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WHEN TRAGEDY BECOMES POLITICAL DECEPTION center <p The first cry is how do these kids get guns in the first place? And several laws have been passed to make this more difficult....I do not disagree with these laws per say.. especially if they do not interfere with the 2nd amendment rights of adult, law abiding citizens........ <p However the entire concept of guns as a CAUSE is a bogus, manufactured political myth.... 230 MILLION GUNS sit in the cupboards and gunracks of America and they are not the cause of millions of Americans running out and blowing complete strangers away....NO ...

Ran across this while trying to find anything on Ashcroft's stealth visit to the WTO plotting session. This guy saw the light. TO; Lawrence County (Missouri) Republican Central Committee FROM: Joe Nix, Freistatt Committeeman June 1, 1997 BLIND LOYALTY In her booklet 'Blind Loyalty' Devvy Kidd points out very clearly how we have all been deceived by not putting our constitution and the preservation of our national sovereignty above political party loyalty. Mrs. Kidd is one of many 'internet friends' I have acquired who are working hard to educate people on the fundamental causes of the disastrous path of our ...

A missive arrived in the mail last week from Ian Morrison asking me, along no doubt with tens of thousands of others, to join his "Friends of Canadian Broadcasting." The "Friends" are a kind of lobby group for the CBC which Morrison has been running since 1985 when a huge ad appeared in the newspapers protesting against the Brian Mulroney government's cuts to the CBC budget. That ad marked something of a pivotal event. It was signed by all the luminaries of the New Canada - Pierre Berton, Maude Barlow, Lois Wilson and on and on to include several ...

George W. Bush says he is the "Education Governor" and wants to become the "Education President". He proudly points to his "accomplishments" in Texas to prove his qualifications to lead this nation’s education policy. Before endorsing George W., however, it might be a good idea to look at the record he believes qualifies him to direct your child’s education. Chris Patterson, head of Education Connection of Texas, says about Bush’s education policy, "Bush was responsible for transforming our system from a traditional and vocation two-track system into a combined School-to-Work system. Eighty percent of all students in Texas are ...

They are walking along next to the highway, picking up trash. It is unseasonably warm, so most of the fellows are wearing only light sweaters or sweatshirts under their sheets. One of the fellows is carrying a sign -- "Honk If You Like White People" -- and there is, of course, a steady sound of beeping as good-hearted motorists of all colors lightly sound their horns as they drive by. If only life were a little better, that could be our future now that the Ku Klux Klan has been given the go-ahead to "adopt" a section of Interstate 55 ...

KOSOVO Today, Nemanja Pavlovic (born in 1970, only child, single) and Mladjan Manitasevic (born in 1973, also single) were killed while gathering wood for winter, near Velika Hoca. Criminals approached them and shot them in the heads. Lubisa Manitasevic, brother of the killed Mladjan, managed to escape. Father Milenko from Velika Hoca, Father Petar and Father Miljko Koricanin from the Patriarchate of Pec, quickly appeared on the scene of the crime, together with Italian KFOR soldiers who afterwards escorted them to Orahovac. Investigation was conducted by Dutch KFOR soldiers. After this event, Serbian priests went to Orahovac, wherefrom they ...

LONDON -- Police in Seattle, which has given Microsoft and Boeing to the world, overreacted badly last week, physically abusing a large crowd which was in no way disrupting the peace because of small groups of troublemakers who clearly were. Whatever your feelings about whether the demonstrators should have been manhandled, the protest on what Allan Fotheringham calls the Left Coast was pathetic because it was pointless. The anarchists, for that is how these disaffected children of the computer age style themselves, only chose to hector a summit meeting of the World Trade Organization on the evils of globalization ...

President Bill Clinton has done countless abominable things in office -- and his obduracy in clinging to office has led countless otherwise decent and moral people try to justify conduct that they themselves would never even consider engaging in. He has violated his oath, has repeatedly lied under oath and otherwise, has obstructed justice and has engaged in sickening immorality. He became the first president of the United States to be justly impeached, and only the second to be impeached. President Andrew Johnson was victimized by a political vendetta's charges that the Supreme Court later ruled were unconstitutional. But ...

Why did Professor Dick van Velzen think butchering babies was right? Doctors think it's fine to use organs from dead children for research and training; grieving parents are horrified. The gulf between public expectation and medical practice has never been wider By Cole Moreton 05 December 1999 Professor Dick van Velzen believes he has done nothing wrong. The man accused of removing hearts and other organs from hundreds of dead babies without the parents' permission is distressed at being portrayed as a villain. "I am nothing of the sort," the Dutch pathologist said yesterday from his home in the Netherlands. ...

Preston Manning's Reformers have some shaking their heads and others livid with outrage over proposals we consider withdrawing from such international organizations as the U.N. and the Commonwealth. That's the fallout from a Reform policy paper Canada and the Millennium: A New Look at Foreign Policy -- but it should get us all thinking. Surely the party's right-on when it says membership in the Commonwealth is largely based on sentiment for our British ties. Now, neither sentiment nor British ties are bad in themselves, but the Commonwealth includes some of the most corrupt and barbaric African, Asian and Caribbean ...

Sudanese rebels praise U.S. law on food assistance 8.21 a.m. ET (1334 GMT) December 5, 1999 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — The Sudan People's Liberation Army has welcomed a new U.S. law allowing them to receive food aid, calling it a stand against human rights abuse. The measure, part of a $390 billion budget package signed Monday by President Clinton, gives the president the discretion to send food to autonomy-seeking insurgents in southern Sudan. U.S. officials say Clinton has yet to make a decision on supplying the rebels. Still, the rebels warmly welcomed the measure, which the Sudanese government condemned ...

So what if front-runner George W. Bush escaped from his first debate with his Republican presidential rivals with no real scars and few bruises? He was leveled nonetheless, by the only opponent who didn't say a single word against him. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won that debate, televised nationally by the Fox News Channel Thursday night, and peeled away Bush's inevitability in the process. McCain is a natural. He was more humorous than Bush, more relaxed, more focused, more down-to-earth, and sharper and more likely to draw independents and Democrats into the nation's first primary, where polls already have ...

Why doesn't ABC news just rename itself the Gore Broadcasting Network? Can you imagine the criticism that would rain down on Fox-TV news if one of its reporters hosted a dinner party for a leading Republican presidential candidate? And the network paid for it? Wouldn't that raise the issue of whether the reporter, or the network, for that matter, could cover the candidate objectively? Apparently that's no problem as far as ABC is concerned. The network not only approved a dinner party last Thursday for Vice President Al Gore and his spouse, Tipper, hosted by star correspondent John Cochran, ...

THE collapse of world trade talks in Seattle yesterday sparked fears of a new trade war between Europe and the United States. Following a week of riots, tear gas and mayhem from anti-capitalism protesters, the latest round of World Trade Organisation talks ended in shambles. The only ones celebrating last night were the WTO's critics. Charlene Barshefsky, the US chief trade representative, who was chairing the negotiations, announced that she had decided to pull the rug from under the talks because governments were "not quite willing to make the political decisions" that were needed. Although Ms Barshefsky insisted that the ...

DECEMBER 05, 04:57 EST Former Chief Justice Bird Dies SACRAMENTO (AP) — Former California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird, the first woman to serve on the state's highest court, has died. She was 63. Bird died Saturday from complications related to breast cancer at Stanford University Medical Center after less than a week in the hospital, said Sidney Feinberg, retired appeals court judge in Palo Alto and a longtime friend of Bird's. ``She was a tough lady, and a good lady,'' Feinberg said. Bird was appointed to the court's top job in 1977 by then-Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown ...

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1999 Headlines USA Altered state of American family Recent studies show that fewer adults are now 'married with children,' causing repercussions throughout society. Daniel B. Wood Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor LOS ANGELES In just one generation, attitudes toward marriage and family have shifted so dramatically that the very fabric of society has been inexorably altered - leaving pundits and ordinary Americans alike struggling to ascertain whether the changes are progressive or destructive. To be sure, marriage retains a high regard among Americans: More than 90 percent say it is a highly desirable goal. ...

Washington - &quot;Teen-agers Shun Drug Use,&quot; announced The New York Times this week. Public officials are positively giddy about purported signs of a decline in teen drug use. One new report says 40 percent of teens polled agree strongly that &quot;kids who are really cool don't use drugs.&quot; Another recent study found that less than one in 10 youths say they use cocaine, marijuana or other hard drugs. &quot;We have turned an important corner on youth drug use,&quot; our non-inhaling President Clinton declared. Not so fast. While one hand of government waves &quot;drug-free&quot; signs and T-shirts, the other hand ...

Washington - As I watched fire, tear gas and mass chaos consume Seattle last week, one wicked little thought crossed my mind: It couldn't have happened to a more deserving city.I lived in the now-tarnished jewel of the Pacific Northwest for three years - not long enough to grow moss on the bottom of my feet, but long enough to acclimatize to both the region's outward beauty and beastly hubris. Not content to rest on its natural physical assets, the Emerald City launched an aggressive campaign to become a &quot;world-class&quot; metropolis. Public officials have gone to great lengths - ...

Wait just a minute. Before Republicans take House Democratic Minority Leader Dick Gephardt's self-serving advice and abandon all hope of retaining their majority in the House; before this latter-day Dante starts measuring the drapes in the speaker's office, a reality check is in order. The truth is that the 2000 congressional election will be one of the most hard-fought in the nation's history; and although political pundits have been predicting the demise of House Republicans, that view is more myth than reality. Myth No.1: The Democrats won the budget battle. The actual outcome of the '99 Battle of the ...

Puerto Ricans Gain Ear of Washington but Seek Far More By FRANCIS X. CLINES VIEQUES, Puerto Rico -- Again and again across the decades, the U.S. Marines have stormed ashore here on Yellow Beach in a full rain of firepower and won the vital mock battleground that has been made of the eastern third of this small, lush island. But not now, and not ever again, according to the resolve of Sen. Ruben Berrios Martinez, the Puerto Rican lawmaker and Independence Party leader who holds the political high ground with a mere pamphleteer's firepower as he keeps the Marines at ...