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It was early morning, December 7,1941. As the sun was just beginning to rise in Oahu, Hawaii, a fleet of Japanese naval air forces were taking off from their respective aircraft carriers in various locations in the Pacific Ocean. Just as many of the islanders were waking up for breakfast, it happened. The Japanese air fleet had arrived with a vengeance. No one was prepared for what was occurring. Pearl Harbor, the United States' center for military action in the Pacific Ocean, was almost completely destroyed. Anger toward the Japanese spread quickly throughout the entire country, and this anger ...

This week's edition of Enter Stage Right is out now! Check it at http://www.enterstageright.com --This week's issue--> Media proves Alan Keyes' accusation that they are racist: Is Alan Keyes the victim of racism by America's media? Mary Mostert says last week's GOP debate proved it The case against Madonna: Brad Aisa says Madonna's monopoly is eerily similar to Microsoft's. So when does the antitrust trial begin? On a mission from God - Part 2: Bruce Babbitt and the environmental movement: In part two of Diane Alden's exposé on Bruce Babbitt and the environmentalist movement, she details how three politicians joined ...

What is Rush up to today? I get the show on an hour delay. So far, he talked about golf and about Hillary, Rudy, and Carville. Thanks for you input. All are welcome, even if you are misguided enough not to realize how great Rush is!

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MONDAY, DECEMBER 06, 1999 12:01:44 ET XXXXX FLASH: FOX NEWS CHANNEL SCORES HIGHEST RATINGS IN ITS HISTORY WITH GOP DEBATE; TOPS CNN IN VIEWERS FOX NEWS CHANNEL hit its highest ratings ever for a single telecast on Thursday, December 2nd with "The Republicans: A New Hampshire Forum". From 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM, FNC averaged a 2.6 rating with 1,155,000 households. FNC ratings peaked from 9:00 PM to 9:15 PM with a 3.0 rating in 1,329,000 households. FNC beat CNN for the first time in ratings and households in prime time -- the DRUDGE REPORT has ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arthur Coia, the embattled president of the Laborers' International Union, has decided to step aside at the end of the year and the union's board has chosen a 44-year-old regional leader to replace him, according to three labor officials. Coia, whose close support of President Clinton while his union was under investigation drew Republican scrutiny, was cleared in March by an independent hearing officer of charges that he had ties to organized crime. Coia was fined $100,000 for a separate ethics violation under a process established under an agreement with the Justice Department in 1995 to ...

Thomas Jefferson once observed, "If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," adding that "if we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." These days that is not an easy task. However, between the symbiotic relationship of the "New Media" of cyberspace, and talk radio, "the truth is out there." I only get one day a week to contribute to WorldNetDaily. A constant frustration is trying to decide which atrocity du jour, or which ...

The L.A. Times and Staples Center: Yeah, they knew that. The story of the Los Angeles Times special magazine on Staples Center (no "the," please; the purveyor of paper clips is too classy for that) lumbers on. According to a piece by Scott Winokur in Sunday's San Francisco Examiner, a number of top editors at the once-venerable daily knew about the unusual deal to share profits with the company that built the sports arena they were covering -- yet were powerless to stop it! Originally, editorial claimed that it had not been informed of this unusual profit-sharing deal until New ...

Here are the "Top Ten Other Achievements Claimed By Al Gore." Copyright 1999 by Worldwide Pants, Inc. 10. Was first human to grow an opposable thumb 9. Only man in world to sleep with someone named "Tipper" 8. Current Vice President -- Moesha fan club 7. He invented the dog 6. While riding bicycle one day, accidentally invented the orgasm 5. Pulled U.S. out of early 90's recession by personally buying 6,000 T-shirts 4. Starred in CBS situation comedy with Juan Valdez, "Juan for Al, Al for Juan" 3. Was inspiration for Ozzy Osboune song "Crazy Train" 2. Came up ...

I was driving today along a two lane highway in North east Texas. A car pulled right up on my bumper apparently reading my "Clinton doesn't inhale...he Sucks" bumper sticker. The guy just tailgated me for about a mile then passed me. No big deal, then he got right in front of me and slowed down. I attempted to pass him but he speeded up as I slowed down, he slowed down attempting to keep me in the oncoming lane. We'll I got behind him absolutly livid. If any of you ever doubts that there is a God, and he's ...

Choose Life License Plate Frame "Choose Life" License Plate Frame Dr. Laura takes up Florida Governor Jeb Bush's "Choose Life" torch. (Read about it here.) For $12.50 purchase your own "Choose Life" license plate frame. For every Dr. Laura Schlessinger Foundation "Choose Life" license plate frame purchased before January 1, 2000, ALL proceeds will go directly to Florida based organizations that serve pregnant women who choose to put their babies up for adoption.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope John Paul II urged Panama to guard against outside influences after it gains control of the Panama Canal, calling the upcoming handover a "magnificent, historic opportunity.'' The pope delivered the warning during a Vatican ceremony Saturday in which Panama's new ambassador to the Holy See, Edda Victoria Martinelli, presented her diplomatic credentials. Panama gains final control of the canal Dec. 31, ending American sovereignty over the lucrative shipping short-cut, which opened in 1914. "In recovering sovereignty of the territory, you must pay particular attention to avoid letting outside interests or pressures take advantage of the ...

GOP stays in tax-cut mode as taxpayers stop listening 12/06/99 MANCHESTER, N.H. -- If there's one thing that unites Republicans of all stripes, it's the commitment to cutting taxes. It's why God made the Grand Old Party, as everyone knows. "I can't see any Republicans running anywhere in this country without paying at least lip service to a tax cut," says Dan Robinson, Steve Forbes' New Hampshire spokesman. And he's oh-so-right. Comes now, however, word from a most unexpected quarter that it's time for Republicans to stuff that tax cut talk. Voters don't want to hear it anymore. So says ...

It takes one to know one The irony behind liberal Jacob Weisberg's smear of conservative scholars who have documented Communist spying in the U.S. is that he is using the tactics he wrongly charges them with -- "neo-McCarthyism." - - - - - - - - - - - - By David Horowitz Dec. 6, 1999 | Winston Churchill once remarked that there was nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Perhaps that's why he enjoyed being a conservative -- it guaranteed he would frequently be a target. Recently, I dodged my own political bullet when columnist ...

Who cares what the media or the likes of sports announcers or writers like Marv Albert might say. Political Correctness stops when it comes to the Best. Jim Thorpe was the best and was so declared so for the first 50 years of this Century. No one since has bettered his record.

(U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- They come out every year. Last December it was the man who threatened to sue a local radio station because they were playing too many Christmas songs. A few years ago, it was the girl who rudely confronted a drug store manager about the cashier who had wished her a Merry Christmas instead of a Happy Holiday. "It just slipped out," said the cashier afterward, very apologetic, as if he had used profanity or insulted the girl's mother. "Honest. I'm really sorry." Now it's the woman at the bookstore who is openly complaining about ...

Sean Connery hobnobbing with Madeleine Albright.

1) Washington media on the Bush tax cut. Evan Thomas: "It's stupid" policy driven by "wing nuts." Al Hunt: "This is a Trojan Horse which disproportionately gives huge tax cuts to the very wealthy." Eleanor Clift: "It is a huge income shifter." 2) Sam Donaldson heralded "alleluia" to the "enrichment of the welfare state" over a tax cut. 3) Not one word about the debates on ABC, CBS or NBC the next night. Ted Koppel focused on how Bush had to "fall back three times on that, sort of, tired old" mantra about Texas as 11th largest economy. On ...

The United Federation of Teachers should add "bully" to its list of duties. That's what it became last week, when one of its district leaders threatened — and urged other teachers to dress down — a Queens principal who had the courage to criticize the union contract on this page. In a "Dear Colleague" letter on UFT letterhead, dated Nov. 24 and sent to every district leader in the city, Rich Farkas, District 24 representative, wrote: "Anthony Lombardi, Principal of PS 49 and the District 24 CSA Representative, expressed his views about our union and teachers in a Daily News ...

This is what Drudge has on his web site currently. "In an obit that stretches 2/3 of a printed page on Saturday: NEW YORK TIMES: MATT DRUDGE IS DEAD!! OBIT: "Though there are plenty of Drudge wannabes on the Internet gassing on many subjects, people turn to the Big Boys, not amateur citizen reporters, for news," notes the NY TIMES... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBIT: "Whatever errors Drudge made in his Washington coverage, they were nothing compared with his wildly mistaken conviction that any citizen can be a reporter in the new democratic era of the Internet," declares the NY TIMES... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBIT: ...

Thanks to Stott for exposing the rain forest claptrap for what it is: another concoction of the white liberal bourgeois. In truth, these "great" forests are not wholly necessary. When you think about it, who really needs a bunch of extraneous, offbeat species running around that probably no one will ever encounter? Furthermore, mainstream science has it all wrong. In truth, the rain forests do not absorb carbon dioxide. Instead, recent studies cited in the Journal of Scientific Reversal show that rain forests actually generate 85 percent of the earth's smog. The reality is that if we boiled the earth's ...