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Keyes: WTO Threatens Liberty NEWFIELDS, N.H. (AP) -- The World Trade Organization, abortion and the federal income tax are all examples of infringements on American liberty, Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes said Saturday. Keyes said that the WTO's ability to overrule domestic law on trade issues threatens America's sovereignty and basic constitutional freedoms. The Geneva-based organization, which sets international trade rules, unsuccessfully attempted this past week to start a new round of negotiations aimed at further lowering trade barriers. ``The WTO is not elected and we should not surrender our representative power to some international body,'' he said. Keyes, who ...

TO MY LEGISLATOR, ON LIBERTY Dear Charlie: A few years ago, you asked me to attend a Town Hall meeting you and Tom put on. It was a good meeting and I am glad I attended. Except, that is, for a remark both you and Tom made to a constituent about a "yes" vote you both cast on a bill in the previous week's session of the General Assembly. That bill was to conform to the federal government's demand that states make seat belt use mandatory for all private vehicles. Both you and Tom laughed, saying that was a ...

The real tragedy of the Seattle protests and police violence is not the carnage. Certainly the abuse of the citizenry has been terrible, by all accounts, and I'm not trying to diminish the suffering of anyone who has been abused at the hands of the WTO's day-labor Pinkertons. But still, this is not the real tragedy. Nah, the reason for a protest has always been to force into the open the hand of a regime which prefers to practice its terrorism and intimidation discretely, in the bureaucratic paper dungeons, summary proceedings, and veal pens which pass for justice today. A ...

You've got to hand it to Eugene's anarchists. They know how to get attention. Misbehavior works that way, whether the miscreant is 2 or 20. Several aspects of the self-identified anarchists' performance in Seattle this week - with half or more of the group's members reported to be from Eugene - deserve consideration. First question: Why did they do it? Clearly, not to win social approval. They knew going in that everyone from conventional journalists to the conventional protesters who constituted most of the crowd in Seattle would condemn their behavior. The predictable criticism has been nearly unanimous. But what ...

IT'S IN THE CARDS "The Future is in the Cards," the Federal Card Services Task Force Electronic Processes Initiatives Committee report announced on January 30, 1998. The report describes a new government "... where all Americans have the opportunity to get services electronically and where, aided by technology, the productivity of government operations will be soaring." They were talking about smart cards, of course. These smart cards would carry all of our identification and a chip full of other information -- information which was yet to be determined at that time. http://policyworks.gov/org/main/me/epic/scards.html Realizing the potential for government abuse if ...

Culture: Eugene, Ore., has become a test kitchen for anarchists who have taken their message mainstream. EUGENE, Ore.--The Blair Island Cafe was supposed to be good for the Whitaker neighborhood. A clean, colorful place with Mediterranean-style pasta and seafood, an alternative to the organic bakeries and cheap microbrew taverns that have always nourished this community of 70-year-old bungalows, food co-ops and what appears to be the largest remaining population of Volkswagen buses in the hemisphere. The popular resistance started last August with a broken restaurant window, and when that was repaired, another, and another. Then the literature castigating "yuppie ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 4, 1999 Contact: Joe Giganti (202) 646-5172 ORTHODOX RABBI, WASHINGTON POST REPORTER, AND INTERNET JOURNALIST ALL AGREE THE LEFT HAS ABANDONED BASIC ETHICS AND VALUES RABBI DANIEL LAPIN, NAT HENTOFF, AND JOSEPH FARAH APPEAR ON "THE JUDICIAL WATCH REPORT" Tune In At www.JudicialWatch.org (Washington, D.C.) Today Orthodox Rabbi Daniel Lapin and author of America's Real War, Nat Hentoff, libertarian syndicated columnist of The Washington Post & The Village Voice, and Internet trail blazer Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily.com appeared on Judicial Watch's radio show and all agreed that the left - in an unethical defense of the ...

You can't say the word "anarchists" these days without mentioning "Eugene" in the same breath, apparently. Their notoriety grew Thursday as media reports from Seattle to New York continued to credit Eugene radicals with participating in - even leading - the charge of vandalism at Tuesday's protest against the World Trade Organization. Two network television broadcasts featured the Eugene connection as city officials fielded questions from more than a dozen reporters across the globe. The segment on "NBC Nightly News" quoted Seattle's police chief saying that some anarchists claimed they were from Eugene. But the report included a disclaimer that ...

Be prepared for Y2K, hydro company warns OTTAWA (CP) … Ontario Hydro Generation says it's convinced there won't be any problems when its computer clocks hit midnight on New Year's Eve … but suggests that people stock up on food, water and emergency supplies just in case. The list comes under the heading ``Be Prepared,'' in a pamphlet accompanying a letter being sent to four million Hydro customers across the province. The company says people should have on hand: flashlights, extra batteries, a battery-operated radio and clock, a cellphone, candles, waterproof matches, extra blankets, coats, hats and gloves, plastic garbage ...

As part of its argument for "Fair Use" Free Republic has often claimed to be unaffiliated with any political party or candidate. Yet FR's "Media Director", Connie Hair (aka Clinton's A Liar), is a paid employee and contributor to the Alan Keyes campaign. Brian Buckley, (aka Clarity), FR's attorney and "Agent for Service of Process" is also a contributor to the Keyes campaign, though he has claimed he has not decided on a candidate. Results brought to you by Politics.com in partnership with Public Disclosure, Inc. Contributions from individuals whose name begins with [ Hair, Connie ] 1 records found ...

Dec. 3 update -- One year after the NICS background check system was put in place my predictions are holding up, except that even fewer active criminals -- the alleged targets -- are being denied. When the NICS check was being debated I predicted on the basis of various studies that more than 95 percent of the persons checked would be approved, that most of the denials would be wrongful due to misidentification or non-disqualifying arrest records, that few active criminals would be caught attempting to make an illegal buy, and that even fewer would be caught in the ...

Don't blame yourself, Seattle. Much the same would have happened anywhere. The World Trade Organization was due to encounter obstacles on the way to a new round of trade negotiations while it was becoming a more visible target for a wide variety of critics. A WTO meeting in Paris or Mexico City or Jakarta would have been just as difficult and just as vulnerable to disruption. This was the moment for globalization to become a political rather than a purely economic issue, and Seattle happened to be the venue. Reports of the demonstrations and marches at the meeting have drawn ...

As I sat at my desk and worked, Brigadoon was showing on one the channels. I don't know which one, AMC, TMC, something. In between the bagpipes and somebody squalling something about Bonnie Jean, there was a wedding. Well, not really a wedding, and not really a civil ceremony, and that is what caught my eye. Now Brigadoon was one of those 50's type musicals. (I think the theme song goes like 'Brriigggaaadoooon, where the wind comes rushing through the braes', or maybe I'm getting it confused with South Pacific which goes like 'Sooouuuttthhhh Paaaccciiifffiiicc where the wind comes rushing ...

I remember seeing a link here to a website to discuss Evolution/Creation. Could someone please post the link again for me? Thanks Jeff http://www.triumphofdesign.com

Clinton Paternity 'Test' Called into Question January 18, 1999 FBI Mum on Accuracy of DNA Report on President The FBI refused last week to say that its lab report accurately portrays President Clinton's DNA profile, or whether that profile may have been altered in documents released to the House Judiciary Committee for reasons of national security or privacy. If the President's DNA was camouflaged in FBI documents, a DNA paternity test recently arranged by STAR Magazine would be unreliable. Reportedly test results rule out any possibility that Clinton is the father of Little Rock teen Danny Williams. Experts say that ...

Old McCain Records Show Skin Cancer By RON FOURNIER and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press Writers ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Presidential candidate John McCain suffered a dangerous skin cancer six years ago but was declared cured, according to medical records released Saturday that pronounce him in ``good physical and mental health.'' A cancerous mole removed from his shoulder in December 1993 was small, and had not invaded deep into his skin or spread. The records show no sign of recurrence. Severe wounds suffered as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam left McCain with degenerative arthritis in his shoulders and right knee that may ...

'According to a study published by the Strategis Group, a Washington-based market research group, one-half of all adults in the United States now use the Internet. That’s 100 million people – up from 65 million people last year at this time. '

Critics blame Seattle police chief for WTO chaos, call for Stamper's badge By Kelly Thornton STAFF WRITER December 4, 1999 Norm Stamper was once the long-haired, bearded hippie of the San Diego Police Department who worked undercover, masquerading as a protester on college campuses in the 1960s. For 27 years, he was the department's resident intellectual, with a doctorate, progressive ideas and a tendency to alienate fellow officers who felt his politics and personality were more aligned with demonstrators than with cops. That is why some of Stamper's former colleagues in San Diego see irony in his current predicament: ...

Returning to a favorite theme of his first months in the White House, Bill Clinton in late October made a series of speeches demonizing drug companies. He claims they're bad-mouthing his prescription plan for Medicare patients. Some onlookers thought the timing odd, given that the drug company coalition had been attacking the plan in TV, radio, and newspaper spots for more than four months prior to the offensive. "Gore's fundraisers asked him to hold off until after they could gauge how successful they could be fundraising the companies," says a White House aide who works on health-care policy. "They met ...

VISTA -- Several months after declaring on the Internet that she had taken over the defense, an attorney for the woman charged in the state Route 78 standoff was fired by her client yesterday. A Superior Court judge granted Janet Lucero's request for a new attorney, a request Lucero made for undisclosed reasons after erupting at her lawyer in a courtroom holding cell. Attorney Nancy Lord Johnson had been handling the matter for free, publicizing the case on her Web site as an example of what she called police extremism. The case is now assigned to the Public Defender's Office. ...