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Saturday December 11 6:42 PM ET Warning of Terrorist Attacks Issued By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans around the world were warned Saturday by the State Department that there is ``credible evidence'' terrorists could strike at large holiday gatherings.A worldwide caution issued by the department told U.S. citizens abroad to avoid large crowds and gatherings and to keep a low profile.The statement gave no details of the evidence and did not reveal which group may be the cause of the warning.But a senior U.S. official told The Associated Press that the threat was linked to Osama ...

U.S. News 12/20/99 Bill Clinton's final days He faces a bleak year, but the campaign to rebuild his image will last a lifetime By Kenneth T. Walsh President Clinton tells friends he'd love to run for a third term next year. He knows the 22nd Amendment makes that impossible but says it's a shame he has to leave office now that, he believes, he has finally become the president he always wanted to be–in firm control of the levers of power, master of the details of policy, at 53 still vigorous and in sync with the popular mood. On his ...

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:46:13 -0500 (EST) From: MyNRA-ILA mynraila@nra.org Subject: NRA-ILA FAX ALERT Reply-to: MyNRA-ILA mynraila@nra.org NRA-ILA FAX ALERT Vol. 6, No. 48 12/10/99 CLINTON THUMBS NOSE AT CONGRESS AND CONSTITUTION -- Threatens Massive Federal Lawsuit In a brazen attempt to do an end-run around the legislative process, the Clinton-Gore Administration voiced its full support for plans announced by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to file a taxpayer-subsidized lawsuit against legitimate, lawful firearms manufacturers. The Administration naturally waited until federal lawmakers had gone home for the year before unveiling the threat of a federal class-action ...

Sorry if this has been brought up before but whats the deal with this soon to be unpublished book? From the quick blurb on TV I got the follwing: the book was published, the publishers were sued for slander, the author was arrested, and the the book is about to be recalled. Has anyone read the book?Is the slander suit justified? Who has the full scoop on this story?

Dear Free Republic Members & Members of the Media: I served as a conservative/Right operative in Arizona in the mid-80s (John Birch Society activist, senior staffer for former Congressman John B. Conlan and aide in the administration of former Gov. Evan Mecham), got to know John McCain better than he'd like to admit... & I've some interesting things to say about the good Senator in chapter IV of my "straight-to-Web" political autobio, _Hell Bottled Up!: Chronicles of a Late Propaganda Minister_. In sum, I have significant, corraborated evidence that then-Rep. McCain in 1985 arranged an illicit Veterans Disability benefit for ...

Dear Free Republic Members & Members of the Media: I served as a conservative/Right operative in Arizona in the mid-80s (John Birch Society activist, senior staffer for former Congressman John B. Conlan and aide in the administration of former Gov. Evan Mecham), got to know John McCain better than he'd like to admit... & I've some interesting things to say about the good Senator in chapter IV of my "straight-to-Web" political autobio, _Hell Bottled Up!: Chronicles of a Late Propaganda Minister_. In sum, I have significant, corraborated evidence that then-Rep. McCain in 1985 arranged an illicit Veterans Disability benefit for ...

Maintaining LibertyThomas Jefferson and Henry Ford were both authors of major works. They brought together many pieces, which surrounded them in their respective areas of interest, for Jefferson: politics, for Ford: industry ... and carefully wove these pieces into a famous, finished product --- Jefferson: our Declaration of Independence, and Ford: the Quadricycle (his first automotive carriage, the "automobile").The words and terminology which are in our Declaration of Independence . . . some of these words were probably not Jefferson's, but borrowed from conversations and debates with his Fellow Founding Fathers, from literature, from our forefathers, and from the "Creator." ...

Chinese Government White Paper on Minority Policies to be Discussed at UCF Forum Press Release: Citizens Against Communist Chinese Propaganda Contact: Jack Churchward 727-441-3982 or Megan Gainer 407-657-1817 UCF_SFT The release of 'National Minorities Policy and Its Practice in China' from the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in September 1999 signals another effort by the Communist Chinese authorities to whitewash and conceal the true record of minority policies in the PRC. The real situation is quite different than the 'guaranteed autonomy' and 'respect for traditional minority cultures' as stated in the White ...

A Necessary Goodby Alan WolfeA Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Governmentby Garry Wills Simon and Schuster, 343 pp.For a society that constantly changes, America has a remarkable capacity to stay the same. One thing that never seems to alter is a deep distrust of government. Forget, for the moment, that America at the end of the twentieth century, compared to America at the end of the eighteenth century, is populated by people from all over the world and not just from the British Empire and Africa; and is dominated by global capital rather than by the cycles ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Although he insists he still has a long way to go before his term ends as U.S. president in 2001, Bill Clinton is spending more time lately on a future project -- building a library in his home state. In a brief visit to Little Rock on Friday, Clinton showed he has high hopes for what his library might become. He wants it to help boost the image of the city, attract a wide variety of people and deal with some of the most complicated issues in the world.``From the day I was elected ...

LONDON -- U.S., British and Russian investigators have told USA TODAY there is ''strong evidence'' that 780 Russian officials used a bond-selling scheme to transfer billions of dollars out of the country last year, beginning just 72 hours after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deposited a $4.8 billion loan into Russia's Central Bank. The list includes high-ranking current and former officials such as former deputy prime minister Anatoly Chubais, architect of Russia's privatization after the 1991 fall of communism, and former foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev. Both deny any wrongdoing. The accusations are part of a probe by U.S., British and ...

BEATRICE, Neb. -- Some parents pulled their children out of holiday music programs at two public schools, saying they fail to portray Christmas as a Christian holiday. The productions are based on the nationally used "Celebrate the Seasons" program, which is a multicultural celebration that has nothing to do with religion, said Betty Replogle, principal at Paddock Lane and Stoddard Elementary Schools. Some upset parents said the productions at both schools go into detail about the origins of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa while ignoring the origins of Christmas. The program mentions Christmas in generic terms, not religious terms, Replogle said. Hanukkah ...

Reuters Eye-drops incident gives Clinton red eye Updated 4:37 PM ET December 11, 1999 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., (Reuters) - President Clinton poked himself in the right eye while trying to put in some drops, breaking a few blood vessels and giving himself a red-eyed look, the White House said Saturday. "Yesterday morning, putting eye drops in, he poked himself with the applicator and burst a couple tiny blood vessels. It doesn't affect his vision, it doesn't hurt," said White House spokesman Barry Toiv. Clinton used the eye drops to combat allergies, Toiv said. The president is also contending with a ...

I'm going to post this again. Please watch your language.DECEMBER 11, 19:19 EST Clinton: Military Gay Policy Failing By SONYA ROSS Associated Press Writer ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Agreeing with his wife, President Clinton said Saturday his 1993 ``don´t ask, don´t tell´´ policy on gays in the military doesn´t work, and pledged to work with the Pentagon to find a way to fix it. ``It´s out of whack now,´´ he said. In a radio interview with CBS News, Clinton said he meant to create a policy that would help gay service members remain on duty without being persecuted for their ...

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Peggy Noonan, famed speech writer for republican leaders including President Ronald Reagan, said this about Alan Keyes in the December 8th edition of the Wall Street Journal: ``Alan Keyes has always been eloquent, but he's become more cool and comfortable. He's a great speaker; you listen and don't daydream when he talks, but in the past when I've seen him speak I've half expected him to break into, 'And the Angel Moroni came to me and said...' His intensity was compelling, but I think it also made people wonder if he was at all ...

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 -- each time getting a chuckle. But during at least two fund-raising stops in Los Angeles on Nov. ...

On fantasy, reality, and saving starfish By Jeter, Anti-Freeper I used to think that the people on FR were simply uninformed about what was really going on behind the scenes, and if they only knew what we knew, they would rise up against the PTB and make sure that changes took place. Unfortunately, most of the thinking freepers left back in May; what's left now are folks who will uncritically swallow whatever the PTB feed them, and who rail against those disruptors who post anything contrary to their view of FR as a noble organization. Why are the freepers so ...

December 27, 1999 Kosovo: On Ends and Means by GEORGE KENNEY THE NEW MILITARYHUMANISM:Lessons From Kosovo.By Noam Chomsky. Common Courage. 199 pp. $15.95. Purchase this book onlinefrom Amazon.com(Why should I?) The spectacle of human beings acting out mindless violence through pack behavior instills more terror in the heart than perhaps any other event in the natural world. State-directed violence, capable of wielding today's deadliest technology, especially evokes nightmarish thoughts about apocalyptic ends. But science has not worked overtime to find a satisfactory explanation for collective madness and, not surprisingly, has not produced one. Literature and the visual arts have ...

The Lone Star Report; Vol. 1, Iss. 35 June 5, 1997 Pro-lifers upset over "Highway of Death" (http://www.onr.com/user/lsr/LSR.One35.html) Pro-life leaders around the state are up in arms over Gov. Bush's May 31 signing of a bill to name a state highway after a career abortion-provider. House Bill 3478, which names part of Highway 35 in Harris County the "John B. Coleman Memorial Highway," honors notorious late-term abortionist Dr. John B. Coleman. Coleman was named by the Houston Post as one of the 12 most sued doctors in Houston in 1991. At least two malpractice cases, stemming from botched abortions, still ...