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With President Clinton issuing a blizzard of overreaching executive orders and Congress federalizing hundreds of crimes that are properly in the jurisdiction of the states, we must depend on the Supreme Court to stand for the Constitutional principles of federalism. The chief reason Americans have retained their liberties through two centuries of governance by power-seeking politicians is the separation of power between the states and the federal government, and then among the three branches. The case that puts this to the test is Brzonkala v. Morrison, which is before the Court in the current session. It tests the constitutionality of ...

Published: Friday, December 3, 1999 Animal rights activists, experts envision Utopia of equality PHILADELPHIA Contending that people have been the big dogs for too long, animal-rights activists are taking up the cause of ``non-human animals.'' ``It's like the fight against racial discrimination, the fight against sexism, the fight against homophobia,'' said Gary Francione, who teaches animal-rights law at Rutgers University's Law School. ``We need to start taking animals seriously.'' In the world that he and others envision: Elephants at the zoo would no longer be used to give rides to children, and it would no longer be permitted to house ...

The holiday blahs have hit Campaign 2000. Things have grown so predictable -- George W. has just come out for a cut in the marginal tax rate; didn't Bob Dole do that? -- that I'm left with only one choice: to join the marauding masses. No, not the protesters taking to the streets of Seattle. I'm talking about the plundering shoppers already descending on America's stores, both actual and cyber. The annual pre-Christmas buying frenzy has started earlier than ever this year: Sales are up 6.4 percent, and experts are predicting the final shopping tally will top out at close ...

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BUSH OFFICIAL FURIOUS AT NETWORK POLL THAT NAMED KEYES BIG WINNER OF DEBATE! "This is bullshit!" roared a furious George Bush campaign official late Thursday night in Texas. "What is this poll? Why do they keep showing it on TV?!" Controversy erupted just hours after a New Hampshire debate between Republican presidential candidates when a network repeatedly aired results of a poll that showed Alan Keyes the big winner of the night -- with nearly a 2 to 1 margin over the GOP frontrunner, Texas Governor Bush! The VOTE.COM website, run by former Clinton adviser Dick Morris, polled viewers in ...

untitled News Release Second Amendment Foundation 12500 NE Tenth Place  ·  Bellevue, WA   98005 (425) 454-7012  ·  FAX (425) 451-3959  ·  www.saf.org CLICK HERE TO VIEW A COPY OF THE COMPLAINT For Immediate Release Contact: Alan Gottlieb  (425) 454-7012 MAYORS FACE LAWSUIT FILED TUESDAY BY GUN OWNER GROUP WASHINGTON, DC (Tuesday, November 30, 1999) - The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), a firearms civil rights legal defense, research and educational organization, has filed a federal lawsuit today in Washington, DC against the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and certain individual mayors for conspiracy to violate civil and constitution rights, including ...

SAN DIEGO -- Three months ago, television viewers watched in horror as a department store's security video showed the 18-year-old daughter of San Diego's police chief being shoved by an assailant so hard that her head snapped back. Billy McCall, 29, of San Diego, has been charged with hate crimes in the attacks of four women. One of his attorneys says McCall may be the first defendant in California to be charged with hate crimes against women, allegations that could add six years to any possible sentence. "It was clear that he wanted to victimize these women at random because ...

Calling all Florida Freepers! The Florida FreeRepublic Chapter will be protesting Clinton & Gore when they appear at the Democratic Party of Florida Convention at the Orlando Convention Center on December 11 & 12.. Thanks to McMuffins's recon operation, we have learned that Clinton is scheduled to speak to the rest of the assembled corrupt criminals at 10:00 am on Saturday, December 11. Gore will speak later that day at 2:00pm. This is a TWOFER! A rare opportunity to protest both of them - on the same day! No excuses! So what if its the Holidays. Be There. As we ...

Daily thought for; Friday December 3rd, 1999 So, who is God? So, who is God? Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. As I talk to people and read their writings, more and more often I hear and read the misconceptions they have about God. They act as if His Son's name is Jesus Christ, like Tom Smith or something, the sentiment seems to be that God and Jesus are just two men that happen to be God, as if by some chance of birth. Balderdash! Look again at Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning ...

ISRAEL'S occupation of south Lebanon has taken its toll on the discipline of some of the country's most renowned military units, amid allegations of incompetence by officers in the field which have undermined morale. At least 24 members of Battalion 13 of the Golani Brigade, which won its battle honours when it took the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967, were jailed for up to two months on Tuesday after they abandoned a training exercise on the Heights and returned to their tented camp in protest against what they alleged was mismanagement by some of their officers. The men, who ...

If you are a teen-age girl, what message do you get if you are told at school that you can get a "morning-after" pill that will prevent your becoming pregnant -- and don't bother telling your parents? That's the message the French government has decided to give young girls. Such a procedure, of course, will be an encouragement for irresponsible teen sexual promiscuity. It promotes immorality with the implication that there will be no bad consequences. But there will be. Youthful sexual activity outside marriage may leave many serious scars aside from the unwed motherhood that a morning-after pill ...

THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF EXCERPTS FROM AN EXTENSIVE RADIO INTERVIEW OF CHIP TATUM, 25 YEAR CIA VETERAN: ---------------------------- A: We have 15 countries that we've, quote, "neutralized," that you're aware of, primarily for the purpose of arms and drugs. Do you mean to tell me that we have 14 other Iran-Contras? T: Probably more than that. We were pretty compartmentalized in all of our operations, and let me qualify something I said just a minute ago. As a member of OSG, we didn't report any longer to our originating agency. In other words, if I was on an OSG ...

TALLAHASSEE -- After a day's delay, state officials said they would start printing the ''Choose Life'' license plate rather than await resolution of a court fight over the tag. The school bus yellow plate with childlike sketches of a smiling boy and girl and the words ''Choose Life'' has been the subject of two years of debate. Last week, the National Organization for Women filed suit to block manufacture of the plate, and a federal judge in Jacksonville is set to rule in a similar case. Initially, the Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles was worried about a ...

“I’d like to take a minute to speak to a group of Americans that we apparently have been ignoring tonight, but were in the midst of some very -- I think -- portentous events out in Seattle where a lot of Americans have had to take to the streets, and I abhor the violence, but I think that the folks who have been demonstrating peacefully to try to seek redress for their grievances. They’re telling us something we ought to listen to. They’re telling us that when you hand a chunk of our sovereign power to a body of unelected ...

LONDON — Internal organs may have been stripped ''wholesale'' from the bodies of hundreds of children who underwent post mortems at a British hospital, a lawyer for their parents said on Friday. "They (the parents) are absolutely devastated...in a lot of cases, there was wholesale organ removal,'' Ian Cohen told BBC Television. Cohen is representing 70 families of children who underwent autopsies at Alder Hey hospital in the northern city of Liverpool and is investigating whether the bodies were stripped of their organs. The families are demanding a public inquiry. Liverpool coroner Andre Rebello, a city officer in charge of ...

While watching more news footage of the Seattle P.D. getting totally carried away in their dealings with protestors, a topic came up in our household. What the nation, and the world, is seeing in Seattle is a "microscopic" view of the US without the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment was put into place for a simple reason: a well-armed citizenry just isn't easily pushed around by a Government that, shall we say, forgets its place. It really is that simple. Right now, in Seattle, if you go walking downtown in the "wrong" area, peacefully carrying even a small sign decrying ...

Watching the Republican presidential debate last evening on Fox News prompts my question. And, before going any further, let me respond to my own question with a quick answer. No, I do not believe the vast majority of Republicans are racists. So, why do I ask the question? I ask the question because it was clear to me that Dr. Alan Keyes, a black man, walked off with the debate last night. It was not even close. His answers and statements reflected his intellectual brilliance, oratorical genius, moral purity and constitutional acumen. No one else on the panel touched him. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 3, 1999 Southern Mars Credit: MOLA Science Team, NASA Explanation: This topographical map of the southern hemisphere of Mars was generated using data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Flying on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, MOLA has bounced a laser beam off the Martian surface over 200,000,000 times producing a wealth of detailed elevation measurements. The MOLA measurements have been color-coded so, for example, the ...

An interview between Norman Mailer darling of the left and Pat Buchanan darling of the right. It is as meaningful today as it was back then. It will explain much of what is going on in this election cycle. For those who really want to know. Go to Norman Mailer and title Flashback......

Anthony Hopkins endorsing the Honda Avancia. Quote: "Let's have a fling time!" Whitney Houston endorsing Nishin Salad Oil. Quote: "(Snapping fingers) Make it happen with Nishin!" Meg Ryan endorsing No-Ho-Hon-Cha Bottled Tea. Quote: "Hi, I'm Meg Ryan and I hear you work hard everyday..." Meg Ryan endorsing the Mitsubishi Motors Dingo light utility van. Quote: "Dingo, my best!" Leonardo DiCaprio endorsing the Suzuki Wagon R (a small utility van). Quote: "Go Wagon R!" Kevin Costner endorsing the Subaru Legacy. Quote: "Legacy!"