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• Hillary Hasn’t Furnished Manuscipt of Book Despite $2.85 Million Advance

• John Kerry Isn’t the Only Leftist to Call for “Regime Change”

• US Troops May Have Discovered Iraqi Nerve Gas

• Pesticides May Have Been Mistaken for Chemical Weapons

• Some US Libraries Evading Patriot Act

• NPR Reports Discovery of Iraqi Chemical Missles

• Accidental Deaths of Troops in Iraq

• Mafia Capo Who Faked Insanity Pleads Guilty

• SARS Linked to Chlamydia

• HIV–Positive Teacher Charged in Sexual Assault on Student at NJ Catholic Elementary School

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HILLARY CLINTON BOOK PAST DUE, PUBLISHER'S ANGST OVER NO MANUSCRIPT, NO TITLE; SENATOR TOOK LARGEST ADVANCE IN HISTORY

The senator of the Empire State has already received a $2.85 million cash advance on her memoirs, from a total deal valued at more than $8 million.

KERRY 'REGIME CHANGE' ECHO CHAMBER...

“Regime change” is not the same as a change in administrations. “Regime change” means establishing a different form of government than the constitutional form of self-government has had since the ratification of the U. S. Constitution. See the “A Democrat Against Democracy” section of OpinionJournal.com’s Thursday, April 3, 2003 “Best of the Web Today.”

Others calling for a “regime change:”

• Jesse Jackson [October 27, 2002]

• Louis Farrakhan [October 9, 2002]

• Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) [March 16, 2003]

• Ramsey Clark [March 31, 2003]

• Michael Moore [Nov. 10, 2002]

• Susan Sarandon [Jan. 3, 2003]

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry may have been the first presidential candidate to publicly call for a "regime change" in Washington, but other pillars of the party have been indoctrinating the term for months, research shows.

U.S. soldiers evacuated an Iraqi military compound on Sunday after tests by a mobile laboratory confirmed evidence of sarin nerve gas. More than a dozen soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division had been sent earlier for chemical weapon decontamination after they exhibited symptoms of exposure to nerve agents.

'Smoking gun' WMD site turns out to contain pesticide...

The chemicals used in pesticides and chemical weapons are similar. The Zyklon B gas used at Auschwitz was prussic acid, a grain fumigant.

NEAR NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - A facility near Baghdad that a US officer had said might finally be "smoking gun" evidence of Iraqi chemical weapons production turned out to contain pesticide, not sarin gas as feared.

A military intelligence officer for the US 101st Airborne Division's aviation brigade, Captain Adam Mastrianni, told AFP that comprehensive tests determined the presence of the pesticide compounds.

SOME LIBRARIES USE SHREDDERS TO FIGHT NEW FBI POWERS...

If the Patriot Act is constitutional this activity could be illegal.

The move was part of a campaign by the Santa Cruz libraries to demonstrate their opposition to the Patriot Act, the law passed in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks that broadened the federal authorities' powers in fighting terrorism.

Among provisions that have angered librarians nationwide is one that allows the Federal Bureau of Investigation to review certain business records of people under suspicion, which has been interpreted to include the borrowing or purchase of books and the use of the Internet at libraries, bookstores and cafes.

In a survey sent to 1,500 libraries last fall by the Library Research Center at the University of Illinois, the staffs at 219 libraries said they had cooperated with law enforcement requests for information about patrons; staffs at 225 libraries said they had not.

NPR: U.S. Finds Missiles with Chemical Weapons...

U.S. forces near Baghdad found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical weapons, the U.S. news station National Public Radio reported on Monday.

NPR, which attributed the report to a top official with the 1st Marine Division, said the rockets, BM-21 missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire." It quoted the source as saying new U.S. intelligence data showed the chemicals were "not just trace elements."

Half of U.S. Troop Deaths Said Accidental...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Since the war began in Iraq (news - web sites), one American soldier has been electrocuted, at least two others have drowned and nine more have died in automobile wrecks.

All appear to be victims of accidents, which so far are responsible for about half the fatalities among U.S. troops sent to the Middle East for the war.

ODDFATHER: Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante Pleads Guilty...

Sopranos fans may recall that Junior did this once in the fourth season.

NEW YORK (AP) - Vincent ``The Chin'' Gigante, the powerful mafia boss who authorities said feigned insanity for decades in an attempt to avoid prosecution, ended the ruse Monday by admitting he misled doctors evaluating him.

Gigante, 75, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.

SARS linked to sex disease...

Doctors in China – the country worst hit by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – have found that the virus appears to be connected to chlamydia.

The discovery suggests that those with the STD are more likely to develop or transmit SARS.

HIV-Positive Teacher Charged With Having Sex With Student...

PATERSON, N.J. -- An HIV-positive teacher from a Roman Catholic elementary school is accused of sexually assaulting a former student over a two-month period, prosecutors said.

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 OpinionJournal.com

• Only “Elites” Suffer From Vietnam Syndrome

• The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name – Patriotism

• GI’s to Shower in Saddam’s Shower

• Bill’s Blog, Wednesday, January 29, 2003

• Saddam’s Tuol Sleng

• Antiwar Is Anti–Semitic

• “Regime Change” Advocates

• Minneapolis City Council Declares Patriot Act Unconstitutional

• Best of the Web Today Attacks Family Planning

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• Horowitz: “Peace Movement” Supports Enemy

• 11 Democrats Vote Against House Resolution 104

• Desmond Tutu’s Anti-Semitism No Obstacle to Receiving Honorary Doctorate from Penn

• Iraq War Generates Free Publicity for Russian Weapons

• Assyrian Orthodox Minister Learns the Truth About Saddam’s Regime

• Middle Ages Were Warmer Than Today Until “Little Ice Age”

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It’s about carrying on the left’s war against America. When your country is attacked, when the enemy has targeted every American regardless of race, gender or age for death, there can be no "peace" movement. There can only be a movement that divides Americans and gives aid and comfort to our enemies.

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The so-called "peace movement" today is led by the same radicals who supported America’s totalitarian enemies during the Cold War. They marched in support of the Vietcong, the Sandinista Marxists and the Communist guerrillas in El Salvador. Before that they marched in behalf of Stalin and Mao. They still support ("critically" of course) Castro and the nuclear lunatic in North Korea, Kim Jong-Il. Whatever their reservations about the cruel regime of Saddam Hussein, they are willing to stand between him and the justice he so richly deserve.

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During the Cold War, the radical "peace" movement bullied right-thinking Americans into silence. Our government lost the ability to stay the course in the anti-Communist war. The result was the Communist slaughter of two-and-a-half million peasants in Indo-China after the divisions at home forced America to leave.

Voted against House Resolution 104:

• John Conyers (D-MI)
• Mike Honda (D-CA)
• Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH)
• Barbara Lee (D-CA);
• Jim McDermott (D-WA)
• Bobby Scott (D-VA)
• Pete Stark (D-CA)
• Edolphus Towns (D-NY)
• Diane Watson (D-CA);
• Maxine Waters (D-CA)
• Charles Rangel (D-NY)

Abstained in House Resolution 104 vote:

• Dennis Kucinich
• Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
• Major Owens (D-NY)
• Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)

This validates the thesis that the “civil rights ”movement is now a socialist movement.

The time-honored American tradition, whereby "politics ends at the water's edge," has historically sent a clear message to friend and foe alike that the American people, through their elected representatives, stood full square behind the armed forces and their commander-in-chief during time of war. And while many Democrats have done just that, eleven congressmen, including nine members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), disgracefully voted against a House resolution that offered symbolic support for the troops taking part in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

By turning their backs on American forces in harm's way, these representatives have disgraced the offices they hold and fully exposed the barely concealed fact that their own parochial, leftist agendas trump the good of the country. At a time when national unity should be the overarching consideration, they have chosen division, and attempted to undermine the authority of the president in time of war. In addition, certain representatives from the Congressional Black Caucus shamelessly attempted to drag the issue of race into the debate over the war in an attempt to divert attention from the central issues.

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All told, twenty-three of thirty-seven members of the Congressional Black Caucus - a decided majority - refused to show nominal support for the troops, voting either "nay" or "present." Clearly, artificially drawn districts produced by racial gerrymandering have sent several black candidates to Washington who slant so far leftward that they cannot even offer their basic support for American troops in harm's way.

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The Israeli daily Ha'aretz (April 29, 2002), reporting Tutu's remarks at a conference in Boston, quoted him as saying:

* "Israel is like Hitler and apartheid"

* "The Jewish lobby is very powerful":

"Forgive the Nazis" During his 1989 visit to Israel, Tutu "urged Israelis to forgive the Nazis for the Holocaust" (Jerusalem Post, Dec. 31, 1989), a statement which the Simon Wiesenthal Center called "a gratuitous insult to Jews and victims of Nazism everywhere." During the visit, Tutu remarked "If I'm accused of being antisemitic, tough luck," and in response to questions about his anti-Jewish bias, Tutu replied, "My dentist's name is Dr. Cohen." (Simon Wiesenthal Center's Response magazine, January 1990)

"Zionism Is Racism" Tutu has claimed that Zionism has "very many parallels with racism." (American Jewish Year Book 1988, p.50)

Russian sales of weapons to Saddam despite the embargo is another sign that the UN is as toothless as the League of Nations.

"We got a great advertising gift for our weapons in Iraq," Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov was quoted as saying by the Interfax-AVN news agency on Friday.

The conflict will "generate a surge in interest in anti-aircraft defences and radio-electronic equipment," predicted Alexander Nozdrachev, head of the state-run Russian Agency for Conventional Weapons, quoted by Interfax-AVN.

Russian weapons sales last year totalled 4.5 billion dollars (4.1 billion euros), concentrated mainly on just two countries, China and India, although Russia has expanded sales to other regions.

I believe that the Assyrians live in Northeast Iraq and practice a form of Orthodox Christianity.

With Saddam’s picture everywhere and the feelings of “all seeing, all knowing, all encompassing” they engender in the populace, his regime has replicated Orwell’s 1984.

This is the central conceit of Leftists: they presume to know what others need without asking them.

I am an Assyrian. I was born and raised in Japan where I am the second generation in ministry after my Father came to Japan in answer to General Douglas Macarthur's call for 10,000 young people to help rebuild Japan following the war.

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As an Assyrian I was told the story of our people from a young age. How my grandparents had escaped the great Assyrian Holocaust in 1917 settling finally in Chicago.

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Over and over I questioned them `Why could you want war? Why could any human being desire war?` They're answer was quiet and measured. `Look at our lives!`We are living like animals. No food, no car, no telephone, no job and most of all no hope.`

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… he [Saddam] was everywhere!

All seeing, all knowing, all encompassing.

Once again going back to my Japanese roots I began to understand. The stories I had heard from older Japanese of how in a strange way they had welcomed the sight of the bombers in the skies over Japan.

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It was clear now what I should do. I began to talk to the so called `human shields`. Have you asked the people here what they want? Have you talked to regular people, away from your `minder` and asked them what they want?

I was shocked at the response. `We don't need to do that. We know what they want.` was the usual reply before a minder stepped up to check who I was.

Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages.

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They also confirm claims that a Little Ice Age set in around 1300, during which the world cooled dramatically. Since 1900, the world has begun to warm up again - but has still to reach the balmy temperatures of the Middle Ages.

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• US Prison Population Tops 2 Million

• Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo Says “He’d do it again.”

• Massacre in Congo Claims Nearly 1,000 Lives

• Government Building Kiddie Porn Database to Identify Victims

• Patriotic People in Fayetteville Support Troops

With revolving door prisons the number of criminals who should be in jail should be higher.

Big question: why are so many people in our society turning to crime?

The number of people in U.S. prisons and jails last year topped 2 million for the first time, driven by get-tough sentencing policies that mandate long terms for drug offenders and other criminals, the government reported Sunday.

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One wonders if Malvo was taught that “antisocial behavior is an authentic expression of black culture.”

We still don’t know if Malvo is an American citizen.

Belgian colonialism is long gone, but the Congo remains the heart of darkness.

U.S. building huge child-porn database
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. government may soon be the owner of the world’s largest collection of child pornography. BY DAVID B. CARUSO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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