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- (DALLAS) -- The Dallas City Council tomorrow is expected to take up a resolution that would provide money to the descendants of slaves. The City Council's Municipal and Minority Affairs Committee has already endorsed the resolution which mirrors federal legislation on the issue. Some Council members are expressing strong opposition. Donna Blumer says the resolution would lead to racial division, not harmony. John Loza, one of the Council's Hispanic members, says he will support the resolution. The Dallas "Morning News" reports that the resolution specifies that the city of Dallas would be under no financial obligation.

The protests and riots in Seattle last week during the World Trade Organization summit jolted many Americans. Photo images of black-clad and helmeted police lobbing tear gas at rioters in the center of an American city clashed with the rosy nostrums of economic prosperity endlessly repeated by our political and business leaders. Aren't we all supposed to be celebrating affluence, peace and technology at the end of the millennium? The protesters showed us that not everyone is quite so content. The regrettable violence and vandalism perpetrated by a handful of those in the streets obscured the real issues the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has begun a new service for Internet users who have questions about administration activities. Through "Ask the White House'' on American Online, computer users can ask the White House press office about current events and government policy. America Online proposed the feature. The initiative launched Monday is "part of the president's continued commitment to the progress and the growth of the Internet,'' White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said in a statement. Already, several other sites — representing interests as varied as the Japanese Embassy and the Nigerian press corps — have started making ...

3.27 p.m. ET (2040 GMT) December 7, 1999 WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A homeless couple were charged with involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in connection with a warehouse fire that killed six firefighters. Thomas S. Levesque, 37, and Julie S. Barnes, 19, had been living together on the second floor of the abandoned warehouse for several months, District Attorney John J. Conte said. The blaze allegedly started Friday night when they knocked over a candle during an argument. The fire from the candle ignited clothing and papers, Conte said. The couple tried unsuccessfully to extinguish the fire and rescue their dog and ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian doctors have condemned a golf tournament sponsor offering a penis enlargement for the longest drive. Health authorities have also hit out at the organizers after they offered a breast enhancement to the champion woman player. Already more than 120 people have entered the tournament at Queensland's Sanctuary Cove which is being organized by cosmetic surgery firm Clinical Beauty. Professor Donald Marshall from the Royal College of Australian Surgeons told Australian radio on Tuesday that the competition trivialized cosmetic surgery. He said consumers needed to remember that even cosmetic surgery had real risks and the potential ...

199 =================================== THE BEST JUDGES THAT MONEY CAN BRIBE © 1997 Mark and Tina Terry There has been much discussion recently in some quarters concerning the necessity for the federal judiciary to be completely independent of the government. Certainly this was the intention of the Founding Fathers, although some of them expressed grave doubts as to whether or not this was possible. Recently in the Arizona Republic, the paper's editorial staff took the liberty of quoting United States Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, who stated that Judicial independence is "one of the crown jewels of our system of government." Rehnquist ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors and the government have a moral obligation to report and correct medical mistakes that kill or injure thousands each year, President Clinton said Tuesday. He promised new federal money toward accountability. Clinton said he doubts that better reporting of medical errors will leave doctors and hospitals vulnerable to more lawsuits. But even if he's wrong, he said, doctors and hospitals must feel free to reveal what he called "near misses,'' or situations when medical professionals erred but did not kill the patient. "Once you know about a problem, you're under a moral obligation to deal ...

With a trial set for next month, lawyers for a key figure in the campaign finance scandal are asking a judge to throw out the government's case against their client because of alleged prosecutorial misconduct.Nancy Luque, lead attorney for Democratic fund-raiser Maria Hsia, claims that prosecutors connived to gain access to damaging information about her client and then used it to win an indictment before the grand jury. She argues that the allegedly ill-gotten facts taint the government's entire case against Hsia.At issue is whether attorneys for a California Buddhist temple shared privileged information with the Justice Department in violation ...

Ten Commandments judge running for Alabama's chief justice GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) - A judge who spent four years fighting to keep a plaque of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom announced Tuesday he will run for Alabama's highest judicial office, chief justice of the state Supreme Court. Roy Moore, 52, a two-term circuit judge, kicked off his campaign for the Republican primary in his courtroom, where his homemade plaque of the Ten Commandments hangs. If elected, he said, he will take his plaque to Montgomery. ``My job in Etowah County is done,'' Moore said. Alabama's chief justice not only presides ...

Driver beaten after nearly plowing into a crowd at memorial LYNN, Mass. (AP) - An alleged drunken driver nearly plowed his car into a crowd of people gathered for memorial to a shooting victim and was attacked and beaten by the mourners. Mourners began punching Romiro Menendez after he lost control of his car Monday night. He fled, chased by a man and a leashed pit bull. Police later found him hiding near a home. He was not seriously hurt. Menendez was arrested on charges of driving without a license, leaving the scene of an accident and drunken driving. The ...

In light of Alan Keyes magnificent performances in the two recent GOP debates, the choice facing the GOP couldn't be more clear. Republicans must nominate Alan Keyes or the Republican Party will go the way of the Whigs. If the GOP nominates another socialist/globalist candidate -- like Bush or McCain -- the GOP will splinter apart. The nationalist/constitutionalist majority will break away to the Reform Party led by Pat Buchanan, leaving the globalist/socialist GOP establishment to waste away into political irrelevance as the Reform Party rises to take its place. As first revealed by my FReeper Poll conducted last July, ...

HEADS UP KEYES SUPPORTERS:For those of you wondering when or if Rush Limbaugh intends to discuss the alleged "blackout" of Alan Keyes' candidacy, he promised to discuss it tomorrow. He intended to take calls about it and to discuss it on today's show, but ran out of time.Rush took the unusual step of asking his screener to take the phone numbers of those still on hold wanting to discuss the subject as the program ended so that he could call them back tomorrow.So if you're interested in Rush's take, tune in. You'll need either RealPlayer G2 or higher, or Windows ...

On her show this morning, Rosie did a hit piece on Giuliani, including saying that he wanted to arrest the homeless, and send their kids to foster homes if they didn't go to a shelter or mental health facility. She showed the mayors phone numbers on-screen, and told people to call them. It was a piece that could well have been written by the Faust Lady or one of her gutter guys/gals. Later, at noon, ABC News used the tape of Rosie in ita treatment of the issue, in a way that indicated that what she had said was true. ...

Did they ('big-govt') use this as a 'test-run' on crowd control for the upcoming Y2K 'riots'. I heard on KGA - Super Talk that some collage students in the Seattle area got excused out of class to attend the riots (our tax dollars at work). Can it be, tell me it is not so. Sorry about this I just don't trust gov. that will kill a women that is holding a baby, and gas and burn the same.

U.S. Aid to Israel Now Exceeds $90 Billion, by Richard H. Curtiss, September 1999 The Cost of Israel to U.S. Taxpayers U.S. Aid to Israel Now Exceeds $90 Billion By Richard H. Curtiss SEPTEMBER 1999, page 45 For many years the American media reported that “Israel receives $1.2 billion in economic aid,” or that “Israel receives $1.8 billion in military aid.” But the two figures were seldom combined to give the true total of at least $3 billion in U.S. foreign aid to Israel every year. Most Americans have caught on to that media deception by now. But starting ...

The left has been able to split the right between various religious parties, interventionists and non-interventionists of various severity. I think it is high time that we attempted at creating a split within the left that would be similar. First we would treat the various flavors of the left as having ideologies that stem from cult like allegiances. Then we plit the left between the non-interventionist left that only seeks at recreating small scale communities free of federal government interference, and the supra-nationalist fascist communist agressive left that wants government in our backyard. We'd recreate the divisions between Menshevics and ...

VEGHEL, Netherlands (CNN) -- A 17-year-old student opened fire with a handgun in a Dutch vocational school on Tuesday, wounding four students and a teacher before surrendering to police. The victims were taken to hospitals near the shooting in Veghel, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Amsterdam. One student was listed in critical condition. Unconfirmed reports indicated that the teacher, a 46-year-old woman, might have also suffered serious injuries. "A boy was brought in with a gunshot wound in the chest, the bullet near his shoulder. His chest wall and lung had been hit and he has lost ...

I just saw on the News that the Jet Pulpsion Labs is flying the U.S flag at half staff in honor of the loss of the polar lander. Ifind that disrepctfull to what the honor of half staff was ment not for some piece of now lost lifeless space junk I will be contacting JPL and voice my opinon to them also I found this regarding flag etiquette at the American Foiegn Legion page(m) The flag, when flown at half-staff, should be first hoisted to the peak for an instant and then lowered to the half-staff position. The flag should ...

President plans news conference on Wednesday Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press WASHINGTON (December 6, 1999 1:48 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - President Clinton has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday afternoon, White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said Monday. Clinton will field questions from reporters in the Dean Atcheson Auditorium at the State Department, Lockhart said. "He wants to talk about the agenda for next year, what he's got in mind," Lockhart said.

SACRAMENTO -- A foundation that received more than $1 million in cigarette taxes from a 1988 state initiative spent much of the money compiling an "enemies list" it suspected, sometimes wrongly, of being fronts for the tobacco industry, according to state records and interviews. State officials and the foundation's leaders said compiling the list was intended by Proposition 99, which raised cigarette taxes by 25 cents a pack to pay for information campaigns on smoking and health. But critics said California voters never intended for tax dollars to be spent monitoring and distributing information about people who speak at ...