a liberal-column-generator software program. You know the kind: insert issue, names of political players, a few factoids, and let the program spit out the boilerplate of a standard leftist diatribe.
I mean, as soon as you knew that Carroll was writing a column about Ahmadinejad's visit to the U.S., could there be any doubt as to where he'd come down on the controversy surrounding the Iranian president's desire to visit Ground Zero? And Carroll doesn't disappoint. Naturally, this was just one big Kumbaya moment squandered.

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What Sicko doesn't tell you ...

By Allyson Pollock

Viewers of Michael Moore's new film will come away convinced that the public healthcare system in this country is superior to its privatised American counterpart, where more than 50 million people are without any kind of care at all. But does the government agree? Or has it instead been taking ideas from the very system revealed in Sicko to be so iniquitous?

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Muslim intimidation could make 'land of Jesus' barren in 15 years

Beatings, sham legal proceedings, property seizures, dismissal and replacement of elected Christian leaders, accusations of selling property to Jews and intimidation by gunmen with links to the government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have so reduced Christian populations in the cities of Jesus' birth and boyhood one community leader predicts all Christians will be gone within 15 years.

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ROTC is out,Ahmadinejad is in

By Dinesh D'Souza

President Lee Bollinger of Columbia University is a very open-minded guy, in his own opinion. In inviting the Iranian prime minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia,

So why won't Bollinger allow the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) to recruit on the Columbia campus? ROTC was expelled from Columbia in the late sixties. In 2003 a majority of students said they wanted ROTC back,

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Seven-year limit on marriages

A conservative German politician on Wednesday proposed making marriage contracts expire after seven years, with the option to renew for those not feeling the proverbial itch.

"I propose that marriages lapse after seven years," Gabriele Pauli told reporters in Munich, the capital of the largely Catholic southern state of Bavaria.

"This would mean that one will only commit for a fixed period and will actively have to renew your vows if you still want to continue."

Pauli, 50, has been divorced twice.

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White "Genocide" Against Native Americans

By Michael Medved

I've never denied that the 400 year history of American contact with the Indians includes many examples of white cruelty and viciousness --- just as the Native Americans frequently (indeed, regularly) dealt with the European newcomers with monstrous brutality and, indeed, savagery. In fact, reading the history of the relationship between British settlers and Native Americans its obvious that the blood-thirsty excesses of one group provoked blood thirsty excesses from the other, in a cycle that listed with scant interruption for several hundred years.

The real decimation of Indian populations had nothing to do with massacres or military actions, but rather stemmed from infectious diseases that white settlers brought with them at the time they first arrived in the New World.

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National Poll - Americans to Congress: 'Hands Off the Media'

By more than a two-to-one margin, 54.3% to 23.8%, Americans surveyed suggested that TV, radio, newspapers and the internet be free from government involvement and allow the market to determine demand rather than have government force equal time and space for all sides of issues. Another 21.9% were unsure.

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"Moreover, the Poll demonstrates quite clearly that the American people will favor presidential candidates who seek strength and guidance from God. Presidential candidates of both political parties who effectively address policy dilemmas, while succinctly articulating the spiritual values of our nation, should fare well in the approaching contest,"

Syria voted co-chairman of the IAEA

By HERB KEINON

The Syrian news agency SANA proudly reported the election on Tuesday, adding that Syria was also successful in including "the Israeli nuclear arsenal as an item on the agenda of the conference."
The agenda for the meeting includes the item "Israeli nuclear capabilities and threat." While Iran will be a focus of the discussions, there is no item on the agenda referring to the Islamic Republic by name.

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The General Conference, made up of some 144 countries, is the least important of the IAEA's three main bodies. The other two bodies are the Board of Governors and the Secretariat.

Former CBS Producer Rips Rather

Forget the O.J. Simpson trial. The court case with the highest bitchiness quota in years will be the lawsuit that Dan Rather filed against CBS yesterday. Howard Kurtz tracked down Josh Howard, the executive producer of 60 Minutes II that resigned after the airing of the infamous National Guard segment, and Howard thinks Rather has lost his mind:

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"I think he's gone off the deep end," said Josh Howard

Study Affirms 'Gays' Can Change

By J. Matt Barber

Ask any one of the untold thousands of men and women who have left the homosexual lifestyle, and they'll say, "Tell us something we didn't already know."

Nonetheless, psychologists Mark A. Yarhouse and Stanton L. Jones may have just hammered the final nail in the mythical "born 'gay' and stuck that way," coffin.
In a first of its kind, comprehensive study, Yarhouse and Jones determined over a four year period that men and women suffering from unwanted same-sex attractions can re-"orient" themselves through Christian counseling and/or reparative therapy to their natural and God-given heterosexual state.

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North Korean nuke materials in Syria

James Lewis

Caroline Glick points out alarming implications of the September 6 Israeli raid on a claimed North Korean nuclear materials site in Syria. If official leaks about the IAF raid are true, the North Koreans have again reneged on their solemn promises to the Six-Nation Group to retreat on their own nuke program. Instead, they have secretly shipped nuclear weapons materials, possibly off-the-shelf fissile uranium or plutonium, to Syria, in close collaboration with Iran.

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AP Interview: Clinton on health care

By BETH FOUHY

"At this point, we don't have anything punitive that we have proposed," the presidential candidate said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We're providing incentives and tax credits which we think will be very attractive to the vast majority of Americans."
She said she could envision a day when "you have to show proof to your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview —

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Amnesty Again

By Kate O'Beirne

Determined amnesty advocates who lost the fight for “comprehensive” immigration reform three months ago are now attempting to grant illegal aliens “amnesty on the installment plan.” Illegal aliens who entered the U.S. before age 16 and who have lived here illegally for five consecutive years will be the first to qualify under a bill the Senate is expected to vote on this week. Senator Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) will offer his Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act as an amendment to the defense-authorization bill.

Later in the month, senators will attempt to extend amnesty to agricultural workers. Under the DREAM Act, applicants for amnesty who claim to be enrolled in a community college, technical school, or university will receive immediate “conditional” legal status. Sound familiar? The Migration Policy Institute estimates that about 1.3 million illegal aliens will be eligible for the amnesty.

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Islamists: Sheehan 'gives us hope'

"You [Sheehan] give us hope and you show us that there are different Americans than those whom we know," stated Ramadan Adassi, chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group in the West Bank's Anskar Refugee Camp.
"This sincere woman says what we've been saying all these last years – Saddam never threatened America or its security. Now Iraq is being decimated and America is losing. Voices like Sheehan's show things can change,"

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UF Student tasered at John Kerry Speech

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When Hypocrisy is a Good Thing

By Selwyn Duke

Many leftist partisans are licking their chops over the revelation that Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig solicited sex from a male undercover detective in a Minneapolis airport bathroom. This scandal is reminiscent of that involving Ted Haggard, the disgraced preacher who had relations with a male prostitute. What is interesting about our time, though, is that these men are castigated not because they have been living an immoral lifestyle but because they have been living an immoral lifestyle without also sanctioning that immoral lifestyle.

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Jimmy Carter's War Against the Jews

Our newest flash video, "Jimmy Carter's War Against the Jews," lays bare this aspect of Carter's political career in devastating detail. Based on a pamphlet by Jacob Laksin, the video powerfully refutes the lies that Carter has spread about the Jews and Israel in his many books and speeches. Point by point, the video explodes Carter's duplicitous claims about Israeli policies and the Jewish state's treatment of Palestinian Arabs. Contrary to his cultivated image as an international peacemaker, the video shows Carter to be a world-class hypocrite, harping endlessly on Israel's supposed flaws while averting his gaze from the tyrannies that populate the Middle East, all the while pocketing generous contributions from Arab despots. It is a devastating portrait of the real Jimmy Carter.

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Kids 'should set tests'

Tim Ross

IT sounds like every pupil's dream - government advisers are proposing that schoolchildren mark their own work and set the questions for classroom tests.And teachers should train secondary school children to draw up homework and devise marking schemes, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority has said.Pupils should then assess the results, grading their own efforts and giving `feedback' to their classmates, the latest National Curriculum guidance suggests.

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Clinton unveils details of her health care plan

By Richard Wolf

The front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination said that under her new plan, the federal government would spend $110 billion a year to help employers and individuals pay for insurance. About half of the money would come from repealing tax cuts and tax breaks for people with incomes above $250,000; the rest would be saved through efficiencies in the system, such as chronic disease management.

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"This is not government-run. There will be no new bureaucracy,"

Fired engineer calls 787's plastic fuselage unsafe

By Dominic Gates

Forty-six-year veteran Vince Weldon contends that in a crash landing that would be survivable in a metal airplane, the new jet's innovative composite plastic materials will shatter too easily and burn with toxic fumes. He backs up his views with e-mails from engineering colleagues at Boeing and claims the company isn't doing enough to test the plane's crashworthiness.
Boeing vigorously denies Weldon's assertions, saying the questions he raised internally were addressed to the satisfaction of its technical experts.
Weldon's allegations will be aired tonight by Dan Rather, the former CBS News anchor, on his weekly investigative show on cable channel HDNet.

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Reinforcements sent to Iraq – Chuck Norris!

Norris said in an e-mail from Iraq two things have become very apparent as he has traveled from base to base: The "surge is working" and "morale is up – way up!"

Norris is visiting 15 bases – including remote outposts – at the invitation of the assistant commandant of the Marines, Gen. Bob Magnus. It's Norris' second trip to encourage the troops.

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"These young men and women are making a difference here, and they believe they can win the day and the war, and give the Iraqi people full ownership of their land,"