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For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. General Motors Corp. reached a deal today that will give it access to innovative Subaru technology expected to drive a new line of small sport-utility vehicles. Senior executives confirmed GM is investing $1.4 billion in Subaru parent Fuji Heavy Industries of Tokyo, a deal expected to help GM develop small, all-wheel-drive vehicles for Asia, Europe and the United States. The agreement was to be announced in Japan early today. The automotive industry has been awash in mergers as big companies buy small ones in a scramble to get bigger. But GM's ...

The Inherent Compassion of Conservatism Ronald Reagan made every utterance seem to say, "Mr. and Mrs. America, I'm on your side." He spoke to people's hearts. He was charming and witty and inherently likeable. He could take any conservative idea and make it sound like common sense -- which, of course, it was. But it was not simply his rhetorical skills that made him great. I believe the fundamental secret of Ronald Reagan's enduring standing with the American people was that he always took care to make clear that he understood the goodness of the American people and had the ...

Published Friday, December 10, 1999, in the San Jose Mercury News Official: Chelsea Clinton won't fill in as first lady Rumors suggested larger role for her when mom moves to N.Y. BY BARBARA FEDER Mercury News Staff Writer Chelsea Clinton as a part-time first lady? Not according to the White House, which tried Thursday to quash Beltway buzz about a New York Daily News report that the Stanford University junior hopes to step into the role when her mother moves to New York next month to pursue her Senate run. ``Chelsea is a full-time student, so she doesn't have (the ...

Supporters of Keyes and Bush - beware! Articles are being posted daily by brand new members to support or inject bad positions on candidates.

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______--------********O********--------______ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE In the news this week, the Clinton administration is preparing a class-action lawsuit against gun manufacturers, ostensibly, to recover the $1 billion cost of "gun violence" in the nation's 3,200 public housing districts. "Class-action" indeed. Liberals institutionalize an entire economic underclass via their "Great Society" government housing initiatives in the 1960s. Three decades later we find that segregating people into government housing also provides a breeding ground for a subculture of anti-social and deviant behavior. Bill Clinton and his leftist ilk have labeled this considerable cultural problem a "gun problem." Ironically, it is those deviants who give ...

According to Fox News, Jim Hall will hold a press conference to run the flight 990 "pilot suicide" up the flag pole and then dare everyone in the room not to salute it. Don't bother raising the wreckage of flight 990, Jim Hall (who should have been fired when the NTSB was proven in court to have lied about TWA 800) has already decided that pilot suicide conclusion just makes so much sense that the facts should not be allowed to interfere with it.

Freepers: Help !!! Trivia Question : Who made the statement "You're no JFK!" to his opponent at the vice-presidential (candidates) debate a few years ago ? Thanks, djc/kc

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 — Sources tell NBC News that the U.S. attorney in Albuquerque, N.M., has asked a federal grand jury to indict Wen Ho Lee, who has been investigated in a probe into allegations of Chinese espionage at U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories. THE SAME sources tell NBC News that Lee will not be indicted for espionage, but for lesser charges like downloading highly classified information from a classified computer to a non-classified computer and copying classified material to tapes. Some of those tapes are reported missing. Earlier this week, newspaper reports said top U.S. security, law enforcement and energy ...

Your tax dollars at work A cease-and-desist warning against Christian evangelism arrives on congressional stationery By R. Albert Mohler U.S. congressman Jim McDermott is a man on a religious mission. The Washington Democrat has thrown himself into a controversy over Southern Baptist prayer guides for the conversion of Hindus, and he has even put the weight of his congressional office behind his mission. But the congressman's mission is not what one might expect of a man who graduated in 1958 from the evangelical Wheaton College, whose slogan boasts "Since 1860, for Christ and His Kingdom." Mr. McDermott, in an Oct. ...

Clinton Remarks Dec. 9 at DNC Presidential Gala U.S. Newswire 10 Dec 12:07 Transcript of Clinton Remarks Dec. 9 at DNC Presidential Gala To: National Desk Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100 WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a transcript of remarks made by President Clinton Dec. 9 at the Democratic National Committee Presidential Gala: Grand Ballroom 8:30 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. It's been a long, but a wonderful, night. I am delighted to see you all. The most important thing I can say is, thank you. I thank Joe Andrew ...

I was listening to Rush on WIOD 610AM on Broadcast.com. At 1:00 news hour, the news reader said that McCain is campaigning in "Little Havana" in Miami today. He weighed in on the Raft Boy issue and said that his mother gave her life to come to the US and that the boy should stay. He said Clinton should use an Executive Order to do so and that, if he were President, that is exactly what he would do. Just what we need. Another POTUS to feel like a King and issue EO's for the most mundane reasons! To Hell ...

DAMN CELEBS HAVE GOT ME SEEING STARS! By STEVE DUNLEAVY THE Constitution, thankfully, protects Rosie O'Donnell's right to freedom of speech. The Constitution, thankfully, protects Hillary Clinton's right to praise Rosie for being her shill. But, thank God, it doesn't protect them from our contempt. Many right-thinking people are getting the distinct impression Rosie is trying to become Barbra Streisand East. The lovefest between Rosie and Hillary is not only saccharine -- it is becoming odious. Rosie loves Hillary and Hillary loves Rosie. But ladies, please leave it outside. Does a celebrity have a right to a personal political opinion? ...

Beneath Its Frozen CoverAntarctica Is in Constant Motion 7.00 a.m. ET (1100 GMT) December 10, 1999 By Amanda Onion   NEW YORK — From its ice-covered exterior, Antarctica appears forever frozen and unmoving. Galen Rowell/Mountain Light The seemingly still, frozen surface of Antarctica But in its interior, the continent is in constant slow motion. And it's only from space that Antarctica's shifting layers become obvious. Imagery recently released by a Canadian satellite reveals that at least six active volcanoes percolate beneath the surface, a 140-mile-long liquid lake sloshes under insulating layers of snow and ice and sprawling streams of ice ...

Hickory Farms manager led double life, authorities say He is accused of providing materials for terrorist acts and conspiracy to damage energy plants and U.S. property. By LEANORA MINAI ,p> © St. Petersburg Times, published December 10, 1999 ST. PETERSBURG -- Donald L. Beauregard sold Hickory Farms summer sausage, smoked cheese and stone ground crackers. Away from work, he pushed domestic terrorism, according to federal authorities. "The thing that separates him is the fact that he made some very violent threats and that he took some action to carry out the threats," said Frank Gallagher, FBI special agent in charge ...

Pentagon memo on Roberts revealed An internal memo issued last week by the Pentagon cites an Internet site owned by Oil City (PA) computer guru Glen L Roberts as a possible source of information criminals used to commit fraud against members of the military. The Defense Department has been angry at Roberts since he posted the site more than two years ago. The site contains Social Security numbers of thousands of military leaders, including retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell and Gen. John Shalikashvili. It is unclear if Powell or Shalikashvili were fraud victims. But ...

Vice President Al Gore and former Sen. Bill Bradley were locked in a dead heat among New Hampshire voters, according to a Boston Globe/WBZ-TV poll released on Friday. The poll of 400 people who said they expected to vote in the Feb. 1 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary showed Gore and Bradley were tied at 43 percent, with 13 percent undecided. The Boston Globe/WBZ-TV poll was conducted Dec. 6 to Dec. 7 and had a five-point margin of error. A Globe/WBZ poll in late October showed Gore and Bradley in a statistical tie. Another poll, by Franklin Pierce College and ...

After several years of the FBI's pother about the dire threat of "terrorism from the right," a rather more real terrorism from the left descended upon the city of Seattle this week with a fury. Ever since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the FBI and the Clinton-Reno Justice Department have muttered and moaned about the slaughter and destruction the "extreme right" was getting ready to inflict upon the country. Only last month the Bureau released a near-hysterical report on the danger the country faces from right-wingers who worry about a "New World Order" and the approaching millennium. But while ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Friday said security at the department headquarters had been "lax" and "I have been consistently trying to tighten" it. Her comments to CNN came after the discovery of a listening device in the building. "We have been doing various kinds of sweeps to the State Department, " Albright said. She said that even before the discovery, "I found (security) lax in various areas...We will continue to clamp down on security here." The department said Thursday that the sophisticated listening device, possibly planted by a Russian diplomat detained by U.S. officials ...

Friday, December 10, 1999, 06:48 a.m. Pacific Politics may dictate rebuilding EgyptAir wreck by J. Lynn Lunsford The Dallas Morning News Sources familiar with the investigation of EgyptAir Flight 900 yesterday said there is growing concern that international politics may force the National Transportation Safety Board to rebuild much of the Boeing 767, which could be costly. The Boeing 767 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket, R.I., on Oct. 31, killing all 217 people aboard. Safety-board officials declined to comment on the status of the investigation until today, when a statement was to be released. Sources say the Boeing ...