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As the opinion makers wring their hands about the onslaught facing the youths of today, shooting each other willy-nilly in the school yard, their target enemy is clearly identified. Those damnable guns! How the hairdo's cluck and fuss, before the klieg lights go out and they return to their gated communities or condos, all no doubt patrolled by surrogates with guns the elites refuse to soil their own hands with. Oh, how they care for the kids, wanting to take away their parents' guns, to make them safe. Oh, if only the kids knew how much they cared. And yet ...

It has all the makings of a major box office thriller: Texas Governor and Republican Presidential contender George W. Bush and his brother Jeb, allegedly caught on videotape in 1985 picking up kilos of cocaine at a Florida airport in a DEA sting set up by Barry Seal… An ensuing murderous cover-up featuring Seal's public assassination less than a year later by a hit team…the members of which, when caught, reveal to their attorneys during trial that their actions were being directed by then, National Security Council (NSC) staffer - Lt. Colonel Oliver North… And a private turboprop King Air ...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Militant Jews burned Palestinian flags and ascended one of Islam's holiest mosques Tuesday to protest Prime Minister Ehud Barak's acquiescence to a new Muslim-built entrance there.Barak and security officials had determined the new entrance to the Al Aqsa mosque compound was necessary for crowds expected during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, which begins this week. But Israeli archaeologists, opposition leaders and legal officials have protested the opening, saying Jewish archaeological sites were damaged during construction.The site, also known as Temple Mount, is holy to both Muslims and Jews.Barak defended his decision in a meeting of top officials ...

Tuesday December 7 8:28 AM ET Judge Throws Out Suit Against Holiday Judge Throws Out Suit Against Holiday 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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John McCain, whose presidential campaign rails against special-interest influence, raised $10,000 from AT&T executives soon after introducing legislation that would make it easier for the phone giant to expand further into the cable television business. McCain's bill would take away the Federal Communications Commission's power to approve telecommunications mergers, eliminating one of the two regulatory hurdles facing such industry deals. He introduced the legislation less than three weeks after FCC Chairman Bill Kennard said in May that AT&T's proposed takeover of cable company MediaOne ``warrants very careful scrutiny.'' Both McCain's spokeswoman and AT&T said Tuesday ...

The Los Angeles Police Commission, lead by the nose by a pair of 12 year olds, has recommended passage of a ban on the sale of ammunition and ammo components to civilians. Your help is needed to convince the City Council that such major policy decisions are an adult matter. They need to hear the opinions of adults, not the chatter of children. The San Fernando Valley NRA Members' Council is active in the fight against this stupid law. This law will do nothing but drive law abiding dealers out of business. Yes, it is true that we can count ...

Relief pantries feel crush, despite jobs The economy is strong, but food requests are up as much as 25 percent. Some blame welfare reform or confusion on food stamps. From the tiniest food pantries in middle-class suburbia to large regional sorting agencies, emergency food cupboards are overwhelmed this year. The rise in requests for food - anything from government cheese to the fixings for holiday meals - happens at a time when unemployment is at a record low of 4.2 percent for the nine-county region. But observers say that welfare reform - and misconceptions about food-stamp eligibility - could ...

The Justice Department inspector general reaffirmed Tuesday that a federal inmate committed suicide in an Oklahoma cell in 1995, but recommended discipline for four federal officers who allegedly lied during investigations of the death. Although rejecting allegations of a coverup, the inspector general criticized the Bureau of Prisons' response, the FBI's investigation and the FBI's handling of evidence in the death of Kenneth M. Trentadue on Aug. 21, 1995 in the Federal Transfer Center at the Oklahoma City airport. Trentadue was found hanging in his cell, but his brother, Jesse, believes he was murdered by guards who tried to make ...

A tangled web of technical deceit; a case clouded by conflicting reports and statements dissolves in the face of two simple snapshots and the testimony of a federal prison worker who has sworn under oath that there was . . . No body hanging in cell A709 An eyewitness, there at the moment the door was opened, says he never saw Kenneth Michael Trentadue hanging in his “death cell.” If he wasn’t hanged there, where did he die? Was it suicide or homicide? by Arkansas Chronicle staff For federal prison worker Roger Groover, August 21, 1995 will be a day ...

Phil Valentine's Address To The Tennessee Senate Finance Committee November 16, 1999 http://members.home.net/philvalentine/senateaddress.htm Members of the Senate Finance Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to address you this morning. Some of you may see me as the bane of your existence after several weeks of non-stop telephone calls, faxes and e-mails. The Governor and some in the General Assembly have laid the blame for the outrage of the proposed income tax at the feet of talk radio. I wish I could wield such influence but I have merely served as a conduit through which the desires and frustrations of the ...

I missed Chris Matthews last night but tonight HE reamed Wolfson...IF you missed this, set the recorders for the repeat later tonight! AS long as we have Chris Matthews ...HIllary WON'T be welcomed in the NY Senate! YEEEEHAAAAA!

Call C-Span Right now, if you will please. They are talking about O U R Pamama Canal. Give them our O P I N I O N !

MOVERS, SHAKERS FROM POLITICS, BUSINESS GO BOHEMIAN ANNUAL SONOMA FETE DRAWS BUSHES, KISSINGER, POWELL, GINGRICH Published on 08/02/99, Page B4 , Article 1 of 4 found, 498 words. The Bohemian Club's Annual Summer Encampment came to a close here Sunday, ending a two-week retreat for the rich and powerful that President Herbert Hoover once called ''the greatest men's party on Earth.'' The club's famed annual gathering has been held for more than 100 years at the 2,700-acre Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, about 70 miles north of San Francisco in Sonoma County. This year's event drew in notables such as ...

7.15 p.m. ET (027 GMT) December 7, 1999 By David Bauder, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rosie O'Donnell used her talk show Tuesday to berate Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for his policies on the homeless, calling him "out of control'' and urging viewers to call him and complain. O'Donnell said she was willing to get arrested to protest Giuliani's policies. In October, the talk show host emceed a campaign fund-raiser for first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Giuliani's likely opponent in a race for the Senate next year. "He thinks he, like, runs the world,'' O'Donnell said. "Newsflash, Rudy — it's not ...

In honor of Texas' own Lurker No More !, who is taking a special trip to D.C. for the MRC Dis-Honor awards dinner on Thursday, the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic will hold a dinner for her the following night.All D.C. area FReepers and lurkers are invited to attend the dinner which will be held at Blackie's House of Beef--at the corner of 23rd and M St., N.W., Wash., D.C.,--from 7 p.m. until at least 9 p.m. on Friday, December 10.Please chime in on this thread if you plan to attend. Our Friday night dinner last month was a great ...

Grab the tissues--truly heartwarming! A great story - Something to remember this holiday season. Angels, Once in a While In September 1960, I woke up one morning with six hungry babies and just 75 cents in my pocket. Their father was gone. The boys ranged from three months to seven years; their sister was two. Their Dad had never been much more than a presence they feared. Whenever they heard his tires crunch on the gravel driveway they would scramble to hide under their beds. He did manage to leave $5 dollars a week to buy groceries. Now that ...

Chris Matthews, on this evening's MSNBC's "Harball", interviews Hillary Clinton Campaign 2000 spokesman named Something-or-another Wolfson. Matthews asks him if Hillary is a politician. Answer: "She's an advocate". Matthews tries to get Wolfson to say Hitlery is a politician, but Wolfson won't accomodate him. Wolfson finally agrees to call Hillary a "politician" if she is elected senator. Paraphrasing...... Matthews: "Is she (Hillary) ambitious?" Wolfson: "She's ambitous to provide healthcare to New Yorkers" Matthews: "Personally.....does she have personal ambition?" Wolfson: "She's an advocate" Matthews: "What has she ever done?" Wolfson: "She believes in/" Matthews: "I'm not asking about her beliefs.......name 1 ...

Keyes gestures and shouts, but what's his point? Politics/Elections Opinion (Published) Keywords: KEYES, PURPOSE OF PRESIDENT Source: The Sacramento Bee Published: December 7 1999 Author: John Jacobs Posted on 12/07/1999 09:22:56 PST by CubicleGuy - - - - - - - - The original Sacramento Bee article - - - - - - - - B E E E D I T O R I A L S One of the more distressing things about the current round of Republican presidential debates is the presence of three candidates onstage who have no chance of being president. That's half the field, ...

The following copyrighted article is available exclusively on the Roth IRA Web Site: I am surprised to note that in all of the dialog about the Roth IRA at the Roth IRA Web Site, and elsewhere on the internet and in print, writers are totally ignoring the most important issue: the United States Government's promise to maintain the tax-free status of withdrawals from Roth IRAs. For many of us, the withdrawals from IRA and Keogh programs are decades away; in my case, roughly aligned with the well-known forecast of the Social Security crisis around the year 2010. In the political ...

China Reform Monitor No. 262, December 8, 1999 American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC http://www.afpc.org CHINESE SECURITY POLICE SET UP NATIONWIDE HI-TECH NET; HONG KONG'S COURTS BOW TO BEIJING'S EDICT Editor: Al Santoli November 20: China is using an iron hand to control the restive Muslim population in northwestern Xinjiang province, while moving in millions of Han Chinese to demographically overwhelm the region, Cox News Service reports. When the Chinese Communists conquered the region in 1949, the population was 93 percent Uighur Muslims and 7 pecent Han Chinese. Today the Uighurs are only 47 percent of the population, with Han ...