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• Study Shows New Yorkers Live Longer

• California Berkeley Considers Ban on Faculty Dating Student After Dean Caught

• Drought in Kenya Leads to Struggle Over Water Between People and Baboons

• Monica Lewinsky’s Dating Show Comes in 5th in Ratings

• Senator Rick Santorum’s Remarks Anger Gay-rights Groups

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New Yorkers Live Longer, Study Shows...

Since many New Yorkers retire to states with lower or no income tax, this study may be biased.

McCool, Grant. “New Yorkers Live Longer, Study Shows.” The Washington Post (Reuters). April 22, 2003.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers, whose city is known for its fast-paced lifestyle, live longer than other Americans but four out of 10 die of heart disease, according to a new city health survey.

Fewer deaths in 2001 caused by murder and HIV/AIDS and fewer deaths among infants have helped boost life expectancy in the Big Apple to its highest rate on record, according to the study published on Monday.

University of California Considers Professor-Student Dating Ban...

Dating students was already against traditional academic rules.

Faculty are scheduled to vote on new rules this spring, completing a process that began well before the dean of UC's top law school left amid a sex scandal last fall.

The policy would make UC the latest school to ban the classroom courtships, joining such schools as the University of Michigan, the University of Iowa and Yale.

Thirsty baboons attack girls in Kenya for water...

A violent struggle over scarce water resulting from the current drought has erupted between thirsty baboons and residents of Isiolo District.

A young girl was left bleeding profusely after she was attacked by thirsty baboons at Sericho Division last Friday.

LEWINSKY'S 'MASKED' DATING GAME PLACES FIFTH FOR NIGHT...

Gay Rights Groups Outraged Over Sen. Santorum's Remarks...

Homosexuality usually means promiscuity and frequently unsafe sexual practices.

Gay-rights groups, fuming over Sen. Rick Santorum's comparison of homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery, urged Republican leaders Monday to consider removing the Pennsylvania lawmaker from the GOP Senate leadership.

A coalition of groups in Washington and Pennsylvania compared Santorum's remarks to those by those last December by former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott about Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist campaign for the presidency. Shortly afterward, Lott was forced to resign as Republican Senate leader.

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• Wall Street Journal Hypocritically Defends Leon Holmes

• The Diversity Industry’s Assault on American Textbooks

• ‘Protocols of the Elders of Neocons’

• Internet Spoofers Send Anti-Semitic Messages

• That’s News: Man Bites Dog

• PETA Demands Hamburg, NY Change Name to “Veggieburg”

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James Leon Holmes is the latest judicial nominee they've targeted. Before adjourning for Easter recess these Democrats demonized Mr. Holmes, persuading committee Republicans to put his nomination for a district court in Arkansas on hold until after the break. Then on Good Friday, New York's Sen. Chuck Schumer took to the airwaves on NPR to further attack Mr. Holmes.

… Elie Wiesel's declaration that "Man, who was created in God's image, wants to be free as God is free" had been reduced to the lifeless slogan: "Man wants to be free."

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• Horowitz Redefines New Left as “Neo-Communism”

• Kuwaiti Paper Criticizes Syria

• Excerpt from Tammy Bruce’s The Death of Right and Wrong

• Native American Activism and Communism

• End of Cold War Has Allowed International Fascists to Emerge in Europe

• Humor: CNN Employment Test

• State Department Official’s Testimony on Crimes of Castro Regime

• Palestinian Authority Claims Clinton Signed Amnesty for Abu Abbas

• US to Open Saddam’s Palaces to Iraqi Public

• “Pro-American” Textbooks to Replace Saddam’s Rubbish in Iraqi Schools

• French Minister Insists Muslim Women Remove Veils for Picture IDs

• French Concede That American Boycott Is Hurting Them

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Wars are a test of citizens’ loyalty, commitment and political understanding; in providing this test the end of a war can be as illuminating as its beginning. It was a striking fact of the “anti-war” demonstrations against Operation Iraqi Freedom that the left was able to mobilize more protesters in three months – from the UN deadline of November 7 to the launch of the war in March – than the new left was able to mobilize in the first six years of the war in Vietnam. (The first of these anti-Vietnam demonstrations, which I helped to organize, took place in June 1962 at the University of California, Berkeley with less than a hundred students.) The same was true of the world wide protests against the war to topple the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

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In other words, for forty years, the co-author of UCLA’s anti-Iraq resolution has remained a small “c” communist, or -- as I prefer -- a “Neo-communist,” by which I mean a political radical and a determined opponent of America and its capitalist democracy. The UCLA resolution is an expression of those commitments rather than a reaction to a particular policy or war.

This article summarizes editorials written by Ahmad Al-Jarallah of the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyasa. These sensible remarks are a refreshing change from the usual rhetoric emanating from the Middle East.

"The Syrian regime is built in the image of the collapsing Saddam regime. It is no different from it at all. The morality and behavior of its members differ not a whit from the morality and behavior of the Saddam regime. The regime has a monopoly on the government and on the resources; the men of the regime and their cronies spread corruption and humiliate and torture the people. We see them in the gambling clubs squandering millions. One spent $8 million at the green tables."

I tell you this not as an excuse for my past actions but as a further illustration of what I’ve been discussing throughout this book--the way malignant narcissism is spread. …

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The conditioning of the Left Elite works so well partly because the people attracted to that camp are looking for family, they are looking to belong; consequently people like that--people like me--are easy pickings. My emptiness compelled me to cheer when a decent man who followed his principles was struck down by an unforgiving assailant. Alzheimer’s had done what many feminist leaders fantasized about doing themselves, if only they could get away with it.

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While I don’t hold out any hope for the damaged Left Elite I’ve exposed for you in this book, I know that we as individuals can overcome and reject what the Left demands of us--the abandonment of right and wrong, the banishment of decency and integrity, the rejection of what the Reagans, both of them, represent.

Communism redefines words. Envy now means justice. “Justice” means I have a right to have what’s yours. “Equality” means I deserve whatever you have. “Democracy” means the state makes sure I have what you have. Laws must prevent distinguished achievement, first in education, then in business.

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Communists appear like apostolic Christians, who believed in sharing everything. No one should have personal property (Acts 4:32).

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Feminism envies the strength of the male, and seeks to deny it. The male represents an inequality which Communism cannot tolerate. Feminists hate American Indian warrior images, and want them all removed. This is also why Xena: Warrior Princess was such a hit with women. She could defeat men.

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Communism is a moral imperative without morality. Communism is like Christianity without Christ, a quick-fix morality, requiring no personal standards, but offering the high social status of reforming others—through coercion.

Bennett doesn’t discuss the similarities of the socialisms of nationalism, which are commonly know as “fascism,” and Communism. There is a good discussion of this in Richard Pipes’ Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime.

The term "fascist" has become one of the most overused terms of political abuse throughout the world. Judging from usage, its current meaning is something like "one who does not agree with me."

More specifically, it means "someone not nice." For those striving for laser-like semantic precision, a fascist must have something to do with nationalism, war and theories of racial superiority.

Outstanding humor!

Testimony before the House International Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., given on April 16, 2003.

PA Local Authorities Minister Saeb Erekat said the arrest of Abul Abbas, head of the Palestine Liberation Front, violates the 1995 accord with Israel that granted amnesty for all Palestinian insurgents. Erekat said the agreement was also signed by then-President Bill Clinton.

Sounds like our Slick.

U.S. civilian administrators plan to open dictator Saddam Hussein's palaces to the Iraqi public to lend an idea of the free society they hope to build.

What do you get when you add three rocket-propelled grenades plus four Kalashnikov rifles? According to one primary-school textbook used in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the mathematical answer is simple: "Seven ways to kill the infidel enemy."

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Sources close to the State Department and Voice of America emphasize the need for balance in coverage and close attention to the sensibilities of other Arab states in the region. But for many conservatives, including top advisers to the Pentagon, the need is to more aggressively tell the American story around the world. They protested the resignation of the director of Voice of America, Robert Reilly, who fell out with the BBG governing board after pushing what some said was a too "ideological" line. Reilly is now directing the Pentagon's broadcast efforts in Iraq.

Textbooks that tell the truth about America shouldn’t be called “pro-American.”

Sarkozy made the remark on Saturday at the annual congress of the hardline Union of Islamic Organisations in France (UOIF). His words were drowned out when he said Muslims must obey the law, even if that meant baring their heads.

''The law states that the holder of a national identity card must be bare-headed in their photograph, whether they are male or female,'' Sarkozy told the 7,000-strong audience.

''This is respected by Catholic nuns, and there is no justification for Muslim women not to respect it,'' he said.

French commentators were alarmed earlier this month when the UOIF, styled on the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, won a third of votes for a national Muslim council.

At least the French have stopped lying about one thing: They finally admit that the American boycott is hitting them where it counts.

"The nation's principal business federation took the unusual step of publicly acknowledging the problem, conceding today that sales, recruitment and business contacts have been hurt," the Washington Post reported today.

Previously the Frogs kept claiming that the boycott led by NewsMax.com and other organizations was not affecting them. Now they're so worried that their Federation of Wine Exporters has called a meeting Thursday to fret over what to do.

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• North Korean Ship Carrying 50 Kilograms of Heroin Stopped in Australia

• Bush Stem Cell Research Restrictions Hinders Advances in Medicine

• Presbyterian Minister Violated Church Law in Same Sex “Marriage”

• Dewitt, NY Man Kept Women as Sex Slaves

• Opposition Group to Cease Attacks on Iran from Iraq

• High Cost of Mental Health Care Forces Parents to Forego Custody

• LR Man Charged With Murder After Shooting Fleeing Car Burglar

• Fort Smith Commemorates Louisiana Purchase

• Man Who Grew Up in Germany Recalls American Capture of Bonn

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The captain and crew of a North Korean cargo ship were charged Monday with aiding and abetting a large heroin shipment in a case that could highlight illicit efforts by President Kim Jong Il’s regime to prop up the communist state’s moribund economy.

Unfortunately, this report doesn’t say if the North Korean government was involved.

A series of important advances has boosted the potential of human embryonic stem cells to treat heart disease, spinal cord injuries and other ailments, but researchers say they are unable to take advantage of the new techniques under an administration policy that requires federally supported scientists to use older colonies of stem cells.

People may suffer or die due to Bush’s pandering to the pro-control types.

A court of Presbyterian Church (USA) officials convicted a minister Monday of violating church law for "marrying" same-sex couples.

In the church’s first trial on the practice, the court rebuked the Rev. Stephen Van Kuiken but refrained from suspending him or removing him from ministry. It also acquitted Van Kuiken on another charge accusing him of ordaining gays who won’t adhere to a Presbyterian requirement of chastity.

There, police say, 67-year-old John Jamelske, a widower and retired handyman with two sons, systematically imprisoned and raped at least four young women in a two-room dungeon, beginning in the late 1980s, before releasing them. …

An Iranian opposition group that has conducted attacks from its bases in Iraq has agreed to a cease-fire and has begun moving its vehicles into U.S.-controlled areas, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday.

The move by the Mujahedeen Khalq came after the U.S. military bombed the militia’s bases and worked to negotiate the surrender of its members, who have been fighting the Tehran government from Iraq for 17 years.

This isn’t likely to mollify the Ayatollahs.

Thousands of parents across the country placed their children in the child welfare or juvenile justice system in 2001 to get them access to mental-health care, the U.S. General Accounting Office reported Monday.

Though statistics weren’t available on how many parents actually relinquished custody to get mental-health services, some parents of the 12,700 children felt desperate enough to do so, researchers said.

Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley said state law allows people to use deadly force to protect themselves, but not if they safely can retreat from danger.

This is a concept from British law. Oliver Wendell Holmes said in a Supreme Court decision that fleeing in the face of danger was cowardly and that Americans could stand their ground. Apparently subsequent law has reversed this philosophy.

A panel discussion by American Indian tribal leaders, an exhibit of Indian portraits and a performance by a Thomas Jefferson impersonator will highlight Fort Smith’s observance of the Louisiana Purchase bicentennial.

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More information about the Louisiana Purchase bicentennial and observance activities can be found on the Internet Web site www.lapurchase.org.

• “Playing the world leader.”
  Errol M. Bonner of Bryant writes to repudiate critics of the war, saying “the U.S. is finally acting decisively and playing the part of a true world leader.”

• “Losses less than D-Day.”
  J. F. Coleman of McCaskill writes to praise the victory over Saddam and deride the “anti-war” types.

• “Maintain tax level as is.”
  Jamie Stewart of Little Rock writes to oppose tax increases and redistribution of wealth through taxation.

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