In The Days

The Scuds weren’t very good. The only Israeli fatality in that bombardment was from a heart attack. But the Patriot was unfairly disparaged afterwards, in part because Israeli planners wanted to get lots of U.S. funding for their own Arrow (pictured).
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Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Gay rights activists yesterday fiercely criticized Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann for bowing to pressure by religious parties in his decision to redraft inheritance laws. The revised bill would preclude homosexual couples from inheritance laws that apply to people in common-law marriages.
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The Heartland Needs A Bypass.
—ITD Editor

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A county judge struck down Iowa’s decade-old gay marriage ban as unconstitutional Thursday and ordered local officials to process marriage licenses for six gay couples.
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Remains of the Jewish second temple may have been found during work to lay pipes at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem, Israeli television reported Thursday.
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“And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.”
Revelation 11:1

sraeli television broadcast footage of a mechanical digger at the site which Israeli archaeologists visited on Thursday.

Gaby Barkai, an archaeologist from Bar Ilan University, urged the Israeli government to stop the pipework after the discovery of what he said is “a massive seven metre-long wall.”

Television said the pipework carried out by the office of Muslim religious affairs, or Waqf, is about 1.5 metres deep and about 100 metres long.

The compound, which houses both Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, is located in east Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in 1967 and then annexed. It is the third holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina.

For Jews it as known as the Temple Mount, which they revere as the site of the King Herod’s second temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. It is the holiest site in Judaism.

All that remains today is the temple’s Western Wall, or Wailing wall.

Nearly 2 million documents pertaining to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s years as first lady — phone logs, schedules, memoranda — are locked up in Little Rock, Ark. It would be completely legal for them to remain under wraps. But voters looking to 2008 can reasonably demand to know what they paid for the last time they sent Mrs. Clinton to the White House. It would very convenient for the junior senator from New York, and a serious disservice to voters, if such a large gap in her public record were to continue through November 2008.
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Norman Hsu with Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2005.
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Russia was partly responsible for the high tension between Israel and Syria at the outset of the summer, head of the Diplomatic-Security Bureau at the Israeli Defense Ministry, Gen. Amos Gilad (ret.) was quoted as saying on Thursday.
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Union Asks Court To Block Mexican Trucks

Isn’t it ironic that that this is taking place on Labor Day Weekend?
ITD—Editor

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A king-size bed with a silky spread dominated the church’s stage. A sign outside the sanctuary doors warned, “PG-13. Parents strongly cautioned: Some content may not be suitable for all children.”
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