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With Fourth of July fireworks still flashing in the retinal memory, it is a good time to remember that one of the blessings of liberty is the right to define your freedoms as you wish. Unfortunately, while you're defining your freedoms, a number of our political leaders are busy redefining them. Thus, when they insist that their latest legislative issue is not about the First Amendment, it generally is. We've seen numerous examples of this tendency in recent weeks, both in Congress and on the pre-presidential campaign trail. To cite a few: Efforts to amend the First Amendment, to breach ...

Grim truth about Kosovo is surfacing July 6, 1999 The situation in Kosovo following the NATO air war "victory" looks grimmer by the day — and new information emerging increasingly belies claims made by various NATO governments during the conflict. In today's calmer, brighter light, some of the wrenching statements by officials seem more aimed at building support for a bombing campaign against a recognized sovereign nation that had not invaded its neighbors, than for offering an honest picture of events in Kosovo as they knew them. The aftermath of this war supports the skepticism of many critics and should ...

Subject: 7/6/99 The following is a series of two e-mail exchanges between me and Ron Dietel, Director of Communications CRESST/UCLA ron@ucla.edu I found the discussion informative with regard to interpretation of improved Stanford-9 (SAT-9) test scores that have come out and will come out soon, as well as the role of other components of the testing process, such as the augmentation exam. Ron has been extremely helpful in all of this and has OK'd this release. Mike McKeown ----------- MIKE = Mike McKeown Ron = Ron Dietel · FIRST EXCHANGE * Mike: Barbara Miller at EdSource recommended that you ...

Times are a changin in Nevada! First we demonstrate every 2nd Saturday. THAT IS THIS SATURDAY! When: 10am until noon Under the big shade trees of the Capitol. Where: Out side of the fence infront of the Capitol on 395 & Musser in Carson City: We are meeting at POP's for lunch afterwards at 3rd & Carson(395). HOPE WE SEE YOU THERE!

CHICAGO (AP) -- The white supremacist suspect in the deadly two-state shooting spree got his guns last month from an illegal gun dealer, a federal agent said today. Benjamin Nathaniel Smith bought the guns from an unlicensed gun dealer in the Peoria area, said Jerry Singer, a special agent for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The rampage, which included shootings of minorities in several Illinois cities and in Bloomington, Ind., ended Sunday with Smith, 21, committing suicide as police tried to arrest him in the southern Illinois town of Salem. Singer said Smith bought a Bryco ...

News item from the Associated Press, July 4, 1999: A ring of children as young as 7 in a small Pennsylvania community taught each other to have sex, and a half-dozen of them have been charged in juvenile court. The children, all students at Northeastern Middle School or York Haven Elementary School, hid their activities from adults but readily answered questions asked by police. Their candor was all the more troubling, said Newberry Township Police Chief Bill Myers. "These kids knew that what they were doing wasn't right, but they didn't know it was as bad as it was," Myers ...

ALL BUSH SUPPORTERS - SIGN IN HERE, PLEASE! THREAD 3 FORGOT TO PUT THAT ON THE OTHER ONE, SORRY I would like to know who all of you are - we may be in the minority here, but let's gather together. Sign in, please. Don't be shy now...let's talk. Anyone with an open mind is also welcome to add their name to our list...I am sick of being trashed day after day...how about you?

The chronicle of the Serbian sufferings on Kosovo and Metohija continues also this afternoon. Nikoleta Vujovic called the Monastery of the Patriarchate of Pec and told that her husband Vladan was abducted along with the Albanian Ujkan Maljoku, who tried to defend him. Today the Albanians also attempted to burn down the house of Natalija Babovic in Pec. She also sought refuge in the Monastery of Patriarchate of Pec, but her house remained in uncertainty. In Pristina, Albanians attacked with a tractor the car of the priest Miroslav Popadic, who hardly succeeded to save him by moving to the ...

ALL BUSH SUPPORTERS - SIGN IN HERE, PLEASE! I would like to know who all of you are - we may be in the minority here, but let's gather together. Sign in, please. Don't be shy now...let's talk. Anyone with an open mind is also welcome to add their name to our list...I am sick of being trashed day after day...how about you?

Clinton's visit to Phoenix: "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" by Greg Swann Here's the kind of yarn newspapers love to print: If the elderly [real-estate] buyers defaulted on their monthly installments for more than thirty days they found that all their previous payments were classified merely as "rent" and that they had no equity in the land at all, regardless of how much they had put down or paid in. The results could be devastating. Clyde Soapes, a grain-elevator operator from Texas, put $3,000 down and faithfully made thirty-five monthly payments of $244.69, ... ...

Speaker Hastert Declares: "Failure to act could hurt G.O.P...We're going to have common-sense gun legislation sooner or later. If we don't get it passed, our friends on the other side or going to shoot it at us a bullet at a time." BY JON CHRISTIAN RYTER Author of THE BAFFLED CHRISTIAN'S HANDBOOK and WHATEVER HAPPENED TO AMERICA? House speaker J. Dennis Hastert said on Friday, July 2 that he would like Congress to approve some form of gun control legislation this year. Hastert says he believes there is room for a compromise with the anti-gun members of Congress. So, what ...

Original story click here Mugabe warns farmers of more land seizures By David Blair in Harare ZIMBABWE'S mainly white farmers were warned yesterday of further land seizures as President Mugabe called for a renewed "struggle" to complete his redistribution programme by the Millennium. At the funeral of Joshua Nkomo, the nationalist leader who died last Thursday aged 83, Mr Mugabe said: "We say to those with economic power, open up. We want the land. You have 12 million hectares. We want five or six million. There is the fight still to be fought, there is the struggle." Criticising the 75,000 ...

Haines, Alaska This is the third column I've written in a year about taking guns away from angry, mixed up people. So you'll pardon me if the latest round of congressional hearings on gun control have left me a teeny bit frustrated. The other two columns tried to answer the why of it all. You know, the school shootings being symptomatic of society's problems as a whole. I think it's safe to say most Americans would agree with that. But I also wrote that since there isn't a quick fix to what ails our young people, we should make ...

CHICAGO - The white supremacist suspect in the deadly two-state shooting spree got his guns last month from an illegal gun dealer, a federal agent said Tuesday. Benjamin Nathaniel Smith bought the guns from an unlicensed gun dealer in the Peoria, Ill., area, said Jerry Singer, a special agent for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The rampage, which included shootings of minorities in several Illinois cities and in Bloomington, Ind., ended Sunday with Smith, 21, committing suicide as police tried to arrest him. Singer said Smith bought a Bryco .380-caliber semiautomatic handgun on June 26, days after ...

NEW ERA OF RAUNCHY FILMS GROSSES OUT HOLLYWOOD LOS ANGELES: Remember when Hollywood insisted that male and female actors sleep in separate beds and wear sets of pajamas even when the script said they were married? And remember when the cameras panned to the heavens and the music swelled but you never caught a glimpse of the hanky panky on the muddy earth below? Boy, are you old. This is the summer of the high-grossing gross-out film in Hollywood, a time when boundaries of good taste have not only been exceeded but smashed to smithereens, a time when filmmakers ...

Call Your Representatives If you are fed up with our China Policy and want to help please take a moment of your time to call your Congressional Representative's Home Office. The yearly MFN battle is raging on the Hill and they need our help to win the vote. The vote is next week, so please call the Home District offices. If you call the DC offices it does not make as big of an impact, and if you have the time it is best to stop by the offices in person. Also please pass this post to alert others. Thanks ...

Michael Fortier won a second chance at freedom Wednesday when a federal appeals court ruled his 12- year prison sentence was too tough. He could be resentenced in Oklahoma City as early as August and out of prison days later. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He could be released very soon," said his attorney, Michael McGuire of Tulsa. "It's time for us to be ... treated fairly. ... What he's already done is longer than he should have done." The 32-page ruling by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals angered victims of the deadly 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building ...

Poll 'about vice president's weakness' As a Princeton All-America basketball player, his Tigers had little trouble dispatching the Harvard Crimson. Later as a New York Knick, Bradley was famous for manhandling the Boston Celtics' all-timer John Havlicek as the Knicks eclipsed the Celts in the early 1970s. Now Bradley's low-key campaign for president has received a boost from voters here. In a recent statewide survey, the former New Jersey senator pulled into a statistical dead heat with Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic nomination. Even more dramatic is Bradley's showing against potential Republican rivals Elizabeth Dole and George W. ...

Louisiana School Respect Now a Law By GUY COATES Associated Press Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Gov. Mike Foster on Tuesday signed the nation's first state law requiring students to address teachers as ``ma'am'' or ``sir'' or use the appropriate title of Mr., Miss, Ms. or Mrs. The Republican governor and other politicians said the law will help return respect to the classroom. The law will apply to those in kindergarten through fifth grade beginning next fall. Higher grades will be phased in over the next few years, one grade per year. No punishment is included in the law. ...

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