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I copied this from the World Congress of Families' website. Those interested in defending the "Natural Family" can add their electronic signature to many others. Please read and click on the link below to go to the site where you can sign. We come together from diverse national, cultural, social and faith communities to affirm the natural human family. The natural family is the fundamental social unit, inscribed in human nature, and centered around the voluntary union of a man and a woman in a lifelong covenant of marriage for the purposes of: satisfying the longings of the human ...

With the announcement back on April 21, that Gary Bauer will seek the GOP nomination for president came the thought among more than a few conservatives that the GOP is about ready to give birth to a new party. Recently, New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith told the Washington Times that he "believe(s) you may well have seen the beginnings of a third-party movement in the country, which will spell the end of the Republican party." It's no secret that the major GOP party apparati are now in the hands of those who the conservatives would call liberals. Of course those ...

The most publicity a politician ever had from one event in New York was when Mayor John Lindsay switched from a Republican to a Democrat in the summer of 1972. The evening news took eight and nine minutes to tell of a political move that supposedly was of unparalleled magnitude. Everyone proclaimed that Lindsay would run for president in the Democratic primaries and then against Richard Nixon and enthrall the nation. With all the publicity you ever saw, he went out and got 40 votes in one Democratic primary, 20 in another and was gone forever. Today, this Hillary ...

FRENCH children are to benefit from welfare payments until the age of 22 under a plan to help parents to meet the financial burden of the stay-at-home generation. Lionel Jospin, the Prime Minister, will today announce a Fr2 billion (£200 million) extension to allowances granted to middle-income families until their children are 20. The move is designed to head off a crisis in the middle classes. With three-quarters of French 20-year-olds now living at home, and only a handful of them earning a salary, the "load is heavy and the situation is worrying", said Hubert Brin, president of the ...

Madison -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of Wisconsin's largest business organization in a long-awaited decision involving free speech and issue ads targeting candidates in political campaigns. In a 4-2 decision, the court upheld the dismissal of a complaint the state Elections Board filed against Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce and its affiliates. In 1996, WMC ran a series of controversial ads chiefly against Sens. Chuck Chvala (D-Madison) and Lynn Adelman (D-Town of Waterford). But WMC maintained the ads were not subject to state election laws because they did not meet the magic words test of ...

With Hillary Clinton's decision to explore a possible run for the Senate seat vacated in New York State by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the political landscape appears to be gaining a clarity it hasn't had since the arrival of Bill Clinton in the White House. Bill Clinton has been the kind of politician folks refer to as a centrist, meaning by this that no one can really tell where he stands -- he follows the polls, period, and this gives him no core, only a style of flexibility. Bill Clinton can sound populist one day, liberal the next, and even libertarian ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 7, 1999 CONTACT: TOM FITTON (202) 646-5172 YOUR BANK CAN NOW STEAL YOUR MONEY ON Y2K AND YOU ARE ALMOST POWERLESS TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT IN BIPARTISAN MANEUVER, BILL CLINTON AND CONGRESS CONSPIRE TO DENY AMERICANS THEIR RIGHT TO GET ALL OF THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY BACK FROM YEAR 2000 CORPORATE INCOMPETENCE Once Again, Rich Silicon Valley Donors Drive Public Policy At The Expense of Working, Taxpaying Americans (Washington, DC, July 6, 1999) Judicial Watch, continuing its principled opposition to the dangerous influence of rich political donors over politicians of both parties, said that the recent ...

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ORLANDO-- The nude body of a 27-year-old man was found early Tuesday at SeaWorld in the tank of a killer whale that had been involved in a trainer's death eight years ago.A park employee spotted the man's body draped over the back of Tillikum about 7:35 a.m. in one of the killer whale pools behind Shamu Stadium, said Jim Solomons, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Office. The man's swimming suit was found in the tank.Tillikum, used for breeding, is the largest killer whale in captivity at 11,000 pounds and is considered dangerous. In 1991, a trainer in Canada ...

Note: This is an exact replication of National Public Radio (NPR) interview between a female broadcaster, and US Army General Reinwald who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military installation. INTERVIEWER: " So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?" GENERAL REINWALD: 'We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and shooting." INTERVIEWER: "Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?" GENERAL REINWALD: "I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range." INTERVIEWER: "Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity ...

Another example that Hillary has no business representing New York is her complete lack of knowledge of the state. News reports, which will be posted once in print, make mention of this latest gaffe. Gloversville is an upstate town once known for manufacturing 99% of the gloves in the country. Refering to it as "Glovetown" is like referring to Hot Springs as as whoresville. She is making more gaffes than even algor the ozone hole. I'll bet she know where to shop in NYC for "large lady" clothes big enough to cover her tree trunk calfs.

Whatever Happened to Iraqgate?; Candidate Clinton vowed to get to the bottom of the Iraqgate scandal. Was it swept under the rug because of the CIA - - or Hillary? Kenneth R. Timmerman The American Spectator November, 1996 Kenneth R. Timmerman is the author of The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq (Houghton Mifflin) and publisher of Iran Brief, a monthly newsletter. As the 1992 presidential race reached its final days, Bill Clinton promised that, if elected, he would appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate allegations by congressional Democrats that the U.S. government had secretly been aiding the ...

This article is the text of an address that was delivered at the annual meeting of the National Reform Association on October 24, 1997 at Geneva College. Interposition is to intervene, to come between. Politically, interposition occurs when a magistrate ends a rebellion--by some of the people, or by other magistrates. Interposition in the sense of quelling the rebellion of a group of people seems to be readily understood. Most people agree that quelling rebellions of the people is a legitimate role of a magistrate. Agreement drops off quickly when we add that interposition also applies to a magistrate who ...

Anyone care to join me in a letter-writing campaign to the liberal media, protesting the overkill coverage of Hillary for Senate campaign? I will not view any channel carrying this crap.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Like schoolchildren waiting for their class picture, 18 New Hampshire Democratic state lawmakers milled on the steps of the State House here, awaiting their cue to stand up and formally endorse their candidate for president: Bill Bradley. The made-for-television event last week, held in the stifling heat during the Legislature's lunch break, provided another example of the heights the former senator from New Jersey has reached on his uphill quest for the Democratic presidential nomination. ``There is just something about this man that I find very appealing,'' state Rep. James Curran, one of the 18, ...

Don't Let the Smile Fool You Mother always admonished us never to judge a book by its cover. Wise words indeed, but impossible to hew to all the time. Looks are important. First impressions persist until overwhelmed by subsequent experiences. Ted Bundy became a hugely successful mass murderer of young women in large part due to his attractive appearance and demeanor. He was a charmer. Had a nice smile. Was good looking. Ted Bundy leaped to mind when I read a New York Times account of how there is mounting evidence that Flipper ain’t what he seems to be, either. ...

During the Vietnam War, USAF's Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service saved more than 3,800 lives. Of that number, 2,800 were US military, including 680 Naval aviators. This is a story about the rescue of one Navy pilot, Lt. j.g. Larry Duthie, downed by enemy ground fire near Nam Dinh in the Red River delta about 45 miles southeast of Hanoi, on July 18, 1967. The Navy had its own air rescue system, using carrier-based helicopters. When Lieutenant Duthie bailed out of his burning aircraft, his wingman alerted the carrier on emergency frequency. A Navy helicopter was dispatched to locate and ...

Nobody knows what will happen when Y2K sweeps east across Chinese and Russian nuclear facilities. Midnight Crossing Experts refer to the long-anticipated moment as the "midnight crossing." It will arrive in the western Pacific at the stroke of midnight--local time--on Dec. 31, 1999. Inhabitants of the small Pacific islands will officially become the first humans to enter the 21st century. Their computers will come along with them into the Year 2000, also known as Y2K. When the midnight crossing occurs, senior US officials will be intently staring at screens in a Year 2000 Operations Center that will be up ...

The late I.F. Stone was probably the finest reporter this country has produced. So penetrating was his research, gleaned through glasses like Coca-Cola bottle bottoms, and so incisive were his questions that he drove the Truman and Eisenhower White House staffs nuts. Much of what's missing in today's Washington press corps, largely a kennel of lap dogs or show breeds, is an Izzy Stone to keep both the interviewed and the interviewers honest. Izzy could also write like an archangel. In one of his final columns, he pictured Albert Einstein paying a heavenly visit, in which he beseeched "Mr. X" ...

Albany -- Giuliani is supported by 49% and Clinton by 40% of those questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton's potential candidacy for the U.S. Senate now has less support from New Yorkers than it had four months ago, according to an upstate poll released Tuesday. A matchup between the First Lady and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani would see the Republican favorite prevail with 49 percent of the vote, and the First Lady trailing with 40 percent, according to a poll commissioned by the Siena Research Institute in Loudonville. That's a turnabout from a similar survey in March, when Clinton ...