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If you are able and have any thing left after Christmas shopping for those you love, please put a little in FR's stockimg. In November 68 Freepers donated $3485 to the Free Republic. $875 of which, was for the legal fund. This is the best we have done since last May when we were working on the Hero's Rally. I thank each and every one of you for your help in keeping the Free Republic up.

You tell me who is going to be elected President in the 2000 elections and I'll give you a good idea what will happen to stocks in the next decade (there is a joker in the deck, which I will discuss later). If by some miracle Steve Forbes is elected, the stock market will be like the 1960's---overvalued historically, but steady as great economic policies justify today's extreme valuations (the JFK tax cut of 1962 gave us an extra ten years of prosperity---I consider JFK one of our truly great Presidents as far as economic policy is concerned). If ...

***World Condemns Collosal Free Trade Failure*** WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department reports major European news media commentators see "chaos" and, ultimately, the breakdown of the "Clinton Round" of WTO talks. Under the headline "An American Failure," Paris' Le Figaro Economie banner reads, "Seattle's failure is a humiliation for Bill Clinton." The headlines in Great Britain accuse the Clinton White House as being not well prepared for the negotiations. Glaring headlines point single out the Clinton administration as "woefully underprepared for the conference and deserved fully to be embarrassed," and variously blamed "the irresponsibility of Bill Clinton," "the lack ...

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Another on-going Presidential poll is right here.

By Jerry Miller CNS Correspondent 06 December, 1999 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 ...

Tuesday December 7 1:46 PM ET Bush Amused by Republican Rival's Debate Attack By Patricia WilsonPHOENIX (Reuters) - Texas Gov. George W. Bush, unable to shake questions about whether he is presidential material after his second Republican campaign debate, brushed off a rival's attack on Tuesday as ``a funny exchange.''``I didn't view it as a whack at all,'' he said. ``It was in good spirit.''Bush, the overwhelming front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, told reporters he ``felt good'' about his performance in Monday night's debate despite being the butt of a barbed joke from Sen. Orrin Hatch of ...

You tell me who is going to be elected President in the 2000 elections and I'll give you a good idea what will happen to stocks in the next decade (there is a joker in the deck, which I will discuss later). If by some miracle Steve Forbes is elected, the stock market will be like the 1960's---overvalued historically, but steady as great economic policies justify today's extreme valuations (the JFK tax cut of 1962 gave us an extra ten years of prosperity---I consider JFK one of our truly great Presidents as far as economic policy is concerned). If ...

You can tell a lot about a man by the friends he makes. By his enemies, too. But that's not always true of men in politics. Sometimes a candidate attracts people who like him for the wrong reasons. Orrin Hatch has made a career of his friendship with Teddy Kennedy. (Both men have survived it.) Would anyone want to blame John McCain because he's the favorite Republican of the boys and girls on the campaign bus? They've decided that if the senator is not exactly "one of us," he's the Republican closest to it. At least for right now. Mr. ...

Fifty-eight years ago, Manning Kimmel's grandfather and John Spratt's cousin played vital and, in the harsh eyes of history, tragic roles in the most humiliating foreign attack in American military history. Today, Kimmel owns radio stations in South Carolina, and Spratt is his congressman. Both are trying to erase a stigma they say has been left by more than a half-century of scapegoating. Kimmel is pursing his family's long quest to restore the reputation of Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, who was commander of the United States' Pacific fleet on Dec. 7, 1941, when Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl ...

Some Funny Math in GOP Debate By Calvin Woodward Associated Press Writer Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1999; 2:20 a.m. EST WASHINGTON –– Whether outbidding each other on education dollars or describing the tax load on citizens, GOP presidential candidates seemed in need of remedial math at times in their Arizona debate. Candidates who vowed to put education more in the hands of local decision-makers proposed expensive and perhaps even expansive federal programs Tuesday night to give parents the money to choose schools. Texas Gov. George W. Bush declared "I don't believe in national testing" despite running on a platform that ...

... www.keep-the-republic.org LARRY KLAYMAN's JUDICIAL WATCH and U.S. Defense - American Victory are in court together, to stop the Canal turnover and have the treaties declared invalid. Court Case - William Bright Marine vs. William Jefferson Clinton, et al, United States District Court, District of Columbia. Congress is NOT back in Session until January 6, 2000. TOO LATE!

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX DECEMBER 07, 1999 13:09:44 ET XXXXX WASH POST, AP REPORTERS FURIOUS AT 'Y2K RALLY' WEBSITE Main media outlets are furious at a website that organized a grassroots Internet Rally designed to draw awareness to the possible Y2K computer glitch. Thousands of Y2K-concerned citizens from across the country rallied on the Internet this week to raise awareness in the media and to pledge the donation of Year 2000 preparedness supplies to their communities and Red Cross chapters. But Y2KNEWSWIRE.COM, the web site organizing the rally, found itself in the middle of controversy after it received complaints from ...

WASHINGTON -- Between about a dozen holiday parties at the White House, the elaborate plans for the millennium celebration and a full campaign schedule in New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton is sneaking in a little packing. At the annual unveiling of White House Christmas decorations (this year's theme reflects times past), the first lady said today that the timing of her move into the Dutch Colonial house in Chappaqua, N.Y., that she and the president bought for $1.7 million depended on the Secret Service. "I don't know if we'll be in the house before the end of the year," she ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- On the heels of the world trade talks' collapse in Seattle, White House officials began working with lawmakers Tuesday to win congressional approval for China's accession to the World Trade Organization. The meeting during congressional recess underscored the importance the Clinton administration places on the deal that would open China's vast market to U.S. goods and services. It also reflected concern over the strength WTO critics showed in organizing protests around a meeting of trade ministers last week. ``This agreement creates new opportunities in America while promoting reform in China,'' said White House spokesman Jake Siewert. ...

If your child is antsy and has trouble paying attention, you may find yourself at the pediatrician being told he or she has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But now evidence is surfacing that physicians may be a little too subjective in making this diagnosis. That's alarming, because there's been a rise in the number of cases in recent years - and new studies show conflicting opinions about overdiagnosis and overtreatment of the disorder. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 3% to 5% of school-age children have ADHD. That's more than 2 million children and adolescents ...

Counting the Cost of Seattle for Bill and Al The cloud over Clinton's legacy left by WTO failure may have a silver lining for Gore Of all the media interviews President Clinton lives to regret once his term is over, few will rank as high as last week's conversation on trade with the Seattle Post Examiner. In a hotel-room conversation with the paper's Michael Paulson while anti-WTO demonstrations raged outside, Clinton casually suggested that the U.S. should ultimately impose sanctions on nations that violate a set of core labor standards. The comment may have been the obvious palliative to throw ...

Enter Stage Right - A Journal of Modern Conservatism Ted Turner's money helped fund WTO protests By Tom DeWeese The World Trade Organization (WTO) is not about free trade. One doesn't need a truck full of regulations to explain free trade. One simply knocks down the barriers and allows commerce to take place. No protections for those who venture into unknown and dangerous trade waters. No subsidies for those who make bad deals. No regulations to make the playing field "fair." Such risks come with real free trade. Consequently it regulates itself. It's called a free market. The WTO does ...

(With Thanks to Schoolmasters Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Tse-Tung and Pol Pot for the Teaching.)  As an amateur historian of this sad century whose time is almost up, I would like to reflect upon six lessons I have learned in my studies. Folks who wish to live free and prosperous in the next century would do well to understand the failures of the last.  Lesson No. 1: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and take you someplace you don't want to go because of who you ...

| | | | TUESDAY DECEMBER 7 1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.N. coming for your guns Private groups, governments team up to severely restrict firearms ownership -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Stephan Archer and Sarah Foster © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com American gun owners and advocacy groups like the National Rifle Association are suddenly finding that when it comes to firearms legislation, they had better pay attention to what's happening not only in Congress and their state legislatures, but at the United Nations, where the Second Amendment is being quietly dismantled behind closed doors. Since the end of the Cold War, the disarmament community has ...