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Cops Seek GOP Boycott of Philadelphia Arena Cops Seek GOP Boycott of Philadelphia Arena Want to Move Convention After Pro-Abu Jamal Band Plays Dec. 10, 1999 By Rick Sarlat AP Rage Against The Machine PHILADELPHIA (APBnews.com) -- The Fraternal Order of Police, outraged that an arena here hosted a concert by a rock band that supports death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, is asking the Republican National Comittee to move next year's GOP presidential convention to another venue -- or another city. Rich Costello, president of a Philadelphia FOP lodge, said he and members of his organization are calling for ...

No Way to Treat Public Schools Saturday, December 11, 1999; Page A30 IT'S A SHAME the way children in D.C. public schools are being treated. They are pawns in a system that is underfunded, overgoverned and subject to the whims and pressures of superintendent wannabes from Chevy Chase to Capitol Hill. Here it is more than three months into the school year, and Superintendent Arlene Ackerman still does not know exactly how much money her schools will receive in the current year. That's partially because city fiscal officials must decide the amount of funds to carve out of D.C. appropriations ...

Evidently, it has become next to impossible to find a copy of Barbara Olsen book "Hell to Pay" displayed at bookstores around the country. To test my feeling on this I visited my local mall today and sure enough Barnes and Noble had two copies hidden in the social science section and Walden Books didn't even have a copy. As a reward to the book suppressors may I suggest that you buy your book from Amazon.com HELL TO PAY (Under 20$) or another online bookseller. With the holiday shopping season upon us, I kindly ask everyone to stop into their ...

Prosecution Will Mean Tug of War on Secrets By RAYMOND BONNER WASHINGTON -- Before deciding to go ahead with Friday's indictment of Wen Ho Lee, senior law enforcement and intelligence officials of the Clinton administration concluded that the necessity of a prosecution outweighed any damage to national security that might result from the release of classified information. That judgment will be seriously challenged, as the case unfolds over the coming weeks and months. According to the government, Lee had access to the most sensitive nuclear weapons data possessed by the United States, which if disclosed, could case serious damage to ...

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I have a question to all of you hardcore supporters of Dubya Bush out there. It's my impression that most people support Bush not out of admiration for the man or respect for his non-existent agenda, but rather out of loyalty to the GOP and because "he can win."So imagine the following scenario: the GOP establishment drops Dubya and decides that McCain is there man and McCain "can win" in the general election. The pundits begin to point out Dubya's inadequacies while aggressively selling McCain to the public. As a result, Dubya drops to the single digits and McCain soars ...

A Danish woman arrested for leaving her baby outside a restaurant in 1997 took the stand in Manhattan Federal Court yesterday to detail the horror of being jailed and having her child taken from her — but the ordeal seemed a cakewalk compared with her cross-examination by a city lawyer. Annette Sorensen, 32, was red-eyed and shaken after questioning from Patricia Miller of the city corporation counsel's office during the trial of Sorensen's $20 million lawsuit against the city stemming from the incident. The aspiring actress from Copenhagen alleges emotional and mental anguish stemming from her May 10, 1997 arrest ...

I am planning on going to Springfield on Monday to fight this. If you wish to join me and others then please post here or contact me by FR-mail.See the attached e-mail I got this morning: (Posted here with permission)From: "John" Mayor Daley is sending his troops to Springfield on Monday to fight to inprison law-abiding citizens with guns (see Chicago Tribune article below). I'll be there too, visiting as many Reps and Senator's as I can and handing out the proposed "Permit the Best - Convict the Rest" plan: http://www.concealcarry.org/permitbest.htm If anyone else can make it to Springfield on ...

Subject: EgyptAir 990 and tail section Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 07:23:02 -0500 From: "Kay Pennington" To: "M - Tim Clark Reuters" , "M - Kelley" , "M - Fox" CC: "1 - A Kay" , "1 - LEW JUDD" , p> Crucial Information Withheld For Weeks From NewsHawk Inc. 11-25-99 In a tremendously significant new development in the case of the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash, THREE AND A HALF WEEKS after the fact, federal government officials officially stated that the tail section of Flight 990 was severely damaged by an EXPLOSION. Interesting how this massively important information "just happened" ...

Under siege by Gotham's limousine class http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- NEW YORK MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI finds himself under siege by Gotham's limousine class because he wants the homeless to get 1) indoors and 2) gainfully employed. This has generated an outcry because it could lead society's dispossessed toward lives of independence and dignity -- which would make them unavailable for celebrity pity. The mayor got moving after a homeless man named Parris Drake pounded a woman named Nicole Barrett over the head with a brick, nearly killing her. The two had never met; the victim just happened to stroll in the ...

I know, I know, another vanity.

To critics of Far Gone who think liberal McCain deserves a pass because his sordid record is whitewashed by a newly minted "conservative" label:McCain would make a great democrap. A corrupt Globalist. The Conservative Congress gave us: NAFTA, GATT, WTO, School to Work, The Workforce Investment Partnership Act and the necessary attendant dissolution of the bill of rights under that legislation and topped it off with the Anti-terrorism and RICO freedom killers; Mandatory Federal sentencing guidelines and the police state; Trent Lott who squashed the impeachment by personally changing the rules of evidence; (You'd be surprised at McCain's role in ...

Jewish World Review is celebrating its second birthday. Since JWR has been an invaluable source of great articles, commentary and opinions from some of the finest Conservative thinkers and writers in the country and since JWR is a supporter of FR, may I respectfully suggest that if you've benefited from that which is provided by JWR that you send a congratulatory email to Binyamin Jolkovsky, the lone person who runs the website? I'm sure he'd really appreciate it.To visit JWR, please click here.If you'd like to send Binyamin a happy birthday note, click here.JWR is among the strongest proponents of ...

WASHINGTON (December 11, 1999 1:24 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Many voters believe negative campaigning can be helpful when artfully done, a group of researchers has found. Researchers pored over four decades of political advertising and polled people on what they find useful and fair in campaigns, and discovered voters value the contrasts drawn in certain negative ads. Additionally, the researchers say such pitches historically have contained more policy, and even been more accurate, than those in which candidates simply toot their own horns. Even with the 2000 presidential campaign becoming edgier by the day and the attacks at times ...

Oh I know I should reference the first thread, but here goes anyway. I'm sorry this turned out much longer than I wanted... sigh. I hope it isn't intimidating. At least scan through, and try to pick up a few points. I heard Rush and the Keyster comment while on the way home yesterday. I also listened to him talking about stiring up the Freepers, and mentioning your comment JT about anoiniting the 3rd straight Republican loser. For me at least the terms like Keyster, Right Wing Nut, etc. don't really bother me at all. After all, Right Wing Nuts ...

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:49:47 -0500 From: "Barr, Press" Press.Barr@mail.house.gov Subject: Barr E-News To: "Barr, Press" Press.Barr@mail.house.gov Electronic Newsletter for Friday, December 10, 1999 U.S. Representative Bob Barr (GA-7) Clinton Acknowledges Chinese Will Control Panama Canal Recently, President Clinton acknowledged the Chinese will soon be "running the [Panama] Canal." In response, Representative Barr sent a letter to House and Senate leaders urging them to take action to preserve a continued U.S. presence in Panama following the December 14th handover of the Canal ... Clinton Acknowledges Chinese Will Control Panama Canal ********************** Website Provides Information on Government Surveillance The American ...

Update on Spina Bifida Child Source: Pro-Life Infonet (http://www.prolifeinfo.org) Nashville -- Early in November, Dr. Joseph P. Bruner, director of fetal diagnosis and treatment at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, performed a miracle surgery in the womb of a 21-week old unborn child to correct spina bifida. The procedure resulted in a wave of media attention about a picture showing the unborn child's hand reaching out of the womb during the surgery. Internet columnist Matt Drudge attempted to show the picture on his Fox News Channel program, which subsequently cost him his job. Earlier this month, the baby in question, Samuel, ...

Government to Examine 'zero Tolerance' Policies By Tammy Webber Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) - For weeks, the Rev. Jesse Jackson has tried to force a national debate on whether schools' zero tolerance policies are unfair to students, particularly minorities. He even was arrested while demonstrating on behalf of six expelled Decatur students last month. Now, at Jackson's urging, the federal government is getting involved. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission agreed Friday to examine whether such policies tend to disproportionately affect minority and disabled students, Chairwoman Mary Frances Berry said. Jackson last month asked the agency to investigate the Decatur ...

Critics see the Hildebeast as an unpersuasive diva with the tone of one who has toured too long in the role, but she IS to be feared for her talents. She has a singular appetite for power, and achieves it most effectively with martyrdom. Astrologers have warned of the accidental alignment in this natives planetary aspects. This is not the best forum for a discussion of their findings, but interested readers should be warned of this lethal combination which occured in the fall of 1947. [afflicting only those born at certain hours within a few weeks in October in the ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton — First Lady of the United States and New York Senate candidate — picked up a new title yesterday: straphanger. One of the better titles she has picked up. The President's wife normally travels in a motorcade with police and Secret Service escorts, but she went underground at 2 p.m., riding the N and R subway line from City Hall to 23rd St. "She's just sick of sitting in traffic," an aide said. "She wants to take the subway more often." Then I guess we'll be hearing about Hillary taking the subway on a regular basis? Don't ...