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Fox News was so embarrassed by the results of their own NH Republican Debate poll, on their own website, created by their own network in conjunction with www.vote.com, that they removed the results of the Republican Debate poll from the website. Dick Morris, appearing on Hannity & Colmes shortly after the debate, announced Alan Keyes the clear winner with 32% of the vote at that point. Keyes support in the poll continued to climb until it reached 50%. The results of the poll were removed from the website sometime after 3:30 AM EST. At that point, Bush was showing 25%, ...

From what I've been hearing recently, it seems that few Americans appreciate the fact that trade and trade agreements benefit ordinary working people here at home. But this is in fact the case. Trade creates jobs and helps farmers, workers and small businesses by giving them larger markets to sell to abroad. Trade agreements negotiated by the United States, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) keep the playing field level by opening other countries' markets and ensuring that our trading partners play by a fair set of rules. I'm convinced the ...

SOMEWHERE IN LIBYA - In hopes of boosting it's sagging ratings since loosing it's most popular host, Matt Drudge, over a censorship battle, Fox News has signed Libyan Leader Muammer Gaddafi to replace him. BSNN has learned that Gaddafi and Fox have entered into a tentative 3 show agreement with an option to extend the arrangement indefinitely. The show is to be called Muammar. It is believed that Fox chose Gaddafi because they felt the dictator would understand their desire for censorship. " Perhaps I, more than anyone, understand the need to keep certain images and facts hidden from ...

Starbucks and NikeTown may make irresistible targets for the anti-WTO protesters who have been tying up, and tearing up, Seattle. But the real engines behind the WTO's hesitancy to take up environmental and labor standards are not Nike and Boeing. They're the developing countries to which those standards would be applied. This point seems either incredibly naive (since we all know that multinational U.S. corporations really rule the world) or incredibly banal (since the WTO can't really do anything if three-quarters of its membership--the developing countries--disapproves). Perhaps the point is both naive and banal. But it's still true, and imagining ...

Friday December 3, 3:39 AM Keyes Continues to Pull Away in Online Debate Poll Long-shot GOP presidential candidate Alan Keyes continued to widen his lead in an online post-debate poll early Friday. Five hours after the first debate featuring the full field of Republican presidential contenders had ended, Keyes' rhetorical skills had won him a near majority of those weighing in with Vote.com, the new political Web site created by onetime White House pollster Dick Morris. The debate was sponsored by Fox News Channel, for which Morris works as a consultant, and local New Hampshire TV station WMUR. It ...

Unless the Pentagon breaks today's spending patterns, tomorrow's troops won't have the weapons they need. The military's top procurement priorities read like a Cold War wish list. Despite uncontested control of the seas and shipping lanes, the Navy is investing heavily in aircraft carriers, carrier-based tactical jets and submarines. The Air Force, undisputed ruler of the skies worldwide, will spend billions of dollars on two new tactical fighters that have no apparent opponents. The Army, untouchable in land warfare, but with such heavy weapons it has difficulty deploying them, plans to buy an even heavier artillery system. Do military leaders ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - EgyptAir's doomed Flight 990 may have collided with an object causing its nosedive into the Atlantic Ocean, the airline chief has said in published remarks. ``Serious damage to the tail unit, caused, perhaps, by a collision with a solid body, would explain the rapid descent,'' the English-language Al-Ahram Weekly quoted EgyptAir chairman Fahim Rayyan as saying in its Thursday's issue. The Cairo-bound airliner's plunge into the ocean, killing all 217 people on board, on October 31 remains a mystery. The weekly quoted EgyptAir's Chief Pilot Tarek Selim in last week's issue as suggesting that the tail unit ...

Wall Street Journal December 3, 1999 Pg. W17 Mothers At Sea Amid all the flotsam crossing our desk lately came one surprise: a new Defense Department report on women sailors. The study focuses on families in which the enlisted mothers of small children are away at sea five or six months at a stretch. Not surprisingly, small children who spend months without their mothers do not fare so very well. As interesting as the findings has been the reaction: zilch. As it happens, these days a mom at sea is not so unusual. Of the 51,000 women in the Navy, ...

Anti-Lawyer Party And He said, "Woe unto you also ye lawyers, for ye lade men with burdens to grevious to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burden with one of your fingers. Luke 11:46 (King James)Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. Luke 11:52 (King James) The Anti-Lawyer Political Party [ Home ] [ Feedback ] [ Contents ] [ Search ] These pages are currently under construction - please be patient Directors Platform Join Today Humor States Colorado New Jersey   Welcome to the Home ...

China's missile test China is making preparations to conduct the second flight test of its newest intercontinental ballistic missile, the DF-31. Pentagon intelligence agencies notified senior policy-makers last week that DF-31 test preparations were detected. The notice was contained in a classified report based on spy satellites that spotted the test preparations at the Wuzhai Missile and Space Center in central China. The center is located about 250 miles southwest of Beijing. The test firing is expected later this month, according to officials familiar with the report. China conducted the first flight test of the new DF-31 on Aug. 2, ...

France and Germany have surprised Nato by offering the Eurocorps to take over command of the peacekeeping operation in Kosovo next year. Although there were reservations yesterday over whether the five-nation organisation, based in Strasbourg, would have the capability and credibility to run the Kosovo operation by next year, even US officials were not against the idea "in principle". The offer, made in a letter to General Wesley Clark, the American Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, was seen in Brussels as an astute and timely move. Nato faces a problem in rotating suitable command headquarters to run its force ...

I've just returned from a breakfast meeting with Dr. Keyes and the rest of the senior staff of the campaign. We have a personal request of Free Republic. We are looking at the coverage of the debate in newspapers and radio talk shows. The request is this: In your local newspapers, in the coverage of last night's debate, is Dr. Keyes name mentioned? If it is, in what context? If you guys would be so kind as to post the information here, the NAME of the newspaper, the TITLE of the article and contact information (phone number) for the newspaper, ...

2,000 turn out to pour cash into mayor's political future Democratic big shots from President Clinton on down packed the Convention Center last night to pay - quite literally - a farewell tribute to Mayor Rendell, who has just a month left on the job. About 2,000 people attended the party that wasn't just a party, but also was a $1,000-a-head fund-raiser for Rendell's political future, presumably a bid for governor in 2002. His going-away gift: a minimum of $2 million. Though the evening was largely about money, Rendell told the crowd that he is leaving a job he loves. ...

Go to www.vote.com. You will get an exploding code page. This is the internets version of the Blue Screen of Death.This gives me a moment to rant: Tricky Dick is pushing a mob rule mentality. I am NOT in favor of direct democracy, and anytime Morris discusses his vote website, he always discusses it with the assumption that direct democracy is, to quote Martha Stewart, "a good thing".It is not. Direct democracy can be compared to three wolves and a sheep sitting down and deciding what to have for dinner. Representative democracy or the republic we put together is infinitely ...

IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID !!   Never before in history has there been a great Economic expansion such as the one we are now experiencing. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact beginning of this great "boom". It seems to have started about 1985 and has been accelerating since 1989. Oh, sure there have been some down periods in the stock market but they caused very little problems. Then an immediate and swift "recovery" began. The difference between this economic expansion and past ones is the fact that there is no apparent indicator that will explain it.   Since ...

Kennedy praises Bush 12/3/99 9:16 (New York) (UPI Focus) Kennedy praises Bush BOSTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) _ Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Friday that Republican presidential front-runner Texas Gov. George W. Bush ``meets the bar'' to be president. At the same time, Kennedy told the Boston Herald he has not decided yet whether to endorse Vice President Al Gore in the Democratic presidential primary race. While criticizing Bush's record on health care, Kennedy suggested the governor run on his strong record of education reform. Kennedy also said Bush's failure to answer foreign policy questions from a Boston television ...

U.S. military personnel of all ranks are feeling increasingly alienated from their own country, and are becoming both more conservative and more politically active than ever before. Do they see America clearly? By Thomas E. Ricks AFTER following a platoon of Marine recruits through eleven weeks of boot-camp training on Parris Island in the spring of 1995, I was stunned to see, when they went home for postgraduation leave, how alienated they felt from their old lives. At various times each of these new Marines seemed to experience a moment of private loathing for public America. They were repulsed ...

Up front, please permit me to say that I plan to vote for the man who can win, whomever that may be. Second, until this debate, Forbes was my guy but I'd planned to vote for Bush because to do otherwise will put a Democrat in office. Unless someone else become the front-runner, I'm forced to go with Bush.As for the debate, the questioning, with one or two exceptions, was to-the-point and important. Being as objective as I could possibly be, the following is what I saw in the GOP debate last night in NH, shown on Fox News. No ...

THE LUST FOR POWER by David LimbaughAt a friend's suggestion, I read Barbara Olson's "Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton." I must admit that I was initially reluctant to read the book, thinking it would be just another in the long line of books about the Clintons. Readers can get Clinton-fatigue, too, you know. This is a meticulously researched and highly readable political biography of Hillary. And since Hillary's political aims and fortunes have always been deliberately tied to Bill's, the book is necessarily about him, as well. The story traces Hillary's transformation from a Goldwater ...

The Hillary Witch Project actually made me laugh out loud. Short of being tied down and assaulted with feather dusters, that's hard to do. Excellent work.