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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Tuesday December 7, 3:47 PM Video Shows Hillary Shunning Homeless Man After campaign bloopers like her husband's pardon of FALN terrorists and her disasterous Mideast trip in November, First Lady Hillary Clinton has seized on the issue of homelessness to jumpstart her flagging bid to represent New York in the US Senate. "We shouldn't be criminalizing the homeless with mass arrests for those whose only offense is that they have no home," Mrs. Clinton said last week, in a direct slap at the homeless policy of her expected ...

BRITAIN looks likely to lose its battle to stop the European Union imposing a damaging levy on London's £2.2 billion-a-year art market in a crucial vote today. Denmark may switch sides in the debate over the imposition of droit de suite, leaving Britain two votes short of the blocking minority it needs to prevent the levy's introduction. There was frantic lobbying behind the scenes last night with Finland, which holds the EU presidency, pushing hard for droit de suite to be imposed while the Government tried to shore up its position. But British sources were predicting defeat. If the result ...

If you are able and have any thing left after Christmas shopping for those you love, please put a little in FR's stocking. 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.

Presidential hopefuls Sen. John McCain,R-Ariz, and former senator Bill Bradley, D-NJ,are considering joining forces in a pledge to change the way campaigns are financed."We're talking about it.We admire McCain's commitment to the issue.We'll see if we can put something together,"Bradley spokesman Eric Hauser said.McCain,campaigning in Alton,N.H.,said,"I would love to do that.My understanding is that my campaign has asked them to do it."

KVI RADIO Police are speaking out about the recent events in Seattle. All you anti-police people, listen up and become informed.

Forty-thousand people descended upon Seattle to protest the workings of the World Trade Organization. It was a surreal assembly of special-interest groups including, but not limited to, environmentalists, labor unions, human-rights advocates, patriots, anarchists, revolutionaries and looters. The marchers in Seattle were indeed strange bedfellows, providing further evidence that a mutual enemy can create a form of unity, albeit temporarily, among folks who might otherwise despise each other. Except for the destructive rowdiness, the protesters deserve applause. If he were available to do so, Thomas Jefferson would agree. In 1787, he wrote a letter to James Madison expressing sentiments ...

Bush Stumbles Over Quality Of Life Issue Forbes Says Bush Response to Oil Prices is Utterly Inadequate and Out of Touch (Surprise, AZ) - Steve Forbes, Republican Presidential candidate, today criticized Mr. Bush's response to his question in last night's debate regarding rising oil prices as "utterly inadequate and out of touch with middle America over the rise of oil prices." George W. Bush spent several years in the oil business and is the Governor of Texas, the number one oil producing state in the country. Bush replied: "I would encourage exploration. I mean, it's a matter of supply and ...

Who says violence accomplishes nothing? In four days of destructive protest in Seattle, opponents of the World Trade Organization succeeded in bending U.S. President Bill Clinton to their will. For all the squawks and yells in Seattle about democracy, what really bugs the WTO's opponents is that it is not nearly anti-democratic enough. They want the unelected WTO to function as a true world government, setting not only the rules of international trade, but also setting international labour and environmental standards. And in an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer last week, Mr. Clinton knuckled right under: "What we ought to ...

Greetings from the House Managers PAC. After months of preparation, our Political Action Committee is finally ready to launch our initial fundraising effort, and time is against us. The next FEC reports are due in six weeks, and we want to be able to show the press and the Clinton White House that we have the support of tens of thousands of Americans from across this great land. As you know, the House Managers are targeted by the Clinton White House and their allies for defeat in the 2000 elections. While most of the Managers are in relatively safe ...

Copied this from another site, thought some of the comments were worth sharing. Actually, I'm surprised, I was thinking this proposal would go over big. Maybe it won't Speak Out: Paid Parental Leave? Wouldn't it have been grand if when your children arrived you were given up to six months off to "bond" with them -- and had the government pay you for it? That's what President Clinton is proposing in an experimental plan to pay working parents to stay home and tend to the kids -- and have state unemployment funds pay for the project. What's your opinion? Advocates ...

"No two people agree on every issue, but as a candidate for President of the United States I owe you my candor. You will always know where I stand. I'm sure you will agree that our cherished democracy can thrive only by vigorous, open, and honest discussion of the issues affecting our country and our lives. Together we can make the 21st Century a time worthy of our highest dreams and aspirations." Sincerely, John McCain TAXES Q: Where does John McCain stand on taxes? A: I believe that taxes are too high and the tax code too complex. The ...

Core Beliefs Based on "Unalienable Rights" Before I can give you my position on various issues, I must first make clear how I approach thinking about those issues. That way you will know not just what I think, but why. I believe that we face what is essentially one moral challenge which manifests itself in many areas. Simply stated, that challenge has to do with the corruption of our understanding of freedom, which leads to the abandonment of respect for law and individual responsibility, the twin pillars which ought to undergird true freedom. As a free people, our way of ...

It's shocking how much we're actually learning from the GOP presidential debates. The first thing we learned is that they aren't actually debates. They're more like ego showcases. But as Alan Dershowitz has demonstrated for lo these many years, just because something is asinine, that doesn't mean it's not useful. Take last night. We learned that the party supposedly hobbled by abortion could stage a "debate" without even mentioning the A-word, except in regard to China's evil practice of forcing women to have them. We learned that our resident free-market voluptuary, Steve Forbes, apparently thinks a President can, or ...

Religion / School Prayer The doctrine of "separation of church and state" is a misinterpretation of the Constitution. The First Amendment prohibition of established religion aims at forbidding all government sponsored coercion of religious conscience. It does not forbid all religious influence upon politics or society. The free exercise of religion means nothing if, in connection with the ordinary events and circumstances of life, individuals are forbidden to act upon their religious faith. As President, I would do everything in my power, through public speeches and persuasion, by proposing legislation, and by careful scrutiny of the candidates for judicial appointments, ...

Bill Clinton - The Roots of Dictatorship The Alan Keyes Show July 7, 1998 http://www.alankeyes.com/070798.htm [PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT] Dr. Keyes: What's the good news today? Headline in the Washington Times, CONSERVATIVES VOW EFFORT TO UNDUE DIRECTIVE ON GAYS. "Christian activists say they will launch a major effort when the House returns to Washington to overturn President Clinton's Executive Order banning discrimination against homosexuals. 'It gives the stamp of US government approval to behavior that is immoral and destructive to individuals, families, and communities,' said Robert H. Knight, Director of Cultural Studies for the Conservative Family Research Council." Now, I think that ...

Taxes & Government Spending Tyrannical taxation, and excessive government spending and borrowing, are not only threats to our economy - they erode the resource base of our freedom and our moral responsibility. The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment and it has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income; only sales, excise and tariff taxes were allowed. We need to return to the Constitution of economic liberty that our Founders intended to be a permanent bulwark of our political liberty. The income tax in effect makes ...

Second Amendment Rights "... I am a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment. The 2nd Amendment is still in the Constitution of the United States, contrary to what some elites would like us to believe. And the 2nd Amendment was not put into the Constitution by the Founders merely to allow us to intimidate burglars, or hunt rabbits to our hearts' content. This is not to say that hunting rabbits and turkeys for the family dinner, or defending against dangers, were not anticipated uses for firearms, particularly on the frontier -this is true. But above all, the Founders added the ...

A Clarity of Vision What we Americans need for the 21st century and the beginning of the third millennium: Seven Sacred Virtues The Humility to know that we are not alone in the world. The Generosity to allow others to have what they deserve. The Restraint to control our most passionate impulses. The Kindness to tolerate the mistakes of our fellow man. The Moderation to satisfy ourselves with the necessities. The Charity to help those who are unable to help themselves. The Diligence to make ourselves useful in the modern world.

The DOJ is going to file a lawsuit against gun makers early next year.

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Tuesday December 7, 3:47 PM Video Shows Hillary Shunning Homeless Man After campaign bloopers like her husband's pardon of FALN terrorists and her disasterous Mideast trip in November, First Lady Hillary Clinton has seized on the issue of homelessness to jumpstart her flagging bid to represent New York in the US Senate. "We shouldn't be criminalizing the homeless with mass arrests for those whose only offense is that they have no home," Mrs. Clinton said last week, in a direct slap at the homeless policy of her expected ...