October 2, 2005
In Egyptian desert, cells of earliest monks
(be sure to click on “next page to view entire article, it’s long)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/journal.php
Endangered Species Act updated
September 30, 2005 The House yesterday passed Republican-backed legislation overhauling the Endangered Species Act that includes a provision requiring the government to compensate landowners whose property is confiscated to protect animals. ... said House Resources Committee Chairman Richard W. Pombo, California Republican, "If you take away someone's private property — if you take away the use of it — you have to pay them for it." The vote was 229-193, with 36 Democrats and 193 Republicans in favor, and 158 Democrats, 34 Republicans and one independent opposed. ...Supporters of the bill said the 1973 act actually has hurt the environment because the presence of an endangered species on private property brings about heavy and even prohibitive restrictions on land use, thus discouraging landowners from reporting a species' existence...Rep. Joe Baca, California Democrat, said a hospital in his district had to pay $3 million to move their building several hundred feet to protect an endangered fly. "That's ridiculous," he said.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050929-114657-3000r.htm
Texan shoots robber in garage
October 1, 2005 Texan Danny Dunn fought burglar (KRIS-TV, Corpus Christi, Texas)
Stabbed by a burglar in his own garage, a Texas homeowner fought back, shooting the suspect three times.
Police arrested a suspect, 22-year-old Daniel Holcomb, at a nearby hospital where he was being treated for gunshot wounds to his arm, leg and pelvis.
Dunn, in his garage heading to work, said he saw the burglar rummaging through his belongings and shouted at him. That's when the burglar attacked. "He came at me with a knife, he cut me on the hand, and on the face, I took 49 stitches total," Dunn told the TV station.
The homeowner said the burglar then tried to escape the same way he entered, by crawling underneath the cracked-open garage door, but he couldn't get out. A frightened Dunn then raced inside and grabbed his .22 caliber rifle. "He had pushed the garage door opener and it went down, trapping him; he come at me again, and I shot him. ... I shot him three times," Dunn said.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46606
Study Sees Minimal Economic Impact from Katrina, Rita
29 September 2005 A private business forecast released Wednesday says recent hurricanes on the Gulf Coast will have a minimal impact on the U.S. economy. The quarterly forecast by the University of California, Los Angeles, says a downturn in the U.S. housing market is more of a worry....The forecast by the UCLA Anderson School of Business says Hurricane Katrina will reduce the U.S. gross domestic product by half of one percent. The report says spending for rebuilding should boost next year's GDP by almost as much, however.http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-09-29-voa3.cfm
Hurricanes' Economic Hit Less Severe
Sept. 30, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The economic fallout from the twin hurricanes that hit Gulf Coast may be less severe than first estimated, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday. ...In fact, economic growth "could even be somewhat higher than was projected before the hurricanes," said Holtz-Eakin, head of the nonpartisan agency that provides economic and budget data to Congress. ..."By early next year, the pace of reconstruction will probably cause the net effect of the hurricanes on jobs nationwide to be minimal," according to the CBO report... http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/29/201917.shtm
Nagin's Cops Trained by Farrakhan Deputy
Sept. 29, 2005 ...In June, the Bayou Buzz reported that Nagin's police department hired [Nation of Islam (NOI) leader] Farrakhan deputy Dennis Muhammad to conduct "sensitivity training" sessions for New Orleans' cops after a rise in "anti-police" sentiment in the city...The Muhammed appointment immediately sparked controversy, with New Orleans Police Association spokesman David Benelli telling the Bayou Buzz that his phone had "been ringing off the hook" with complaints from the rank and file.
...It was during that meeting, Farrakhan told a Memphis audience, that "Mayor Nagin told us there was a 25-foot crater under the levee... He didn't say there was a bomb...He just said there was a crater...I say they blew it [up]" Farrakhan added. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/29/183207.shtml
Ronnie Earle Cleared DeLay Two Weeks Ago
Sept. 29, 2005 Travis County prosecutor Ronnie Earle's announcement yesterday that he was indicting House Majority Leader Tom DeLay came a little more than two weeks after Earle gave clear indications that the top Republican was off the hook. "I have never said that DeLay is a target of the investigation," Earle told the Dallas Morning News on Sept. 10.
Sources familiar with Earle's investigation had agreed that, before yesterday, it didn't look like the top Republican would be indicted...."Earle doesn't plan to refer evidence to the prosecutor in DeLay's home district either," an Earle spokesman told Newsweek.
So what changed? DeLay says reports that he was off the hook prompted a firestorm of outrage from national Democrats, who pressured Earle to reverse course.
"Do you really believe that the national Democrat leaders that announced that they were going to take this strategy ... never picked up the phone and talked to Ronnie Earle?" he asked the Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" Wednesday night. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/29/114916.shtml
As neal Boortz said, imagine the furor if Ken Starr had let a film crew follow him around...
The DeLay prosecutor has let a film crew follow him through the whole case.
For the last two years, as he pursued the investigation that led to Wednesday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Travis County, Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle has given a film crew "extraordinary access" to make a motion picture about his work on the case.
The resulting film is called The Big Buy, made by Texas filmmakers Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck. "Raymond Chandler meets Willie Nelson on the corner of Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in The Big Buy, a Texas noir political detective story that chronicles what some are calling a 'bloodless coup with corporate cash,'" reads a description of the picture on Birnbaum's website, according to the description, "follows maverick Austin DA Ronnie Earle's investigation into what really happened when corporate money joined forces with relentless political ambitions to help swing the pivotal 2002 Texas elections, cementing Republican control from Austin to Washington DC."
"We approached him [Earle], and he offered us extraordinary access to him and, to an extent, to his staff," Birnbaum told National Review Online Thursday. "We've been shooting for about two years."
...So far, The Big Buy has received almost no attention in the press. With DeLay's indictment, and increased attention to Earle as well, that situation seems likely to change. (The filmmakers say they will be back at work next week, filming a new ending to the picture.) "We're pretty low on everybody's radar," Schermbeck says. "We kind of took a gamble three years ago. We didn't know what was going to happen. We feel like, as documentary filmmakers, we gambled and it paid off."
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200509291814.asp
Internet users say debate over control misses point
SEPTEMBER 30, 2005 GENEVA Talks on regulating the digital traffic of the 21st century ended without agreement on Friday, but the United States won some backing for its refusal to cede its sole control to an international body from groups representing ordinary Internet users.
Many Web surfers may not like the effective control the United States has over the Internet through its supervision of the Internet addressing system. But few of the user groups at the talks support involving the United Nations, which they say could lead to the politicization of the Internet….The European Union late Wednesday joined calls from other nations for giving supervisory power to an intergovernmental body, but the idea was rejected by Washington as leading to unnecessary bureaucratization. The uncompromising U.S. stance has led to a deadlock in the talks, called the World Summit on the Information Society, which started in 2003 and are set to conclude in Tunisia next month…Groups representing Web surfers at the talks complained that the dispute between the United States and the rest of the world over administration is overshadowing more important issues, such as cleaning up spam from e-mail systems and combating cyber crime and identity theft, areas where they say governments should play a more active role.
Although the EU and developing countries like Brazil and South Africa have been irritated by the U.S. government's pre-eminent position, in reality Washington has not been that involved in regulating the global network, St. Amour and other experts say…"The U.S. government has actually had a very light hand over the years," said St. Amour.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/30/business/net.php
It's interesting about the furor over what Bennett said, but just weeks ago you had democrats suggesting that President Bush set things up in N.O. so that blacks would die, or that his response was slow because he wanted blacks to die. Even demo politicians said that. Also Farrakhan's statement that the government actually blew up the levees to kill blacks... Congressman Rangel likened President Bush to Bull Connor. Not much outrage in the press over those ridiculous statements.
…Neither Kennedy nor Dean nor Reid has ever condemned Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, who rose to the rank of Grand Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan based on his ability to recruit new members… In an autobiography released earlier this year, Byrd said the Klan was a "fraternal group" made up of "upstanding' people" - a characterization which drew no protest from Reid, Kennedy and Dean.http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/30/01112.shtml
What Bill Bennett actually said, in context
The following is a transcript of the conversation that included the aforementioned remarks, which were made on Wednesday's broadcast of Bennett's show:CALLER: I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social Security, and I was curious, and I've read articles in recent months here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media just doesn't - never touches this at all.BENNETT: Assuming they're all productive citizens?CALLER: Assuming that they are. Even if only a portion of them were, it would be an enormous amount of revenue.BENNETT: Maybe, maybe, but we don't know what the costs would be, too. I think as - abortion disproportionately occur among single women? No.CALLER: I don't know the exact statistics, but quite a bit are, yeah.BENNETT: All right, well, I mean, I just don't know. I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know. I mean, it cuts both - you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well -CALLER: Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate.BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either, I don't think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don't know. But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200509\CUL20050929a.html
Bennett interview
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170880,00.html
DeLay’s Prosecutor Offered “Dollars for Dismissals”
September 29, 2005 EDITOR'S NOTE: Travis County, Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle, the man behind Wednesday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on state campaign-finance charges, has also indicted several corporations in the probe. But last June, National Review's Byron York learned that Earle offered some of those companies deals in which the charges would be dismissed — if the corporations came up with big donations to one of Earle's favorite causes. Here is that report, from June 20, 2005… see http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200509290811.asp
Harry Reid Tied to Chinagate Figure
Oct. 2, 2005 Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid accepted donations from key Clinton Chinagate fundraiser John Huang - and later pushed for Senate confirmation of the judge who let Huang off with a slap on the wrist...
But Reid's relationship with the controversial Chinagate figure doesn't end there.
In June 1999, Huang's case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Richard Paez, who had six months earlier been nominated to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals by President Clinton.
Critics says the assignment presented a massive conflict of interest for Judge Paez, a concern fueled by the sentence he meted out to the Clinton donor in Aug. 1999.
Sen. Reid's former donor received a mere $10,000 fine, 500 hours of community service and one year probation.
When Paez's 9th Circuit nomination came up for Senate confirmation, Republicans cried foul.
Sen. Jeff Sessions complained that Paez had violated Justice Department sentencing guidelines that required Huang to serve jail time, calling the plea bargain "a dangerous agreement" and "a debasement of justice."
But Sen. Reid went to bat for Huang's judge, after being asked to reach out to other Mormon Senators by Mrs. Paez, a fellow Mormon.
"That's what I did," Reid told the New York Times.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/2/110627.shtml
FEC: Nancy Pelosi's PACs Broke the Law
Two political action committees linked to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have been charged with attempting to circumvent to legal limits on campaign giving, the Federal Election Commission has ruled....According to the March 2004 FEC finding, Pelosi appears to have violated the same kind of arcane campaign finance regulation that spurred the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay this week.
The San Francisco Chronicle explained at the time:
"The FEC ruled that two Pelosi political action committees created to help Democrats in the 2002 elections were related instead of being independent and therefore violated a rule against giving more than the maximum $5,000 annual contribution."
...Rather than referring the case to the Justice Department for prosecution, however, the FEC allowed Pelosi's two committees to negotiate "conciliation agreements" under which they were fined a total of $21,000.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/1/103918.shtml
predestination vs. free will http://www.freewill-predestination.com/
(be sure to click on “next page to view entire article, it’s long)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/journal.php
Endangered Species Act updated
September 30, 2005 The House yesterday passed Republican-backed legislation overhauling the Endangered Species Act that includes a provision requiring the government to compensate landowners whose property is confiscated to protect animals. ... said House Resources Committee Chairman Richard W. Pombo, California Republican, "If you take away someone's private property — if you take away the use of it — you have to pay them for it." The vote was 229-193, with 36 Democrats and 193 Republicans in favor, and 158 Democrats, 34 Republicans and one independent opposed. ...Supporters of the bill said the 1973 act actually has hurt the environment because the presence of an endangered species on private property brings about heavy and even prohibitive restrictions on land use, thus discouraging landowners from reporting a species' existence...Rep. Joe Baca, California Democrat, said a hospital in his district had to pay $3 million to move their building several hundred feet to protect an endangered fly. "That's ridiculous," he said.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050929-114657-3000r.htm
Texan shoots robber in garage
October 1, 2005 Texan Danny Dunn fought burglar (KRIS-TV, Corpus Christi, Texas)
Stabbed by a burglar in his own garage, a Texas homeowner fought back, shooting the suspect three times.
Police arrested a suspect, 22-year-old Daniel Holcomb, at a nearby hospital where he was being treated for gunshot wounds to his arm, leg and pelvis.
Dunn, in his garage heading to work, said he saw the burglar rummaging through his belongings and shouted at him. That's when the burglar attacked. "He came at me with a knife, he cut me on the hand, and on the face, I took 49 stitches total," Dunn told the TV station.
The homeowner said the burglar then tried to escape the same way he entered, by crawling underneath the cracked-open garage door, but he couldn't get out. A frightened Dunn then raced inside and grabbed his .22 caliber rifle. "He had pushed the garage door opener and it went down, trapping him; he come at me again, and I shot him. ... I shot him three times," Dunn said.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46606
Study Sees Minimal Economic Impact from Katrina, Rita
29 September 2005 A private business forecast released Wednesday says recent hurricanes on the Gulf Coast will have a minimal impact on the U.S. economy. The quarterly forecast by the University of California, Los Angeles, says a downturn in the U.S. housing market is more of a worry....The forecast by the UCLA Anderson School of Business says Hurricane Katrina will reduce the U.S. gross domestic product by half of one percent. The report says spending for rebuilding should boost next year's GDP by almost as much, however.http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-09-29-voa3.cfm
Hurricanes' Economic Hit Less Severe
Sept. 30, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The economic fallout from the twin hurricanes that hit Gulf Coast may be less severe than first estimated, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday. ...In fact, economic growth "could even be somewhat higher than was projected before the hurricanes," said Holtz-Eakin, head of the nonpartisan agency that provides economic and budget data to Congress. ..."By early next year, the pace of reconstruction will probably cause the net effect of the hurricanes on jobs nationwide to be minimal," according to the CBO report... http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/29/201917.shtm
Nagin's Cops Trained by Farrakhan Deputy
Sept. 29, 2005 ...In June, the Bayou Buzz reported that Nagin's police department hired [Nation of Islam (NOI) leader] Farrakhan deputy Dennis Muhammad to conduct "sensitivity training" sessions for New Orleans' cops after a rise in "anti-police" sentiment in the city...The Muhammed appointment immediately sparked controversy, with New Orleans Police Association spokesman David Benelli telling the Bayou Buzz that his phone had "been ringing off the hook" with complaints from the rank and file.
...It was during that meeting, Farrakhan told a Memphis audience, that "Mayor Nagin told us there was a 25-foot crater under the levee... He didn't say there was a bomb...He just said there was a crater...I say they blew it [up]" Farrakhan added. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/29/183207.shtml
Ronnie Earle Cleared DeLay Two Weeks Ago
Sept. 29, 2005 Travis County prosecutor Ronnie Earle's announcement yesterday that he was indicting House Majority Leader Tom DeLay came a little more than two weeks after Earle gave clear indications that the top Republican was off the hook. "I have never said that DeLay is a target of the investigation," Earle told the Dallas Morning News on Sept. 10.
Sources familiar with Earle's investigation had agreed that, before yesterday, it didn't look like the top Republican would be indicted...."Earle doesn't plan to refer evidence to the prosecutor in DeLay's home district either," an Earle spokesman told Newsweek.
So what changed? DeLay says reports that he was off the hook prompted a firestorm of outrage from national Democrats, who pressured Earle to reverse course.
"Do you really believe that the national Democrat leaders that announced that they were going to take this strategy ... never picked up the phone and talked to Ronnie Earle?" he asked the Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" Wednesday night. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/29/114916.shtml
As neal Boortz said, imagine the furor if Ken Starr had let a film crew follow him around...
The DeLay prosecutor has let a film crew follow him through the whole case.
For the last two years, as he pursued the investigation that led to Wednesday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Travis County, Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle has given a film crew "extraordinary access" to make a motion picture about his work on the case.
The resulting film is called The Big Buy, made by Texas filmmakers Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck. "Raymond Chandler meets Willie Nelson on the corner of Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in The Big Buy, a Texas noir political detective story that chronicles what some are calling a 'bloodless coup with corporate cash,'" reads a description of the picture on Birnbaum's website, according to the description, "follows maverick Austin DA Ronnie Earle's investigation into what really happened when corporate money joined forces with relentless political ambitions to help swing the pivotal 2002 Texas elections, cementing Republican control from Austin to Washington DC."
"We approached him [Earle], and he offered us extraordinary access to him and, to an extent, to his staff," Birnbaum told National Review Online Thursday. "We've been shooting for about two years."
...So far, The Big Buy has received almost no attention in the press. With DeLay's indictment, and increased attention to Earle as well, that situation seems likely to change. (The filmmakers say they will be back at work next week, filming a new ending to the picture.) "We're pretty low on everybody's radar," Schermbeck says. "We kind of took a gamble three years ago. We didn't know what was going to happen. We feel like, as documentary filmmakers, we gambled and it paid off."
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200509291814.asp
Internet users say debate over control misses point
SEPTEMBER 30, 2005 GENEVA Talks on regulating the digital traffic of the 21st century ended without agreement on Friday, but the United States won some backing for its refusal to cede its sole control to an international body from groups representing ordinary Internet users.
Many Web surfers may not like the effective control the United States has over the Internet through its supervision of the Internet addressing system. But few of the user groups at the talks support involving the United Nations, which they say could lead to the politicization of the Internet….The European Union late Wednesday joined calls from other nations for giving supervisory power to an intergovernmental body, but the idea was rejected by Washington as leading to unnecessary bureaucratization. The uncompromising U.S. stance has led to a deadlock in the talks, called the World Summit on the Information Society, which started in 2003 and are set to conclude in Tunisia next month…Groups representing Web surfers at the talks complained that the dispute between the United States and the rest of the world over administration is overshadowing more important issues, such as cleaning up spam from e-mail systems and combating cyber crime and identity theft, areas where they say governments should play a more active role.
Although the EU and developing countries like Brazil and South Africa have been irritated by the U.S. government's pre-eminent position, in reality Washington has not been that involved in regulating the global network, St. Amour and other experts say…"The U.S. government has actually had a very light hand over the years," said St. Amour.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/30/business/net.php
It's interesting about the furor over what Bennett said, but just weeks ago you had democrats suggesting that President Bush set things up in N.O. so that blacks would die, or that his response was slow because he wanted blacks to die. Even demo politicians said that. Also Farrakhan's statement that the government actually blew up the levees to kill blacks... Congressman Rangel likened President Bush to Bull Connor. Not much outrage in the press over those ridiculous statements.
…Neither Kennedy nor Dean nor Reid has ever condemned Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, who rose to the rank of Grand Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan based on his ability to recruit new members… In an autobiography released earlier this year, Byrd said the Klan was a "fraternal group" made up of "upstanding' people" - a characterization which drew no protest from Reid, Kennedy and Dean.http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/30/01112.shtml
What Bill Bennett actually said, in context
The following is a transcript of the conversation that included the aforementioned remarks, which were made on Wednesday's broadcast of Bennett's show:CALLER: I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social Security, and I was curious, and I've read articles in recent months here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media just doesn't - never touches this at all.BENNETT: Assuming they're all productive citizens?CALLER: Assuming that they are. Even if only a portion of them were, it would be an enormous amount of revenue.BENNETT: Maybe, maybe, but we don't know what the costs would be, too. I think as - abortion disproportionately occur among single women? No.CALLER: I don't know the exact statistics, but quite a bit are, yeah.BENNETT: All right, well, I mean, I just don't know. I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know. I mean, it cuts both - you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well -CALLER: Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate.BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either, I don't think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don't know. But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200509\CUL20050929a.html
Bennett interview
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170880,00.html
DeLay’s Prosecutor Offered “Dollars for Dismissals”
September 29, 2005 EDITOR'S NOTE: Travis County, Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle, the man behind Wednesday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on state campaign-finance charges, has also indicted several corporations in the probe. But last June, National Review's Byron York learned that Earle offered some of those companies deals in which the charges would be dismissed — if the corporations came up with big donations to one of Earle's favorite causes. Here is that report, from June 20, 2005… see http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200509290811.asp
Harry Reid Tied to Chinagate Figure
Oct. 2, 2005 Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid accepted donations from key Clinton Chinagate fundraiser John Huang - and later pushed for Senate confirmation of the judge who let Huang off with a slap on the wrist...
But Reid's relationship with the controversial Chinagate figure doesn't end there.
In June 1999, Huang's case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Richard Paez, who had six months earlier been nominated to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals by President Clinton.
Critics says the assignment presented a massive conflict of interest for Judge Paez, a concern fueled by the sentence he meted out to the Clinton donor in Aug. 1999.
Sen. Reid's former donor received a mere $10,000 fine, 500 hours of community service and one year probation.
When Paez's 9th Circuit nomination came up for Senate confirmation, Republicans cried foul.
Sen. Jeff Sessions complained that Paez had violated Justice Department sentencing guidelines that required Huang to serve jail time, calling the plea bargain "a dangerous agreement" and "a debasement of justice."
But Sen. Reid went to bat for Huang's judge, after being asked to reach out to other Mormon Senators by Mrs. Paez, a fellow Mormon.
"That's what I did," Reid told the New York Times.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/2/110627.shtml
FEC: Nancy Pelosi's PACs Broke the Law
Two political action committees linked to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have been charged with attempting to circumvent to legal limits on campaign giving, the Federal Election Commission has ruled....According to the March 2004 FEC finding, Pelosi appears to have violated the same kind of arcane campaign finance regulation that spurred the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay this week.
The San Francisco Chronicle explained at the time:
"The FEC ruled that two Pelosi political action committees created to help Democrats in the 2002 elections were related instead of being independent and therefore violated a rule against giving more than the maximum $5,000 annual contribution."
...Rather than referring the case to the Justice Department for prosecution, however, the FEC allowed Pelosi's two committees to negotiate "conciliation agreements" under which they were fined a total of $21,000.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/1/103918.shtml
predestination vs. free will http://www.freewill-predestination.com/
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