When sexual assaults started rising in Orlando, Fla., in 1966, police officers noticed women were arming themselves, so they launched a firearms safety course for them. Over the next 12 months, sexual assaults plummeted by 88 percent, burglaries fell by 25 percent and not one of the 2,500 women who took the course fired a gun in a confrontation.

On Tuesday, a jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts against defense contractor Brent Roger Wilkes, who was accused of bribing former GOP Congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham, according to documents obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.

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"Listen to me carefully,” President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt instructed an interviewer on Jan. 30. “Gaza is not part of Egypt, nor will it ever be ... . I hear talk of a proposal to turn the Strip into an extension of the Sinai peninsula, of offloading responsibility for it onto Egypt” but Mubarak dismissed this as “nothing but a dream.”

In spite of the best efforts of the Progressives at Microsoft and the mush-minded programmers that create junk for his OS, I have an obsolete computer running W2K that really sings!

Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) may have soothed the angst of the service pack hungry masses by releasing Vista SP1 to manufacturing, but users won’t be able to actually download it until mid-March at the earliest, company officials said Monday.

United States Attorney Johnny Sutton and FBI Special Agent in Charge Ralph Diaz announced the indictment of 23 San Antonio residents, all of whom are in leadership positions in the Texas Mexican Mafia, for violating the federal Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.

Startling developments in Gaza highlight the need for a change in Western policy toward this troubled territory of 1.3 million persons.

vLite is a free download that can cut the operating system’s size by half or more.

Why is the Middle East so at odds with modern life, laggard in everything from literacy to standard of living, from military prowess to political development?

Many question whether Wicca is even a religion. The various traditions of Wicca are allegedly part of the neopagan group of earth-based religions. This is quite a contrast to those who believe in the only person to rise from the dead. In fact, it’s the only religion where the followers actually admit that even though they won’t believe Christianity, they cannot disprove the historical reports.

George W. Bush’s policies toward the Middle East and Islam will loom large when historians judge his presidency. On the occasion of his concluding his 8-day, 6-country trip to the Middle East and entering his final year in office, I offer some provisional assessments.

AIM Report Ignites a Debate Over Senator Joe McCarthy’s Record: Donald A. Ritchie, the Senate Associate Historian, Exchanges Views with Journalist Wes Vernon and M. Stanton Evans, author of Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies.

If the liberal media have lost much of their influence, are the conservative media beginning to lose theirs? Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is on the defensive for attacking Mike Huckabee, the big winner in the Republican Iowa Caucuses, and Fox News is under fire for excluding Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter from its scheduled Sunday night debate.

The book: “The Second Son” offered a similar situation! “ ...After falling 24 stories Joseph Turner, a construction worker, miraculously survives with no apparent injuries...”