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Why Liberals hate the Gospel Message - Chuck Baldwin November 30, 1999 A recent AP report stated that a coalition of religious leaders in Chicago has asked Southern Baptists to not bring missionaries to their city next summer. The reason? They fear that the gospel message will spark violence against Jews, Hindus and Muslims. To the mind of a liberal, the gospel message, and the missionaries who deliver it, are the source of violence and hate. Are these not the same people who cry aloud for tolerance, diversity and pluralism? Can you imagine the outcry of the press had such ...

Chinese Dissident Says Beaten For Talk With US EnvoyBEIJING, Dec 6, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) A Chinese dissident said Monday he was beaten by police after having a conversation with a US diplomat whose job is to monitor human rights in the country. "I was called in for questioning on December 1, two days after meeting Woo Lee, first secretary of the US embassy, in a Beijing hotel," Fu Sheng, a member of the banned China Democracy Party (CDP), told AFP from his home in the northern city of Xi'an. "The police brought me to a police station in ...

The DLC Update Monday, December 6, 1999 Idea of the Week: Trade is Good The DLC hosted several events during this week's World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial summit in Seattle, including forums for New Democrat members of Congress and for state and local officials, as well as a quiet discussion with representatives of labor and environmental groups. Coverage of our events and views in local media, and in numerous newspapers across the country including The Dallas Morning News, The Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, helped show there were Democrats in Seattle who support the President's trade policies. Meanwhile, the ...

City Bans Nude Lap Dances TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - The Tampa City Council voted to ban nude ``lap dancing'' at strip clubs after a raucous 13-hour meeting that lasted until early Friday morning. The seven-member council unanimously approved an ordinance that would require dancers to stay at least 6 feet away from customers and each other while performing. Violators could be fined up to $1,000 or get six months in jail and clubs with repeated violations could be shut down. Tampa Mayor Dick Greco signed the ordinance into law as soon as it passed, making it effective immediately. More than ...

CAROLS have nothing to do with Christmas or Christianity and are in fact pagan in origin, according to a book published today. Although it would seem now impossible to celebrate Christmas without them, even their name derives from the Greek choros, a circling dance associated with fertility rites, according to the book's editor, the Rev Ian Bradley. Many carols have come down from a medieval tradition of wassailers going from door to door, singing and drinking a potent brew to the health of those they have visited. But most have lost their original wording having been rewritten this century ...

Perhaps the best way to introduce Hans J. Massaquoi is to mention two huge crowds he finds himself part of at different times in his life: The first is an ecstatic throng lining the Alsterkrugchaussee in Hamburg, Germany, in 1934, cheering and shouting sieg-heil as Adolf Hitler rides by in an open car. The second is the immense audience gathered before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 1963 to hear Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. That Massaquoi, 73, a former editor at Ebony magazine, was an enthusiastic participant in both events, and has ...

Rep. Tracy Stafford has reintroduced a bill that would require the recognition of Domestic Partnerships in Florida. This bill not only threatens the sanctity of marriage, but it essentially violates the Defense of Marriage Act passed in 1998. The bill is gaining momentum andco-sponsors at an alarming rate. HB 0029, has been referred to the following committees: Family Law & Children Insurance General Government Appropriations It is currently in Family Law & Children. If we can kill the bill in any of these committees we can keep it from reaching the floor and avoid any possibility of it becoming law. ...

I have received several on-the-spot reports of on the conflict between left-wing radicals who came to Seattle with the goal of paralyzing the city and preventing the World Trade Organization meeting from occurring. I gather from the reports that those sending them think I will be sympathetic because I have reservations about the WTO. They couldn't be more wrong. I have nearly a fifty year history opposing civil disobedience. By the 1960s, when Civil Disobedience was proposed as a means of stopping the testing of nuclear bombs in the atmosphere, I was arguing that it made no sense. If ...

Chechens flee Grozny, Russia says quit or die... Updated 12:19 PM ET... December 6, 1999... By Maria Eismont... GORAGORSKY ROAD, WESTERN CHECHNYA, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's military issued an ultimatum on Monday that warned all Chechens to leave their capital Grozny within five days or die, provoking a new exodus of terrified refugees. Scores of people made their way down this narrow road from Grozny after reading the Russian warning in leaflets distributed as troops closed in on both the capital and two other key towns leading to it. "You are surrounded, all roads to Grozny are blocked. You have ...

Chechens flee Grozny, Russia says quit or die... Updated 12:19 PM ET... December 6, 1999... By Maria Eismont... GORAGORSKY ROAD, WESTERN CHECHNYA, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's military issued an ultimatum on Monday that warned all Chechens to leave their capital Grozny within five days or die, provoking a new exodus of terrified refugees. Scores of people made their way down this narrow road from Grozny after reading the Russian warning in leaflets distributed as troops closed in on both the capital and two other key towns leading to it. "You are surrounded, all roads to Grozny are blocked. You have ...

List of Recent School Shootings With PM-School Shootings By The Associated Press Some other recent shootings involving U.S. schools: Dec. 6, 1999 - A 13-year-old student at Fort Gibson Middle School in Fort Gibson, Okla., wounded four classmates and was still trying to pull the trigger on an empty gun when he was subdued by a science teacher, authorities said. He said ``I don't know'' when asked why he did it. May 20, 1999 - A 15-year-old boy at Heritage High School in Conyers, Ga., opened fire with a .357-caliber Magnum and a rifle on a commons area, wounding six ...

NEW YORK -- As an Air Canada jet was taking off at LaGuardia Airport on one runway, a US Airways plane was approaching to land on an intersecting runway. Fearing a collision, a tower controller radioed: "USAir nine twenty, go around" to make a second approach. The US Airways jet pulled up, but then the co-pilot at the controls spotted the airborne Air Canada jet crossing right in front. "Look there," the co-pilot shouted to the captain as he ducked his jet under the Air Canada plane. The jets missed by 20 feet, so close that the US Airways captain ...

Friday November 26 4:18 PM ET Officials Dodge Mrs. Arafat Issue By KARIN LAUB Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - The Palestinian Authority sidestepped U.S. requests that it distance itself from provocative remarks by Soha Arafat, with senior Palestinian officials saying Friday they wanted to stay clear of the matter. Four top officials, who were interviewed separately and refused to be identified by name, declined to comment. Instead, they pointed to a statement they said was issued Tuesday in the name of an ``official Palestinian source'' that said Mrs. Arafat represented her own views and not those of the authority. ...

Something to Say Commentary Monday, December 06, 1999 A Hinge of History? Big Media had a terrible time last week, what with the collapse of those World Treaty Organization talks in Seattle. What should the masses be told about the stillbirth of what was trumpeted as the coming of a new era of free trade throughout the “global community?” This question was answered in different ways. For TV networks and cable news operations, the answer was to de-emphasize the remarkable scenes of tens of thousands of disparate people ( from preppie Young Republicans, to bare-breasted lesbians, to Harley-riding union ...

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." -- United States Constitution, Amendment II [1791] In the overheated debate on gun control, the Second Amendment to the US Constitution gets dissected, deconstructed, scrutinized, dismembered, inspected, examined, pored over, analyzed and studied. In the end, interestingly enough, each side ends up emphasizing its favorite part. Anti-gunners dwell on the first part "A well regulated Militia…", while gun owners point to "…the right to keep and bears Arms shall not be infringed." ...

Fidel Castro vowed yesterday to wage a "battle for world opinion" over the 6-year-old Cuban boy rescued off the coast of Florida -- threatening massive protests if he isn't returned in 72 hours. "This is a flagrant crime of kidnapping by the U.S. authorities," an angry Castro said on Cuban TV, making his first public statements on the fate of little Elian Gonzalez, who has been staying with relatives in Miami since he was rescued Thanksgiving Day clinging to an inner tube. Elian's mother and stepfather and eight other people drowned when the small boat carrying them from Cuba ...

Company to Sue Seattle Over Gas Mask Ban City Outlawed Devices During WTO Protests Dec. 3, 1999 By Amy Worden ap Mark Miclette of Gas Masks Inc. SEATTLE (APBnews.com) -- A Maine business that touts itself as the world's leading retailer of gas masks is planning to file suit against the city for banning the devices during the violent protests over the World Trade Organization meeting. Mark Miclette, founder and president of Gas Masks Inc., said he will challenge the ban on constitutional grounds and because it violates federal law. "It's a direct violation of the Weapons of Mass Destruction ...

Monday, December 6, 1999High Court to Reconsider Miranda RulingJustice: The new ruling will be based on the case of a man accused of bank robbery who made incriminating statements to FBI agents. He may not have received a proper Miranda warning.From Associated Press     WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court set the stage today for determining the fate of the Miranda police warnings, familiar to generations of Americans who have witnessed countless arrests in movies and on television.     The justices agreed to decide whether a federal law overturned-- or at least dramatically limited-- one of the court's most famous decisions, one that since 1966 ...

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 15:23:20 +0100 From: "Fr. Sava" Subject: [KDN] KESTON INSTITUTE (UK) - Destruction of the Serbian Orthodox Churches in Kosovo (Fr. Sava) Friday 3 December DESTRUCTION OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHES IN KOSOVO by Branko Bjelajac, Keston News Service A few days ago the Raska and Prizren Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo published an illustrated 50-page publication 'Raspeto Kosovo' (Kosovo Crucified), with a photo-documentation showing the destruction or heavy damaging of 76 of its churches and monasteries since the peace agreement in June 1999. An earlier publication on the same issue, published in ...

An offensive Duncan yo yo ad that showed a number of youngsters give them "the finger" has been dropped from television after a watchdog group got retailers to discontinue sales of the classic toy. A 30-second commercial that showed 17 young people giving the middle finger gesture of vulgarity to the television audience not only angered thousands of parents, it upset national toy store giant Toys R Us. Live demonstrations by yo-yo professionals who appeared in the commercials were canceled at Toys R Us and similar actions were threatened at other outlets. Full story at http://InvestigativeJournal.com