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Some Lessons from History Richard Ferrier [Note: this little essay was first e-published in the Keyes 2000 Weekly Update, December, 1998] I've been reading and reflecting on recent presidential nominating campaigns with a view to our chances of restoring our republic and propelling Dr. Keyes to the White House, and I wanted to share some of my thoughts with you all. The lesson I have drawn is that the experts and the polls mean nothing at the moment, and that we can win if we have the heart for the struggle. Let me illustrate from the two Democratic campaigns of ...

December 10, 1999 U. of Chicago Chooses Cornell Provost By EDWARD WYATT he University of Chicago, which has experienced internal turmoil over changes to its curriculum and efforts to expand, has chosen as its next president the provost of Cornell University. A search committee's selection of the 59-year-old Cornell official, Don Michael Randel, was announced by the University of Chicago yesterday, and the chairman of the university's trustees, Edgar Jannotta, who oversaw the search, said the choice was to be ratified by the board at a meeting on Monday. Dr. Randel, an expert in the music of the Renaissance ...

Rudy has a radio show on WABC NY at 11 am est on Fridays till 11:45. Here is the link to get it on your realplayer. You can also get Rush at 12 Noon and Hannity at 3 pm at this link via wabc NY. RUDY RADIO SHOW For those of you who have not heard how effective Rudy is this radio show is TOPS. There is no doubt in my mind that Hillary will not be able to debate him.

Aiding the homeless should start with a roundup Friday, December 10, 1999 By DICK FEAGLER THE PLAIN DEALER Let's do a good deed in this holiday season. Let's arrest the homeless. Click here for rest of article

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 10, 1999 Contact: Joe Giganti (202) 646-5172 JUDICIAL WATCH ASKS FOR ACCOUNTING OF IMPROVEMENTS TO CLINTON HOME CONCERN THAT BENEFITS OR PREFERENCES MAY VIOLATE LAW (Washington, D.C.) In recent days, Judicial Watch, Inc. has requested that the President and Mrs. Clinton account for any private gifts or preferences, made by United States citizens and other private and government entities, to redesign, decorate, and/or furnish their house. If, as is likely given the Clintons' over $5 million of debt, their "friends" are paying for or furnishing the interior of the house, this would run afoul of the ...

Republican Congressman, Senate Candidate Calls for Drug Maintenance Programs U.S. Representative Tom Campbell (R-CA), the Republican frontrunner in the U.S. Senate race in California, made headlines this week when he told reporters from the Contra Costa Times that state and local governments should be allowed to set up programs to distribute drugs to addicts. "Why not take those people who are already addicted and give them the drug to which they are addicted at a government distribution center?" Campbell asked. The story received top billing in the local papers, but Campbell's campaign spokesman, Suhail Khan, said the idea was not ...

Forbes Hits a Chord with Michigan Homeschoolers Midland, MI — "About 100 Midland County residents know Forbes better because [of] the gathering for home-schooled students and their parents... They know that when the temperature was around 32 degrees, he signed autographs for children and posed for snapshots without an overcoat. The crowd of adults and children greeted Forbes by singing 'My Country 'Tis of Thee' while Olivia Ault, 12, of Homer Township played the song on her fife. 'Thank you all very, very much. If this is home schooling, I love it,' Forbes told the parents and the children who ...

December 10, 1999 Hawaii Supreme Court Says Gay-Marriage Challenge Is Moot Forum Join a Discussion on Gay Pride: The Fight for Civil Rights By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ONOLULU -- The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the effort by several homosexual couples to legalize gay marriage was rendered moot by a 1998 amendment to the state constitution overwhelmingly approved by voters. The decision effectively terminates the move to recognize gay marriage in Hawaii, which was once regarded by gay rights activists as one of the more likely places to win legalization of homosexual unions. That hope followed a 1993 ...

He-e-e's Back! Saddam Is a U.S. Dilemma AgainSanctions have failed, and so have bombs. Now Washington looks set to start over on arms monitoring in IraqLike Freddie Krueger, Saddam Hussein looks destined to haunt America with an apparently endless string of sequels. Last December's bombs — and eight years of sanctions — have failed to dislodge him, and Washington has now been forced to accept that the reservations expressed by its European and Arab allies over bombing — and the resultant removal of United Nations weapons monitors — may have been correct. So with the U.N. Security Council meeting ...

During the impeachment hearings, I sent Congressman Donothing(names have been changed to protect the ignorant) an e-mail asking for his views. I got a nice letter from him telling me he couldn't send letters to people outside of his district due to limited funds. Now, if you can send a letter telling me you can't send a letter couldn't you have simply sent a letter? After all, we live in the same state. That in itself was amusing, only in government. But the story doesn't end there, I just received another letter from him, this time asking me for a ...

Barr says HUD lied about firearms suit Georgian claims official had told Congress the housing agency would not take legal action against gun makers. Rebecca Carr - Cox Washington Bureau Friday • December 10 Rep. Bob Barr is calling for an investigation into the federal government's plan to take part in a suit against gun makers. In particular, Barr wants to know whether a Housing Department lawyer lied to Congress about taking such legal action. In August, Gail Laster, counsel at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, told a House panel that the department "does not plan to ...

Richfield man rescues woman stuck on tracks Her motorized cart was stuck on the railroad tracks in Verndale, a small town along Hwy. 10 in northern Minnesota. She couldn't get off the cart and couldn't get the cart off the tracks. A freight train was bearing down on the crossing. His car was parked just beyond the crossing gate Tuesday, and he could see what was happening. He ran to her, pushing the cart out of the engine's path with no time to spare. "I honestly thought I was going to die," said Vicki Pankratz, 39, who needs the cart ...

What did Bill Clinton think he was doing in Seattle last week? He invites leaders from all over the world to a new round of talks on lowering trade barriers. They find themselves besieged by anti-trade demonstrators: environmentalists, protectionists, anarchists, lunatics. The president-host then shows up--and makes the demonstrators' case! Startling his own negotiators (and pleasing Big Labor), Clinton goes way beyond the official U.S. position about tacking environmental and labor standards onto tariff talks. He declares publicly that he favors imposing sanctions on countries that violate such standards. This astonishing expansion--and subversion--of what were supposed to be negotiations about ...

Grand jury to review death of man outside pharmacy By MARK MORRIS and TANYANIKA SAMUELS - The Kansas City Star Date: 12/09/99 22:15 Jackson County Prosecutor Robert Beaird said Thursday a grand jury would review the death of a Kansas City man outside a midtown pharmacy and consider criminal charges against four of its employees. The announcement came after Beaird reviewed a final autopsy report by Deputy Medical Examiner Sam Gulino. The report -- which will remained sealed until after the grand jury's review -- lists Demetrius Davis' cause of death as the combined effects of "cocaine intoxication and physical ...

Did anyone see Juan Williams' interview Alan Keyes last night on Fox News? I watched it and am curious about the reactions other members here had to it. I don't want to prejudice answers one way or the other so I didn't post details. Yet.

No one is big enough to be president of this country right off the bat. It's all about growing. Time, experience, and scars are essential ingredients. And the president who traveled to Worcester yesterday to honor six fallen firefighters grew into the job these past seven years, crafting a persona and record that his enemies cannot diminish no matter how much they denounce and deny. The televised news conference Clinton unrolled the day before, his summing-up of his seventh year in office, was indisputable evidence of Clinton's skills, unrivaled on the contemporary political scene. Put that Clinton into the mix ...

FBI spy 'fronts' Expert: Megiddo is domestic espionage network run amuck By David M. Bresnahan © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs leftist activist organizations to spy on Americans, most recently resulting in Project Megiddo -- which targets "right-wing" Christian-oriented groups and characterizes many as potential terrorists -- according to a national expert on political fringe groups. The Project Megiddo report, which bears a striking resemblance to a similar report by the Anti-Defamation League, has been distributed to law enforcement agencies nationwide to alert police to the supposed dangers posed during the millennium transition by various religious and ...

Court case a key test for gun shows, dealers By Mike McPhee Denver Post Staff Writer Dec. 10 - With public attention still keenly focused on the gun trade, federal authorities in Colorado have set their sights on gun shows and the federally licensed dealers who buy and sell weapons there. But gun dealers have a vastly different interpretation of the laws governing such shows than does the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Both sides are looking at a pending federal court case as a way to resolve the differences. A grand jury last month returned an ...

Ten years after the Cold War was officially laid to rest, relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly fractious. Both the Kosovo and Chechen conflicts of 1999 illustrate that relations continue to be dominated by strategic differences. For some 50 years the Cold War defined western policy towards Russia. It may not have been a safe world but relations became codified and predictable. The speed of the collapse of the USSR caught all sides unaware, leaving policy makers reeling. The hasty response was to build a new relationship with Russia on the twin planks of Cash for Reforms ...