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Stars of NBC's "Will & Grace" Tape Political Ad (CNSNews.com) - The cast of the NBC-TV series "Will & Grace" is now "starring" in a political advertisement, speaking against a California ballot initiative that would deny legal recognition to same-sex marriages. Under California's Proposition 22, same-sex "marriages" performed in other jurisdictions would not be recognized in California. Actors Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, and other "Will & Grace" cast members are featured in the ad - believed to be the first time the cast of a TV show has appeared together to speak against a political initiative.not for commercial use

The Seattle police chief who presided over last week's riots resigned Tuesday, saying he wanted to "depoliticize" the issue. Why pass up a wonderful opportunity? Let's politicize it. In fact, Seattle Mayor Paul Schell politicized the relevant issue with admirable concision: "This administration has people who marched in the 1960s. The last thing I wanted was to be mayor of a city that called in the National Guard." The relevant issue is whether liberalism is capable of maintaining civil order in a society. Is liberalism unable to act, when it is obvious that there is a need to act, until ...

NORFOLK, Va. -- Last year, John Colaprete grabbed national attention with Senate testimony on how IRS agents stormed his home and restaurants amid a misguided criminal inquiry. This year, Mr. Colaprete has been retelling his tale -- which spurred new curbs on IRS powers -- in a Norfolk courtroom, where the Virginia Beach, Va., restaurant owner has filed a civil suit against the tax agency. The political and media buzz are gone, but the scrutiny the allegations are undergoing now is a lot more rigorous. And the case against the Internal Revenue Service is crumbling. While nobody is claiming the ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 9, 1999 X-ray Hot Supernova Remnant in the SMC Credit: NASA/ CXC/ SAO Explanation: The Q-shaped cloud seen in this false-color X-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory is big ... about 40 light-years across. It's hot too, as its X-ray glow is produced by multi-million degree gas. Cataloged as E0102-72, this cosmic Q is likely a several thousand year old supernova remnant, the result of the ...

Twelve Texas A&M University students died horribly on his watch, and the thing Ray Bowen really wants you to be upset about is an editorial cartoon. Twenty-seven young people were hurt. Another remains in critical condition. All of the injuries, all of the deaths, could have been prevented by university President Bowen and the other grown-ups in charge. Instead, Bowen rails against a cartoon by The Arizona Republic's Steve Benson, turns down The Republic's $10,000 donation to victim relief funds, and says in a letter to the newspaper that accepting the money would "do violence to our ethical standards." ...

China Reportedly Lends Yugoslavia $300 Million BELGRADE (Reuters) - China has decided to give Yugoslavia a $300 million credit to help finance the country's reconstruction following NATO's March-June bombing campaign, a Yugoslav government source said Wednesday. ``A Chinese delegation spent 10 days in Yugoslavia. They visited all reconstruction sites and decided to extend the $300 million credit to help finance the works. They've realized we really need the assistance,'' the source, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. ``The Chinese money will entirely finance the reconstruction,'' the government source said. War damage in Yugoslavia has been estimated at around ...

Buchanan conundrum Pat Buchanan’s decision to run for president as a Reform Party candidate has raised doubts as to whether he will receive the hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds he was entitled to as a Republican contender, the Associated Press reports. The issue is before the Federal Election Commission, which is expected to reach a decision this month, in time to tell the Treasury Department how much money to distribute after the first of the year to candidates accepting federal matching funds. Buchanan campaign officials said they expect to get the same amount of money they would ...

•it took the Clinton Administration to add...the destruction of 162 boxes of evidence, lying to a federal court and two Clinton Cabinet officers being held in contempt of court.   •The judge [Lamberth] concluded that their employees had "engaged in a shocking pattern of deception of the court. I have never seen more egregious conduct by the federal government."   •The President's bad example in covering up wrongdoing under oath seems to be contagious inside his own government.   •The Clinton Justice Department's response to all this has been predictable. Justice lawyers asked Judge Lamberth to delay releasing the ...

King of the race baiters Stuart Taylor, in a column in the National Journal, says efforts by liberal Democrats “to smear and stereotype their adversaries as racists have become so routine as to seem unremarkable, and so common as to suggest a strategy of spreading fear and loathing among black voters.” And Vice President Al Gore “has become a leader of the race-baiting pack,” Mr. Stuart said. “Again and again over the past two years, he has likened critics of affirmative action to hunters in a ‘duck blind.’ “It went like this in his July 16, 1998, speech to the ...

Gahanna schools reject call to arms Mayor offered to train administrators The Columbus Dispatch Wednesday, December 08, 1999 By Ray Crumbley Dispatch Staff Reporter Concerned about violent acts in which children "have been cut down like sheep before wild dogs,'' the mayor of Gahanna suggested this fall that some school administrators carry guns. The proposal by Mayor Jim McGregor was immediately rejected by Gahanna Jefferson school officials. "It's not an idea that we're going to proceed with,'' McGregor said yesterday. "The schools are not interested in getting into that area.'' McGregor made the proposal in a Sept. 21 letter ...

SLIPPAGE. There's no ice in sight yet, but there's plenty of sliding going on this December in New Hampshire - mostly by George W. Bush in the Republican Presidential Primary. "It's just continuing," says Manchester pollster Dick Bennett in explaining the latest poll from his American Research Group, which shows Bush dropping eight more points and now trailing John McCain 37 to 30 percent, with publisher Steve Forbes at 10 percent. "We're hearing the same stuff from him again and again and it isn't working," says Bennett. "They have to re-program the computer and give him different lines. This ...

By The Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A convicted killer who was hospitalized for a suicide attempt this week was executed after the state determined he was healthy enough to die. David Long, 46, was executed by injection Wednesday, despite attempts by his lawyers to delay the procedure after Long attempted to take his own life on Monday. He tried to kill himself with an overdose of prescription antidepressant drugs and had been in an intensive care unit hours before his execution. Elsewhere, convicted killers were executed by injection early today in Oklahoma and Indiana. There have been ...

If the NH Republican Primary were held today, who would you vote for? [2238 votes total] Gary Bauer (78) 3% George Bush (398) 18% Steve Forbes (139) 6% Orrin Hatch (351) 16% Alan Keyes (803) 36% John McCain (469) 21%

U.S. To Expell Russian Diplomat The Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - The United States is expelling a Russian diplomat caught gathering information with an eavesdropping device at the State Department, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said today. She said the diplomat has been declared unwelcome in the United States and ordered to leave within 10 days. A State Department statement distributed to reporters in Egypt identified the diplomat as Stanislav Borisovich Gusev, a second secretary, and said he was detained for a period by the FBI. Officials in Washington said he subsequently was turned over to the Russian ...

BEIJING (Dec. 9) XINHUA - The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) announced today that the country's securities and futures sectors have basically solved problems with the Y2K bug. Addressing a press conference, Xu Yaping, chief of the CSRC Y2K working team, said securities and futures markets will be able to continue their operations in the year 2000 and that the safety of investor's money and stocks is guaranteed. Xu said all data on transactions closing on December 30 will be handed over to the CSRC, and then kept in safety deposit boxes at banks. The CSRC has requested all dealers ...

I think that all the discussion surrounding the anthrax vaccine is good. As a former Navy physician who understood the concerns of my sailors and Marines reguarding the vaccine, I appreciate the dissenting opinions. There is much falsity being presented to Congress by some very high-ranking military members regarding the benefits of this vaccine. For one, there has been no significant scientific study of this vaccine on human beings regarding inhalational anthrax, the deadliest form. Futher, to say that without this vaccine, you surely will die if you inhale anthrax is dishonest. Several antibiotics are available that, if given ...

Gov. George Bush will join his five major Republican rivals in a Jan. 6 debate at the University of New Hampshire co-sponsored by The Union Leader. Bush, Gary Bauer, Steve Forbes, Alan Keyes, Orrin Hatch and John McCain will meet in an hour-long debate to be moderated by NBC's Tim Russert, host of "Meet the Press." Union Leader senior political reporter John DiStaso and New England Cable News reporter Alison King will be part of the panel of questioners. Candidates will question one another during the last half of the debate, with Russert guiding the discussion. Bush became the ...

Just when I got used to the old site, Fox News has gone and changed the content on it's website. There are a couple of new sections including Elections and Tech, but I can't find a link to the old "wires" section. I really found that useful. A similar wire runs at the AP site but it isn't as comprehensive. prisoner6

The Rev. Jesse Jackson will be the keynote speaker next month for Chandler's inaugural Martin Luther King event, bringing an icon of the civil rights movement to a city that has felt its own racial tension. Jackson agreed Wednesday to speak at the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration 2000 dinner Jan. 20. "We wanted to do something very, very special. We wanted someone high-profile, and I think we accomplished that," said Dave Bigos, a member of the committee planning the event. Chandler officials said Wednesday that they received a signed contract from Jackson, a former associate of Dr. Martin ...

Are We Looking in All the Wrong Places to Explain School Shootings? To Stop School Shootings, Let's Give America's Children their Childhood Back By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com) December 9, 1999 Another school shooting. This time the shooting occurred uncomfortably close to my family. Fort Gibson Middle School, in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, where a quiet, 13 year old honor student fired 15 shots at students, wounding five, is only about six miles away from where a son, daughter-in-law and seven of my grandchildren live. As I was watching the Fox news of the event, I saw a Muskogee ...