Ten-Foot Poll on Detainment---RESULT

posted 10am-1130pm Mon 1/3/2005 Should the US be able to lock up "detainees" for life without due process? Yes 78 25% No 205 67% Undecided 23 8% Vote total 306

Lugar condemns jailing of detainees for life A leading Republican senator Sunday condemned as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. plan to keep some suspected terrorists imprisoned for a lifetime even if the government lacks evidence to charge them.

Insurgents threaten woman after U.S. soldiers bring gifts to school “There’s nice people out there,” said Wilbanks, “and they get threatened because they took toys from us.”

How to help tsunami victims:
organizations accepting online donations HERE

Bush adapts, but won't call it that Despite a stick-to-his- guns self-image, the president's response to catastrophe is not the first time he has bent to the public will

Some Sri Lanka inmates freed by tsunami report back Eighty-three of those who escaped have returned to the prison, knocked on the front door and asked to be returned to their cells

Dog saved 7-year-old boy "That dog grabbed me by the collar of my shirt," the boy said... "He dragged me out."

Bullock gives one million dollars to tsunami relief operation
Sandra in her magic see-thru dress HERE

WASHINGTON TIMES
Superhighway super enough for Texas
In what sounds like another tall tale told by a Texan, the state has embarked on an audacious project to build superhighways so big and so complex that they will make ordinary interstates look like cow paths.
Even the governor's party opposes the plan. The Republican platform drafted at the state convention in the summer rejected the plan because of its effect on property rights.

Homeland Security business faulted The largest Homeland Security Department contractors include two companies that paid millions of dollars to settle charges they defrauded the Pentagon, one firm that paid a foreign corruption fine and a business accused of botching a computer system for veterans hospitals

FBI sees no terror link in laser incidents

Prozac documents add to patients' lack of trust An article published today in the British Medical Journal alleges officials at the Eli Lilly company suppressed drug safety data on Prozac