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The New York Times, for want of a better analogy, is the Vatican of secular liberalism. Its moral authority dominates the terrain and, not unrelatedly, it is slow to change. But when it does, the cultural repercussions are profound, as when the Vatican rehabilitated Galileo or when it recognized the compatibility of Catholic faith and evolutionary theory. Of course, for its critics, such reversals are always too late, and simply serve to highlight how long the Church was wrong in the first place. Still, for detractors of the Times, the recent Times Magazine cover story last Sunday, "The Rehabilitation ...

Protesters are shocked that Seattle Police Officers are confiscating gas masks and radios that protesters use to coordinate their activities. Seattle Mayor Paul Schell's emergency order (supported by the City Council & Governor) bans gas masks purchases, transfers, or possession. Police were reported to have said to one protester this morning, "You had it your way, now we'll do it our way." Police are actively enforcing no-protest ordinances, and reacting rapidly to any blockages of roads, streets or public thoroughfares. As of 1:30 pm PST, over 250 protesters arrested and taken to the former Naval Station Sand Point brig. For ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington November 30,1999 Mayor Paul Schell 600 Fourth Avenue 12th Floor Seattle, WA 98104 Re: Tuesday WTO Protests Dear Mayor Schell: The ACLU objects to the imposition of a curfew covering the entire downtown area of Seattle. This invocation of emergency powers prevents all citizens from pursuing their lawful business, including the constitutionally protected business of peaceful, nonviolent protest. Regrettably, a small fraction of today's overwhelmingly peaceful crowd committed vandalism and other crimes for which they could legitimately be arrested and prosecuted. Their violence interfered with the ability of all to express their views ...

It used to be that you could tell a lot about a Web site just by looking at the letters after the ``dot'' in its address. But as competition for prime Internet addresses intensifies, the most popular dot suffixes for domain names -- .com, .net and .org -- are losing the meanings they once had. Originally, .com was designated for businesses, while .net was for groups or companies involved in network access to the Internet and .org was associated with nonprofit organizations. But not anymore. ``Since about two or three years ago, there is no distinction between .com, .net ...

No kiddin! You can buy your dog a Clinton doll to snarl at, chew on, and toss around. Very satisfying for Freeper pets! Someone who knows how to post a picture, please go get it..it is cute! Following from petopia.com site:Doggy Hoots Presidential Plaything Maximum Flop-Ability Dog Toy, Price: $12.97 Style : Presidential Plaything Doggy Hoots Dog Toys are tested for Maximum Flop-Ability. That means this toy has great floppy parts to whack your dog's head as they are shaken about--dogs consider that a very good thing. Doggy Hoots Dog Toys are made in Vermont by Fat Cat--a company dedicated ...

Allah and urban renewal in Kansas City Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Christian Science Monitor Service By ABRAHAM McLAUGHLIN KANSAS CITY, Kan. (December 1, 1999 11:37 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Most people here used to do just about anything to avoid Quindaro Boulevard. It was lined with signs of inner-city trouble: dingy liquor stores sheathed in security bars, aimless men warily eyeing passers-by, and an abandoned gas station that was home to shootouts and drug deals. That was before the Black Muslims came calling. Now there's the new diner. Its red-and-white star-and-crescent sign - and its conspicuous ...

Kill the WTO Consumers and taxpayers, the world's most exploited and forgotten classes, have no lobbying force at this week's circus-like meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. They are not among the assembled government officials, nor among the grasping non-government organizations, nor among those protesting this magnet for would-be global planners. And yet it is the world's consumers and taxpayers who pay the biggest price for the managed-trade and protectionist politics cooked up at the WTO. The costs far surpass the millions spent on the WTO's lavish suites, limos, feasts, champagne and meetings; they also include the ...

WTO/Seattle Riots: Thread #2 Continued from the Previous Thread by: CounterCounterCulture Seattle Police Fire Tear Gas at WTO Protesters 10:24:38 PDT by ironman Seattle Police Fire Tear Gas at WTO Protesters THREAD II 12:38:21 PDT by SW6906 Seattle Police Fire Tear Gas at WTO Protesters THREAD III 16:53:04 PST by uglybiker The Creep Feels the Protesters Pain in Seattle 11:29:59 PST by thewildthing Protests Delay Start of Seattle WTO Meeting 12:34:05 PDT by thewildthing Marxist-Leninists Protests Become Criminally Violent in Seattle 13:07:43 PST by James Otis LIVE from the WTO-Taking Media to the WTO Streets 13:13:58 PST by HOLA BREAKING: ...

Ten days after a bomb exploded in Bogota in what has been interpreted as a warning to the United States, accused Colombian heroin exporter Jaime Orlando Lara has been extradited to the United States. The transfer was the first time in nearly a decade Colombia has turned over one of its nationals to stand trial in the United States. Despite a terrorist campaign intended to prevent extraditions, President Andres Pastrana signed Lara's extradition papers just hours after explosion, which killed eight bystanders. "In compliance with that executive decision, this citizen was transferred today to the United States," said Gen. Ismael ...

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Resolved: The government should not impose a tax on electronic commerce. That's the topic eight distinguished panelists will debate Dec. 3, when the Emmywinning PBS show Firing Line returns for its fourth visit to The University of Mississippi's Oxford campus. The debate will air nationally Dec. 17 as the finale of the 34-year-old PBS series. Michael Kinsley, editor of the online magazine Slate, will moderate. William F. Buckley Jr., founder and editor-at-large of the National Review and host of Firing Line since its inception in 1966, will head one panel. The other will be chaired by Robert ...

Vote on poll whether U.S. security damaged by handing over Panama Canal. My first post so be gentle.

"the marriage charade" The week that Monica's stroy broke last year I had coffee with senior Democrat staff members on the Hill. They told me "the marriage charade will end with the end of Bill's term." They also told me that the reason she defended Clinton so vigorously is because she knew that if his term ended prematurely, "she would not have a public life." So, it's all been calculated from the beginning. ---Severnside   CO-RAPIST HILLARY CLINTON: Make no mistake. HRC was/is a co-equal partner in clintoncrime. Specifically, HRC raped, too. For two decades, for power, for all ...

Li had secret viewing of `eye in the sky'STORY: JERUSALEM: National People's Congress chairman Li Peng, the highest-ranking mainland official ever to visit Israel, made a secret trip to view an Israeli airborne warning and control system aircraft, the daily Haaretz reported yesterday. Mr Li was said to have joined officials of Israel Aircraft Industries for the trip just outside Tel Aviv on Tuesday. The aircraft is a modified Russian Ilyushin-76 transporter carrying an ultra-sophisticated radar system. It can log 60 targets simultaneously and operate in a range up to 400 kilometres in any kind of weather. Under a 1996 ...

GENEVA -- When your opponents uncork a vintage whine, you know you're doing something right. The World Congress of Families, which recently met in Geneva has come under fire from those who are using the United Nations to deconstruct the traditional family. In The Guardian, Britain's premier leftist rag, Gordon Urquhart warns of "a new and potentially dangerous form of interfaith collaboration." Why, there are evangelicals and Moslems, Mormons and Catholics coalescing in the city of Calvin, Urquhart frets. This, he explains, is the latest phase of a partnership begun at the U.N.'s 1994 population conference in Cairo, when the ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Welcome to Seattle, the mayor said: It's a city that knows how to hash out disagreements "Northwest-style, in a civil, reasonable environment.'' That was last week. On Wednesday, following two days of violent protests against World Trade Organization meetings, Mayor Paul Schell declared a 50-block "no-protest zone'' that civil libertarians said violated constitutional rights. Schell, clearly shaken by what happened to his city, earlier declared a civil emergency and imposed an overnight curfew, apparently the first here since the Army ordered Japanese citizens off the streets in World War II. "I'm very distressed to see videos ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Riot police broke up a violent protest Tuesday by hundreds of demonstrators who ignited a fire outside a major London train station in a show of force against capitalism and a WTO summit in the United States. In a two-hour rampage, protesters overturned vehicles and disrupted London's evening rush hour commuter travel with their attack on the plaza outside Euston Station in the center of the capital. Kings Cross Station and several other stations in the area were also closed to ensure the violence did not spread to them. A police spokesman said at least three ...

              www.jsonline.com               Return to regular view Original URL: http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/nov99/franka113099a.asp Franklin mayor ousted in recall election Klimetz, taking 70% of vote to defeat Murray, says he'll veto budget as his first act By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: Nov. 30, 1999 Franklin - Four-term Franklin mayor Fred Klimetz unseated incumbent Patrick Murray with a resounding 70% of the vote Tuesday in a special election sought by Murray's foes to recall him from office. Klimetz, who served as mayor from 1990 to 1998, defeated Murray ...

Hillary Clinton now has announced that she intends to announce for the Senate.    How indirect.     So is she in or is she out, or does that    depend on your definition of is?     Apparently there is nothing Mrs. Clinton can do in a simple, straightforward way, at least not in the political realm.     Did she ever decide whether she was for or against clemency for those Puerto Rican terrorists?     Did her silence give consent when she sat by as Yasser Arafat's wife indulged in the usual wild vitriol against Israel?   ...

MULLINGS.COM A Political Cyber-Column Rich Galen Wednesday, December 1, 1999 Having watched the Sunday news programs, a clear pattern has emerged in the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton for U.S. Senator from New York: Mandy Grunwald and The James both began the process of trying to convince us that Hillary is the victim of yet another powerful man. Ms. Grunwald kept talking about the "Sleazy" campaign of Rudy Giuliani while The James talked about going to New York and setting up "anti thuggery committees." Hillary was never so popular as when she was the our National Victim. It is now ...

Retailers Hit Hard by Millennium Bug -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like any good impending disaster, Y2K has made a lot of people rich. Just think about the millions being spent to millennium-proof office and home PC's. With sensational images of haywire jets and Summer of Sam blackouts, who can blame anyone for playing it safe? Then again, when Chicken Little says the sky is falling, the smartest people aren't buying umbrellas; they're selling them. Which brings us to the inevitable fallout of doomsday economics: tchotchkes. In auctions and e-commerce sites across the Web, intrepid marketers are pawning off the next generation of nerd ...