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 Slick on 60 Minutes | John Kerry Lies About Irish Heritage Claim | John Walker Lindh Assaulted 
Hughes, Boeing Fined for China Sales | DeLay Threatens to Reign In Courts
Michigan Teen Charged With Spreading AIDS | NYC Bus Subway Fares $2
 Air Force Academy Rape Scandal | US Rep Marcy Katur Compares Al Quaeda to Founders 
MSRA Epidemic? | High School Protest Turns Into Looting

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Dole legitimizes Slick every time he appears on camera. Where’s the outrage, Bob?

US Senator John F. Kerry's insistence that he has been ''clear as a bell'' in never having claimed Irish ancestry is undercut by a statement introduced the day after St. Patrick's Day 17 years ago in which he identified himself as Irish-American.

VICTORVILLE - The FBI is investigating a reported attack on American Taliban John Walker Lindh by one or more white supremacists at the Federal Correctional Institution here.

"I can confirm there was an incident regarding Lindh (on) Monday night,' said FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley. "There was a report that Lindh was assaulted by another inmate but I cannot disclose any details beyond that.'

“Hughes, Boeing unit agree to $32 mln China penalty.” Forbes.com (Reuters). March 5, 2003.

The courts have gone out of control because Congress has failed to act as a check and balance. DeLay’s attempt to resurrect checks and powers will be very unpopular.

The Ninth Circuit is notoriously “liberal.”

Congress could remove federal courts' jurisdiction to rule on the Pledge of Allegiance if the Supreme Court doesn't overturn an appeals court decision that bars children from reciting the Pledge in school, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday.

"Congress for so long has been lax in standing up for the Constitution," the Texas Republican told reporters during a briefing yesterday. "There are ways to express ourselves — for instance, we could limit the jurisdiction of the judicial branch.

"Article III, Section 2 [of the Constitution] allows us to do that. I think that would be a very good idea to send a message to the judiciary they ought to keep their hands off the Pledge of Allegiance," he said.

A two-judge majority of a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in June that public school classes cannot recite the Pledge because the phrase "under God" is an endorsement of religion. Late last week, the full appeals court voted not to overturn the ruling.

COLDWATER, Mich. (AP) -- A 17-year-old is charged with a felony for allegedly having unprotected sex with a local man without telling him she has AIDS.

Prosecutors charged Amber Jo Sours with the four-year felony after police identified four men who claimed they had sex with her and didn't know she carries the disease.

"We had contacted the (Tri-County) health department. They were looking at her too, and this is just the tip of the iceberg," Coldwater Director of Public Safety Gary Chester told The Daily Reporter.

Sours was charged under a 1998 law that deals specifically with people who know they are HIV-positive or have AIDS and don't tell their sexual partners.

A 33% increase; no wonder they’re jumping over the turnstiles in the Big Apple.

How can a man be an officer and a gentleman when he sexually molests women?

The worst thing about this is that it validates radical feminist propaganda.

WASHINGTON - The Air Force has identified 54 cases of rape or sexual assault in its investigation into impropriety at the Air Force Academy and there are likely many more cadets who will not come forward, Air Force Secretary James Roche said Thursday.

"The part that is the saddest thing ... whatever we see, whatever the number is, 25, 50, there are probably a hundred more that we do not see," Roche said during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites). It wasn't immediately clear when the assaults occured.

"We're learning enough to realize that change must occur — change in the climate, change in how we manage" the academy, Roche said.

This is in the same vein as the phony “Ho Chi Minh is Vietnam’s George Washington” line from the Vietnam Era.

The American Revolution was fought to perfect religious freedom, not to eliminate it.

Before launching a military strike against Iraq, Americans should consider their own history to remember how powerful the mix of religion and politics can be, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) said.

"If you think back to our founding as a country, we are a country of revolution," Miss Kaptur said in an interview this week.

A drug-resistant superbug that spreads by skin contact is infecting thousands of people across the US and may now have reached Europe.

The MRSA bacterium, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, can be resistant to many antibiotics. It has long been a serious problem in hospitals and nursing homes, where it infects the wounds of patients weakened by disease or injury. But it now appears that a new strain is emerging that spreads through skin contact and can even infect healthy people.

An anti-war march against the U.S. policy on Iraq by about 500 Canoga Park High School students turned ugly Wednesday when some in the crowd started looting a gas station convenience store and disrupting traffic.

A group of students who skipped class to participate in the lunchtime protests stole candy bars and knocked over displays at the Mobil gas station at the corner of Topanga Canyon and Victory boulevards, officials said. Five of them were detained on suspicion of vandalism and theft, said Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman.

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Outstanding refutation of Leftist lies about Iraq operation.

Taranto also points out that Saddam’s admirers like him because he “stands up to America.” People who hold this opinion must think America is as bad as the extreme Left “anti-war” groups say it is.

Myth No. 1: America is "rushing to war."

People were saying this six months ago, when President Bush took his case to the United Nations. Since then, the president has done everything asked of him: He's won congressional authorization for military action; he's persuaded the U.N. Security Council to give Saddam a "final opportunity" to comply with his disarmament and other obligations, and he is even now pursuing yet another Security Council resolution explicitly authorizing force. A six-month diplomatic effort to win support is hardly a "rush" to war.

Myth No. 2: Invading Iraq is a "diversion" from the war on al Qaeda.

Terrorism does not occur in a vacuum; it is a product of the tyranny, misrule and fanaticism that prevail in much of the Arab and Muslim worlds. Saddam Hussein's continued defiance of the U.N.'s demands and its failure to do anything about it make a mockery of international law. What lesson can terrorists take from this but that this is a world without authority, a world in which the civilized nations will not act to protect themselves from those who would murder the innocent in the name of jihad?

Myth No. 3: Intervention in Iraq will lead to more terrorism.

But if there are al Qaeda cells waiting to attack America, does anyone really think they'll pack up and go home once they're convinced we're going to leave Saddam alone? Of course not. Al Qaeda cannot be appeased. "Retaliation" for an attack on Iraq would be a pretext, not a provocation, for any al Qaeda attack--and let's remember that there was no particular pretext for the attacks of Sept. 11.

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This, it seems to me, misunderstands the Arab street entirely. What inflames the Arab street is not American strength but the perception of American irresoluteness. Before the Gulf War, the Arab street protested fervidly in favor of Saddam. After the Gulf War, it was quiet. On Sept. 11, the Arab street whooped with delight at America's suffering. It was quiet after we liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban.

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To most observers, Sean Penn’s fact-finding mission to Baghdad two months ago probably seemed more like a bizarre public relations flop than a cleverly executed political strategy. But then, most observers weren’t its intended audience. Nor were the reporters who covered it, or the pundits who ridiculed it. Without realizing it, these people contributed to the success of Penn’s true mission.

While Penn traipsed around Iraq, leftist grassroots organizers across the U.S. were scrambling. In less than two months, they planned to fill the nation’s streets with thousands of war protesters. To create the illusion of a national groundswell against the war on Iraq, they’d have to quickly energize their troops.

Institute for Public Accuracy Executive Director Norman Solomon, the force behind Penn’s trip, had proven to be an expert at mobilizing those who share his Marxist views long before he founded IPA and opened its Washington press office with a grant from the non-profit Florence and John Schumann Foundation. That foundation is headed by none other than PBS correspondent Bill Moyers. Since then, grants from the Open Society and Solidago foundations, headed by radical leftist billionaire George Soros, have helped to keep its doors open.

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Take grassroots labor activist Nancy Lessin for instance. Most reporters in Boston know her as a coordinator for the AFL-CIO and a member of the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health who has led successful corporate smear campaigns and legal battles that have resulted in massive fines for area corporations.

With the help of the IPA media machine, Lessin was recently reborn as head of Military Families Speak Out, a group of anti-war parent protesters who have (or claim to have) children in the military. The group, formed late last fall, had limited success at capturing the attention of the media until IPA blast-faxed Lessin’s name and contact info into newsrooms across the nation on January 17. Within two days, a particularly poignant maternal anti-war quote by Lessin was picked up by national newswires and appeared in dozens of daily newspapers across the nation. Since then, Lessin and her group have been regularly quoted in anti-war coverage in American newspapers and abroad.

Naturally, Lessin’s labor credentials were left off the IPA press release, as was the fact that Military Families Speak Out is a coalition member of the peace demonstration organizing umbrella group United for Peace and Justice, chaired by grassroots organizer Leslie Cagan, who has a long history of activism with the American Communist Party and related groups. (IPA has been aggressively pushing Cagan as a source in its press releases as well.)

Along with Military Families Speak Out, "experts" from 10 other groups that form the backbone of United for Peace and Justice have been repeatedly listed as sources on anything remotely Iraq-related in press releases sent out by IPA, which so far has neglected to disclose their interconnected nature. Several of these groups, nearly all of which are funded by the Open Society/ Rockefeller Fund/Joyce Foundation/Solidago network, are also coalition members of Act Now To Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER), a known front group for the International Action Center, which is a known front group for the Stalinist Workers World Party. Both ANSWER and the International Action Center — which is also a member of the United for Peace and Justice coalition — have been the chief organizers of the war protests around the globe.

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IPA’s leading role in the peace movement is just one of many it has played during its five-year career at the center of whatever issue the far left and Moyers & friends happen pushing at the time.

If the American people really want what the Schumann Foundation and others like it have to offer, they’ll support the ideas of its grantees with their wallets. For too long, the conservative response to the ideological crusades funded and coordinated by Moyers and his ilk has been to debate these people on the issues. Its time we began publicly questioning where the money behind these campaigns came from and whether it was legally spent.

The public and the media deserve to know who’s behind the garbage they’re being fed.

Fifty years ago yesterday, on March 5, 1953, Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, died. One of the world's great genocidists, comparable to Adolf Hitler not only as a mass killer but also as an anti-Semite, Stalin was preparing a large-scale pogrom, the outgrowth of what is today known as the "doctor's plot." How he died, when he died or whether he was done in by his comrades fearful of another purge, remains a mystery to this day.

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