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Not quite a Yankee Doodle Dandy Most of us know entertainer George M. Cohan from the 1942 film "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Born in 1878, Cohan reveled in the "fact" he shared birthdays with the United States of America. The only small problem was he hadn’t really been born on the 4th of July, but the third. Still, it was close enough to help build a legend. A real Yankee Doodle Dandy – actually born on July 4 – was Calvin Coolidge. One of our greatest presidents, Mr. Coolidge wasn’t your typical pol. He kept his mouth shut much of the ...

The Conservatives seem to be upset that George W. is not conservative enough. They are also looking like, atleast on the surface, that they may go for a 3rd party run. This is the WRONG thing to do. Aside from a 3rd party candidate giving Algore a 99% chance of winning in 2000, because the dems will vote for him and none for a 3rd party Conservative...while there will be a heavy split among conservaties between Bush and the 3rd party candidate. Remember Ross Perot! What Conservatives should be fighting for and focusing their efforts on is not only maintaining ...

Published: Thursday, July 1, 1999 Plans for stadium unpopular Whether you build a new ballpark for the Minnesota Twins in St. Paul or Minneapolis, residents of the two cities clearly don't want to swing for the mortgage payments. By a 2-1 margin in St. Paul and nearly a 3-1 margin in Minneapolis, voters say they oppose plans to raise the local sales tax to help the Twins find a nicer home, a new poll shows. Should that sentiment prevail through the November election in St. Paul, the chances of building a ballpark with public funds might seem as remote as ...

A senior Pentagon official yesterday confirmed that North Korea is preparing to test fire a new long-range missile that if carried out would have serious consequences for stability in northeast Asia.     "We've seen some indications of a potential launch in the future," said Kurt Campbell, deputy assistant defense secretary for Asian and Pacific affairs.     Mr. Campbell, the Pentagon's top Asia specialist, said the United States is trying "intensive diplomacy . . . to try to dissuade North Korea from taking an action which will have very real consequences for our ability and our desire to engage North Korea."     The Washington Times reported June ...

A senior Pentagon official yesterday confirmed that North Korea is preparing to test fire a new long-range missile that if carried out would have serious consequences for stability in northeast Asia.     "We've seen some indications of a potential launch in the future," said Kurt Campbell, deputy assistant defense secretary for Asian and Pacific affairs.     Mr. Campbell, the Pentagon's top Asia specialist, said the United States is trying "intensive diplomacy . . . to try to dissuade North Korea from taking an action which will have very real consequences for our ability and our desire to engage North Korea."     The Washington Times reported June ...

As businesses are forced to fix one problem, they are also making major technological changes. WASHINGTON - There is growing evidence that the "Y2K crisis" may have a giant silver lining for the U.S. economy. Faced with fixing millions of lines of software code to ensure that their computers can recognize the year 2000 when clocks click over six months from now, many companies decided to overhaul their entire computer systems. That led them to rethink how they did business, and in some cases spurred top-to-bottom reorganizations. "Something special has happened to the American economy in recent years," Federal ...

Washington, June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Most U.S. utilities said today that their power plants and transmission lines are ``Y2K ready,'' though experts still expect some power failures when the New Year comes. Utilities were asked to report their level of ``readiness'' to the North American Electric Reliability Council today. While a full report on the results won't be ready until July 29, dozens of utilities declared their success at finding and eliminating the Millennium bug. Electric utilities spent billions of dollars over the past several years to prepare for the day when aging computer and analog systems can't determine ...

For Education and Discussion. Not for Commercial use. WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans say they have lots of money to use for a big tax cut, despite new Congressional Budget Office projections that budget surpluses over the next decade will grow only half as much as President Clinton says they will. Congress' nonpartisan fiscal analyst planned to release its annual summertime budget update today, two days after Clinton unveiled his version. The CBO will say that excluding Social Security, budget surpluses from 2000 through 2009 now appear about $170 billion higher than the agency projected in January, congressional aides speaking on ...

What ever happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence by Gary Hildreth Have you ever wondered what happened to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence? This is the price they paid: Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the fifty-six fought and died from wounds or hardships resulting from the Revolutionary War. These men signed, and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their ...

Australia passes Net censorship bill By Gordon Finlayson, ZDNet Australia, July 1, 1999 After many months of controversy, the Broadcasting (Online Services) Amendment Act has finally passed through Australian parliament and is on its way into the Australian statute books. Despite the furor, the man behind the bill, Information Technology Minister, Senator Richard Alston, is sticking to his guns, maintaining that it won't have a negative effect on the industry. The passing of the legislation puts Australia in the same league as countries such as Saudi Arabia and Singapore that also have passed laws to censor the Internet. Under the ...

Some Oklahoma oil industry officials this week said they don't expect significant problems. But there are observers who are less confident. Many computer systems originally were designed to identify a year by only two digits. Unless that problem is fixed, the concern is computers might interpret the rollover to 01/01/00 as an error that could cause programs to stop running or give bad data. A U.S. General Accounting Office report issued in May said, "All phases of operations in the oil and gas industries, from production to distribution, use computer systems and equipment that are subject to Year 2000 ...

Entire rpt. available at: www.gulfwarvets.com [excerpt from S.Rpt 103-97] ...PERSIAN GULF WAR VETERANS Persian Gulf veterans were also given investigational vaccines and ordered not to tell anyone. In a Committee survey of 150 individuals who served in the military during the Persian Gulf War (see Appendix), many of those surveyed indicated they were ordered, under threat of Article 15 or court martial, to discuss their vaccinations with no one, not even with medical professionals needing the information to treat adverse reactions from the vaccine. Similarly, 86 percent of the military personnel who told the Committee that they were ordered ...

Can someone please tell me WHY KEN BACON IS STILL EMPLOYED???? A lying mouth piece for the Prince of Liars. Zeno44

NATO's most senior military figure admitted yesterday that the Kosovo air campaign had taken the alliance "surprisingly close" to its military limits, in the clearest formal indication of the failings of the air war. Admiral Guido Venturoni, chairman of Nato's military committee, also refused to contradict widespread suspicions that the air campaign left untouched much of Serbia's heavy artillery and tanks inside Kosovo. In the most frank formal assessment of the frailties of the alliance's military campaign the admiral hinted that the bombardment of Belgrade and devastation of infrastructure in Serbia may have been crucial in determining the outcome ...

Whatever happened to wars fought in the national interest? IT'S just too much: the celestial choirs, the haloes. Henry can't stand it. Never mind the conduct of the Kosovo war; he objects to "the appalling, oozing self-righteousness with which it is being presented to the American public - the distinction also being made by your people between moral wars and national interest wars". Before Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, so the spin goes, the world was run by ruthless men and women who thought solely in terms of realpolitik, or national interest. The draft-dodger and the CND member grew ...

AMOLE at the White House faxed us Hillary Rodham Clinton's imaginary secret diary entry for Monday, written while she was supposedly house-shopping in Westchester County: Dear Diary: The president, Spielberg, Streisand, Ickes, and Mrs. Roosevelt's spirit have all asked me the same question: Why do you really want to run for the Senate? Am I running to solve a midlife crisis? To get even with Bill? As a reward for marital humiliation? To defend the liberal agenda? Oh, things used to be so simple. When I was at Wellesley, it was stop the war, end apartheid and promote feminism. How ...

Pakistan would use nuclear weapons if a full-scale war broke out, the country's religious affairs minister said yesterday, as a further 100,000 Indian soldiers were deployed along the Kashmir border. "Nuclear weapons were not meant to be kept on the shelf if the security of the motherland was threatened," Zafarul Haq was reported as saying by the semi-autonomous News Network International. Pakistan said India has amassed an extra 100,000 soldiers, bringing the military contingent in Indian-ruled Kashmir to more than 700,000 soldiers, border guards and paramilitary troops. "This gives India a capability of doing much more than what they ...

Why Do We Tolerate A President Who Has Sold His Country’s Secrets to a Potential Enemy? One of my readers faxed me a copy of an article entitled "Clinton and Beijing" written by Peter Zhang in the current issue of "The New Australian" which proves that, while most Americans appear to have swept Clinton's impeachment and questions about his morals under the rug, people in other nations have not. The great "free" press of America, which smugly concluded that NATO destroying the Yugoslavia broadcast studios was "good" because it was supposedly not telling the truth, has simply not told ...

              London Bows to the Scots, but Nobody's             Happy for A' That             By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS                  EDINBURGH -- It's not just the 17th Earl of Lauderdale, barred                  from his family's centuries-old role as the monarch's flag-bearer                  in Scotland, who is miffed.             Attempts to dilute the pomp and pageantry at Thursday's opening of             Scotland's first separate Parliament in nearly three centuries have             backfired: Neither the modernizers nor the traditionalists are happy.             Queen Elizabeth II will formally open the 129-member Parliament,             which will have the power to raise taxes and ...

Decadence I once read that America has gone from adolescence to decadence without ever maturing, thus at least partially contradicting Oswald Spengler’s thesis that the historical forms of government follow a logical sequence just like an individual; birth, growth, maturity, dissolution, and finally death. The thought made an impression on me, and I’m beginning to believe it is absolutely true. The decadence part is easy to substantiate for most of us. It’s only extreme modern liberals who believe that our society is on the right track, and their beliefs have been shaken a bit by the Littleton school massacre, though ...