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U.S. Issues Worldwide Travel Caution for Attacks 4.09 p.m. ET (2118 GMT) December 11, 1999 WASHINGTON — The United States on Saturday issued a worldwide caution to its citizens traveling abroad through the start of the New Year and Ramadan, citing "credible information that terrorists are planning attacks'' against them. The State Department said in a statement it had information indicating attacks "could be planned for locations throughout the world where large gatherings and celebrations will be taking place.'' It urged Americans traveling or living abroad "to review their security practices, to remain alert to the changing situation and to ...

From: rsharpe@sharpe2000.org Subject: Republicans are AWOL Dear Family, Friends and Fellow Americans: I have lost faith and trust with the leadership of the Republican Party. A wife should never trust her husband with the title to their home if he were going to Las Vegas to gamble. I believe you and I have trusted, the Establishment of both parties, for far too,long with the title to our country. The Internationalists and Insiders in Washington are willing to gamble with our birthright, our inheritance. They are willing to surrender the sovereignty of this great Republic on the altar of a "New ...

Saturday December 11 4:08 PM ET Bradley Dismisses Heart Condition As 'Nuisance' PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley (news - web sites), who admitted himself to a California hospital on Friday because of an irregular heartbeat, Saturday dismissed the condition as ``a nuisance'' that would not impede his campaign. ``It will have no effect whatsoever,'' Bradley told reporters at a news conference here. Bradley, 56, once a star professional basketball player who says he works out regularly on a stair climber, was released Friday without undergoing treatment for the condition called atrial fibrillation. The former U.S. ...

Poll: Ruth Top Athlete of Century By STEVE WILSTEIN AP Sports Writer The two Babes ruled the century. Larger than life in their own day, their deeds and legends enduring the passage of time, Babe Ruth and his namesake, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, prevailed as the top man and woman in The Associated Press 100 Athletes of the Century poll released Saturday. Michael Jordan, Jim Thorpe, Muhammad Ali, Wayne Gretzky and Jim Brown filled the next five spots behind Ruth. Martina Navratilova, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Billie Jean King finished far back of Didrikson, who ranked No. 9 among all athletes. ...

Saturday December 11 4:11 PM ET U.S. Issues Worldwide Travel Caution for Attacks WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Saturday issued a worldwide caution to its citizens traveling abroad through the start of the New Year and Ramadan, citing ``credible information that terrorists are planning attacks'' against them. The State Department said in a statement it had information indicating attacks ``could be planned for locations throughout the world where large gatherings and celebrations will be taking place.'' It urged Americans traveling or living abroad ``to review their security practices, to remain alert to the changing situation and to exercise ...

Curtiss Gun Raffle becomes Show Heard "Round the World" Mount Carroll, Illinois, December 10, 1999 (CN)-- You could call it the "shot heard 'round the world." It's a gun raffle in Princeton, Illinois. And it's making waves at such national media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, the G. Gordon Liddy Show and MSNBC. What makes the raffle so intriguing, is it's being conducted by a Republican primary candidate for the 17th District Congressional seat: Dr. Michael Curtiss. The rural-care family doctor held a news conference this morning at his Mount Carroll home, defending both the raffle and Curtiss' Second ...

There was a thread here styled something like "What McCain does NOT want you to know." I wrote a response to it, saying in essence that it does not matter what McCain said or did as Arizona Senator; his choice of politics over parenthood in the raftboy case shows he is just another politician-opportunist. My response was never published, and soon after, the thread was gone. The search engine still picks up a link to it, but when the link is activated, the result is a message saying that the thread "does not exist."

Gold and Government FREE MARKET Commentary by Lew Rockwell Reprinted from The FREE MARKET Published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute December 1998   Gold and Government Speaking before a Congressional committee, Alan Greenspan stepped back from his discussion of the newest international currency crisis to reflect on the gold standard of the last century. He noted that bad judgments and distortions in price had a way of working themselves out very quickly. Interest rates would rise and fall to reflect shifts in capital flows and thus minimize the losses associated with economic change. Imbalances corrected themselves. What happened ...

A Surprising 89% of the People in TV Poll support Pro-Gun Candidates MOLINE, ILLINOIS, December 11, 1999 (City News USA)-- WQAD-TV 8 in Moline, Illinois got more than they bargained for when they ran a poll Friday night asking the question: "Would you support a candidate who favors the right to carry a gun?" A surprising 89% of the viewers said "yes", in support of a pro-gun candidate. 11% said "no", they wouldn't support such a candidate. The biggest benefactor of the poll was 17th Congressional Candidate Michael Curtiss MD, who has been on the national media hot seat since ...

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Considering that the 1st Amendment of the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, can and should government regulate hate speech, or seek to address the harm it causes? Based on a premise that there is no such a thing as absolute right or absolute freedom, we can infer that a government can and should regulate any speech and seek to address the harm it causes; but the real issue is -- where, when, and how it can be regulated. There are two approaches to the issue at hand: the legalistic approach (from the view point of a bureaucrat); and the common ...

'Gilligan's Island': E! Tells The Tale of That Fateful Trip The E! entertainment channel's new documentary about the classically ridiculous sitcom "Gilligan's Island" may be more entertaining than the show itself ever was. Not that "Gilligan's Island" doesn't deserve respect. Any series that has been thriving in reruns for three decades merits admiration and maybe even awe. "Gilligan's Island" has unquestionably become part of the culture--a masterpiece of kitsch--as succeeding generations of kids discovered it on local stations and memorized its universally recognizable expositional theme song. No matter how much you think you don't care about the show, you may ...

"The hour of destruction, or manly opposition to the machinations of tyranny, stares you in the face. Every friend to his country, to himself and posterity ... is now called upon ... to make a united and successful resistance to this last, worst and most destructive measure of administration." Is this a leaflet for the protests at last week's meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle? No. It's a leaflet for a 1773 town meeting in Boston to protest the passage of the Tea Act by England's Parliament. But the 226 years between the Seattle and Boston protests ...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 11, 1999 Contact: Joe Giganti (202) 646-5172 ALAN KEYES WANTS KLAYMAN AS ATTORNEY GENERAL JUDICIAL WATCH TEAM HEADS TO PANAMA-WHERE CLINTON & ALBRIGHT WON'T DARE TO TREAD "THE JUDICIAL WATCH REPORT" SHOW BREAKS NEWS & VIEWS (Washington, D.C.) Today, on The Judicial Watch Report, Presidential Candidate Alan Keyes named his choice on Attorney General, Larry Klayman. While Klayman has found his calling as Chairman of Judicial Watch, he was flattered by the vote of confidence. Keyes stated: "I think that we need to put someone in as Attorney General who, among other things, will enforce the ...

Bushgore? Gorebush? Let's say you're the front-running candidate for your party's presidential nomination. When you're with people one-on-one or in small groups, you're warm, funny, natural, and engaging -- just a great guy. But when you're in front of TV cameras, you freeze up and respond to questions with memorized chunks of your campaign speech when you should be warm, funny, natural, and engaging. Even the reporters who cover your campaign agree that you're a terrific fellow in private but a bit stiff in public. Al Gore, you say? Naaahhh, that's old news. The new Warm, Funny, Natural and ...

If we take a survey of ages and of countries, we shall find the women, almost--without exception--at all times and in all places, adored and oppressed. Man, who has never neglected an opportunity of exerting his power, in paying homage to their beauty, has always availed himself of their weakness. He has been at once their tyrant and their slave. Nature herself, in forming beings so susceptible and tender, appears to have been more attentive to their charms than to their happiness. Continually surrounded with griefs and fears, the women more than share all our miseries, and are besides subjected ...

Dec 11, 1999 - 03:16 PM Child's Gender Changes in Clinton Stump Story By Anne Gearan Associated Press Writer ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - President Clinton told a story Saturday, repeated often since the Thanksgiving weekend, of how a small child at his holiday gathering posed him a bold question. "How old are you?" the child asked. "Fifty-three," Clinton says he replied. The audience at the Florida Democratic Convention laughed when, with a rueful smile, the president related the child's reaction: "She said, 'that's a lot.'" He told the girl's story four times during political and fund-raising speeches this past week ...

Famous universities rarely issue reports pronouncing themselves guilty of serious long-term discrimination. But the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decided to do that in March, releasing a report confessing to "pervasive," perhaps "unconscious," gender bias against its female faculty. The story was page one news around the country. Biology Prof. Nancy Hopkins, whose complaints provoked the bias report, was called to the White House and posed, beaming, with the Clintons. The Chronicle of Higher Education ran three glowing articles about the MIT confession and announced two weeks ago that "Nancy Hopkins has done for sex discrimination what Anita Hill did for ...

Public Nuisances Hillary's Latest Cause New York -- After a seven-year absence, the homeless are back! Hillary, whilst on one of her 34 government-paid trips to New York, discovered them. She announced her discovery to a group of 150 eminent black New Yorkers on November 30. Former Democratic Mayor David N. Dinkins was there as was the Hon. Charles B. Rangel, neither of whom had noticed the homeless since the grim days of the Bush Administration. The homeless whom Hillary has in mind are not the ones who bash pedestrians on the head with bricks, as a deranged man did ...