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Last week's World Trade Organization's meetings in Seattle drew howls of protest and riots against free trade. To figure out what some of the ruckus is about, let's consider a few economic principles. Imagine 10 sweaters a day could be produced using one machine and one high-skilled worker who's paid $40. Or, 10 sweaters a day might be produced, maybe in another country, using one machine and four low-skilled workers who're each paid $11 a day. It follows, then, that an employer would use the high-skilled worker production technique. Doing so would mean labor costs of $40 rather than $44 ...

Antifederalist No. 45 POWERS OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT DANGEROUS TO STATE GOVERNMENTS; NEW YORK AS AN EXAMPLE TO THE CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Although a variety of objections to the proposed new constitution for the government of the United States have been laid before the public by men of the best abilities, I am led to believe that representing it in a point of view which has escaped their observation may be of use, that is, by comparing it with the constitution of the State of New York. The following contrast is therefore submitted to the public, ...

WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration hopes the threat of a new, national lawsuit will persuade gun makers to negotiate with cities that accuse them of negligently allowing guns to fall into the hands of criminals. The White House is helping prepare a class-action suit against gun makers, alleging that guns and how they are marketed have contributed to violence in public housing projects, administration officials said Tuesday. The lawsuit by some or all of the nation's 3,100 local housing authorities would be patterned on suits filed against the industry by 29 cities and counties, the officials said. Those suits claim ...

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Is there anyone, other than Larry Klayman, who would file suit for violation of the Oath of Office, by the POTUS, in now overtly moving toward removing the protections of the 2nd Amendment, in violation of the aforemention Oath? In bringing what any rational person would deem a frivolous class action lawsuit (at the direction of the POTUS), against gun manufacturers for their "advertising" of guns, how can it be remotely argued that the protections of the "Right to bear Arms" is in any way being preserved and protected? I realize, sadly, that the liberal-appointed Judges, and liberal politically-correct politicians ...

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Magazine banned at 3 prisons Correctional facilities censor two issues of Rolling Stone By John C. Ensslin Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer Pardon the inmates at the San Carlos Correctional Facility in Pueblo if they are not up-to-date on the rock group Rage Against the Machine. And be understanding if the women in the Colorado Women's Correctional Facility are clueless about rap artist Puff Daddy's latest lyrics. Both rockers were on the cover of Rolling Stone. But those issues went unread by subscribers in three of Colorado's prisons. For reasons prison officials could not specify Tuesday, those two ...

Alert! Keyes Appearances on Wednesday, December 8, 1999 -- Radio -- The Geoff Metcalff Show KSFO AM Radio in the Bay Area, California 12:15 - 1:00 p.m. -- Television -- *ALL TIMES EASTERN* check your local listings and satellite dish times for airtime and rebroadcast times Hardball with Chris Matthews http://www.msnbc.com/news/hardball_front.asp 5- 5:30 p.m. "Watch It!" with Laura Ingraham http://www.msnbc.com/onair/default.asp 6-6:30 p.m. If you don't get cable or don't have a television you can watch on line by following the link below: http://www.msnbc.com/m/lv/default.asp

Antifederalist No. 44 WHAT CONGRESS CAN DO; WHAT A STATE CAN NOT A writer in the Pennsylvania Packet, under the signature of A Freeman, has lately entered the lists as another champion for the proposed constitution. Particularly he has endeavored to show that our apprehensions of this plan of government being a consolidation of the United States into one government, and not a confederacy of sovereign independent states, is entirely groundless; and it must be acknowledged that he has advocated this cause with as much show of reason, perhaps, as the subject will admit. The words states, several states, ...

Indonesia's fragile economy would collapse and most executives would end up behind bars if the new reformist government launched a crackdown on corruption, the senior economics minister said today. Speaking to lawmakers, Economics and Industry Minister Kwik Kian Gie said the government was torn between its duty to punish wrongdoers and its determination to foster recovery from the worst economic crisis in decades. If the government prosecutes all corruption cases, "economic activity will grind to a halt, as most business people will be in jail,'' he said. "This is a dilemma that the government is facing.'' Kwik said he discussed ...

Lawsuit Alleges FEMA Funded by Laundered Drug Profits by Uri Dowbenko ----------------------------------------------------------- Speculation about the mysterious origin and funding of the so-called Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has continued for decades. The history of FEMA as an illegal unconstitutional entity has been most recently exposed in an unprecedented lawsuit against the CIA and its alleged drug trafficking and money laundering operations. In September 1998 a $63 million lawsuit (Case No. 98CV11829JLT) was filed by Massachusetts attorney Ray Kohlman on behalf of former Green Beret Bill Tyree. Kohlman, a former legal investigator for attorney William Pepper in the Martin Luther King ...

A TV Christmas By JOHN DAVID POWELL TMNS Contributor December 7, 1999 Sometimes, with all the hustle and bustle, and pushing and shoving, and clawing and biting, and kicking and screaming at the malls this time of year, we forget the real meaning of Christmas. Thanks to the miracle of television, we lose the meaning of Christmas entirely! A Russian Orthodox priest I know delights in saying he doesn’t need cute little furry television creatures to remind him about the true meaning of Christmas. Entertainment executives, however, have missed all of his holiday homilies. That is why viewers of CBS ...

O'Donnell: Giuliani Out of Control .c The Associated Press By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK (AP) - Forget Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's toughest opponent may now be Rosie O'Donnell. The so-called Queen of Nice berated Giuliani on her talk show Tuesday for his administration's 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 the policies, as some New York City residents have done in rallies this week. In October, the talk show host emceed a campaign fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton, Giuliani's ...

Teen says he had no problem buying gun Suspect in cop shooting used fake ID at pawnshop By Carla Crowder Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer LAKEWOOD -- Ben Sandoval is 16, stands 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. He shaves his peach fuzz "every now and then." But he had no problem buying a 9 mm handgun for $106 at a local EZ Pawn pawnshop using identification from a 24-year-old man. Sandoval later shot and wounded a Lakewood police recruit with the gun. In an interview Tuesday at the Jefferson County jail, the middle school ...

Daily thought for; Wednesday December 8th, 1999 So, then what? After the chief priest and his cronies, the scribes, sadducees and the pharisees had crucified the Son of God, did they just wash their hands of the whole matter and go away? Did they crawl back under the rock from which they and their father had crawled out from under? Acts 2:1-13 1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. (Read Leviticus 23:15-22 and Deuteronomy 16:9-12) 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing ...

(CNSNews.com) - Saying it was wrongly censured for its pro-life views, the Maryland Conservative Society (MCS) last week severed its ties with the University of Maryland's Student Government Association (SGA), and opted to forfeit $2,000 in entitlements rather than be associated with a body it considers "discriminatory." "Apparently the SGA feels free speech only applies to groups agreeing with its liberal values," Aisha Jaleel, MCS president, told CNSNews.com. "MCS won't be associated with any person or group that discriminates against anyone for any reason," she said. The dispute between the two student-run groups arose when members of the MSC advertised ...

Zowie, Dr. Foth, it is prescient to find you perambulating around the perimeter. Elucidate the phantasmagorical configuration of the capacity of the vacuum in your cranium. Well, gee, I can't figure out this Battle of Seattle. It's a creation of news editors. News editors like anything that rhymes. Especially in a headline. If the riot had happened in San Diego, they would have been crushed. Nothing rhymes with San Diego. But what is the WTO? No one had ever heard of the WTO before last week. Including news editors. It's a bunch of dull men in suits who sit ...

C-Span had John Cochran on this morning for 45 minutes. Susan initiated the policy where callers must have a news item from their local paper, but even with that requirement, most of the calls were about ABC's John Cochran having Al Gore in his home for a "working dinner" last Thurssday night. Cochran was totally defensive, he blamed all the journalists who wrote about it, without calling him first, he kept insisting it was not a "party", it was a "working dinner". I couldn't see the sweat on his brow, but he brainfarted so many times, trying to justify himself, ...

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(CNSNews.com) - The vote was 7-0 Tuesday against a student's proposal to create a gay tolerance club at his Orange County, California high school. 15-year-old Anthony Colin announced his intention to form a Gay-Straight Alliance Club at El Modena High School back in September. He sued the Orange Unified School District last month, claiming it violated the federal Equal Access Act, which requires schools to give equal treatment to non-curricular groups, regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation. But at Tuesday's meeting, the school board said education is a curriculum issue that has nothing to do with equal-access law. The ...