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HOW WE BRAINWASHED NEW YORK By JOHN PODHORETZ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forgive me if I'm a little self-obsessed, but just from reading this week's press clips on The New York Post, I have grown drunk on my own power. Make no mistake, buddy -- cross me and I'll squash you like a bug. Hey, if I can do it to Hillary Clinton, the first lady of these United States, just imagine what I can do to you! In case you weren't paying attention, the media decided this week that this newspaper and I (in my capacity as the editor of the opinions ...

Books: Gurl vs. young lady Two manuals for young girls: One markets feminism, lesbianism, and abortion to 10-year-olds; the other tells the story of a daughter who stood by her embattled father By Roy Maynard Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a Gurl, Esther Drill, Heather McDonald, & Rebecca Odes / Pocket Book / ISBN 0-671-04157-6 Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love, Dava Sobel / Walker & Company Books / ISBN 0-8027-1343-2 Nearly as offensive as Deal With It: A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and ...

Some real-life photos from someone in Seattle, posted on his own web site. Don't know how long they'll stay there, but he shot several rolls of film and some aren't developed yet. TS

Beyond tidy kitchens The question is: Are there vitamins in the food? By Joel Belz When it comes to the crisis faced by American education these days, a return to "standards" and "fundamentals" may sound attractive-and it will certainly help. But it won't correct what has gone so desperately wrong. That's because in losing our way, we aren't even agreed any longer on what the "basics" are and what makes up the "standards" and the "fundamentals." If we aren't sure what they even are, how can we get back to them? When 385 educators (and lay people interested in education) ...

WLS Chicago news 89, 890 AM. Keyes' troops calling and forcing talk show to change subject. There is this fluffy talk show in the mornig in Chicago, a conservative man and a liberal woman talking - who always acts as a most annoying Politically Correct prosecutor instead of giving benefit of the doubt to callers who make occasional slurs. Anyhow, there they ask people to call and to say who won the debate. 1st caller says Keyes and Forbes. Then they go on making fun of Keyes as an article compares him to a church freak calling him the Apocalyptic ...

WLS Chicago news 89, 890 AM. Keyes' troops calling and forcing talk show to change subject. There is this fluffy talk show in the mornig in Chicago, a conservative man and a liberal woman talking - who always acts as a most annoying Politically Correct prosecutor instead of giving benefit of the doubt to callers who make occasional slurs. Anyhow, there they ask people to call and to say who won the debate. 1st caller says Keyes and Forbes. Then they go on making fun of Keyes as an article compares him to a church freak calling him the Apocalyptic ...

Letter to the Editor, World Magazine, I have been criticized for my view that none of the GOP candidates except Bush and Forbes have a realistic chance to win and that conservatives should look closely at supporting these two ("Does 'W' mean winner?" Oct. 16). I am asked: Why not stand for principle? My answer: Not a single Republican candidate passes my test of truly standing for principle, which I define as being faithful to the Word of God and the Constitution of the United States. This is not a case of principle versus pragmatism. Every single candidate has made ...

(CNSNews.com) - Hillary Rodham Clinton supported the PLO before it renounced terrorism and recognized Israel, according to a new biography on the First Lady and yet-to-be-announced US Senate candidate for New York State.In her book, Hell to Pay, conservative author Barbara Olsen writes that Mrs. Clinton chaired the New World Foundation between 1982 and 1988, during which time it awarded $15,000 to an organization called Grass Roots International. That group funded a number of controversial causes, including two Palestinian bodies, "both branches of the Palestinian Liberation Organization." "This was a time when the PLO was committed to the extinction of ...

According to Jonathan Alter in Newsweek magazine, "Hillary can always depend on" The Post "to turn every miscue into a fiasco." This is dangerous for the first lady because The Post "sets the tone for the rest of the media." JOHN PODHORETZ, HOW WE BRAINWASHED NEW YORK   Anatomical Analysis Her tin ear and piano legs notwithstanding, hillary clinton stumbles because of a chest and a head empty but for visions of sugar daddies and political plums. Always-angry-and-anal Alter's Post philippic only underscores what we already know, namely, that the New York Post long ago displaced The Times as ...

Hillary Rotham Clinton was in Cincinnati for a fund raiser last night. I only learned of it a few hours before she was to arrive at Lunken Airport. My husband and I wanted to freep her but we didn't know what time she was coming in, but since we only live 15 minutes away, I quickly made a sign and put it in a bag. I didn't want anyone to see it until the last minute because I am kind of uncomfortable protesting in very small groups.We jumped in the car and headed down to the airport to see what ...

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Fighting for inches With a razor-thin majority in the House and a hostile chief executive on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, congressional Republicans had to be content this year with achieving only minor victories and avoiding major defeats. Look for more of the same in 2000. By Bob Jones IV When Jim DeMint sat down to Thanksgiving dinner, he gave thanks for material blessings, for his family, and for the freedom to send his four children to Christian schools and bring them up as he saw fit. And then, as a first-term congressman, Mr. DeMint got to add something ...

To spare him future embarrassment after this Love Canal business -- not to mention the "Love Story" thing -- we offer the following counsel to the vice president: "Al, you didn't write ‘Love Shack.' That would be the B-52s, Al. You didn't host ‘Love Connection.' That would be Chuck Woolery. You never dated Jennifer Love Hewitt. That would be Carson Daly. Got that, Mr. Vice President?" Of course, if Al Gore is determined to turn himself into a national laughingstock, who are we to stand in his way? ARTICLE FOLLOWS. Again, Al Gore has told a whopper. Again, he's been ...

Red ammo     Politically correct environmentalism is a hallmark of the Clinton administration, which created an entire Pentagon bureaucracy devoted to questionable "environmental security."     Now the Army has jumped on the bandwagon. The service has ordered all new bullets, notably the 5.56 mm round used in standard-issue M-16 rifles, to be produced with tungsten filler instead of environmentally polluting lead.     The decision was made before the designation of an Army firing range on Cape Cod, Mass., to be an environmental disaster area requiring federal cleanup funds --even though lead rounds there will not pose any threat for 300 years.     The problem for U.S. national security, ...

At farewell fete for Rendell, Clinton leads the praise 2,000 turn out to pour cash into mayor's political future President Clinton joins in the applause for Mayor Rendell at the Convention Center. (Peter Tobia / Inquirer Staff Photographer) By Robert Zausner INQUIRER STAFF WRITER 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 ...

The Sarasota County branch of the NAACP is asking the Sarasota County School District to review the contents of a play at Venice High School and remove all costumes and dialogue that illustrate hatred, bigotry and violence. The request was sparked by photographs published in some editions of Thursday's Herald-Tribune advancing the school's play, "The Foreigner." One of the photos depicts a scene in which a frightened boy is taunted by two other boys portraying Ku Klux Klansmen, including one holding a gun. [More specifically, the boy was seated on a couch with two hood-clad actors standing within a few ...

According to the last paragraph of an Albuquerque Journal's Web site story about Y2K problems in Sante Fe, N.M.: "Officials with the Public Service Company of New Mexico have said they expect a "high probability" that local electrical service will be cut off for a few hours on New Year's Day because of Y2K problems. They have not ruled out the chance of longer outages." Now, for the first of the story, headlined "Y2K Work Too Fast for Council." A Journal staff writer covering Santa Fe for the newspaper's ABQjournal.com site led off with: "The push to get Santa Fe ...

I do not know about you, but lately there has been plenty of pro-other-than-Keyes articles posted pretending to be sympathetic to our so called anti-socialist cause or pro-Forbes cause; and those articles keep telling us who to vote for in the primaries WHICH CONSTITUTES SPAMING IN MY VIEWS. Here are a few points and I speak for myself here but I believe for many others too: 1. Freerepublic is not there to tell people who to vote for and who to talk to, if not Freepers would not be there. This is the internet and it violates FR spaming rules ...

Hypocrisy watch A dozen years of evidence concerning media bias By Marvin Olasky Each year liberal journalists, instead of honestly acknowledging their liberalism, describe themselves as Dan Rather defined himself in an exchange on CNN's Crossfire on June 24: "an honest broker of information" whose motto is "play no favorites." For the 12th straight year, the Media Research Center in Washington, D.C., in late November mailed to a panel of judges evidence of the way Dan Rather and others play favorites. On May 26, for example, Mr. Rather himself gushed about Hillary Clinton's "political lightning" and how she is a ...

Debates are not only for candidates to distinguish themselves from the others, they are also for weeding out canididates. Is there anyone from last night who said something that made you mark him off your list? What was it?