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Bush hasn't changed, but our perceptions have 2002, Gayle Allen Cox via JWR, by Gayle A. Cox   Original Article Posted By: ptolemy - 1/29/2002 8:54:46 PM    Post Reply AS President Bush prepares for his State of the Union address, I am preparing myself for a night of media elites discussing how much the president has "grown" since setting up house on Pennsylvania Avenue. They have discussed his "growing" spurt countless times since Sept. 11, and I feel certain the subject will surface again during the traditional year-opening televised address tonight.

640,000 citizens and one vote 2002 John Ziegler via JWR, by John Ziegler   Original Article Posted By: ptolemy - 1/29/2002 8:49:33 PM    Post Reply CONGRESSIONAL redistricting, the most partisan of all political endeavors, is finally coming to a controversial climax. It is now more evident than ever that the entire system is in need of radical reconstruction. While feisty battles still loom in New York and Florida, and Utah and North Carolina are locked in an interesting battle over a congressional seat, much of the attention so far has been focused on Pennsylvania.

Captures spark debate Canadian Press, by JOHN WARD   Original Article Posted By: FLgator - 1/29/2002 8:42:29 PM    Post Reply The surprise revelation that Canadian special forces turned over prisoners in Afghanistan to American troops without the knowledge of the government has sparked a fresh storm over Canada's role in the conflict. Some critics questioned why the prisoners were turned over, while others suggested Ottawa doesn't know what's going on with its own troops and doesn't have a plan in place.

Another computer disk, missing for days at Los Alamos lab, found ABC News.com, by Associated Press   Original Article Posted By: Gray Ghost - 1/29/2002 8:40:32 PM    Post Reply WASHINGTON (AP) Authorities at the Los Alamos National Laboratory searched several days for a missing computer disk used by an engineer working in the lab's nuclear materials technology division, lab officials said. It finally was found late Tuesday, being used by another scientist. It had never left the top-secret lab's secure areas, said John Gustafson, a spokesman for the weapons laboratory in New Mexico. The disk contains some classified material, but "does not contain highly sensitive classified data involving weapons design," the laboratory said in a statement issued shortly before the disk was found. Less than a week before the latest incident at Los Alamos, federal authorities officially closed the investigation into the high-profile disappearance almost two years ago of two computer hard drives that contained top-secret nuclear-related material.

Five health clinics on death list LA DAILY NEWS, by Troy Anderson   Original Article Posted By: ClangClang - 1/29/2002 8:33:30 PM    Post Reply Faced with massive deficits, Los Angeles County officials proposed sharp cuts Monday that could lead to virtually dismantling the public health care system for the area's 3.2 million poor and uninsured people unless major new funding is found. The Board of Supervisors will consider today the first phase of the Health Department plan involving closure of five public clinics by May -- including ones in North Hills and Burbank. As the deficit grows from $300 million in the next 18 months to nearly $700 million in 2005, officials offered a series of harsh alternatives that could leave many people with medical treatment only for life-and-death illnesses or injuries.

White House accuses GAO of overstepping its bounds CNN.com, by Kelly Wallace   Original Article Posted By: Gray Ghost - 1/29/2002 8:32:17 PM    Post Reply The White House Tuesday accused Congress' investigative arm, the General Accounting Office, of overstepping its bounds in its request for information surrounding Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. Bracing for a court battle, a senior administration official, when asked about the GAO's threat of a lawsuit, told reporters, "Bring it on."

Priest Charged Over Date-Rape Drug - Thread Closed Washington Post Online, by AP   Original Article Posted By: Fledrmaus - 1/29/2002 8:32:13 PM    Post Reply [Already posted, please search on 'date-rape,' thanks. Closed. Volunteer LComStaff]

Our Readers Respond: The 2002 State of the Union Lucianne.com, by LComStaff and Igor and Oblio, too !   Original Article Posted By: WestCoast Editor-Lucianne.com - 1/29/2002 8:13:19 PM    Post Reply Tell us what you REALLY think !! You be the political pundit. We want your response to President Bush's 2002 State of the Union address.

Dems Lower Election Expectations RushLimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh   Original Article Posted By: FLgator - 1/29/2002 8:07:47 PM    Post Reply When you see the Democrats going nuts over Enron, when you see Henry Waxman so desperate for rumor and innuendo from which he can manufacture a scandal that he puts a tip line on his website, do you realize what this means? Do you realize what it says about how bankrupt the Democratic Party is when it comes to ideas? They must not think they have any ideas they can sell in a campaign.

Buchanan’s Bestseller NY Press, by Scott McConnell   Original Article Posted By: Compjock - 1/29/2002 8:03:36 PM    Post Reply The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization has been in bookstores for about a month. Guaranteed hostility from both conservative and liberal establishments, the work’s prospects hardly seemed propitious. Two of its major themes–a call to resist the anti-Western cultural assaults waged under the banners of diversity and multiculturalism, and pessimism over the prospect of effectively assimilating a large and growing stream of new immigrants–had generated little traction in Buchanan’s last presidential campaign. Why should they now? And yet something in the post-9/11 culture–a new sense of seriousness and vulnerability perhaps–served to create an opening for a conservative argument grounded in something deeper than talk about tax cuts, school vouchers and the right to invest one’s Social Security pension money in the stock market. The work’s ominous title underscores a web of facts long known by political demographers and ethnic activists of various hues, which had not yet resonated in the larger population: without a sharp reversal in the trend toward sinking birth rates, the peoples of the West will approach marginal demographic status in a century or so.

Daschle's State of the Union Response RushLimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh   Original Article Posted By: FLgator - 1/29/2002 8:02:06 PM    Post Reply Our friend El Loco Poco Ricardo, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, will give the Democrat response to President Bush's first State of the Union Address. This has to raise eyebrows, because Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is the #1 Democrat in the country. But since Daschle's call to repeal tax relief, and increase your taxes, fell flat, he's been in hiding.

Britain set to boot out illegals Asia Times Online, by Inter Press Service/Samanta Sen    Original Article Posted By: Liberty7 - 1/29/2002 8:01:17 PM    Post Reply Hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants in Britain - many of them from South Asia - will soon be sent packing under a crackdown being prepared by the country's Home Office. The government plans to start sending back about 2,500 a week almost as soon as the operation is launched early in the year. The proposals have shaken families of migrants from the Indian subcontinent. Hundreds of thousands of South Asians have settled in Britain illegally. "I have no papers here," a restaurant worker said. "But I have two sons age 10 and 12. They were born here, so does that make them illegal as well?" It does, unless at least one of the parents has legal status. Under British law residence will be allowed in such cases only if someone has been living in Britain despite illegal entry for more than 14 years. The number of people who have entered Britain illegally over the past 14 years is itself reported to be in hundreds of thousands.

A Walk in the Valley of Greed LA TIMES, by Robert Scheer   Original Article Posted By: ClangClang - 1/29/2002 7:59:18 PM    Post Reply What would Jesus do? It's a no-brainer; he would leave the Christian Coalition, take a consulting job with Enron and then use his divine power to make George W. Bush president. Read that way, there's nothing sinister in the recent revelation that it was Bush's top political advisor, Karl Rove, who in 1997 hooked up former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed with Enron. After eight years of making Pat Robertson look good, Reed was exhausted and ready for a career change. The private sector is even more lucrative than televangelism, and Enron was just one of many fat consulting contracts that was Reed's for the asking.

Ex-Head Criticizes Safety Panel Associated Press, by JENNIFER LOVEN   Original Article Posted By: FLgator - 1/29/2002 7:50:39 PM    Post Reply Ann Brown is criticizing the Consumer Product Safety Commission she led until three months ago, saying a loophole in federal consumer protection is leading to deaths from products even after they're recalled. Because manufacturers do not have to keep records of who has purchased their products, consumers cannot be notified directly about product recalls the way they can for automobile-related defects. Manufacturers instead must rely on advertising campaigns and media publicity. As a result, dangerous products may be pulled from store shelves, but remain in many homes.

Senator wants dairy subsidy The Saratogian, by JIM KINNEY   Original Article Posted By: FLgator - 1/29/2002 7:41:33 PM    Post Reply A milk subsidy plan floated in the U.S. Senate is getting mixed reviews from local dairy farmers. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat from Brooklyn, is backing the ''Northeast Program'' as a replacement for the now-defunct Northeast Dairy Compact. According to a news release from Schumer, the bill would guarantee farmers a minimum price of $16.94 per 100 pounds of milk -- or $1.46 a gallon.

Gun-toting Utah Seattle Times, by Editorial   Original Article Posted By: CheckSum - 1/29/2002 7:19:53 PM    Post Reply Gun advocates, like other politically passionate groups, sometimes don't know when to quit. Such is the case in Utah. Less than two weeks before the Olympic Games begin, gun advocates are trying to bring guns close to Olympic venues and trying to force guns onto college campuses against the will of colleges and universities. While officials at Utah universities try to maintain a reasonable ban on guns on campuses, state officials are ordering state offices, day cares, parks, hospitals and college campuses to remove bans on guns for people with concealed-weapons permits. Day cares? College classrooms? How absurd.

EU publicly backs Arafat in fresh challenge to Bush Independant News, by Stephen Castle    Original Article Posted By: Topical Ointment - 1/29/2002 7:16:09 PM    Post Reply Europe and the US were at odds over the Middle East last night after the EU issued a statement in defence of Yasser Arafat, and said it may demand compensation from Israel for EU-funded property it has destroyed in Palestine.

Tyson denied license in Nevada Associated Press, by Associated Press   Original Article Posted By: abkh - 1/29/2002 7:14:13 PM    Post Reply LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Mike Tyson was denied a boxing license Tuesday by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. It means Tyson cannot challenge WBC-IBF heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis on April 6 at the MGM Grand, but the action does not kill the fight because Tyson could be licensed by another state or another country. The commission's 4-1 vote came one week after Tyson and Lewis were involved in a melee at a New York news conference to formally announce the fight.

A Small Town's Pride and Joy Turns to Grief Washington Post, by Lynne Duke and Jennifer Frey   Original Article Posted By: Clark Kent - 1/29/2002 7:12:12 PM    Post Reply Inside the modest white house on Terry Avenue, a tightknit and very private family grieves. Faces appear between the curtains at a front window when footfalls on the front walk signal a visitor's unwelcome arrival. A man opens the door, appearing pained and spent. The Baxters of Amityville are taking no visitors, he says. He is polite but firm as he closes the door. They want no publicity. There's been publicity enough.

Priest, two others charged with making date-rape drug Waterloo Courier, by AP   Original Article Posted By: nattering_nabob - 1/29/2002 7:10:37 PM    Post Reply A Roman Catholic priest from Illinois and two Iowa residents of the Quad Cities are charged with making the 'date rape' drug in a Davenport home. Documents filed in U.S. District Court in Davenport name Jeffery Windy, priest of St. Patrick's Church in Sheffield, Ill., and St. Margaret Mary's in Wyanet, Ill.

Study tests the power of prayer Fayetteville Observer, by Greg Barnes   Original Article Posted By: FLgator - 1/29/2002 7:09:51 PM    Post Reply Frank Pacifico sat down Monday with a pile of meat loaf and mashed potatoes, not exactly the kind of meal meant for a heart patient. But Pacifico, who lives in Hope Mills, just can’t give up the fatty foods that probably contributed to his heart problems. At least he may have God on his side.

Order to remove Confederate flags from hospital grounds sparks protest Asheville Citizen-Times, by Tonya Maxwell   Original Article Posted By: FLgator - 1/29/2002 7:04:39 PM    Post Reply About a dozen people who said hospital construction workers have been unfairly barred from wearing Confederate flags gathered Monday afternoon at Mission St. Joseph's Health System to protest the decision. The protest began after a Georgia construction crew working for Charlotte-based Bovis Lend Lease at the hospital was told workers would have to remove Confederate symbols from their clothing and toolboxes, said Kirk Lyons, a protester and Confederate flag supporter with the Southern Legal Resource Center in Black Mountain.

Star-studded crowd at fund-raiser for church New York Post, by Cindy Adams   Original Article Posted By: MHR - 1/29/2002 7:02:19 PM    Post Reply Eminence Archbishop Iakavos, former head of the Greek Orthodox Church for North and South America, could preside. As the 42nd President of the United States of America paid respects to His Eminence, the junior Senator from the State of New York and I discussed her newfound glow: "Can't believe all this good publicity I'm suddenly getting," laughed Hillary. "I'm not used to it. It worries me. I must be doing something wrong. But I probably don't have to think much about it because it probably won't last long."

ACLU Wants "Jesus Is Lord' Signs Taken Down Associated Press, by Doug Simpson   Original Article Posted By: FLgator - 1/29/2002 6:59:34 PM    Post Reply The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday demanding the removal of signs outside a southeastern Louisiana town that proclaim: "Jesus is Lord over Franklinton." ACLU officials said public money was used to put up the signs on state roads, violating the constitutional separation of church and state.

Police portraying protesters as 'terrorists,' sacbee.com, by Tom Hays   
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2002


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