Free Republic

Web Winner Alan Keyes Rules in Meaningless Polls By Ann Compton ABCNEWS.com W A S H I N G T O N, Dec. 7 — Chalking up winners and losers after presidential debates has become instant analysis, thanks to the Internet and Web sites that ask visitors to vote on their impressions. But look who is winning those unscientific polls. Alan Keyes is consistently a high scorer, even though national and state polls by professional organizations show Keyes registers only trace amounts of voter support. After the Phoenix debate, one Web poll put Keyes just ahead of George W. Bush ...

U.S. JOURNALISM - HARLOT HOUSE © by Norman Liebmann This being a time when people are voting on the Man of the Month, the Year, the Century, and the Millenium, one cannot overlook the guy voted the Caveman of the Week for having made it through seven days without becoming a Jurassic lizard's lunch. Seemingly, an intelligent second choice is Johan Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press and "movable type", (a term which lately has found unfortunate application in describing the homeless.) Gutenberg's invention had an unfortunate side effect called "journalists", a media afflicted with an advanced case of delusions ...

A 9,300 word monstrosity of a puff piece! The bile rises higher in your throat with each paragraph. But keep reading! Astonishing boot licking around every turn. Post your choice for most embarrasingly fawning section! So much to choose from,but here’s mine: "That desire to be perceived as a public servant who can transcend personal crisis is not disingenuous. Though her sense of duty can come across as patronizing noblesse oblige, Hillary has been devoted to public service since her teens. She learned the virtue of service from her Methodist father, Hugh Rodham, who took the family on tours ...

Russian troops have encircled the Chechen capital, Grozny, but their toughest battles in the breakaway region lie ahead. ''Chechen commanders believe the fight for Grozny has begun,'' the pro-rebel Kavkaz.org Web site said. It said 800 guerillas had gone to reinforce the city and fighting was already under way in districts on the city's outskirts. Kavkaz.org acknowledged that Russian troops controlled all roads out of the city, but said Chechen fighters could skirt Russian positions and were reinforcing Grozny's defence. Federal forces seized the final road into the city over the weekend and their commanders made the long-awaited announcement that ...

A FEW WEEKS AGO, I commented on air about issues raised in an essay contest sponsored by the Connecticut attorney general's office on the topic of Internet censorship. The winner opposed Internet restrictions. I said on my program that I don't have a problem with the essay's conclusion, but that I disagreed with the philosophy expressed in the winning entry that "every person has a different set of moral values that they live by. Nobody's values are wrong, unfit or too strict." The focus of my concern, indeed my only concern, was the endorsement of moral relativism by the sponsoring ...

The militia members accused of plotting to blow up a massive Elk Grove propane plant hoped the attack would force the federal government to declare martial law and spur the overthrow of the government, according to court documents released Monday. But the plot was delayed because one of the accused pair decided to wait and "see what happened in California at the end of the millennium," according to an affidavit unsealed at the U.S. Courthouse in Sacramento. The 63-page document details evidence compiled since November 1998 about the purported plot and the actions of Kevin Ray Patterson, 42, and ...

McCain Takes Narrow Lead in New Hampshire By Alan Elsner, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arizona Sen. John McCain has taken a narrow lead over Texas Gov. George W. Bush among likely voters in next February's New Hampshire Republican primary, according to a new Reuters/WHDH poll released on Tuesday. The poll of 453 voters who said they intended to vote in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation Republican primary on Feb. 1, was the first to put McCain ahead of Bush. But his lead of three percentage points was well within the survey's margin of error, meaning the race is effectively a statistical ...

What Japan could not do by bombing Pearl Harbor, today’s political and commercial elite are quietly accomplishing without a shot being fired. So successful is their attempt to globalize the economies and militaries of the world that many no longer bother to hide it. In a speech on October 19 to the World Federalist Association, former CBS broadcaster Walter Cronkite is quoted by the Washington Times as saying, "It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUESDAY, DECEMBER 07, 1999 12:09:44 ET XXXXX RUSSIA , CHINA TEAM TO BALANCE 'WORLD DOMINANCE' BY UNITED STATES Russian President Yeltsin is scheduled to arrive in Beijing tomorrow for talks aimed at promoting a "strategic partnership" with China to balance what both countries see as "global domination by the United States." MORE BEIJING, December 7 (Itar-Tass) - A high-level source in the Russian delegation, who made preparations for Russian President Boris Yeltsin's trip to the capital of the People's Republic of China (PRC), told Itar-Tass on Tuesday that, following an informal meeting between President Yeltsin ...

The White House was decorated with garlands and Christmas trees beside the front door and the door to the West Wing. The Marine guard was in place beside the West Wing door indicating that Clinton was inside. A steady stream of visitors were leaving the White House and exiting through the tour exit gate. There weren't many other visitors in front of the White House even though it was a beautiful sunny (and windy) day. There was plenty of activity in the Swamp. All the equipment is back in place and there were half a dozen technicians working in their ...

Senate Passes SB 167 (42-7) & Bill Goes Back To House -- Activists blame NRA deal-makers for telling Senators to vote for gun control Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org December 7, 1999 Dear Pennsylvania gun rights supporter: Last night the Senate sweetened the poison and then passed SB 167 back to the house after being instructed by the NRA to do so. As you may know, SB 167 is a horrible bill-- overflowing with various forms of new gun control and other hidden anti-gun provisions. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an unprecedented move, a U.S. District Court judge in Florida has cut off public access nationwide to the financial disclosure reports all federal judges are required to file each year. The moratorium was ordered by Judge William J. Zloch in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., out of concern that posting the reports on the Internet would mean ``universal and anonymous access, raising security issues,'' federal courts spokeswoman Karen Redmond said Tuesday. Since 1979, judges and other high-ranking federal officials have been required by law to report all stock holdings and other family assets within broad ranges of estimated ...

Arthur A. Coia, president of the scandal-plagued Laborers union, will retire on Dec. 31, leaving one of his top lieutenants to run one of the nation's largest building trades unions. In a statement, Mr. Coia said he was "considering opportunities and finalizing options that I plan to announce in the near future." He said he decided to resign because of recent ill health and because of the strain the investigations have put on his family. A law-enforcement official said Mr. Coia's resignation might lead to a deal with the Justice Department in which the embattled union leader would later ...

Begin forwarded message: I have led these CATS folks directly to the heart of the truth. All determination of what constitutes "taxable income" centers on its derivation from "whatever source" listed at 26 CFR 1.861-8(f)(1). Title 26, as consistently as a beating heart, refers to "the list of sources" for determining where "items" of income are to be held as "taxable". Little of this "taxable income" is actually realized by the great bulk of The People! Yet, precisely as Congress' IRS does, all of CATS' principal "motivators" raise a clamor of diversion from this central truth. Immediately, each of CATS' ...

It may be hard to believe, but George W. Bush's famous smirk isn't half as annoying in person. In fact it's sort of appealing, just like the rest of his weird facial expressions, his sarcasm and his frequently garbled pronunciations. When you're with Bush, it's hard not to like these qualities, and the crowds he wades through at political events usually do. Unfortunately for him, almost nothing about Bush comes over well on television. He seems tense and strained, even snappish. His performance at the Republican primary debate in Arizona last night was particularly uncomfortable. At times, Bush seemed intent ...

In a Republican presidential debate laced with humor and grandstanding, front-runner George W. Bush was peppered with questions and comments about the issues underlying his candidacy. The Texas governor was questioned sharply about his policy on China, and was gibed over his tax-cut plan, his famous name and his immense fund-raising advantage. "You need more experience before you become president," Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch told Mr. Bush. To gales of laughter, Sen. Hatch told the front-runner he should follow his father's example and become vice president -- in a Hatch administration -- before trying to become commander in chief. ...

Unfounded optimism The new century is less than four weeks away. As we stand on the verge of the Year 2000, the vast majority of American citizens are totally convinced the Y2K computer problem has been solved. At this point, if even mild economic or social disruptions occur in January, most folks will be absolutely shocked, having been assured so often that such disruptions are impossible. The Y2K awareness battle is over. It wasn't even close. Those of us who have attempted to educate consumers about this situation have been clobbered. If it had been a football game, the ...

The Victory In Florida We'd like to give you some encouraging news about what appears to be a very significant victory in an income tax "Problem Resolution" case in Florida over withholding requirements.  Our summary is based on conversations in phone calls from the two principle players and documents available on the internet (see below). For most American workers, the IRS is notified that they have earned "gross income" by means of W-2 and 1099 forms that are submitted by employers, banks, mutual funds, etc., and money is withheld by employers to cover the income and social security taxes.  ...

HAVANA (CNN) -- Fidel Castro is calling on the United States to send young Elian Gonzalez home by Tuesday night, and while the Cuban president said the request is not an ultimatum, he said it would be "political suicide" for the United States not to cooperate. "Little Elian will get back his country, his family, his school, his schoolmates, his school desk," Castro promised classmates celebrating Elian's sixth birthday in his absence Monday. "He is a boy hero of Cuba," Castro said during a surprise appearance at the child's school in Cardenas, a two-hour drive east of Havana. The ...

BEIJING (AP) — Rebuffing U.S. criticism, China said Tuesday that it was protecting the human rights of its citizens by banning the Falun Gong spiritual group. It accused the United States of ignoring the group's dangers. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue's comments came a day after President Clinton criticized China's crackdown on the multimillion-member group as a "troubling example'' of the government acting against those "who test the limits of freedom.'' It was Clinton's first public comment on China's detention and imprisonment of Falun Gong members. While she didn't mention Clinton by name, Zhang retorted Tuesday that 1,400 ...