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In the classroom where I tutor, a five-year-old boy is fighting with the letter E. With knees bent and shoulders cocked, he is poised on his bench as though ready to pounce. His whole being is devoted to this singular, monumental task. I focus on him over the din of the classroom. I see the blunt pencil caught in his grip, and I realize that an entire process is beginning again. Tens of thousands of years of evolution are being re-enacted right in front of me. E! This simple figure, an outstretched claw. Or three branches, anchored by a trunk ...

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Over the past 9 months, we have had the pleasure of speaking with the people who man a 24 hour a day, seven day a week, 365 day a year protest vigil in Lafayette Park on the other side of 1600 Penn Ave.They are an interesting group of people and very, very knowledgeable about world politics in general and the the comings and goings on Penn Ave in particular. Below are some links to pages on their website about their observations on the FReepers. And oh yeah.....that picture of Carol Moore topless. She said she did it because she was ...

Here's something to ponder as you spend July 4th. Few Americans are aware of the tremendous sacrifices made by the brave and selfless men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Have you ever wondered what happened to those men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by British as traitors and were tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked or burned. Two lost their sons in the Revolutionary army. Another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or the hardships of war. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four ...

WHITE PRIVILEGE SHAPES THE U.S.Follow me by Robert Jensen Department of Journalism University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 work: (512) 471-1990 rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu copyright Robert William Jensen 1998 first appeared in the Baltimore Sun, July 19, 1998 Here's what white privilege sounds like: I am sitting in my University of Texas office, talking to a very bright and very conservative white student about affirmative action in college admissions, which he opposes and I support. The student says he wants a level playing field with no unearned advantages for anyone. I ask him whether he thinks that in the United States being ...

"No man survives when freedom fails, the best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry appease, appease are hanged by those they tried to please." --Hiram Mann Merchants of Death Friday June 12, 1:55 pm Eastern Time Forget Lewinsky. Satellites are what fuel scandals By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - Most Americans would get along just fine if they never heard of Monica Lewinsky again. But let one bus-sized satellite turn its back on the world, and thousands of normally well-ordered lives screech to a halt. They may not be sexy, but satellite deals are a ...

SKOPJE, Macedonia, July 2 (UPI) - A soldier with the U.S. KFOR peacekeeping force was shot and critically wounded when a machinegun manned by a fellow soldier preparing to go out on patrol accidentally discharged. A KFOR spokesman says the soldier was immediately treated for a shoulder wound and is in stable condition. The incident occurred at midday today at Camp Bondsteel, a location of a task force headquarters for the U.S. military sector in Kosovo. This is the second such accident of the peacekeeping mission. Last month, an Italian soldier was killed when a colleague dropped his rifle, ...

Republicans Thwart Clinton on New Teachers By STEVEN A. HOLMES WASHINGTON -- For the second time in three months, Congressional Republicans have voted to block the Clinton Administration's plan to hire 100,000 new teachers and reduce class sizes. In a straight party-line vote, Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Work Force on Wednesday defeated a Democratic amendment to an education bill that among other things would have authorized $1.2 billion in the next fiscal year to finance the initiative. The amendment offered by Representative Matthew G. Martinez, Democrat of California, was defeated 23 to 21. The committee ...

ANN COULTER HUMAN EVENTS 6/10/99 Gun Don’t Kill People, The Department of Justice Does In June of 1997, Tony Leong, convicted felon caught with a handgun illegally in his possession was returned to the streets because the Department of Justice refused to enforce the law. Not the law that prohibits convicted felons from owning guns, though that was the incidental effect, since he could not be prosecuted. The law is section 3501 of title 18, enacted two years after the Supreme Court decided Miranda v. Arizona. Though lavishly praised in this space, this provision in the Omnibus Crime Control Act ...

Alan Keyes' speech to the New Hampshire Christian Coalition Feb. 16, 1996 Good Evening! Thank you very much! Thank you! Thank you very much! What I have to do this evening is a little bit of a departure from the usual campaign speeches. I think a lot of people here know where I stand and what my campaign represents. Indeed the message of this campaign began to resonate first of all in New Hampshire, when we declared unequivocally that the issues that this country faces are not just money issues but moral issues, that have to be dealt with or ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of Americans getting married has dropped to a 40-year-low as divorce and changing attitudes have replaced ``I do'' with ``I won't,'' researchers said Friday. A study by Rutgers University's National Marriage Project found that Americans have not given up on marriage as an ideal, but statistics show a precipitous drop since 1960 in the number of couples who actually walk down the aisle. ``The institution of marriage is in serious trouble,'' said David Popenoe, who co-wrote the study, ``The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America,'' with Barbara Dafoe Whitehead. ...

Senate Amendment of Foreign Aid Bill Would Pay for KLA Terrorists Becoming Kosovo Police As many of you are already aware the Senate last night passed a foreign aid bill for 12.7 billion dollars. The bill included an amendment which designated Yugoslavia as a terrorist state. The provisions to declare Yugoslavia a terrorist state would bar American Aid there and let Kosovo terrorists sue President Slobodan Milosevic for damages in American Courts. The bill includes $20 million for training and equipping a Kosovo security force that its authors say could include members of the KLA. Senator Mitch McConnell, a ...

  This really started to bother me this week when I went to my Optometrist and he recommended a sizeable increase to my eyeglass prescription. Prior to the "Self Search" feature, which I use regularly, my eyesight hadn't diminished for nearly 10 years. Has anyone else experienced this? I find myself using the "Self Search" feature at least 4 or 5 times a day...I mean if it feels good do it right? Is Joycelin Elders working with Free Republic's software development team? Any suggestions on renaming this feature? Happy Fourth of July!  

If you have ever wanted to go into politics or become a part of government, the Constitutional Government Simulation is a site worth looking at. In what is basically a bulletin board with a purpose, anyone with a valid e-mail address, an Internet connection and a couple of hours a week can become a policy maker or committee member. We have 100 participants and as offices fill up and the House reaches 435 members and the Senate reaches 100 a waiting list will be imposed and members of the formed political parties will decide who goes next. From the looks ...

If you have ever wanted to go into politics or become a part of government, the Constitutional Government Simulation is a site worth looking at. In what is basically a bulletin board with a purpose, anyone with a valid e-mail address, an Internet connection and a couple of hours a week can become a policy maker or committee member. We have 100 participants and as offices fill up and the House reaches 435 members and the Senate reaches 100 a waiting list will be imposed and members of the formed political parties will decide who goes next. From the looks ...

For whatever we think and believe about various aspects of the United States, this seems to be worth thinking about....... Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? 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 serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What ...

ASHINGTON - America's triumphant general in the Kosovo war received less than a hero's welcome yesterday from US senators, who criticized the lack of readiness for a ground invasion, poor intelligence estimates, and the now open-ended mission of American peacekeepers. In his first extensive public assessment of NATO's 11-week air war, General Wesley K. Clark, the alliance's supreme allied commander in Europe, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that his troops believed the war was a ''very just cause.'' He called the battle ''a testament to political unity and the will of NATO members to stand up to the humanitarian ...

If you have ever wanted to go into politics or become a part of government, the Constitutional Government Simulation is a site worth looking at. In what is basically a bulletin board with a purpose, anyone with a valid e-mail address, an Internet connection and a couple of hours a week can become a policy maker or committee member. We have 100 participants and as offices fill up and the House reaches 435 members and the Senate reaches 100 a waiting list will be imposed and members of the formed political parties will decide who goes next. From the looks ...

Substituting for Sean Hannity, Drudge is taking the 3 pm to 6 pm show at 770 AM in NYC

BOMBAY, July 2 (AFP) - Indian customs have detained a North Korean ship in the western port of Kandla on suspicion of carrying arms for arch-rival Pakistan, officials said Friday. Officials at the Kandla Port Trust told AFP the ship, Ku Wol Sun, was detained on Wednesday and was currently being searched by teams from the Customs and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. "A team of defence experts are also expected today to search the ship," the official said. The ship reportedly took on 148 boxes of water refining and filtering equipment from a North Korean port, to be unloaded ...