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No Comment New Scout Badge From the Los Angeles Times: "Boy Scouts can earn badges for woodcarving, raising rabbits, and firing shotguns. But in the Los Angeles area, Scouts will now be able to...
...Department of Justice filed the first federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites, reports The New York Times...
...One unnamed volunteer told The Gainesville Sun, "It's not like we are a high-risk group for coming in drunk or high or stoned or whatever...
...But in the Los Angeles area, Scouts will now be able to earn their stripes by proselytizing about the evils of copyright piracy Officials with the local Boy Scouts and the Motion Picture Association of America unveiled the Respect Copyrights Activity Patch-emblazoned with a large circle © copyright sign along with a film reel and musical notes...
...The Chicago White Sox have found a new item for corporate sponsorship: the start of night baseball games...
...Get Out the Vote, or Else "Take your Sunday school class to vote, and you've got to start breaking fingers if they don't," conservative Christian activist David Barton told congregants in Ohio before the election, reports The Columbus Dispatch...
...Blame the Coverage "If you guys would stop asking the question, it wouldn't be a problem at all," Representative Barbara Cubin, Republican of Wyoming, said to the press after a reporter asked Cubin about the Iraq War...
...The Republican Party hired Barton in 2004 and 2006 to help get out the "values voters...
...But it has lost dozens of volunteers, mainly senior citizens, due to the county's strict drug testing policy...
...Photo Sharing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld displayed a satellite photo of the Korean peninsula at night showing the South lit up and the North dark because it lacks electricity, the Daily Mail reports...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...Whitman Strategy Group is addressing emissions issues for the refinery...
...We should be using that money to buy more books and computers...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Hamster on a Plane The Guardian reports that an escaped hamster compelled an Austrian Airlines flight to make an early landing...
...Republican for Ch?vez Former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman is representing Hovensa LLC, an oil refining operation partly owned by Petr?leos de Venezuela, President Hugo Ch?vez's national oil company, reports The Washington Post...
...The team struck a deal with convenience store 7-Eleven to change the starting time to 7:11 p.m...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...He advised schools to place a thick textbook under every desk...
...Will They Serve Slurpees, Too...
...Except for my wife and family," said Rumsfeld, "that is my favorite photo...
...Selective Prosecution The U.S...
...An eighty-year-old woman is not about to pee in a cup," said library director Bonnie Tollefson...
...Primer for Gun Violence Bill Crozier, a Republican who ran for Oklahoma's state superintendent of education, proposed a new way to protect students from school shootings: Old textbooks could be used to stop bullets fired at them...
...Library Check-In The Levy County Public Library System in Florida has a small budget and relies heavily upon volunteers...
...This is a common sense issue: Why are we spending money to test seventy-five-year-old grandmothers for marijuana...
...Its owner smuggled the critter onto the plane but lost it...
...The government says that the chairman of Mississippi's Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee allegedly engaged in "relentless voting-related racial discrimination," such as "publishing a list of voters, all white, accompanied by a warning that they would be challenged at the polls...
Vol. 70 • December 2006 • No. 12
