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The following Letters to the Editor were published in The Washington Times on Saturday, December 11, 1999. It is another glimpse of the solid support the PEOLE are lending Ambassador Keyes, severe media blackout notwithstanding. Letters to the editor are a wonderful way to reach people and to voice the unacceptably selective coverage that this election has seen so far by the press. We encourage all who are able to watch the Presidential forum Monday night to monitor the next day what the papers choose to report about the reality of the event. And if it fails to report what ...

The message contained herein is a Claremont (Claremont, California) Institute professor's commentary on the state of our misguided youth in light of the Littleton 'massacre'....I've seen a number of these lately as you have no doubt, but this is the best so far. ------- Years ago when I was a first grade school child; guns were as common as dirt. Many, if not most, adult males had a rifle or shotgun in the closet or in a rack in an unlocked truck. Many, if not most, had a .38 Revolver in the nightstand drawer near their bed or in the ...

Company Press Release SOURCE: The Timothy Plan The Timothy Plan Family of Mutual Funds Applauds Exxon-Mobil on Their Move To Restore Sanity to Corporate Benefit Programs WINTER PARK, Fla., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The following was released today by The Timothy Plan: The Timothy Plan, America's morally responsible family of mutual funds, applauds Exxon-Mobil's decision to restore some semblance of sanity to their corporate benefits program through their decision to eliminate ``domestic partner health-care benefits.'' Art Ally, Timothy Plan president, states, ``From both an economic and a moral perspective, the practice of offering such benefits is bad business. Economically, health ...

(The "McNasty" reference is in reference to McCain's old high school nickname shown at the bottom of the screen during Tony Snow's interview) As for the interview, Tony asked him what his favorite rock groups was, and McNasty - with a totally serious face - said it was Nine-Inch Nails. Both the question and answer were given in a totally serious way. Tony even expanded the topic to talk about his McNasty's two daughters' music interests, as well as his own. Then the T-Man blew Mcnasty right out of the water. He showed the lyrics to one of the group's ...

TV Stars In Favor of Gay Marriage The Associated Press Friday, Dec. 10, 1999; 9:05 p.m. EST OAKLAND, Calif. –– The four stars of "Will & Grace," an NBC comedy about a gay attorney and his heterosexual female friend, are in a television commercial opposing a California ballot initiative to ban gay marriages. Eric McCormack (Will), Debra Messing (Grace), Megan Mullally (Karen) and openly gay actor Sean Hayes (Jack) agreed to appear in the commercial after being approached by Max Mutchnick, the show's co-executive producer and co-creator. The actors are following in the footsteps of other stars who did political ...

FBI Chased Lee Despite Spy Doubts By JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing flaws in their evidence, FBI officials began to doubt more than a year ago that Los Alamos laboratory scientist Wen Ho Lee had given China one of America's most prized nuclear secrets as originally feared, according to government officials and documents. The agents wrote a memo alerting FBI Director Louis Freeh to their suspicions, officials told The Associated Press. But the pursuit of Lee continued for months -- along with a barrage of news leaks implying he was a Chinese spy. Agents eventually built ...

Bradley Back Campaigning After Exam By Scott Lindlaw Associated Press Writer Saturday, Dec. 11, 1999; 4:35 p.m. EST PALO ALTO, Calif. –– Bill Bradley said Saturday his irregular heartbeat will have "no effect whatsoever" on his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, and he returned to the campaign trail for appearances on both coasts. A day after a hospital examination for an irregular heartbeat – a chronic condition for which he takes daily medication – Bradley greeted supporters and reporters with a broad smile and handshakes as he entered a news conference, saying he felt "terrific."

U.S. Policy Towards Panama Will Cost Lives Admiral Thomas Moorer, USN (Ret.) [Prepared statement submitted before Congressional hearing December 8, 1999:] Mr. Chairman, and distinguished members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am indeed honored today and grateful to you for this opportunity to testify before your important committee on behalf of the defense of our great country. I have testified several times before several Congressional Committees and I am very gratified to be allowed once more. I am hopeful that today's hearings will begin at last, to develop specifics as to why the developments ...

Bush, Gore to have rival hoedowns in Nashville Karin Miller - Associated Press Sunday • December 12 Nashville -- 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 ...

Ecological Confabulation How The Media Create Consensus With Lies By EDWARD ZEHR The Founders, being cheerful and optimistic by nature, had assumed that if they provided freedom of the press, a free press would naturally spring up to provide the required service. For a while this seemed to work. Small newspapers representing every conceivable variety of opinion thrived in an atmosphere of freedom. Indeed, there has never been much inclination to regulate the press in this country; the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 represented one of the few serious attempts to do so, but did not remain in ...

Clintons' marriage altered by politics She will live in N.Y. as he winds up term Marc Humbert - Associated Press Sunday • December 12 Albany, N.Y. -- President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton are within a few weeks of embarking on their own version of an often-dreaded experience --- the commuter marriage. He will stay in Washington, at the White House, being president, while she will move into what she has referred to as ''my house'' in suburban Westchester County while pursuing a U.S. Senate seat from New York. ''It's not the best arrangement in the world, but it's ...

DOJ Officials Ask Judge to Cover Up Fraud But Judge Lamberth Says No By MARVIN LEE The Department of Justice has asked Federal Judge Royce Lamberth to delay publication of a report that accuses Treasury Department officials of cover-up. Judge Lamberth last week denied the request and made the report public immediately. Given the low interest the mainstream media show in reporting government cover-ups, Judge Lamberth made the report available on the internet [1]. The report is authored by Alan L. Balaran, a special master appointed by Judge Lamberth to look into destruction of documents requested in his courtroom ...

Good Judgment Is a Lifetime Task By DAVID BROOKS David Brooks is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard. His book, "Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There," will be published next year. WASHINGTON--George W. Bush's performances in the Republican presidential debates have been unnerving, even for some of us sympathetic to his ideas and impressed by his campaign. It's not that he has made any gaffes or blunders. He hasn't, even when asked brain-teaser-type questions about Tier II air pollutants. And it is not that he caves when challenged. When Gary L. Bauer asked ...

Clinton Sponsor Gains Foothold in Panama Chinese Intelligence Front And Hutchinson Whampoa By MARVIN LEE Ten percent of the Panama Ports Company that runs the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal is owned by China Resources, identified by the Thompson Committee as "an agent of espionage... for China." The FBI debriefing notes of John Huang, that were kept secret by the Justice Department for almost a year, revealed that China Resources also financed a Lippo-organized trip to Asia by then-governor Bill Clinton in 1985. Shen Jueren, the Communist official who heads China Resources, and Li Ka-shing, owner ...

Predictably, politcal opportunists and apostles of dependency have decried Mayor Giuliani's latest homeless initiatives as everything from "Dickensian" to "totalitarian." A handful of opponents made a show of being arrested to protest them. A member of the City Council branded the mayor a "demon" because of them. Even TV talk maven Rosie O'Donnell has vented her muddled insights on the subject. And last Wednesday, two gullible state Supreme Court justices, Elliot Wilk and Helen Freedman, issued an order temporarily blocking the city from implementing the requirement that the homeless work in exchange for shelter. The measure was to take ...

Holiday alert: Clinton wants egg safety rules Sonya Ross - Associated Press Sunday • December 12 Orlando, Fla. -- President Clinton proposed new egg safety procedures Saturday to reduce the risk of salmonella, reminding Americans to be careful in handling raw eggs as they prepare meals this holiday season. ''There's really no such thing as 'too safe,' '' he said. In his weekly radio address, Clinton noted that his Council on Food Safety had identified eggs as a food that carries special risks for children, elderly people and those with weakened immune systems. He said about 300,000 people fall ...

Buchanan down A private Republican poll shows Pat Buchanan with only 4 percent of the vote against Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush in Missouri, supposedly a Buchanan stronghold. Buchanan had a vigorous 1996 Republican campaign organization in Missouri, a state with heavy anti-abortion sentiment. GOP insiders believe that if Buchanan is held to around 5 percent nationally, the Republican candidate will not be seriously endangered.

Close your eyes and distinguish ( The Washington Times ) William F. Buckley Jr.; 12-11-1999 The appearance of the six Republican candidates in debate on Monday brings to mind a complaint made a few years ago in England by a venerable Tory columnist with some reputation for fastidiousness. What he wrote, one morning, was that he could not stand it any longer. Not stand what? The policies of Prime Minister John Major? But Mr. Major ruled Britain as a conservative. No, said Peregrine Worsthorne, not Mr. Major's policies, though they were deficient. What he couldn' t stand any longer was ...

More than one journalist deduced a concern by President Clinton with his legacy in his news conference last week. He should be concerned; it is a legacy no one will want to emulate. The deduction arose in part because the president retold the story of Franklin Roosevelt's meeting with Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The revered former Supreme Court justice said of the incoming president that Roosevelt had a second-class mind but ``a first-class temperament.'' If the president was comparing his legacy to Roosevelt's, there is a sad irony in his choice of anecdote. Clinton brought to the job a ...

Gore woos African-Americans He wins support at summit in Atlanta Scott Shepard - Cox News Service Sunday • December 12 Some of the nation's most influential African-American politicians vowed Saturday in Atlanta to wage a political crusade "of biblical proportions" to elect Al Gore president and to restore Democratic control of Congress next year. Gore, in response, promised to use the presidency to counter any challenge to affirmative action, one of the most significant legislative gains of the modern civil rights movement. "Anyone who says that affirmative action is no longer needed because we've reached the promised land has ...