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In yesterday's article, Reuters coined another deceptive brand name, "Anti-trade" demonstrators. Like its predecessor, "isolationist", it sets up a straw man for New World Order advocates to shoot down. Trade is not the object of the protests. It is the international regulations promulgated by the World Trade Organization to which which ten thousands of Americans visibly object as they represent millions back at home. It is not trade that is being protested. It is the WTO's usurpations of national sovereignty to which Howard Phillips, Pat Buchanan, Gary Bauer, Ralph Nader, and others object. When the Constitution says that Congress, the ...

Roots   For hillary clinton, don't discount the primal importance of the house, the money and the status. All analyses of the clintons have been predicated on the proposition that he is Hots Springs White Trash and she is Park Ridge White Anglo-Saxon Swell. But, implicit in Hillary's Choice (Gail Sheehy) is the proposition that the rodhams and the clintons differ less in their demographics than in their discomfort with their demographics.   Whereas the clintons wallow in their lower-class origins, underscoring it at every opportunity with a nasty mix of meretricious ornamentation and demeritorious behavior, the repressed rodhams ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Average citizens fill a classroom and learn how a police SWAT team operates. They're intrigued by the concept of the "scout,'' the man who leads the charge into a hostage situation or a drug bust. "How do you choose the positions? I mean, to me, the scout should be single, someone who's not going to leave a widow and five kids,'' said one woman, drawing laughter. Actually, the positions are chosen according to seniority and expertise. But the question hangs in the air: What sort of person would want to be the first through the door? ...

Donald Trump, the self-described "clean-hands freak" who may or may not wash his hands of a presidential run, continued his most publicized crusade a few nights ago: to eradicate the time-honored habit of shaking hands. Handshaking, in the Trumpean view of life, is on a cultural par with boiling tourists. "It's a terrible custom," he said on CNN. "It's almost barbaric." He went on to say that he had received more letters, most of them supportive, on his handshaking views than on any other topic. This does not speak well for him as a major political force. But like any ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A homeless panhandler with a long criminal history was arraigned today on attempted murder charges, accused of smashing a young woman on the head with a brick on a crowded street. Paris Drake, 32, also is charged with assault and criminal possession of a deadly weapon for allegedly hitting Nicole Barrett with a six-pound paving stone. Ms. Barrett has undergone brain surgery twice and her prospects for a full recovery are unclear, said Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon. "For all intents and purposes Ms. Barrett's life ended the day she was attacked,'' Illuzzi-Orbon said at ...

Although the government opposes a proposed re-creation of the final day of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege, Justice Department officials on Tuesday submitted the names of three experts in the field of infrared imaging as potential participants in the test. U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. of Waco, who is presiding over the civil lawsuit filed against the government by Branch Davidian survivors, invited attorneys on both sides last month to nominate neutral experts to help recreate the final day at Mount Carmel. His order came after Special Counsel John Danforth, who is investigating the events of April ...

  How Many Atrocities Does It Take To Get Into USA Today? By President Pierre Buyoya, Burundi       I slaughter, and I slaughter, and I slaughter. And do I get any recognition for all my bloodshed? Nope. Since seizing power in Burundi in a 1996 military coup, I have been responsible for countless barbarous acts, committing far worse crimes against humanity than that so-called madman Slobodan Milosevic. Yet it's as if I don't even exist! How many atrocities does it take to get into USA Today?       I'm a single man holding an entire nation ...

The Missouri Department of Transportation on Tuesday begrudgingly erected two signs announcing that the Ku Klux Klan has adopted a 1-mile stretch of Interstate 55 in south St. Louis County. Transportation department workers put up the two brown "Adopt-A-Highway" signs announcing that the Ku Klux Klan will pick up trash, plant flowers and mow the stretch of Interstate 55 from about a mile south of Lindbergh Boulevard to Butler Hill Road. The signs, which cost taxpayers between $50 and $75 each to make, went up just before noon Tuesday. The director of the transportation department, Henry Hungerbeeler, said at a ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 1999 Contact: Joe Giganti (202) 646-5172 Clinton Donor Gave New Information on Chinagate to Judicial Watch Johnny Chung Speech To Group First Public Revelation That DNC Knew Big Clinton Donor Tied To Chinese Military Clinton Justice Department Has Done Nothing with Chung's Information (Washington, D.C.) Johnny Chung, the former Clinton fundraiser who has bravely admitted to funneling money from the Chinese military to Bill Clinton's political campaigns, told Judicial Watch on October 5, 1999 that Don Fowler, the then-head of the DNC knew that one of Chung's associates and DNC donor, Col. Liu Chao-ying, was ...

  Above: Christ anxiously eyes his fast-approaching birthday.       JERUSALEM--Jesus Christ, son of God and savior of humanity, confided Monday that He is not looking forward to His 2,000th birthday next year, saying that He is "really dreading turning the big two-oh-oh-oh."       "This is the Big One," said Christ, who will be 1,999 Dec. 25. "I can't believe I'm actually turning 2,000 soon. I am seriously getting up there."       Though His associates have been keeping Him in good company as the milestone draws near, Christ said He is finding it increasingly ...

We boomers will bust the federal budget 11/29/99 I read in a newspaper the other day that former Jefferson Airplane lead singer Grace Slick had recently turned 60. Far out. She is just one of many aging rock stars for whom the term "the '60s" is taking on a whole new meaning. When he's 64, Paul McCartney will be just about seven years older than he is right now. For those of us who grew up in the '60s, this is depressing. I can understand Grace Slick getting older. What I can't understand is me getting older. I think I ...

AN important prelude to the 2000 elections could take place in Seattle, if organizers can produce their hoped-for "protest of the century" against the Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization that began yesterday. Doubters scoff at this. While activists urged people to travel to Seattle to protest the WTO, nine of 10 Americans probably can't explain what the organization is. So they won't pay attention to complaints that the WTO is about to become an unelected fourth branch of the U.S. government, or that it is a Magna Carta for U.S. multinational corporations to further decrease their ...

Poll finds many N.J. factories mum on the millennium bug Wednesday, December 1, 1999 By DEBRA LYNN VIALStaff Writer Many New Jersey chemical companies are refusing to say whether their factories are prepared for potential year 2000 computer problems, says a study by a state environmental group. The Work Environment Council has called for Governor Whitman to order immediate spot-checks of plants because almost half of 50 factories surveyed failed to answer even the most basic questions about safety. Although that does not mean the plants are unprepared, it is upsetting in an industry that already reports hundreds of accidents ...

I think it is time that we form the FREE REPUBLIC PARTY. We have been sold down the river by the administration and the Republicans. Since there are FREEPERS everywhere across this great land, lets moblize for freedom. I am a new poster(surprised)so I am sure that someone has already mentioned this.

DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: STRANGE JUSTICE SUBSECTION: Judge Margaret Morrow Revised 11/26/99 Dr Raoul 11/16/99 From WABC Talk Maven Lynn Samuel's website.... "….And keep your eye on this suit against the Free Republic. You don't have to agree with this far-right wing web-site to see the danger in major media outlets suing citizens for posting articles on the Internet for the sole purpose of discussing them. What will happen if you e-mail an article to a friend. Will you be open to being sued too? ….Could there be a political reason for this? The "freepers" ...

We Americans do not know what Liberty is! We (those of us under 80) have never experienced real liberty in our lifetime. Oh sure, Roosevelt didn't start bringing actual socialism to the United States until after 1933. But even the adults living then did not realize the true benefits of a fully Constitutional form of government because they were living during a depression. Academically, in concept, we know what Liberty and a Constitutional form of government means. Yeah, in theory we know. But not practically. In reality, we Americans have no experience with the freedom intended by the Founding Fathers, ...

Bands Cancel Plans For Fiesta Bowl - (TEMPE) -- Officials with the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe say several marching bands have canceled plans to attend their parade and band competition because of Y2K fears. Apparently some parents are worried about possible computer problems effecting travel around January first. The good news is that cancellations have opened up opportunities for local bands to compete in the event.

       "As the events in Kosovo unfolded, few questioned the imperative for war. But the obscurities of the Rambouillet negotiations reveal a hidden agenda; one that has paved the way for Nato's unaccountable abuse of power in the future. Rebecca Sumner uncovers what we were never told."        There was Nato, an overtly American-led and militaristic organisation, engaging in a war from which it apparently stood to gain very little. We might object to the propaganda and deplore the civilian killings, but few of us questioned the fundamental imperative for war. Wrong-footed, we stood about bemused, reluctantly agreeing with ...

Please submit your questions to the Dauphin for the upcoming New Hamphire "debate" (ie. royal procession). Our Demoblican screeners will sift through the suggestions eliminating those lacking in compassion and any that require an objective or factual answer. Please limit your supplications to the following topics: Prep-School Ties, Baseball, The Divine Right of Kings, Zeppelin, Really Cool Weapons of the Future, Cayman Islands resorts, and Kick-Arse Texas Spice Rubs.And now, the softballs, please:

There was a story from the Vancouver Sun yesterday night that Castro had arrived in Seattle via Vancouver. This story was not being covered by any other news source so I decided to call the Sun newsdesk and they told me the story from a source at Air Canada was incorrect and that Castro is not in Seattle. The story is still on their web page as of this moment. click here