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Published in The Orlando Sentinel on June 27, 1999. Posted for discussion and education only; not for commercial use. It's too early to waste time trying to predict the 2000 presidential election or to pay any attention to the polls. Polls reflect what people are thinking at the time they are polled. What will determine the outcome of the 2000 election is what people are thinking in November 2000. There's no way to predict that because what will come to pass between now and then is unpredictable. Will the economy be good or in the tank? Will the United ...

Just think for a second (but don't strain yourself). How do we know there's a Y2K problem? Because "they" told us. And who are "they?" Why, the people we're shoveling money to. And how do we know if (a) it's getting fixed and (b) anything ever needed fixing in the first place? Because "they" are making flashy PowerPoint presentations to management (commercial and government). BTW: the truth content of the presentation is usually in inverse proportion to the number of flashy bells and whistles in the brief. Now, suppose those "secret" briefings "they" are giving to the pointy-haired types say ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The FBI obtains convictions in just one in four cases, the worst average among major federal law enforcement agencies, according to a new study of Justice Department statistics. From 1993 through 1997, the FBI referred 222,504 cases for prosecution. Only 27 percent resulted in a conviction, said researchers at Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC. In about one-third of cases the FBI referred, federal prosecutors declined to take action because of weak or insufficient evidence, or after deciding there was minimal or no federal interest. An FBI spokesman called the study ``meaningless.'' TRAC, a research ...

the eXile June 17-July 1, 1999 Editorial Invade Russia Now Now that NATO has emerged victorious from its just, humane war against the forces of evil in the Balkan peninsula, we at the eXile feel that it's time the civilized countries of the West really got down to brass tacks and applied themselves to their next great task: the invasion and conquest of the Russian Federation. History is a frugal fellow. For decades at a time--centuries even--it keeps opportunities for the elevation of the human spirit, and for the advancement of the ideals of justice, balled tightly in its ...

Secessionist Talk On The Rise Will The South Rise Again? BY JON CHRISTIAN RYTER And, Will Alaska Or Hawaii Demand Its Independence? Unknown to most Americans, a new political party has risen from the ashes of the Confederacy. It is called the Southern Party. Organizers of the political party are the "philosophical" heirs of the old Confederacy. Today, the party--which is described by many northern liberals as an attempt on the part of radical southerners to create an Anglo-Saxon nation which recognizes the supremacy of the white man. Not true, counters the founders of the Southern Party, who insists their ...

Scholars decry more gun control Previous laws doing more harm than good, they say By Jon E. Dougherty © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com A number of academics and law professors from the country's most prestigious colleges and universities are calling on members of Congress to scrap new legislation designed to impose new restrictive gun control measures. Led by John R. Lott, a University of Chicago School of Law professor and noted gun control research analyst, some 290 other educators from schools such as Harvard, Stanford and UCLA have appealed to Capitol Hill to examine the ill-effects of previous gun control laws ...

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Many people have suggested that we contact various parties concerning the Don Adams Case. Thus, for anyone who is willing and we need lots of willing freepers as many who were willing to call John Morris and e-mail the Teamsters when this event first occurred (due to Freeper response their website was shut down for two days) please contact the following: The Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham 1421 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 (A nice letter would be better!!) And the Teamsters Independent Review Board who should have long ago examined this issue as Mr. Morris is in contempt of ...

For those of us in the 80s who were involved in either prosecuting or defending big time drug dealers, the name of George Bush in connection to drug trafficking is not surprising. Let me make the real case against George Bush and drug trafficking. This is the case that was constantly rumored in the hallways of federal courthouses, DEA offices, and jail houses. I will leave the conclusions to you. I know some people here have tried to expose the link between George Bush and drug trafficking. To that end many here suggested George Bush was connected with Mena Airport. ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Press: China Uses Cuba As Base For Electronic Spying On US MIAMI, Jun 25, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) China is using Cuba as a base for a sophisticated spying operation targeting the United States, the Nuevo Herald daily said here Thursday. China is using its collaboration with Cuba in the field of electronics and radio telecommunications as a smokescreen for the operation, the paper said, citing US intelligence sources and official US documents. The main Chinese bases for listening and tracking are located northeast of Santiago de Cuba and in Bejucal, in the ...

Smorgasbord by the Sea By Michael Kelly Thursday, June 24, 1999; Page A27 Here at the Center for Food in the Public Interest, we have been dining a good deal lately, as is our custom this time of year, at the Jersey Shore, and we would like to take this opportunity to recognize the great contribution that the cuisine of southern New Jersey makes to this great nation. Simply put, the food of the Jersey Shore is what America is all about. At one time, patriotic tub-thumpers loved to speak of the United States as a melting pot, and these ...

THE PRESIDENT'S PRESS CONFERENCE http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/html/19990625b.html 3/25/1999 Presidential Hall 3:47 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Earlier today, in a speech at Georgetown University, I discussed the opportunities now before our nation. Before I take your questions, let me just take a moment to recap what I believe is America's agenda in the coming months. Our trip to Europe advanced America's ideals and interests. Working with our partners, we won an agreement to ban abusive child labor everywhere in the world, took new steps to strengthen the global economy, agreed to triple the debt relief provided for many of the poorest nations, and ...

NEW YORK -- Leaders of evangelical Protestantism, who rarely speak with one voice, have issued a joint statement of doctrine defining what unites the movement and what distinguishes it from other forms of Christianity. Among other things, the statement reaffirms the evangelical belief that Jesus Christ "is the only way of salvation........the Bible offers no hope that sincere worshippers of other religions will be saved without personal faith in Jesus Christ." Some other Christians have promoted a more liberal and universal concept of salvation. Evangelicalism -- a conservative wing of Protestantism representing, by some estimates, one-fourth of Americans -- is ...

An enzyme that destroys chemical toxins may provide an answer to a paradox of the Persian Gulf War: why some veterans exposed to certain chemicals became ill and others did not. Veterans born with low levels of the enzyme, known as "type Q paraoxonase," or PON-Q, were more likely to suffer brain damage from exposure to low levels of nerve agents and pesticides, according to a study published Wednesday. "It's very low in the sick guys and normal in the guys who are well -- and its specific function is protecting froom nerve gas," said Dr. Robert Haley, chief of ...

EDUCATION: Prop. 227 proponents attribute the gains to the end of bilingual instruction. Test scores for limited-English students have improved significantly this year in several Orange County school districts, a trend critics of bilingual education attribute to Proposition 227, which required almost all instruction in English. "The bottom line is that test scores have doubled or tripled in terms of percentile," said Ron Unz, co-author of Prop. 227, which 61 percent of voters supported a year ago. "The key thing is the pattern." The changes have been most dramatic among second- and third-graders, the youngest students to take the ...

WASHINGTON... President Clinton says the First Lady isn't trying to distance herself from him by announcing the formation of her Senate exploratory committee while he's six states and a time zone away. Clinton was asked at a news conference yesterday what it meant that he would be on an Indian reservation in South Dakota when Hillary Rodham Clinton unveils her committee July 7 at the upstate farm of retiring Sen. Daniel Moynihan. "Well, first of all, she hasn't made a decision to announce to run for the Senate. This is not what's going on here," Clinton said. "And as ...

Q. Why does the Republican Party consistently nominate weak, losing candidates for President? A. The primary system as it is currently structured is fundamentally flawed. To improve the nominee, we must fix the primary system. There are two glaring problems with the primary process as currently structured: 1) Each state's primary is "winner take all". 2) Because of (1), states are forced to frontload their primaries or combine with other states into large regional primaries (like Super Tuesday) to have any influence on the nominating process at all. Thus, our present primary system inordinately favors establishment/media approved candidates who are ...

SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE - The Winston Churchill Division, VRWC Europe, announced the beginning of its summer offensive today, heralding a fresh start after the impeachment battle. "We have been waiting for a new cause since February 12," an unidentified source stated, "with Gore announcing his candidacy for President, we found it." Efforts are to be focused on making him look as ridiculous as he is. A new site, entitled "Al 2000" can be found at www.rightwing.net, which is to be part of the summer offensive against the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, otherwise known as the Democrat Party and CNN. Other ...