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Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Washington State-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, told CNSNews.com in an interview that the 2000 elections are critical for maintaining 2nd Amendment rights. (Read the full story.) How important do you think the 2000 elections will be regarding the 2nd Amendment? They will be of extreme importance They will be of some importance They will be of minor importance They will be of no significant importance Too early to tell Take the poll here.

SAN DIEGO, Dec 06 (Reuters Health) -- Violence -- youth violence, school violence, violence between intimates, and violence between prison inmates -- is a public health problem, according to the American Medical Association (AMA). On Monday, delegates attending a meeting of the physician organization began voting on a series of initiatives targeting the problem. The vote came on the same day that a 13-year-old boy in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, opened fire on his classmates, injuring several. The AMA will not be alone in the anti-violence campaign. US Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher, an AMA delegate, said yesterday that ``the Surgeon ...

Four Students Shot at Okla. School By FORT GIBSON, Okla. (AP) -- A seventh-grader walked up to a crowd of youngsters waiting for the morning bell Monday and opened fire with a gun, wounding four schoolmates before a science teacher pinned him against a wall, witnesses said. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening. A fifth youngster suffered bumps and bruises. ``He doesn't even know who it was he shot,'' sheriff's Deputy Terry Cragg said. ``There was not a hate thing. I asked him why. He said, `I don't know.''' The 13-year-old dropped the emptied, 9mm semiautomatic handgun as ...

Tuesday December 7 8:28 AM ET CINCINNATI, Ohio (Reuters) - Ruling that Christmas is celebrated by non-Christians as well as Christians, a judge late on Monday threw out a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of observing Dec. 25 as a federal holiday. U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott said in her dismissal of the lawsuit that just as Christians observe Christmas as a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, non-Christians celebrate the occasion to welcome the arrival of Santa Claus. Therefore, she said, Christmas cannot be regarded as a holiday that establishes one religious faith above all others in violation of ...

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How would George W. Bush govern as president? It is an important question that most Republicans seem afraid to ask. While most Republican governors, congressmen, and state lawmakers have jumped on the Bush bandwagon, few have examined Bush’s record as Texas governor — perhaps the best predictor of presidential performance. Maybe they are afraid of what they might find. If the past is prologue, conservatives can expect symbolic defeats on social issues, puny tax cuts, double-digit spending hikes, and little progress on hot-buttons like school reform, affirmative action, abortion, or gun rights. Purists point to a handful of symbolic state-level ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department says the Law School Admission Test, required by 196 law schools, is unfair to the physically disabled because they are denied extra time to take it. The department's civil rights division filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia against the Law School Admission Council, which annually administers the half-day standardized test of reading and verbal reasoning skills to 104,000 law school applicants. The government alleged that the council violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it denied four people with physical disabilities, including cerebral palsy and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, extra time ...

The lesson of Pearl Harbor                 | | | |                                   TUESDAY DECEMBER 71999                 The lesson of Pearl Harbor By Al Lance © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com In 110 minutes, our nation learned a devastating lesson. Over the past 58 years, some of our nation's elected officials, and their appointees, seem to have forgotten the lesson. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, was the most disastrous blow ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A panel of private experts says Social Security's trustees are underestimating how quickly the cost of paying retirement benefits to Americans will rise along with increases in life expectancy in the next century. The panel said the trustees' current assumption that life expectancy for Americans will reach 81.5 years in 2070 should be boosted to 85.2 - or 3.7 more years of collecting Social Security benefits per person, on average. If a Social Security payroll tax increase were used to pay for the additional benefits associated with the faster rate of increase in life expectancy, extended over ...

Forwarded by the Freeman Center URL: http://freeman.io.com BEING SILENT ABOUT EVIL BY PROF. PAUL EIDELBERG The suddenness with which the Soviet Empire disintegrated came as a complete surprise to sovietologists. With 20-20 hindsight, many attributed the Soviet collapse to its impossible economy: a whopping $400 billion were spent on (unproductive) military hardware in the 1980s. That decade witnessed the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Some say that by trying to compete with the Reagan defense budget—remember Star Wars?—the Kremlin ran the Soviet Union into bankruptcy. Others emphasize the Soviet’s long drawn out war in Afghanistan, which undermined the Russian economy as ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Federal Reserve proposal to allow banks to collect data on the race and sex of people applying for loans is drawing opposition from some Republican senators. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, and other GOP senators criticized the proposal in a letter Monday to Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, saying it could lead to discrimination against applicants for loans and credit cards. ``The credit process should be colorblind,'' Gramm said in a statement accompanying a copy of the letter. ``Allowing banks and other creditors to collect information about the race, religion or national ...

IF THE AUDIENCE at Congressman Jim Rogan's speech to the Wednesday Morning Club on December 3rd came away with one impression of the Republican from California, it was that Rogan has pulled himself up by his bootstraps—and that life experience was instrumental in shaping his political beliefs. In his address, Rogan discussed how growing up under tough circumstances was crucial in his political development as a conservative, and how the Republican majority, despite controlling the House, is not nearly as effective as conservatives often hope it would be. Describing what led him to choose a political career in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Education Department, unable to give a Congressional panel an accounting of disputed parts of a $32 billion budget and billions more in student loans it manages, insisted it broke no laws and could overcome its accounting troubles. ``Our auditors identified issues we must address, but they did not report that any funds were lost, misallocated or stolen,'' Marshall Smith, a deputy to Education Secretary Richard Riley, told the oversight and investigations subcommittee of the House Education and Workforce Committee on Monday. Testimony came a few weeks after the department, one of four federal agencies unable to ...

(CNSNews.com) - Three years ago, Native Americans filed a lawsuit accusing the federal government of mismanaging Indian trust funds, and according to a report released Monday, that mismanagement continues up to the present moment. The report, written by Alan Balaran, a court-appointed investigator, shows that Treasury Department officials shredded 162 boxes of documents that may have been relevant to the lawsuit Native Americans have filed against the government. According to Balaran's report, not only did the Treasury Department destroy potentially relevant documents - it covered up its actions for more than three months, then lied to a federal court about ...

Uh-oh. I've got a bad feeling about this Panama Canal deal. No, it's not just that the butchers of Beijing are on the verge of taking over the most strategic and valuable piece of real estate in the Western Hemisphere. That would be bad, of course. But what really worries me is that Americans remain asleep to the dangers this development portends for them. They are asleep because the media dare not awake them. Worse yet, though, it's not just poor news judgment, I fear, that keeps the press silent -- even in the face of President Clinton's admission ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Spice maker McCormick & Co. could soon face a lawsuit by federal regulators alleging that the company discriminated in the prices it charged different retailers, according to sources familiar with the investigation. The staff of the Federal Trade Commission is prepared to recommend such action, the sources said Monday. At issue is whether the company paid different allowances, mostly in the form of discounts, to retailers for shelf space and prominent visibility in the placement of its spice products. Manufactures can pay for such promotional expenses, but are not supposed to discriminate among retailers unless they are ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton on Tuesday will order the federal government to produce recommendations in 60 days on how to prevent medical errors that kill tens of thousands of Americans annually, the White House said on Monday night. Clinton will be responding to a report last week by the National Academy of Sciences that said errors by U.S. physicians, pharmacists and other health care providers cause the deaths of between 44,000 and 98,000 people every year -- more than highway accidents, breast cancer and AIDS. More than 7,000 of those deaths occur as a result of ''medication errors,'' which ...

China's sunny computer forecast ABC News recently reported that China has been granted approval to purchase an IBM supercomputer that could enhance its nuclear tipped missiles. According to ABC, the IBM RS-6000 SP supercomputer is intended for China's Meteorological Administration, which is a branch of the government, for weather research. "It's a legitimate end-use," stated a Clinton administration official that, according to the ABC report asked not to be identified. "Weather forecasting in the United States uses very intensive computing." However, defense expert and director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, Gary Milhollin, disagrees with the sunny ...

Manchester, NH (CNSNews.com) - The upcoming 2000 general election will be critical to the preservation of Second Amendment rights, according to Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Washington State-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. "Gun rights period are at stake. We can't possibly sustain our rights for four more years, with a president who appoints anti-gun judges," Gottlieb told CNSNews.com, following his remarks to the annual dinner of the Gun Owners of New Hampshire. The event was co-sponsored by the National Rifle Association, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the Gun ...

World Tribune.com: Front Page Story Weakened Assad seen losing his grip SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Tuesday, December 7, 1999 LONDON -- Syrian President Hafez Assad -- stymied by ill health, internal opposition and the struggle for succession -- has been rendered incapable of making the decision to resume peace efforts with Israel, diplomats said. The assessment is shared by diplomatic sources from both the United States and France, the two Western countries regarded as closest to Damascus. The sources, some of whom have met with Assad over the last few weeks, said the Syrian president can do little more ...