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Support Includes County GOP Sheriffs and President of NH Police Chief Association GOFFSTOWN, NH - Texas Governor George W. Bush is the law and order GOP candidate of choice for over 80 New Hampshire law enforcement officials. Governor Bush received this strong show of support from the Granite State law enforcement community Thursday morning during a campaign stop in Goffstown. "We’re supporting George W. Bush because no other candidate even comes close to his record of accomplishment in law enforcement," stated Chief Stephen Monier (Ret.) of the Goffstown Police Department. "As Governor of Texas, he has set a gold standard ...

heresy he sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see he tries to tell me what i put inside of me he's got the answers to ease my curiosity he dreamed up a god and called it christianity your god is dead and no one cares if there is a hell i will see you there he flexed his muscles to keep his flock of sheep in line he made a virus that would kill off all the swine his perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain demands devotion atrocities done in his name your god is ...

Seumas Milne Thursday December 9, 1999 Ministers came under attack from Labour backbenchers last night after it emerged that the government had blocked the export of diphtheria, yellow fever and tetanus vaccines to Iraq on the grounds that they could be used as weapons of mass destruction. Ministers have repeatedly insisted that medicines are not covered by sanctions against Iraq, but the foreign office said last night that some "medical precursors" were subject to indefinite scrutiny because of their potential use as weapons. The vaccines were part of a "mercy flight" of medical supplies, unavailable or in short supply ...

While the war on drugs has been a familiar news story for years, FRONTLINE investigates this coming Tuesday, December 14, a disturbing and underreported corner of that war: the use of snitches. Snitching on someone has become the only way for defendants in drug cases to reduce mandatory minimum sentences which were legislated in the 1980s. In the last five years almost a third of defendants in federal drug trafficking cases had prison terms reduced because they informed on others In many cases, the person implicated by the snitches was barely involved, if at all, in the actual drug deal. ...

How would George W. Bush govern as president? It is an important question that most Republicans seem afraid to ask. While most Republican governora,congressmen, and state lawmakers have jumped on the Bush bandwagon,few have examined Bush's record as Texas governor-perhaps the best predictor of presidential performance. Maybe they are afraid of what they might find. If the past is prologue, conservatives can expect symbolic defeats on social issues, puny tax cuts, double digit spending hikes, and little progress on hot button issues like school reform, affirmative action, abortion, or gun rights. Purists point to a handful of symbolic state level ...

Copyright Decision Threatens Freedom to Link December 10, 1999 By CARL S. KAPLAN Copyright Decision Threatens Freedom to Link n a ruling that could undermine the freedom to create links on the Web, a federal judge in Utah has temporarily barred two critics of the Mormon Church from posting on their Web site the Internet addresses of other sites featuring pirated copies of a Mormon text. Related Articles Ticketmaster Sues Again Over Links (August 10, 1999) Is Linking Always Legal? The Experts Aren't Sure. (August 6, 1999) In issuing a preliminary injunction on Monday, Judge Tena Campbell of the ...

Copyright Decision Threatens Freedom to Link December 10, 1999 By CARL S. KAPLAN Copyright Decision Threatens Freedom to Link n a ruling that could undermine the freedom to create links on the Web, a federal judge in Utah has temporarily barred two critics of the Mormon Church from posting on their Web site the Internet addresses of other sites featuring pirated copies of a Mormon text. Related Articles Ticketmaster Sues Again Over Links (August 10, 1999) Is Linking Always Legal? The Experts Aren't Sure. (August 6, 1999) In issuing a preliminary injunction on Monday, Judge Tena Campbell of the ...

WASHINGTON –– Bill Bradley broke off his West Coast campaign swing late Friday for outpatient treatment of an irregular heartbeat. An adviser quoted the Democratic presidential candidate's cardiologist as describing the condition as "an inconvenience rather than a problem." Bradley was being treated Friday evening at an undisclosed hospital near Palo Alto with a mild electric shock to the heart, a common treatment for the irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation, said Anita Dunn, his communications director. It was the fourth time Bradley has undergone this treatment known as cardioversion since 1996, when doctors discovered his condition. Bradley, in ...

Engaging the Culture with the Word of God! Latest Dateline... December 10, 1999 Subject: No Room for Grinch! Judge Susan J. Dlott said: "The celebration of Christmas as a national holiday cannot be viewed, by a reasonable person, as an endorsement of religion. The holiday itself is so deeply imbued with secular connotations that, indeed, its religious origins are lost on many." -- "That was the ruling ... from a Dr. Seuss-inspired federal judge who handed down an unwelcome present to a Cincinnati lawyer [Richard Ganulin] who had sued to ban Christmas as a holiday for federal employees. ... ...

Conrad Black, Lou Dobbs Reported Vying to Buy UPI NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Canadian press baron and one of U.S. TV's most recognizable business reporters are both vying to buy an American journalistic institution - the ailing United Press International, staff and union officials said on Tuesday. One UPI staffer at the company's headquarters in Washington said journalists had been told that newspaper owner Conrad Black and former CNN financial anchor Lou Dobbs were both interested in acquiring the 90-year-old news service from ARA Group, a London-based Saudi investment group that paid $3.9 million in 1992 to bring UPI ...

Gore, Bush Coming to Tennessee Saloon By KARIN MILLER .c The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Dec. 10) - Maybe Al Gore will boot scoot. Perhaps George W. Bush will do the Texas two-step. One thing's for sure: Both presidential front-runners will rake in the bucks next week on successive nights at the Wildhorse Saloon, a famous honky-tonk, dance hall and occasional political venue in downtown Nashville. For $35 a person, Gore supporters can mingle Wednesday night with the vice president and his wife Tipper, Aaron Neville of the Neville Brothers band, and - possibly - disco diva Donna Summer. Comedian ...

Keyes paid himself $100,000 per year out of campaign funds. Keyes' 1992 Senate campaign was hurt badly when the press revealed he was paying himself a huge amount out of campaign funds. This is technically legal but rare and sleazy. We don't know of any other candidates for president who have ever paid themselves out of campaign funds from any campaign they've been in. His staff urged him to stop but he refused. Keyes now says, "I don't think it will be necessary this time 'round." More generally, Keyes knows that his doomed presidential campaigns can raise his profile ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THURSDAY, DECEMBER 09, 1999 12:02:55 ET XXXXX CHINA, RUSSIA END SUMMIT WITH JOINT STAND AGAINST 'U.S. DOMINATION' Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Russian President Boris Yeltsin held the second informal summit in Bejing on December 9 and 10 during which they had an in-depth exchange of views on issues of common interest. The two leaders issued the following joint statement: First, the two heads of state emphasize that the conclusions and evaluations enshrined in the "Sino-Russian Joint Statement on Worldwide Multi-Polarization and Establishment of New International Order" on April 23, 1997, the "Sino-Russian Joint Statement" ...

Head Wound Lets Man Speak in 93 Tongues MOSCOW - Willi Melnikov speaks 93 languages and can discourse for hours on their historical formation and cultural roots - yet his career choice is a $29-per-month state job researching the herpes virus. Perhaps it's an odd decision for a 37-year-old Muscovite possessing such a rare talent. But it's one with which he's quite satisfied, even if there is little room in virology for Sanskrit, ancient Egyptian or Pictian. Looking up and off to the side as if his mind had wandered to a far away place long ago, Melnikov recited one ...

New York Power Guy Kieran Mahoney Led the Blitz on Forbes by Andrea Bernstein They’re duking it out on the airwaves in Iowa and New Hampshire. No, the combatants aren’t Gov. George W. Bush of Texas and his main rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona. The bitter contest is between publisher and New Jersey resident Steve Forbes and a group called the Republican Leadership Council, which, ironically, consists of moderate Northeastern Republicans including Gov. George Pataki of New York and Mr. Forbes’ neighbor, Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey. The salvos between Mr. Forbes and the R.L.C. show ...

Fox News Channel tonite 9pm EST or CST? They did not say Shalom, Dr.Mike

Hungary moves toward EU membership BUDAPEST: With its economy strong and democracy steady, Hungary leads the pack to become the next new member of the European Union. But there's a flaw in this former communist country made good. The speed of Hungary's transformation has given it an edge on Poland and the Czech Republic - other top candidates looking for quick entry into the EU, which opens a summit on enlargement on Friday in Helsinki, Finland. All three have installed Western-style governments in the decade since the collapse of communist rule, but Hungary's economy has outperformed the others. Well-appointed ...

Video History of Ronald Reagan on C-SPAN tonite 12/10/99 at 8PM EST. Various programs and speeches running all night.

The Abu-Jamal Sham Samuel Francis After 16 years on Pennsylvania's Death Row, you might think convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal was about to walk the last walk. The U.S. Supreme Court has already upheld the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's rejection of his appeal, and Gov. Tom Ridge actually signed a death warrant authorizing the killer's execution. But the federal leviathan is ever vigilant to prevent justice from being done. Just as before, it has been determined that Abu-Jamal should be granted another round of appeals. The man convicted and sentenced to death for pumping five bullets into a Philadelphia police officer ...

It has all the makings of a major box office thriller: Texas Governor and Republican Presidential contender George W. Bush and his brother Jeb, allegedly caught on videotape in 1985 picking up kilos of cocaine at a Florida airport in a DEA sting set up by Barry Seal… An ensuing murderous cover-up featuring Seal's public assassination less than a year later by a hit team…the members of which, when caught, reveal to their attorneys during trial that their actions were being directed by then, National Security Council (NSC) staffer - Lt. Colonel Oliver North… And a private turboprop King Air ...