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Just think. All of your gifts this Christmas will be from China and Mexico and other third world countries. This should leave a real warm and fuzzy feeling in your tummy. Thank God for slave labor. And maybe when your children are old enough they can all have careers working at K-Mart selling these third world goods. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY. HO HO HO......

Did Yeltsin say it or didn't he? Russian President Yeltsin, growing irritated at US President Clinton's words at the OSCE Summit, hurled an obscene insult while tearing off his headphones. The insult, meaning "son of a ..." in Turkish, hit the summit like a bomb. US President Bill Clinton's harsh criticism of Moscow's handling of Chechnya infuriated Russian President Yeltsin at the OSCE Summit in Istanbul. After Clinton finished speaking, Yeltsin, who had become greatly irritated at Clinton's words, slammed the table with his headphones. The words "son of a ..." in Russian were heard coming from the mouth of ...

Did Yeltsin say it or didn't he? Russian President Yeltsin, growing irritated at US President Clinton's words at the OSCE Summit, hurled an obscene insult while tearing off his headphones. The insult, meaning "son of a ..." in Turkish, hit the summit like a bomb. US President Bill Clinton's harsh criticism of Moscow's handling of Chechnya infuriated Russian President Yeltsin at the OSCE Summit in Istanbul. After Clinton finished speaking, Yeltsin, who had become greatly irritated at Clinton's words, slammed the table with his headphones. The words "son of a ..." in Russian were heard coming from the mouth of ...

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Al Gore is busy these days trying to mend fences with perhaps the most powerful constituency in the Democratic Party -- women. Capturing his party's nomination is a matter of simple arithmetic: He can't win unless a majority of Democratic women vote for him in the primaries. In Iowa recently, Gore sought to reassure Democratic women concerned about his recent missteps on legislation involving poverty and reproductive freedom. He vowed that his "passions" are rooted in the party's core commitments to fight poverty, improve health care and education, and protect abortion rights. "I feel it ...

Getting Serious About The Schools Home Mail Reform Books Thomas Fordham Foundation     Getting Serious About The Schools by Chester E. Finn, Jr. The Weekly Standard, January 25, 1999 [Note: This is the original manuscript. The print version has been edited by The Weekly Standard.] The 106th Congress, should it ever get past the impeachment drama, has a rare chance to tackle another set of Washington-style crimes and misdemeanors: 34 years of education policy and programs so misguided that today they undermine the prospects of reforming the nation's woeful schools. Most of the big federal aid programs are ...

China Reform Monitor No. 260, November 29, 1999 American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC http://www.afpc.org PENTAGON OFFICIALS CITE PRC'S CONTINUED PROLIFERATION TO ROGUES; BEIJING STEPS UP WEAPONS SHIPMENTS TO NORTH KOREA Editor: Al Santoli October 29: The Cambodian government is considering China's plan to provide additional weapons, including a number of tanks, the Phnom Penh Sereipheap Thmei reports. During an October visit to Beijing by Cambodia's military leadership, Xinhua news agency stated that Beijing is seeking to build close relations with the Cambodian Army. In addition, Sereipheap reports a Chinese Defense Ministry delegation has arrived in Phnom Penh for a ...

Nationalists put America first, and the national economy before the Global Economy...The great foreign policy conflict of the post-Cold War era is between globalists and nationalists -- the heirs of Wilson and the heirs of Washington. The former believe in interdependence, free trade, open borders, increased immigration, multiculturalism, and the strengthening of the UN, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the European Union, and all such institutions that take us closer to world governance and diminish the independence of nation-states. Bill Clinton and Strobe Talbott are in this tradition.New American nationalists believe the "global economy" and "international ...

I would have thought that Forbes would know that Linux is a force to be reckoned with in the world of tech stocks. Poor Forbes.

Country Forgets to Take Weapons Off Destroyer Updated 8:00 AM ET December 2, 1999 By Randall Palmer OTTAWA (Reuters) - When Canada sold two old destroyers to a private foreign citizen last year, it forgot to take an anti-submarine missile launcher off one of them and may have left other sophisticated equipment on board, military officials said Wednesday. The destroyers were sold for scrap to Richard Crawford of Florida. So far, he won't let the Navy on board to inspect the ships and he wants it to compensate him for anything it removes. The eight-barreled launcher is not difficult to ...

Human embryo cell research OK’d Anti-abortion groups strongly oppose policy ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 — Despite strong opposition from anti-abortion groups, the National Institutes of Health is proposing federal funding of research using special human embryo cells that experts say may offer treatments and even cures for many serious illnesses. A number of groups, including 70 members of Congress, have objected to federal funding of stem cell research because the cells must originate from the death of a human embryo. NIH OFFICIALS THURSDAY published draft guidelines that would permit government-funded research of embryonic stem cells under tight controls that ...

PANAMA CITY, Nov 30 (AFP) - The United States effectively ended its almost century-long military presence at the Panama Canal on Tuesday, handing over its last and largest base in the enclave surrounding the canal to President Mireya Moscoso. Hundreds of children waved Panamanian flags as Moscoso received a giant wooden key from US Ambassador to Panama Simon Ferro, symbolizing the exchange of Fort Clayton, a sprawling military base that until last year was the headquarters of US Army South. "Panama will now be a country completely free of any foreign (military) presence and entirely sovereign over its own ...

WTO: Clinton, Others Try To Salvage Trade Talks      As state and local police quelled unruly demonstrations in the streets of Seattle, US President Bill Clinton and hundreds of international trade officials "struggled to salvage" the ongoing summit meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) (Iritani/Chen, Los Angeles Times).      In a pair of speeches to WTO trade ministers and to local farmers and workers, Clinton expressed sympathy with the aims of critics who came to Seattle to protest peacefully, but he condemned the anarchic minority. He made the case for free trade and reiterated several goals of the American agenda in ...

Republicans Display Marginal Improvement Paul WeyrichDecember 1, 1999 You recall the story of the kid who came into the house wearing a baseball glove and breathlessly said to his father, "You know the big picture window in the living room?" His father sternly replied, "Yes." The little boy looked up at him and said, "Well, I didn't break that one. I broke the little one right next to it."It may be that, since we were expecting the sort of cave-in damage we'd seen from the past couple of Congresses but only got minor damage this time, we are relieved. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government is preparing to pay $6 million to Iran despite a claim to the money by a New Jersey couple whose daughter died in a suicide bombing blamed on Iranian terrorists. The family of Alisa Flatow contends the White House is preventing them from carrying out an anti-terrorism law President Clinton himself signed. The $6 million in question was the subject of a dispute between Iran and a Connecticut defense contractor, Avco Corp., one of many U.S. companies that did business with Iran in the 1970s. Iran won a judgment against Avco at the Iran-United ...

Jimmy 'Iceman' MacNeil Brantford Civic Centre, Brantford Ontario, Canada "Zamboni® is a name I grew up with, a name I have always respected for what it stood for and for the fine quality product the family built." "This has not been an easy "flood". From the word go my wife Lori and our three children Jordan, Jenna and Jake have worked hard to get where we are today. Supported by our family, The Corporation of the County of Brant (where our home is), The city of Brantford, the province of Ontario, and the country of Canada, we were able ...

U.S. Sending Money to Iran By LAURENCE ARNOLD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government is preparing to pay $6 million to Iran despite a claim to the money by a New Jersey couple whose daughter died in a suicide bombing blamed on Iranian terrorists. The family of Alisa Flatow contends the White House is preventing them from carrying out an anti-terrorism law President Clinton himself signed. The $6 million in question was the subject of a dispute between Iran and a Connecticut defense contractor, Avco Corp., one of many U.S. companies that did business with Iran in ...

This is your official commentary page on this fourth Republican debate/forum. The 90-minute session at WMUR-TV will be broadcast nationally by the Fox News Channel at 8 p.m. EST. You can also see the debate at http://www.WMUR.com. You will need Real Audio 7.0 in order to watch on the internet. Join FoxNews.com at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 2 for complete live coverage of the GOP candidates' forum, including: A live cybercast of the forum Exclusive news and feature reporting from FoxNews.com reporters Continuously updated news stories during the forum A real-time, full-text transcript of the event Video clips ...

LOS ANGELES - Officials in the United States' second-largest school district have delayed a plan to fail students who don't make the grade, after realizing it would mean keeping back 350,000 students. Instead, the students -- half the district's total enrolment -- will be promoted on "social" grounds. In the case of those in eighth grade, more than two-thirds would have been held back if "social promotion" was dropped, according to the Los Angeles Times. Social promotion is the practice of advancing students within their age group even if they are failing. Some states, including Arkansas, Colorado, Florida and Louisiana, ...

ABC NEWSMAN FAULTED FOR "CHUMMINESS" WITH GORE A dinner party being hosted tonight by ABC News correspondent John Cochran and his wife at which the guests of honor are Vice President Gore and his wife has raised ethics questions at ABC News, USA Today reported today (Thursday).The newspaper observed that inasmuch as Cochran is expected to cover Gore's presidential campaign for the network, the dinner party would appear to violate "unspoken guidelines" aimed at avoiding the appearance of "chumminess" between reporters and the politicians they cover.Keith Woods of the Florida journalism think tank the Poynter Institute told USA Today that ...

A 19-year-old woman who was conceived when a teacher raped her mother, is trying to break new legal ground in Saskatchewan by filing a "wrongful birth" suit against school officials and the province. The teenager, whose father is a convicted paedophile, says school officials in Prince Albert, Sask., knew Dennis Foster was a sexual predator and failed to take steps to stop him from raping her mother when she was a student of his. She also alleges social service workers and her mother's foster parents could have prevented the rape if they had properly undertaken their responsibilities. The woman was ...