In Praise Of Florida's New Deadly Force LawIn my home state of Florida, a new law just took effect which strengthens the right of citizens to use deadly force in protecting themselves. The new law has been nicknamed the "stand your ground" statute, because it changes the state requirement that a person try to avoid or escape an assailant before using deadly force.
As one can imagine, liberals throughout the State of Florida are screaming their opposition to the new law. Last May, the Southern Christian Leadership Conferenc... (more)
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Many smokers angry over push to ban drivers from lighting upTRENTON, N.J. - Ashtrays have been disappearing in cars like fins on Cadillacs, and so could smoking while driving in New Jersey, under a measure introduced in the Legislature.
Although the measure faces long odds, it still has smokers incensed and arguing it’s a Big Brother intrusion that threatens to take away one of the few places they can enjoy their habit.
“The day a politician wants to tell me I can’t smoke in my car, that’s the day he ... (more)
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Governors shun Bush military plan: Survey finds most believe disaster relief is local jobA majority of the nation's governors say they're not on board with President Bush's suggestion the active-duty military take the lead role in providing disaster relief, a new poll says.
According to a USA Today survey, just two of 38 governors who responded to the newspaper's query said they backed the president's plan: Republican Govs. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts.
About half of those who responded said they were either opposed or held... (more)
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Jail release for tax rebel vicarA retired vicar, jailed last month for refusing to pay a council tax increase, has been released.
Alfred Ridley, 71, from Towcester, Northants, has served all his 28-day sentence in the high security Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes.
Mr Ridley was jailed for ignoring a court order that he repay £691 in arrears to his local authority.
South Northants Council now says he will not be liable for the money.
His jailing came before anot... (more)
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Democratic Senate Leader Reid Told Cheney To Pick MiersDemocratic Senate Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) urged President Bush to pick White House counsel Harriet Miers as his nominee to the Supreme Court, RAW STORY can confirm.
In a conference call held with liberal bloggers last week, Reid declared that he had told Vice President Dick Cheney and White House Chief of Staff Andy Card that Miers was a good choice for the Court.
"I said, 'I think that rather than looking at the people your lawyer’s recommending, pick her," ... (more)
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Miers' record begins to fill in: Bush pick supported International Criminal Court, homosexual adoptions, women in combat, tax hikeWASHINGTON – Harriet Miers, President Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, is on record as supporting the establishment of the International Criminal Court, homosexual adoptions, a major local tax increase and women in combat, WorldNetDaily has learned.
While some conservative leaders and organizations were stunned by the appointment, most were not alarmed by the lack of a paper trail by the nominee who has never served as a judge at any l... (more)
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Oklahoma bomber had jihad materialAn Oklahoma University student who killed himself by detonating a bomb strapped to his body outside a packed stadium over the weekend was a "suicide bomber" in possession of "Islamic jihad" materials, according to a new report.
Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, an engineering major at the school blew himself up outside OU's football stadium during Saturday night's game against Kansas State. Doug Hagmann, a seasoned investigator, told WND he was informed by multiple reliable law-enforce... (more)
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U.S. Calls on Russia to Freeze Nuclear Cooperation with IranThe United States, in a message aimed at Russia, called on governments involved in nuclear projects in Iran to immediately freeze those projects, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Stephen Rademaker, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for arms control, said nations should tighten their policies following last month’s finding by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran should be reported to the UN Security Council because it failed to convince the international community th... (more)
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Mysterious red lights appear over SouthlandThey're baaack!
Those peculiar pulsing red lights reappeared over Southland skies early Saturday morning, causing many a neck to crane upward and many a police switchboard to light up with calls.
A trio of steady red lights seemed to swim across the western night sky starting about 11 p.m. Friday night and reappearing after midnight. The three dots at times formed a triangular shape, but they then seemed to straighten into a line, much like sightings in the same are... (more)
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Secret paper links Thatcher to freebies probeA DOCUMENT linking Margaret Thatcher to a US corruption probe is so explosive civil servants have been asked to ensure it remains "sealed".
The 79-year-old former Premier is said to have met Congressman Tom DeLay in Britain while he was on a suspected favours-for-freebies scam.
In return for his free holiday, DeLay - who resigned as Republican leader of Congress last week after being accused of laundering political funds - allegedly backed legislation favourable to ... (more)
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Pill-sized camera gets to grips with your gutIT SOUNDS like the stuff of nightmares - a robot that crawls around inside your gut, anchoring itself by biting onto the walls of your intestine.
But the researchers behind a new take on the camera-in-a-pill claim its ability to move and stop on command will give doctors greater control over the images it takes, allowing them to focus on particular areas of concern.
Existing camera capsules designed to take images of the intestine cannot be controlled externally, so... (more)
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Miers supported full civil rights for gays and lesbians and backed AIDS education programs for the city of Dallas What kind of Supreme Court justice would Harriet Miers be? For anyone trying to assess her qualifications, analyze her philosophy and predict her behavior, Miers would seem to present a fairly blank slate. She has no judicial resume and hasn't left a long trail of noteworthy memos, briefs, oral argument transcripts or law journal articles.
Gay Rights
An indication of her stance on gay rights comes from this questionaire from the Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition of D... (more)
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Schemes to Control the Weather Clouded by FailureScientists agree they can't totally control the weather. But some experts think they can tame it a bit.
Schemes are wide-ranging, with proposals to throttle everything from fog to global warming. Results have been mixed and the controversy constant.
Nature's most powerful storms, hurricanes, are another matter. Hurricanes rely on warm water for fuel. Experts disavow schemes from ocean plowing (to cool the water and remove the energy source) to dragging icebergs into... (more)
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Army to Lower Bar for RecruitsWASHINGTON — Facing recruiting shortages brought on by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has decided to accept a greater number of recruits who score near the bottom of military aptitude tests, the secretary of the Army said Monday.
Coming off a recruiting year in which the Army fell short of its goal of 80,000 active-duty soldiers, Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey announced that the Army would allow up to 4% of its recruiting class to be Category IV recruits &... (more)
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Nobel for scientist who poisoned himself to prove his ulcer theoryThe discovery that bacteria rather than stress cause stomach ulcers and that antibiotics can cure the condition has won this year's Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
Two Australian scientists who isolated the microbe responsible for peptic ulcers and were the first to show the condition is infectious were yesterday jointly awarded the £1m prize.
In 1982, Robin Warren, a pathologist at the Royal Perth Hospital, was the first to show that patients with chro... (more)
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Jails watchdog bans St George pins: English national flag could be 'misinterpreted' as a racist symbolPrison officers who wore a St George's Cross tie-pin have been ticked off by the jails watchdog.
The English national flag could be "misinterpreted" as a racist symbol, Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers said in a report on Wakefield prison.
The pins had been bought by officers at the top security jail to support a cancer charity.
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A section on race relations in Ms Owers' report said: "We were concerned ... (more)
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Man sues over false sex label: A York resident says his neighbor and an online registry wrongly identified him as a sexual offender.YORK -- A York County man is suing his neighbor and a Florida company for $2.35 million, claiming their actions were slanderous, leading people to improperly label him a sex offender.
The complaint, filed recently in Portsmouth Circuit Court, states that neither the plaintiff, Darren K. Matthews, nor his 12-year-old nephew, who lives with him, was ever charged with a sex offense.
Nevertheless, Matthews' address was falsely identified as the home of a sex offender by... (more)
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China's Web Watchers: The Internet was supposed to be immune to censorship, but Beijing has found ways to stifle online dissent Nothing in Zheng Yichun's upbringing foreshadowed his landing in a political prison. His English-speaking father interrogated captured American G.I.s during the Korean War, and as a teenager two decades later, Zheng led his middle school's Communist Youth League. Only when the reform era hit China in the 1980s did the aspiring poet have what his family calls an "awakening." China's leaders were corrupt and tyrannical, he said, and he would fight them with words. Yet despite the provocative titl... (more)
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Four more infected by mysterious respiratory virus in TorontoOTTAWA, Oct. 2(Xinhuanet) -- Four more people were infected by the mysterious respiratory virus that has killed four in Toronto since outbreak, making the number of the patients up to 77, local reports said Sunday.
Despite the encouraging recoveries so far of some patients, there has been a slight increase in the number of the sickened, Dr. David McKeown, Toronto's Medical Officer of Health, told Canadian TV (CTV) in Toronto.
The rise of patients is not alar... (more)
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The idiot box: Watching TV may damage children's brain developmentWatching TV may damage children's brain development, leading to increased anti-social behaviour, new research claims.
There is also a correlation between the amount of TV children watch and the degree of educational damage they suffer, according to the report by Aric Sigman, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.
And significant long-term damage occurs even at so-called modest levels of viewing - between one and two hours a day - the report, Remot... (more)
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Will Israel Start World War Three?: And finish the set-up the US started by radicalizing and arming Iran in the first placePaul Joseph Watson/Alex Jones | October 2 2005
Israeli rhetoric towards Iran has considerably heated in the last few weeks as the world hurtles towards an inevitable confrontation over Iran's nuclear programs.
Last week three senior Israeli lawmakers went public to warn that Israel would act unilaterally to eliminate any perceived Iranian threat. Yosef Lapid, head of the centrist... (more)
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Foreknowledge of the Bali Terror Bombings?Queensland's Premier Peter Beattie couldn't resist a joke. He leaned towards the microphone and said:
"We might announce a coup. Men and women of Australia...". (Canberra Summit Press Conference, 27 September 2005).
The October 1st Bali bombing occurred a few days after a special meeting of The Council of Australian Governments in Canberra, during which the State premiers agreed to the adoption of far-reaching antiterrorist measures. The day following the Canberra S... (more)
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Big Brother: Should it be in your car?: Feds say 'black boxes' could make cars safer, but more states pass laws to protect drivers' privacy.WASHINGTON -- A growing number of states are grappling with a new privacy dilemma: what to do about cars that can spy on their owners.
At least two-thirds of new vehicles, including those built by General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., come equipped with event data recorders -- "black boxes" that can tell tales even after a car has been totaled.
The recorders track speed, engine revolutions per minute, braking and seat belt usage and other data in the moments befo... (more)
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Poll: Privacy Rights Under AttackCBS) This CBS News/New York Times Poll shows widespread concern about what has become a common business practice -- collecting personal information about individuals. Most Americans condemn the practice, and two thirds think the federal government should be doing more to regulate it. Many Americans are concerned about their own identities being stolen.
Most Americans believe that the right to privacy in general in this country has been compromised. 52% think the right to privacy i... (more)
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