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CBS apparently believes that if the awards ceremony becomes an “anti-war” event viewers will change channels. This tends to indicate that the CBS suits believe that the “anti-war” movement has widespread popularity.

More nonsense from the loony Left. If they want to cut the teen pregnancy rate they’d be better off teaching them to use contraceptives. Of course, the teen pregnancy problem in Britain may be like the one in the U.S.—girls get pregnant to meet their emotional needs. If this is happening in the white British population it tends to confirm Thomas Sowell’s theory that the antisocial behavior of black Americans came from the antisocial behavior of poor white Britons.

A GOVERNMENT-backed course is encouraging pupils under 16 to experiment with oral sex, as part of a drive to cut rates of teenage pregnancy. 

Family campaigners believe that the course, called A Pause, is having the reverse effect by exciting the sexual interest of children.

The scheme, which has been pioneered by Exeter University and is backed by the Departments of Health and Education, trains teachers to discuss various pre-sex “stopping points” with under-age teenagers.

It aims to reduce promiscuity by encouraging pupils to discover “levels of intimacy”, including oral sex, instead of full sexual intercourse.

More than 100,000 children are now taking the course at one in every thirty secondary schools. It forms part of efforts to tackle Britain’s teenage pregnancy rate, which is the highest in Western Europe.

The Democratic Party has effectively become Stalin-sympathizer Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party, which means that it is a socialist party. The Twentieth Century definitively proved that socialism doesn’t work, but the Dems remain true believers. The big question is whether the voters are willing to elect socialist politicians.

But Terry McAuliffe is in the midst of pushing the party through a critical transition in its technology and fund-raising techniques. And there appeared to be little sentiment among those attending the party's winter meeting this week for interrupting his task. Democrats lost the Senate in 2002, fell further behind in the House and didn't win as many governorships as they expected.

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The 46-year-old McAuliffe outlined his efforts to the media Thursday, including the party's 18-month effort to build a computer database of direct-mail donors, verify 158 million voter records and increase its e-mail list. And he promised Friday that those new tools would be available for the eventual nominee - and asked the candidates to agree to work together for the winner.

The British pop music scene reflects British popular sentiment; they’ve brainwashed themselves into unrealistically believing that the military action to disarm Iraq will start the Apocalypse. Their forbearers, who went through the Blitz and the V-weapon campaign, were made of sterner stuff.

R&B star Ms Dynamite was Queen of the Brits last night as she picked up two prizes and led the music world protest against war on Iraq.

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She joined Coldplay, which also won two awards, in a stinging attack on the looming conflict in the Middle East. In a revamped version of George Michael’s Faith, she changed the lyrics to include the line: ‘I don’t wanna to see children die no more/so I gotta make a stand.’

Coldplay’s Chris Martin told the audience: ‘We are all going to die when George Bush has his way. But at least we are going to go out with a bang.’

The whole show was phony. “Joe” was a buff male model instead of a blue collar ordinary Joe. The author’s remark that Ms. Kozer is “fit to be tied” is outrageous given her numerous appearances in bondage and fetish videos.

“Joe Millionaire” runnerup Sarah Kozer is fit to be tied over the way she was treated by the blockbuster TV reality show.

“I’m horrified,” Kozer - who got the boot from fake rich guy Evan Marriott in Monday night's finale - told the Daily News yesterday. “[I’m] completely embarrassed.”

She said she and the other 20 women who flew to the French chateau where the show was taped were duped by the show's producer, who never even told them “there was going to be a guy there.”

“I thought it was going to be ‘Sex and the City’ in France,” said Kozer, 29, breaking her network-imposed silence from her home in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The author places too much emphasis on males. The gene may work the same way on both genders.

Only a tiny genetic difference can separate a macho man from a wimp, says a study published today.

A variation in a single gene may explain why some people can withstand pain - or other physical or emotional stress - better than others, a team from the University of Michigan and the National Institutes of Health reports.

In the journal Science, the team describes how a small variation in the gene encoding an enzyme - catechol-O-methyl transferase, or COMT - made a significant difference in the pain tolerance, and pain-related emotions and feelings, of volunteers.

Genetics may not make all the difference between wimps and Marines, but the finding adds to evidence of variations in individuals’ response to pain being mainly due to biological factors affecting the brain.

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Turgut Ozal was the prime minister during the Gulf War and supported the removal of Saddam.

The Turks certainly have a point that the U.S. has not always been a reliable war partner--which is partly why they want to drive a hard bargain now. Turgut Ozal took risks to help the U.S. during the 1991 Gulf War, even closing off an oil pipeline from Iraq that was a major source of national income. But the U.S. left Saddam in power, leaving Turkey with an enraged and dangerous dictator next door and a major trading partner under U.N. sanctions.

How one accounts for last weekend’s demonstrations--how they happened and how the media covered them-- is a great subject for which I have become convinced only the annals of psychiatry can offer an answer. Once people get certain beliefs hard-wired into their brains, there's no chance that new facts will stop old neurons from flowing down well-worn pathways to familiar conclusions.

The media’s mystical belief that demonstrators against war are holy people dates back to the Vietnam War, when the idea of the “dissident” emerged. The Vietnam “dissenters” achieved coequal status as First-Amendment standard-bearers, at which point they gained immunity from the sort of questioning that normally chases society's villains and disfavored into the ditch. For decades the organizers of these marches have understood this.

Vietnam was a complicated time, a mess, and idealism bled easily into naiveté. Still, you have to wonder if this no-questions-asked reporting hasn’t reached the point of absurdity when a primary organizer of the demonstrations, United for Peace & Justice, can suffuse its Web site the week after with mainstream press reports that read like press releases.

The San Francisco Chronicle: “What differed from the protests of three and four decades earlier was the palpable fear that this time global annihilation is possible.” “A woman in a green top and leopard print pants smiled at a gray-bearded man in a wheelchair, and suddenly thousands of strangers were looking at each other and smiling.”

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What’s odd about this persistent media credulousness is that the story of who and what’s behind these demonstrations is pretty interesting, no matter what your politics. Indeed the organizers are hardly hiding their colors. The partial list printed here from the Web site of United for Peace includes groups that have been in the anti-war game for at least 40 years. The War Resisters League! Pax Christi USA! No wonder the old gray-beard in San Francisco set thousands to smiling; this was the biggest reunion they'd had since the 1969 Mobilization on the Washington Mall.

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As it stands, the average reader or viewer is left to think these demonstrators are average Joes just like them. Some are, but most are veterans of organized political opposition, men and women of the anti-war, anti-Israel, anti-capitalism, anti-U.S. left, and proud of it. If they're not trying to hide who they are, why should the media?

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Rattling nerves along the border, a North Korean fighter jet violated South Korean airspace over the Yellow Sea on Thursday before turning back as warplanes in the South scrambled. The flight - the first such incursion in 20 years - was the latest in a series of North Korean provocations.

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In the United States, similar demonstrations brought thousands to the streets of San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Boston. Woody Guthrie sang “Blowin’ in the Wind” and celebrities Martin Sheen, Jesse Jackson, Phil Donahue, Colleen Dewhurst, Jules Feiffer, Meryl Streep, Kris Kristofferson, Muhammad Ali, Jane Fonda, Ed Asner and Robert Blake leant their names and prestige to the movement.

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This might not be a problem if the state’s spending wasn’t growing at a rate twice the population growth.

As amended, HB1345 would allow the public to have access to such information as years of service and rank but would keep secret information such as Social Security numbers and medical records.

One of the reasons to have your military records recorded at the county courthouse is to prove that you served. The reason that the records have Social Security numbers is that Congress made Social Security numbers serial numbers. Since the Geneva Convention requires prisoners their serial numbers, enemies can use the Geneva Convention to fraudulently obtain prisoners’ assets.

The more things change, the more things stay the same. After 3 decades of liberal government we’re still near the top on most negative social concerns.

Another consequence of Little Rock’s sprawl to the West.

The funny thing is that West Nile didn’t appear to have affected the bird population around Little Rock.

Communist Vietnam wants to use earnings from its exports to the U.S. to buy Boeing airliners and cotton. One of their exports to us is “catfish,” and American catfish farmers have complained that this trade is subsidized. One suspects that other Communist Vietnamese products are either subsidized or produced by exploited labor. Slave labor in their “reeducation” gulag could be involved, even though U.S. law prohibits the import of slave labor goods.

The Armenian Genocide. As the obscure Austrian corporal said, “who remembers the Armenians?” The question for contemporary Americans is who remembers the Cambodians? The ones who voted for Slick sure don’t

Feb. 14 may have been Valentine’s Day, but Saturday will mark V-Day in Little Rock.

V-Day, the global movement to stop violence against women and girls, will sponsor the Little Rock performance of The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler’s award-winning play with the attention-getting title. All profits from ticket sales and donations will be used to benefit the Family Service Agency’s Sexual Assault Center.

The trouble with this is that domestic violence has become a “progressive” cause.

The Vagina Monologues is simply a diatribe by a man-hating radical feminist.

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