The top U.S. military officer, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, tried on Tuesday to calm anger that erupted after he described homosexual acts as immoral, saying he was expressing only his personal views.

Gay rights activists and Democrats criticized the chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff for his comments and a veteran Republican senator voiced his disagreement

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Wisconsin leads the nation in underage drinking, according to a report released last week on substance use and mental health.  Nearly two out of five Wisconsin residents between 12 and 20 years old have consumed alcohol, according to the report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The state's 39.5 percent rate in 2004-05 was the highest in the nation. Utah had the lowest rate at 21.3 percent.

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I made a purchase this past weekend that qualified for a $50 rebate. I attempted to follow the rebate process and was told by their Corporate Rebate folks (800-266-7872) - they would not honor it. They added, it would be honored if the store was one of the ones remaining open or website. You might want to publicize this to save folks from being "lured" by offers that will not be honored.

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President Bush’s most recent trip to Latin America has brought with it the standard anti-U.S. protests. Most of these being nearly identical to the ones that are regularly held on weekdays in the United States where participants are not actually missing work, American flags are lit on fire, and rioters hold poorly spelled signs and scream in broken English.

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Or is Hillary off her meds...?

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Two female deputies accused of having sexual contact with inmates at the Sacramento Main Jail have resigned, News10 first reported Monday.

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A new survey revealing more than a thousand supermassive black holes in one region of the sky calls into question a popular model of how the gravity monsters behave

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Mike Adams has apparently turned over hard evidence to the FBI, that Julio Pino authored the Blog Global War, and that Dr. Pino did in fact use Kent State history department computers to operate it. This is in contradiction to official the Kent statement. Kent officials have refused to comment on these latest developments.

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Most of us still see the events of the first two-thirds of the 20th century through the words of gifted New Deal historians like the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who told the story as Franklin Roosevelt hoped and expected it to be told. And, to judge from the response to two recent criminal proceedings, Democrats are doing it better in this century, too.

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A House Democrat has arranged for a conference room in the Capitol building to be used tomorrow by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim advocacy group criticized for its persistent refusal to disavow terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

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"Gracias Papi: A fotonovela about a young woman, an older guy and a loving father" will be distributed across Virginia starting in April.

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Sharpton also has a personal ax to grind, a source close to him said.

"Al had wanted to run again for president in 2008," the source said, "but now that Obama is a serious candidate in the race, that has become impossible."

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European Officials Say Traits of Suspected Islamic Extremists Are Constantly Shifting

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The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas rejected on Monday criticism by al Qaeda's second-in-command and said it was still committed to Israel's destruction despite a power-sharing deal with the Fatah faction.

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An autopsy was performed Monday on comic Richard Jeni but the official cause of his death won't be announced for several weeks, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office.

Jeni died Saturday from an apparent gunshot wound. He was 49.

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The Texas-based company has long been the target of criticism on Capitol Hill because of its ties to Dick Cheney, the US vice-president who formerly served as chief executive, and allegations that KBR, the company's government contracting unit, has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars in Iraq.

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