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Once again a handfull of violent natured youths are able to captivate viewers worldwide, undermining any positive goals that may have been attained by those who truly sought to bring about change, without violence. Observation: The mainstream media does all that it can to cover all of the negative aspects of the demonstrations in the streets of Seattle. Hours and days of audio/video tape on the youth gone wild in the streets, meanwhile the actual protesters with genuine concerns regarding the World Trade Organization get mere minutes of coverage, and not a single question about the concerns of the demonstrators ...

The following survey questions were posed in the last 90 days by mail of 18,102 chiefs of police and sheriffs that was recently completed. It represents a cross section of professional officers involving every state with a 11.6% response. The Survey was conducted for the 12th consecutive year by the National Association of Chiefs of Police . Washington D.C. (202)293-9088.Permission is given to reproduce in whole or in part if credit is given to our organization. DEATH PENALTY: 1. Do you believe the death penalty serves as a deterrent to certain types of crimes? (Yes)90.8% 2. Do you believe that ...

Check out KVI in Seattle. Michael Medved is about to have a business owner from downtown who was nearly shot by the police for trying to protect his own store from riots!Click right here!!!

High Country News: November 22, 1999: Western Roundup: Nevadans drive out forest supervisor High Country News Vol. 31, No. 22November 22, 1999 Subscribe Give to HCN Free Issue More About HCN    Write a letter   to the Editor   to the Author High Country News Box 1090 Paonia, CO 81428 1-800-905-1155 Nevadans drive out forest supervisor "I knew it was a tough forest. What surprised me was the level of animosity." by Jon Christensen RENO, Nev. - After enduring a year and a half of what she calls Nevada's "fed bashing," Gloria Flora couldn't take it anymore. The supervisor of ...

Wednesday, Dec. 1: Nightline reports on the GOP debate tonight in New Hampshire where George W. Bush will be on stage with the other top Republican presidential candidates.

You wouldn't think, looking at the great road bridges drooping into the Danube, that they could be so powerful a financial weapon in the hands of Slobodan Milosevic. The tarmac surface and neat white lines and railings finish in the dark, powerful green billows of one of Europe's major waterways, a grim tribute to the American cruise missiles that destroyed them in April. But that is the way they are going to stay until Europe shows its remorse; because as long as the Danube remains blocked, Serbia has a steel grip on the jugular of Europe. Special friends excepted. Europe ...

Untitled Normal Page The charter school movement is gaining speed in New York striking fear in the hearts of teacher union bosses who fear competition will pull the sheets off the failed public school system. A new charter school recently proposed will stress the basics and the constitution and our rights and freedoms. Whew, is this a double dose of fresh air or what. www.givemeliberty.org In 1998, New York State adopted a law authorizing the establishment of 100 Charter Schools. The We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education is submitting an application to establish the Jefferson Academy Charter School ...

KILLINGLY, Conn. (AP) - A woman resigned from her children's school board Wednesday after a newspaper reported she was a top executive in a sex club. Leslie Moore-Linfield's resignation was effective immediately "for personal reasons," Board of Education Chairman Al Tiebout said. Moore-Linfield, a 33-year-old attorney and mother of two, had served two years on the school board in Killingly, an eastern Connecticut town of 16,000. Messages left Wednesday at her home and at the Black Key Club in Johnston, R.I., were not returned. Accountant Richard Otrando, who handles paperwork for the club, told the Norwich Bulletin on Tuesday that ...

In his 1940 classic The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis had a deep insight into modern times. Screwtape, the senior devil, advises his apprentice Wormwood to seduce souls as subtly as possible. Even idle and seemingly innocent pastimes may take men's minds off God, "Murder is no better than cards, if cards will do the trick." (I'm quoting from memory.) He urges Wormwood to lead his victims down the gentle slope to Hell, without markers or signposts, so they will never realize their souls are in danger until it's too late. In a short 1957 sequel, "Screwtape Proposes a Toast," the ...

Portrait of America surveys have been conducted by Rasmussen Research in 42 states and we still haven't found a state where Vice President Al Gore is leading Texas Governor George Bush. Bush is leading in 36 states with a total of 467 electoral votes. Five states with 39 electoral votes are in a statistical tie, with neither candidate leading by more than the margin of error. Gore trails even in his home state of Tennessee. His best showing is in Rhode Island. There, he leads Bush 38% to 34% but his lead is smaller then the poll's margin of error. ...

MARX v. TEXAS       Scalia, J., dissenting SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES JEFFREY STEVEN MARX, PETITIONER v. TEXAS ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS No. 98—9183. Decided November 29, 1999     The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.     Justice Scalia, with whom Justice Thomas joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari.     The Court today forgoes the opportunity to prevent an expansion of the exception it recently created to the Sixth Amendment right of the defendant “[i]n all criminal prosecutions … to be confronted with the witnesses against ...

Anyone Notice That KNEEPAD supporter from MSNBC now on FOX? Guess FOX is gonna follow MSNBC down the tubes!

WASHINGTON - Vice President Gore is embroiled in another controversy because of claims he made in a speech in New Hampshire that he raised the national alarm about the crisis at the Love Canal in Niagara Falls 21 years ago. Gore told high school students that he "found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal" and that a hearing he had in Tennessee in October 1978 "started it all." The problem with Gore's version of history is that his interest followed by two months a declaration made by President Jimmy Carter that Love Canal was a national ...

The first column of about 300 marchers is preparing to leave Settle Community College. The plan is to skirt the north edge of the forbidden zone, head west on Denny toward the waterfront and meet up with some labor groups there. They will then try to breach the downtown 50 block protective ring around WTO.

A PSYCHIATRIC patient was found to have over 100 broken teaspoon handles in her stomach at the time of her death, a post mortem showed. Jacqueline D'Arcy (41), of Kenmare House, North Great Georges Street, Dublin died on March 5 last. She had been a long-term residential patient of St Brendan's Hospital, Grangegorman since her teens, an inquest at Dublin City Coroner's Court heard yesterday. Miss D'Arcy had been diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of just 13 months but her condition was under control with medication. At the age of 15 she became increasing difficult to manage at ...

Hillary Calls For Better Homeless Policies December 1, 1999 "She's not only brilliant, but she has a great understanding and compassion. She has the capacity for inclusiveness and bringing people together. We need that in New York." Elgin Watkins, Pastor of the Nazarone Congregational Church, November 30,1999, AP Manhattan -- Hillary Clinton yesterday called for better policies to help the homeless and mentally ill, including more affordable housing and improved mental health treatment. "Locking people up for a day will not take a single homeless person off the street. It will not make a mentally ill person who should ...

The ominous date 12/1/99 has passed without event. Should have known not to make plans between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The reimplementation of the security layer, and a forced re-login for everybody, will probably take place early Sunday morning. Please know your screen name and password so you can rejoin the posting crowd. Registered members currently logged in may want to CHANGE your password (especially if you can't remember it.) You can also RESEND your screen name and password via e-mail (works even if you're not logged in.) -- John@FreeRepublic.com I've been receiving quite a bit of email regarding the ...

Wednesday, December 1, 1999 Were we duped? The body count in Kosovo raises questions about how we were convinced to bomb Serbs By Parker Barss Donham When Canada joined its NATO allies in the bombing of Yugoslavia, historian Michael Bliss denounced the military campaign, saying it made him ashamed to be a Canadian. It was shocking to hear a historian of impeccable scholarly credentials and moderate political views voice such a seemingly intemperate reaction. Bliss became the most prominent of a small group of Canadian academics, including a few at Dalhousie Law School, who opposed the bombing on grounds of ...

Enter Stage Right - A Journal of Modern Conservatism Why does Australia's media love Clinton and hate Reagan? By Gerard Jackson Rather than write on the state of the US economy I thought further reflections on the curious phenomenon of the Australian media's obsessive defence of Clinton's behavior and its refusal to report on his scandals. Now Americans who believe that the media has a moral duty to report facts as honestly as it can have a justifiable complaint against the standard of reporting. But pity poor Australians. At least Americans have access to a range of conservative oriented magazines ...