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www.gunowners.org Jul 1997 Instant Check A Trojan Horse By Larry Pratt Executive Director, Gun Owners of America Gun owners have rightly rejoiced that the Sheriffs' case was affirmed by the Supreme Court and the part of the Brady Law being contested was overturned. Twice in as many years the Court has ruled that Congress does not have the authority to enact gun control. In particular, the Congressional claim of authority has been based on the Commerce Clause of Article I, Section 8. The Court has said that there was no commerce involved in gun control, thus the Tenth Amendment requires ...

Anti-abortion group backs SabrinBy WENDY RUDERMAN12/08/99Times of TrentonTRENTON -- The state's largest anti-abortion group yesterday endorsed Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Murray Sabrin, solidifying his place in the 2000 race as a social conservative.New Jersey Right to Life's embrace of Sabrin could give him a significant edge in the Republican primary, in which anti-abortion voters usually come out in force, some political experts say.However, if Sabrin wins the Republican primary, the Right to Life endorsement could cause his demise in the general election, in which voters traditionally reject political candidates from the right, experts say."Being a pro-life candidate in the Republican ...

Irish Gay Group Seeks Mrs. Clinton By LARRY McSHANE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - A day after Hillary Clinton said she would march in the city's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, a group of Irish-American gays excluded from the march for a decade demanded a meeting with the first lady. ``Clinton needs to make her stand now,'' Anne Maguire of the Irish Lesbian & Gay Organization said Friday. ``She either supports lesbians and gay men in New York, or she actively supports the bigots who tell us we can't be Irish and gay at the same time.'' In ...

Friday December 10 7:52 AM ET No Sex Please, We're on the Computer LONDON (Reuters) - If you are Swedish, you stroke it. If you are Spanish, you beat it. If you are German, you cover it in food. And if you are British, you use it as an excuse not to have sex. The attention-grabbing personal computer is taking over. A quarter of Britons would rather be on their PC than making love and more than half of the population admits to talking to the screen -- not bad for a nation which once ridiculed Prince Charles for talking ...

"A Summerville woman turned in a chat room pal who allegedly killed her ex-husband in Tennessee, then fled with the couple's son to Florida.On December 1, the Greenhurst housewife - who is not charged with any crime - drove to the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office and asked for any detective.She told Cpl. Bob Boris she thought a man had been murdered in Chattanooga, Capt. Mike Turner said.The woman said she met suspect Heather Bailey, alson know as Heather Beasley, in August, in a chat room on America Online."Their interests were body piercings, tattoos and family matters," Turner said. The women ...

NEW YORK- The heavy stress of mounting a presidential campaign may be starting to take it's toll on Bill Bradley. The Democratic candidate said he needed to "blow off some steam" yesterday, so during a restroom break at a campaign stop, bradley slipped out the window and took a walk. Free of his handlers, Bradley roamed the streets of New York going largely unnoticed by passersby. It is reported by some that Bradley was seen at the corner of Eight Avenue and W 31st. in Manhattan mumbling to himself. After eight hours of searching, members of the Bradley campaign ...

Battle for the Boy: Lawyers Seek Asylum for Cuban Boy ABCNEWS.com Dec. 10 — Lawyers today filed a petition seeking political asylum in the United States for a 6-year-old Cuban boy who has become the subject of an international tug-of-war. The petition filed with the Immigration and Naturalization Service could keep young Elian Gonzalez in Florida for at least another 60 days. Elian was found clinging to an inner tube off the Florida coast on Nov. 25, Thanksgiving Day. His mother and stepfather both drowned when the boat in which the family was fleeing Cuba capsized. Since the dramatic rescue, ...

U.S., Cuba Spar Over Elian [The Boy From Cuba] (CBS) Both sides are digging in for what could be a long struggle in the international custody fight over a six-year-old Cuban refugee. There are now five lawyers working to keep young Elian Gonzalez in the United States, reports CBS News Correspondent Jeffrey Kofman. On Friday, they went to the INS to buy him, and themselves, some time. Attorney Spencer Eig said they acted, "To protect poor Elian Gonzalez from being forced to return to Cuba against his will and to prevent him from facing future persecution." Elian was found clinging ...

(Editor's Note: This is an opinion piece from Friday's Asian Wall Street Journal. Mr. Xiao is executive director of Human Rights in China.) HONG KONG -- The announcement that China and the United States reached agreement on a range of market-opening measures, paving the way for China's entry to the World Trade Organization, has provoked a rash of optimistic projections. Trade advocates argue that WTO entry will bring political reform, rule of law and human rights improvements to China. One certainly hopes so. Sadly, however, there is little evidence to support such claims. Nothing in the U.S.-China agreement announced so ...

Cuba seeks assurances in boy’s case MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS HAVANA, Dec. 10 — Cuban and U.S. sources tell NBC News that Cuba has asked for assurances that if the father of Elian Gonzalez meets with U.S. immigration officials he will get his son back soon. U.S. officials, however, have told Cuba they cannot guarantee a quick return because of legal challenges by the boy’s Miami relatives who are also seeking custody. INDEED, LAWYERS for those relatives on Friday filed a petition seeking political asylum for Elian, which could extend his stay with his Miami relatives for at least ...

Political odd couple James Carville and Mary Matalin are opening an American-cuisine restaurant in April at 24th and M streets NW. They're planning to call it "emersons," after their youngest daughter. Their partners are New York restaurateur Henry Amoroso and Carville's consulting-biz associate Todd DeLorenzo.

Spotted Newt Perhaps the days of black Town Cars and police escorts are over for Newt Gingrich. According to The Post's Gabriel Escobar, the former House speaker boarded the Metro at the Capitol South station just after 9 a.m. Thursday, moved to the front of the car and stood out of view in an alcove formed by the booths where the conductors sit. Gingrich, dressed in the usual Washington suit and tie, carried a thin folder, a legal pad and a tome titled "Cyber Rules." He studiously read the book and marked it up with a black felt-tip marker. When ...

the following are excerpts for free fair discussion of the original Seattle Times article. Elisions and emphases mine.        Mandela, Machel visit nets $30 million for charity      by Roberto Sanchez and Carol M. Ostrom      Seattle Times staff reporters        Former South African President Nelson Mandela and his wife, Graca Machel, wound up a      three-day visit to Seattle this morning, taking home with them gifts of more than $30 million,      much of it home-grown in Seattle's high-tech industries, to be used to fight disease, poverty and      illiteracy in Africa.      Shortly before the couple departed, ...

Welcome to Chechnya. Welcome to hell Crisis in Chechnya: special report Robert Young Pelton, author of The World's Most Dangerous Places, left Grozny on Thursday last week, an hour before the Russians closed the road. He spent a week in the Chechen capital. Here is his report Friday December 10, 1999 It's a five-hour drive over a 2,500-metre pass to Chechnya. When we got to the border, a Georgian guard greeted us in English with the words: "Welcome to hell." The road on the other side had been bombed away. Craters were 10 metres deep and a chasm was dotted ...

December 10, 1999 Where is our western morality now? CHECHNYA IS EXACTLY like Kosovo. It's a small Muslim enclave within a much larger Christian Orthodox country from which it is trying to gain its independence in order to end grievous oppression, both today and in history. Chechnya also is completely different from Kosovo. The present conflict began when some Chechens invaded Dagestan, a neighbouring republic of Russia. The Chechens also provoked the attack by the fact they had breached the ceasefire they had won - it included a provision for them to vote on independence - in their victory ...

TRIANGULATING FREEDOM by Ann Coulter Exactly how much of a pinko do you have to be in order for The Washington Post not to call you a "centrist"? The answer turned up by the excellent Media Research Center is: data unavailable. On Nov. 20 the Post straight-facedly reported, "On Saturday, Gore will get the endorsement of a centrist Democrat, Sen. John F. Kerry." Not to be a stickler about words meaning something, but "centrist" Kerry won a 95 percent liberal voting record from Americans for Democratic Action and a 5 percent score from the American Conservative Union in 1996. What ...

Russia to delay Grozny assault But military vows it will still take the Chechen capital by New Year MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS MOSCOW, Dec. 10 — Russia’s military is delaying its deadline, originally set for Saturday, for its all out assault on the Chechen capital of Grozny, as they wait for civilians to leave via “safe corridors.” However, as NBC’s Dana Lewis reports from the frontlines of the conflict, many in the city do not know about the Russian demand to leave. And refugees who have emerged from Grozny in recent days say they’ve been attacked by both Russians ...

Hillary Shifts To New Role (CBS) As President Clinton lit the national Christmas tree for the seventh time Thursday, the first lady was not by his side. She was in New York campaigning, serving notice that she would not be standing by many of his policies, like gays in the military, reports CBS News Correspondent Diana Olick. "I don't believe 'don't ask, don't tell' has worked, and I don't believe it is ultimately the policy we should have in our military," the first lady said. It's not the first issue on which she has taken an opposing stand, and she ...

Women Smash Barriers At the beginning of the century, women were literally corseted and, for the most part, metaphorically bound to the home and family. Most women lacked access to any professional work outside of the home, and were refused admittance into the halls of higher education. After all, scientists held that the female reproductive organs would atrophy to nothing if a woman focused too much on intellectual pursuits. Women also could not vote or run for office, and therefore, had no formal political representation. Women Break Out of Traditional Roles In the 20th century, women began to pose a ...