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Slick Willy Inc. denied trademark BY SANDRA DEL RE Daily Herald Staff Writer Remember the movie "Miracle on 34th Street," where the federal government declared an old man was truly Santa Claus by giving him mail addressed to the white-bearded one at the North Pole? One Palatine official says the same thing has happened in real life, but this time the man at the center of the controversy is not Santa, it is President Clinton. The federal government has denied Palatine District 5 Councilman Jack Wagner a trademark registration for his gag business, Slick Willy Inc., saying the name is ...

FBI spy 'fronts'                 | | | |                                   FRIDAY DECEMBER 101999                 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 ...

Washington, Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Prices paid to U.S. producers, excluding food and energy, were unchanged in November, a sign competition is keeping a lid on costs as the economy closes in on a record expansion. ``The magical economy keeps on booming, while inflation remains in check,'' said Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania. The core producer price index, which removes volatile food and energy prices, held steady after a 0.3 percent October increase as the costs of computers and light trucks fell, the Labor Department said today. The overall producer price index increased 0.2 ...

MOSCOW (Dec. 10) XINHUA - Another regiment of the Russian Strategic Rocket Force equipped with 10 advanced Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles was put on combat duty Friday, said a top Russian military official. The regiment began its combat duty at 3 p.m. Moscow time and it is the second strategic rocketry regiment deployed at Tatishchevo, the Saratov region, said Colonel General Vladimir Yakovlev, commander-in-chief of the Russian Strategic Rocket Force, at a ceremony in Tatischevo. Officials from the Russian Defense Ministry, the government and the presidential administration also attended the Friday ceremony The first such regiment of the Tatischevo ...

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to change a sombrero-wearing character in the ``Toy Story 2'' video game because it offended some Hispanics. The decision was announced Thursday after a peaceful demonstration outside the Santa Monica headquarters of Activision, which produced the game with Disney based on characters from the animated film. One level of the game features a villain with a mustache, bullet bandolier and a sombrero, which Hispanic activists said was a Mexican stereotype. Players must shoot the symbol to advance to the next level of the game, said Oscar de la Torre, a ...

What is the source of the article, "Ten Worst Ideas of the 20th Century" that Rush is reading????

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) -- School officials, saying the Boy Scouts violate district policy by excluding gays and atheists, have barred the organization from sending notes and solicitations home with students. Davis Joint Unified School District Superintendent David Murphy wrote the Scouts to say the organization, starting this month, can no longer use school bulletin boards, parent-teacher association newsletters and student folders to recruit and communicate with students. The change came after parents in this Northern California community complained that groups that discriminate should not be able to use schools to send home information about their activities, Murphy said. Communicating through ...

Thursday, December 9, 1999, 11:22 a.m. Pacific Boeing lawyers still saying missile may have downed TWA Flight 800 by James V. Grimaldi Seattle Times Washington bureau WASHINGTON - Boeing said this week that the lack of evidence as to what sparked the blast that downed TWA Flight800 three years ago points to an "external source," such as a bomb or missile. Boeing's statement in court documents Tuesday is the strongest to date revealing an aggressive legal defense that blames the 747 crash on a bomb or missile - which the FBI and National Transportation Safety Board long ago ruled ...

Rush just opened his show with a warning for all Alan Keyes supporters not to attempt to 'take over his show.' He referred to Keyes supporters as "KEYSTERS." WELL WITH THIS MOVE, I SUPPOSE THE COUNTRY CLUB REPUBLICAN 'PURGE' IS COMPLETE. FIRST IT WAS THE PEROTISTA'S. NEXT CAME PAT'S BRIGADES. NOW IT THE KEYSTERS. PRETTY SOON, THE GOP WILL CONSIST OF RUSH, THE DOLES AND THE BUSHES. KISS YOUR PRESIDENTIAL CHANCES GOODBYE, MY PUBISTIC FRIENDS. RUSH IS ABOUT TO PICK HIS THIRD PRESIDENTIAL LOSER IN A ROW.I TOLD YOU SO.....

Did I just hear Rush say Barbara Olsen has sent him a copy of Hillary's Sealed Thesis, she wrote at Wellesley???

LONDON (AP) - Britain ratified an international treaty on Friday that bans the death penalty. The government had announced in March that it signed the second optional protocol of the U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Friday's step completed the process. ``As part of our commitment to bring human rights higher up the agenda, the U.K. has already removed the death penalty from its statute books for all crimes,'' said Foreign Office Minister Peter Hain. ``As a result we are now, along with our (European Union) partners, actively encouraging states who retain the death sentence to abolish ...

Boris Yeltsin flaunts Russia's nuclear arsenal while visiting Communist China's rulers in Beijing. What's really going on? The answers range from sobering to downright scary. The picture being carried out of Beijing by international television coverage shows a seemingly out-of-control Russian president. One moment he is displayed barely being able to stagger, stand or sit. The next, he is furiously brandishing his nation's still-mighty nuclear weapons at the United States. "Clinton permitted himself to put pressure on Russia," Yeltsin stormed on Thursday. "He has forgotten Russia has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons. He has forgotten about that. Therefore ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright insisted on Friday that the most sensitive areas of the State Department were not compromised by a listening device that was planted on the same floor as her office. In interviews on three television networks, Albright also said President Clinton will take an active role in upcoming peace negotiations between Israel and Syria and that no assurances had been made to entice Syria into the talks. Albright said she had known for several months of the listening device that was planted in the State Department's seventh floor, the same floor as her ...

By finding jobs for former welfare clients, the WorkFirst program has saved the county nearly $660,000. But state officials say county commissioners must spend the money or face going to court or jail. State officials suggested ways the county can help WorkFirst clients, including buying them new or used cars, new wardrobes and hair cuts, as well as paying for dental work. Not hardly, say commissioners, who want to talk to lawmakers. Earlier this week, commissioners were reveling in the idea of saving a penny on the property tax rate. Director of Social Services Sandra Wilkes told the board ...

The most revealing thing about political scientist Jeffrey Berry's recent book ("The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups") is that hardly anyone noticed it, even though its conclusion starkly contradicts onventional wisdom. After much research, Berry rejects the common view that liberalism died in the 1980s, suffocated by Ronald Reagan, wealthy business lobbies and conservative political groups. Judged by congressional legislation and press coverage, precisely the opposite is true. Liberal lobbies in Washington have flourished. They rival business lobbies in power and crush conservative groups, such as the now defunct Moral Majority. Since the 1960s, Berry says, liberalism's ...

Make sure you vote for Alan Keyes in the internet primary at http://vote.com The media coverage will follow.

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — Texas Gov. George W. Bush said on Thursday he agreed the Supreme Court should review its famed Miranda ruling but disagreed with a White House plan to sue gun makers. Bush, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, spent the morning meeting with law enforcement officials and discussing legal issues in the state that holds the nation's first primary on Feb. 1. He was asked by reporters about two legal developments announced this week — the Supreme Court decision to review its 1966 Miranda ruling requiring reading legal rights to criminal suspects and the Clinton administration ...

Going After Boeing Washington Weekly – November 15, 1999 By EDWARD ZEHR The Seattle Times recently took the Boeing company to task for engaging in "a quiet pursuit of far-fetched theories" regarding the crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996. It seems that the company incurred the stern disapproval of the newspaper which noted that "Boeing has actually refused to rule out a bomb or missile in the July 1996 TWA crash." How gauche of Boeing not to snap to attention, click heels and salute smartly when the government barks an order. Once more our vaunted "free" press show ...

Presidential candidate, Steve Forbes, claims that his flat tax plan will eliminate the IRS and drive a stake into the heart of the income tax system. It does neither.Another Presidential candidate, Dr. Alan Keyes, claims that if government can dictate what percentage of your income it can confiscate, then the government can control all of your income. Dr. Keyes wants to abolish the income tax, the IRS, the 16th Amendment and adopt a tax system along the lines of what our Founding Fathers envisioned. Article I Section 8: "The Congress shall have Power . . . .To lay and collect ...

(CNSNews.com) - Public schools in Davis, California have slammed the door on the Boy Scouts of America, after parents complained that the organization discriminates by excluding homosexuals and atheists. According to reports, the superintendent of the Davis Joint Unified School District says the Boy Scouts will no longer be allowed to use school bulletin boards, PTA newsletters, or student folders to send notes or other information home with students. Superintendent David Murphy said communicating with parents through the schools is a privilege that very few groups enjoy, and therefore, he said it can be legally rescinded without violating the Boy ...