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Bush Draws Fire At GOP Debate Republican Front-Runner Is Focus Of Attention First Forum Featuring All GOP Candidates Tax Cuts, Social Security, Abortion Key Issues (CBS) As expected, Gov. George W. Bush took the most heat in the first debate featuring all six of the Republican presidential candidates Thursday night. The GOP front-runner was hammered on Social Security, taxes, abortion and other issues. In his debate debut, Bush looked calm and stressed his record as governor of Texas, saying "I know how to lead." Bush also returned the criticism at one point, claiming that rival Steve Forbes had once proposed ...

While the poll on vote.com is encouraging, there is another one on msnbc that could use a little Freeper input. The URL is: MSNBC Debate Poll Get on over and register your opinion!

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI and the Pentagon are planning a special vigil as 1999 comes to a close, fearing both government and private sector computers could come under attack as the calendar changes to 2000. Terrorists, hostile nations, criminals and recreational hackers could all launch assaults at the same time -- and could use Y2K malfunctions to hide their actions. "It is not at all unreasonable to expect the people and the groups who engage in those activities every day might focus their activities at the same time around the date change," said Michael Vatis, head the National Infrastructure ...

Mike Moore, Director-General of the WTO says that to oppose Globalism is hate. "Anti-globalization becomes the latest chapter in the age-old call to separatism, tribalism and racism - the "them" versus "us" view of the world. " "I recall a splendid comment of Julius Nyerere who claimed that as each village's wealth once depended on its neighbour's ability to purchase, this is now true of nations. Our parents learnt from the great depression, made deeper and more lethal by rising trade barriers from which came the twin tyrannies of our age, fascism and marxism, thus war; hot and cold"- ...

Environmentalists on quest for power By Philip Gold The World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Seattle has opened, and there was no shortage of meetings to mark the occasion. Consider "Ensuring Open Trade for Global Prosperity," sponsored by International Consumers for Civil Society (ICCS) and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). The papers and speeches were rational and well-researched; the participants were distinguished and intellectually elegant.  It couldn't compete. I wandered through some street protests. Sixties time warp. I went to some union events. Time warp, also, although their protectionist demands were refreshingly atavistic. I thought about buying my "Smash ...

A protester throws a gas grenade back toward advancing police as they try to clear the streets of downtown Seattle. The great straddler Free trader President Clinton veers left in Seattle. But will his finesse be enough to keep Al Gore's Democratic Party intact? - - - - - - - - - - - - By Todd Gitlin Dec. 3, 1999 | President Clinton, bobber and weaver, master of ambiguity, may walk away from Seattle without a political catastrophe, but it all depends on what the Democrats learn from this astounding week. On the largest questions at stake ...

Gore Lies Repeatedly, Bradley Says By Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 1999; Page A01 Bill Bradley angrily accused Vice President Gore yesterday of repeatedly lying about his record and intentions, but said he did not believe he had been hurt by their increasingly harsh debate over health care. "I think we've reached a sad day in our political life in this country when a sitting vice president distorts a fellow Democrat's record because he thinks he can score a few political points," Bradley said. Bradley's attack, which came during an appeal to black legislators meeting in ...

GOP voters got a reality check tonight watching the GOP debates. The great unstoppable front runner Dubya -- that fantastic media created confabulation; that larger than life projection of the establishment, designed to make all GOP grassroots voters servile and submissive to their will -- was exposed. "Please pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," the establishment implored! But the curtain was pulled back tonight, and there, for all to see, was the real Dubya -- a hollow man stuffed full of corporate dollars; an empty headed repeater of pat phrases and platitudes lifted out of briefing books; ...

Bush parries rivals’ debate attacks   Foes fire volleys at front-runner over taxes, Social Security   George W. Bush gestures while answering a question during the debate in Manchester, N.H., Thursday night. At right is rival candidate Steve Forbes.   By Tom CurryMSNBC Dec. 2 —  Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush and his five Republican foes sparred over Social Security and tax cuts in a 90-minute televised debate in New Hampshire Thursday night. Magazine publisher Steve Forbes was Bush’s most aggressive adversary, using every opportunity to assail the Texas governor’s newly-unveiled tax cut proposal.   ‘It is small, ...

NOT for Publication CONSUMING ON THE CUFF TOWARD 2000 All right, troop, we're lost, so where's the compass? By John L. Perry Americans have so much for which to be thankful. And why not? Much of it was acquired through debts that may never be repaid. Little wonder America has become lost in this latter part of the 20th century as it borrows and consumes its way toward the 21st. Little wonder so few care to think, which makes their heads hurt, about a 2000 presidential election that news-media pundits insist is such a long way off but isn't. If ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Almost half of the world's young people hope the fireworks of the millennium celebrations will end with sex, a survey commissioned by condom-maker Durex showed Wednesday. Canadian youngsters were the most hopeful, with 63 percent saying they expected their celebrations to include making love, according to the survey. The poll of nearly 5,000 people aged 16 to 21 in 14 countries found that nearly two thirds planned to use condoms as their method of Y2K contraception, but 16 percent would take no precautions. Of those who had not yet had sex, 17 percent planned to begin ...

Full GOP Field Meets in N.H. Debate By David S. Broder Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 1999; Page A7 MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 2 – The full field of Republican presidential candidates met here tonight for the first nationally televised debate of the campaign. The forum in the studio of WMUR-TV, carried nationally by Fox News Network, gave the five challengers to Texas Gov. George W. Bush – who have sparred among themselves several times already – their long-awaited opportunity to test their arguments against the man who has led the popularity polls almost all year long. Bush skipped ...

Troops sent to Seattle as part of terrorism contingency plan December 2, 1999 [Emphasis added] The military mission, according to the Pentagon, is to "provide support" to the FBI, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Secret Service and other government agencies responsible for security there. The military specialists are in place largely to provide expertise and assist in coordinating a federal response in the event of a terrorist attack during such a high-profile event. According to Defense Department documents obtained by CNN, 131 U.S. Army, 27 U.S. Air Force, and eight U.S. Navy personnel were sent to Seattle to ...

Bush Accomplishes His Debate Goal By RON FOURNIER The Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - In his first debate, George W. Bush accomplished his No. 1 goal: He survived. No gaffes. No wounds. No doubt he's still the GOP presidential front-runner. He may not have been the star of the debate, but he was a target, and as such had to avoid traps laid by his fellow candidates. ``He showed he was in command, he looked solid and he didn't get rattled. He didn't fall apart,'' said GOP consultant David Carney, conceding that was an unusually low standard for a ...

State puts halt to issuing of 'Choose Life' license plates By John Pacenti, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 1, 1999 The state Tuesday halted plans to manufacture and distribute its "Choose Life" specialty license plate, pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed by the National Organization for Women. The organization, represented by Boca Raton attorney and former state Rep. Barry Silver, had been seeking a court hearing this week to argue for a temporary injunction against production of the plate. The group says the tag is a state-sponsored effort to infringe on a women's right to abortion. "The ...

And then there were four ... Ralph Nader will announce his campaign for president on the Green Party ticket in January, joining those on the Republican, Democrat and Reform tickets in next year's race for the White House. Click on above for full article.

A s we come to the end of this murderous and unrepentant century, in which a greater number of human beings has been violently put to death in the name of criminal political ideas than in any other century of recorded history, we are left confronting a moral void that shows few signs of being rectified or even addressed by what remains of serious thought in our civilization. A century of modernity, with everything this implies about the achievements of scientific inquiry and material progress, has proved to be a paradoxical benefaction. For our technological capabilities have long ago outdistanced ...

Chris Matthews just said that if Alan Keyes was a Caucasian, that more Republican conservatives would be attracted to him. That's outrageous!

Highlights of GOP Debate The Associated Press Highlights of the debate between Republican presidential candidates Gary Bauer, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Steve Forbes, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, Alan Keyes, and Sen. John McCain of Arizona. On abortion: BAUER: ``I don't think I'm at odds with the majority at all. But I must tell you that if I was, it wouldn't make any difference. This is a fundamental question. It's about whether or not our unborn children are part of the American family, protected by the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. ``I think there are serious differences between us ...

Former FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi will have his own expert examine rifle shell casings that were found in an undercover house near the Branch Davidian complex in 1993. A court has given special counsel John Danforth temporary custody of the casings as part of his inquiry into what happened at Waco. The St. Louis County Crime lab may compare the casings with FBI rifles that Danforth has sought. In court documents filed in Waco Thursday, government lawyers said Horiuchi would call Ron Freels, a crime lab supervisor for the Kentucky State Police, to examine the shell casings and compare them ...