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WILL THE REAL ALAN KEYES PLEASE STAND UP?   WILL THE REAL ALAN KEYES PLEASE STAND UP Alan Keyes was the Ambassador to the Communist controlled United Nations. He fully supported and endorsed their agenda. He probably still does but you can write and ask him yourself. Each individual has to make up their own mind about which political candidate or incumbent represents the ideas and ideals they would most like to see serve in public office. The UN is a big promoter of abortion and "women's reproductive rights." I'm not sure how Mr. Keyes could be so pro-life ...

The following 2 quotes are from the opening page of the website of retired Navy Cmdr. William Donaldson: "The official theory of an exploding center fuel tank, put forward by the NTSB, did not explain the 96 eyewitnesses who saw a streak of light originate from the surface and END in the explosion of Flight 800." "Navy Chief Petty Officer Dwight Brumley was on US Air Flight 217 from Charlotte, North Carolina to Providence, Rhode Island. Mr. Brumley was seated in seat 5F at the window on the right side of the aircraft. He saw a streak of light overtaking ...

It is a given that the national media is composed of individuals who are left of center on the political and cultural spectrum. This is primarily due to the fact that most journalism departments in the USA are dominated by liberalism. However, this is not the reason why Keyes receives little attention or coverage by the media nor does it have to do with racism. Simply put, the major reason why Keyes does not receive much attention is that he and his campaign do not actively seek media attention. Part of the original strategy of the Keyes campaign was to ...

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Vladan Batic, coordinator of the Alliance for Change opposition bloc, has said Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is trying to arrange asylum for himself and his family in a friendly country in exchange for his relinquishing of power. Speaking on television in the western Serbian town of Uzice Saturday night Batic said, "In recent days Milosevic has been negotiating through his friends in a country friendly and close to us in the neighborhood to be taken off the Hague (war crimes tribunal) list in exchange for his own abdication." Milosevic and four of his closest ...

By David Wastell, in Washington President Clinton and his Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, are to boycott the ceremonial handover of the Panama Canal on Tuesday amid American concern that the deal is handing influence over the strategic waterway to China. Some Republicans say the handover could provoke a repeat of the Cuban missile crisis - this time involving Beijing. The United States will be represented at the ceremony by the former President Jimmy Carter, who signed the 1977 treaty that is now ending US administration of the canal and returning it to Panama's government. American critics of the ...

U.S. Violated Nuclear Arms Pledge in Japan, Records Show December 12, 1999 U.S. Violated Nuclear Arms Pledge in Japan, Records Show Map Japan from Microsoft Encarta Concise Encyclopedia By JUDITH MILLER ewly declassified documents show that while the United States publicly vowed not to keep nuclear weapons in Japan, it secretly stored them not only on Okinawa but also on the islands of Chichi-jima and Iwo Jima and was prepared to do the same at as many as 11 other Japanese sites. An article describing the documents and what its authors say is the first comprehensive account of the ...

 Only 850 out of 2150 in Kosovo 'body count'were victims of 'massacres' !For all you FReepers who've been as frustrated as I over the ever-changing and vague numbers released regarding the 'body count' in Kosovo...-- numbers we know have been inflated and distorted in an attempt to justify the NATO bombing --...here is the first report I've seen in print giving a breakdown regarding the causes of death:"...sources from the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, known as KFOR, were telling the press that of 2,150 bodies found by peacekeepers only 850 were victims of massacres..."(I've taken the liberty of excerpting ...

WASHINGTON (December 12, 1999 2:51 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - George W. Bush looked uncomfortable and, at times, unpresidential in his first two debates with his rivals for the 2000 Republican nomination, say party leaders who predict that Texas governor's performance will improve as the stakes grow higher. "Bush was noticeably better in the second debate, in terms of ease and delivery, than in the first debate," said GOP consultant Rich Galen, a Bush backer offering a less-than-ringing endorsement. "And I suspect he will be better in the third debate." Sen. John McCain of Arizona wants to increase his momentum ...

Since some people on an earlier thread cried "Uncle" when it hit 500k, here's a local perspective on the Subject That Will Not Die... [skipping 2 1/2 screensful] ... The third theme of our Strategic Plan, "Building Premier Learning Communities," seems particularly important given the recent actions of the Kansas State Board of Education. The Board's actions raise for us the question of what constitutes an excellent curriculum for the study of science. In case you have been stranded on a Pacific Island without contact with the outer world this summer, let me briefly summarize what the Kansas Board of ...

While New Hampshire basks in all the attention its surprisingly competitive Republican presidential primary is drawing, GOP activists in South Carolina are waiting in the wings. Republican in the Palmetto State have history on their side: South Carolina Republicans pick winners. Starting with Ronald Reagan's defeat of John Connally in 1980, the state's first-in-the-South primary has chosen the eventual nominee in the last four contested GOP races. Henry McMaster, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, believes his state is well-positioned to play the same decisive role this year. He sees the Feb. 19 primary shaping up as a decisive ...

Okay so I don't count so good. Who would have ever believed last Tuesday noon when these threads started that we would get over 2,000 posts, a gazillion hits, over $12,000.00 donated to our beloved site, and still be talking to each other the 6th day. Freep On Freepers. I love you all.

SF Mayor Brown Faces Runoff Fight 12/12/99 By MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If Willie Brown wins re-election on Tuesday, he will be the first San Francisco mayor to do so in 16 years. But Brown, a Democrat, is facing a grassroots uprising that propelled a reform-minded challenger into a runoff campaign that has galvanized people who have made careers out of fighting City Hall. His opponent, Tom Ammiano, president of the city's governing Board of Supervisors, has been outspent more than 10-to-1 by Brown since 49,000 people wrote in his name on their ballots Nov. ...

The homeless are making a comeback in the public mind, just in time for Hillary Rodham Clinton's prospective run for a New York Senate seat. The major media forgot about the homeless after Bill Clinton's election because they were only useful in bashing Republican presidents Bush and Reagan for their "heartless" and "uncaring" policies. In the aftermath of an attack by a homeless man on a female tourist, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani ordered police to get the homeless off the streets and put them in shelters, even if they did not want to go. Giuliani said there was ...

This story broke last Tuesday, but none of the broadcast or cable news operations think you should get the WHOLE story. I've been waiting, but none are telling the full tale. NewsMax.com had it back on Tuesday, but here's a reprint: -------------------------------------------------- A decade after the Cold War's demise, Russia and the United States are still swapping spies. An electronic "bug" is found eavesdropping on Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. An employee of the American embassy in Moscow is caught carrying a pocket-size snooping device and - yes, they still use it - invisible ink, so pedestrian that James Bond's ...

Bill Johnson Music brings out the Philistine in us We were eating spaghetti -- my son, Benjamin, his best pal, Billy Vickerstaff, and I -- when Benjamin out of nowhere said, "Grown-ups sometimes just don't get it." "Yeah," Billy said, though I doubt he knew what Ben was talking about any more than I did. The school district, Ben said when pressed, wants to eliminate fifth-grade band and orchestra classes. It's so dumb, he said. "Yeah," Billy said. I'd read of this, how the Boulder Valley school board next week will discuss eliminating the classes, in which 60 percent ...

KICKING IS KOSHERTo eliminiate the unfair practice of ball-doctoring by some kickers, the NFL has begun the practice of separating its balls into kicking and non-kicking. More than a few good humored Jews have gotten quite a kick out of the way the NFL identifies its special kicking balls. The capital K enclosed in a circle is the same symbol used to indicate "kosher" on packaged foods. Could the pigskin now be kosher?"It seems as though the NFL is honoring the tradition of our people," says Rabbi Stacie Fine of congregation Ahavat Shalom in Traverse City, Michigan. "Much the same ...

ORLANDO -- Vice President Al Gore, following President Clinton at a celebratory convention of Florida's Democratic Party on Saturday, insisted that Florida will be a ``prime battleground'' in his bid for the presidency -- despite the foothold that the Bush family has in the state. ``If I am the nominee, I intend to make Florida a prime battleground,'' Gore said in an interview Saturday evening with reporters here. ``Florida is going to be a toss-up state.'' Clinton, basking in the nation's unprecedented prosperity, said a battle-tested vice president offers the best hope for meeting the challenges of health care, education, ...

FIRST OF TWO PARTS Thousands of California students are labeled "learning disabled"-- often with lasting consequences--because they were not taught to read. Those with major handicaps also are poorly served. Tens of thousands of students in California's special education system have been placed there not because of a serious mental or emotional handicap, but because they were never taught to read properly. Failed by mainstream classes and teachers, they are then referred to special education and labeled "learning disabled." There they are failed a second time, by a badly flawed system designed to be their safety net. The needless ...

ORLANDO, Florida, Dec 12, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) U.S. President Bill Clinton said Saturday that the security breach by a Russian diplomat bugging the State Department "won't happen again" and should not harm relations with Moscow. "I certainly wish it hadn't happened, but I think they learned something about this. I think now they'll figure out this technology and it won't happen again," he said in a radio interview with CBS News. Stanislav Borisev Gusev, who worked at the Russian embassy in Washington, was caught spying and ordered to leave the United States Wednesday in 10 days after ...