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Michael Medved just mentioned this Populist Platform 1892 "The Omaha Platform" This preamble to the Populist Platform, adopted by the People's Party at its first national convention in Omaha on July 4, 1892, was composed by Ignatius Donnelly, a former Lieutenant Governor and Congressman as a Lincoln Republican from Minnesota who later became a Granger and populist reformer. (Transcript from Great Issues in History Vol 2, Edited by Richard Hofstadter, Vintage Books) The conditions which surround us best justify our co-operation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption ...

What made our revolution different by Don Feder Wednesday, June 30, 1999 After 223 years - and William J. Clinton notwithstanding - America is still the most successful experiment going. Among other things, the American revolution demonstrated that majorities are frequently wrong, a fact worth recalling in an age of focus-group worship. Historians tell us that the colonists were evenly divided in favor of, against and ambivalent toward independence. If Gallup had been around in 1776, we'd be driving on the wrong side of the road and obsessing about the royal family. Unlike all men, all revolutions are not created ...

Microsoft sued for racist applicationRogue programmer's insert comes back to bite software giant in the pocketbook. By Matthew Broersma, ZDNN June 30, 1999 12:52 PM PT A lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses Microsoft Corp. of including a "racially charged" message in its Publisher 98 software linking an image of black people to the word "monkey." The suit -- charging that when users type the word "monkey" into the software's clip-art search engine, they see images including a photo of a black couple -- was filed in San Diego federal court by John Elijah. Elijah, a black construction worker, said he was ...

George W. Bush says he would have voted to impeach Clinton Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Reuters News Service ROUND ROCK, Texas (June 8, 1999 11:46 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Texas Gov. George W. Bush, cranking up his still-unofficial run for the White House, said on Tuesday he would have voted to impeach President Clinton for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. In response to a reporter's question, Bush said he supported impeachment for a simple reason: "The man lied." Previously, Bush avoided direct criticism of Clinton for the Lewinsky affair, saying he was embarrassed by ...

Each Year Another State the Size of Illinois Turns Democratic Until you all read my entire website (and the linked newspaper articles on it from CA, AZ, NM, TX, and all over the USA) ... Surferslim's Border Smuggling Page ... Please stop posting uninformed comments about what is happening today in CA, AZ, NM, and TX, and ultimately all over the USA. You all owe it to yourselves to become more informed about today's invasion of America by both illegal people and illegal drugs from Mexico. Read it and LEARN ... You owe it to your country and your ...

x x x x x XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1999 20:21:22 ET XXXXX 13-YEAR OLD HONDURAN BOY PULLS HOAX ON NEW YORK CITY "With his mother, brother and grandfather washed away by last year's devastating Honduran mudslides, 13-year-old Edwin Daniel Sabillion pined for his father, somewhere in New York City," the ASSOCIATED PRESS reported in a tear-filled dispatch earlier this week. "When Edwin wrote to the man - whom he's known only from snapshots - his father sent him $200 and told the boy to meet him on a street ramp to LaGuardia International Airport on ...

"Need a good scare?... watch Frontline...If it doesn't make you start hoarding quarters, you've got what it takes to be a global capitalist... ...In examining the rickety underpinnings of the new global economy that many Americans hail as the slickest thing since pay-per-view, 'Frontline' wonders if there's a big economic crash in our own future. For people not versed in the everyday jargon of arbitrage, producer Sherry Jones does a splendid job of making a point that's easy to miss when the paper money is rolling in. Here's how Robert Johnson, a former portfolio manager for Soros Fund Management, puts ...

This piece begins "The EU-Latin Trade Zone doesn't include the US" The agreement between all the Latin American countries and the European union wouldn't mean much if the US were ship shape. According to the article.... "The 69-point Declaration of Rio pledges to combat the "destabilizing effects of volatile financial flows" by "strengthening regulation of the financial markets." It also espouses a variety of other political, social and economic goals, including the promotion of democracy, peace, disarmament and the "redistribution of wealth." All this stuff is pretty bland except for the last statement "redistribution of wealth" Even this would have ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives said Wednesday they have agreed on a plan to provide roughly $1 trillion in tax cuts over 10 years, raising the stakes in a battle with President Clinton over how to spend bigger-than-expected budget surpluses. At $1 trillion, the plan is much larger than the $778 billion tax cut outlined in the Republican budget, approved with much fanfare in April. ``That's what the leadership has approved and it's in accordance with the budget resolution,'' House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer said. The Texas Republican said he would provide ...

Subject: CNN endorses ANONYMIZER.COM Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp From: nothanks@my.com (Reply to Newsgroup) NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.12.238.104 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:51:14 GMT Well now we know it's a government run site. CNN Headline News (June 25th air date) endorses using WWW.ANONYMIZER.COM when surfing the net "to ensure your privacy." They didn't even mention PGP in their "story on online privacy." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Subject: Re: CNN endorses ANONYMIZER.COM Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp From: "Thomas J. Boschloo" NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.114.242.4 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hollywood is partly responsible for violent behavior by young movie viewers, GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush says. "I think there is a correlation between violence in movies and youth violence," Bush said Tuesday. "But I also think there is a correlation between violence and drug use and alcohol abuse and lack of parental love." Bush says repeatedly on the stump that as president he would usher in a new era of personal responsibility. Between fund-raisers Tuesday, he said the entertainment industry should help ring in that new era, and he hinted he would broach the ...

The Castle Grande Deal (FRONTLINE) By Rick Young At the heart of the controversial transactions commonly known as Whitewater, lies a real estate deal called Castle Grande. It is this particular deal, and subsequent events related to it, that have drawn the most intense scrutiny of financial regulators, congressional investigators and the independent counsel, Kenneth W. Starr. In 1996, the independent counsel obtained the first Whitewater convictions of its four-year investigation. Jim McDougal and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker were convicted on multiple counts of financial fraud directly related to the Castle Grande deal. Susan McDougal was convicted of ...

THEY WERE dancing with joy at the news that a man was to die in Turkey yesterday. As the announcement came that Abdullah Ocalan, the man behind almost 15 years of bloody Kurdish rebellion, had been sentenced to death, waiting crowds burst into a frenzy of nationalist rejoicing. The mothers of Turkish soldiers killed by Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) wept uncontrollably. An effigy of Ocalan was hanged, and a picture of the rebel adorned with devil's horns was burnt. People seized television microphones to scream nationalist slogans, spitting with passion. "The nation will never fall," shouted one. "Now Europe ...

The Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a propaganda campaign called 'Be Their Dad' in an attempt to support more of their misguided interference in family life. "HHS' 'Be Their Dad' is the ultimate in hypocrisy," noted Lowell Jaks, Director of the Alliance for Non-Custodial Parents' Rights. "They're telling fathers to "be their dad" at the same time as they are increasing child support fines and penalties aimed a noncustodial parents, which are primarily fathers. Child support forces parents into exile. This campaign really shows how out of touch Secretary Shalala and Undersecretary Kevin Thurm are with ...

Underneath the hoopla surrounding the second anniversary of Hong Kong's handover from British rule is an unexpected problem: Hong Kong is suffering an identity crisis that some critics say is largely its own fault. Dignitaries from Hong Kong and mainland China will hoist flags and unveil a ``reunification monument'' Thursday, duly marking the anniversary. But Hong Kong's formerly high-flying economy has come down to earth, with falling gross domestic product, record unemployment and deflation dampening any rebound hopes. Stocks are soaring, but they were nudged upward 10 months ago when the government bought $15 billion in shares in a ...

Whistleblower or Troublemaker? Nightline Tuesday, June 29, 1999 (This is an unedited, uncorrected transcript.) ANNOUNCER From ABCNEWS, this is Nightline. Substituting for Ted Koppel and reporting from Washington, Cynthia McFadden. CYNTHIA MCFADDEN Imagine being Richard Holbrooke tonight. Twelve days ago, you ate humble pie for Senator Jesse Helms, the all-powerful chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He approved. So after a very long year, everybody agrees that you will now easily win Senate confirmation as the US ambassador to the UN. Republicans join Democrats in saying that your arm-twisting is just what’s needed to help reform the UN and ...

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, June 30) -- Lawyers for Franklin Haney, a close friend and supporter of Vice President Al Gore who is on trial for allegedly funneling thousands of dollars to the Clinton/Gore '96 campaign, rested their case Tuesday without calling any witnesses. Haney, a wealthy Chattanooga, Tenn. developer, was indicted in November, 1998 on 42 counts of using family and friends as conduits to contribute $100,000 of his own money to Clinton/Gore in 1996 and the Senate campaigns of Tennessee Democrats Jim Sasser and Jim Cooper in 1994. U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Roberts denied a defense motion for ...

CLINTON RENEGED ON POLLARD DEAL: Netanyahu explained to him that this gesture would help him to get the support from his constituents for the painful part of the agreement he expected to sign - continuation of the withdrawal from the territories. 'Bibi went to Wye knowing that Clinton would immediately release Pollard with the signing of the agreement with the Palestinians,' the advisors of the departing prime minister said this week. During the course of the Wye summit the matter of Pollard was discussed several times between Clinton and Netanyahu. There were only a few in on the great secret: ...

VERY URGENT * VERY URGENT * VERY URGENT Fellow Americans: A few weeks ago, this writer applied for a Texas license plate for an old flat bed farm trailer. When filling out the customary forms, I supplied all the required information except for the block labeled SSN which I left blank. After reviewing the form the clerk handed it back to me stating that I must also supply my SSN. I commented that my participation or nonparticipation in the Social Security Retirement Program had nothing to with licensing my old farm trailer. The clerk advised me that the law in ...

Bulgaria To Rely on Mobil and Chevron in Fight for Caspian Oil By Ivan Michalev The interest of the five big oil companies will determine the way of the Caspian oil to the Western markets. In 2002 the oil will reach the Black Sea port of Novosibirsk. By that time it should be clear how the route will proceed further on. Bulgaria will rely on the support of private companies in this strategic battle. Government sources said that Mobil Oil and Shevron are the most active in their research work in Bulgaria for the time being. The two companies are ...