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• Retinal Implant Device Allows Blind to See

• Madonna Thanks France for Its Opposition to Iraq Operation

• Demand for Dog and Cat Fur Products Booming in European Union

• Dennis Miller: Patriotism Gets the Last Laugh

• Italians Testing Device to Use Breath to Detect Lung Cancer

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'Bionic eye' breakthrough can allow the blind to see...

This device uses a retinal implant.

AMERICAN LIFE: Madonna in Paris thanks France for opposition to Iraq war...

This article has been removed from Anova and I haven’t been able to find it elsewhere yet.

BBC: Cats 'farmed for skins in EU'...

Europe is a strange continent; they coddle terrorists and kill pets.

It is thought that tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of cat and dog skins are traded in Europe each year.

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Europe, it seems, is a magnet for cat and dog fur.

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Since the US has banned the trade of cat and dog skins, the European market has expanded.

As Dennis Miller sees it, patriotism gets the last laugh...

Dennis Miller may have the most muscular patriotism on the planet — and he's not afraid to use it.

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"I am portrayed as the big anomaly in the community. But if you can't get behind your country at a time like this, what are you thinking? War in Iraq has only increased my patriotism," Mr. Miller said in an interview yesterday.

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"What happened to the Dixie Chicks is exactly what should have happened. Natalie Maines was overseas and thought she could get away with her remark. That was naive," Mr. Miller said.

Electronic nose 'sniffs out cancer'

A breath-test device which can spot people suffering from lung tumours has been put on trial in Italy.

It has long been suspected that patients with a variety of lung problems give off different chemicals in their breath.

And now scientists at the University of Rome have developed a sensor which, they claim, can detect those chemicals flowing out of a cancerous lung.

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• Exiled Iraqi Poet Expresses Appreciate for Liberation from Saddam

• Inventor of Canned Laughter Dies

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  • Liberal Columnist Realizes Jeane Kirpatrick’s 1984 “Blame America First” Was Right,
    German Video Shows 9/11 Hijackers Celebrating in Hamburg Mosque

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Those who died to liberate our country are heroes in their own lands. For us they will be martyrs and heroes. They have gained an eternal place in our hearts, one that is forever reserved for those who gave their lives in more than three decades of struggle against the Baathist regime.

Canned laughter debuted in the 1950s on the short-lived "Hank McCune Show," a show within a show not unlike HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" (which, incidentally, won critical praise for forgoing canned laughter). Apparently Mr. McCune wasn't getting enough laughs, so the producers spliced in tape of laughter from other live-audience shows. "The Hank McCune Show"--laughs or no laughs--soon faded into oblivion, but the technique lived on, thanks in large part to Charlie Douglass.

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• Feminist Sexism Kept Jesse Jackson from Participating in Augusta National Protest

• Traditionally Left–wing American Library Association Defies Patriot Act

• Leftist Hypocrisy on Kerry’s Military Service

• Hollywood Uses Intimidation to Silence Critics

• Straight Talk on Joseph McCarthy

• Federal Judge Rules Saddam’s Regime Provided Support to Al Qaeda

• France and Russia Aided Saddam Regime Before Operation to Depose It

• University of Georgia Law School Gives Degrees to Legal Ignoramuses

• Arkansas Republican Party Chair Says Lincoln Should Boycott Dixie Chicks

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Decent people would have banned Jackson because he’s an adulterous clergyman and fathered an illegitimate child.

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No. Jackson failed to show because Burk asked him not to. According to the Orlando Sentinel, apparently Burk told Jackson that she wanted only female protest leaders. "We told Jesse we were happy to have his support, but we wanted this to be a woman-led event," said Burk. Sports Illustrated said, "Burk was more worried that the Reverend Jesse Jackson would be there. She wanted to portray the Augusta membership issue as a question of discrimination against women, being fought by a coalition of women's groups. She was concerned that if Jackson turned up, he'd be the story."

This column also points out that the ALA was sympathetic to the Stalinist Old Left.

The American Library Association has signed up for battle in the War on Terrorism; unfortunately, it has signed up to fight the Bush Administration and the USA PATRIOT Act. Siding with civil libertarians against public safety is just the ALA’s most recent leftist act of political defiance. However, this is their most corrosive stance for the well-being of all Americans, undermining and sabotaging public efforts to stave off terrorism..

Since Kerry threw his medals away in a public spectacle he’s being hypocritical to use them to claim he’s a hero.

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Sen. John F. Kerry has been citing his valorous Vietnam record more often than Gen. George Patton cursed. …

Moreover, as long as liberals keep loudly proclaiming that they support "the troops" – while simultaneously running sneering articles that portray the troops as coarse, semiliterate cads – a tax-and-spend Massachusetts Democrat like Kerry could finally provide them with one "troop" they really do like. (Meanwhile

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… According to Thomas Ricks' book "Making the Corps," the vast majority of officers currently serving in the military are conservative Republicans – "largely comfortable with the views of Rush Limbaugh."

For Tim Robbins to imply that his freedom of speech is being undermined – while at the same time, his speech is being broadcast multiple times around the globe is ironic, at best. While Robbins, Mike Farrell and Janeane Garofalo continue to spew their leftist venom at the president and other American patriots on television stations from sea to shining sea, Hollywood has not been as kind to those expressing – let me use their favorite word – dissent. In fact, the high-powered William Morris Agency put this author and her small website through “a chill wind” those political hypochondriacs can only dream of.

But the ultimate falsehood remains the left's insistence on describing McCarthy's investigations as "witch hunts" - the presumption being that witches don't exist.

Yet growing historical evidence underscores that, whatever his rhetorical and investigative excesses - and they were substantial - McCarthy was a lot closer to the truth about Communism than were his foes.

Communists were well-organized, and they did manage to penetrate the highest levels of Washington, planting themselves into positions where they either significantly influenced U.S. policy or passed classified information to the Soviets, or both.

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McCarthy was aided by much of the left's unwillingness to acknowledge the extent of Communist activity, especially espionage - the assumption being that anything a villain like McCarthy said had to be false, and anyone who opposed him was a patriot and a hero.

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The newly released transcripts reflect McCarthy's unwarranted belief that the ends justified his means. His goal, however, was far more on target than his critics even now will admit.

A federal judge Wednesday awarded nearly $104 million in damages to the families of two victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, finding the plaintiffs had provided some evidence that Iraq provided support to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida. Judge Harold Baer outlined the damages against bin Laden, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi government in a written decision in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

In a rational society this would stop the blather about the Operation to Depose Saddam not being part of the War on Terrorism.

As the United States prepared to go to war with Iraq, two of the nations most opposed to that war were France and Russia. Recent discoveries in Iraq now indicate the relations between those two countries and Saddam Hussein’s regime were more extensive than publicly disclosed and were possibly in violation of U.N. sanctions against the Iraqi regime. …

This article mentions that Russia provided the Saddam regime with night sights for rocket propelled grenades and with radios.

A petition objecting to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as the University of Georgia Law School commencement speaker this month claims Thomas is "unworthy" because of his opinion in the court's December 2000 decision that ended the recount of Florida's votes in the last presidential election.

The Florida Supreme Court tried to steal the election for Gore by refusing to uphold Florida law. The U.S. Supreme Court stopped it. People who haven’t figured this out shouldn’t be given law degrees.

‘‘Senator Lincoln does not agree with what the Dixie Chicks said, but does support the right of free speech," Goesl said Tuesday. ‘‘The senator thought it would be hypocritical to cancel the event after the remarks were made."

Arkansas Republican Party chairman Marty Ryall issued a statement Wednesday saying Lincoln should boycott the Dixie Chicks.

Making disloyal statements in a foreign country during wartime is unpatriotic. Lincoln should have cancelled their appearance as soon as Maines made her offensive remark.

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• Blanche Lincoln Will Have Dixie Chicks at Washington Fundraiser

• Peter Townshend Cleared of Kiddie Porn Possession

• Russian Military Rife With Corruption and Graft

• Japanese Defense Chief Urges Strong Stand Against North Korea

• Legislators Refuse to Give Up Their Cost of Living Increase

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• Pat Lynch: Bush Out of Place on USS Lincoln

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Sen. Blanche Lincoln will use a concert by the band Dixie Chicks next month in the nation’s capital as the site of a small fund-raiser for her 2004 re-election campaign.

Both Lincoln’s office and the management of the Dixie Chicks said Wednesday, however, that the two parties do not know each other.

Lincoln’s office also said the fund-raiser was planned on March 6, before Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said she was "ashamed" to be from the same state as President Bush, a remark that touched off a firestorm of criticism.

She should have dropped them after Maines made her unpatriotic remark.

Rock guitarist Pete Townshend, co-founder of The Who, was cleared Wednesday of possessing pornographic images of children but still was placed on a national register of sex offenders.

That registration was part of a formal police caution Townshend received for accessing a Web site containing images of child abuse.

Townshend, 57, was arrested in January on suspicion of making and possessing indecent images of children. The arrest was part of Operation Ore, an FBI-led crackdown on Internet child pornography.

More than 300 officers were convicted last year for beating subordinates and more than 500 defense officials were charged with stealing from the state, Russia’s chief military prosecutor said Tuesday.

Russia’s army has long been plagued by brutal hazing by older soldiers, but beatings by officers were previously rare, said prosecutor Alexander Savenkov’s office.

Painting a picture of corruption as well as epidemic violence in the armed forces, Savenkov said in one case, a rear admiral was convicted for accepting $2 million in bribes in exchange for lobbying the interests of a fish cannery.

Savenkov also confirmed that corruption is widespread among draft officials, saying bribes from $330 to $2,500 have been paid to avoid conscription.

Russia has been corrupt since the days of the Tsars, and Communism didn’t stop it.

The chief of Japan’s Defense Agency called for a tougher approach to North Korea on Wednesday, vowing that his nation would not be "blackmailed" by the communist regime.

The comments by Shigeru Ishiba drew enthusiastic applause from thousands of people at an annual rally in support of Japanese citizens abducted by the North.

"We won’t be threatened by terrorism. We won’t be blackmailed," Ishiba said.

Urging Japan to strengthen its defense, Ishiba has pointed to suspicions of a North Korean nuclear weapons program and its development of longrange missiles.

If Japan thinks that the U.S. won’t protect it from North Korea it might re-militarize. This could include the development of nuclear weapons.

A day after voting for a tax increase, the Arkansas House of Representatives rejected an attempt Wednesday to strip lawmakers of the annual cost-of-living salary increases they voted themselves.

Rep. Shirley Walters, RGreenwood, wanted the House to amend Senate Bill 28, which authorizes cost-of-living raises for nonelected state employees, to add a provision pertaining to elected officials’ raises.

Her proposal would have removed from Act 3 of 2003 a 2.3 percent annual raise for lawmakers, set to take effect July 1. Act 3 was enacted in this year’s regular legislative session.

They expect the taxpayers to sacrifice, but they won’t do it themselves.

With more famous witnesses such as the late novelist Howard Fast, a member of the American Communist Party, the sessions became a sparring game. When McCarthy asked Fast whether he had a reputation as a communist writer, Fast replied, "I think you would be more suited to answer that question than I would, don’t you?"

Fast received a Lenin prize from the Soviet Union.

The stalinist Old Left were enemies of the United States and its people as well as the state. The Soviet archives have shown that the Communist Party recruited Americans to spy for the Soviets.

But world politics doesn’t represent some fairy-tale narrative in which good deeds are repaid in the coin of the affection and bad deeds in the coin of hostility and resentment.

Not since Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis posed for an ill-conceived photo opportunity atop a tank has a politician looked so totally out of place and downright comical as did George W. Bush on his taxpayer-subsidized joyride on to the rocking deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.

Bush out of place in a flight suit? Not bloody likely. Bush flew jet interceptors when he served in the Texas National Guard. Of course, Lynch believes that Bill Clinton, a person who demonstrated for the enemy in wartime, is “patriotic.”

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