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Nativity removed to avoid ACLU

World Net Daily (PA)

December 18, 2004

Fearing they would run afoul of the ACLU, county officials in Pennsylvania pulled a Nativity display that had adorned a public park for several weeks.

Nativity display deemed illegal by county officials in Pennyslvania. Beaver County officials said the group that set up the display before Thanksgiving did not get permission, but if they had asked, they would have been rejected because

Nativity display erected on public land by church

WorldNetDaily

December 18, 2004

After months of official wrangling over Christmas decorations by Polk County, Florida, commissioners, 35 members of a local Baptist church decided to resolve the debate by erecting a nativity scene in front of the county administration building in the dea

The "vigilante" action occurred following the recent midweek prayer meeting at the Bartow First Baptist Church. Morning saw a nativity scene, a snowman and a disclaimer notice saying the county commissioners who had voted against the display were not responsible for its sudden appearance.

Drug Policy Alliance: Heroin is Purest in the U.S., Again

Drug Policy

December 17, 2004

As the federal government continues to pour countless billions into the "war on drugs" the Drug Enforcement Administration has a problem.

"You can't buy any better heroin in the world than you can buy in New Jersey," says Michael Pasterchick, special agent in charge of the Newark DEA office.

San Francisco Considers Handgun Ban

Join Together

by Dick Dahl

December 17, 2004

Homicides have been increasing in San Francisco this year. Some city leaders think the answer is a handgun ban.

Five of San Francisco's 11 city supervisors have submitted a proposal, to be offered to city residents for vote in a ballot question next year, which would prohibit the ownership of handguns by everyone except law-enforcement officers, members of the military, or security personnel. It would also prohibit the sale, manufacture, and distribution of handguns.

Bid for handgun ban faces hurdles - S.F. measure's legal, practical obstacles

San Francisco Chronicle

by Suzanne Herel

December 17, 2004

San Francisco supervisors want to make the city the second in the nation to ban the ownership of handguns.

First, legal challenges are being readied by those who see the proposed law -- set to go to voters next fall -- as bucking state law, which says law-abiding citizens do not need permits or licenses to keep handguns in their homes.

Your kids are not your kids

World Net Daily

by Joseph Farah

December 15, 2004

The American Civil Liberties Union has done it again.

The latest outrage, unnoticed by most Americans, came last week in a successful case before the Washington state Supreme Court, when the ACLU persuaded the justices that it is unconstitutional for parents to eavesdrop on their children.

Civil Disobedience And The National ID

News With Views

by Devvy Kidd

December 13, 2004

"Those who are willing to allow the government to establish a Soviet-style internal passport system because they think it will make us safer are terribly mistaken."

The only question remains is how many Americans will stand up and say no' If you want to stop this before it can be implemented, then you must act at once - Bush hasn't signed this bill yet, but he will. Don't send an e-mail, call your member of Congress. They millions of e-mails every year. Forget it. Call them. It's not too late.

A word of caution on the biotechnology ‘miracle’

Daily Times (Pakistan)

by Miguel Loureiro

December 12, 2004

Europe isn't sure. It's recommending trials, more research and caution. Japanese consumer groups sent a petition with more than a million signatures to the Canadian minister of agriculture to ban genetically modified wheat in Canada. Even poorer nations a

The bulk of research and lobbying on biotechnology is being done by a handful of multinationals: Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemicals, Advanta, Bayer AG, BASF, and Singenta (formerly Novartis and AstraZeneca). All these giants were, at one time or another, involved in the creation of some of the most harmful products in our life on Earth: heroin, the atom bomb, napalm, agent orange, and other chemical weapons.

Red tide in Gulf of Mexico puts Florida Keys at risk

The Boston Globe (FL)

by Ann M. Henson

December 12, 2004

Researchers say toxin poses threat to coral reefs, fish

Scientists are tracking a 400-square-mile red tide that is drifting through the Gulf of Mexico and threatening to wash ashore on the Florida Keys.

US Homeland Defence to track Santa Claus

MSN Computer Active (UK)

by Iain Thomson

December 10, 2004

As Santa does his annual Christmas Eve visits to homes around the globe he will be tracked by a billion dollar US defence radar system.

For the past seven years the North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad), based under Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, has been following Santa's sleigh and broadcasting his progress on its website.

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